Storylines – the art of sharing stories amid crisis
SSE Cornwall Fellow Sarah Trevillion from Storylines CIC has had to come up with creative solutions in order to keep her business running amidst Covid-19...
Stories of kindness, resourcefulness and community
With the recent unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic, the Storylines team felt compelled to do something. So, with funding from FEAST, we have launched the Kemeneth Project, which aims to gather and share personal stories that speak of kindness, resourcefulness and community.
Although this is a challenging time, it is also an opportunity to reflect and reimagine how we engage with each other and the world. Now, more than ever, we need to celebrate and remember the positive ways that communities pull together, the resourcefulness that helps us find new ways and the acts of kindness that can transform our days. Kemeneth, which means ‘community’ in Cornish, currently exists as an online platform but is also exploring the possibility of postal exchanges for those who are isolated and offline.
So please do take a look at our new website, share your own memories or experiences with us and help us spread the word. As people interested or involved in social enterprise we have no doubt you will have plenty of tales to share and we’d love to hear them. We’re after stories from the heart, no matter how little or big, from anytime, any place. It’s early days for the project, and as with life right now, we’re living day to day, so if you have any ideas for collaboration then please do get in touch.
Singing on Zoom “Zoom”, is surely the sound a rocket makes in my grandson’s book! I was wrong: Zoom is a way of holding online group meetings! With fear and trepidation I logged on to my first Zoom meeting which our wonderful choir leader set up for all the participants of Breathing Space Singing.
https://www.kemeneth.co.uk/stories/breathing-singing-on-zoom
I want to help in any way I can
“I have a forklift licence, on the off-chance that that comes in useful!” “I’m self-isolating but I’d be more than happy to ring people up for a blether!” In the first twenty-odd days of being involved in my local Mutual Aid group, I have been overwhelmed by the level of community energy and sheer, hard graft…
https://www.kemeneth.co.uk/stories/i-want-to-help-in-any-way-i-can
A Community of Stars
From the very start of this awful period, we’ve been overwhelmed with the ways in which this community in St Just and Pendeen copes so supremely well in a crisis. That the aerial view of St Just is star-shaped is no coincidence – it’s a community of stars… https://www.kemeneth.co.uk/stories/a-community-of-stars
Whether it’s about a community pulling together, a choir trying out zoom, sharing seeds, the little exchanges that make you smile, working in your community, repurposing objects, the gestures that make you feel welcome, small kindnesses, or community applause, we hope that reading these stories will lift your spirits and perhaps inspire your own.
We hope everyone is managing to stay well and sane through this extremely challenging time.
With love, Storylines
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