Living Museum Wall

In the run up to our Sharing Stories Conference, we have been working on the Living Museum Wall on the Sixth Form area. A number of people have loaned objects for the Wall with stories about what these objects represent in their lives. You can explore the object stories so far here. Please get in...

Share A Story

As part of the conference, as well as a range of workshop runners and speakers exploring the stories of people from a wide range of backgrounds and with a diverse range of perspectives, we are also inviting students and staff to share their stories. It can be any story you would like to share that...

Welcome

Welcome to our Sharing Stories website. Sharing Stories is a conference for Cheney School Sixth Formers run by the Rumble Museum. It features two keynote speakers and twelve different organisations running workshops all exploring the transformative power of stories in our lives. There are four separate streams which look at stories in particular ways: science,...

Closing Speaker: Jennifer Nadel

"The Magic of Compassion" Compassion has the power to change lives: our own and other people's. In the world around us we see evidence of what happens when compassion is missing: hunger, homelessness and a toxic debate. Find out how compassion can change that and how you can be part of the transformation process. Jennifer...

Opening Speaker: Roman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His books, including The Good Ancestor, Empathy and How to Find Fulfilling Work, have been published in over 20 languages. Roman, who has a PhD in politics, is the founder of the Empathy Museum, was a co-founder of The...

Mile in My Shoes

A "Mile in My Shoes" is a shoe shop where visitors are invited to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes – literally. Our touring exhibition houses a diverse collection of shoes and audio stories that explore our shared humanity. From a Syrian refugee to a dairy farmer, a war veteran to a neurosurgeon, visitors...

Creative: Ben Haggarty

Ben Haggarty has been telling folk tales, fairy tales, epics and myths for forty years! He has traveled extensively and studied oral traditions in India and Central Asia. He has a repertoire of over 450 narratives ranging from one minute jests to 3-hour epics. He also wrote the award-winning Stone Age graphic novel series MeZolith....

Creative: Rana Ibrahim

I am an Iraqi archaeologist and Artist Ambassador with Outside In. I am a founder and Director of Iraqi Women Art and War (IWAW) project as a freelance Education and Outreach officer, working with Iraqi women based in Oxfordshire to capture their oral stories through art. This workshop will explore telling stories through art and...

Creative: Story Museum

Join Story Leaders from the Story Museum to discover some treasures from the Story Museum's 1001 Collection of stories and learn a traditional story to share with the world. Discuss why we need to tell stories, why stories from ancient cultures are ever-relevant to us today, and how stories can help us to navigate everyday...

Historical: Robert Gildea “Life History Interviews”

I am Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and retired in 2021 after teaching for 42 years. Most of my career was spent studying modern French history. I am currently working on an oral history of the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike in Britain This workshop will explore first person interviews recorded at...