At Storylines we’re always exploring new ways to showcase stories creatively. For the Withy Lore project this saw us sharing extracts from the project’s oral histories through both a listening station and series of collaged stories. Using found imagery and old postcards, these collages illustrate sections of the stories we heard, presenting them as open […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cornish’
Rediscovering withy pot making on St.Michael’s Mount
Anyone who knows Stephen Mathews will tell you what a treasure trove of local knowledge and stories he holds. A fascinating and modest man, Stephen has a family history of living and working on St.Michael’s Mount that goes back between 300-400 years. Having met Stephen when recording the Gwelan project, we have been fortunate enough […]
Schooner Stories- Schools Workshop
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 […]
Gwelan Podcasts- Myth, Language and Legend in Mounts Bay
As part of the Gwelan podcasts, with artist Emma Smith, we continued our exploration of Mounts Bay, this time through the lens of myth, legend and language. We start with a poem from Angie Butler, who lives in Penzance. An avid book reader, as a child, with first dibs on the books which came through […]
Gwelen Podcasts – The Sea from Land in Mounts Bay
As you move around the coastline of Mounts Bay, your view of the Mount and bay shifts. As the weather and the seasons change, it shifts even more. Some views, such as coming along the A30 through Crowlas when the Mount suddenly appears, are treasured by many… the sign of “Ah we’re home”. And some […]
Capturing Oral Histories on the Roseland
It’s been all hands to the deck, or should we say all ears to the walls, as we launched into the ‘A Window in Time’ project in St.Mawes and St.Just on the Roseland this month. We started by delivering a very enjoyable training session to members of the St.Just and St.Mawes Heritage Group, arming them […]
Suitcases continue their journey around Cornwall
We are very happy to announce that ‘Landmark Travels; Our past in a suitcase‘ will be visiting more communities and schools, thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Cornwall Heritage Trust. This project will unearth the stories, traditions and histories connected with landmarks throughout Cornwall. It follows on from a pilot project […]
A journey around Cornwall in 1907
It’s always a privilege to hear peoples stories and look at family photographs. The focus of this film is a very special family album that documents Cornwall in 1907 through a 3 month long journey of 2 cousins who came from the USA to Cornwall to visit their family. In this short film, cousins Margaret […]
‘Turning Seasons’ on the Lizard
This week we have been busy creating seasonal outfits and instruments with infant children from 5 primary schools on the lizard, in preparation for a special harvest procession that will take place at 2pm on the 24th October 2014 in the Orchard at Kestle Barton. These workshops are part of a new project ‘Turning Seasons,’ which […]
