Chester

Lockdown fundraiser: Musicians come together to support nursing charity

March 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

Words: Paul Crofts. Artwork: Dai Owen Musicians from across the Chester, North Wales and North West live music scene have once again come together to produce a second charity [...]

Listen: Episode two of The Good Enough Human podcast – meditation

January 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

In the latest episode of our new lifestyle podcast, The Good Enough Human, we chat to Chloe from Chester-based Girl Meditates. If you’re anything like us and feeling a [...]

Listen: Our new podcast and radio show – The Good Enough Human – is launched

January 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

We’ve been branching out. We’ve just launched a new lifestyle podcast and radio show, called The Good Enough Human. We’ll be looking at a range of lifestyle [...]

Tip Top Productions announce new chapter as they bid farewell to Chester city centre home

November 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

We Are Chester’s Paul Crofts has been a part of Tip Top Productions for many years. He has performed in a number of productions and has also been a key part of the [...]

Review: Tip Top Productions – Musical Magic at Theatr Clwyd

September 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Words: Paul Crofts. Photos: Mark Carline/Paul Crofts With so many theatres and arts venues still closed to due to Covid-19, it was with much anticipation that We Are [...]

Across the Great Divide: a short story by Paul Williams

July 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

In a departure from our usual fact and opinion-based offerings, we’ve branched out with a dip into the glorious waters of fiction writing, courtesy of this short story [...]

Don’t let the curtain fall on Storyhouse

June 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

We Are Chester’s editor Angela Ferguson gives her views on the worrying news from Storyhouse in Chester. Photos: Angela Ferguson The final curtain must not be allowed [...]

A vision of post-lockdown Chester – from artist Dai Owen

April 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Are you having good and bad days when it comes to adjusting to the new normal in this somewhat dystopian world we are now living in? Yep, so are we. You’re not alone. [...]

The show must go on: The arts world’s response to coronavirus

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Words: Paul Crofts and Photos: Paul Crofts and Angela Ferguson As coronavirus continues to have an impact on our every day lives, We Are Chester writer Paul Crofts takes a [...]

On Chester Streets: reportage sketching looking at life in Chester by Dai Owen

February 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Our artist Dai Owen has been out and about in Chester, talking to some of those people who are without a roof over their heads in the city. It’s a sad and harsh reality [...]