As I write this I realise you will be reading this as the height of Christmas preparations are underway, the new community library in Hamworthy is almost complete and the designer for the Living Histories will be being recruited to design our mobile multimedia display for you the community to enjoy.
At the moment we have actually had active input from over 0ne hundred and ten individuals. We have access to various artefacts, pictures as we find the need from within the community, with lots of different pictures etc already scanned to be used. Being a multi media exhibition we are really lucky to have many really interesting sound bites. The most exciting for me has been the spontaneous singing by a women’s group of a May Day song from their childhood in the 40’s.
This will be juxtaposed with a group of teenager boys who have developed a rap expressing how it feels to live here in Poole today. If this whets your appetite, so that you would like that exhibition to come to your group, building or organisation please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us as we would love to share these stories of ordinary peoples experience and thoughts about Poole and Hamworthy with as many people as possible. We’ve already got 10 groups who are willing to host the exhibition once it is ready. In case you’ve forgotten Living Histories is a multi media project with various strands, its overarching aim is:
To celebrate Poole and its diversity by exploring Poole’s Past, Present and Future as experienced by you, those who live, work, play or visit Poole.
This strand is a multi media exhibition of ordinary peoples memories, thoughts and ideas related to Poole and its development and includes pictures and memorabilia that people have shared with us through that story telling. If you would like to host that exhibition when it is developed then we would love to hear from you, our contact details are: 07908110121 or crcw@faithworkswessex.org.uk
One of the aims of Bridging Communities is to empower, support and enable people’s voices to be heard, the Living Histories project is one way we have tried to achieved that, another is the Shout Out. What is the Shout Out I hear you ask? How does it work? Well we start with a light meal and the chance to chat. Then we feed back information from our previous conversations at the last Shout Out Forum, What this actually means we invite organisations, groups to feedback helpful information in 5 minutes slots. Then we split into groups to discuss what we hope is a relevant issue, e.g. at the last Shout Out Wilts and Dorset came to ask what people felt about their bus service. We then finish by feeding back and giving everyone the chance to raise an issue for us to consider in the future. So if you have an interest in the Regeneration area of Poole, Old Town and Lower Hamworthy, then please join us at our next Shout Out at Skinner St United Reformed Church on Thursday the 14th of January 2010 between 12.00-2.00pm.
If you want to know anymore about any of this please don’t hesitate to contact us as detailed above best wishes Alison Dalton, Church Related Community Worker
