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Recorded oral histories can provide rich inspiration for music and sonic art, serving as direct samples or sources for lyrics, and can be integrated into various formats like sound installations, performances, and new compositions.

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Projects which blend various artistic disciplines to creatively interpret and present personal narratives and historical accounts

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Verbatim theatre is a form of documentary theatre which is based on the spoken words of real people, usually taken from recorded interviews, whether archived or newly conducted for the project.

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Ethical considerations in creative oral history projects ensure respectful, accurate, and consensual representation of personal stories.

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London Road - Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork

Article:

'London Road: On Ethics in Verbatim Theatre'

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London Road is a verbatim-theatre musical with book and lyrics by Alecky Blythe and music by Adam Cork. It is about the impact on the community around London Road in Ipswich of the series of murders carried out there by Steve Wright in 2006, and the frenzied media interest that ensued.

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The Laramie Project

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After Matthew's murder in 1998, members of the Tectonic Theater Project in New York City traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, to interview residents about how the attack on Matt had affected the town. These transcripts were transformed into the play The Laramie Project, which tells the stories of real people who lived at the epicenter of one of the nation's most heinous anti-gay hate crimes.

The Laramie Project is one of the most frequently performed plays in America, as its messages still resonate with audiences today. The Matthew Shepard Foundation supports dozens of productions of The Laramie Project and its epilogue The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later every year across the country. It's the goal of the Matthew Shepard Foundation to create an environment where people are afforded an opportunity to discuss the play and its messages, the hate they encounter in their own lives, and how they can work collectively to build a more understanding and compassionate community.

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The Laramie Project - Matthew Shepard Foundation

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After Matthew's murder in 1998, members of the Tectonic Theater Project in New York City traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, to interview residents about how the attack on Matt had affected the town. These transcripts were transformed into the play The Laramie Project, which tells the stories of real people who lived at the epicenter of one of the nation's most heinous anti-gay hate crimes.

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Hats to the future is a new and innovative way of engaging young people with heritage in a classroom setting, Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and exploring Luton’ 's hat history through new technologies.

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Hats to the future is a new and innovative way of engaging young people with heritage in a classroom setting, Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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A GPS sound walk is an interactive experience where participants use smartphones to hear recorded personal stories and historical accounts triggered by their location, linking narratives to specific places.

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North West Sound Heritage - Sound Walk Examples

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You can now explore newly-digitised sound archives while you walk around Manchester, Chester or Liverpool with these immersive sound walks. And if you can’t make it in person, you can follow …

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Two Pints Please - Maxine Beuret

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‘Two Pints Please’ - Maxine Beuret Artist

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The role of Milk Floats and Dairies goes beyond a commercial company to contribute to the cultural heritage and identity of many towns and cities.

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Chorlton Oral History Sound Walk — Hayley Suviste

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Chorlton Oral History Sound Walk — Hayley Suviste

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Chorlton Oral History Walk (2021) Commissioned by North West Sound Heritage, Hayley created a geo-locative sound walk on Sonic Maps, using interviews from The…

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Crip Quilt - Jamila Prowse

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Crip Quilt, (2023) is a large-scale, patchwork, textile quilt translating the individual and collective experience of disability. With contributions from National Disability Art Collection and Archive, three new collated oral histories with disabled artists of colour and the artist’s own lived experience; each square in the patchwork relays a snapshot of a disabled artist’s life. While making the quilt, Jamila found that stitching aids symptoms of her disability, and her embroidered reflections took on a diaristic, confessional tone. Made on crip time, across 15 months, predominantly from the artist’s sick bed, the process became therapeutic in nature.

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Emily Peasgood - Listening Desk

An interactive sound sculpture that invites people to access and create soundscapes with sound archives - including oral histories.

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Archives+ in The Wellbeing Collection at Listening Desk is an interactive sound sculpture that invites people to access and create soundscapes with sound archives. It is installed at 10 locations around the UK: Manchester Central Library; Cumbria Archives in Carlisle Archive Center; Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne; Norfolk Record Office; The National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow; Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/ The British Library outside the King's Library; The National Library of Wales; University of Sussex Library; Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down, Ireland; and University of Leicester in Sir Bob Burgess Building.

