Share your lockdown stories
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Share you lockdown stories
Have you been keeping a diary of your time in lockdown, or maybe you have been writing poems about your experiences?
Then Northumberland County Council’s Discover our Land campaign wants to hear from you.
The campaign team is looking for submissions from people of all ages and abilities of pieces of art, diary entries, poetry, song lyrics, sculpture, paintings, drawings, collage, knitting or anything else that you used to express yourself during lockdown.
Some of these pieces will be saved into the Northumberland Archives so that future generations can look back and know what it was like during lockdown. Other pieces will be featured in an exhibition which will go live on the Discover our Land website on March 23, to mark the one year anniversary of the first national lockdown.
Cllr Richard Wearmouth, cabinet member for Discover our Land, said: “The Discover our Land campaign is all about sharing the stories of the people living and working in Northumberland. There is no bigger story of our time than the current Coronavirus pandemic and understanding how people and communities have been coping will be a fascinating piece of social history.
“By sharing your experiences you may also help others in being able to understand their own emotions and generations to come will be able to get a snapshot of this challenging time.
“We want to thank everyone in advance for sending in an entry, due to the nature of the storage we are only able to select a limited number of pieces to preserve, but we will do our best to include as many submissions as we can. I am very much looking forward to seeing the creativity of the people of Northumberland .”
As well as artwork submitted, the exhibition will also include audio and videos from people who have been volunteering or working through the lockdowns.
• Image - jpeg, png, bmp, tiff
• Video - mp4, mpg, mkv, avi
• Audio - mp3, wav
• Documents- Word files or pdfs
There is no limit on file size, but remember it may be difficult to attach and send very large files. If you are sending a large file, please complete the online and form and then separately email your entry to discover@northumberland.gov.uk. The deadline for entries is Monday, February 18.
Share you lockdown stories