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Screen shot of MIMA's leafelt for it's community day

Together round the table

Rachel 15.01.2018 Access, Audience development, Co-creation, Customer relationships, Engagement, Families, Galleries, Museums, Participation 0

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I love this. The (outgoing) Director of Middlesborough Institute of Art – aka MIMA –set up a free community meal in the gallery...

Over-intellectualising

Rachel 14.09.2017 Access, Art, Audience development, Communications, Education, Engagement, Museums, Reviews 0

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I loved the Fundação de Serralves in Porto on a visit this summer. A variety of contrasting exhibitions, beautifully-lit spaces, peaceful with just...

Another great evaluation idea

Rachel 13.12.2016 Communications, Engagement, Evaluation, Research 0

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Back in October at the Bloomsbury Festival, the Building Centre on Store Street had an exhibition about how buildings and cities should be...

Books where they’re wanted

Rachel 13.12.2016 Audience development, Engagement, Literature 0

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How's this for a nifty and humorous way of getting people reading - at a time when libraries are closing or having shorter...

Interpretation in the open

Rachel 12.12.2016 Engagement 0

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Over the summer there has been a lot of advice sought and offered among the members of one sector support group I belong...

#Museums2016

Rachel 09.11.2016 Audience development, Collaboration, Engagement, Museums, Wellbeing 0

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Heading home from Museums Association conference #Museums2016 in wonderful Glasgow. Many interesting provocations about whose voices are/ aren’t heard; the role of museums...

Marketing for youth recruitment

Rachel 23.02.2016 Audience development, Audiences, Co-creation, Collaboration, Customer relationships, Digital, Diversity, Engagement, Evaluation, Galleries, Marketing, Organisational change, Participation, Research, Segmentation, Social media, Training, Young people 0

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Circuit is a four-year national programme connecting 15-25 year olds to the arts in galleries and museums working in partnership with the youth...

Participatory Arts 2

Rachel 26.10.2012 Audience development, Co-creation, Engagement, Participation, Reviews 0

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Following my thoughts on the philosophy and values behind participatory arts (see the blog Participatory Arts 1, here are a few performances I’ve seen recently...

Participatory Arts 1

Rachel 23.10.2012 Engagement, Participation, Politics, Research 0

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The Arts Council England’s research for their Arts Audiences Insights segmentation found that of the large proportion of the population who have ‘some’...

Co-creation

Rachel 26.07.2009 Co-creation, Collaboration, Engagement 0

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By the end of the AMA conference this week none of us were in any doubt that ‘co-creation’ is the way to go. Inviting audience...

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