Learning Programmes with Portraits

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Local History

A local history collection has all kinds of opportunities to engage with your local area. Local historians, writers and societies are crucial for expertise and connections here. Your museum, gallery or site is probably already host to one.

Local portraits and schools of art are likely to have locally born and bred artists and this can be another area of research leading to a learning programme.

Family history is another good theme for a learning programme and for more information on portraiture and family history click here.

Localised cultural participation is a driver for participation and attendance amongst key BME and lower socio-economic audiences.

A good example:

Butetown Community Quilt

Bute Town History and Arts Centre (BHAC) involves local people in collaboration with professional researchers, artists and media workers. People's histories, together with cultural democracy, are the backbone of BHAC.

BHAC provide a focus for people in the local community who want to research local/family history. Community courses held at the Centre include creative writing, embroidery and oral history sessions. As part of these BHAC ran a project in which local people made a community quilt in which local people and places were portrayed.

http://www.bhac.org/quilt.html

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