Kids Connect: New York<>Nieuw Amsterdam
Submitted by danwinckler on Wed, 2006-10-25 14:31.
Kids Connect is a series of collaborative performance and storytelling workshops for young people in multiple locations. We introduce students to theatrical and digital methods, building a solid foundation of audio, visual and programming knowledge through which they can tell stories about their lives. Dan Winckler co-directed the pilot program, which was also his master's thesis, in summer 2006. The New York students connected and created with students in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, via video streaming and in Second Life, the online virtual world. Guided by artists and educators from theatre and digital arts, they learned skills like VJ-ing, Playback Theatre, digital storytelling, and 3D modeling. In Second Life, they met and collaborated to build a hybrid virtual city combining aspects of both New York and Amsterdam. Within that common space, they created a performance that occurred both live and online simultaneously.
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Kids Connect is a series of collaborative performance and storytelling workshops for young people in multiple locations. We introduce students to theatrical and digital methods, building a solid foundation of audio, visual and programming knowledge through which they can tell stories about their lives. Dan Winckler co-directed the pilot program, which was also his master's thesis, in summer 2006. The New York students connected and created with students in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, via video streaming and in Second Life, the online virtual world. Guided by artists and educators from theatre and digital arts, they learned skills like VJ-ing, Playback Theatre, digital storytelling, and 3D modeling. In Second Life, they met and collaborated to build a hybrid virtual city combining aspects of both New York and Amsterdam. Within that common space, they created a performance that occurred both live and online simultaneously.» 
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