This collaboration between Europeana and The Heritage Lab invites you to develop your skills for telling stories with open digital cultural heritage and to share your stories in our creative competition.

Join the Opening Gala on 10-11 May to find out what the competition is all about, meet some of last year’s winners, discover inspiring examples of online storytelling, find out more about how to use open digital cultural heritage content and boost your own skills in our creative workshops.

Full programme can be found here.

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Speakers include:

Douglas McCarthy
Medhavi Gandhi
Aleks Strzelichowska
Beth Daley
Carola Carlino
Caterina Ruscio
Sannuta Raghu
Thomas Böhm
Margot Melsens
Tanaya Narendra
Kate Wojtczak
Rianne Koning
Kees Teszelszky
Lakshmi Choudhry
Luigia Palumbo
Hannah Bloom Teskey
Alexandra Kusa
Virginia Poundstone
Amanda Figueroa

We keep your personal information confidential: The Europeana Foundation will collect the data provided by you when signing up to the Digital Storytelling Festival Opening Gala, and will delete it after 3 months. It is for use by the Europeana Foundation only to support your participation at Digital Storytelling Festival Opening Gala. Your data will not be shared with third parties. If you want your data to be removed, send an email to events@europeana.eu, and we will delete your information from our databases. You can find out more about your rights and choices and how we use your information in our privacy policy.

Please note: Europeana is beginning to monitor attendance at our events to try to make sure that we are reaching as wide and diverse a section of the community working with or interested in digital cultural heritage as we possibly can. We ask you a series of questions relating to whether you have a visible or invisible disability. The disclosure of this information is completely voluntary. All responses will be treated in the strictest confidence, and all data disclosed will comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Europeana’s privacy policy. You can also read the Europeana Network Association Code of Conduct. We will anonymise your data and only use, analyse and report on anonymised data. Where a respondent voluntarily provides personal information, this data will be used only for the purposes for which it is provided, and not passed to any third party, unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.