Sounding Out Your Heritage

Fish and The Yesterday Song

Fish and The Yesterday Song is a film and photography exhibition created by vulnerable older people from Beech Street Residential Care Home and Father James Walsh Day Care Centre in South Tyneside. Working with an audio-visual artist over 20 weeks, participants have learnt creative processes to produce their own reflections on their lives and their relationships to the sea.

Fusing video, photographs and stories, Fish and the Yesterday Song explores the ebbs and flows of the ocean and its impact on, and parallel to, our lives.

The amazing work they have produced demonstrates the creative potential of people in their fourth age and that reflections on heritage can produce fantastic contemporary art.

Helix Arts

1-4 Forth Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 5HX

www.helixarts.com/pages/stop.html

Kirklees Museums and Galleries Memory Box Loan Scheme

Our Memory Box Loan Scheme is available to organizations working with the elderly in Kirklees. This superb resource for reminiscence work provides enjoyment, builds friendships and boosts self-esteem. It is especially effective for improving the quality of life for those suffering from dementia. We offer eleven themed boxes; 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Entertainment & Leisure, Health & Beauty, Holidays, Kitchen & Washday, Royalty, Schooldays and Toys & Games. Each box contains approximately twenty multisensory objects including sounds, smells, clothing and photographs to stimulate discussions about times past, along with an information pack to help borrowers run successful reminiscence sessions.

Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Kirklees Museums and Galleries, The Stables, Ravensknowle Park, Wakefield Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD5 8DJ

www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums

Shared Experience: Afternoons at the Museum for Older Adults

The British Museum has been working closely with local resource centres to make the museum more accessible to the older members of its community, who sometimes need a helping hand to make their way around the museum’s collections.

The monthly afternoons at the museum are informal drop-in sessions for over 55s, which begin with a warm cup of tea and a friendly chat. The participants have an opportunity to handle objects related to the collection; these generate conversations and allow participants to share stories with one another.

The afternoons end with accompanied visits into the galleries, with participants deciding what objects they would like to see. Led by experienced museum volunteers, the groups get support and assistance to explore and enjoy the collections.

The British Museum

The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG

www.britishmuseum.org

Medicine at the Movies - Encounters: 10 words to John Hunter

Medicine at the Movies was a project to give older learners from the local community a chance to learn how to make a film in less than 10 weeks!

The Hunterian Museum worked with members of the over 60’s Club at the Mary Ward Centre in Queen Square, London, WC1. The students explored the Hunterian Museum collections and worked with an artist and film-maker to create personal responses to the museum. The final product is ‘Encounters: 10 Words to John Hunter’ which you can watch on our website.

Medicine at the Movies was a DBIS funded project involving six members of the UK Medical Collections Group.

Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons

35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE

www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/archive/medicine-at-the-movies