A History

Village Voices was formed in response to a request expressed by villagers in the Village Survey (1999) to “do more stuff together”.

1999~2000 Singing Workshops

1999 onwards, Monthly Newsletters

2000 onwards, Biennial Pantomimes

2000 The Fanny Craddock Theatre Company formed: presented Play with Feast 1

2000~2002 Land Marks Project
     [incl Art, Photography, Video, Song, Music, Reminiscence, Writing ‘Village Voices: Local Lives’]

2001 onwards, Annual Christmas Shows

2001 Computer Skills for Adults

2001 onwards,  Digital Archiving

2002 Village Directory

2002 Play with Feast 2

2002~2006 Building Bridges Project
     [incl Art, Photography, Textile*, Video, Local History, Natural History, Reminiscence,
     Writing ‘Farming Families’ and ‘The Nameless Stream’, & The Green Way.
     See the Local Heritage Initiative web site for more information.
*see below for the Textile Strand

2003 One Last Time Event

2003 Taking Tea On The Bridge Event

2003 Dragon-Making Workshop for children

2003 Village Faces Exhibition

2004 Multi-Media Training Course at PVA

2004 Five Years On Exhibition

2004 onwards, Village Website

2005 Spanish language classes

2006 onwards, Twekkelo Project, Netherlands

2006 Street Dance for children

2006~2009 Who Were We?
     [incl Local/Family History Research, Archiving, Graphic Design, Writing ‘Who Were We?’]

2007 Burstock Project

2008 Village Survey

2009 French language classes

2009 Who Were We? Web pages

2010 Stubbins Project, Lancashire

2009 onwards, Broadwindsor Project

2010 onwards, Creative Census - A Week In Our World proposal

2011 Open Archive - web site: www.openarchive.org.uk