About this Event
Learn about 36 Craven Street’s lesser-known 18th C young resident and help us tell their story.
This creative and collective storytelling workshop is designed primarily for ages 10-16. However, all are welcome to take part.
Group size: Up to 15 participants
Themes: Transatlantic slave trade, migration, freedom, child narratives
Activities: Storytelling and tracing, character development, maps-as-poetry, watercolour techniques.
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, this workshop draws 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…”.
Related Visualising History workshops you can join:
Saturday 31 August 2024 at 10am-12pm
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Benjamin Franklin House, 36 Craven St, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00