Calling all staff at @ Midland Metropolitan University Hospital! We want to hear your stories 💬 Join us for a workshop next Thursday or pop into our drop-in sessions Thursday & Friday. For more info & to register go to shorturl.at/kllco

These sessions offer a unique opportunity to share your stories, express creativity, and connect with others in our community. No prior experience needed—just bring your voice and imagination.

🗓️ Dates & times: To suit your group’s availability.

@swbhnhs.bsky.social @sandwellcouncil.bsky.social

📣 Calling all Smethwick community groups!
We're inviting you to join our free story recording and creative writing workshops.
No prior experience needed—just bring your voice and imagination.

📧 Get in touch: hello@theoverhear.app

Graphic poster with text: Overhear. Facilitators Wanted. Paid Callout. Lead oral history sessions with patients, staff and local residents. Training and support provided. Help participants to creatively interperet their stories. Collect and record stories around hospitals and healthcare. Logos: Overhear. Your City and Metropolitan Hospitals Charity. NHS Sandwell And West Birmingham. June 2025 to June 2026 Dates TBC.

Are you experienced in running workshops? Interested in creative storytelling? Up for a good natter? We're recruiting! Check out our website for more info: www.theoverhear.app/post/facilit...

This bank holiday why not pin a poem to your nearest Neolithic burial site?

The Overhear team, Adrian, Kibriya and Tom pose outside smiling on a sunny day. The boys are dressed smartly in collared shirts and suit jackets while Kibriya, for some reason, is in dungarees.

Plenty is going on with new features in development and projects being planned, but we’ll call it there. 😌 Follow and share if you or yours might be interested in our work - and once again from the Overhear team @th1nkwr1tefly.bsky.social @kibriyatm.bsky.social & @imtompeel.bsky.social : Hello!

A hand holding a phone showing the Overhear app. A map takes up most of the screen while a big red button at the bottom shows that the app is recording audio.

But wait, there's more! With our new in-app recording feature, any Overhear listener can share their work. We’ve made it easy for anybody to record and pin audio to the map wherever they are - and you have complete control over whether its public, between friends or just for you.

Overhear team member Adrian leads a group of writers through a green space around a hospital. There is a large tree sculpture with colourful leaves in the center of the frame.

We’ve also been having a blast running workshops working with all kinds of people to write and record work inspired by the world around us, from nursery aged kids guiding visitors around a garden to patients on a stroke ward telling us what recovery feels like.

Overhear team members Tom and Adrian laugh while in conversation with two people who have been writing and recording in an oral history workshop.

Right now, we have a lot of pins around the Midlands, but we’ve also gone as far flung as Latvia(!) plus there’s new content being added all the time. We have an amazing network of brilliant writers and organisations who have collaborated with us on loads of innovative projects.

Walking tour guide Ben Waddington points towards something beyond the top left corner of the frame while others look up intently.

Whether it’s poetry inspired by the statues you see every day or a neighbour sharing a meaningful memory from their youth, there’s always something interesting to overhear, and it could help you see your surroundings in a whole new way

a crowd of around 10 people, some walking alongside bikes listen to audio on headphones

Once you get close enough to a pin, the audio will automatically download to your personal library in the app. Press play to enjoy the immersion of listening to something brilliant inspired by the very place you’re standing in - and you can listen again whenever you like!

A hand holding a phone displaying a map with pins dotted over it. The Overhear logo is on a bar at the top of the screen

Overhear is a mobile app where you can discover amazing poetry recordings and oral histories, pinned to locations on the map. See something you’re interested in? Go get it! We want to move people, in every sense of the word.

Creative Audio Maps | Geotagged On-Location Content | Overhear Overhear is the mobile app that puts audio on the map. We digitally pin poetry, short stories and oral histories to real-life locations, inviting users to explore their environments, collect the recor...

Hello Bluesky, do you recognise us? Whether you’re an old friend or seeing us for the first time, we think a reintroduction might be in order. Here’s everything you need to know about Overhear! theoverhear.app

Our last stop is in #Rotterdam. Here is a pin for @boijmans.nl collect using the OVERHEAR app

A pin for @stedelijkmuseum.bsky.social

More pins in #amsterdam

@rijksmuseum.bsky.social testing my ability to distil anything into words.

Stumbled upon Conservatorium van Amsterdam’s 12 hours of Jazz. Bootlegged 1min and pinned it here.

Poetry in Amsterdam. Thinking about the commons in the market.

Tom here, on my travels dropping some pins in #Antwerp at the #MAS. Check out the recording feature in the app. Let us know what you think