Posts Tagged ‘Stories’

fashion and climate change

New toolkit to explore fashion and climate change

Posted on: 15th April 2024 1 Comment

Our work with the Bude Climate Partnership continues with us devising a further toolkit to be used within the project’s community engagement. The focus of this latest toolkit is fashion, inspired by the fabulous Lauren who we worked with last year to the make this digital story… Using Lauren’s story as a springboard for sharing, […]

Anna Pope recording memories of withy pot making

Withy Lore receives funding to document the withy pot craft

Posted on: 21st February 2024 No Comments

We are delighted to share the brilliant news that we have received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, FEAST Cornwall, Cornwall Community Foundation, the St.Aubyn Foundation and the Fishmongers Company for the Withy Lore project. With thanks to this funding Storylines will be working with artist Anna Pope to capture, preserve and share stories and knowledge about the withy pot […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. 

climate change community engagement workshop

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 […]

Small boat, big story

Posted on: 29th June 2022 No Comments

What an honour it was to be invited to record the Robertson family’s memories of their survival following being shipwrecked by killer whales in the Pacific. The National Maritime Museum Cornwall are custodians of the Ednamair (the small dinghy in which the family were found) and a fascinating collection of smaller objects that were saved […]

Celebrating Grampound

Posted on: 26th June 2022 No Comments

Over the last couple of years Storylines have been supporting the Grampound with Creed Heritage Project to gather oral histories from locals and weave these together with photos from their archives to create a series of digital stories. A screening event in the village was the perfect opportunity to share these and invite the community […]

Bude Toolkits

Posted on: 13th March 2022 3 Comments

In collaboration with the Bude Climate Partnership, we were tasked with creating a series of toolkits to help the community explore the area’s heritage, culture and environment, and understand the impacts of climate change here. At the heart of these are stories (of course!) which act as starting points for sharing, discussion and inspiration. We’ve […]

Gwelan Podcasts- Exploring Mounts Bay

Posted on: 11th October 2021 No Comments

This Summer Storylines were invited to collect memories and reflections about Mounts Bay to feed a series of podcasts to accompany Gwelen, a new artwork by award winning artist Emma Smith and residents of West Penwith. Having been born in Penzance and brought up in Mounts Bay, Storylines Sarah in particular, was excited to have an opportunity […]