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CONTINUITY
Building digital media capacity among Inuit youth
The transmission of cultural knowledge, values, customs, and practices from one generation to the next is at the core of the Nanuk Narratives project. This sharing of knowledge helps to promote intergenerational understanding and communication, as younger generations learn about and appreciate the experiences and perspectives of their elders. We see digital storytelling as a useful way to document and preserve place-based knowledge and stories that are at risk of being lost over time.
The art of digital storytelling involves creating multimedia content that blends audio, images, and/or video clips into a cohesive short story aimed at conveying an experience or idea. It is a great opportunity to engage younger generations in learning about their cultural heritage and traditions, either by creating their own videos about their relationship to Nanuk, or involving them in the process of documenting and preserving cultural knowledge within their community.
The Nanuk Narrative project is dedicated to building digital storytelling capacity within Inuit communities so that they can lead efforts in documenting, exploring, and communicating their voices relating to polar bears and their ways of life.
Digital Storytelling Workshops
The Nanuk Narratives project will facilitate workshops where youth will gain hands-on experience and skills in creating various forms of digital media content, such as audio, video, graphics, and storytelling. Skills related to conducting and coding video interviews will also be shared.
These workshops will be offered both online and in-person within partner communities. Sessions will be led by experienced visual instructors who provide guidance on creative storytelling techniques.
Digital storytelling workshops may be focused on polar bears, but can also be geared towards other themes of ecological and social change. The key will be building local capacity to help in developing an audio-visual repository of knowledge and stories from Inuit communities.
There are two desired outcomes from these digital storytelling workshops:
1) Youth create a digital storytelling output that they can be proud of and share through the Nanuk Narratives project.
2) Youth have the skills to gather and create more stories from within their communities that can be shared through the Nanuk Narratives project into the future.
I feel very blessed to have that educational process... not in an academic way, but from an inner perspective of being on the land and sharing and knowledge gaining and and just being a part of the whole connection to Inuit and the land and the animals.
Derrick Pottle
Rigolet, Nunatsiavut
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