Summer Family Events: Untold Stories – Visualising History
Learn about 36 Craven Street’s lesser-known 18th Century young resident and help us tell their story.
FREE August Events in the heart of London at Benjamin Franklin House, 36 Craven Street. BOOK TICKETS BELOW;
Thursday 8 August 2024 at 1-3pm
Friday 9 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
Friday 23 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
Friday 30 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
Saturday 31 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
These creative and collective storytelling workshops are designed primarily for ages 10-16. However, all are welcome to take part.
Group size: Up to 15 participants per workshop
Themes: Transatlantic slave trade, migration, freedom, child narratives
Meet our illustrator in residence, Kremena Dimitrova, and learn about her research related to the museum. Kremena is a London based illustrator-as-historian who specialises in public history through visual storytelling – children’s illustration, comics, murals, public art installations, maps/trails. Co-creating with children and young people, Kremena interweaves text and images, creative writing, characters, and humour to bring hidden and forgotten archives/narratives to life. www.kremenadimitrova.com
Explore how illustration can be used to visualise history by practicing your existing creative skills and by learning new artistic techniques.
Help us co-create a research comic and co-curate an exhibition at Benjamin Franklin House on 2-18 December 2024.
“Creative and collaborative work helps to uncover and communicate marginalised and diverse stories. But, it is essential to acknowledge how much we do not – and will never – know about children’s lives in the past. This offers valuable scope to engage visitors in the practice and ethics of research and story-telling.” (Lamb & Pooley, 2023, p. 2). Traversing histories and geographies across time and space, these workshops draw on R.G. Collingwood’s (1946/1994, p. 245) theory and approach to re-constructing knowledge about the past that relies on the historical imagination, or in Collingwood’s own words “… the historian’s picture of the past is… in every detail an imaginary picture…”.
We look forward to meeting you!
FREE August Events in the heart of London at Benjamin Franklin House, 36 Craven Street. BOOK TICKETS BELOW;
Thursday 8 August 2024 at 1-3pm
Friday 9 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
Friday 23 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
