the world of Our Line
“I never met my great grandmother Nora, but she hovers around the edges of my mother’s memory. A tiny woman, she died when my mam was about 7. She remembers her baby teeth coming out at the time.”
Our Line brings you the real and imagined stories of the people from towns along the Bishop Line, in exactly the time it takes a train to go from Darlington to Bishop Auckland
In 2020, Our Line went online and people listened from the comfort of their sofas
NOW in 2022 OUR LINE CONNECTIONS is a project co-creating a Community Songbook with artists & groups across Durham & Darlington, reaching audiences, communities, new friends & old ones, to consider what connection means to us now.
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Our Line Connections
finding connections and creating a Community Songbook with people in communities along the route of the Bishop Line railway, spring 2022
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have a go
your chance to have a taster of some really fun, relaxing workshops that use songs or pictures to express your feelings about the theme of CONNECTION
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co-created songs
made by Em Whitfield Brooks and all the participants,
Hurry Up Train
Sweet Hope
Make a Connection
launched 22 June 2022 - the final songs are here now
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co-created exhibition
made by Michelle Tripp and all the participants
artwork from the whole project was on public display at Locomotion railway museum, Shildon from 22 June - 10 July 2022
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Our Line : the audio play
Listen to Our Line the audio play : half an hour, set on the train from Darlington to Bishop Auckland
hear about Nora and Jade, why Nora married Albert and why Jade cares so much
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2018 on the train
the first outing was part of Jabberwocky Market, groups of audiences listened to the show whilst experiencing the actual train ride
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the review
Local historian & journalist, Chris Lloyd, took part in the 2018 launch and wrote about his experience
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in conversation
In 2020, Our Line went online and people listened from the comfort of their sofas, we talked about it on zoom
BSL is provided by Jenna Johnson.
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Our Line & Our Line Connections are projects by Luxi in collaboration with the Bishop Line & Northern
