Akila Richards leads one of the Maisha Stories workshops at The Depot in Lewes

The Maisha Stories Project received National Lottery funding from National Lottery Community Fund to develop work on the initial Impact Acceleration Account funded initiative and the Policy Support Fund Project with Sussex Police, and connect Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people of colour (BPOC) with nature and storytelling in Sussex.

From November 2024 to December 2025, the project team will work with BPOC communities based along the South Downs National Park and East Sussex to co-produce and co-deliver a series of 12 monthly storytelling and placemaking workshops in Brighton’s Moulsecoomb, Hastings and Lewes aimed at people of all ages and backgrounds including families.

Project partners are Writing Our Legacy (WOL) and Diversity Lewes, working with academic Dr Jess Moriarty and artist Akila Richards.

The project builds on the Maisha Stories: No Place Like Home project devised in 2024 by Amy Zamarripa Solis (WOL), Tony Kalume (Diversity Lewes) and Dr Jess Moriarty is Principal Lecturer in Creative Writing and Course Leader for the Creative Writing MA (University of Brighton) and delivered with Akila Richards.

For more information, please go to: https://writingourlegacy.org.uk/maisha-stories-project-receives-funding-from-the-national-lottery-community-fund/

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