Sometimes heritage can be explored in an alternative and more ununusal way. Recording history doesn’t always have to be about documenting the “straight and narrow”, the “ordinary” and the “everyday”. Heritage is also… Read More
I’ve recently finished working on an interesting and moving project with members of the community living and working in Elswick in the West End of Newcastle. The Inner West ward of Elswick is… Read More
Since September 2012 I’ve been working with Flo-Culture on an innovative new iPad based digital storytelling and digital inclusion project called Memory Box. The project is funded through NIACE and is also in… Read More
I was back in the big smoke last week delivering some train the trainer training in digital storytelling for a charity called Stretch. Stretch is an arts charity “creating opportunities for people who… Read More
I’ve just finished delivering another ten week digital storytelling course at North Tyneside Art Studio based in North Shields. The art studio has been using art and creative activities as a mechanism to transform… Read More
It was a pleasure to have been asked by Sally Lockey, Programme Manager at Flo-Culture to do a short presentation to a group of North East teachers at their most recent school’s event… Read More
Over Summer 2012 I had the pleasure of working with a group of older volunteers from North Tyneside who, over the years, have provided invaluable support to the Remembering the Past Resourcing the… Read More
It was certainly a busy summer for me, which is why it’s taken me a little while to get round to writing the next few blog posts. The first project I wanted to… Read More
I’m starting a new project with an organisation called Flo-Culture based in the North East of England. Flo-culture designs and innovates approaches to research, evaluation and practice development in arts and cultural engagement.… Read More
For the last few weeks I’ve been broadcasting interviews with participants who have been involved in digital storytelling workshops I’ve facilitated recently on Basic.fm. Basic.fm is a net radio broadcast project initiated by… Read More
