Black South West Network (BSWN) ran a two-year project to capture how different generations of diverse ethnic communities from Bristol and South Gloucestershire expressed their racial and ethnic origins.

BSWN worked with several community and heritage partners to recruit and train six young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds to collect and produce digital stories.

The young volunteers interviewed individuals in the communities and collected archive material to include in digital stories. The young people themselves were then asked the same questions and collected materials to best define who they are in relation to their racial heritage.

These digital stories informed a larger documentary that looked at the journey the young people took in their training and the wider understanding of racial heritage among the communities. The documentary was then exhibited at events, which included a question and answer session with the volunteer team and guest speakers. You can read a full transcript of the discussion that followed the showing on the Back to the Future website.