Black Cats' Stories have launched!

Black Cats’ Stories is a ground-breaking project, creating a snapshot of what football means to the people of Wearside, through digital storytelling.

Over a series of six workshops, Sunderland AFC fans shared their personal memories of the Black Cats and worked with digital storytelling experts Curiosity Creative to create short pieces of audio-visual made up of photographs, sound, moving image and animation.

Delivered in partnership by Opera Sunderland, the Foundation of Light and Sunderland City Council Library Services, with funding from The Cultural Spring and The Joicey Trust, Black Cats’ Stories is part of An Opera for Sunderland, creating an opera for the City of Sunderland. The digital stories will become sources of inspiration for the professional librettist and composer creating An Opera for Sunderland, which is themed around football.

These humorous and heart-warming stories about loyalty, family and keeping the faith can be viewed on the Black Cats’ Stories events page.