Upcoming Events

Monday, June 18th

Multimedia Storytelling Institute

The University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and The Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) will present a two-week summer Multimedia Storytelling Institute focused on the needs of journalists and communications professionals internationally and the USA. 

 

Monday, July 23rd

Data Mapping for Beginners

This two-day workshop is a hands-on program focused on applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tools to visualize data with industry standard techniques. Participants will learn to utilize publicly available map files and data to build layered and informative maps.

 

Wednesday, July 25th

Video For Storytellers

This intensive three-day workshop is an immersion in digital storytelling. In addition to providing hands-on training in every phase of planning, production and digital delivery, you will also learn from master storytellers how to capture the attention of your audience and create engaging videos.

 

Tuesday, July 31st

Social Media Intensive

This one-day conference provides a framework for building your own bussiness plan based on a new understanding of how Social Media can grow your customer base and increase sales to current customers. 

 

Recent Events

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Video For Storytellers

This intensive three-day workshop is an immersion in digital storytelling. In addition to providing hands-on training in every phase of planning, production and digital delivery, you will also learn from master storytellers how to capture the attention of your audience and create engaging videos.

Friday, May 4th, 2012

China: The Age of Ambition

Evan Osnos, China Correspondent, The New Yorker, will examine how Chinese individuals are seeking to redefine their identities in ways that were not previously available to them.

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Iduvina Hernandez Batres

Iduvina Hernandez Batres is a security analyst writer and an activist who has tirelessly fought for human rights in her native Guatemala, where reporters and agitators are often killed.
Iduvina will speak about her work, the state of human rights, and the dangers of being a journalist in Guatemala.

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Open Show SF Bay Area #36

Open Show is a monthly show and tell for videographers, photographers and multimedia storytellers that is hosted around the Bay Area.

Monday, April 16th, 2012

Does Narrative Journalism Have a Future Online?

The Internet has been a boon for some types of storytelling and a bust for others. This panel of E-editors will discuss how narrative journalism fits into the mix. Is there a place for long form writing on the screen as well as the page?

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Living Portraits of the Human World: A presentation with JONATHAN HARRIS, computer scientist, storyteller, statistician, designer and Cowbird creator

Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other.

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Film Screening: Budrus

BUDRUS is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.

Friday, March 16th, 2012

VALLEY OF SHADOWS & DREAMS: Reception and Book Signing

Photography by Ken Light | Text by Melanie Light | Forward by Thomas Steinbeck

Current Exhibition at the North Gate Hall Gallery (January 17-May 15, 2012)

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong, by Raymond Bonner

Raymond Bonner examines Edward Lee Elmore's defense as it winds through nearly three decades of legal maneuverings and he exposes the moral and legal issues in a case that continues on—thirty years later.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

The American Way of Eating: A lunchtime talk with author Tracie McMillan

In order to learn more about the way American food is grown, sold, cooked and eaten, journalist Tracie McMillan spent six months working undercover; first in California's fruit fields, then at Walmart's produce section, and finally an Applebee's kitchen. Join McMillan for a lunchtime talk about her experiences and new book, The American Way of Eating. 

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