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OurStory Scotland

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

Archiving Heritage Oral History Storytelling Drama Exhibitions Research
  Oral History: Oral History Index | Recording Our Lives | Unheard Voices | Tales to Tell

Here is a small sample of transcriptions from Love Out of Bounds:

I have been many persons
Margaret 2010
[ read story ]

chaperone & godmother
Jose 2010
[ read story ]

telling my parents
Haber 2010
[ read story ]

Tales to Tell

Here we present a small sample of excerpts from our oral history recordings.

A good place to start looking at our material is the article that reviews the wide range of storytelling methods we have used throughout Scotland:

see the article >> Narrative Acts

Our oral history recordings include not only the traditional extended audio recordings with individuals, but also group discussions, video interviews and storytelling performances.

OurStory Scotland has a YouTube channel, where you can see some video recordings of our storytelling:

Video 1: Masks — participants speaking of the significance of their masks at the OurStory Scotland mask workshop, Glasgow, June 2007

Video 2: Island in the Rain — storytelling performance at the Speak Out session during Diverse Stories Day, Inverness, organised by OurStory Scotland in June 2006

Video 3: OurStory Ceilidh — storytelling performance by Kath at the OurStory Ceilidh, Glasgow Trades Hall, organised by OurStory Scotland in November 2006

Video 4: OurStory Ceilidh — storytelling performance by Nick at the OurStory Ceilidh, Glasgow Trades Hall, organised by OurStory Scotland in November 2006

Sharon Chalmers with Tales of Western Sydney

Sharon Chalmers, at a meeting of OurStory Scotland, told some of the tales from her groundbreaking work in Western Sydney, Australia.