Our latest heritage project, ‘Through The Front Door’, is now well into the research phase and our inclusive researcher Alice, along with other members of Openstorytellers, has been taking a deep-dive look into what life might have been like for people with learning disabilities in Somerset over the past 150 years. Researching the lives of […]
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Getting out of the Way. If you don’t have a learning disability, sometimes, the best thing we can do is get out of the way!
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Frome Museum, OpenStoryTellers and Bath Spa University party of celebration We had an excellent day today with the volunteers from the Frome Museum and researchers from Bath Spa University celebrating our work with them. For six months, we’ve been meeting, researching, sharing, advising and offering our feedback about the museum. From the BSU website: “Co-producing
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At Openstorytellers we revel in collaborating with other companies and artists. In early 2023, we were approached by artists Pauline Scott-Garrett and Emma Kerr as we operate in the building RISE where Pauline was to research and create work for an exhibition called “Undertow” (for The Whittox Gallery also in the same building). Pauline described
At Openstorytellers, we have so many creative things happening throughout the week. Every day, more work is generated – words, movements, poetry, visual art, story, songs, music … We have developed an interesting way to organise all that material and to help collaboration happen in a way that all the artists here can use. In
In the summer of 2023, Openstorytellers presented a show for the Frome Festival. The name of this was The Mysterious Apple People. This show was an example of how we devise a piece that is made up of many different parts. The story brought the audience into an immersive space. They experienced – and took
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In the last few years, our Annual General Meetings (calledAGMs) have really not been very inclusive. Last year we tried something new. Read how it went! An AGM is an annual general meeting. All charities have to have them by law. We have to prepare our company accounts (all our money information) and a big
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