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Oral HistoryProjects
where story and community meet
Story Exchange
Story Exchange is a project is running through 2024. We brought together students from St Augustine's School, in Halifax with local elders, and Students at Hebden Royd School in Hebden Bridge with a group of elders from South Asia. The children and elders shared stories, songs and poems.
This project will be ready to share in Autumn 2024.
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The Hippies of Hebden
The Hippies of Hebden is a film which explores the arrival of the hippies to Hebden Bridge. It creates a space for the perspectives of all who lived through that time. We hope it is a healing film, and a film that celebrates all the people who make this town an amazing place to live.
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To join us at the film screening in the summer at the Town Hall
contact kaye@awakeningarts.co.uk
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The film will be available to watch online in Autumn 2022
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Be Belonging
BE BELONGING is an inter-generational project that has brought together local elders and school children from Hebden Royd Primary School.
The children interviewed 5 elders over zoom and then the children worked with a local musician – Holly Marland – to create soundscapes to accompany these memoir monologues, resulting in these soundscape-memoir-songs. We hope you enjoy hearing these stories and that you learn something new about how children lived, played and learnt in the past.
