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Families of the World
Manchester Art Gallery
2022 – Present
The families of the world project began in September 2022. This project is in response to the Afghanistan refugee crisis and continues to look at supporting families through play and other services. We work with many families that are seeking refuge and/ or seeking asylum across Manchester.
Delivering creative play sessions at the Lion’s Den (aka the children’s gallery). Families have enjoyed access to exploring new materials, musical instruments and having a safe space to play. Early years have explored their creativity using various materials and light and dark reflective spaces.
We played with shadows, hung objects from different apparatus, played under the parachute and become hands-on with the kinetic sand.
Art on Climate Change, Rochdaletopolis
Rochdale Science Initiative, BACP Youth Group
2023
Consider how the most affected people are also much less likely to have contributed to the problem of climate injustice in the first place.
The group had focused on an arts and climate junk-modelling workshop and envisioned a climate-friendly Rochdaletopolis. Using cardboard boxes to construct areas to make up the town such as parks and green spaces, schools, public transport and building infrastructure. This helped them to identify some of the key areas that make up a town and how we can help to reshape and re-design a sustainable, eco-friendly town for the residents of Rochdale.
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Creative Families
Manchester Art Gallery
2022 – Present
Each week we have numerous artists delivering different workshops based on various themes.
Previous workshops have included: Celebrating International Women’s Day by creating paper bouquets of flowers and focusing on Climate Change by working on creating animal-inspired shadow puppets.
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Co-Curating the Climate Justice Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery
2022 – Present
Since July 2020, the climate justice group started meeting online. Many of the online discussions led to the decision-making process in selecting the objects that are currently on display. The four main aspects we focused on were: learning from history, activating a different future, scrutiny of policymakers and collective working and care.
Art collections are often displayed to reflect the stories of the powerful. This is unjust. We recognise a more democratic approach is needed to approach history. Joining the dots between climate change, colonialism and capitalism can help us to understand the structural changes we need.
Exhibitions: Climate Justice Gallery
Museums Association Campaign:
Museums for Climate Justice
Manchester Histories Festival Panel Discussion
Climate Change is a Race and Migration Issue
2022
Crossing Footprints Kooj Chuhan chairs this panel and focuses the conversation on climate justice, how this relates to the history of migration and the climate refuges.
South Asian Heritage Month
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Greater Manchester
2022
Over 2022’s South Asian Heritage Month, I focused on delivering workshops key to the Manchester Art Gallery’s collections which depicted this heritage. The young children that had taken part were also from a South Asian background.
We explored the Reimagining Manchester Art Gallery’s exhibition and focused on, “A Cheetah and a Stag with Two Indian Attendants” painted by George Stubbs in 1764.
In the studio we developed our drawings and used the five colours (red, orange, green, black and white = colours of the South Asian flags) to paint and create our interpretation of the painting.
At Northmoor Library, Oldham, families from across this heritage group joined to create visual books highlighting the impacts of the climate emergency in South Asia.
School Carnivals
Community-led Research and Display Project on the Colonial Legacies of the Liverpool Sandbach Family
Steering Group Member, 2022
The group worked with the Walker Art Gallery to confront the colonial history of the Sandbach family. The Sandbach family have a series of marble portraits on display in the sculpture room. They became wealthy through the enslavement, trafficking and forced labour of many tens of thousands of people. They were awarded large claims in compensation after the Abolition of Slavery, 1833.
