{"id":2023,"date":"2019-10-16T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:37:46","slug":"join-us-for-the-raf-stories-big-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/join-us-for-the-raf-stories-big-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us for the RAF Stories Big Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-19\/RAFMuseumLondon.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Museum Big Stories Weekend\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 2-3 November 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 10.00am \u2013 4.00pm<br \/>\n<strong>Cost<\/strong>: Free<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: RAF Museum Cosford \/ RAF Museum London \/ participating venues<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Royal Air Force Museum is teaming up with venues across the country for the \u2018RAF Stories Big Weekend\u2019, a national story collecting event capturing local stories relating to the Royal Air Force. Taking place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 November, the RAF Museum aims to capture hundreds of stories with the help of participating venues and events at both its Cosford and London sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether you\u2019re a veteran, current serviceman or servicewoman, an air cadet or have family links to the RAF, whatever your connection, however big or small, you\u2019re invited to attend and share your favorite anecdotes at a venue near you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RAF Museum Community Engagement Officer &#8211; RAF Stories, Jess Boydon said<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u201cWe are extremely grateful to all the participating venues for hosting one the RAF Stories Big Weekend events. With venue\u2019s up and down the country taking part, it\u2019s easier for members of the public to get involved and ensure their RAF memories are captured. Whether its stories about courage, love, tragedy, friendship, bravery, triumph, humour and everything in between, we hope people will find their local participating venue and take up the opportunity to share their story with us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the last two years, the RAF Museum has recorded hundreds of stories now available online for the public to view. By working together with other venues, the Museum is able to widen its reach and together this catalogue of stories will expand and enrich peoples understanding of the RAF today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAF Stories is a global oral history project which digitalizes and makes accessible engaging, historical and contemporary stories of people\u2019s personal connections to the RAF and the service\u2019s influences on their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All stories captured over the RAF Stories Big Weekend will then be uploaded to the RAF Stories website for audiences around the world to hear first-hand some of the inspirational and ground-breaking recollections from former RAF personnel and their families about their RAF journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether you have one anecdote or ten to share, join us at the RAF Museum Cosford and RAF Museum London on 2 and 3 November between 10.00am and 4.00pm, or search for your nearest venue on our website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.rafmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RAF Stories project is proudly supported by <strong>National Lottery Players<\/strong> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagefund.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Lottery Heritage Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 2-3 November 2019 Time: 10.00am \u2013 4.00pm Cost: Free Location: RAF Museum Cosford \/ RAF Museum London \/ participating venues The Royal Air Force Museum is teaming up with venues across the country for the \u2018RAF Stories Big Weekend\u2019, a national story collecting event capturing local stories relating to the Royal Air Force. Taking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/join-us-for-the-raf-stories-big-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Join us for the RAF Stories Big Weekend!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,10,54,205],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-305","tag-news","tag-october","tag-raf-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}