Keep Connected is our programme of discussion and sharing events to shape the longer-term strategy for Platt Hall. Each event takes a particular strand of development, an overarching theme, or a local issue as the topic for discussion.
Upcoming sessions:
Upcoming sessions:
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Thursday 8 July 7 - 8.30pm A local collection for a global community: how can we ensure our global communities are reflected in archive, museum and gallery collections? This Keep Connected session homes in on how the contents of local archives, museum and gallery collections seldom represent multi-cultural communities like ours. It will be led by Maya Sharma, local resident and Collections Engagement Officer at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre & Education Trust. Maya will talk about how the RACE Centre & Education Trust works with global majority communities (global majority is a term that encompasses people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent, and recognises that together we form around 80% of the global population) in Greater Manchester to document, explore and share their histories, heritage and experiences. Sibia Akhtar, from local organisation Ananna (Manchester Bangladeshi Women’s Organisation) will share how Ananna works with women to explore their rich cultural identity and heritage. Maya will invite you to share your thoughts on questions such as: Whose heritage and experiences are included in our local archives and collections? How do they find their way there? ·Where are the gaps, and why are there gaps? What could we collect that represents our local community, with all its diversity and complexityDuring the session we will be using breakout rooms for discussion. If you are from the Global Majority we invite you to bring something to the session that you feel, in whatever way, speaks of your heritage and identity. This can be something tangible or intangible. Book on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/platt-hall-keep-connected-a-local-collection-for-a-global-community-tickets-136976443229 |
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The Keep Connected programme is responsive to neighbourhood needs and interests. It is a time for creatively thinking together and for people across the neighbourhood to make connections and share ideas. These sessions are for residents and people working in Moss Side, Rusholme and Fallowfield.
While Covid-19 restrictions prevent physical gatherings, we will continue hosting these events on Zoom, but as soon as we are able, we look forward to coming together in the Hall itself. Here are some of the things people have said they would like to talk about in these events:
While Covid-19 restrictions prevent physical gatherings, we will continue hosting these events on Zoom, but as soon as we are able, we look forward to coming together in the Hall itself. Here are some of the things people have said they would like to talk about in these events:
Ideas about the event programme generated during a meeting in January 2021
If you live or work in Rusholme, Fallowfield or Moss Side and would like to take part in the Keep Connected programme, please use the Contact us form to get in touch. If you, a group you are part of, or your organisation would like to facilitate a Keep Connected event, then do get in touch for a conversation. Contact meg.parnell@manchester.gov.uk.
Previous sessions:
Thursday 25 March 7 - 8.30pm
How do we tackle the climate emergency as a neighbourhood?
Join Fibrespace (TSAP) by bringing along your crochet or any other needlecraft to do during the meeting, with an invitation to show work-in-progress at the end. Recycled materials encouraged.
Global perspectives on the Platt Hall collections: Paisley and Provocations
This session explores how public art and design collections can be a useful starting point for thinking with a global perspective. Local residents Samar Tasselli and Conway Mothobi each pick something from Platt Hall's collections for thinking through their perspectives on history, pattern, colonialism and its impact on racism. Samar will be exploring the Paisley pattern from its Indian roots, its naming, travel across the world and contemporary appropriation and mis-appropriation. Conway will throw us some provocations inspired by the labelling and mislabelling of people and objects.
Thursday 27 May 7 - 8.30pm
A new visual identity for Platt Hall
A group of local residents have been working on a new visual identity for Platt Hall.
Find out more about the process and see some of the initial design ideas.
Previous sessions:
Thursday 25 March 7 - 8.30pm
How do we tackle the climate emergency as a neighbourhood?
Join Fibrespace (TSAP) by bringing along your crochet or any other needlecraft to do during the meeting, with an invitation to show work-in-progress at the end. Recycled materials encouraged.
- No! Ah! Part 4: Working with what we’ve got. A short film by Jackie Haynes. Noah’s Ark youngsters present their ideas and collection of everyday objects to their elders of Platt Hall’s Mary Greg Collection.
- Upping It’s Anne Tucker in conversation with Astrid Johnson about Moss Side’s Alley Greening Project.
- Guest Speaker Gina Dowding, former Green MEP for the North West presents action and activism from Lancaster residents, showing how neighbourhoods can tackle climate emergency.
- Neighbourhood Shorts. A short film by Tzanka Tcherneva-Ilieva of Moss Side residents giving their views on the climate emergency.
- Hafsa Mekki of Moss Side Eco Squad presents current action and activism from the Moss Side neighbourhood with information about how to get involved.
Global perspectives on the Platt Hall collections: Paisley and Provocations
This session explores how public art and design collections can be a useful starting point for thinking with a global perspective. Local residents Samar Tasselli and Conway Mothobi each pick something from Platt Hall's collections for thinking through their perspectives on history, pattern, colonialism and its impact on racism. Samar will be exploring the Paisley pattern from its Indian roots, its naming, travel across the world and contemporary appropriation and mis-appropriation. Conway will throw us some provocations inspired by the labelling and mislabelling of people and objects.
Thursday 27 May 7 - 8.30pm
A new visual identity for Platt Hall
A group of local residents have been working on a new visual identity for Platt Hall.
Find out more about the process and see some of the initial design ideas.