The Listening Desk is inspired by historic listening devices and instruments. I consider it the evolution of an archive reading desk into a listening device that emphasises the importance and value of exploring history through sound and what sound can tell us about the world. A parametric laser beam horn grows out of the desk towards the listener's head, with minimal sound bleed into the surrounding area. A bespoke soundscape sequencer is on a screen embedded into the desktop.

The Listening Desk democratises access to sound archives in a fun and playful way.

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Archives+ in The Wellbeing Collection at Listening Desk is an interactive sound sculpture that invites people to access and create soundscapes with sound archives.

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Toby Butler - 'Memoryscape: How Audio Walks Can Deepen Our Sense of Place by Integrating Art, Oral History and Cultural Geography' (2007)

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Sounding Borders – Helen Foster

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Oral History Society - Everybody's story matters

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Sounding Borders – oral history / creative writing - Oral History Society

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Sounding Borders was led by Scotland’s Sounds and Historic Environment Scotland with funding from the Esme Fairbairn Foundation. It aimed to raise the profile of sound collections across Scotland. The project used archived oral testimonies from people living in the Scottish Borders as a starting point, reflecting on their domestic lives, school lives, working lives and social lives in the 20th century.

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Simon Bradley - 'History to go: oral history, audiowalks and mobile media' (2012)

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Demo Tapes brought together newly-digitised sound archives and music groups around the north west region to create new works around the theme of protest.

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Demo Tapes brought together newly-digitised sound archives and music groups around the north west region to create new works around the theme of protest.

Musicians Pops Roberts and Phillip Howley led workshops with young people at More Music in Morecambe, Collective Encounters in Liverpool and Brighter Sound in Manchester in May and June 2021. The groups listened to sound archives relating to protest and politics and created new works in response to them.

You can listen to their new tracks and the archive audio that inspired them here:

https://northwestsoundheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Demo-Tapes-Radio-Show-v5.mp3

New music - track list

More Music

Baybeat Streetband - Some People Think There Is No End 00:03:00
Baybeat Streetband - It's Not Your Song It's Our Song 00:06:14
More Media Collective - Last Chance To Dance 00:08:54
More Media Collective - We Had The Magic 00:13:58
[Archive] Peter Cookson on growing up in the 1980s without positive gay role models, 2014 (Archives+ LGBT CENTRE/6) 00:18:42

Collective Encounters

Collective Encounters - Role Models 00:21:40
[Archive] Joe and Peter perform The Leaving of Liverpool at Jacqui and Bridie's Club in Liverpool (Archives+ MASON/59) 00:26:41
Collective Encounters - Why Blame Me? 00:31:02
Collective Encounters - We Are People Too 00:34:37

Pops Roberts & Phillip Howley

[Archive] Millie Bobker on her introduction to 1930s anti-fascism, 1978 (Tameside Local Studies & Archives 1103/763-1) 00:38:58
[Archive] Female reads a song about giving, 1981 (Bolton History Centre BOLTONOH/50) 00:42:01
Pops Roberts & Phillip Howley - Give Yourself 00:42:39
[Archive] Mill hooter & miners riding a loco on their way to the coal face at Bickershaw Colliery, Leigh, 1991 (Archives+ SOUNDS/80 &115) 00:46:51

Brighter Sound

Brighter Sound - The Train 00:48:32
[Archive] Mary Johnson remembers the local community's fear after the 1957 Windscale fire, 2010 (Whitehaven Archive Centre SS/25) 00:50:41
Brighter Sound - Spilled Milk 00:52:44
[Archive] Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart sing 'You won't get me down your mine' (Archives+ GRANEY/15) 00:56:39
Brighter Sound - We Ain't Loving It 00:59:50
[Archive] Raymond Ahern describes the community spirit on the Moston miner's estate, 2015 (Archives+ BRADFORD PIT/19) 01:04:07
Brighter Sound - Before We Blink 01:05:43
[Archive] Luchia Fitzgerald on going to the Union Hotel for the first time in the early 1960s, 2016 (Archives+ OH/4314) 01:11:19
Brighter Sound - Untitled 01:13:12
[Archive] Mike Nixon on changing weather patterns, 2011 (Carlisle Archive Centre DSO 313/37) 01:17:45
Brighter Sound - Slow Down It's Not Time Yet 01:18:31
Brighter Sound - Black Lives Matter 01:22:35

