All great stories happen somewhere \u2013 in the vast lands of Middle Earth, foggy urban areas, Oval Offices, boardrooms, kitchens, playgrounds. This sense of place not only anchors a story, but gives it weight, texture, and context.<\/p>\n
We usually enter a story through a character that lures or invites us in, but one of the reasons we stay is because the world he\/she inhabits is so vivid. In this regard, stories are not just the different and new people that we meet, but also the worlds they inhabit: their apartments, their offices, their cities, their countries.<\/p>\n
To convince a reader\/listener\/viewer to follow you on a story\u2019s journey, to have them reach that elusive state of empathy, to move them, stories must invoke place, and the power it has to determine actions, and even feelings.<\/p>\n
At this year\u2019s conference our speakers will tackle the idea of place in a story, the way it is conveyed, depicted, researched, and understood. They will talk about capturing its sounds, photographing it, getting it down in a notebook, or even claiming it as their own. They will discuss entering and leaving a place \u2013 whether it belongs to the past or the present \u2013, discovering the people there, finding ways to connect with them, and bringing back a story for the rest of us.<\/p>\n
Outside the conference hall, we will try to look at place in interactive moments (such as drawing or photographing a corner of your neighborhood), exhibits (of photographs and illustrations), screenings of audio and video stories and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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