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Kia ora, I’m Frith Williams
I’m on a 4-month, Fulbright-funded trip across the US exploring digital and bilingual/bicultural storytelling in museums. I've created this blog to connect ground-bound Kiwis with what's going on overseas – and share and debate discoveries more generally.
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Recent posts
- Highlight 3: Bilingual ‘story theatre’ at San Diego Natural History Museum
- Highlight 2: Noah’s Ark, Skirball
- Highlight 1: Connected Worlds, NYSCI
- Highlights intro … & 6 boxes to tick in museum storytelling
- A virtually real story in 2 parts
- Down the rabbit hole at MONA & Melbourne Museum: Part 2
- Down the rabbit hole at MONA & Melbourne Museum: Part 1
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Thanks
Thanks to Fulbright NZ for allowing me to take a breather, fly north for the winter, and share ideas with creative thinkers and doers abroad. Thanks also to Te Papa for their support.
The opinions on this blog are mine alone – except when they're someone else's. I’ll be sure to say who. Reviews are intended to help us all make better stuff (even though there's never enough time) and if I pick any holes or point any fingers, three are pointing back at me!
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Highlight 3: Bilingual ‘story theatre’ at San Diego Natural History Museum
Innovative, bilingual, multimedia story theatre in the Coast to Cactus exhibit at San Diego Natural History Museum, and musings on the relevance to Te Papa Continue reading
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Tagged Aotearoa, biculturalism, Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), bilingualism, Coast to Cactus in Southern California, Desert at Night, digital media, English, exhibitions, Hispanic, immersive storytelling, interpretation, language, Latino, multimedia, museums, Māori, object theatre, San Diego Natural History Museum, Spanglish, Spanish, story theatre, storytelling, theater, theatre, user experience, UX
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How can museums help revive indigenous languages?
What role should museums play in addressing social challenges, and what’s our individual role within that? Continue reading
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Tagged Aotearoa, biculturalism, bilingualism, Hawaii, indigenous, interpretation, language, museums, New Zealand, Pacific cultures
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Getting mobile on Hawai‘i: A visit to the Bishop
Bishop Museum’s web-based mobile audio tours offering content in English, Hawaiian, and other languages Continue reading
