Exciting announcement! Jess, our Coordinator in Honiton, and several of our dedicated volunteers, were interviewed this week by BBC Radio Devon. Find out more about the diverse stories they've been researching and uncovering in Honiton as well as their own personal...
Artist Opportunity
Artist Opportunity An exciting opportunity for a Devon based, global majority artist to work with Devon Development Education on their Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots multicultural heritage project. We’re looking for a dynamic artist to work with our project...
Devon Life magazine profiles Telling Our Stories and talks to Ghee Bowman about how the project has impacted his life and career
Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is featured in July's Devon Life magazine - a four page article. Thank you to our fantastic team of coordinators and volunteers for all of your research and hard work in uncovering new stories which reveal Devon's multicultural...
Celebrating Cultural Diversity and Taking Over the Airwaves – read this month’s blog from Jess Huffman
Celebrating Cultural Diversity It was great to discover that May now has a whole day dedicated to celebrating cultural diversity, and to honour it we have been working with Honiton Library to create a display of inspiring books that tell the story of England's...
Ilfracombe volunteers seek information about the Samale family who lived in the town around 1920
As the Telling Our Stories project crosses its halfway point, volunteers in Ilfracombe are eagerly digging up a range of intriguing stories revealing layers of the town's diverse history. As well as seeking fresh evidence about the long-mused-upon fate of HMS London...
On WORLD DAY FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY, Telling Our Stories and Honiton Library celebrate the richness of the world’s cultures through books
TELLING OUR STORIES' volunteers partnered with HONITON LIBRARY on Cultural Diversity Day this week to celebrate the richness of the world's cultures and the power of inter-cultural dialogue by sharing a selection of adult and children's books. As keepers (and lenders)...
Storytelling matters, and people matter too. By emphasising the role of the person, says Abi Obene, the stories will follow – in time, at a slower pace, but all the more free because of it.
The Next Stage… It’s been several weeks of digging into the local history of everything from shipwrecks to gravesites, shopkeepers to witches, hovels to hotels, steadily uncovering an increasing number of interesting and interweaving accounts. Our forays into...
Help us find out more about the post-WWII Polish resettlement camp in Honiton and the soldiers who chose to stay in Devon
Perhaps you have a family connection? Or maybe you're a local history enthusiast eager to find out about the Polish soldiers who stayed at the Honiton camp? If so, we'd love your help to tell their stories! The Polish Resettlement Corps was an organisation formed by...
Honiton Team goes from strength to strength as we welcome new volunteers
At our 3 April Meeting at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, our Honiton team was delighted to welcome four new volunteers to Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots, bringing a broad-reaching set of skills and interests to the project - including languages, archeology,...
Volunteers learn how to capture the voices and stories of our diverse communities
Further developing their skills and confidence, our volunteers took part in Oral History Training this week, led by our Honiton Coordinator, JessHuffman. With microphones in hand, they experimented with recording equipment, tried out interviewing techniques and learnt...
‘Gaining new skills’ and ‘trying something new’ are two main reasons for project participation
29th February 2024 The two main reasons for volunteers taking part in Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots, Devon’s multicultural history project, are ‘gaining new skills’ and ‘trying something new’ showing that age is definitely no barrier to wanting to expand...
Listen to Ghee’s Radio Devon interview about his multicultural walking tour of Exeter
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