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The ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Public Engagement Unit was established in 2008. In our first ten years, we have supported thousands of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº staff and students to connect with communities, and welcomed tens of thousands of people through our programmes and events.Explore the history and key milestones of the Public Engagement Unit below and download a PDF timeline here.2008[[{"fid":"9039","view_mode":"xl","fields":{"height":"2071","width":"4125","class":"media-element file-xl","format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Colour illustration of white circles on a green background. 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Papyrus for the People An overview of the project. [[{"fid":"9155","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"IMage of Egyptian papyrus in a glass mounted case.","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"IMage of Egyptian papyrus in a glass mounted case.","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"799","width":"1200","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]The project aimed to improve understanding of, access to, and care of the museum’s  collection of ancient written texts on papyrus and pottery/stone fragments (ostraca). By improving the understanding of this valuable material, promoting its relevance, and celebrating its significance the project demonstrates the long-term future sustainability of such specialist museum collections as The Petrie collections.  Translating ….[[{"fid":"9175","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Image of papyrus translator talking about work ","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Image of papyrus translator talking about work ","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"1507","width":"1328","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]A key aim of this project was to make translations of these ancient texts more accessible to and more understandable for a wider audience including public audiences. Working with a group of specialists in ancient texts (Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Coptic & Arabic) an initial scope of the character of the written material in the collection was identified, summarised and technical accounts published to improve database records with non-specialist users in mind. Translators collaborated with the project team to identify examples that have the potential for exhibition and open access publication. Creating clearer paths into searching online are in progress to allow for stimulating research into gender inequality, and sexuality allowing a broader range of use from across the disciplines at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and external including art and drama and external source communities. Accompanying higher quality photography of newly conserved papyri has also been a priority to be made fully accessible on the online database to accompany more user-friendly descriptions, further facilitating the opportunities for future research from those unable to visit the museum.  Conserving…….[[{"fid":"9159","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Image of papyrus conservator at work restroing a piece of papyrus","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Image of papyrus conservator at work restroing a piece of papyrus","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"332","width":"500","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]Specialist conservation work was carried out to re-tape the glass to protect those accessing the papyri from the glass jagged edges. The pottery stone fragments of ostraca have now been packaged into plastazote a soft casing material minimising damage to the objects as drawers are opened and closed. For papyri not on display new visible storage units are now in place which provide a safe conservation environment making access to them much easier for staff and researchers alike.  Curating and exhibiting ….New cases for the display of the papyri are also in place offering news ways of linking the papyri texts with objects in the collection demonstrating the importance of the value of ancient texts in evidencing objects and their use. The current exhibition looks at the role of women in Ancient Egypt and links pottery examples to references in papyri. [[{"fid":"9163","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"IMage of new cases at The Petrie Musuem showing Egyptian papyri and pottery. 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There have been open evenings and days for general public offering a chance to find out about what papyri and ostraca are, what materials are they are made from and what do they tell us. These behind the scenes events offered a glimpse of working practices in a museum and a chance to ask questions to the project team directly.Family activities run during the summer holidays in 2017 focused on offering a chance to make your own shadow puppet and a chance to be creative and imaginative and explore the nature of storytelling in ancient Egypt.Readings of actual papyrus tales in a performance format ran during the 2017 October half term for both families in the afternoon and for adults in the evening. The format brought the stories to life and gave insight into the role of these texts in ancient Egyptian culture. Halloween in October 2017 provided a chance to look at examples of film, television and literature that went influenced by papyrus narrative tales and references to cursing, spells and incantations. During November and December 2017 ‘Curses!’ ran in collaboration with Bompas & Parr, alumni of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, who took the idea of cursing and threat found in papyri to produce an innovative and immersive audio tour ending in a cursed experience. This proved very popular and bought a completely new audience to the Petrie. The launch night offered talks and workshops inspired by the context of papyri from making your own curse doll       and delivering a threat! These sessions proved very popular and generated more knowledge and understanding on the difference between cursing and threats in an ancient context. A series of Lost Skills workshops (Nov- Dec 2017) focused on the nature of some of the papyri that offered insights into shopping lists, wills and letters that have similarities with contemporary life. Working with ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº academics from legal, psychology and letter archivists, we ran a series of lunchtime sessions on the art of letter writing and the psychology of list making. Our ‘Women in Egypt’ event (March 2018) tied in with the Suffrage centenary and the Vote 100 