Tale-enders: Gathering the Narrative Heritage of Welsh Cricket
This presentation was the launch of the Tale-enders project to produce narrative reminiscence content to form part of the Museum of Welsh Cricket.
The group are compiling an oral history of cricket in Wales and showed a promo video asking people to donate stories to the project, through various media including recorded stories (video/audio), photographs, letter writing, text messages and email.
They want personal stories; the heritage of the cricketing community; a redefinition of itself through story. Just as Capture Wales is capturing Welsh culture as it is, not stereotypes of what being 'Welsh' is and isn't, so too Tale-enders are trying to re-appropriate heritage in a shift away from museum-led static interpretation panels to real people's stories. This re-appropriation utilises the democratising ability of internet technology to allow people to become storytellers of their own lives.
It was suggested that there is a parallel between the cricket community and storytelling. (Now I don't know about this - I know nothing about cricket:-)) The time quality of cricket was cited; people come and watch, i.e. there is time to watch - it becomes a whole day's outing.
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