This showcase celebrates the work of the ORIGIN project. Young co-designers and cultural partners who have explored archives and museums across the UK to create stories that support mental wellbeing.

📚✨ Step beyond the archives and discover the untold stories waiting for you.

If you can’t make the opening, don’t worry, the exhibition will be open until Saturday, August 30th at Old Post Hall, Fitzalan Square.

Produced by the Creative Research Assistants at Lab4Living, this exhibition takes you on a journey through the archives to uncover hidden, representative stories for mental health.

We’re inviting new Peer Reviewers & Co-Designers (ages 16–24) to get involved in giving feedback on the stories we're working on!
🏛️ Interested in becoming a Peer Reviewer? Sign up using the link in the post!
📚 Head to our website or read the full update here: lab4living.org.uk/news/origin-...

That's why the ORIGIN Creative Research Team have been working on stories that highlight LGBTQ+ experiences, voices & histories—often overlooked, but never forgotten. Pride is about visibility, but also about listening, learning & making room for stories that need to be told.

To see the needlework she created whilst in workhouse in person was an emotional experience, truly speaking to the importance of both art and museums.

But the best part of the museum for sure was seeing Lorina Bulwer’s embroidery in person. Lorina was incarnated in a workhouse in the late Victorian era and Sophie and Kerry had been working on a story for the ORIGIN programme about her.

They had a great time hunting the museum for stories, including an exhibition on Blood: Ties and Tensions. There were lots of brilliant artefacts in the museum, like a banner in tribute to the NHS and an X-ray machine used in shoe shops in the 1950s!

Give us feedback through this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/7TBWEF/ #ORIGIN

We want the online museum to be as engaging and representative as possible. You don’t need any prior experience, only your own lived experience and interest in either research, story-telling, arts and culture, museums or narratology for mental health.

WP4 of the ORIGIN Research Project looks at co-designing an online museum as a mental health support for young people.

We would love for you to be a Peer Reviewer and tell us what works well with the stories, what could be improved and what ideas you have to make the stories more impactful, interesting and representative to young people aged 16-25.

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Our Creative Research Assistants were still able to squeeze in a bit of storytelling between breaks & are eager to get back to creating stories as part of #ORIGIN!

Here’s your reminder to take a step back & prioritise a healthy work-life balance!

It is on throughout the whole of May across Sheffield. The full programme of events can be found at
www.compassionate-sheffield.co.uk/life-loss-and-death-festival

#SLLDF25

From creative workshops to community talks, the festival offers space to explore some of life's most difficult topics with openness and care.

This project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (Ref: NIHR204148). Views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Any questions, email Sophie and Beth at s.cochrane-powell@shu.ac.uk and elizabeth.hopwood@shu.ac.uk 📧
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