Capturing Karnali folktales in digital form with Karnali Arts Centre
Our content team visited Gamgadhi, Mugu in Karnali Province to collect children’s stories for our collection of Hamro Ramailo Kathaharu (HRK). This workshop was conducted with Karnali Arts Center to help facilitate and capture oral storytelling in the region with local writers, artists, and musicians, and sketch out concepts for visualization of these stories in digital form. This workshop was an opportunity to co-create digitally enhanced original and re-written stories inspired by the local wisdom and lived experiences of the indigenous communities.
We chose to work with Karnali Arts Centre as a collaborator as they are a community-based organization, and we were able to leverage this partnership to meet with local writers, musicians, and artists in the region. The workshop was held on April 17-18, 2021 in Mugu. During the workshop, our project lead and content designer shared the intention to curate and capture oral storytelling in the digital form through our project. The participants were introduced to OLE Nepal’s work on E-Paath and E-Pustakalaya, as well as existing stories in the HRK platform. The workshop was interactive with sessions on reading, writing, storytelling and revisiting existing work in children’s literature. Participants were also asked to draw their favorite characters for an exercise on character building. At the end of the workshop, the participants shared a total of eight new story submissions, out of which five were shortlisted for further development. Our team has continued to work closely with the artists and Karnali Arts Centre to develop the stories, illustrations, voice recordings, and accompanying music.
Our content team visited Gamgadhi, Mugu in Karnali Province to collect children’s stories for our collection of Hamro Ramailo Kathaharu (HRK). This workshop was conducted with Karnali Arts Center to help facilitate and capture oral storytelling in the region with local writers, artists, and musicians, and sketch out concepts for visualization of these stories in digital form. This workshop was an opportunity to co-create digitally enhanced original and re-written stories inspired by the local wisdom and lived experiences of the indigenous communities.
We chose to work with Karnali Arts Centre as a collaborator as they are a community-based organization, and we were able to leverage this partnership to meet with local writers, musicians, and artists in the region. The workshop was held on April 17-18, 2021 in Mugu. During the workshop, our project lead and content designer shared the intention to curate and capture oral storytelling in the digital form through our project. The participants were introduced to OLE Nepal’s work on E-Paath and E-Pustakalaya, as well as existing stories in the HRK platform. The workshop was interactive with sessions on reading, writing, storytelling and revisiting existing work in children’s literature. Participants were also asked to draw their favorite characters for an exercise on character building. At the end of the workshop, the participants shared a total of eight new story submissions, out of which five were shortlisted for further development. Our team has continued to work closely with the artists and Karnali Arts Centre to develop the stories, illustrations, voice recordings, and accompanying music.
OLE Nepal is developing an interactive digital platform to help early graders develop their basic reading and comprehension skills. We are creating and curating original stories for the platform, to help young learners through the use of familiar images and word references. These stories have features of both audio and animation, where learners can enhance their reading in an interactive way. The use of audio-visuals, illustrations and animations, combined with interactivity, will be highly effective in helping young learners to listen to illustrated stories, decode sentences and words, learn vocabulary, form words from letters and sentences from words. Children can also learn and identify the alphabets by listening to the sounds.
This project to design and develop high-quality Nepali children’s stories is supported by ONGD-FNEL, Luxembourg.
