Get Involved

The Center for Digital Storytelling located in Berkeley, is a community arts center focused on multimedia/digital media training and production. Since the early 1990s, our programs have been exploring the role that personal narrative, storytelling, and new media can play in education, community building, and social change efforts. We offer beginning-level training workshops in digital video editing, image editing, and scripting; collaborate with universities and community-based organizations in the Bay Area and across the U.S.; and provide one-on-one support for individual multimedia projects.

If you would like to learn more about our work and get involved with our organization we have the following opportunities:

Support a storyteller
You can support an individual participating in one our open workshops who would not otherwise be able to by making a donation to our Scholarship Fund. To do so, send a check made out to "Center for Digital Storytelling" to 1803 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94709. Be sure to include "Donation to Scholarship Fund" in the memo line.

Volunteers
Volunteers at CDS provide a variety of support including administrative tasks, marketing, outreach, mailings, workshop preparation, and lab maintenence. We require a minimum committment of 8-10 hours per month and volunteers can count hours towards a workshop credit.

Post-Production
CDS has a continuous need for volunteer support to complete post production on completed stories from workshops as well as for special production projects. Post production includes cleaning, outputting and backing-up stories, adding foreign language subtitles, creating compliation CDs and DVDs for our archive and desiging thematic collections for special event screenings. It is a great opportunity to develop digitial video editing skills and project management. Familiarity with Adobe Premiere, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Macintosh basics is desired however we will also train in our particular method.

Curriculum Development & Project-based support
To stay up-to-date with changing technology we have a on-going need to keep our curriculum materials current as well as translating our curriculum into various languages and media formats. We also depend on volunteer support to help develop special collaborative projects with other local, regional, national and international community organizations.

Internships
Interns at CDS will have the opportunity to explore new media tools and share their own stories. They will assist with preparation, instruction, and post-production related to monthly digital storytelling workshops in Berkeley and other specialized workshops held in collaboration with various groups. Interns will also assist with the development of educational and promotional materials, community outreach, data backup/management, and general administrative tasks.

Eligibility: Familiarity/experience with Macintosh computers required. Proficiency in Photoshop, Premiere, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver, and/or DVD Studio Pro highly desired. Willingness to commit to at least one day per week for at least six months preferred, but project-based short-term opportunities are also available.

To apply for or inquire about volunteer positions for our organization please contact: Emily Paulos, 510-548-2065, info@storycenter.org.