Using money raised by National Lottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage. Our heritage project ‘Through the Front Door’ is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Blog about my thoughts and feelings about my set design for the heritage project ‘Through the […]
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Through the Front Door Project update- AprilLast week we visited the old Norah Fry hospital in Shepton Mallet. This heritage site is very important to us as we remembered our dear friend Brian, who we knew had lived in the Norah Fry hospital as a young man. We enjoyed reading his book and hearing his
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Me, Ellie and Katy, have been doing a lot of work towards the interviews and chatting to some of the artists who come to OST. We have also thought that the information has given us a lot of points to discuss to find out what people think about OST here. The sort of information people
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OST and ME is a project which will help us understand what the artists like about Openstorytellers, and don’t like so we can support the artists to express their feelings about Openstorytellers. The team who will be running this project will be, Alex, Ellie and Joe. We are seriously excited that the talented Katy Brickley
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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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