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Voices from the Home Front
The Art of Telling Your Family's Story

Everyone has a story to tell. This event seeks to celebrate the art of storytelling by creating a “living archive” of the voices of military families in our community. Participants will learn the fundamentals of storytelling and interviewing tips and strategies, and trained facilitators will work one-on-one to help each family create a multimedia story that is unique to each family’s life story and the memories they want to preserve. Throughout the evening, participants will engage in experiential learning and rotate through the following digital storytelling stations:

■ Narrative: Participants will learn the art of interviewing and craft a list of interview questions.
■ Audio: Participants will create a voice-over and introduction to their family story.
■ Sound Effects: Participants will select sounds to add ambience to their family story.
■ Photography: Participants will upload and scan family photos and story board a sequence of images.
■ Images: Participants will learn about the power of symbols and select
components to create their own family crest.
■ Video: Participants will interview their family member. Each conversation will be recorded on a free DVD which will be available at a public exhibit (scheduled for another date). Each family will have their family crest printed in color on high-quality parchment paper and framed. They will also be given a Muse-Art DVD/CD ROM that will equip them with multimedia resources to help them continue to preserve and to tell their family story. Muse-Art will edit the materials from the storytelling seminar and mail each family their produced digital story.

This workshop is a pilot project that seeks to create and strengthen meaningful connections in our local community, and the stories will be collected and premiered at a public exhibit later this year. It is open to all military families, active or veterans.

Co-founders of Muse-Art and Presenters

Timothy Mobley is a co-founder of Muse-Art. He is also a freelance musician and writer in Pittsburgh. He has worked as pianist and accompanist for the New York Grand Opera, the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, and currently the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. He has also directed choral and instrumental ensembles at all age levels, for which he has written arrangements and original compositions, including two youth musicals. As a freelance writer, he is a regular contributor to the hyper-local news site Patch.com, covering human interest and local government stories. Mobley is also an Air Force Reservist, originally studying graphic arts at the Defense Information School at Ft. Meade, MD before assuming his current duty in the communications squadron at the 911th Airlift Wing. Mobley received his B.S. in Music Education from Roberts Wesleyan College and his M.M. from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford.

Dr. Jennifer A. Scott is a co-founder of Muse-Art. She also serves as the chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Grove City College. She has taught and lectured on creative nonfiction, editing, and writing for the media at Ohio University and Grove City College. Her poetry has been published in the Penwood Review and The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, and The Quad. Scott has also served as project manager at the Central Region Humanities Center and supervised the creation and planning regional and national programming that honored the artistic legacy of American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Her project was recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of their “We the People Projects” in 2003. Dr. Scott received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University.

Registration: To register or for more information, please visit www.muse-art.org/events or contact Timothy Mobley via phone at 412-337-4859 or via email at tmobley@muse-art.org. Please register by November 8th.

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