We leave you for now with this delightful film, featuring an interview with friends Sandra and Joyce, and their haiku collaboration. We love it because it shows what can happen *after* people take part in Celebrating Change - how they take their skills, confidence, and new-found creativity out into the world. https://videopress.com/v/ELXagkXo?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
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Swans by Geoff-kerr Morgan
Another short memoir from Geoff, showing how swans have been a thread of pleasure and meaning in his life from childhood onwards. https://videopress.com/v/eh8J64GV?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Karma Cry-Sis by Nick Smith
An epic poem of social commentary today from Nick Smith, matched by his ambitious use of captured and vintage footage in a powerfully-paced montage. https://videopress.com/v/GvlF5LhN?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
The Lost Child by Helen Anderson
In this short film Helen takes us back to the 90's and a small rescue that changed a little something in her heart. Watch out for the way she's used objects to signify the main characters in the story and how they feel - especially the brand name of the shoes!! https://videopress.com/v/q2BVjH4A?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Great-Grandmother Lala by Geoff Kerr-Morgan
In this short film, Geoff tells us about his family roots and gives us a window into so much of Middlesbrough's history - how we welcomed economic migrants all the way back into the 19th Century, the relationship between the church and their congregations, the economies of poverty, traditional crafts...It's all in here. https://videopress.com/v/MPjLiCm3?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
On A day Like This by Fran Edwards
In this digital story, Fran tells us a little about how she came to live in Redcar, and shares beautiful reflections on the circularity and layering of time and familial relationships. https://videopress.com/v/KqFotemA?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Erimus by Sandra Falconer
Sandra has been part of Celebrating Change for a couple of years now, making beautiful films about her family and community. In this latest digital story she combines film, photos, archive material and original stop-motion to celebrate the history of her beloved Middlesbrough - from dinosaurs to strikers! https://videopress.com/v/04hLXAlp?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata
Landlocked by Oz Hardwick
Landlocked The wood is polished walnut, warped by wind and waves, polished by sun, then jerry-rigged into place to make a built-in bunk, a low bench, a fold-down table, and bookshelves filled with paperbacks bought in newsagents and railway stations. A circular mirror reflects brass-rimmed portholes onto suburban shrubbery, and a gilded cage holds a … Continue reading Landlocked by Oz Hardwick
Messages of hope from Ally O’Neill
Hello! In addition to our Friday poems selected by Jane Burn, we're delighted to bring you a few poems and messages from the participants of our monthly digital storytelling workshops. Ally O'Neill is a mum of two teenagers, born and raised in Middlesbrough. She says I started off writing songs after learning the guitar at … Continue reading Messages of hope from Ally O’Neill
The Chrysalis by Chris Boyland
Words of advice for all of us hoping to survive and thrive in the days ahead - thank you Chris! The Chrysalis Change. Shift yourself, grow dragon tail, sport feathers. Change. Inherit new ways of thinking, borrow sharp new teeth, gaze cautiously into the shadowy corners of your own capacity. Change. Learn to come back … Continue reading The Chrysalis by Chris Boyland
Change by Catherine Faulkner
This week we welcome the work of Scotland-based poet Catherine Faulkner. Chosen by guest editor Jess Green for our series on 'Difference & Defiance', Jess Says "I enjoy the power and the confidence of this poem with some beautiful lines and a rare effective use of alliteration - 'scattering it Samson strong' and 'cuticles and … Continue reading Change by Catherine Faulkner
13 Wallside by Sara Hirsch
In selecting this short prose-poem by Sara Hirsch, our guest editor Clive Birnie says "another editor once said to me that it can be the smallest detail in a poem that makes it stand out. Here, that detail is 'a little plastic voice'." 13 Wallside The first time we visit it is vacant except for … Continue reading 13 Wallside by Sara Hirsch
Celebrating Change 