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Culture Shock: An Exhibition of Digital Stories by People in the North East
13 February - 16 April 2010
If you had one story to tell what would it be?Culture Shock is currently the world’s largest storytelling project and this new exhibition celebrates the exciting array of stories which have been created so far.
Culture Shock: An Exhibition of Digital Stories by People in the North East brings together the diverse range of personal stories including everything from memories of local shipyards to falling asleep in an open grave!
These interesting stories, made up of pictures, sound or animation, are available to view on a large scale projection, in a cinema-style area and even by choosing the ones you want to view online.
As well as the collection of local stories the exhibition also features the museum objects that have inspired them, stills and photos used in the storytelling and objects to inspire future stories to add to Culture Shock.
The Exhibition is to be held at The Great North Museum: Hancock. Opening hours are Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 2pm to 5pm. Entry is free.
Culture Shock Talks: 'Where Has It All Gone? Tales from the North East's Industrial Past'- Jim Duncan and Ray Thompson
05 March 2010
Join Jim Duncan and Ray Thompson as they look back on the rise and fall of two of the region’s former iconic industries. This talk will focus on the Consett Steel Works and William Doxford and Sons Ltd, blending historial detail with personal memories and anecdotes of life in the industries.Jim Duncan worked for 22 years at William Doxford & Sons Ltd, a shipbuilding company and manufacturer of marine diesel engines based in Sunderland, starting as an apprentice and finishing as a supervisor. Ray Thompson worked at Consett Steel Works Ltd for 36 years as a maintenance electrician and works convenor of the electricians' union.
This 90 minute talk is FREE. It will be held in the Culture Shock exhibition space at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne, starting at 12.15pm.
Booking is essential and places are limited. Please email cultureshock@twmuseums.org.uk or telephone 0191 2772297 to book your free place (please reference the title of the talk).
Culture Shock Talks: 'Strategies of Power: Narrative Storytelling & Migrant Histories'- Tina Gharavi
12 March 2010
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Tina Gharavi, filmmaker and lecturer at Newcastle University, will screen a recent documentary, The King of South Shields, about the marriage of Muhammad Ali in South Shields in 1979 and discuss her engagement work with various communities (including the South Shields Yemeni-British who received Ali when he visited).She will explore issues around collecting digital stories, marginalised and endangered narratives. She will also discuss her most recent project, Ali in Wonderland, a feature film about teenage asylum seekers in the North East: a coming of age story with a difference.
This 90 minute talk is FREE. It will be held in the Culture Shock exhibition space at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne, starting at 12.15pm.
Booking is essential and places are limited. Please email cultureshock@twmuseums.org.uk or telephone 0191 2772297 to book your free place (please reference the title of the talk).
Culture Shock Talks: 'Wildlife on our Doorstep: Past, Present and Future'- Naomi Hewitt and Sylvia Jones
19 March 2010
How has wildlife changed in the North East? How was the Red Kite brought back from brink to become one of the most famous species in the North East? How can you get involved?
Join Sylvia Jones of the Friends of Red Kites group and Naomi Hewitt of the EYE Project and ERIC North East to find out more about the changing face of the region’s wildlife over the past 100 years and beyond.
This 90 minute talk is FREE. It will be held in the Culture Shock exhibition space at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne, starting at 12.15pm.Booking is essential and places are limited. Please email cultureshock@twmuseums.org.uk or telephone 0191 2772297 to book your free place (please reference the title of the talk).
Culture Shock one day workshop- Rule Breakers!
22 March 2010
Come and make your own 2 minute digital story and become part of a permanent museum archive!Culture Shock is a 2 year partnership project led by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. We will be working with 1000 people across the North East to create their own digital stories. The 1000 stories will be added to museum collections to help make our collections more relevant to the North East community and future generations.
With the support of the Culture Shock team, participants will create a personal story based on the Northern Lights Film Festival theme of 'Rule Breakers'. This could be a story about rebellion, censorship or unconventional behaviours! The finished stories will be archived, put on our website, and screened at Newcastle City Library on Wednesday 24th March and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art on Saturday 27th March.
The day long workshop (10am-4pm) will take place at The Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne. Places are limited. For more information or to book a place, please contact the Culture Shock Project Coordinator on 0191 2772297 or email cultureshock@twmuseums.org.uk.
Culture Shock Talks: 'Women in the Miners Strike 1984/85' - Heather Wood
26 March 2010
What was the role of women during the 1984-85 miners’ strikes in the region? What did they achieve? This talks looks at how the women’s groups started, and discusses the impact of their activities.Heather Wood founded the women’s support groups in East Durham during the 1984-85 miners’ strike and was chair of the Save Easington Area Mines and Save Easington Area Mines Relief Fund.
This 90 minute talk is FREE. It will be held in the Culture Shock exhibition space at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne, starting at 12.15pm.
Booking is essential and places are limited. Please email cultureshock@twmuseums.org.uk or telephone 0191 2772297 to book your free place (please reference the title of the talk).
Culture Shock Talks: 'When Was The North East?'- Professor John Tomaney
01 April 2010
Currently The Journal newspaper is running a campaign suggesting the North East's identity is under threat from government policy. But what is North East identity? If it exists, should it be concerned whether it is under threat? This talk examines the nature of the region's identity and its transformations.John Tomaney is Professor of Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University; Professor of Regional Studies at Monash University, Melbourne; Associate Director of the UK Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC) and is an Academician of the Academy of Social Science (UK).
This 90 minute talk is FREE. It will be held in the Culture Shock exhibition space at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne, starting at 12.15pm.
Booking is essential and places are limited. Please email cultureshock@twmuseums.org.uk or telephone 0191 2772297 to book your free place (please reference the title of the talk).
Culture Shock Talks: 'From Lunatic Asylum to Care in the Community' Logan Ewing and David Bowler
09 April 2010
This talk provides an overview of Mental Health Care in Newcastle upon Tyne, encompassing the opening of the asylum and its evolution into a psychiatric hospital, culminating in the current provision of Care in the Community.Logan Ewing undertook his nurse training in 1977 and as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, worked as both a Staff Nurse and Ward Manager at St Nicholas' Hospital before retiring from the NHS in 2009.
David commenced Registered Mental Nurse training at St Nicholas Hospital in 1977 and worked briefly as staff nurse in hospital care before moving into community nursing in Newcastle. After a period in NHS management was ordained in the Church of England and is soon to take up the post of chaplain for learning disabilities and mental health in Northumberland.