Category Archive: Community co-production

Why Map? – Reflections on Cultural Mapping from Coimbra to Bristol

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I write this post this from a moving train. This is a space that is at once confined by steel lines stapled to heavy oak sleepers, whose duration is limited by timetables beyond… Read More

ACTSA Mendips Walk

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I was very pleased to go for a walk across the Medips with ACTSA and some of the Know Your Bristol on the Move team on Sunday, 15 June. This annual walk, 6 miles… Read More

Video Blog 6: History Day at Dame Emily Park

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See the highlights from a sunny ‘History Day’ in Dame Emily Park.

History Day in Dame Emily Park

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On Saturday the Know Your Bristol on the Move team took the new marquee along to Dame Emily Park in Bedminster/Southville for an event co-organised with our community partners at the Southville CDA,… Read More

Video Blog 5: SPAN Interviews

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Participants film interviews with each other about the SPAN project.

Video Blog 4: Red Notes Choir

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The Bristol Socialist Choir, ‘Red Notes’, perform at the Bristol ACTSA meeting.

Video Blog 3: SPAN Celebration Day

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The SPAN project strand celebrates its exploration of women’s history in Bristol.

Risky Histories

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Writing the history of activism is a risky business, not least when activists themselves are at the forefront of constructing their own historical legacy, recording their experiences not for the sake nostalgia,  but through… Read More

AVBC

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During my period of research leave in Vancouver, Canada, I joined the Audio-Visual Heritage Association of British Columbia (AVBC).  AVBC is a non-profit society established to promote and facilitate preservation, conservation and public… Read More

Video Blog 1: SPAN at M-Shed

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The SPAN project team are making an exhibition about the history of women’s work in the local area. To get an idea of what makes a good exhibition, the group went to visit… Read More