Rioghnach Connolly

Rioghnach Connolly - A Stór Mo Chroí (Treasure Of My Heart) 01:27:22
Rioghnach Connolly - The Story Of Cotton 01:32:27

[Archive] Paul Graney introduces Marie Little's version of The Story Of Cotton (Archives+ GRANEY/443) 01:38:58

[Archive] American hobo sings his train song (Archives+ RMAN/1146) 01:46:13
[Archive] Ivan Fryman sings the Bradford Pit song (Archives+ MISCEL/994) 01:47:21
[Archive] My father was a docker (Archives+ MASON/59) 01:48:25
[Archive] The ballad of the tunnel (Archives+ MASON/85) 01:50:58
[Archive] The Black Diamond Folk Group perform Oh Freedom at the Howff club, 1965 (Archives+ MASON/85) 01:53:55
[Archive] The Hooters perform We Shall Overcome at the Hooters club, Birkenhead, 1965 (Archives+ MASON/18) 01:56:22

The blogs listed below give introductions to some of the recordings we have digitised recently which might inspire you, including stories of political involvement, queer creative response, anti-nuclear protest, climate change, industrial protest and mass trespass. Where possible we have included download links in case you would like to sample the clips.

You can also find a playlist for each North West collection digitised by Unlocking Our Sound Heritage over at our Listen page. You might also want to have a listen to the Archives+ Soundcloud which holds all kinds of clips from the sound archives held at Manchester Central Library.

You can go behind the scenes on the project and find out what it was like to be involved in this podcast produced by Reform Radio:

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Bringing together sound archives and music groups to create new works around the theme of protest.

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Emily Peasgood - When We Were Young

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When We Were Young explores childhood memories of the Jewish East End. Inspired by an image of 1930s East London backyards, with lines of laundry hanging post to post, it captures the comings and goings of daily life. I am drawn to small occurrences we often overlook or consider irrelevant as we grow taller, like Alfred Marks' childhood memories of the smell of rotten apples at Petticoat Lane, an unidentified woman recalling a man running with a cabbage knife from the Battle of Cable Street, or a memory of the uncomfortable uniform singers had to wear in Rose Henriques girls club choir at the Bernhard Baron Settlement building in Berner Street (now Henriques Street). These stories form a soundscape capturing a small part of what it was like to be a child in 1930s East London, memories that could easily be forgotten in years to come.

When We Were Young features oral history recordings from Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive, with segments re-recorded by local children today. Members of the public were invited to write their childhood memories on the laundry, creating an installation that evolved over three months.

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When We Were Young explores childhood memories of the Jewish East End. Inspired by an image of 1930s East London backyards, with lines of laundry hanging post to post, it captures the comings and goings of daily life.

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‘Verbatim Theatre’: Oral History and Documentary Techniques (2009)

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‘Verbatim Theatre’: Oral History and Documentary Techniques | New Theatre Quarterly | Cambridge Core

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‘Verbatim Theatre’: Oral History and Documentary Techniques - Volume 3 Issue 12

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Theatre, Shared Authority, Participation 

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Listening In-between Oral History and Applied Performance - Siobhan O’Neill

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Derek Paget - 'Verbatim Theatre': Oral History and Documentary Techniques

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Hidden Lives 2: The House of Memory - Cathy Lane

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Hidden Lives2: the House of Memory was commissioned by the Stoke Newington Festival as a site-specific multi-channel installation. It was played through 8 hidden speakers installed on the roof of t…

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Oral History in the Visual Arts

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Interviews are becoming an increasingly dominant research method in art, craft, design, fashion and textile history. This groundbreaking text demonstrates how a…

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Oral History Performance as Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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Project MUSE - Oral History Performance as Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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1. The case study described in this essay brought together university-based researchers in theatre, oral history, and human sciences. Similar collaborations might include disciplines such as art/music, social sciences, history/other humanities fields, and education. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine) fields where jointly authored research is already a common working practice may also productively use oral histories in their scholarship and teaching. For an example of using oral histories in a medical humanities project see James Culhane and Andrea Breemer Frantz, “An Interdisciplinary Oral History Initiative,” American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 71, no. 6 (2007): 1–7.

