We are halfway through our Stall Stories Project. Children from two London Primary Schools, Colville and Stockwell, have made short documentaries exploring the history of their local street markets as told by stall holders and locals.

Both films were premiered in school assemblies with the young film makers showing their films at their own school followed by a Q&A. Then children from each school took their film back to their local market, setting up their very own pop-up cinema on a traditional market stall amidst the hustle and bustle to show the film to shoppers and stall holders with the young film makers on hand to answer questions. Each film has been really well received by everyone who has seen it.

See these wonderful films on Brixton Market and Portobello Road Market online now on the project website..

www.stallstories.org.uk

Watching the film at the childrens Portobello Road Pop-Up Cinema

Children from Stockwell Primary School on their pop up cinema on Brixton Market.

Our Market project has started with a hectic and exciting week looking at the History of Brixton Market with Stockwell Primary School.

We’ve also got the website up and running: http://www.stallstories.org.uk/

And if you are in South London on Wednesday 13th July why not pop along to the market and see the fruits of their labour in our pop up cinema. Details here.

digital:works have secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for their London’s Historical Street Markets project.

Young people from four schools will be making documentaries about their local street markets. They will be undertaking historical research at their local archives and then learning filming and interview techniques. They will then visit their markets to interview traders and shoppers with an emphasis on exploring the history of the markets.

The final films will provide a fascinating history of four of London’s street markets in North, East, South and West London as told by traders and shoppers. The films will also provide a vivid snapshot of the markets as they are today.

Each of the films is being shown locally and will be available on a dedicated website which will also have screening and online presentation dates.

Sav Kyriacou, digital:works Project Worker, said: “We are grateful to the Heritage Lottery Fund for their funding of this work and especially their positive and detailed feedback throughout the application process.”

Matthew Rosenberg, a digital:works Project Worker who is also working on the project said: “We are very excited to be working with our partner schools, archives, local history groups and traders associations. We will be kicking off with Brixton Market and closely followed by Portobello Road Market.”

The project has been named Stall Stories and we’ll send out a news item at the weekend with the web address.