dStory6- Bootcamp - Past Highlights

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HISTORICAL
HIGHLIGHTS

During its first five years, the Digital Storytelling Festival grew from a small invitation-only group of thirty to almost two hundred attendees with a focus on arts and entertainment and topics as diverse as building communities and corporate branding.

	dStory1-1995 30 participants discussed building community through stories and whether or not "digital storytelling" was a viable idea. Attendees were amazed they could create stories and post them to the Web. Pedro Meyer tells a Festival story with his marvelous photo collages

	dStory2-1996 The first year the Festival was open to the public. The dStory web station offered the particpants the opportunity to create online stories. A diverse group of speakers included Rebecca Farwell of the Discovery Channel and Justin Hall.

	dStory3-1997 featured a storytelling event called "Friend or Faux" and speakers includingthe Frays' Derek Powazek and the Smithsonian. A highlight was a two evening live online performance of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".

	dStory4-1998 Abbe Don conducted a Digital Story Bee and GoGaGa.com produced a daily live internet radio show hosted by Don Wrege with commentary by Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com.

	dStory5-1999 This was the year people stopped asking what Digital Storytelling was and focused on how to apply it.The audience of 200 included a broad mix of corporate, educational and creative attendees. Speaker Dan Bricklin's Festival Journal provides a great overview.

	BOOTCAMPS have highlighted the past four Festivals. Participants brought their own archives and created original Digital Stories during the three day intensive hands-on workshop. These "Hot-off-the-press" stories were shared with the Festival audiences.