Heritage Open Days (7-10 September 2017) is England’s largest grass roots heritage festival involving over 40,000 volunteers and 5,000 events.
This year, thanks to additional funding by players’ of People’s Postcode Lottery, the festival is focusing on LGBTQ heritage, with a series of newly-commissioned, community-focused arts events, collectively known as Unsung Stories. In Oswestry (Shropshire), Knutsford (Cheshire), Holloway (north London) and Wivenhoe (Essex), visitors will be able to watch, listen, learn and even take part in live theatrical events, that tell four very different stories of bravery, creativity, defiance and love.