Category: the story

This creative and learning residency was aimed at all audiences but particularly at critical thinkers, policy makers, young people and those who work with them. An Garda Síochana (the Irish police force) also participated in the programme and crucially, the learning from this process will directly inform the content a new local training scheme for… Continue reading Policing Dialogues (2010)

The Day in Question event was staged in a triangle arrangement bringing together What’s the Story? Collective on one side, facing a large group of Gardai on the second side and an invited group of witnesses on the third. The event had two parts. It firstly involved the re-telling of a series of personal but… Continue reading The Day in Question (2009)

The film was shot in various locations in Dublin and was based on the personal experiences of Dublin based Lithuanian young people from the 4 Vejas Lithuanian School in Inchicore. The anonymous stories were then re enacted by individuals from Rialto Youth Project. The film was made on the occasion of the NEU/NOW festival in… Continue reading Eight Dublin Lithuanian Stories (2009)

By positioning the vehicle in significant public space and engaging a variety of relevant publics in dialogues and creative interactions, Section 8 provided a platform in which to connect intimate personal experiences of power relationships with broader societal and systematic issues. For its first round of trips in 2009, Section 8 traveled to Belfast and… Continue reading Section 8 (2009)

Each person told a story in response to the question: ‘Can you tell me about a moment in your life when you have felt powerful or powerless?’ 60 stories were each recorded, transcribed and edited privately with the storyteller. During one weekly meeting of the collective in Autumn ’08, the stories were first shared with… Continue reading Anonymous (2008)