Storytelling For All: Empowering Bedouin Women and Men through Film and Craft Impact and Engagement

为所有人讲故事：通过电影和工艺品的影响和参与赋予贝都因妇女和男子权力

• 批准号: AH/X001040/1
• 负责人: Jessica Jacobs
• 金额: $ 10.17万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX001040%2F1
• 关键词: Storytelling; Empowering; Bedouin; Women; Men

Following on from the Newton award winning work carried out in Jordan for OPOF, Storytelling for All (SFA) will enhance the value of Bedouin cultural heritage in South Sinai, Egypt, through the production of an artefact - a handcrafted community map wallhanging. This follow on project will develop and expand the handcrafting and storytelling methods used so successfully to increase the value of traditional heritage skills in Jordan to deliver a series of workshops for Bedouin communities in the South Sinai, Egypt.While the Jordan handcrafted map told many stories, our ability to document the story of the actual work involved was hampered by social restrictions that meant that female participants did not want to be filmed or photographed directly. Yet they also expressed a desire to be acknowledged and did not wish to remain anonymous. Invisibility of the makers was clearly a further barrier to perceptions of the value of their skilled artisanal work.These workshops will therefore incorporate a new filmmaking element helping to increase the focus on storytelling, overcome barriers to representation and inclusion, and increase impact through disemmination. Bespoke training in filmmaking will allow participants to determine themselves how they represent their work and will highlight and make visible the huge amount of undervalued knowledge and creativity held by Bedouin communities. Working with the same team of UK artists from OPOF, alongside Egyptian local partners, a filmmaker and residents of south Sinai, the project will deliver a series of skill-share based heritage focused workshops for women that will also including training the women to film and share their own process using smartphones. This will allow the participants to gain a sense of ownership over the outputs of the project and be empowered through the ability to control what is being represented as well as adopt a reflexive approach to their own accomplishments. Increasing the sense of ownership over the means of production and the means of representation of the production the project highlights the value of intangible cultural heritage as a means of female intergenerational knowledge transfer and production. The workshops will also deliver a high level of valuable and transferable skills training through a skill-share model with participants acting as both students and trainers.This project will deliver a further new element of heritage focused filmmaking workshops for men allowing them to collect and discuss and disseminate stories that reflect on the cultural heritage of Bedouin guides and guardians of a fragile and harsh landscape. Workshops for men will offer training in storytelling using filmmaking. They will be trained how to use smartphones to make short films and distribute these short films on social media. Adding filmmaking workshops for male relatives to promote their tourist enterprises (which include accommodation (camps), restaurants, trekking and guiding, and marketing souvenirs and herbal remedies) through digital storytelling will widen the economic and social benefit. In this way the project will ensure gender equality and poverty alleviation for the communities involved. Designing workshop activities around a shared heritage are also processes that will facilitate collaboration in other ways. The use of bespoke gender specific workshops will allow participants to use film to represent themselves, their landscape, their work and their home in a way they are comfortable with - choosing what to show and what not to show. Combining filmmaking with crafting to tell heritage stories that will be screened, exhibited and shared online will allow the local community to reach a wider international audience beyond direct tourist visitors to the region.

继在约旦为OPOF开展的牛顿奖获奖工作之后，全民讲故事(SFA)将通过制作手工制作的社区地图壁挂来提高埃及南西奈的贝都因人文化遗产的价值。这个后续项目将发展和扩展成功用于增加约旦传统遗产技能价值的手工制作和讲故事的方法，为埃及南西奈的贝都因人社区举办一系列讲习班。虽然约旦手工制作的地图讲述了许多故事，但我们记录实际工作故事的能力受到社会限制的阻碍，这意味着女性参与者不想直接被拍摄或拍照。然而，他们也表达了被承认的愿望，不希望保持匿名。制作人的隐身性显然是对其技艺精湛的手工作品价值认知的又一障碍。因此，这些讲习班将纳入新的电影制作元素，有助于加强对讲故事的关注，克服表现和包容方面的障碍，并通过消除歧视来增加影响。定制的电影制作培训将使参与者能够确定他们如何表现自己的作品，并将突出和展示贝都因社区所拥有的大量被低估的知识和创造力。该项目将与OPOF的同一个英国艺术家团队，以及埃及当地合作伙伴、一名电影制作人和南西奈半岛的居民合作，为女性提供一系列以技能分享为基础的遗产研讨会，还将包括培训女性使用智能手机拍摄和分享自己的过程。这将使参与者对项目的产出有一种主人翁意识，并通过控制所代表的内容以及对自己的成就采取条件反射的方法来增强能力。该项目提高了对生产资料和生产资料的主人翁意识，突出了非物质文化遗产作为妇女代际知识转让和生产手段的价值。讲习班还将通过技能共享模式提供高水平的宝贵和可转让的技能培训，参与者既是学生，也是培训者。该项目将为男子举办以遗产为重点的电影制作讲习班，使他们能够收集、讨论和传播反映贝都因人向导和脆弱和恶劣地形守护者的文化遗产的故事。男性工作坊将提供使用电影制作讲述故事的培训。他们将接受培训，如何使用智能手机制作短片，并在社交媒体上传播这些短片。增加男性亲属的电影制作工作室，通过数字讲故事来宣传他们的旅游企业(包括住宿(营地)、餐馆、徒步旅行和导游，以及销售纪念品和草药)，将扩大经济效益和社会效益。通过这种方式，该项目将确保所涉社区的两性平等和减贫。围绕共同遗产设计讲习班活动也是以其他方式促进合作的过程。利用定制的性别专题研讨会，参与者可以使用胶片以他们喜欢的方式来展示他们自己、他们的风景、他们的工作和他们的家--选择展示什么和不展示什么。将电影制作与手工制作相结合，讲述将在网上放映、展览和分享的遗产故事，将使当地社区能够接触到更广泛的国际观众，而不仅仅是该地区的直接游客。