celebrations, gave an insight into the role of women in ancient Egypt outside the home as referenced in the papyri. Two performances inspired by the papyrus unveiled a new piece from performance artist Laura Wilson’s residency at the Petrie 2017/18. The project gave Laura a chance to work with conservators, translators to explore and produce a piece based on one specific text relating to stone quarries and workers. Entitled ‘The Stone Draggers, 2018’, the work explores the nature of the papyri, many of which describe labour, crafts people and every day human interaction. University of East London MA drama students have worked with the project team to produce 'Revival: performing papyrus'; a series of devised pieces created by the MA students as a response to The Petrie Museum's new papyrus exhibition. These pieces re-interpret and re-stage narratives found within the collection of papyri, as well as interpreting issues connected to the exhibition such as Margaret Murray's research on British witchcraft, and ancient Egyptian forms of ritual. 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Performance-led inquiry into legacies of gender equality in higher educationThis study day explored gender equality at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº since the 1860s, featuring a re-enactment performance of prospective students’ admissions experience before 1919. Set against the turbulent backdrop of women’s fight for equality in Britain, we invited reflection on the hidden ‘passing-in’ rules still in place for women and minority groups in higher education.This event was co-conceived and produced by Dr Georgina Brewis, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Education and Dr Nina Pearlman, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Culture. It was a collaboration between a number of academic modules and was supported by Institute of Advanced Studies, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Culture ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Press, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Education and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections.This is part of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Art Museum's family of projects Curating Equality and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Grand Challenge Justice and Equality and coincided with the 2018 publication of the revised edition of The World of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and the Disrupters and Innovators exhibition at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Octagon Gallery.  This event took place on the 21 November 2018, 'Passing In: An audience with the Lady Superintendent for Women Students' was performed again by inviation at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Festival of Culture in June 2018. Please find the programme here.The project is incoporated into a module led by Georgina Brewis at the Institute of Education 'The Worlds of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº: Critical Histories of Education, Nation and Empire. MediaCentral Widget Placeholderhttps://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/g6b1JDDb [[{"fid":"9415","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"height":"1141","width":"1141","class":"media-element file-medium","format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Black and white photo of two women ","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"right","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"height":"1141","width":"1141","class":"media-element file-medium","format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Black and white photo of two women ","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"right","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"1141","width":"1141","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]Performance: Passing In: An audience with the Lady Superintendent of Women StudiesDr Kate Vigurs, a professional historical interpreter, took on the role of Miss Rosa Morison, Lady Superintendent of Women students (1883-1912) and, in full costume, led participants on a walking performance of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. This re-enactment immersed participants in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº as it was between 1883 and 1919. All intending female students had to present a reference, in person, acceptable to the Lady Superintendent of Women Students. In 1883, birth control activist Annie Besant famously failed this test and was refused admittance. Intersections of gender with class, race and religion will be explored. During the event, participants had the opportunity to present themselves to Miss Morison, using stories taken from historic student records or by creating their own.Discussion panel: Passing in today? An evening panel followed the afternoon of talks and performances and used the historical notion of ‘passing in’ as a means to discuss what might still be hidden passing-in rules in higher education, in terms of gender but also religion, race, LGBTQ+ identity and other intersections of identity, questioning the role played by networks and other diversity initiatives. Miss Morison (Kate Vigurs) opened the evening . The following speakers took part in the event:Abeni Adeyemi, Women’s Officer, Students’ Union ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº  and undergraduate ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Neuroscience and JapaneseManya Eversley, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Political Science undergraduate involving in making ‘JewCL’ podcast on Jewish student identityProfessor Uta Frith, cognitive neuroscientist; co-founder of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Women network; and one of the ‘Female Firsts’ selected to mark #¹û¶³Ó°ÔºVote100Anne Moore, Co-Chair of the largest staff network at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, LGBTQ+ Equality Advisory Group; Business Development Manager, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Centre for Languages & International EducationXueyan (Juno) Sun, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº History PhD student working on representations of China and Chinese people in HollywoodProfesssor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Pro-Vice Provost - Africa and The Middle East; Chair in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience; Provost’s Envoy on Race and Equality.The information provided reflects the students' studies and academics' roles at the time of the event in 2018.Teaching: The Worlds of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº: Critical Histories of Education, NationThis project is incorporated into the module 'The Worlds of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº: Critical Histories of Education National and Empire' led by Georgina Brewis at the Institute of Education. This course approaches the study of the history of education through the lens ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, founded in 1826 and the Institute of Education, founded in 1902. It provides context to the historical evolution of the educational system in the UK and critically examines the close, but often hidden, connections between British education and empire, asking what impact these imperial legacies have today. It aims to provide a general introduction to the history of education, while preparing students to take more specialist history modules in year two and three. The course is structured in a broadly chronological fashion but each week also explores a different method or approach to studying, researching and making history.  