Earlier this month, eight local writers accompanied “retreat leaders” Kate Brandes, Kate Racculia, and Ruth Knafo Setton to the Highlights Foundation for one week of writing, workshopping, and exploring the theme of “sense of place.” The retreat followed a keynote lecture…
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Object Making: Techniques for Visual Narrative
Reflections on an Artist Collaboration by Jill Odegaard, Cedar Crest College With funding from an LVEHC semester-long Artist Collaborations grant, Cedar Crest College professor Jill Odegaard partnered with artist Rachel Sherk to engage students from Cedar Crest College and the…
Documentary Storymaking Capstone Reflection by Dr. Andy Smith
The Spring 2019 Capstone course in Documentary Storymaking saw five students from three Lehigh Valley institutions (Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College) completing and on May 10, 2019 screening five original documentary films. During the semester students studied and made…
“Narrating Lives: Telling Stories of Ourselves and Our Community”
A reflective statement by Professors LuAnn McCracken Fletcher and Elizabeth Ortiz, Cedar Crest College Our project, to create paired classes in audio and video storytelling in order to equip students to listen to, record interviews with, and, ultimately, tell the stories…
Navigating the Start(s) of a Documentary: A Reflection by Drew Swedberg
In the LVAIC Documentary Storymaking classroom, I was told over and over again that documentary is about reactions to the world, allowing the story and community to shape the work. Later, as part of a Film Scholars program at Scribe…
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JUNE 1st: “Geography of Home and Soul,” A Keynote Address by Susan Straight
On Saturday, June 1st, award-winning author and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, Susan Straight, will be on Moravian College’s campus to present her Keynote Address on “Geography of Home and Soul.” Her novel, Million Nightingales, was a…