Co-curation and decolonisation: mythbusting

We are the regional Museum Development team giving free support to Accredited and Working Towards Accreditation museums.Our vision is to create and sustain a community of vibrant and dynamic museums that celebrate our diverse cultural heritage.

South East Museum Development Team

This training session will provide you with an overview of the principles of co-curation and tackles the topic of decolonisation within a museum context.The session is suitable for members of the workforce from museums who are already exploring the topic of EDI and beginning to consider action planning to embed best practice across their organisation.All paid and unpaid members of the museum workforce in the south east of England are welcome to book a place free of charge.This is an open access session with guest speakers Nicola Bird, Community Engagement officer for Oxford University Museums Partnership and Rawz, artist, youth worker, teacher, discussing co-curation with underserved communities. The session will also include decentralisation and decolonisation mythbusting.Session outline10am Welcome and introductions​​10.20 Why co-curation is relevant to EDI​10.25 Group work: what do you perceive to be the barriers to community collaboration and what do you see as the possible challenges​ and opportunities?​10.45 Plenary​11.00 Break​​11.10 Community co-curation: a case study Nicola Bird and Rawz​11.45 Q&amp;A12pm Break​​12.10 Embedding practice in EDI plans: Peer groups work together and open session museums work with other open session participants to discuss how what they have heard on the session can be embedded in their EDI planning.​12.20 Feedback from 2 participant museums​​12.25 3 top tips and next session12.30 End of session.Please note: this event is being run by South East Museum Development. Therefore places are only available to organisations in the South East region. By signing up to the training you agree to adhere to our terms and conditions, including completing the post session evaluation.By booking a place on to a South East Museum Development training event, you are agreeing to the following :<ul><li>To ensure fair distribution, only one representative from each museum can book a place on this training course. Additional bookings from the same museum will go on to a reserve list. Places on this training course will be confirmed by email.</li><li>That you are either a paid staff, a volunteer or a trustee who works within or with a South East museum or heritage organisation which is in Arts Council England’s Accreditation Scheme (either fully accredited or working towards accreditation). Where this is not applicable (i.e. you are a non-accredited museum), you acknowledge that in the event that training is oversubscribed, priority will be given to museums or heritage organisations in the Arts Council England Accreditation Scheme.</li><li>It is a condition of receiving the training provided without charge that the evaluation form is completed by the specified deadline in the email notification, unless a paper evaluation is specifically provided on the day of the training session for completion before the end of the session.</li></ul>

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