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The Stories All Around Us: Oral Histories as Collaborative Art & History-Making with Our Loved Ones

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The Stories All Around Us: Oral Histories as Collaborative Art & History-Making with Our Loved Ones

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Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton

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Voices in Movement - Lizzie Thynne & Ed Hughes

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This sound-led work draws on memories recorded for 'Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project'. Oral history focuses on individual stories; Thynne experiments with bringing these stories together to evoke collective, yet also diverse, perspectives. Barbara Taylor’s and Barbara Jones’ childhood recollections are juxtaposed with a montage of voices suggesting how women’s views of the family shifted with their involvement in feminist politics. Fleeting archival images are glimpsed only to disappear, mimicking the process of memory itself. 
The work has been shown as a single screen piece at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London (3 - 25 July 2014) and as a multi-channel sound installation at the Public and Private Archives: Creative Negotiations,
Creativity Zone Sussex University (4 April 2014).
More information about Sisterhood and After at: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/sisterhood/about.html

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Black Archives is a gathering place for Black memory and imagination.

Founded in 2015 by Renata Cherlise, Black Archives is a multimedia platform that brings a spotlight to the Black experience. Through an evolving visual exploration, Black Archives provides a dynamic accessibility to a Black past, present, and future.

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What drives someone to build an archive? What feeds their impulse to collect? Who will find value in this preserved history? In Black Archives' first issue, we explore these foundational questions through the I. Henry Phillips collection, Marion Stokes's story, and personal family reflections from the Black Archives community.

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Cathy Lane - Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech (2006)

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Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech | Organised Sound | Cambridge Core

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Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech - Volume 11 Issue 1

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Citizen UK: Croydon's Caribbean Influencers - inspired by the record shop and the established Caribbean tradition of sharing stories and songs, this exhibition featured new portraits created by artist Kyam and poetry by Croydon’s first Poet Laureate Shaniqua Benjamin, inspired by the oral histories of some of Croydon’s Caribbean influencers.

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Along with the Museum of Croydon, artist Kyam and Poet Laureate Shaniqua Benjamin, we explore stories of the Caribbean community and influencers who have made an impact on the borough. In collaboration with local volunteer Citizen Researchers, we creatively focus on the lives Croydon residents who have shaped Croydon through their Caribbean roots but are often uncredited or underrepresented using archive material, oral history, spoken word and portraits.

Displays

9 October - 12 February: National Portrait Gallery

An edit of the Citizen UK Croydon's Caribbean Influencers display is on display at the National Portrait Gallery from October 2023 - February 2024.

Inspired by the record shop and the established Caribbean tradition of sharing stories and songs, see new portraits created by artist Kyam and poetry by Croydon's first Poet Laureate Shaniqua Benjamin, inspired by the stories of some of Croydon's Caribbean influencers.

This display by Abi Wright Design features archive material from the National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Croydon alongside a soundscape that includes oral histories collected by local volunteer Citizen Researchers and poetry that gives an insight into the lives of Croydonites including the Met's first female Black police officer Sislin Fay Allen, professional boxers and brothers Clinton and Duke McKenzie and composer Ken Burton.

14 April - 21 July: Museum of Croydon

Inspired by the record shop and the established Caribbean tradition of sharing stories and songs, this exhibition featured new portraits created by artist Kyam and poetry by Croydon's first Poet Laureate Shaniqua Benjamin, inspired by the stories of some of Croydon's Caribbean influencers.

This new display by Abi Wright Design featured archive material from the National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Croydon alongside oral histories collected by local volunteer Citizen Researchers that give an insight into the lives of Croydonites including the Met's first female Black police officer Sislin Fay Allen, professional boxers and brothers Clinton and Duke McKenzie and composer Ken Burton.

