In this brilliant report we’re given a real feeling of what it must be like being homeless in the cold and rain, trudging to a cold church to sleep on a hard bed. Before you listen to this you might want to go to their previous report ‘ A new home in an old space’ as this film was part of a multimedia series designed to show the way in which our stories echo and overlap in our journey to move out of homelessness.

 

Audio Transcription.

I’m trying to recreate what it was like when I was at the night shelter. I’m going to now be living very close [to here] in a relatively nice home. However I used to be homeless. I used to  be homeless and sleep at night in night shelters, every night a different church, a different place and one of them by accident is very close to where I live now.

I’ve written an article about it and made some pictures of the nice flowers and the place on a beautiful warm sunny day. However, now I’m trying to recreate what is was like back then. It was winter. It was always snowing and raining, and it was dark. Although I can never recreate the anxiety and stress of not knowing, not being sure about actually getting in to the night shelter and what it will be like.

Now I’m trying to retrace my steps. Oh brilliant, even the gate to the churchyard is open. It’s a bit scary. I’m in the graveyard now. We used to go through the graveyard to the building in those days. So now I’m going through the pass, where I can walk around. Here is the night shelter but it is very dark though. Now I’m in front of the building oh it is really bad. Now I’m approaching the door where we used to ….