Job Description
As well as places for burial and remembrance, cemeteries can play a valuable role as green spaces, particularly in urban areas providing many of the same mental and physical health benefits as local parks, as well as providing a haven for wildlife. Cemeteries also provide an important record of the social history of the area with each cemetery offering a biography of its community.
There have been well over 100, 000 burials in St Johns and Westgate Hill Cemeteries over the past 150 plus years. The stories of some of the more well-known people buried there have been discovered and shared in books, articles and publications, but many have not.
What of those other past lives?
Who knows those stories?
Can you find out and write about them ?
To support a project to engage local communities with these two cemeteries and find creative ways to restore and bring them back into use:
You will work with local people/cemetery visitors to explore and research the stories they want to share about those buried in the cemeteries who are important to them – relatives, ancestors and friends. What is the impact of these past lives on today’s living descendants, and the wider community?
You will have experience of engaging with people and running workshops/sessions to draw out memories, opinions and stories.
You will work with the project manager, local people and organisations (community groups, archives, museums, libraries, etc) to research and gather information into a sharable resource.
Find out more and apply here.
Deadline: 15 October 2023
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