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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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)...
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...
Perhaps you have a family connection? Or maybe you're a local history enthusiast eager to find out about the Polish soldiers who stayed at the Honiton camp? If so, we'd love your help to tell their stories! The Polish Resettlement Corps was an organisation formed by...
At our 3 April Meeting at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, our Honiton team was delighted to welcome four new volunteers to Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots, bringing a broad-reaching set of skills and interests to the project - including languages, archeology,...