One to One Development Trust

Being in Pittsburgh at the Sona Immersive Storytelling Festival with 'Revealed: The Pit Camp' VR experience, 'Triptych' a large-scale projection installation and 'Rollerbird' a video game - all paying homage to the 1984/85 Miners Strike - is really amazing.

We are connecting with American and International audiences who are interested in the stories from the Yorkshire Coalfields about the Strike and its legacy up to date. The support and solidarity is amazing. Pittsburgh built on the steel and coal industries shares a lot of history.

We have met people whose family members were miners, from the US and Russia & Poland. It is humbling to see how the films from our archive including extracts of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign film and With Banners Held High are inspiring and evoking such fantastic responses and encouraging discussions on solidarity, the importance of trade unions, and the legacy of telling stories of communities undergoing social change.

Chloe the canary – the symbol of our project and star of the video game is also a great hit 😊

We are thrilled to share that 'Revealed: Triptych' has been officially selected for SONA Immersive Storytelling Festival in Pittsburgh this April 2026.
Through an international, competitive selection, SONA brings together leading voices in XR, immersive art and digital storytelling and we’re proud to be sharing a project rooted in the legacy of the 1984/85 UK Miners’ Strike at this exciting festival. Our first international and US screening of this project.

Taking 'Revealed: Triptych' to Pittsburgh carries particular resonance. A city shaped by its own industrial and labour history, it provides a powerful context for a story grounded in Britain’s coalfield communities exploring memory, solidarity and working-class resilience through immersive form.

'Revealed: Triptych' unfolds across three experiences:
* Revealed – The Pit Camp (Virtual Reality / 360 film)
* A triptych cinematic screen projection
* Rollerbird (mobile game with Augmented Reality)

We look forward to connecting with fellow artists, technologists and audiences in Pittsburgh and of course Festival Director Stephan Caspar

Today at WX Wakefield we worked with 11 young people looking at 'content creation' including careers in the sector, user interface design, the importance of branding and in particular focusing on a real life challenge to improve the Wakefield summer s'cool website.

We knew our young creative's would be full of good ideas, but we were very, very impressed at the depth of ideas they had, the level of critical thinking they brought to the task and how they worked as a team.

Once they had formulated their ideas, agreed on a way forward as a team and made sure the ideas were achievable, they had to pitch their proposals to representatives from Creative Wakefield who were also very impressed at the level of detail the group got to in a few hours.

Studio dog Suzi was on hand if anyone wanted a quiet moment out.

A diverse studio day today at The Art House Wakefield doing an audio dub for a current virtual reality English/Welsh language project launching next week - overseen by Suzi!

And an interview with Sophie Mei Lan Malin and the lovely Athena for the Yorkshire Post about our latest mining heritage film & XR projects - 'The Big K - The Pit that shaped a community' currently in production and 'Revealed - Triptych' which we will be announcing exciting screening news on soon...

And a couple of very good meetings to top off a very productive day.