When Voices Become Light

Our Stories Our Voices is a project by The Village Storytelling Centre that engages adults from Pollok and across Glasgow at the storytelling workshops to share, listen and create stories. This project aims to encourage people in finding their own voice and deciding what story to tell and how to be told. Currently we work with three different adult community groups: Pollok Voices, Voices of Peace and This Woman’s Voice

“When Voices Become Light” performance and exhibition gathers the participants’ stories around the theme of change. What do we understand by change? Do we like it? Can our experiences and creativity bring light to ourselves and others? These stories centre around powerful personal changes: rebuilding life with hope, finding inner strength and confidence, challenging other people´s views, moving places and the importance of connecting with a community.

The performance fuses live storytelling and songs and was created by the adults. The exhibition of lanterns were handcrafted by the participants using paper maché techniques with tissue paper, glue and wire, where each lantern is a delicate fusion of light, form, and storytelling, carrying personal messages of change.