Sometimes is a short story about processing differences by people with processing differences.
We share this story based on our work with participants who are Neurodivergent, have experienced trauma or those living with a mental health condition – people who may process things differently.
This story compliments our training offer on hosting accessible Creative Storytelling experiences.
To celebrate the Manchester Shipping Canal in Warrington, let us go back in history and introduce you to local lad George Clayton. Here his wife comforts him on his deathbed and tells the story of his life.
Born to a farm hand in Woolston, George had many jobs from working the plough, serving in the 5th Royal Dragoons in Afghanistan and as a navvy building the Manchester Shipping Canal. He had two children, Frederick and Elizabeth and lived in a 2 bed dwelling on Church Street. At age 42, he died on New Years Eve 1895 from multiple illnesses including tuberculosis. Illnesses that were bought on through a life of hard graft and poor living conditions.
What if our clothes could talk, what would they say? Flick went into work with the Culture Warrington Young Producer’s and played with this idea. The words were written by the group and the video uses there artwork. They picked a tie, crafted the character if Daniel and then wrote the words in this piece.
When you father steals your mother’s seal skin, and you know the right thing is to let her go. The Selkie’s child comes to her mother and pledges to help her find her seal skin, even if it means losing her mother to the sea.
An animated song by Flick Goodman http://www.felicitygoodman.com
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