More news! Our AKO Storytelling Institute is selecting 10 fellows for a 9-month programme on the theme of ‘Truth and Lies’. Starting in Sept 23, join us to explore how storytelling can lead to social change📣 Apply by 15 May: arts.ac.uk/storytellingfe… #UALStorytelling Crossover Labs

Our Institute Director franpanetta is off to cphdox for their INTER:ACTIVE SYMPOSIUM to share her CPH:LAB project Unstable Evidence + participate in TheDocSociety's QUEER NOW LAB cphdox.dk/cphlab/unstabl… Magnus Bjerg Shehani Fernando Halsey Burgund #UALstorytelling University of the Arts London

Delighted to be taking part today at Northeastern U.'s Polygraph conference. We're discussing information strategies in a world of dis and misinformation.

📢Announcing our 2023/24 University of the Arts London Storytelling Fellows 📢 TRUTH & LIES - 12 practitioners and professionals from diverse industries and disciplines will explore how storytelling can help counter mis- and disinformation. Find out more: arts.ac.uk/storytelling-i…

Welcome University of the Arts London Storytelling Fellows 23/24! Today we kicked off our Truth & Lies Fellowship Intensive week with brilliant contributions from Ellen Judson Demos, Tim Squirrell Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Kayleen Devlin BBC Monitoring & LCC's Zoetanya Sujon (Dr Zoetanya Sujon (she/her)) - see you tomorrow!

Day 2 of our Fellowship Intensive: focus on Mis/Disinformation interventions, led by comms expert Nicky Hawkins with Kate Brightwell Content Authenticity Initiative on transparency tools, followed by British Library / US-UK Fulbright Disinfo event feat. Carole Cadwalladr Ethan Zuckerman Mukul Devichand

Day 3: How Change Happens - Sue Tibballs Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK), CCDH & Tanya O´Carroll People vs Big Tech in conversation + fellow presentations! From 'Polyphonic spaces' & 'anchoring bias' to 'norm entrepreneurs' & 'digital rubbernecking' via social sorting experiment Crossover Labs💥

Day 4: WHAT IS A STORY? Thank you storytellers @rhianna_ilube David Farr Anna Miralis & Onyeka Igwe (@useurjudgement) for joining us + fellows Yasmin Khan 🧬 Deborah Shorindé @softv0lumes & Al Hopwood for sharing their brilliant work

What a week! We closed our Truth & Lies Intensive w/ debate about value & evaluation feat. The Audience Agency Centre for Cultural Value + University of the Arts London Social Purpose Lab Nigel Ball + more brilliant presentations: Patricia Kingori Ethox Centre, Luke Kemp Barbican Centre, Daria Cybulska Wikimedia UK ✨

Last week we welcomed our Storytelling fellows to the AKO Storytelling Institute AKO Storytelling Institute. It was a blast - discussing everything from the need of danger in storytelling, to the complexity of how change happens. Thank you to our fellows and guests.

📲📚📺🎮 Thank you Matt Locke Storythings Team for a brilliant FORMATS UNPACKED event last night Central Saint Martins with our #UALStorytelling fellows & guests. From attention mgmt to prompt engineering, the curator economy to story etiquette, Scroll Stoppers & more🤯 📽️🗨️📰🎧

⌛️⚠️Time is running out to book for our Creative AI event co-produced with UAL Creative Computing Institute for the AI Fringe! 📔🎭 >>> THE STORYTELLER & THE AI <<< 🤖🧠 📅Thurs 2 Nov ⏲️ 6.30-8pm 📍UAL High Holborn eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-storytel… Feat. Ricebox Studio Yasmine Boudiaf Charisma

My post on Mr Bates vs. the Post Office and the importance of the broader ecosystem to fuel social impact (something I think about more and more as I set up the AKO Storytelling Institute institute) medium.com/university-of-…. Thanks to Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) for collaborating

Early preview for our next AI piece 'Vocalise' a fictional voice over agency with ulterior motives. Sessions this Tuesday. Book a slot : eventbrite.co.uk/e/vocalize-tes…

This evening, AKO Storytelling Institute will be exploring the impact of the recent ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, with an incredible panel of speakers. Due to popular demand, the event will also be live streamed. Click below for the live stream link. bit.ly/MrBatesVthePos……

Celebrating the launch of Vocalize - the new AI-powered voice agency that can help you monetize your voice within minutes. Follow us on social and meet us at cphdox 13-24th March

Join online for our next storytelling salon with the wonderful Mike Bonanno from The Yes Men

In an increasingly polarised world, storytelling is more critical than ever. Our new AKO Storytelling Institute report, "Impact Storytelling: the Ecosystem, the Evidence & Possible Futures," is an essential resource for harnessing storytelling's impact for social change. 📸: Boyle&Perks

The report maps the UK & international impact storytelling landscape, exploring approaches in arts & campaigning. It calls for more collaboration & knowledge sharing across sectors, asking where are the gaps for intervention. Read the full report now: arts.ac.uk/about-ual/pres…

Come and work with us at the AKO Storytelling Institute as producer! We're looking for someone with a background in impact/social change and arts/media and who has a passion for what we're doing at the institute. Deadline next week: lnkd.in/eYeP5J8D