Students will be introduced to a range of transferable practical skills that are linked to assessment. It draws on ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's rich libraries, archives and museum collections and works in collaboration with colleagues in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Culture and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Read more here.[[{"fid":"9543","view_mode":"large","fields":{"height":"877","width":"3015","class":"media-element file-medium","format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Detail from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº College Calender detailing regulation for admitting female students","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Detail from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº College Calendar detailing regulation for admitting female students","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"%3Cp%3EDetail%20from%20¹û¶³Ó°Ôº%20College%20Calendar%20detailing%20regulation%20for%20admitting%20female%20students%3C%2Fp%3E","field_caption[und][0][format]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"height":"877","width":"3015","class":"media-element file-medium","format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Detail from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº College Calender detailing regulation for admitting female students","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Detail from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº College Calendar detailing regulation for admitting female students","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"%3Cp%3EDetail%20from%20¹û¶³Ó°Ôº%20College%20Calendar%20detailing%20regulation%20for%20admitting%20female%20students%3C%2Fp%3E","field_caption[und][0][format]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"877","width":"3015","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]   

[[{"fid":"15609","view_mode":"xl","fields":{"height":"800","width":"1200","class":"media-element file-large","format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"A group of smiling people run across an area of grass holding yellow balloons","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"You Move Me project participants","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"height":"800","width":"1200","class":"media-element file-large","format":"xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"A group of smiling people run across an area of grass holding yellow balloons","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"You Move Me project participants","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"800","width":"1200","class":"media-element file-xl"}}]]Part of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Culture’s Performance Lab, Performing Place brings together live performance artists, Camden communities and researchers in the co-creation of live performance. The initiative began in October 2019 with the commissioning by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Culture of four Performing Place projects:•    Rhythms of Fractals & Collective Movement•    The Dancing Brain•    You Move Me•    Sound Voice: Voice Loss and IdentityPerforming Place aimed to build relationships between ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº researchers, the people of Camden and external researchers; create opportunities for knowledge exchange between artists, academics and the people of Camden; and build the skills and experience of artists, researchers, and relevant stakeholder communities by working together.  FundingFunding came from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Impact Acceleration Account 2017-2022, which aims to support activities focused on collaboration and knowledge exchange between relevant external partners and the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº research community who have or have previously had EPSRC funding. All projects included at least one researcher who is or has previously worked on EPSRC funded research.  ProjectsOver the first few months of the project, artists and researchers began to develop working relationships and delivered workshops and knowledge exchange sessions with community groups.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a two-week programme of Camden-focused performance, discussion and workshopping in May 2020, including the Performing Place commissions, was unable to take place.Instead, the project teams worked to continue developing their projects in new ways. Some workshops took place online, one artist and researcher wrote letters to each other, and others continued their research virtually.The Dancing Brain – Dr Bani Anvari & Suba SubramaniamThe Dancing BrainThe Dancing Brain combined hand gestures and rhythm with mind-controlled virtual robots to enable improved social interaction and coordination among young students and people with complex learning difficulties. By transposing/translating /transcribing a message from the mind of one participant to the peers through movement, The Dancing Brain aimed to encourage young students that STEM is fun, and empower people with dementia to create a conversation and dialogue with their peers. This is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Akademi and the Intelligent Mobility’s group/lab at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº (IM @¹û¶³Ó°Ôº).Visit the project page Rhythms of Fractals & Collective Movement – Dr David Hewett, Dr Angelika Manhart & Bernhard SchimpelsbergerRhythms of Fractals & Collective Movement This collaboration investigated how the wave patterns we study mathematically might be translated into musical rhythms. Camden-based mathematicians and musicians explored the connections between waves and rhythms and contributed their own musical ideas and perspectives.Visit the project page You Move Me â€“ Dr Ellie Cosgrave & Laura