Projects

Waking The Archive: Building a Living Legacy for Tomorrow’s Warriors Sula Douglas-Folkes, a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths researching collaborative and improvisational archival practices, is working with Tomorrow’s Warriors to build their first comprehensive archive. She brings experience from the Royal Court’s Living Archive and Peckham Platform’s Memories for the Future project – both models for activating materials to facilitate unfolding … Read More

Keeping COVID Lessons Alive Through Story Anne Holloway is an author, poet, and writing facilitator. She will be working with Host Boots UK to tackle the challenge of preserving lessons from COVID-19. While Boots remained open on the frontlines of the pandemic, the company learned a lot from this period. But as the company’s systems continue to update and evolve, … Read More

Where storytelling meets social impact: mapping collaboration and influence. Maruša is a creative researcher who bridges psychology, storytelling, and social change. With a PhD in the psychology of creative engagement and four years at StoryFutures – National Centre for Immersive Storytelling (Royal Holloway, University of London), they specialise in applying psychology and behaviour change science to co-create and evaluate creative … Read More

Documenting voices of change in the Channel View estate. Marsha is a journalist, writer, author, and oral historian. It was her first published work, ‘The Burakumin as caste: Japan’s untouchables’, that led her to focus her storytelling skills on the underrepresented. She has worked for local, national and international news organisations, and has written four books (and an appearance at Hay … Read More

Exploring the evolving relationship between human creativity and generative AI in documentary storytelling. Kate is an award-winning documentary filmmaker exploring innovative storytelling in the digital age. Her feature documentary Phantom Parrot—a nonfiction thriller about secret surveillance and digital privacy—premiered at CPH:DOX and Sheffield Doc/Fest, screened theatrically across the U.K., and was acquired by Tribeca Films. Her work has won a … Read More

Harnessing stories to transform care and empower voices with Cystic Fibrosis. Anna Suschitzky is a freelance Storytelling Facilitator based in Wales. Her experience working within the third sector as an advocate, campaigner and project lead as well as her research-based practice with autobiographical performance, have led to a passion for the transformative power of storytelling. Facilitating digital story workshops within … Read More

Democratising heritage through collective storymaking. Anna is a socially engaged creative practitioner and researcher who is interested in how collaborative storymaking can create spaces of care, connection and transformation against the backdrop of polycrisis. Working across textual, visual, sonic and curatorial narrative practices, she has partnered with organisations including The National Justice Museum, Right to Remain and Survivor Alliance on … Read More

Telling Nottingham’s literary history through docupoetry. A UK based poet and cultural historian Panya Banjoko’s work features in numerous anthologies, exhibitions and museum’s collections. Her debut poetry collection, Some Things (2018) and most recent work (Re)Framing the Archive (2022) are published by Burning Eye Books. Her practice as poet and cultural historian often centres on her personal engagement with museums … Read More

Our 11 heroes are embarking on an individual journey of discovery as they work to solve the challenge posed by their Host. But they are also part of a bigger, collective and collaborative adventure. The overall aim of all Host projects is to feed into our development of a Story Skill Set. Think of this as something like a periodic … Read More

  Message Space Challenge: Inspire and support people locally and then across the world to create unique messages that can travel into space, shared with astronauts and published on Earth. Working pattern: Part-time over one year, remote. Who we’re looking for: Someone with skills in delivering and documenting creative writing/arts projects. You will have creative abilities as well as demonstrable … Read More