The adage of “nothing about us without us” is one of the key tenets we are following with this project. We are very conscious that, as a Leicester based arts organisation, we are telling the story of a place we do not call home. Throughout the lifecycle of this project, and long after we have written this blog post, we have been committed to engaging and bringing along the community of Corby with this project.
We have partnered with a number of organisations based in Corby, worked with community groups and attended events where we can meet members of the town face-to-face. Of course, part of the work has been to capture the stories of those with lived experiences of the steel works. We’ve already talked about that in our blog about interviews, but we wanted to spend some time here talking about all the work we’ve been doing with the community and how warm the response has been from the people of Corby.
The people of Corby have been incredibly generous with their time and we quite simply couldn’t have made this project without their engagement and the kind donation of their stories. They are as intrinsic to this project as the iron seam running under the town itself and we wanted to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you!!
