The Theatro Technis (TT) archive is a unique Diaspora heritage resource. The project aims to document and re-tool the community’s diverse history through its own voices from audio recordings, interviews, music, songs and poetry, photography, early video, film and drama over 5 decades. Linguistically the material is of particular interest featuring Greek-/Turkish Cypriot Dialect(minority languages under evolution), Standard Modern Greek, and Maronite/Latino/ Armenian Cypriot and Ancient Greek. The material contains themes that go beyond migrant experiential stories and focus on cultural and social commentaries, labour, religious, political struggles, identity and intergenerational issues. We aim to make the archive accessible (physically/electronically), interactive and sustainable.
We will
- • Index, scan, document and preserve the community legacy particularly those of our elders who arrived in Britain from the 1930’s onwards.
- • Provide extended training opportunities for our volunteers and work experience trainees in conservation heritage.
- • Develop an educational/training resource; promote cultural cohesion through the understanding of theme value in the diversity of the Diaspora.
- • Create a virtual and interactive resource through a series of reflective activities:
Heritage-in-performance; ‘troubadours’ will tour the locality to facilitate
storytelling sessions with community elders and youth to stimulate reminiscence
and contemporary contributions for the e-archive.
Audio/visual pod cast: an accessible electronic resource of web narratives,
heritage-in-performance extracts, virtual exhibition. Cooperate with our associates
to further extend the e-participants and audience.
- • Sustainability and Community Cohesion. An ongoing programme with active engagement. This work supports our commitment and contribution to enhance opportunities for learning through the celebration of diversity, challenge and change part of the overall Heritage of England into a digital age.