Thresholds – Fanaigí Linn (Stay With Us). Twelve individual experiences of the year 2020 are woven together in this digital story created in a space of mutual support and belonging. Sharing stories and images, fun and struggle, this creation emerged from our online workshop from January to April 2021. Participants joined the process from around Ireland (and beyond) and the resulting story includes all the voices, culminating in a collective story that no one person could have created.

The video story ‘Little Grinch Hearts Flourish – Donegal in a time of Covid’ was created by the 8 women who participated in the Donegal Women’s Network online course: “Wholehearted Women: Creative Storytelling and Writing”. Over a period of 7 sessions in April and May this year the women wrote individual stories drawing on personal photos they had taken over the year 2020.
In all the stories a shared love for this county of Donegal in the northwest of Ireland was strong. For some this was the place they were born in and for others it had become their adopted home. Each of the women spoke of the feeling of belonging to this place apart and of such beauty. Despite the Covid restrictions in place over the year, the story they wanted to collectively write about was of their growing appreciation of the landscape’s beauty, gifted to them by this slowed down pace of time. The video is the result of the process the women used to capture phrases that spoke to their hearts from one another’s individual stories. It was very much an inclusive process that ensured their different voices were included and some photos from each woman that they felt best reflected their shared story of 2020.
The facilitator designed the course from processes she learned as a participant on a digital storytelling course delivered earlier this year by Partners Training for Transformation facilitators Jacqui Gage and Zoryana Pshyk.

This DigitalStory is a result of the workshop of the DEPAL project (Digital Education and Participatory Adult Learning) held in Liverpool by Liverpool Community Spirit.

I am narrating the present moment with a hint of the past and looking towards the future. I address every person who has lived this experience of storytelling and digitisation with me.
The Digital Storytelling video was created by Chiara Pent during the DEPAL project workshop held online between February and March 2021.

A story of a piece of jewellery very dear to me…
This DigitalStory is a result of the workshop of the DEPAL project (Digital Education and Participatory Adult Learning) held in Liverpool by Liverpool World Centre