Digital Story-Telling

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The Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Programme has undertaken workshops for Digital Story-Telling in order to creatively document the experiences of growth and transformation in women’s lives. Digital Stories are a 2-3 minute multimedia presentation that enables participants to reflect, record and narrate their lives through the lens of their own eyes and expressed in their own words and voices.

The aim is to have three Digital Story Telling workshops, each lasting 4 days, with select groups of women. At the workshops, 10-12 participants will develop a script and use MovieMaker to make their own Digital Story. The outputs of these workshops will provide deeply personal testimonies of women’s lives and the contexts in which empowerment/disempowerment is experienced. These personal texts will be used not only to enhance and complement our researches but also towards the production of new socio-cultural and historical understandings derived through reflecting on and analyzing lived experience. The artefacts produced at the workshops will also be used as sources of knowledge and ground for theorizing about empowerment.

This project will run from November 2009-November 2010. The digital stories produced at these workshops will be presented as part of the Security Research, the Religion Research and the Chittagong Hill Tracts Cultural Production Research to academicians, social scientists, policy makers and cultural critics through workshops, conferences, seminars and guest presentations at university classes.