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.
The revolution in digital technology and the accessibility to new material via digital storytelling are changing the way researchers are able to look at the period of the First World War. Projects like Europeana 1914-1918, which combines institutional and publicly contributed material, are disrupting the research life cycle and promoting new insights into historical research. Dr. Agiatis Benardou, Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Unit / ATHENA R.C. – a Europeana DSI-4 partner – fills us in.
Rounding out our series on digital storytelling, Gregory Markus, Project Leader at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, lets us listen in on their latest projects. Via the RE:VIVE initiative, they’re reusing cultural heritage material to make electronic music that brings sounds and memories of the past to current audiences.
