In all corners of the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected young people’s education, employment, mental health and disposable income, particularly for those who had already been disadvantaged due to complex inequalities and marginalisation. In low- and middle-income countries like Colombia, the impact of the pandemic has been felt...
This blog is part of Changing The Story’s #YoungChangemakers series. The Changemakers in Film Summit series was curated by Jacqueline Adjei, an undergraduate Laidlaw scholar working with the CTS team. This blog post details some of my reflections for each event however, it doesn’t cover the full extent of each...
Changing the Story is thrilled to launch Issue One of our new, interactive, multi-media newsletter curated by CTS Project Administrator, Aisha Kayani. ‘Inside Changing the Story’ is designed to help you keep track of what is going on across the project, so you never have to miss an event, opportunity,...
Music can overcome violence and marginalization. The language of music is able to transcend physical and non-tangible barriers to connect people including those at the urban margins. Co-created music during our project ¿Cuál es la verdad? not only allowed us to understand and to disclose local realities of the group...
* Perspectives from ‘Creative Expression among Young Cambodians’ Workshop was originally posted on the Cambodian Living Arts Website (9 July). The original post can be found here. Written by Danielle KHLEANG We move forward like the branches that grow bigger and longer, yet we never forget where we are from....
Rachel Killean, Queens University Belfast Film and filmmaking have proved to be critical avenues for raising awareness about environmental challenges. High profile screen releases have helped set and steer agendas around, for example, An Inconvenient Truth and global heating, Blue Planet and plastic usage, and most recently Seaspiracy and marine...
Creative responses to COVID-19, new regional consolidating learning research projects, and our first international film festival – find out what Changing the Story got up to in our third year! Following the scoping, development and capacity strengthening of our first year and the launch of our funding structure and Small...
Youth leadership and amplifying youth voice are key aims of Changing the Story (CTS), and are issues that I have been keen to focus on, as I believe that young people should be front and centre in decision-making that is about them and their futures. In recent months, CTS has...
It would take 59 days and 20 hours to walk from Pristina to Kigali, and 73 days to walk from Bournemouth to Kigali. I wanted to measure this time as a poignant reminder of distance as experienced through the new lens of personal movement through space during the pandemic....
The Making of School Houses in the 90s and the School House Museum by Jeta Rexha forms part of the Changing the Story Blog Series. Jeta Rexha is a Research Assistant on the Phase 2 Early Career Research Project The Making of the Museum of Education (Kosovo). The ‘house-school’ that...