Art: life beyond sight loss
An exhibition explores the impact of arts and crafts on the lives of members of Blind Veterans UK
Our work with Heritage Open Days
We are delivering four workshops for people running Heritage Open Days, to show how to make heritage accessible, and describe what we have discovered during our project.
Learn to make a digital game
If you are aged 13-30, interested in gaming, media, history, storytelling, or want to learn new skills, come and be part of a groundbreaking project exploring history and disability.
Launch of our film about the Guild in Bristol
Young people involved in creating a film about the ‘Guild of the Brave Poor Things’ in Bristol presented the film they created and discussed how to approach the language of the past.
Language and disability: who cares? (I do).
Laurine Groux-Moreau reflected on language and disability at the History of Place event which took place at the MShed on Saturday 3rd December 2016. This is her talk.
The politics of disability: from 6th century China to the Industrial Revolution
Anna Fairley attends a talk by Roddy Slorach, who argues that whether you are ‘disabled’ depends on the society surrounding you.
Premiere of ‘Our Guild’, the first History of Place project film
Our film will be screened in Bristol in early December 2016.
Free: creative workshop opportunity Body/building sensing the past
Work with artist and heritage professional James Aldridge and use your senses and imagination to bring the Guild’s history to life.
Telling stories with sound, objects and scents at the Royal School for the Blind
One challenge of the History of Place project has been thinking about how to engage all five senses in storytelling. Creative workshops at the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool explored how to transport listeners’ imaginations to tunnels and 18th century cargo ships using sound and smell.
That’s a wrap!
Grace Swordy describes the film a group of young people helped to make during August 2016 in Bristol, exploring and imagining life at the Guild a century ago.