A Childhood Interned (MACSD)
Media Arts Center San Diego (MACSD), which also sponsors the San Diego Latino Film Festival, will present a pair of premiere screenings of their latest project, San Diego Stories Digital Story Station. The free screenings will take place Monday, June 23, at 6:00 p.m. in the Chula Vista Public Library (365 F St., Chula Vista, 91910) and then Saturday, June 28th at 4:30 p.m. at Escondido Public Library (239 S. Kalmia, Escondido, 92025). Both screenings celebrate a variety of short digital stories that have been produced by residents from Escondido, Chula Vista, and throughout San Diego County. The diverse works cover such subjects as Japanese Internment during World War II; stories of Love and Forgiveness; the History of Escondido's Grape Day Festival; the history of the Native American community in San Diego; stories of immigration; the history of the Chula Vista Nature Center; and many more stories about the people, communities and histories that together create the unique fabric of San Diego County. Following both screenings there will be a public discussion with the community storytellers and MACSD artists who worked on and produced the Digital Stories.
San Diego Stories is part of the MACSD's Digital Story Station project that gives San Diego County residents an opportunity to highlight something they deeply care about. According to the MACSD: "The aim of the Digital Story Station is to create a growing collection of video stories that can help us all better understand one another and connect our stories to the places we live. There are three Digital Story Stations throughout San Diego County - Chula Vista Public Library, Escondido Public Library and the Downtown Central Public Library. Additionally, MACSD is assisting the California State Library to install Digital Story Stations at libraries across the State of California. By Fall 2008, there will be 21 Digital Story Stations in California.
San Diego Stories is made possible with support from the San Diego Foundation. Additional support for the Digital Story Station is provided by City of San Diego Public Library, the San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, KPBS, Chula Vista Public Library, Escondido Public Library, and the California State Library."
MACSD is one of the busiest arts organization in town and it continually reaches out to youth and underserved communities to find storytellers and to provide the means for those people to get their stories out in the community. This latest project should provide some compelling works. Plus it's free. You can't beat that. I hope you will come out and support these San Diego Stories.
For more information call 619-280-1938 x101 or go to the MACSD website .
