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Friday 11th August 2023
Making the ‘We Are Harborough’ interactive walkthrough
Article by Moosa – Undergraduate student at the University of Leicester As a final year Creative Computing student, I had the privilege of developing a website for Culture Leicestershire’s ‘We...
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Tuesday 25th July 2023
Reflections from the Visioning a Creative and Cultural County (VCCC) Summer Project
What a hugely exciting and inspiring Visioning a Creative and Cultural County (VCCC) Summer Project Day we had on Tuesday 11th July 2023 at the University of Leicester! We were...
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Wednesday 19th July 2023
The Special Significance of ‘A Tale of Two Reinterments’ exhibition at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre – reflections from guests at the launch
A Celebration of Unity and Heritage The exhibition at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre stands as a momentous occasion that celebrates unity, cultural integration, and the homogenisation of different communities, particularly...
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Thursday 22nd June 2023
Expressing Emotions Through Art – by Kate Lugar
Building a new life experience in a new country is quite challenging for anyone. But community and new connections can help to find strength, settle in faster and in a...
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Tuesday 2nd May 2023
My Time as a Work Experience Student at Melton Mowbray Carnegie Museum – by Elizabeth Barry
As a work experience student, I have had a very informative month at Melton Carnegie Museum. I’m currently at Exeter University, studying Philosophy and Modern Languages, but I have lived...
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Thursday 23rd March 2023
Rebuilding Lives Exhibition – 50 Years on and an Opportunity for a Family to Truly Reflect
I am born in the UK. England is my home. Although for many years I struggled to understand where I actually belonged. I grew up in Leicester to parents of...
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Friday 22nd April 2022
Volunteering for My Books My Story
Written by Kaori Kameda Do you have any favourite books? Are there any stories you cannot forget for a long time? The exhibition ‘My Books, My Story’ is a pop-up...
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Monday 21st February 2022
Flash Fiction Short Story Competition winners!
1st Place: The Writing on the Library Wall by Chantelle Taylor It’s a fresh kinda morning, the air smells damp like rain, there’s a slight breeze but nothing too cold....
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Thursday 6th January 2022
What co-curation looks like with Anand Mangal
‘What did you put in your suitcase when you left Uganda?’ A question asked by a pupil during the first Anand Mangal culture sharing workshop.
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Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Creating Volunteering Opportunities in a Covid World
I am a Volunteering Co-ordinator for the Participation team, and my role is to create cultural volunteering opportunities in order to promote community engagement. The traditional model for volunteering has...
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Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Creating cultural communities – an exploration through music and art
“Picture a grey wet November morning. The location is a small room in an arts centre with 6 sanitised yoga mats, 3 musicians and some parents with their babies and...
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Thursday 13th August 2020
Collecting the Crisis – how can museums record how our lives changed in 2020?
As Senior Curator of the Leicestershire Museum Collections, my immediate response to the COVID-19 crisis (after making sure our staff and collections were safe, obviously) was how could we record...
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