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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.

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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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Online creative residency

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!

Animations, social media stories and new writing created with Digital Storytelling Festival Online Creative Residency
Title:
Der Kuss
Creator:
Behrens, Peter
Date:
1898
Institution:
National Museum in Warsaw
Country:
Poland

Animations, social media stories and new writing created with Digital Storytelling Festival Online Creative Residency

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.

Digital Storytelling Festival Online Creative Residency boosts students’ and professionals’ storytelling skills
Title:
Helsinki Pride 2013 -kulkue
Creator:
Hanhirova, Melissa
Institution:
Finnish Heritage Agency
Country:
Finland

Digital Storytelling Festival Online Creative Residency boosts students’ and professionals’ storytelling skills

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.

Take a journey through the stories of the Online Creative Residency 2024
Title:
Road to Nikko
Creator:
Lübeck, Oswald
Date:
1913
Institution:
Deutsche Fotothek
Country:
Germany

Take a journey through the stories of the Online Creative Residency 2024

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.

Previous editions

News

How to write appealing art history stories - insights from DailyArt Magazine
Title:
Detail from Feleségem varrogat
Creator:
Kunffy Lajos
Institution:
Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár
Country:
Hungary

How to write appealing art history stories - insights from DailyArt Magazine

Created: 7 September 2022

DailyArt Magazine is one of the most well-known online magazines to go to for a daily fix of art history, culture and stories. Editor-in-Chief Kate Wojtczak shares the magazine’s approach to digital storytelling - and some top tips - to engage readers with heritage online. 

Get inspired by examples of digital storytelling in action
Title:
Image from page 19 of Merriment and Mirth for Merry Little People. [Verses, illustrated by P. Cox and others.]
Date:
1889
Institution:
British Library
Country:
United Kingdom

Get inspired by examples of digital storytelling in action

Created: 16 May 2022

This month, Europeana and the Heritage Lab are running the digital storytelling festival, encouraging people to tell stories with digital cultural heritage. Members of the Europeana Communicators Community Steering Group share examples of the stories told online and in digital formats that excite them - and can inspire you! 

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