Our School Days

This National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project brought together staff, resident organisations and creative practitioners based in the The Heart of Newhaven building including; Bookbinder Cass Barron, Printmaker Lorna Brown, Daddy Day Care (DDC), History of Education Centre (HEC), Leith Men’s Shed, MWAMBA, Spiders for Ukraine (Spiders) and Tortoise in a Nutshell Theatre Company (TIAN) to design and deliver a programme of participatory heritage and creative activity rooted in lived experience.

Across the project, fifteen heritage practitioners and creatives were engaged, including educators and reminiscence specialists, writers, storytellers, visual artists, theatre makers, movement practitioners, a musician, filmmakers and photographers.

Activities explored educational and cultural heritage through memory sharing, oral history, craft, visual art, music, storytelling and performance, using shared school day experiences as a common starting point.

View the full details and watch a short fil on the project on Heart of Newhaven website.

Visual Story: A guide to the School Days Project exhibition

The project has also produced a A Heritage and Arts Resource Booklet - A practical guide to creating welcoming, joyful and meaningful intergenrational heritage activities based on the Schhol Days project.