The exhibition ran 14 April - 21 July at the Museum of Croydon.

Citizen Researchers

Citizen Researchers from the borough of Croydon with an interest and connection to Caribbean heritage have helped research and collect new oral histories of people bringing their Caribbean influence to their work, life and community.

Artist - Kyam

Kyam is a graphic illustrator and visual arts facilitator from South London. Her art draws on oral history, using bold and block colours to capture the stories of Black individuals and communities through portraiture.

She is the founder of the Deep&Flow series - a community conversation using guided drawing exercises to promote QTIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex, People of Colour) and POC discussion and healing, hosted by The Feminist Library.

With a background in graphic design for arts charities, Kyam has designed for arts organisations such as Shoreditch Town Hall, Youth Music, Sound Connections, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Talawa Theatre Company. She was a recent trustee for The Museum of Ordinary People and is the current Digital Creator for performance charity Clod Ensemble.

Kyam is now the lead artist for the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Croydon's Citizen UK: Caribbean Influencers project.

Instagram @kyamarts

Poet - Shaniqua Benjamin

Shaniqua is a poet, writer, creative workshop facilitator, and Croydon's first Poet Laureate. She draws inspiration from what sets her blood, heart and soul on fire to create meaningful pieces of writing. Between 2016-2021, she ran Young People Insight CIC, a platform that empowered young people through creativity, conversation and writing, and included monthly poetry night, Poetic Insight.

Shaniqua wrote the lyrics for the London Mozart Players' Anthem for Peace, a specially commissioned poem for the reopening of South London's biggest arts centre, Fairfield Halls, and poems for both of Croydon's bids for London Borough of Culture. She also wrote a poem for The Black Fund and One Young World that was shared at the 2022 One Young World Summit, read by Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Ebinehita Iyere and Shaniqua. She has been published by Ink, Sweat & Tears.

She has performed at a number of events, including the Thornton Heath Lights Festival, Field Day Festival, Trinity College Cambridge Black History Month Formal Dinner, and as part of Apples & Snakes' immersive spoken word show, Rallying Cry. She has facilitated workshops for Spread The Word, Central St Martins, Writerz & Scribez, Total Insight Theatre and Stanley Arts. Shaniqua was also part of the organising team behind the Living in Poetry Festival in 2018 and 2019.

You can stay updated with Shaniqua's work and activities by following her on Instagram: @shaniquabenjamin_

Read Shaniqua's poem about Croydon's Sislin Fay Allen, the Britain's first Black female police officer.

Sislin

A different time not so distant,
history made by existing
in a new land,
choosing
to do what was enjoyed
in change of direction.

She was curious -
should have been in kitchen
not on street
wearing chess colours,
a hat on her head
told you what she was all about.

A fighter for justice
and new tomorrows,
when her face wouldn't be alien
and legs wouldn't be broken
in races against reporters
intent on fanning flames.

Hear Shaniqua reading 'A Palace of Magic and Memories', the poem she produced for the re-opening of Fairfield Halls.

What we looked at and what we did

Citizen Researchers took part in two skills workshops learning how to search and research using archives and how to collate oral histories.

We looked at connections to Croydon in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, and representations of the Caribbean community more broadly.

Croydon Caribbean connections

Caribbean connections

Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 - 14 December 1780)

Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in the mid-Atlantic. He was given to three sisters in Greenwich but ran away and became butler to the Duke and Duchess of Montagu. Here he indulged his passion for reading and writing. He was welcomed by London's literary and artistic set, and was painted by Thomas Gainsborough. In 1773 he opened a grocery shop in Westminster with a legacy from the Duchess. He became the first African prose writer published in England.

Novelist Andrea Levy was born in London to Jamaican parents. She began writing in her early thirties after studying textile design and becoming an avid reader. Andrea was the author of a number of novels which explore the problems faced by black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants including the semi-autobiographical Every Light in the House Burnin' (1994).

Croydon connections

Funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund

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Citizen UK Croydon's Caribbean Influencers

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Tape Letters shines light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape as a mode of communication by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960-1980.

