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 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...
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...
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,...
Our growing team of Honiton volunteers met last week to share emerging stories. In a precarious world there is a sense that the project offers some peace and contentment. That in some small way it helps to make a better world; something that sounds ambitious but is...