Creative Projects
Here are some examples of creative oral history. Do you know of others?
Discover creative oral history projects via COSIG's Padlet pages
Click on the image below to explore the Special Interest Group’s Padlet resource. This has been created so that we can discover and share examples of creative art using oral history across various disciplines – including resources on collaborative practice and ethical considerations.
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Who am I?
Who am I? – was the question posed at a recent theatre production by Mukul and Ghetto Tigers, inspired by the stories collected through the oral history project Who am I? – which explored identity and belonging among second-generation
Oral History Meets Creative Writing in Stories of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation
A PhD in Creative Writing involved oral history techniques alongside poetry, re-imagined scenes, personal essay and quotation collage to curate and create voices of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation.
Performing Oral History: from Creative Special Interest Group to 3-day Symposium
A free Symposium on performing oral history with a wide ranging programme
Memory Line: A history of British computing
Memory Line is a multimedia artwork and oral history project that reflects on the early days of computing and listens to computing veterans who remember their experiences of the memory machine, EDSAC.
Sounding Borders – oral history / creative writing
Sounding Borders was led by Scotland’s Sounds and Historic Environment Scotland with funding from the Esme Fairbairn Foundation. It aimed to raise the profile of sound collections across Scotland. The project used archived oral testimonies from people living in the Scottish Borders as a starting point, reflecting on their domestic lives, school lives, working lives and social lives in the 20th century.
Two Pints Please – oral history / photography
This project documented dairies and doorstep milk delivery, an important long-standing feature of many communities, through photography and oral history.
Snapshots – oral history / memory-based artworks
This project involved an oral historian working creatively with spoken testimonies to create memory-based art and poetry. It explored the importance of taking time to reflect on and celebrate a person’s life and achievements and what it means to have that life story encapsulated in an artwork.
