Create Caribbean News:
Announcement: Community Partners Program
With the support of funding from the Mellon Foundation CDSC Grant, Create Caribbean is hosting a Summer Intensive Training for community partner agencies and organisations in a range of fields including culture, heritage, youth, and environmental sustainability. The organisations will receive applied training in digital tools and methods for community development.
The training sessions will be held from 2nd to 12th August 2022 at the Create Caribbean building on the Dominica State College (DSC) upper campus. Applications are open. If your organization is interested contact us at info@createcaribbean.org.
Create & Code- For the Future
July 4 to August 5 2022
Create and Code Summer Tech Camp 2022 will take place from Monday, July 4, 2022, to Friday, August 5, 2022, in a blended virtual and in-person format. Students will receive a comprehensive program in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Digital Media Arts and Creative Expression.
The content of each program will include:
STEM (HTML/CSS, Java, Python, Robotics)
Digital Media Arts (Filmmaking Basics, Graphic Art and Design, Animation, Audiovisual Content Creation - Podcast/YouTube, 3-D Design, Mapping)
Creative Expression (Drawing and Painting, Photography, Creative Writing)
The timetable will be shared closer to the start of camp.
Congratulations to Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)!
The Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida were granted $2,000,000 over four years, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to build and sustain the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) – reinforcing and strengthen the organization and its collections to allow dLOC’s community to flourish in the years to come.
Read the Full Press Release here.
In Progress:
RTC Internship, Individual projects
The interns are now working on their individual projects! Here are a few:
Lacil- In her project titled “Following Folklore” she will be digitally mapping out different Folklore books written by Caribbean authors,
Kyra- Her project focuses on the literary work of Kamau Brathwaite, analyzing the themes and making connections to critical moments in history.
Chelsea- Chelsea’s project focuses on the Transition of Caribbean Literature. She will be comparing the number of books published in the first and last eras of the project looking for an explanation of how the volumes have increased, as well as how the definition of Caribbean literature has changed over the years.
Have a look at the intern takeovers for more about them and their work.
The Visualizing Caribbean Literature Project is an archive project which will provide a resource for analysis or general knowledge about Caribbean authors. It will allow users to see the bigger picture of Caribbean literature and can inspire new ideas from the visualizations of data from this research. Trends in Caribbean literature can be studied where tradition/history has changed literary work in the Caribbean, how Caribbean authors interact with each other literarily, and other categories. It aims to become a resource that is usable by any age group of researchers/ interested persons.
Create Caribbean interns enrolled in HIS115 (Digital Humanities Research) for the academic year 2021-22 will contribute to this project by working to develop a multimedia resource documenting Caribbean literary history with a searchable, annotated, and mapped timeline of Caribbean literature from 1800 to the present.
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