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Thoughts on… Oral History

Posted on: 3rd June 2023 No Comments

At the heart of our work is deep listening. We often do this through conducting oral history recordings. Recording someone’s memories and reflections is a true privilege and there is huge value in both the process and the recording itself. We have recently been conducting a lot of oral history recordings for different organisations and […]

Interpretation panel to Discover Mounts Bay

Interpretation Panels to Discover Mounts Bay

Posted on: 10th April 2023 No Comments

Following on from the series of podcasts we created as part of Gwelan with artist Emma Smith and residents of West Penwith, Storylines were delighted to be asked to produce content for a series of interpretation panels to help people discover Mounts Bay. We hope that visitors to the coast path between Marazion and Penzance will be […]

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Schooner Stories- Schools Workshop

Posted on: 28th March 2023 1 Comment

Storylines was delighted to be welcomed back into Devoran School recently for a schools workshop exploring Cornish merchant schooners. Year 6 learnt about these vessels through a series of digital stories, doing some excellent listening and note taking. Here’s just one of the digital stories we made with the fabulous Robbie and Maureen Tatlow who had […]

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Memories of St.Austell from 4 Cornish Bards

Posted on: 7th March 2023 2 Comments

Through our work we often meet people who are passionate about their heritage. This was certainly the case for our recent visit to the , where we had the pleasure of recording 4 Cornish bards. The aim of the recordings was to record memories of St.Austell, making a series of simple digital stories which could be […]

Gwelan Podcasts in the Guardian

Posted on: 2nd January 2023 No Comments

When putting digital stories and podcasts out into the world you never know who is going to listen and what impact they might have. It was a lovely surprise to see the Gwelan podcast discussed in a recent Guardian piece on ‘8 Great UK winter walks.’ Listening to the Gwelan podcast as she walks, the […]

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Object Stories at the Maritime Museum

Posted on: 30th December 2022 No Comments

Everyday objects can hold incredible stories. This was certainly the case for the stories we heard from the Robertson family at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. Each object story provides a portal into this familie’s incredible experience. After being shipwrecked by killer whales in the Pacific ocean in 1972, the Robertson family, along with hitchhiker […]

Memorial Hall Memories in St.Mabyn

Posted on: 20th December 2022 No Comments

We are always delighted to be asked to help record oral histories for community groups, and recently had the pleasure of spending time in St.Mabyn hearing about the Peace Memorial Hall. 100 years on from being built through public subscription, the building has witnessed many a community event. From gardening clubs to a doctor’s surgery, dances […]

SSE Graduation at the Eden Project

Posted on: 2nd December 2022 No Comments

Over this past year Storylines Sarah has joined an inspiring group of social entrepreneurs on the SSE Trade Up programme. A graduation event held at the Eden Project was a great way to end the programme and celebrate everyone’s journey. Anyone who knows us knows that we are terrible at shouting about our work and […]

Bude Stories and Toolkits now online

Posted on: 7th July 2022 No Comments

If you haven’t seen the digital stories we made in Bude, then we’re delighted to share them. They are now online for all to see. The accompanying climate change toolkit is now also online through the Bude Climate Partnership website here. 

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Our Bude, Our Stories workshops

Posted on: 7th July 2022 No Comments

Workshops Following on from our time in Bude last summer finding out about the numerous and exciting initiatives blossoming in the town and interviewing locals, the past couple of months have seen us delivering a series of workshops here. These climate change workshops used the toolkits we created in partnership with the Bude Climate Partnership. The […]