Voices Gloucester - events across the city
People are cities and cities are people
3 - 18th September, weekends 11am - 6pm, Wednesday - Friday 11am - 3pm. Attendance is free and no need to book.
162-166 Barton St, Gloucester GL1 4EU
Georgia Williams & Rider Shafique have worked with the local community to create this unique exhibition which animates over 50 years of Gloucester Carnival photographs with stories and memories. Also showing will be images and films from the latest in the Gloucester First series by Rider Shafique and Tarsier Films; The first interracial marriage.
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Unreflective Reflections
Monday 5th September, 4pm - 6pm
The Friendship Cafe, Gloucester GL4 6PR
A project created by the local Muslim community to shed some light into their history in Gloucester
‘Through the Lens’ photography exhibition, and ‘Gloucester’s Glory’ film, tell the untold stories of the early community who settled here, and provide an inspiration for continuing their legacy, as well as to provide a resource for capturing future stories.
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Gloucestershire Observed
Wednesday 7th September, 7.30pm,
Gala Club, Fairmile Gardens, Gloucester GL2 9EB
Popular local historian Tony Conder casts his eye over National and local events, local life and human nature in the county as seen in Journals and Diaries over the last 500 years.
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The Lost Library of Llanthony: Rediscovering Llanthony Secunda’s medieval manuscripts
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September, 11.00am - 3.00pm. Heritage Open Day event
Llanthony Secunda Priory, Priory Junction, Gloucester GL2 5FA
In the medieval period, the scholars of Llanthony Secunda were responsible for the creation of a very special library that is still considered one of the richest and best-documented medieval English book collections in the country. This remarkable library is no longer in Gloucester but is scattered across the world, and this new documentary film traces the stories the books tell, how they were created and how they survived almost certain destruction.
Come along to Llanthony Secunda Priory this Heritage Open Day weekend to find out more about how you can view the film, and to explore how medieval manuscripts were created.
Queering Gloucestershire Archives
Workshops - Wednesday 14th, 2 - 4pm
Gloucestershire Heritage Hub
How can the archive be explored to find new narratives and queer histories? How can we present stories about our queer ancestors when language and social indemnities are vastly different? How can we see ourselves in stories from the past? Join writer/performer Tom Marshman and find out. In this two hour workshop, you will work with Tom to uncover stories of local LGBTQ people via a range of archive material. Your discoveries will help bring local stories to the fore, in an exhibition accompanying Tom’s show “Jenny”, which will be performed in Gloucester on the 13th October.
Workshops are taking place 2-4pm Wednesday 14th – click here to book.
The Boys at number 18
Monday 12th September, 6pm
Sherborne Cinema, Sherborne Street, Kingsholm, Gloucester GL1 3BY
‘Get them out!’ in the early years of World War Two, there was an extraordinary effort to rescue Jewish children from Nazi Germany, ten of whom ended up in Gloucester, at a hostel in Alexandra Road, Kingsholm. Commissioned by Gloucestershire Archives, this short film tells the story of these boys through interviews with their descendants.
Accompanying exhibition by History students from the University of Gloucester.
Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, from 2nd - 18th September, 10am - 4pm Monday - Friday
From Department Store to City Campus: the story of the Debenham’s building - A Gloucester University Exhibition
5th - 16th September, 9 - 5pm,
The Music Works, The Hub, 2nd Floor, King’s House, 27 St Aldate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1RP
Tracing the evolution of the building from Bon Marche department store, through to the takeover by Debenhams in the 1970s, and recent acquisition by the University of Gloucestershire as the planned new City Campus.
Slavery & Abolitionism in Gloucestershire - A Gloucester University Exhibition
2nd - 18th September, 10 - 4pm, Monday-Friday. No booking required – free admission.
Shire Hall, Westgate Street, GL1 2TG
Projects by History students focus on two local legacies of the transatlantic slave trade: the life of a Cheltenham resident who was the largest slave-owner in Barbados, and a prominent local activist who campaigned for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire and beyond.
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