Reach Out: Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums - Museums Association

Reach Out: Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums

6 December 2023, 1100-1600
Online, Zoom

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Engaging young audiences is no easy task for museums, but the rise of participatory practice has led many museums to build strong relationships with youth communities, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds, and ensure their voices are accurately represented in institutions. 

This event offers practical advice and case studies that demonstrate how museums can build equitable and sustainable relationships with underserved audiences such as teenagers and young adults, which centre their voices and wellbeing.  

Speakers

Dhikshana Turakhia Pering, Chair
Alison Bowyer, Executive Director, Kids in Museums
Su Hepburn, Head of Learning and Engagement, Brighton Museums
Harvinder Bahra, Community Engagement Manager, Chiswick House & Gardens
Jennifer Keenan, Learning and Access Curator, and Susie Ironside, Visitor Studies Curator, Kelvingrove Museum
Oisín Kenny, Apollo Fellow, National Gallery of Ireland
Shereese Peters-Valton, Schools and Teachers Coordinator, University of Cambridge Museums
Katherine Hunter, Learning Officer, and Zoe Lake Thomas, Learning Officer: Young People, London Transport Museum

Please note that Hannah Lee-Chalk, Learning Manager, and Jennie Aspinall, Primary Learning Co-ordinator, Manchester Museum, are no longer able to present at this event. The programme has been amended accordingly.

We aim to present a diverse range of speakers from across the UK and internationally at our one-day conferences. If you are interested in speaking at one of our events, or have a project you’d like to see explored, please tell us more by emailing the Events Team. 

Programme

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1100-1115
Welcome from the chair

Dhikshana Turakhia Pering opens the event

Speakers:
Dhikshana Pering
@DTPering
1115-1200
Panel discussion: setting up youth panels

Dhikshana Turakhia Pering leads a 45-minute panel discussion tackling some of the practical challenges of setting up youth panels – from getting people involved to ensuring work is sustainable. With:  

Oisín Kenny, Apollo Fellow, National Gallery of Ireland (Gallery Youth Panel) 

Alison Bowyer, Executive Director, Kids in Museums (Youth Panel) 

May Chong, Participation Producer (Young People), National Museums Liverpool (Youth Engagement Forum)

Speakers:
Alison Bowyer
Executive Director, Kids in Museums
Oisín Kenny
Apollo Fellow, National Gallery of Ireland
May Chong
Participation Producer (Young People), National Museums Liverpool
1200-1210
Comfort break

A 10 minute comfort break

1210-1310
Panel discussion: co-creating with young people

Dhikshana Turakhia Pering leads an hour panel discussion exploring different approaches to reaching, connecting and sustaining engagement projects with young people. With: 

Harvinder Bahra, Community Engagement Manager, Chiswick House & Gardens (Black Chiswick Through History Project) 

Jennifer Keenan, Learning and Access Curator, and Susie Ironside, Visitor Studies Curator, Kelvingrove Museum (My Stories digital resource) 

Katherine Hunter, Learning Officer, and Zoe Lake Thomas, Learning Officer: Young People, London Transport Museum

Dhiyandra Natalegawa, Freelance Creative Producer and Educator

Speakers:
Harvinder Bahra
Community Engagement Manager, Chiswick House & Gardens
Dhiyandra Natalegawa
Freelance Creative Producer and Educator
1310-1400
Lunch

A 50-minute lunch break

1405-1445
Decolonising school programmes

This session includes three 20-minute presentations from speakers who will share their work to decolonise their schools programmes, create anti-racism sessions and resources, and empower the teachers and students they work with.  

With: 

Su Hepburn, Head of Learning & Engagement, Brighton & Hove Museums, shares work to decolonise the service’s learning programme and how schools are leading the need for decolonising across departments. (1405-1435)

Shereese Peters-Valton, Project Manager, Milton Keynes Museum, on creating a schools programme that explores decolonisation, storytelling and contemporary issues.(1435-1505)  

Speakers:
Shereese Peters-Valton
Project Manager, Milton Keynes Museum
Su Hepburn
Head of Learning and Engagement, Brighton Museums
1505-1540
Panel Discussion

Dhikshana Turakhia Pering leads a discussion with Sue Hepburn, Shereese Peters-Valton, Hannah Lee-Chalk and Jennie Aspinall. This includes time for questions from attendees.  

Please note that this event will be recorded and available exclusively to delegates for three months. After that time, it will be made available for members on the Museums Association website.  

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Event fees

Concessionary Member – £30
Member (Essential, Full, Institutional and Commercial members) – £40
Non-member – £60

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Inclusive event places

The Benevolent Fund will provide five free places to this event to individual members who face barriers due to ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, and gender identity or sexual orientation (LGBTQ). 

These free places are part of our wider work towards creating a more inclusive sector. We will also support any accessibility requests such as provision of British Sign Language (BSL), audio description or closed captioning. The deadline to apply for an Inclusive Place is 12 noon on 22 November 2023. 

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Competency Framework

How attending this event helps your professional development.

Our competency framework supports your professional development. It clearly shows different areas of competency and 4 levels within those areas, which you should be aiming to achieve throughout your work.

Our events relate to certain areas of the framework, and we recommend you look at the competency area to help you target your learning and create focus in the event. You may find that attending an event helps you attain the competencies for a higher level, which may contribute to your AMA or other professional development.

This event – Reach Out: Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums primarily relates to the Engaging Audiences and Communities competency area.

Event details

Date 6 December 2023
Time 1100-1600
Location Online
Zoom

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