... recording the stories of the LGBT community in Scotland
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... recording the stories of the LGBT community in Scotland |
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Heritage |  |
Oral History |  |
Storytelling |  |
Drama |  |
Exhibitions |  |
Research |
Storytelling: Storytelling Index | Auto/biographical
Accounts | Reflections | Episodes
| Skeletons | Fictions
| Performance
Our Stories
Ever since 2005, when we were awarded a major grant from the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund, we have been celebrating the personal and local histories of the LGBT community in Scotland. Our storytelling events provide archiving resources, creative platforms and narrative opportunities throughout Scotland.
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StorytellingNews Flash! *** Love Out of Bounds *** This exciting new project crosses the boundaries between communities and brings us together to share stories of love untold. We are developing our storytelling of Love Out of Bounds through six workshops in the Govanhill part of Glasgow... on these Saturdays at 2pm
10 April 2010 Contact us for further details of project and venue Love Out of Bounds is a storytelling project supported by a grant from the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund. The project brings together a diverse range of participants, including people from minority ethnic groups, irrespective of gender and sexuality. Participants may be LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender), straight or undefined. Love Out of Bounds encourages people to tell their stories of having a love that may be rejected, or considered inappropriate, by their community, culture, family or faith. There are so many of us who have experiences of being told that the love we have is somehow wrong or misdirected. We are finding common ground between straight and LGBT people, and people from majority and minority ethnic communities.  Love Out of Bounds builds on our experience of working with professionals from museums and the arts to exchange stories across community boundaries. February is LGBT History Month Celebrate our history - OurStory - by sharing stories with us. Contact us to find out how you can participate. Storytelling continues OurStory Scotland continues to organise, encourage and record storytelling throughout Scotland. Our storytelling can be spoken, written, visual or dramatic, or a combination of any of these - with lots of opportunities to try out new skills, or just to tell your own story in your own way. Contact us if you would like to to find out more, or to tell us your story, or request a storytelling event in your own area.  Why Storytelling?OurStory Scotland, as its name suggests, is concerned with stories - the stories of the LGBT community in Scotland. We record the stories of people's lives through oral history, but oral history is not the only kind of storytelling with which we are concerned. Oral histories can be complemented by written material in which we narrate our lives, and visual material for illustration and illumination. We are archiving oral, written and visual testimonies as they are central to our aims as expressed in our title and constitution. We are interested in oral history, written historical narratives and in artistic storytelling based on genuine experience. Contact us if you would like to contribute. OurStory Scotland is assembling auto/biographical accounts, exploring reflections, presenting episodes, sketching skeletons and creating fictions, for publication in writing and performance. |
Storytelling Events
OurStory Scotland has been holding storytelling events all over Scotland - in Aberdeen, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. We have been travelling across the country discovering stories, recording life experiences, connecting the past, exploring the present and looking to the future of the LGBT community. The OurStory Ceilidh on 4 November 2006 provided a magical combination of music, dance and stories, in the best tradition of the ceilidh. It was a sell-out success, filling the grand Trades Hall in Glasgow, making a very special atmosphere with visual and textual stories displayed throughout the hall, and with 20 storytellers from all over Scotland telling their story live on the night. Storytelling for LGBT History MonthWe have celebrated LGBT History Month each February by organising storytelling workshops and events, such as... Vanished Valentines  East Lothian Museums hosted Vanished Valentines in Musselburgh in 2010. What would you write in a Valentine card to a lost love? Participants designed and wrote a range of Valentines, funny or sad, witty or wistful, cynical or curious. >> see a set of pictures of our previous event in Musselburgh 2009 More Stories to be ToldIn events throughout the country we continue our storytelling with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Scotland. Contact us if you would like to take part, wherever you are. |
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