Relaying our stories, digitally.

From March 20-21, SDAIYC hosted a regional Digital Storytelling Train-the-Trainer workshop.  The event was sponsored by the Healthy Native Communities Partnership and California Area IHS Promotion Disease Prevention.  The workshop was designed to "guide [participants] through a process combining storytelling with modern-day technology and digital media. Digital storytelling is a low-cost, powerful and compelling way to promote social change and action by sharing first-narratives combined with digital media."  Participants shared personal stories and combined voice, music, everyday sounds and images to relay personal histories.  We hope to train youth members in the art of digital storytelling, which functions both as a creative and cathartic experience (well, at least for me).