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City Kid Chronicles: From East Village to, uh, Actual Village

Posted on October 16, 2011 by samanthalove

For the past few years, Sam, Srilekha, and I have all been living in New York, a place where the word “village” refers to a kind of cultural hamlet, a neighborhood with a certain self-conscious style and character. The West[]

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Video Debuts

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Betsy

Last Tuesday I (Kara) said a sad farewell to the CR community in Villupuram as I headed back to Hyderabad to wrap up the regular courses I teach as a digital storytelling instructor with The Modern Story. The night before[]

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“I” is for India

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Betsy

Hi! It’s Kara again. I’ve stayed on at CR for another two weeks to conduct multimedia workshops as part of my fellowship with The Modern Story digital storytelling program. Last week I worked with teachers from CR’s after-school program for[]

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Now Showing: Fire at Communities Rising

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Betsy

As promised, here is the video made by Agni–whose name means “fire” in Tamil–in which he describes his experiences at CR. With a natural sense for setting a video’s tone, Agni used Window Movie Maker to its technical limits only[]

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Happy New Year’s from Vikravandy!

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Betsy

Hello! My name is Kara and I’m visiting Communities Rising this week. I’ve spent the past five months in Andhra Pradesh (one of Tamil Nadu’s neighbor states) on a teaching fellowship with The Modern Story, a digital storytelling program in[]

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