DIY History Workshop – Core Arts Men’s GBT mental health group

Prior to the Hackney Museum event for LGBT history month an event took place at Core Arts in East London, part of a specific program for GBT (Gay, Bisexual, Trans) men living with Mental Health issues. Stories were selected from the Resilient and Resisting project as readings, to illustrate the content of the project and to provide material that men in the group would be likely to relate to. We talked about various ways that histories could be documented, what had already happened in the project, how people could choose different ways to tell their stories, how and why issues of confidentiality and accountability are particularly important when people share vulnerable stories. We also talked about how the group could make contributions to the event at Hackney Museum, how that would work and also their own plans for the ‘Voices’ project in the future in which they would produce oral histories.

You can read & listen to some of the Resilient and Resisting Stories here.