Book review: A wish in the city of Wells, The Mary Ann book shows the life story of Mary Ann and how society had an impact on the life of people like her. I think the character drawing of Mary Ann throwing a teapot is very humorous way of portraying a serious incident. I showed […]
The Festival of Voices is a celebration of self-advocacy in Somerset’s learning disability community. It is the culmination of the OurSelf Advocacy project, run by Openstorytellers, commissioned by Somerset Community Foundation. The project’s aim is to find out about the current state of self-advocacy in Somerset and to raise awareness. OurSelf Advocacy is co-led by
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We are very excited to announce our film premiere of Through The Front Door. Friday 6th June, 1pm to 3pm at the Assembly Rooms (part of Frome Memorial Theatre). This is a film sharing the personal and public heritage of people with learning disabilities through the places we have inhabited. “The story of a
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Alex writes: We are lucky. We get some extraordinary visitors through our big red front door! And on May 2nd it was our complete pleasure to spend some time with one of our funders, Laura Blake from Somerset Community Foundation. She bought with her, Pam who you can see in this photograph. Pam is one of
Message from Joe We wanted to say a massive thank you to Somerset Community Foundation for giving us the money for this project and this excellent film We are very excited to see how the project evolves and connects people with other groups across Somerset. We made a video with Somerset Community Foundation to tell
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We had a really good chat with Andy from Somerset Community Foundation and Sarah who is from Somerset Council. We discussed having a webinar meeting with all the organizations together in one meeting. We have designed a survey to make sure we can get an understanding of groups who use self advocacy and their charity
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Our show was a huge success on so many levels! Photo credits: Julian Hight and OpenStoryTellers
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With two weeks until our Heritage lottery funded show ‘Through the Front Door’ at the Frome Memorial Theatre we would like to show you some of the stories we uncovered during our research, which have shaped our creative work and the content of the show! First up, we learned about the places that people with
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Ellie says: I am really excited at performing at the Memorial Theatre. I was excited to see half the costume for the show. I am really excited to be performing a story from mythology. I am singing a song – we have permission from the artist who actually wrote it so I am very nervous
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New year, new chair! Alex says: It’s with real pleasure that I can announce that our new Chair of Trustees is Sally Davenport. Some of you will already know Sally as she joined the board as a trustee in the summer. Since then, she has been leading on our inclusive governance work with Joe, Ellie and
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