The Canadian Museum for Human Rights Needs to Hear Your Story
NCCAR wishes to draw you attention to an important invitation to have your say on the human rights stories that are covered by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Why provide input? To ensure that no important human rights stories are neglected nor excluded. One example of frequent exclusion is that of Palestinians’ human rights stories, and there are others. So no matter what your background or heritage, or which human rights story you wish to see addressed, you can have your say as a Canadian.
Personal points of view and personal stories are powerful and cannot be easily discounted, dismissed or denied. The more submitted, the better. Please let friends, family members and others in your network know of this opportunity.
To guide you in your submission, the museum has created guiding questions, provided below. However, feel free to express your point of view or your story as you like.
Deadline: by end of February.
Register and make your on-line submission here: http://www.humanrightsmuseum.ca/share-your-story/share-your-story-online
After making your submission, please advise us at nccar@nccar.ca, as this is a file that NCCAR will be following. We need your assistance in determining the extent to which submitted views and stories were considered and included. If you need any additional information, please let us know.
NCCAR will be making its own submission accompanied by a short film and we will share that submission with you shortly.
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Adding To Your Story Submission – Webinar on Digital Story-Telling
After making your written submission to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights by the end of February, you may wish to send in additional material such as a compilation of photos or video as a supplement to your original submission.
An NCCAR Webinar on Digital Story-Telling Techniques
NCCAR is pleased to host a webinar featuring Liz Miller and Rania Arabi who will share tips on how to put together an effective personal story with a variety of digital tools and techniques. Info on their work is below.
Webinar Info
Date: Thurs. March 4th, 2010
Time: 7.30-8.30 pm ET
To register and get further info on how to join webinar, please click here:
https://student.gototraining.com/72m29/register/5750349380592331776
Info on the initiatives Liz Miller and Rania Arabi are involved in:
Mapping Memories: Stories of Refugee Youth in Montreal is a collaborative multi-media project which uses personal stories and a range of media tools (video, sound walks, mapping, photography) to share the experiences of refugee youth in Montreal. The project is part of the larger initiative LIFE STORIES. Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations is an oral history project exploring Montrealers’ experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. A team of both university and community-based researchers is in the process of recording life story interviews with more than 500 Montreal residents over the next five years. Most recently the YWCA and Life Stories have come together to work on telling intergenerational stories. In the webinar we will share our methodology of digital storytelling.
http://www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/refugeeyouth/
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