Join a workshop to explore how museums can connect with communities in a creative response to Climate Emergency.

About this Event: No Going Back
Society has changed dramatically. Lockdown and Black Lives Matter protests have blown open any sense of ‘normal’. Now, as museums, galleries and heritage organisations struggle with planning for reopening, the Happy Museum Project invites you to think about how you and your organisation might play its part in making lasting changes. As you emerge from lockdown, what will you do, and what will you stand for, to contribute positively to society and the environment?

Session 4 – Creative Civic Connections for Climate
How might museums connect with their communities to respond to the climate emergency with immediacy, reciprocity, creativity and fun – using shared and pop up spaces as places for encounter and connection. What might be gained by connecting the power of top down civic delivery with the energy of grassroots experimentation?

We will hear inspirational ideas from Think and Do, Camden (a pop-up and online community space to give people in Camden the chance to come together to develop ideas and projects tackling the climate and ecological crisis) Manchester Museum and Climate Museum UK.

The session will comprise brief provocations followed by a facilitated discussion to explore in the context of your own museum practice.

Presenters

• Think and Do, Camden – Sue Sheehan (Camden Council) and Debbie Bourne (Transition Kentish Town)
• Anna Bunney (Manchester Museum, Learning and Engagement team)
• Bridget McKenzie – a researcher and creative curator in culture, learning and environment. She has been director of Flow Associates since 2006, after 14 years in roles such as Education Officer for Tate and Head of Learning at the British Library. She is an advisor for Culture Unstained and co-founder of Culture Declares Emergency. She presents and publishes internationally on possibilities of Regenerative Culture. She is founding director of Climate Museum UK, a new CIC which stirs and collects the emerging response to the Earth crisis.

Happy Museum is producing one of Season for Change’s commissions.