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A Sketcher’s Blog: Sketches from Chester Mystery Plays part 2 with Dai Owen

June 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

Here’s another instalment of Dai Owen’s A Sketcher’s Blog, looking behind the scenes at rehearsals for this year’s Chester Mystery Plays. The plays, which are being [...]

Introducing A Sketcher’s Blog: Sketches from Chester Mystery Plays by artist Dai Owen

June 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Our very own We Are Chester artist Dai Owen is currently in the process of documenting rehearsals for the forthcoming run of Chester Mystery Plays. The plays, which only [...]

Chester Archaeology Society invites new members to join up

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Emma Stringfellow from Chester Archaeology Society has written a special piece for us, inviting new members to get involved with the wide-ranging visits and talks that the [...]

Fashionista alert: New Tessuti store launches in Chester

April 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

Fashionistas Tori Erskine and her good friend Lee Bear attended the launch event for Chester’s new Tessuti store. Photos: Tori Erskine and Lee Bear Nowadays fashion is a [...]

Chester Mystery Plays diaries – part 2

April 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

In part two of our Chester Mystery Plays diaries, our editor Angela Ferguson reports on what cast and crew are doing in the lead up to this large-scale production being [...]

Powerlifting: Learning and Lifting

November 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

We Are Chester writer Josie Penfold has just competed in The Novice and Equipped Powerlifting Competition, her third competitive competition. Josie shares the story of [...]

The WOW factor: Meg Chester gives her verdict on WOW Festival Chester

May 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

We Are Chester writer Meg Chester was part of a team of young people – the WOWsers – who were involved with organising and running the first WOW Festival to take [...]

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! – Sort of.

May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Originally posted on whatsthestori:
This morning, I was very surprised when I [...]

Introducing the We Are Chester radio show

May 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

We’ve been branching out. Not content with just producing content on the good stuff happening in Chester for this website, we’ve launched a new monthly radio [...]

Review: Suspicious Wines tasting event in Chester

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

We Are Chester’s James Wright tries out a wine tasting event with a difference in Chester. Photos courtesy of James Wright. So, I know in the past I have done a real [...]