History In The Making - Telling Worcester's Stories Through Art, Literature, Photography and Zine Making

Description: History in the Making

Telling Worcester’s stories through art, literature, photography
and zinemaking

An exciting year-long creative arts project encouraged Worcester residents to engage with stories of their city, through a partnership between Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service, Worcester Cathedral’s Undercroft Learning Centre, The Word Association CIC, Sugar Daddy’s Café and visual artist Oliver Bliss.

Drawing from the collections in Worcestershire Archives
and Worcester Cathedral’s Library, facilitators Oliver Bliss, Gerard Winter-Hughes and Holly Winter-Hughes led a series of workshops using creative prompts to inspire art and discussion. These have resulted in a published anthology, joint visual arts and poetry exhibitions and a poetry map of some of Worcester’s key community spaces.

This project was generously funded by Arts Council England
with additional support from Worcester City Council and
The Elmley Foundation.

Workshop leaders:
Creative writing and poet