The future of storytelling?

Posted 14 October 2009 by Sara in Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change, Press

Recently, we were lucky enough to spend a long-weekend in the North Cascades. Tucked beneath Sourdough Ridge, lined with its first dusting of snow for the season, Benj and I were co-teaching a workshop for North Cascades Institute called Will Write for Change: Communication Tools and Techniques for Activists. The team of instructors also included Pulitzer Prize winning author William Dietrich; Sam Knox, a guru on e-mail alerts and newsletters from One/Northwest; and senior researcher and blogger extraordinaire for Sightline Institute, Eric de Place. It was humbling to be in their company and also amongst so many inspiring participants, all working to make a difference in their own ways.

The night that everyone arrived, Benj and I were invited to share our work from Facing Climate Change and the next morning we presented more generally on multimedia storytelling. After the workshop, our new friend Eric wrote a blog post about us and the medium on Sightline Daily. Here’s an excerpt from “The Future of Storytelling:”

“It’s not as if Drummond and Steele invented multimedia – in fact, high-quality multimedia is getting cheaper and easier to produce all the time – just that they seem to be mastering an art form as it matures. Most importantly, they’ve got the knack that the best storytellers have for enlivening a scene and fleshing out a character, but not beating you over the head with The Moral Of The Story.”

What an honor! Thanks, Eric.