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The Tape Letters project shines light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape as a mode of communication by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960-1980.

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audio trails, podcast, photography, poetry, collaboration, exhibitions

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On the Record: an organisation that specialises in oral history, co-production and creative media.

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Find out more about On the Record’s projects

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Helen Foster - Finding poetry in the sound archives: creatively repurposing oral histories for re-presentation and engagement (2018)

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The Radio Ballads - produced by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker in the late 1950s for the BBC Home Service combined the voices of seldom-heard communities with songs inspired by the interviewees' recorded experiences.

Listen here

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The BBC Radio Ballads were groundbreaking documentaries produced by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker in the late 1950s and broadcast on the BBC Home Service. They were masterpieces of radio, weaving the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about the recorded experiences of the interviewees - read about their history here.

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BBC - Radio 2 - Radio Ballads - Original Ballads

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The BBC Radio Ballads - original Radio Ballads

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Ciara Chambers - Ethics and the Archive: Access, Appropriation, Exhibition

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Nisha Sajnani - Coming into Presence: Discovering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Performing Oral Histories within the Montreal Life Stories Project

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"Listen! We Have Something to Say!" Researching Collaborative Co-creation with Youth Using Oral History and Devising in a Disunited Kingdom

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Abstract

During the Radical Hope Project, I worked as the lead UK researcher-collaborator. This chapter details the findings from two practice-led case studies conducted during 2016-2017 in partnership with The Belgrade's Canley Youth Theatre (CYT) based in Coventry, UK. I reflect upon the interrelationships between the creative methods used to produce original youth performance (Case Study 1: oral history performance and Case Study 2: devising) alongside the research methodologies used to evaluate these collaborative theatre-making processes. Fundamental to The Belgrade's practice is a desire to enable youth to become civic storytellers. CYT had so much to say about the world but translating their ideas into performance was often challenging. As a practitioner-researcher working alongside the youth theatre director, I was positioned to observe, listen, sense and respond imaginatively to their ideas, hopes, and fears. Drawing on ethnographic data captured using conventional methods such as participant-observation, video and photographic documentation, and participant interviews, this chapter turns towards the Radical Hope Project's more experimental, collaborative, and artistic ways of generating and performing data, namely the research processes used to co-create theatre with youth. Specifically, I consider what Practice-as-Research (PaR) with youth involves. How do practitioner-researchers engage reflexively with the ethical demands of using data from our ethnographic encounters to co-create theatre that is simultaneously about youth, for youth and made with youth? How can 'care' be prioritized in our research processes of listening, collaborating, and creating performance? Following Sarah Pink's discussion of the 'sensory turn' in ethnography (Pink, 2015), I retrace the data in search of the sensual, intangible and esoteric qualities of collaborative theatre-making with youth.

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Notes

1. 1.

'Austerity' was initiated by the Conservative-led UK government of 2010-15. It involved a series of cuts across the public sector, with local authority budgets particularly affected.

2. 2.

Case 1: Emily Temple and Hanzhi Ruan; Case 2: Duncan Lees.

3. 3.

In this volume, Wang gives vivid descriptions of her own students' work and process in Taiwan, accessing felt truths about their own lives through an "ethics of care" (pp. 103-104).

4. 4.

According to Bright et al. ( 2018), "in a little over six years (2010-2017), some £387 m has been cut from Youth Service budgets" resulting in "the loss of some 600 youth centres" (p. 318).

5. 5.

Britain First is an anti-EU, anti-multiculturalism, anti-Islam organisation claiming to be interested in 'the maintenance of British national sovereignty, independence, and freedom' (Britain First, 2019). Journalist Polly Tonybee's headline on the day of Cox's murder read: "An MP is dead and the mood is ugly" (Toynbee, 2016).

6. 6.

Lisa was in the care of a foster family.

7. 7.

Figure 3 shows Lisa's first draft. Angela worked with Lisa to write an email which was sent to the PM.

8. 8.

Donald Trump fought a divisive Presidential election campaign, advocating for a 'total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States' (BBC, 2015).

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