Courses
Visual Storytelling
Visual Storytelling Course
The Levantine culture cherishes the storyteller as a traditional performer who skillfully recounts and recites tales from ancient Arabic history. This tradition sets the stage for the contemporary role that virtually everyone assumes in storytelling on digital platforms today.
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Visual storytelling is a powerful tool of expression that goes beyond the boundaries of language and words. It enables participation in dialogue and offers perspectives from the storyteller’s viewpoint. Through reclaiming the narrative helps to deconstruct entrenched societal norms and constructs. Visual storytelling is thus an excellent tool for the educational context to critically engage youth on various topics.
The course introduces condensed technical training while guiding participants to explore their ideas by asking questions such as what message they wish to convey and how to make the story engaging for themselves and others. The necessary technical tools are provided to translate these ideas into images that demonstrate technical proficiency.
Example project: Soura wa Hikaya
A project implemented by Zakira – Image Festival Association with UNICEF aimed at training youth from Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians and Iraqi nationalities living in Beirut on photography and reporting skills.
Seventy adolescents were provided with skills in documentary photography, writing, reporting and photography through workshops conducted by photographers, journalists and social media specialists. The three-month training followed them in creating visual and written stories that report on many aspects affecting their lives and the communities they live in.