OpenStoryTellers

A Creative Response

Green & Healthy Frome is working to change this narrative. We believe understanding how climate change affects us all - and affects us differently - is essential for building a greener, fairer, more inclusive future.

That’s why we partnered with OpenStoryTellers, a creative organisation supporting artists with learning disabilities, to co-create this powerful, thought-provoking project exploring the climate crisis through art, storytelling, and lived experience.

The months-long collaboration brought together OpenStoryTeller artists with learning disabilities, and artist facilitators to explore how climate change uniquely impacts their lives. Exploring the natural world and the communities living alongside it, the creative process gave voice to the anxiety and anger provoked by waste and its impact on our planet. Focusing on fast fashion, food waste and plastic pollution, they produced a diverse body of work spanning sculpture, photography, fashion, immersive installations, animation and video.

The work was showcased in a gallery and at a public event, and gave rise to two award-winning films, featured above and below.

Award Winning Output

The first event - a 10-day exhibition at the Round Tower, Black Swan Arts, attracted over 350+ visitors., followed by an exhibition, film preview and live Q&A with the artists at Frome Town Hall on 10 July 2025. Attended by a wide audience - including the Mayor of Frome - the event offered first-hand insight from the learning disabled artists, in their own words.

Audiences also previewed 'The Making of: An All Round Hullabaloo' (scroll down to watch), which traces the creative journey from early ideas through to public exhibition and showcases OpenStoryTellers’ distinctive approach - empowering learning disabled artists to lead in creating art, music and drama, while actively challenging discrimination and inequality.

Inspired by real-life bus journeys, the multi award-winning film 'Journeys Through Time and Climate' (watch above) is both poetic and urgent. It highlights the visible, and more subtler everyday vulnerabilities faced by disabled people who rely on public transport. The project stands as a powerful reminder of why underrepresented voices must be central to the climate conversation.

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A Creative Response

Award Winning Output

"Climate change affects us because it is scary its isolating... Our film shows people how it feels to be vulnerable on the bus, when the weather and world around you is changing." Robin Meader, OpenStoryTeller artist.

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