Now that the first stage of our My Ancestors project is complete we are taking a break from this blog while we plan out the next stage. But there is lots going on over on our Rich & Lou’s Loudhailer website, so you can follow our blog there Loudhailer Blog http://loudhailer.net/
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Thanks to The University of Lincoln who made this nice short film summary of the Telling Our Stories community projects who worked together last year. It includes some snippets of My Ancestors were French, as well as the other project teams we met at the workshops in Lincoln. Good to see how everyone’s ideas came to fruition.
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Craig and Joe wrote and performed this totally brill human beatbox rap at our workshop for Hull Refugee Week at Creator College. 44 seconds long and guaranteed to make you think…and smile.
Joe McKinley – Human Beatbox and Craig Atkinson – Rapper
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You’ve just gotta watch this, superb work created for Hull Refugee Week…
We spent a day last week editing the My Ancestors were French Celebratory Event film at the Lincoln School of Media. Janice had done a great job putting a draft together. There’s just a bit more to do. Quentin is working on the Refugee Week workshop film which is nearly ready too. Looking forward to seeing the finished films.
Running
Hearts beating
Can’t look back
Leaving everything behind
Escape
By Lorna W.
We had a fabulous session at the My Ancestors Were French Exhibition, Workshop and Gig for Refugee Week on Wednesday. A big thanks to Alan, Mal and Sally at Hull’s Creator College for hosting the event.
There were some amazing and very evocative poems and art produced in the workshop that Louise & Amanda ran in the afternoon. Adam Wilson is the artist in residence at Creator College. His is not an illustrated poem, but a poemed illustration, ‘Stranger’.
Strangeness made Stranger
Language gap broadened
Nuances subtly lost
Meaning crisply missed
Thanks to the team at Lincoln University Media School (Janice, Adam and Rob) for documenting our My Ancestors were French celebration event last Saturday.
They filmed the exhibition of workshop poems and art, auricula display and the concert as well as interviews. We’re looking forward to seeing the film and photos.
Here’s Janice and Rob setting up to interview Robin Graham of Drointon Nurseries by his Auricula Theatre.
Thanks to Jenny Dagg and Leslie Hicks at Lincoln University for working with the project and arranging the film crew for our event.
Richard and Quentin were on BBC Radio Humberside on Saturday morning, talking to Carl Wheatley about My Ancestors were French. They sounded great. Thanks to Steve Redgrave for inviting us on to the show, and thanks to Carl for playing one of our songs – The Same Sky.
Here’s Quentin in the BBC studio.
Thanks to BBC Radio Humberside for inviting us to talk about My Ancestors were French on the radio.
Louise and Amanda had fun on David Burns show last Thursday. We played a couple of live songs and chatted to Burnsy about the project and celebratory event. Here is Amanda tuning up before the broadcast.
Here we are, we’re getting ready for our My Ancestors were French celebration event tomorrow, May 4th.
We’ll be setting up the venue, Willerby Methodist Hall, from 2pm and meeting up with the team from Lincoln University who are coming to film it.
The event kicks off at 4 pm when Amanda and Louise will be delivering a workshop, and then from 6 pm the exhibition will be open. There will be viewings of Quentin’s project films and Richard’s photos will be displayed with all the poetry, art and stories created at the workshops.
There will be an auricula theatre and flower display with Abby’s illustration and the Huguenot painting. To top off the day there will be a live performance of The Auricula Suite starting at 7.30 pm.
When I’m older I want to move to America. I’ve never been before, but a lot of people on Youtube that I watch live there and it looks better than England. I want to pass all my GCSEs, all the core subjects as well as Business Studies, Japanese, History and Statistics. I’d love to get all As and A stars – but I wouldn’t mind a few Bs.
Celtic descent –> Hebrew name –> means Ewe
My Celtic descent
No idea how
Hull Celtic tribe
Time of Boudicca
Ancient Pagan religion
My Hebrew name
Means female sheep
I’m not Hebrew
Neither is Mum
Or my Dad
This is confusing
Surname is Hardy
I don’t know
Where it’s from
But I know
What it means
It means strong
Means come back
Almost every year
My Mum is
From the Country
She got married
To a ‘Townie’
I would have
Lived on farm
Got Dad’s eyes
And Mum’s face
And Grandad’s eyes
And Great Aunt
Jenny’s weird hair
My Dad’s Mum
Was called Jean
She died when
I was five
She used to
Give me chocolate
For after tea
My Dad’s Dad
Wall called Alan
Never met him
He was in
World War two
He went blind
But saw again
My Great Grandma
And Great Grandad
Were Slightly posh
Lots of kids
I might have
Relatives in America
We lost contact
My Step Auntie
Lives in Australia
She’s visiting soon
Which is nice.
By Rachael Hardy
“I had invited a couple of my friends from Bradford we were walking to town and they were saying we’ve heard Hull’s really bad and I was saying no not really, I’ve got some really good friends and it’s a really nice place to live, I’ve been to other cities but I think Hull is beautiful. Whilst I was talking a taxi passed us and the taxi driver leaned out of the window and started shouting ‘go back to your own country’, you know really shouting, really angry and my friend was saying well it must be really hard to live in Hull. I said ok there are some idiots but I have some really good friends here, don’t believe all the rumours. With that, the taxi got to the end of Spring Bank and turned around, he drove back just so he could hurl abuse at us for a second time. I was really mad; I was just telling my friends how beautiful Hull was.”
“May the taxi driver’s cab be as empty as his soul.”
Watch the Film six minutes long.
My Ancestors Were French 
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