posted by Laura Beattie, Community Outreach Officer, University of Edinburgh Museums
From June 15th to July 24th, University Museums in Scotland (UMIS) are running an online Arts Award Explore project called ‘Capturing Lives in Scotland’s Communities’ and are looking for young people, aged 11 to 18, from across Scotland to participate.
What does life look like for young people in different communities across Scotland? How do we capture different aspects of life happening in our communities? No doubt you’ll have heard that we’re ‘living through history’ at the moment. How do we create an archive for the future of what our lives are like right now?
We’ll be exploring all these questions and more during the six weeks of the project, which brings together collections material and expertise from five different University Museums in Scotland:
- University of Aberdeen
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and the University of Dundee
- University of Edinburgh
- The Glasgow School of Art
- University of Stirling.
Each week will explore a different theme and medium of art including photography, oral histories, landscape painting and public art. All instruction videos and resources will be posted online so participants can work through them at their own pace but we’ll also put them into groups of 6 or 7 people for weekly online discussion groups.
Every participant on the project will be assigned a current student from one of the universities as a mentor who will join the weekly discussion group sessions and help participants to complete the activities. All participants who complete the required number of activities will be eligible to receive an Arts Award Explore qualification, a registered qualification on the Registered Qualification Framework, moderated by Trinity College London. The deadline for signing up to participate in the project is Monday 8th June. We want everyone to be able to participate so let us know if having access to a mobile device or internet would be a problem. Find out more information and sign up here: https://edin.ac/2WHIUKA or email museums@ed.ac.uk.
