By Dave Fidlin
Correspondent
As it continues its evolution, the Whitewater Community Television organization is hoping to enhance citizen engagement with a new program this spring.
Alan Luckett, community TV and media services manager with the operation, came before the Common Council on March 1 and discussed the organization’s latest endeavor: a digital storytelling workshop.
Interested participants will be asked to share a Whitewater-based story or event and create a 2- to 3-minute presentation with assistance from staffers within Whitewater Community Television.
“Participants will learn how to turn their own memories of an event or time of their life into a compelling digital story with their own narrative, photos or, perhaps, a soundtrack,” Luckett said of the workshop.
Plans call for the workshop to be held Sunday afternoons, beginning in early April. Depending upon the level of interest from residents, Luckett said the workshop sessions could extend into May.
To ensure each participant learns and benefits from the activity, Luckett said group sizes, by design, will be small.
Whitewater Community Television undertakes a variety of functions in the community — most notably recording many of the city’s government meetings and airing them on the designated public access channel for Charter Cable subscribers. More recently, the recorded meetings also are streamed online via the city’s website, www.whitewater-wi.gov.
Portions of Whitewater Community Television’s operations budget are covered through municipal funds.
Luckett said further details of the upcoming digital storytelling workshop will be posted on the organization’s Facebook page and on the city website. Residents interested in learning more about the activity are invited to call (262) 473-8564.
