In 2010 I set out on a journey along the Grand Trunk Road, the most famous highway in southern Asia. I went because the stretch between Delhi and the Khyber Pass crosses the homelands of over 90% of British Pakistanis and of British Sikhs and Hindus who trace their roots to the Indian Punjab. Travelling…
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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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20th November 2019, 10am-1pm, Stony Island Arts Bank In November 2019, a small group of us based in Bradford in the UK – museum practitioners and researchers – came to Chicago with the aim of exploring the leading-edge community engagement work, participatory and co-creative practice. The Bradford delegation have been working together on a project…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Read MoreBradford’s National Museum Network Meet Up Monday 9th December, 11am-1pm Quaker Meeting House, Russell St, Bradford BD5 0JB Join us at the Quaker Meeting House on Monday 9th December between 11am-1pm for an open ideas exchange between people from across Bradford and National Science and Media Museum staff. Coming out of Above the Noise: 15…
Read MoreIn November a group of us linked to Bradford and Bradford’s National Museum project are spending time in Chicago and Washington DC. The group are Jo Quinton-Tulloch, Sarah Ledjmi and Gin Jacobucci (National Science and Media Museum), , Julia Ankenbrand, Helen Graham and Lynn Wray (University of Leeds), Nabeleeh Hafeez (creative practitioner on the Above…
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As part of the Bradford’s National Museum Project I have been working with the AHRC project team, Bradford Museums and Galleries, the BBC and the National Science and Media Museum to find out more about the people featured in the Belle Vue Studio portraits. Following the buzz that surrounded the photographs when they were shown…
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