The Working Class Collective! A community of working class creatives #solidarity Buy the hardback book at our website shop or eBook on Kindle
- Tweets 2,671
- Following 1,035
- Followers 2,678
- Likes 2,311
We have had a few quiet months just trying to figure out how to manage all the Red tape as a CIC the new One Login wouldn't work for us. In the next few weeks we are launching a new small project. Helping working class people to tell their stories using our blog on the website
1
139
We are coming to Salford, Manchester & hopefully Bolton
So excited watch the video.and watch this site for dates
piped.video/cjkztiacrK0?is=5ARN…
1
7
1,361
Please support us share this post or throw in a couple of quid - working class storytelling will never be funded properly by the institutions they dont value us or our ways of telling a story - we only have each other x
donate.biggive.org/campaign/…
1
71
Watch the longer version here they are discussing this on the E.Mids politics show on Sunday piped.video/cjkztiacrK0?si=Czn4…
1
29
A few pics from #SiXteen a play by .@MrsJayneW & @redrumlisa. Ladt week there was 7 performances & lots of conversations afterwards about what the working class has lost, factories, pits, jobs, dignity & hope.
3
8
1,073
Warming up & rehearsing for #SiXteenplay at #Nottingham Concert Hall
Today first show at 4pm then second at 7.30
Wish us luck
1
1
8
1,403
How many times do we have to ssy this- middle class journalists working class people don't exist for your opportunity to write books about us. Piss off.
4
21
105
9,570
5 years we were in Lockdown & we collected the diaries if working class people this is what we made a beautiful book
6
24
1,479
5 years ago - This was happening the damage the #Lockdowns did we are only just seeing
3
219
#Lockdown - Day2 from The Lockdown diaries of the Working Clasx - the project that launched us - Remember Queuing
1
3
17
6,270
Merry Christmas from the working class collective. Under great pressure and time coal becomes diamonds and we are bloody diamonds 💎💎💎💎💎 never underestimate the working class.
1
4
24
405
Richard Hoggart wouldn't be an academic today in the University system we have now his work wouldn't have been good enough the middle class mediocrity of today unnecessarily complicates & obscures the writing process so they aren't found out. Who is the imposter?
5
200
We need some tech help does anyone know how to put a voice note with an image so we can share it on social media
ALT The Crooked House in Southend read by Cindy Sasha story by Sarah Attfield
1
1
1
476
11 days to go and we are still quite a way off from our target - thankyou everyone for your support
6
8
671
Thankyou to everyone sharing our project & to our 52 backers
We still have a way to go its all or nothing by Christmas Eve
5
6
666
E.P Thompson on how the bourgeois left used to cosplay their Socialism centering it in the pretence of 'class struggle' - they don't do that now they just hate us.
5
8
827
E.P Thompson on how the middle class narrate the working class. Which is why the Working Class Collective Exists. So we can tell our own stories. Thankyou. We dont need them.
1
14
63
3,325
Thankyou everyone 13 days to go and 57 backers - please support & share we still have a way to go kickstarter.com/projects/loc…
1
5
4
943
Another portrait by Warren Tait from 'Stories from the Mining Village' this is Sean & May - sean and his Wife Natalie are committed to looking after their 2 rescue horses - they spend every penny on them sometimes leaving themselves skint.
3
6
691
From our recent project 'Stories from a Mining Village' portrait by Warren Tait - this Natalie and her rescus horse May. Mining communities were both industrial & rural
2
4
531
This is from our recent project Sories from Bestwood Village a mining community the photography by Warren Tait. This is Hamish the Post Master in the Village 'Bestwood Colliery Post Office' . Our new Storytelling project coming soon.
3
8
785
This was part of our recent project 'Stories from Bestwood village a mining community' this portrait was taken by Warren Tait its Sally she runs the miners welfare in the village.
6
21
1,214
This is one of the beautiful portraits from our Stories From Bestwood Village, A mining community. The photographer is Warren Tait - the portrait is of 'Kieth' an ex-miner and local historian, sadly passed away soon after this photo was taken in July 2024
6
9
1,340
Daisy Howarth's work from Stories from Bestwood Village: stories from the mining village : 'Young' and 'Old'
Look out for our next project coming soon.
1
7
202
This is Daisy Howarth's work from our recent project: Stories from Bestwood Village A mining community: Part of our Working Class Fantastic Spaces Series - it is titled 'Old'
1
8
20
926
Two weeks ago in Liverpool it was such a good day thankyou .@J_ClassCulture
piped.video/a7IR8-ybdik
6
13
796
A few things we've been doing recently, interviews, storytelling events, cultural exchange with working class young people in Nottingham, Bradford & East London, exhibitions & putting our next project together soon
1
3
5
530
This is .@LucyMorris13 lino print work from the Bestwood Village Storytelling event in January - we showed the film - Stand Up Nigel Barton - this print now belongs to the Miners Welfare -
1
5
21
2,399
This is 'Young' by Daisy Howarth one of her pieces of art inspired by the Bestwood Village Storytelling event in January. Old Coal Miners talked about the pit ponies, the canaries & how they liked to sing. Those miners had dementia but remembered these things. Sadly passed on.
3
15
334
All welcome to our Bestwood village storytelling event tomorrow the exhibition - we worked with our communities to tell their stories what matters to them x
1
2
5
603
Really great day listening to young people pitch their ideas on enabling young creatives to find & build their own space thanks. @socialar
1
8
199
After our storytelling event at Bestwood Miners Welfare in January we now have our art work to show - we are platforming working class stories as we tell them.
4
4
667
#Dennispotter on #BBCfour we showed Stand up Nigel Barton in the miners welfare it was filmed in 1964 - look out for the work we dud that day - Stories from the Village art work from @lucy
2
10
800
We are now down to our last 20 Lockdown down diaries of the working class books if you want one DM us £10 & £6 P&P
8
9
935
