To Picture a Story – Creative Life Skills Workshop
This project is a creative initiative for the children in our communities across Romania that we delivered together with British Council Romania, within their Creative Life Skills series of workshops.
Over the course of three months, from April to June of 2021, nine teenagers enrolled in our Future Acceleration Program from Vaslui, Cluj and Galati counties, learned and practiced film photography and storytelling in English, in a series of bi-monthly workshops delivered by British Council teacher David Hughes, artist Wanda Hutira and communications expert Cosmin Anghel.
The ‘To picture a story’ workshops helped young students develop creative skills and English fluency through photography and storytelling, enabling them to capture and share stories of everyday life in rural or small urban Romania.
The program focused on developing students’ English fluency and creative abilities through two sets of skills:
- Visual storytelling, by gaining a deeper understanding of photography techniques and using film cameras provided within the program to showcase slices of Romanian life from their local perspective.
- Written storytelling, by learning to develop short stories in Instagram caption formats that further convey their message for each photo, whether it relates to capturing a feeling or mood or providing context; through this, students develop written storytelling skills and their English fluency.
Their film photographs, raw and unedited, along with their stories are published on Instagram at @topictureastory, showcasing life in different areas and backgrounds of Romania as part of the workshop’s creative program.
To picture a story is developed together with British Council Romania. Special thanks go to volunteer trainers David Hughes, Wanda Hutira, and Cosmin Anghel.
