Curating Visibility

Co-Producers Wanted

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Do you love history and museums and want to find out how stories for display are researched and chosen?

Are you passionate about telling the stories of our past, and uncovering hidden histories?

Do you have thoughts on how technology can be used to better interact with the stories and collections in our museums?

Do you identify as D/deaf, disabled or neurodiverse?

If so, we are looking for a group of around 8 people to help us interpret stories of disability from our museum’s collection, and you could be one of them!

Curating Visibility Fellow Karl Mercer considers the collection at Dover Museum. 

Delivered by Screen South’s pioneering Accentuate programme, and funded by Arts Council England, Curating Visibility reimagines what museums can do to share often overlooked disability narratives by exploring digital technology and multi-sensory interpretation.

Curating Visibility fellow Karl Mercer and the team at Dover Museum have been hard at work researching stories and uncovering tales from across thousands of years of Dover’s history. They have found objects and stories about smugglers, gladiators, illustrators, soldiers, channel swimmers and medieval pilgrims.

A selection of objects that we may look at. From left to right; a Roman intaglio showing a gladiatorial scene, a pair of swimming trunks, a medieval pilgrims badge, and a book with illustrations of flowers in it. 

We are now looking for a group of people to help us interpret and understand these stories through their own lived experience of d/Deafness, disability or neurodiversity; and help us find the best way of telling these stories through digital technology.

Hot drinks and snacks will be made available in sessions, and we can pay for your transport to and from the museum, and assist with any additional support you may need such as a BSL interpreter. We also welcome support workers. On top of this you will be compensated for your time with a £30 voucher for each session you attend. 

If you are interested in participating or simply want to find out more please fill in the form below, or email Karl (karl.mercer@dover.gov.uk) or Catherine (catherine.holt@dover.gov.uk).