We want to hear your stories! This page is set up to help individuals tell their story, and draw perspectives from your story to help other people in similar situations or no common experience at all to help build a greater knowledge on the topic.
From childhood experiences, current struggles, lost of a loved one, joyful experiences, one in a million type stories to even love stories we want to hear them!
Story telling is a gift that many of us think is not needed anymore specially when we grow older! Get in touch via our Instagram or email at [email protected]. Our main 3 story holders we specifically want to hear from are : Mothers ( Parents) of knife crime, ex convicts or reoffenders and Graffiti artists of all kinds.
First attempt on yellow castle sun rise for the project. Shout out to all the joggers and dog walkers for a 6am walk 🚶♀️ song choice by my auntie Jean, part of poems and songs people have memories of in Lockleaze
Coming In For Winter
A photo-voice exploration of the Penarth Bowls Community
This is a glimpse into life at the “ Rectory” a bowls club open to members to join in the winter. The project explores two clubs, other being Belle Vue Community bowls club. This post consists only of the Rectory, focusing on its space, its people and how they support disabled, people with Alzheimer’s, and mental health within the medium of bowls and its social aspect, bringing families and friends together as a united community.
Coming In For Winter
A photo-voice exploration of the Penarth Bowls Community
Coming In For Winter traces a gentle three-month passage through the Penarth bowls clubs as they settle into the quieter rhythm of the colder season on Rectory Space. Through photographs and shared reflections, the project listens to the small stories with also Belle View Community Bowls Club and its tradition, uncertainty, companionship, and change—that surface as a private club and community and other winter members meet together start of winter.
With a calm, observant lens, this work gathers the textures of place and people, offering a portrait of community in uncertain times.
“Coming In The Winter”
As the winter months arrive and the clocks fall back, darkness lingers over Rectory Road. Inside Penarth Bowls Club, light gathers — drawing in players from other clubs without an indoor green, bringing the wider bowls community together through the cold season.
This project looks at what the club means to the people who represent it — cups of tea, quiet moments, familiar faces hold something steady when everything else slows down.
The rise of women players who have helped keep the community afloat and follows the Belle Vue community as they continue to self-fund through uncertain times. Beneath it all runs the weight of council cuts and the quiet resilience of Penarth’s oldest bowling community. #shwmae Penarth @shwmaepenarth@docphotusw
