Let me give a brief introduction about "Hidden Lives". This is a community arts and oral history project taking place at Barton and Tredworth, Gloucester. It is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is led by the Gloucester Theatre Company in partnership with Gloucestershire Archive and the University of Gloucestershire.
It is basically sharing our own personal story/memory/experience with others. Sharing stories about their daily lives especially in the area of Barton and Tredworth.
I am currently volunteer as an event organizer for this event.
This evening, I was at the Widden Primary School.
The school itself was opened by Her Majesty The Queen in 1986. A school which its open to children from different cultural background, families, and homes.
Today, this school celebrated the 25th anniversary. Students, teachers, ex-students, ex-teachers, friends, and family had come together to celebrate this memorable day.
"Hidden Lives" came to this school to not only allow people to share their memories and stories about this school but also to create awareness about this project. This project allows people to be part of it by attending variety of events related to this project, being volunteers (like me) for this project, and being contributors of this project by sharing their stories with others.
Variety of ways were done to share personal memories: One Minute Memory (fill in the form including your best memory you ever had during the days at Widden Primary School, audio recording, and video recording. These are based on what are the stories/memories which people had in Widden School.
This is where people sit on the "hot seat" and answer this question:
It's either the best memory or the worst memory. It's basically sharing the stories. Most of the kids are interested of sharing their stories through video recording.
This mini apple pie was given to me by one of the students from Widden Primary School. So sweet. They even give me coffee.
Overall, the event was successful. A lot of people including the youngsters are interested about this project.
The next upcoming event of this project is in the middle of May. Looking forward to planning this event.
It's great share our personal story and experience with others.
-lu yin-
