Four workshops
Find, shape, make and refine your story across the four principal Saturdays. This is the core attendance commitment.
Take part · 16 free places
18+ with Fenland roots or a real connection to Fenland? Start with your name and email. No portfolio or finished story idea needed.

Beyond the workshop room · optional
A heritage boatyard. A landscape being rewilded. A cathedral approached through one human life. A museum while it is still being remade. A river from inside the boat. Around those featured doors, more conversations are developing across heritage, science, landscape, craft, archives and everyday working life.
The four workshops are the only core attendance commitment. Inspiration visits are voluntary. You may choose none, one or two depending on your interest and availability. Most should take a few hours or up to a half-day, plus travel, with exact details confirmed before you opt in.
These are examples of doors opening around the programme, not a promise that every experience will happen or be available to every participant. Declining an experience never affects participant selection or your place on the programme.
Start with your name and email. You do not need a finished story, portfolio or long application now. We will send a secure link so you can add the fuller details afterwards.
What you are joining
Find, shape, make and refine your story across the four principal Saturdays. This is the core attendance commitment.
Writing, audio, photography, film, visual work or a mixture. You do not need to decide before you start.
Choose none, one or two experiences if they would help spark your work. They are never compulsory.
Individual help, equipment where needed, reasonable local travel costs, lunch and refreshments.
Your choice
Making something is not the same as agreeing to publish it. Filming, public sharing, your name and how your work appears are separate choices.
Already have your secure link?The application is two short steps and can be saved if you need to come back.
Open my application →Current funded programme
The current 16-person Digital Storytelling Lab is supported through Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants. Common Ground is the wider place-based storytelling platform around that funded spine.