Projects

Collecting COVID: Celebrating Resilience Through Story  Anne Holloway is a poet and workshop facilitator with over a decade of experience in helping people ‘get their stories out’ in community and educational settings, witnessing how the act of telling our story can build resilience. In 2015 she set up an independent press, Big White Shed and has produced over 100 titles to date. Anne is clinical lead on Surviving by Storytelling at the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, exploring how writing poetry supports good mental health. She was Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry … Read More

Where storytelling meets social impact: mapping collaboration and influence. Maruša Levstek 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 … Read More

Documenting voices of change in the Channel View estate. Marsha O’Mahony is a journalist, writer, author, and oral historian dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices and strengthening communities through storytelling. Her first published work, The Burakumin as Caste: Japan’s Untouchables, marked the beginning of her commitment to telling stories that might otherwise go unheard. She uses storytelling as a tool for place-making, to humanise data, and to preserve cultural memory. Marsha’s work operates in a … Read More

Experimenting with digital technologies and their relationship to storytelling, discourse and authorship.  Kate is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and educator. Her work advances a practice-based methodology for documentary engagement with systems of power – surveillance regimes, corporate practices, institutional opacity – that resist conventional documentation. As well as engaging critically with the social and political impacts of new technologies, she is invested in using technology to adopt innovative visual approaches to documentary … Read More

Democratising heritage through collective storymaking. As a socially purposeful storymaker, Anna Ball is interested in where we can find stories of use to us in everyday life – not just in the tales we tell one another, but in the collective memory activated by places and objects; in the narratives that can be mobilised through shared practices of walking, gathering, making, speaking, doing. … Read More

Telling Nottingham’s history through docupoetry. Panya’s poetic journey began in the early 1990s with writing as a way to process personal experiences; over time poetry became a method of questioning what she had learned, particularly around race, memory, and silence. Much of her work now sits at the intersection of the personal and the historical, often exploring absence: what is omitted, erased, or rewritten, and how that absence shapes the self.   … 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