About Us
Welcome to the GEECS blog.
This blog captures the community outreach work of The University of Glamorgan’s George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling (GEECS). The Centre is dedicated to promoting, teaching, developing and researching storytelling in all its forms, and our community outreach work is part of the Welsh Assembly Government's Communities 2.0 programme.
Communities 2.0 is a project delivered by a number of partner agencies across Wales which helps community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises do more with technology. It aims to tackle ‘digital exclusion’ by informing communities of the benefits and the potential of increased use of digital technology – such as mobile phones, computers and the internet.
What is Digital Inclusion?
What we do
GEECS functions as the centre of excellence in Digital Storytelling and Participatory Media within the Communities 2.0 project. Digital exclusion is an issue in many communities across Wales and the centre aims to help tackle these issues through hands on community based workshops around narrative and storytelling in a digital format through digital photography, audio recording, digital video editing and DVD production.
Our commitment is to encourage and enable community groups to apply these principles and approaches to wide range of issues that are both sustainable and fit for purpose.
Who we are
Mog and Angharad deliver GEECS' community outreach work. Here’s a little more about us:
Chris Morgan (Mog)
“My background is in digital storytelling and community based multi-media work. I have worked with a wide variety of community groups both here in Wales and in Europe on projects that have ranged from music and film making to animation and web design. Throughout my experiences and wide travels with digital storytelling, I feel the essential ingredient is ownership; ownership for the storyteller. The fact that this sense of ownership comes with a great deal of fun, laughs, tears and emotion for the listeners, both at the workshops and a wider audience, is a massive bonus for all involved. Having worked for many years in variety of media, I still find the power of that personal narrative incredibly engaging and moving and I hope that I can continue to participate and listen to the stories that walk by in human form every day.”
Angharad Dalton
I've worked in and around community development under a number of guises for many years. Although digital storytelling as a discipline is relatively new to me, I am increasingly finding my professional life and personal interests converging through my entry into the field. Blogger, Music Geek and social designer during my spare time, the impact of honest and personal storytelling on all aspects of life is something I have found to be hugely valuable and empowering.
You can learn more about GEECS work here
