Stories
Every year on the 17th of April (Easter Monday), thousands of people crowd the streets of Gawthorpe to see the annual and historical Coal Race.
Weaving Ossett's History is a project led by Ossett Community Archive to collect and share yarns about the locality of Ossett and Gawthorpe, West Yorkshire. As part of Ossett Gala 2017, we invited locals and visitors to come and share their stories about the history of Ossett and add them to the map...
This is a workshop with staff and students at the Universidad Catolica de Chile. We are exploring a range of approaches and technologies that are going to used to capture environments and experiences associated with the threat of seismic events in Santiago.
For York pupils learning German what could be more exciting than a trip to Münster to be become immersed in the language and culture of the city? Janet Robinson describes such a trip taken in 1960, only three years after our cities had been twinned.
The Melbourne Centre is a community space which provides learning, leisure, well-being and personal development opportunities to people in York. It is a dual purpose facility, providing specialist training and learning opportunities in the daytime and room space for community, sports and leisure gr...
This is a short account as to how John Bishop, the renown stand up comedian, came to do a "two show" night at Ossett Town Hall. It is written by Howard Lawton who was instrumental in making it all happen.
Rotary Clubs, like cities, often form twinning relationships across national boundaries, and for similar reasons...to promote understanding through fellowship and cultural exchange. Rotary York Ainsty is twinned with the Rotary Club of Münster St Mauritz. This is the story of how the friendship bet...
Samantha is home alone when she is hearing noises. All of a sudden she turns around and sees a black shadow. What is it she wonders.
This is no ordinary story of every day life nor is it happy thoughts it is a horror and mystery that only Ann can tell..
Sophie is babysitting her friend's siblings when she gets an unexpected phone call
I've been scouring Leeds Libraries' collection of historical theatre playbills for mention of Chinese performers and culture. So far, I've concentrated on the 19th and early 20th century - from the stage's earliest melodramas, through the knockabout era of Victorian music hall, into the heyday of lo...
The film workshops that we ran during the first 6 weeks identified a wide range of issues that the youths face in their communities. During this process they also formed Youth Committees, with two Youth Leaders per Safe Park. The election of the Youth Leaders was done through a voting system, whereb...
A 8 year old girl named Mia was going home from the bus. When she goes into the house, she did not see her parents or pets. She only finds a little boy, but she does not know if she can trust him...
Discovering the history of the Melbourne Centre and finding out about life in York around 1905.
Leeds City Library and the University of Leeds are putting together an online exhibition and would like to hear from residents of the Chinese Community, to learn about your relationship with Leeds and share your stories. Whether you have lived here for many years or have just arrived, we would love...
Using the free, online digital storytelling platform YARN, our project aim is to broaden access to archive collections and enable collaborations between libraries and their local communities. We will be working across a series of four impact partnerships with library and heritage groups on the Isle...
Margarete was touched by the generosity shown by people from Münster when York was flooded in 2015 and as a a result has started to make connections.
My connection to Münster goes back a long way, as I was married in the then Garisson Church, which is now the FriedensKapelle, in September 1959.
Although York has been twinned with the city of Münster in Germany since 1957 their Male Voice Choirs York Philharmonic and Münsterscher Männergesangverein (now known as MarQant) did not come together until 1969. Since then a close friendship has developed. This is the story of a visit made by th...
A linking Co creation and exposition of the absolute and relative and a preponderance of thriving.
The University of Leeds has partnered up with two NGOs, UK based Bishop Simeon and South African based Themba Interactive, to devise a participatory filmmaking and youth leadership programme with vulnerable youths in the East Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa. Over a period of 9 months, the project...
In 2012 I visited Münster for the first time. I went to find out more about the city and its twinning with York and to consider whether I wanted to get involved in rekindling the Twinning Association in York.
This is a story by Soo about coming from "The Big Smoke" to live in a small northern town.