Programme

Coffee and Registration

Hello and welcome, Helga Henry

Keynote - Alison Norrington, CEO and Founder of Storycentral

The world of storytelling and entertainment continues to evolve as audiences choose how, where and when they connect, disrupting old modes of interaction, distribution and formats. Inc Q&A

Panel 1 - Telling Tales: Inclusion and Collaboration. Whose story is it anyway?

As digital technology is experiential, we move beyond storytelling into story living, reflecting a plurality of stories and voices that are iterative, fluid and open to repeated redefinition. 

If we want to have authentic diverse voices, how do we create new forms of cultural narrative through digital means that might deviate from the default normative position of physical engagement? How do we collaborate to ensure unheard stories are told, but also how they are being told?

Chair 

Linda Spurdle, Head of Digital, Birmingham Museums Trust

Panelists

Javaad Alipoor, Artist, director, writer and activist

Dan Vo, Trainer, producer, tour guide and founder of the volunteer-led LGBTQ+ tours at the V&A Museum

Chris Sizemore, Limina Immersive

Lunch

Keynote - Nick Robertson, Content Producer and Social Production, BBC

Tik Tok - short-form content creation for audiences - platforms to performer. The platform as stage and the audience as performer. With 24 hour stories, short-form content is short term too. How do you tell your story and what are the responsibilities that come with that? 

Panel - Telling Tales: Multi-channel/multi-platform

Augmenting the physical experience with new forms of creative and cultural production and distribtuon through podcasting is creating a new cultural narrative for audiences. 

Chair

Clare Freeman, Podcast coach and consultant

Panelists

Dan de la Motte, the host of Off Book, the Young Vic podcast

Gary Hilton, Gas is Music

Eloise Whitmore, Sound designer, audio producer, storyteller, MD of Naked Productions

Coffee Break

Panel - Telling Tales: The emotions of content

What are the emotions behind content that connect and resonate with audiences? If content can delight, inspire, comfort, inform, connect as well as entertain, what are audiences looking for and caring about?

Chair 

Chris Brown, co-curator Hello Culture

Panelists

Harmeet Chagger-Khan, Artist

Lucy Dusgate, Digital art programmer at The Lowry Arts Centre, freelance creative producer and strategist 

Insook Choi, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology and Chair in Creative Media and Technology, University of Salford

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