LIVING ARCHIVE

Living Archive's creative community projects record, archive and celebrate the unique history and heritage of Milton Keynes. Conceived as an antidote to the assertion that ‘new towns have no history', and nurtured by the belief that ‘everybody has a story to tell', our work collects, preserves and shares the stories of residents' lives, building a sense of place and using old memories to create new ones and bring communities together... Using local lives, reminiscence and events as their starting point, Living Archive has created the most powerful expression of Milton Keynes' social history: 11 large-scale musical documentary plays; over 100 films; over 20 books; photographic exhibitions; radio and video documentaries; sculpture events; community textile projects; dance shows; webpage design and creation; and hundreds of digital stories.

Primary location: Milton Keynes United Kingdom