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Bristol Stories is a collaboration between Watershed and Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives Service. The two organizations began working together on this creative project in March 2005, involving the public in the development of content for the new Museum of Bristol which will show how the experiences of Bristol people today are making tomorrow’s history. Everybody has a story to tell, and through technology people can now relate these stories to a wider audience using their own voice...Read Full Story

Last weekend I went to a workshop at the Woodland Cultural Centre . It was led by Sam Thomas , an Iroquois beading artist, and Munuve Mutisya, founder of the Akamba Peace Museum in Kenya. They are working together on a project that will be displayed at the United Nations this summer -- The Great Tree of Long Leaves. There are fascinating parallels between the beading traditions among the Akamba and Iroquois. Both used beaded belts to record significant events (as in the Akamba replicas on the...Read Full Story

I wrote several articles about the late storyteller Nancy Duncan. Eventually they will all find their way onto this site.  There is one other currently on the blog.  That piece is entitled “Her Final Story,” and was written when a quite weak Duncan faced her final days with terminal cancer.  From the time she was diagnosed with cancer and on through the many rounds of treatments and surgeries she endured over years, she used storytelling as a means of coping with and making sense of her...Read Full Story

I got to know the late Nancy Duncan better than I do a lot of my profile subjects.  You might even say we became friends.  I had written about her and her work as a professional storyteller.  We hit it off.  When she developed cancer and began undergoing a regimen of treatments and surgeries, she began doing what came naturally to her — putting her experiences into stories.  When told she was terminal, she and I eventually arrived at the idea of her telling one last story, in effect, by...Read Full Story

From the Freire conference . Chris Cavanaugh from Comeuppance told us the first story from Episode 9. Thanks Chris for the Ah-hah! moment. Yep - there were some GATT-Fly folk (now ECEJ ) there too. Read Chris' blog for more about the conference. And lots of other good stuff.Read Full Story