12/11/09

Communities 2.0 Seminar Series
George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling

Prof Do Coyle (University of Aberdeen)
Sustaining and Developing Island Communities: Extreme Measures for Extreme Communities

Wednesday 2nd December 2009, 1 pm. 
Tramsheds Building, Glyntaff Campus, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, Mid Glamorgan

You are cordially invited to the first of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Communities 2.0 research seminars. 

The focus of this presentation will be on ‘extreme’ communities where the digital infrastructure lags behind many other communities.  There will be a particular look at how alternative pathways for community building can be used in spaces and places which are isolated in order to connect and be connected. In so doing, the story of Telling Tales to I-Scape will unfold.

These seminars take place as part of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling’s work as part of the Communities 2.0 project.  Communities 2.0 helps community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises in Wales do more with technology.  It is a Welsh Assembly Government programme which is delivered by five partner organisations – the Wales Co-operative Centre, the Novas Scarman Trust, Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services, Carmarthenshire County Council and the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan.  Much of the funding for Communities 2.0 has come from the European Regional Development Fund.

The session is FREE but please reserve your place by emailing storytelling@glam.ac.uk