The 2003 Digital Storytelling Festival will take place over three days and nights in the world famous red-rock surrounded town of Sedona, Arizona.

A Registration reception will be held Wednesday June 11 at the Sedona Center for Arts and Technology from 6:00pm — 9:00pm. This will be an excellent opportunity to pick-up your registration credentials and get oriented for the Festival events.

Speaker presentations for the Festival will begin Thursday June 12, 2003 at 8:30AM at the Sedona Red Rock High School Auditorium. They will conclude Saturday evening June 14, following an evening performance, steeped in traditional storytelling.

Approximately 20-24 featured guest speakers will present their work, or their curated representations of work in the various areas of Digital Storytelling. Featured areas of work will include: Training and Education, Brand Stories and Presentation, Entertainment, Personal and Legacy storytelling, Technical applications for Digital Storytelling, Community building and based, Creative Design, and Performance.

The Finale of the Festival will be Saturday evening, June 14, with a performance event based in traditional storytelling. This evening will disconnect from technology for a few hours and allow the Festival goers to reconnect with the oral roots and traditions, which have inspired this new media.

For a look at the events of the past festivals:

1998 DSF4 Schedule
1997 DSF3 Schedule
1996 DSF2 Schedule

Story Time by Scott Rosenberg, Salon
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/09/29straight.html

The World of Digital Storytelling by Corey Hitchcock, The Gate
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/specials/1997/dstorytelling.shtml

Clicking for Godot by Scott Rosenberg, Salon Magazine
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1997/10/02godot.html

Multimedia producers, storytelling enthusiasts, new media designers, educators, technologists and internet explorers who are interested in how digital technology, tools, and the internet are impacting the ancient art of storytelling. Featured guest speaker sessions will cover a variety of applications in Digital Storytelling from personal narrative and legacy stories to education and training uses, from entertainment examples to corporate brand-building. Festival guest speakers will be added right up until the Festival opening.

For a look at past presenters:

1999 DSF5 Speakers
1998 DSF4 Speakers
1997 DSF3 Speakers
1996 DSF2 Speakers

"The festival is a rare bird in a world full of bland, sales-pitch-driven industry conferences; intimate and artistically diverse, it's both a showcase for new works of art and a think tank for thrashing out complex questions -- like who owns stories, who gets to tell them, why some stories work and others don't and what happens to a broadcast-dominated society when suddenly everyone is at least potentially a producer and distributor of media. " Scott Rosenberg, Salon Magazine.

3. What is the "Digital Bootcamp"?

A hands-on training component of the Digital Storytelling Festival is a three-day "Digital Bootcamp Workshop" offered in advance of the Festival. The 2003 Bootcamp Workshops will be held June 9-11, at the state-of-the-art training facility of the Yavapai College, Sedona Center for Arts and Technology.

Up to three classes of maximum 12 students each, will be conducted by the instructors of The Center for Digital Storytelling. The workshop model, which was developed in 1993 by CDS co-founder Dana Atchley, has been refined and successfully taught to thousands of participants in hundreds of workshops.

The goal of the workshop is for each student to design and produce an original 3-5 minute digital story, using personal (or corporate) archives and stories. Students are encouraged to use their own materials, including photographs, video clips, artwork, and music to create their story. Participants are given advance preparation information prior to the workshop to assist them in gathering the necessary elements.

Macintosh computer experience is helpful, but not essential to participate in the Bootcamp workshop. Software tutorials conducted as part of the workshop include Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere.

Completed Bootcamp stories will be made available to the Festival audience for viewing.

4. What Does it Cost?

Festival registration fees include access to all general sessions, panel discussions, receptions, hosted events and performance events. It also includes access to the Digital Storytelling Internet Café, the Festival Sponsor Exhibition area and any Festival attendee participation project created during the event.

Reasonably priced, boxed lunches will be available for purchase during lunchtime breaks at the Festival facilities, and a list of local restaurants will be provided at the Festival information table. Some meals may be included as part of sponsor-hosted evening events. Please continue to check the schedule for recent updates and additions.

• $395.00 Registration Fee
• $250.00 Student Registration Fee (Proof of current student ID required)
• $745.00 Digital Bootcamp* and Festival

*Limited availability

You can register on-line via our secure server using Visa or Mastercard. We also accept check or money orders by mail. Mail completed registration forms to:

The Digital Storytelling Festival
3435 Cesar Chavez Street #221
San Francisco, CA 94110

If you would like a registration form faxed to you or to register via telephone call: 415-285-8955.

"It might have been the setting or it might have been the participants but there is no doubt in my mind that we all discovered gold in them there hills last month. You have hit upon the right recipe, combing the perfect portions of the practical with the right amount of imagination (and a little magic thrown in) to produce a festival from which everyone emerges deeply touched and thoroughly satisfied."

"I feel really lucky to have been involved in such a gathering as the Digital Storytelling Festival. School teachers rarely get to indulge in cutting edge technology, emerging aesthetics, and the company of lyrical minds. The Crested Butte experience helps me keep my head in the clouds-like a digital "Valhalla"-while I'm lumbering around life at sea level"

"Thanks for a wonderful 5 days. Thanks for sharing Crested Butte. Thanks for introducing me to your digital "family". Thanks for giving me, personally, the opportunity to learn about and work with some truly ground-breaking "stuff. IT WAS GREAT GREAT GREAT!!"

"Thank you so much for a great conference. It was, without a doubt, one of the best I've been to in a long, long, time. Good presenters, good content, good atmosphere, nice mix of professionals and people who should be influencing them... all very approachable and open. Thank you."

"Thank you so much for inviting me. It was just marvelous. I really, really appreciate the opportunity. In addition to all the extremely stimulating people and stuff at the conference, I managed to grab some real deep quality time for myself with the aspen trees, too. What a gift."

"I just want to let you guys know that the conference over the weekend was by far the best conference I've ever attended. Thank you so much for putting it together. It was incredibly inspirational for me... so nice to talk with people who share my passions."

"It was fabulous. It had energy and excitement that I hadn't felt since journalism school (a good long time ago now), when I first felt the thrill of telling a story."

"Thanks so much for including me in the Digital Storytelling experience. I really got a brain-full of new ideas and met some terrific people. It was a great success, and I am already psyched for next year."

"Thank you so much for such an amazing weekend. The crowd was inspiring and I'm going to get a digital camera and do some family documentation. I want to let you know that the Digital Storytelling Festival rules supreme!"

"Just wanted to say "THANKS" for putting on such a good time! I had a blast! I showed up Monday to the boot camp, not having a really good idea of what I was getting into or why. But now I've got my first "story" under my belt, and am ready to do more! I'm so looking forward to next year."

You may link to the following articles to read about events at the Past Storytelling Festivals:

What's Your Story?
Fast Company Magazine's Daniel Pink reports on Digital Storytelling
and his experience at the 1997 Digital Bootcamp

Story Time by Scott Rosenberg, Salon
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/09/29straight.html

The World of Digital Storytelling by Corey Hitchcock, The Gate
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/specials/1997/dstorytelling.shtml

Clicking for Godot by Scott Rosenberg, Salon Magazine
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1997/10/02godot.html