WilsonYou Move MeThis cross-discipline collaboration builds on Dr Cosgrave’s existing urban research on the interrelationship between gender and urban infrastructure; and Laura Wilson’s research around civic histories and labour, how information is passed on from one person to another through movement and recent performances investigating how the body learns, adapts, responds and performs. Cosgrave and Wilson worked together with Camden residents to explore their personal relationship with mobility in the city and how this also relates to their personal histories.Visit the project page Sound Voice: Voice Loss and Identity – Professor Martin Birchall, Dr Thomas Moors, Shout at Cancer & Hannah ConwaySound Voice: Voice Loss and Identity Sound Voice: Voice Loss and Identity is a cross disciplinary collaboration spanning healthcare, opera, (a composer and team of professional artists), music therapy, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº speech therapy and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº music research via the medium of artistic residencies involving music composition, creative writing and vocal performance and experimentation. This rich blend of the arts and science, building on the experiences and narratives of both those who have experienced loss of laryngeal function and the healthcare professionals who dedicate their careers to finding answers, explored what it means to lose and regain voice and why singing is a human right.Visit the project page 

Performing Planet Activism is a strand of intimate ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº performances, workshops and interactions exploring some of the pressing environmental issues of the climate crisis. Events and activities bring together ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº research, climate activism and artistic interpretation in unique ways that inspire action and create space for dialogue.Performing Planet Activism launched with a 10-day series of events in January and February 2023, engaging with topics including the possibilities of a better Earth future, the science behind the declining UK farmland pond, the heritage and mythology of the river Fleet, the ways in which British bat species use echo, public participation in urban spaces, colonial capitalist mining practices, and the challenges and potential of island nations.Participants included Shybairn Theatre; composer Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº climate scientists Professor Ilan Kelman and Dr Peter Irvine, Fleet Primary School and writer Robert Macfarlane; poets Chris Redmond, Madi Maxwell-Libby and Amina Atiq, musicians Alice Boyd, Tom Fisher and Dot.i. and scientist Helen Greaves; artist Oliver Cloke; Global Generation Fellows of Story Garden; activist and researcher Nikolett Puskás and artist Hector Dyer; Echo Choir director Sarah Latto and artist/anthropologist Hermione Spriggs; writer/performer Meg Hodgson and London Mining Network; and Hot Poets (Chris Redmond and Liv Torc) and educator/researcher Catalina Spataru.Watch the filmYouTube Widget Placeholderhttps://youtu.be/KCB2pKTf4ec Full list of past eventsTheatre Making & Climate Activism Workshop - Tuesday 31 January 2023, 9.30am (free - PhD students and early career researchers only)This free workshop for PhD students and early career researchers will be led by ShyBairn Theatre, who will share their practice of collaborating with UK climate activists and academics.Read our Q&A with the 'Theatre Making & Climate Activism' teamThe Work of Many Hands - Wednesday 1 February, 7.30pmThis three-act performance seeks to imagine the possibilities of a better Earth future, and has been co-created by composer Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº climate scientists Professor Ilan Kelman and Dr Peter Irvine, and writer Robert Macfarlane.The Secret Life of Ponds Workshop: Creating Water-Inspired Poetry - Thursday 2 February 9.30amWorking with performance poet Chris Redmond and scientist Helen Greaves, this introductory workshop will introduce the science behind the declining UK farmland pond and offer creative routes in to these ideas through poetry.The Secret Life of Ponds Workshop: Creating Music from the Sounds of the Pond - Thursday 2 February 2pmLed by sound artist Tom Fisher and scientist Helen Greaves, this workshop inspired by underwater pond sounds will introduce the Borderlands Granular iPad app to create dynamic and organic 'sound environments' and compositions.The Secret Life of Ponds Performance: Poetry, Music and Freshwater Science - Thursday 2 February 7pmJoin us for an evening of poetry, music and freshwater science in an exploration of the declining UK farmland pond and their extraordinary biodiversity.Family Event: Creativity around Climate Change: Wind Power - Saturday 4 February (free)How do we understand the changing world around us? Working in small groups, families will be on a search and find mission for ways to creatively harness wind energy.Hidden Rivers of London - Tuesday 7 February 7pmJoin Global Generation Fellows of Story Garden, a thriving community garden behind the British Library, as they share personal water-based memories, reveal the heritage of the river Fleet, and explore its mythology. The performance is followed by a creative writing workshop.Our Place in the Game: Public Engagement through Live Performance Workshop - Wednesday 8 February 9.30am (free - PhD students and early career researchers)This workshop for PhD students and early career researchers interested in the climate crisis and public participation in urban spaces will explore Our Place in the Game, an on-site performance project.Read our Q&A with the 'Our Place in the Game' teamEcho Sounding in the Grant Museum: a bat-based voice and listening workshop - Wednesday 8 February 6pmThis experimental workshop explores the medium of echo. Beginning with simple vocal exercises and scores for deep listening, and inspired by British bat species, we will work together to open our senses.Moonface - Thursday 9 February 6.30pmThis live solo theatre show uses clowning to explore colonial, capitalist mining practices and how the models created on Earth are being utilised to inform the future of interplanetary travel. The performance is followed by a series of short talks.The World Is an Island - Friday 10 February 7pmPart performance, part exhibit, part exploratory poetry workshop, The World Is an Island is a transformative​​ 90-minute adventure into science fact and poetry power.Family Event: Creativity around Climate Change - Flower Power and Petal Prints - Saturday 11 February (free)How do we understand the changing world around us? Learn about the power of the sun for plant life and make petal prints from leaves and flowers. 

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