Getting started on new youth projects and collaborations with Towerblocks UK.

 

Oral History, Co-production, Creative Media

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Memories Kitchen x Storycatchers
Memories Kitchen is a creative heritage & feasting programme in Wandsworth
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Childcare Voices
People on the frontline of the childcare crisis share their stories and investigate the historical roots of the problems they face. As they look into the past, will they find solutions to the problems of today?
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5 Cally Road
5 Cally Road is an oral history project exploring and celebrating the history of one of London’s important radical spaces.
Doing it Ourselves
Doing it Ourselves: Imagining Better Childcare exhibition, Walthamstow, London, 2019.
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On the Record's exhibitions, installations and audiowalks. Bronze head: Laura Mitchison. LiDAR sculptural work: Bernadette Devilat & Laura Khan Mitchison
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The Texture of Air
The Texture of Air was a public art commission from University College London Hospitals, created in collaboration with ScreenDeep. The project explored two hospital buildings - recently closed - and the extraordinary perceptual worlds within them. 
Are you a Ghosthunter?
Radical histories, soul journeys, night creatures. All you need is a phone and headphones to unlock the stories of The Old Church.
Oral history deals with spoken word - it's the perfect raw material for creative audio-production.
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Peace! Books! Freedom!
Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building
Fighting Sus
Why was a Victorian vagrancy act, intended to prevent ‘begging, showing wounds’ and ‘telling fortunes’, used to criminalise minority groups in the 1970s and 1980s? Who brought a stop to it? Who is under suspicion today?
Spoken word is the beating heart of our short-films, and we use visual storytelling to amplify the message.
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