A creative and challenging summer project involving young people launched in Stromness last Saturday, 2 July.

The Stromness Hometown project will see the town and its heritage being investigated by young people, making a walk through the streets a trip through time. Using scriptwriting, interviewing, music and sound effects, the old and the new will be gathered and edited into a creative soundscape.

The project will use items from the Stromness Museum to stimulate ideas and the completed audio guide will be on mp3 players available from Stromness Museum and the Pier Arts Centre next year.

There will be drop-in workshops each Saturday from now until September. Participants can come along for one workshop or all of them, or take time out for holidays and join in again.

The workshops will run from the Maritime Studies College (Nav School) in Stromness, behind Argos, each Saturday with morning and afternoon workshops: from 11am – 1pm and 2 – 4pm.

Check out the project at facebook/StromnessHometownProject or call Stromness Museum on 01856 850025.

The Hometown project is managed by Stromness Museum and has been funded through Leader and Stromness THI.

The project team comprises Rebecca Marr, coordinator, Mark Jenkins, sound and film editor, Lynn Campbell, Kathleen Ireland and the staff, trustees and Friends of Stromness Museum.

Link to feature on BBC Radio Orkney http://soundcloud.com/user8435573/stromness-hometown-launch-on

Source: Rebecca Marr