DIGIPENDENCE - declare yours!

In keeping with its long term philosophy of bringing digital moviemaking to the masses, especially children, and most especially children that might not usually have a chance to participate in such endeavours, Moviestorm has become a creative sponsor to the Wan Smolbag Theatre which is located in Vanuatu.

Wan Smolbag Theatre, a non-governmental organization, operates all over the South Pacific. It uses drama, film and radio to inform, raise awareness and encourage public discussion on a range of contemporary health, lifestyle, environment and governance issues.

We started as a group of 15 voluntary actors in 1989, then 5 paid actors, and we’re now approaching our 20th anniversary with a staff of around 100 full- and part-time staff and over 200 volunteers. Coupled with structured workshops facilitated by actors, the organisation uses drama to inform, raise awareness and encourage public discussion on a range of contemporary health, lifestyle, environment and governance issues. WSB is funded by international donors and runs programmes in Education, Environment, Governance, Health and Youth issues. These can address every imaginable theme from waste management and electoral rights to domestic violence and AIDS. We produce plays, films, teaching resources, radio programmes and more.

Moviestorm will be used in the youth centre, and the company has donated a number of content packs. Read more about the donation here and visit the Wan Smolbag Theatre blog. Once I know the Theatre’s Moviestorm page, I’ll post that too.