Media Release 29th August 2024 Ione Maria Rojas appointed as artist for Honiton multicultural history partnership British-Mexican artist, facilitator and food grower Ione Maria Rojas has been appointed as the artist to work on a multicultural history partnership based...
Standing in unity against violence and racism on UK streets
Media Statement 12th August 2024 All of us working on the Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots multicultural history project in Devon stand in unity against the violence and racism we have been witnessing in the media and on UK streets. For the past year and in...
Youth Photo Challenge shines lens on Honiton’s multicultural history – * DEADLINE EXTENDED*
Youth Photo Challenge We’re looking for young photographers to take part in a Photo Challenge as part of Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots, a multicultural heritage project happening here in Honiton. We’re inviting young people aged 10 - 19 to photograph one or...
Calling All Creatives!
Devon’s multicultural heritage project Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is calling all creatives for its latest initiative. We’re looking for a dynamic artist to work with Jess Huffman, our Honiton project coordinator and project partners at Offwell School,...
BBC Radio Devon talks to Jess Huffman and four of our Honiton volunteers in a series of radio interviews about Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots
Exciting announcement! Jess, our Coordinator in Honiton, and several of our dedicated volunteers, were interviewed this week by BBC Radio Devon. Find out more about the diverse stories they've been researching and uncovering in Honiton as well as their own personal...
Artist Opportunity
Artist Opportunity An exciting opportunity for a Devon based, global majority artist to work with Devon Development Education on their Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots multicultural heritage project. We’re looking for a dynamic artist to work with our project...
Devon Life magazine profiles Telling Our Stories and talks to Ghee Bowman about how the project has impacted his life and career
Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is featured in July's Devon Life magazine - a four page article. Thank you to our fantastic team of coordinators and volunteers for all of your research and hard work in uncovering new stories which reveal Devon's multicultural...
Honouring the courage, strength and determination of refugees on World Refugee Day
Media Release 20th June 2024: Honouring the courage, strength and determination of refugees on World Refugee Day Today is World Refugee Day, an international day organised every year by the United Nations, that aims to honour and celebrate refugees from around the...
Celebrating Cultural Diversity and Taking Over the Airwaves – read this month’s blog from Jess Huffman
Celebrating Cultural Diversity It was great to discover that May now has a whole day dedicated to celebrating cultural diversity, and to honour it we have been working with Honiton Library to create a display of inspiring books that tell the story of England's...
Ilfracombe volunteers seek information about the Samale family who lived in the town around 1920
As the Telling Our Stories project crosses its halfway point, volunteers in Ilfracombe are eagerly digging up a range of intriguing stories revealing layers of the town's diverse history. As well as seeking fresh evidence about the long-mused-upon fate of HMS London...
On WORLD DAY FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY, Telling Our Stories and Honiton Library celebrate the richness of the world’s cultures through books
TELLING OUR STORIES' volunteers partnered with HONITON LIBRARY on Cultural Diversity Day this week to celebrate the richness of the world's cultures and the power of inter-cultural dialogue by sharing a selection of adult and children's books. As keepers (and lenders)...
Storytelling matters, and people matter too. By emphasising the role of the person, says Abi Obene, the stories will follow – in time, at a slower pace, but all the more free because of it.
The Next Stage… It’s been several weeks of digging into the local history of everything from shipwrecks to gravesites, shopkeepers to witches, hovels to hotels, steadily uncovering an increasing number of interesting and interweaving accounts. Our forays into...