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["Todd Gemmell"]

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Center for Digital Storytelling Opens at UC Berkeley
Center to Hold Benefit Celebration
With by New York's David Cale

The Center for Digital Storytelling  (CDS) is pleased to announce the
opening of its new research and training center on the University of
California at Berkeley campus.  To celebrate the opening, CDS is holding a
benefit event as part of the theatrical run of David Cale in "Lillian," at
the Magic Theater at Fort Mason Center.  The Benefit evening is Thursday,
February 11th, at 8:30 pm.

Reservations for the benefit can be made by calling CDS at 510 821 2065.
Tickets are $18, $25, and $50. $25 tickets include a copy of the CDS'
Digital Storytelling Cookbook, and $50 tickets include copies of the
Cookbook, an accompanying CD-ROM, and CDS T-shirt.  The performance will be
followed with a reception with the artist, and demonstrations of digital
storytelling projects with performing artists including multimedia artist
Dana Atchley, choreographer Charles Moulton and solo performer Marty
Pottenger.

"Lillian" is the newest work by the acclaimed New York writer/performer
David Cale.  Called by the Steven Winn of the San Francisco Chronicle,  "one
solo performer not to be missed", David Cale has twice taken Bay Area stages
by storm in his haunting, "Deep In A Dream of You," in 1991 and again with
"Somebody Else's House" in 1994.   "Lillian" is David's newest tour d'
force, the story of woman reminiscent of James Joyce' Molly Bloom.  Called
by the New York Times "a luminous embodiment of the ineffable in life," and
the Chicago Tribune, "captivating," Calešs Magic theater run promises to be
one of the theatrical events of the season in San Francisco.

"In my ten years of producing theater, no show effected me more profoundly
than 'Deep In A Dream of You'," says CDS co-director and former Life On The
Water theater founder, Joe Lambert.  "David's vocal incantations, the
delicacy of his writing, and his incandescent humanity make his work
amazingly effective.  I consider David Cale the greatest actor/writer
working today, and I can think of no more appropriate person to inaugurate a
center dedicated to the future of the storytelling form."

The Center for Digital Storytelling

CDS grew out of the San Francisco Digital Media Center, for five years a
community training facility based in San Francisco's Mission District.  CDS
directors, Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen, along with collaborator Dana
Atchley, have developed an international dialogue about humanizing new media
technology through the medium of personal storytelling.  The Digital
Storytelling workshop involves a mixture of creative writing, multimedia
production and creative group process.

Digital Storytelling has been taught to a general public in community
settings, educators, and corporate leaders throughout the U.S., in Canada
and several European countries.   The work has been featured on CNN, MSNBC,
in the New York Times, most recently in the January edition of Fast Company,
and many other publications.  The interest in the process, and resulting
research and curriculum development work by Lambert and Mullen, has led them
to a collaboration with the School of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley to
train and disseminate the process to students and faculty.  CDS offices and
training lab are now located at room 2327 Tolman Hall off Hearst Street on
the northside of campus.

CDS will be offering monthly three day Digital Storytelling workshops for
the general public.  The dates for the Spring workshops are February 18-20,
March 25-27 or April 22-24, Thursday-Saturday, 9 am  - 5 pm.  Call CDS for
specific details.

In addition, CDS has a number of other programs in regards to Digital
Storytelling. With its partner, the Digital Storytelling Festival
(www.dstory.com), CDS will act as a national archive and clearinghouse for
work in digital media (CD ROMS, WWW, and other developing platforms) that
addresses narrative concerns from an autobiographical or first person
fictional perspective.    The Center will be developing curriculum for
community organizations, including its longstanding partnership with the
Digital Clubhouse Network in Sunnyvale, CA and New York City.  Finally, CDS
will continue its role within the California non-profit arts community as a
training and technical resource.

For information about the Center for Digital Storytelling, please email
mailto:info@storycenter.org or visit our website, http:www.storycenter.org.


CDS Benefit with David Cale, Feb. 11,
8:30 pm at Magic Theater, Fort Mason, SF

Joe Lambert/Nina Mullen
Center for Digital Storytelling
2327 Tolman Hall #1670
UC Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
510 821-2065  fax 510 524 2669
<http://www.storycenter.org>