River Tales
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Katya Coupland here, Director of River Tales.
This Age Concern intergenerational oral history project had a huge ambition – to help re-connect a whole county to their rivers and to connect the generations. The plan was to hold 50 River Tales reminiscence workshops, interview people on camera and involve three schools in the project. A DVD would then be distributed to groups – coffee mornings and care-homes; libraries, museums and heritage centres – to spark more memories and get people talking as well as a CD-ROM created for the schools of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, fulfilling national curriculum requirements and giving children an appreciation of their local rivers and showing older people in a whole new light.
Some of the Herefordshire River Tales series are now on You Tube: older people’s memories – funny, touching, beautiful – woven into six tales which tell the story of the rivers in the county. The oldest contributor was 96! You can see them here
The film, which was produced by Field of Vision multi-media, was chosen for Borderlines film festival, had a screening at the Conquest theatre, Bromyard and is shown regularly throughout villages in Shropshire and Herefordshire via ‘Flicks in the Sticks’
You can obtain a free copy of the River Tales DVD by contacting Age Concern Herefordshire & Worcestershire, tel: 01905 740950, email ageconcern@achw.org.uk
November 13th, 2009 fionasyrett | No Comments »
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