This summer, Watershed is hosting innovative workshops for older people from across Europe to learn about digital media and to experience cutting-edge technology for themselves. Fourteen participants (all aged over 50) are visiting Bristol this week from Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Iceland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Belgium and the UK to explore and share their memories of love, a universal emotion.

The pan-European participants in the Grundtvig workshop will learn how to tell their story in their own voice, using sound, photos, images and objects and video editing software to create a short film. Working together as a group, they will receive training in story and script development, audio and image capture and video editing. The workshop is aimed at those with little or no experience of working with digital media. Simple tasks will ensure participants increase skills and confidence and discover how new technologies can add value to everyday experience.

Workshop Facilitator, Mandy Mcintosh from Glasgow said:

This Watershed workshop allows people from across Europe to share their experiences of love, and I can't wait to hear their unique stories. To fall in love is to enter a new world. Love is the universal story humans tell each other over and over again. This workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn about how digital technology can bring their stories of love to life and engage new audiences.'

The Love: Digital Storytelling Workshop showcase event will take place at Watershed on Fri 10 June at 14.45 - 18.00hrs. The Grundtvig workshops are funded by the European Commission, as part of the Education and Culture DG Lifelong Learning Programme. Find out more at: grundtvig.org.uk.

Follow the workshop blog here.

Watershed hosted another Grundtvig workshop: Memories and Mediascapes (9 - 13 May). Participants used Calvium's PIRL (Played in Real Life) platform, to create a new sound walk on Bristol's harbourside.

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