To understand the context this section, we suggest that you first explore the Story section. For this section, we need to introduce two key partners who were included in the development and delivery of this work:
Culture Health and Wellbeing who provide networked, collaborative advocacy, support and resources, supporting health and wellbeing for all through creative and cultural practice.
Creative Lives who support and encourage people to be creative in their everyday lives.
Within the development of the storytelling project, we worked with CHWA, and their regional champions, on a series of discussion events with a wide range of partners from across culture, health, age and academic sectors. During each event, we read the story portfolio and then asked participants to respond to the question of: ‘what resonates with you and your work?’. Each of the sessions generated a wide range of feedback, from different perspectives, which helped to inform the development of this strand of work. You can see the impact of these discussions in our final ‘Storyboard’.
Our partnership with Creative Lives also helped to inform the Storytelling approach but was predominantly focussed on sharing and disseminating the work more widely. Our shared ambition involved developing a dedicated ‘platform’ for age positive stories that would form a long-term legacy for the project. We developed a number of case studies, and shared them through our networks, but the scope of the legacy platform was a real challenge in terms of research, development, and funding. There continues to be a commitment to this type of Creative Ageing platform, but this cannot be realised within the scope of the CLL project.
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