... recording the stories of the LGBT community in Scotland

Archiving

Heritage

Our Stories

Launch of Queer Story Scotland at Pride Scotia 2005

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.

Storytelling

News Flash!

February is LGBT History Month

Celebrate our history - OurStory - by sharing stories with us now...

Storytelling continues
throughout the year

Following an intensive year of storytelling, 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 and creating fictions, for publication in writing and performance.

>> Auto/biographical Accounts

Storytelling Events

OurStory Tent Aberdeen

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.

Our events throughout the country continue our storytelling with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Scotland.