Steve Dearden, Writer, Facilitator and Founder and Director of ‘The Writing Squad‘, reflects on how Covid is or isn’t impacting on how cultural insititutions and museums think about the buildings they inhabit. He asks what prioritising ‘building’ as a verb, as doing, rather than as the thing, made of bricks and mortar, where they do…
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Next up in our series of interviews, Lynn Wray talks with Nabeelah Hafeez (Project Manager of the Bradford Stories Festival, at the National Literacy Trust and Bradford-based artist and poet) about her personal experience of, and professional reflections on, visiting Chicago and Washington DC back in pre-Covid times. In November a group of us connected…
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Next up in our series of interviews reflecting on our personal experiences of Chicago and Washington DC, our own researcher and co-facilitator, Julia Ankenbrand, talks resonance, race, rhetoric and relectivity. In November a group of us connected to the Bradford’s National Museum Project went to Chicago with the aim of exploring the cutting-edge participatory, co-creative…
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Next in our series of interviews about our research trip to Chicago and Washington DC, Guenievre Jacobucci (Volunteer Coordinator, National Science and Media Museum) reflects on how the ideas around activism, social justice and racial politics she encountered related to her practice as a volunteer coordinator in a national museum and challenged her thinking. In…
Read MoreThe shocking recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has thrown the spotlight yet again on the simmering racial fractures within American society. Derrick Johnson, the 19th President of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) succinctly summarised this week in The Guardian : “In America, Black deaths are not a flaw in…
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Next in our series of interviews, Sarah Ledjmi (Associate Curator of Sound and Vision, National Science and Media Museum) reflects on how the broadening and deepening of her understanding of racial politics during our recent research trip to Chicago and Washington DC has impacted on her personally and professionally. In November a group of us connected…
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Next in our series of interviews about the Bradford’s National Museum Project’s research trip to Chicago and Washington DC is, our very own, Helen Graham. Helen co-organised the research trip, working with Elory Rozner (Uncommon Classrooms) to facilitate the Community Co-creation Workshop in Chicago and collaborating with the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access…
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In November a group of us connected to the Bradford’s National Museum Project went to Chicago with the aim of exploring the cutting-edge participatory, co-creative and community engagement work going on in the City. Some of us also travelled on to Washington DC to exchange ideas with the Smithsonian Institution about the specific issues facing…
Read More***With regret, we have taken the decision to cancel this event due to the Coronavirus. We’ll post any furture events here. Join our mailing list to stay in touch**** Join us at the National Science and Media Museum on 16th March between 5-7pm for an open ideas exchange between people from across Bradford and…
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I’ve lived in Bradford for over 55 years and I’m proud of it. I met someone from Montreal, Canada a few years back and he said he’d never met anyone with such civic pride. The source of that pride is the people I’ve met across communities and the lifelong friendships we’ve established. The shared celebration…
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