THE Hunt Museum can be relied on as an engine of enterprise, art, artefacts and education.
It is also a people-minded joint with strong Outreach programmes such as the Urban Horse project with Limerick Corridor Art. Early works were inspired by The Hunt Collection, operating from LEDP in Roxboro and for City of Culture 2014, out of Bank Place.
The Hunt’s latest initiative is building a bootcamp weekend open to those who are ”interested in community engagement together to reflect on their own practice and confront shared issues.”
Taking place on Thursday January 26 and Friday 27, this will feature “a broad spectrum of activities such as action oriented workshops, exercises that challenge us and a special Night at the Museum.”
Talking heads from all strands – visual, literary, heritage, performance arts – will explore new ideas in community engagement, with a specific focus on process and collaboration.
From the Education unit at The Hunt Museum, we hear of their expectations: “Throughout the event we will be running practical exercises on questions such as: How are people overcoming the barriers and ethical problems that have always plagued community engagement?
“How do we negotiate issues of voice, fairness, ethics and consent to create genuine collaborative practice? And most importantly: how can we generate radical new ideas to tackle these long-standing issues?”
Book with education@huntmuseum.com
