Every year, the Europeana Initiative runs the Digital
Storytelling Festival. The international event encourages cultural
heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe
and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring
culture. We hope to inspire participants to create connections between
art, culture and history and the contemporary world.
This year's Digital Storytelling Festival will take place from 13 - 14 May 2025! We can't wait to see you there and will open registration soon.
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A key part of the Digital Storytelling Festival is our Online Creative Residency, which brings students and new professionals who want to gain storytelling skills in a professional setting together with experts. Working with these experts, residency participants develop stories with cultural heritage in different digital formats.
To find out more about the Online Creative Residency, join our information session on 26 February 2025 at 3pm CET - sign up now!
Participants taking part in the first ever Online Creative Residency from Europeana’s Digital Storytelling Festival have published their creative outcomes. Explore animations, social media stories and new writing relating to LGBTQ+ culture and communities.
This year’s Digital Storytelling Festival has a new element - our first ever Online Creative Residency! Read on to discover how the residency is celebrating LGBTQ+ stories and building participants’ skills in social media, creative writing and animation.
In May - July 2024, 13 participants took part in the Online Creative Residency from Europeana’s Digital Storytelling Festival. Exploring the theme of 'journey', participants worked with mentors in animation, social media, collage art, storytelling with 3D and creative writing.
This year, the Europeana website blog has increasingly shared stories from physical exhibitions across Europe. We hear about the experiences of organisations who have published on Europeana's blog and its role in bringing their content to wider audiences.
One of the examples that Europeana's Task Force on Europeana as a ‘powerful platform for storytelling’ came across during its research was a Digital Storytelling Manual from IFLA - the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Task Force member Cristina Roiu talks to Kristīne Pabērza Ramiresa, Member Engagement Officer for IFLA about the manual.
