24 April 2020
Tsunagu/Connect is looking for volunteer interviewers to help with its oral history project documenting the lives of Japanese women in the UK
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Tsunagu/Connect is looking looking for children and young people aged 8-16 years old with Japanese heritage who would be interested in becoming volunteer interviewers! If interested, please do contact them by 8 May 2020 if at all possible.
Tsunagu/Connect is an exciting oral history project that will document the lives of Japanese women living in the UK since 1945. It is a long-term community project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and managed by Yellow Earth Theatre, the UK’s leading theatre company championing British East Asians.
As part of the project, Tsunagu/Connect is looking for children and young people aged 8-16 years old with Japanese heritage who would be interested in becoming volunteer interviewers. They would attend a series of five online workshops with Chocolate Films, learning how to use smartphones to capture video interviews, before interviewing their Japanese mothers and Grandmothers about their personal histories. These women’s stories will then be shown in their own words through an exhibition, a website, and a live performance piece in 2021.
The interview process would only require a mobile phone, and a means to attend the online workshop (a computer, tablet or similar). A short film will be created of the interviews and will be part of the exhibition in 2021.
You can download a flyer with information here.
For further information, please contact Tsunagnu/Connect via email: tsunagu@yellowearth.org.uk
The website can be found at https://yellowearth.org/tsunagu-connect/