Otherstory will be showing their puppetry film Taking a Holiday - telling the story of anarchist resisters to World War 1.  It is a story of secret hideaways, daring escapes, bicycles and solidarity.  This film will be followed by a short talk about further research undertaken with the Bristol Radical History Group which has uncovered escape routes used by war resisters wanting to evade arrest and conscription into the army. There are direct links to Freedom and its connections with the support networks used by anarchist at the time.  

In Taking a Holiday Puppetry, documentary material and songs combine in a narrative based on the true stories of ordinary Bristol people during 1914/17, and the hidden history of  resistance to the war machine.

Otherstory aims to tell through puppetry the stories of outsiders and the powerless, that run counter to the narratives of the powerful and their project of erasing other histories. Stories that connect us to each other across place and time. Otherstory want to invite and support others to tell their stories in the recognition that we are all storytellers. Otherstory conceives, produces and performs puppet shows and installations, and runs participatory workshops. We have built large street puppets with community groups and for festivals. We sometimes design and make puppets or installations for theatre companies and others. Otherstory has run projects involving community and campaign groups, radical and local history groups, youth organisations and schools as well as the general public and are a not-for-profit collective of independent artists based in Mivart Studios in Easton, Bristol working together since February 2010.