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The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury – Oct 2017

November 5, 2017 by michaeleades2014

The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury was a multi-site installation for the Bloomsbury Festival 2017. The folklorist, artist and maker Elizabeth Dearnley and I installed twelve bird-boxes across Bloomsbury, each containing a ‘Secret Diary’. Diaries were themed to their locations – from the ‘Diary of Dreams’ in Treadwell’s Books, to the ‘Diary of Found Things’ in the Foundling Museum – and prompted people to share secrets, stories and memories of the area. Some of the diaries are still in place, filling […]

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Ministry of Hope and Fear – Nov 2016

December 11, 2016 by michaeleades2014

As part of the third national Being Human festival of the humanities, in November 2016 I curated, with Dr Naomi Paxton, a programme of over 20 public engagement events, exhibitions and activities at the festival’s London hub in Senate House. The programme drew together researchers, artists and others from across the University of London colleges and academic bodies to create a ‘Ministry of Hope and Fear’. The programme played on the Being Human 2016 ‘hope and fear’ theme and also […]

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Public Engagement as Method – July 2016

July 10, 2016 by michaeleades2014

Pic – Blue plaque badges distributed by Dr Debbie Maxwell at ‘Public Engagement as Method in the Arts & Humanities. Public Engagement as Method in the Arts and Humanities – University of Sheffield, 5 July 2016 Last week I took part in a one-day symposium at the University of Sheffield on Public Engagement as Method in the Arts and Humanities. The day offered a welcome opportunity for both academics and practitioners involved in public engagement to reflect on how engaging […]

Categories: Being Human, Blog, Public Engagement, research, Uncategorized

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Festival in a Box dementia friendly showcase – June 2016

June 16, 2016 by michaeleades2014

On 15 June, I organised a Dementia friendly showcase for the ‘Bloomsbury Festival in a Box’ project at Age UK Camden’s Tavis House. Every year, the ‘Festival in a Box’ takes the Bloomsbury Festival into the homes of people living alone and with dementia in Bloomsbury and Camden – bringing a ‘cultural meals on wheels’ to some of Bloomsbury’s longest established residents. In 2016, the project has been running primarily as the Bloomsbury Festival’s embedded community outreach programme, although I […]

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Festival in a Box: a pop-up exhibition of stories – Oct 2015

December 23, 2015 by michaeleades2014

Back in late October (Friday 16), Dr Catriona Mcara and I curated a one day pop-up exhibition at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh as part of the Luminate Festival of Creative Ageing. The event, ‘Festival in a Box: a pop-up exhibition of stories’ followed directly from our 2014 event Boxes of Delight: surrealism at 90. Drawing on Dr Mcara’s curatorial and exhibition making practice at the Leeds College of Art as well as […]

Categories: Arts and Health, Blog, Events, Exhibitions, Uncategorized • Tags: ageing, curating, dementia, festival in a box, Festivals, surrealism

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Festival in a Box: sharing knowledge on dementia and the arts – May 2014

May 8, 2014 by michaeleades2014

In the dissemination stages of the Bloomsbury Festival in a Box project, in May 2014 I organised a knowledge share day that brought together leading practitioners in the arts and health and dementia, alongside researchers and artists associated with the Festival in a Box project and representatives from Age UK Camden. The main aim of the day was to provide an environment in which the lessons learned from the project could be contextualised in relation to both established and emerging interventions in this field. The […]

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Shadows of Nottingham Life – Feb 2013

February 3, 2013 by michaeleades2014

For around eight months in 2012-13 I did some voluntary work with the tiny and eccentric Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard, Nottingham. This museum had been a classic victim of the cutbacks that were at that time being viciously enacted on all public services but particularly stringently on public museums and cultural services. The Museum of Nottingham Life had been set up in the 1970s in the heyday of a certain kind of municipal heritage work inspired by […]

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