Wildrose Arts

We believe it is vital to the learning process and mutual understanding of different generations to engage with each other in a variety of ways. To aid inclusion and participation we provide the settings for this engagement. WRHaA is involved with education on a number of levels including primary and secondary. Below are some of our activities.

Activities

Interviews:

We give workshops to primary pupils on open, closed and follow up questions and get them to work out their own questions to ask older local residents in formal interviewing settings. These inter-generational interviews are then included on our website in the usual way and used in creating the content for resource packs, storytelling, drama performances and walks.

Theatre:

We work with primary school pupils and secondary school expressive arts students using our transcripts as an inspiration for them producing their own theatrical public performances. We work with Calderdale Theatre School on these projects.

Resources:

We create educational resource packs for primary schools using oral history as a basis for further added value content, aiming towards a cross curriculum approach. Packs can include DVD’s, CD’s, text worksheets, photographs depending on subject matter as well as digital material used by Calderdale MBC Museums Service.

Storytelling:

We have created 3 stories (Margaret’s Greenwood's Life Story, born 1920 to the present-35 minutes, Childhood in the 1930’s-20 minutes and Childhood in the 1940’s-15 minutes), all using  verbatim quotes from our oral history collection.

We create a character taking various sections from numerous transcripts re-creating times from the past. We do storytelling sessions in schools, community centres and day care centres. All audience members are asked to evaluate the sessions. Download recordings of the storytelling sessions.