Presented by the Praire Star District Heritage and Archives Committee
Fascinating stories and rich visuals make for good documentaries. Taking a cue from successful television documentaries, PSD’s Heritage and Archives Committee is now working to record the District’s past on video.
Why video? The technology is accessible, inexpensive and easy to learn. And, DVDs are easy to distribute and effective in religious education classes and adult study groups.
Program Highlights
Preview two videos produced by members of the Heritage and Archives Video Team (including the above).
Learn the process of creating a historical video through more affordable and accessible technology. You will have hands-on time with video cameras and editing software.
Discuss how these completed videos might be useful as educational tools for life-span religious education, communicating with new comers and other members of the larger community.
Ideas for getting project funding.
Why Tell Our Stories?
"We have shared values and shared history, and more than anything else it seems to me, one of the things that helped to shape Unitarian Universalist identity and to connect us with one another across our varied congregations and with our different personalities and perspectives is this shared sense of history...That’s why a project like the Prairie Star District’s Heritage Media Project is so important. It’s about people coming together to share the dramatic, exciting, inspiring stories from our religious tradition.
“It is important to record those stories for posterity because they tell us what our identity is. They tell us what meaning those who have followed our way in religion before us have found in liberal religious communities, and more importantly they point us to the future. We can’t wait until those who know our rich stories are gone from among us. We can’t wait before we start recording those stories. It’s important to begin the task now to tell the tales we know and the tales that we remember from others so that we can hand off to future generations, and as important to hand off to our neighbors and friends today, the vivid, varied, and rich tales of our liberal religious heritage.”
— Rev. Stefan Jonasson, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Oct. 2006.
Two Workshops
Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:00 am to 3:30 pm Minnesota Valley UU Fellowship 10715 Zenith Avenue South Bloomington, MN 55431 http://www.mnvalleyuu.org
Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:00 am to 3:30 pm First Unitarian Church of Des Moines 1800 Bell Avenue Des Moines, IA 50315 http://www.ucdsm.org
See each congregation’s web site for a map. A hard copy will be sent on request.
Cost
$25 per person includes registration and materials, Saturday breakfast and lunch.
Participants are responsible for their own housing arrangements.
Registration
Registration Deadlines:
October 10, 2007 (for Oct. 20 workshop)
November 1, 2007 (for Nov. 10 workshop)
You can register by mail (with a check) or electronically (with a credit card).
Registration by Mail: Fill out the registration form in this brochure. (Note: the brochure is a PDF file (115 KB); you will need Acrobat Reader or similar program to read and print the PDF file. See About PDF Files for more information.) Mail the form with a check for $25 per person (payable to Prairie Star District) to:
Prairie Star District, UUA 122 W. Franklin Ave., Suite 303 Minneapolis, MN 55404
Electronic Registration: via credit card in our Prairie Store
Workshop Leaders
Rev. Stefan Jonasson Director for Large Congregations, Unitarian Universalist Association. A history enthusiast with a special interest in UU history in the Midwest and Prairie Provinces of Canada.
Steve Goranson Member of White Bear UU Church. A professional writer, producer, director and editor with 25 years of experience in the video industry. He worked in corporate video and advertising for 30 years.
Jerry Lakso Member of White Bear UU Church. He is a professional video editor with 30 years of TV experience, mostly at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul. He has been the online editor for a number of award winning local and national documentaries.
Tim Hirsch Member of UU Congregation of Eau Claire. Ph.D. in American Studies, now a retired University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire English professor, he is learning video production and editing as part of the H & A video team.
Note: District workshops may be recorded or photographed for District use. Attendance will imply permission to be recorded or photographed.
