The story of Dundee is to be told this week as part of the UK City of Culture 2017 bid’s commitment to create an ‘autobiography of the city’.
Although the City of Discovery lost out to Hull in the final, many of the planned events will go ahead, including a storytelling workshop which aims to bring together the city’s past with its vision for the future.
Led by the University of Dundee, the Storystorm project will hold the event featuring experts from across the UK in DCA on Thursday.
Contributions are being invited from everyone from designers and architects to collectors of Dundee “stuff” and those who simply have a story to tell about the city.
Storystorm team leader Mel Woods, a reader at Dundee University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, said now was the perfect time to build on what Dundee has achieved through its bid.
She said: “In Dundee we hope to continue the fantastic work that the City of Culture bid team and everyone around that have achieved, by supporting an inclusive, exciting vision for our future city.
“This workshop will explore the role of storytelling methods in developing, capturing and replaying the significant narratives of a city, its past and future vision.
“Hopefully we will end up with a vision of how we want our city to be and how its story can be told, and by using technology how it can be added to in the future.”
The day will include presentations from speakers including Matt Locke, formerly of Channel 4, Nick Taylor of Bespoke, Rod Gordon from the McManus Gallery’s Dundee oral history project and Gillian Easson from Creative Dundee and a member of the City Of Culture bid team.
There will also be workshops and an opportunity to create teams to further develop the project. Places can be booked via the DCA Box Office or online.
This event is part of Book Week Scotland and is funded by RCUK SerenA and EPSRC Communities and Culture Network+.