Our economies are driving inequality and devastating the environment.
#ReclaimTheEconomyWeek *26 Jan - 1 Feb* is a moment to unite to demand an economy that puts people and planet first.
For the cultural sector this represents both a challenge, and a potential opportunity. Read our @happymuseumproject Provocation to the Cultural Sector
(link in biog)
Find out how you can get involved at reclaimtheeconomy.org
Innovators, thinkers and leaders needed!
Happy Museum’s mission is to re-imagine museums for a sustainable future – by fostering wellbeing that doesn’t cost the earth.
We now need new leaders, thinkers and activists ....
Could you bring your unique perspective, your time and your imagination for a better future – to our Steering Group?
More at the link in biog and below
https://shorturl.at/b0ejo
What comes to mind when you think of endings?
Are you, or your museum, struggling with something you need to bring to a close, give up or pass on?
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join our workshop exploring how we close, dispose and end well with partners, Tending to Endings.
Tuesday, November 11 · 12:30 - 2pm (NEW DATE)
Link in biog or below
https://shorturl.at/h5Ikm
@museumsassociation@nmdc_news@aimmuseums@kidsinmuseums@museumandheritage@julies_bicycle@nationaltrust@englishheritage@icom_uk
Many museums offer playful opportunities for children - but how creative, experimental and playful are we in our work - as adult professionals?
What could be unleashed by tapping into our individual and collective imagination?
Join our workshop - Playful Approaches for Museum Teams - exploring how playful approaches might open up new ideas and creativity in our work, within our organisations, and with our communities.
Tuesday, October 14 · 12:30 - 2pm
Link in biog or below
https://shorturl.at/bir4l
Tending to Endings
Are you, or your museum, struggling with something you need to bring to a close, give up or pass on?
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join our workshop exploring how we close, dispose and end well with partners, Tending to Endings.
Tuesday, November 11 · 12:30 - 2pm (NEW DATE)
LINK IN BIOG TO REGISTER
Playful Approaches for Museum Teams
Many museums offer playful opportunities for children - but how creative, experimental and playful are we in our work - as adult professionals?
What could be unleashed by tapping into our individual and collective imagination?
Join our workshop exploring how playful approaches might open up new ideas and creativity in our work, within our organisations, and with our communities.
Tuesday, October 14 · 12:30 - 2pm
SIGN UP AT LINK IN BIO
Are you, or your museum, struggling with something you need to bring to a close, give up or pass on?
What is getting in the way, what support might enable you to move forward?
Join Happy Museum and Tending to Endings to explore endings in our museum settings as part of life’s natural cycles offering imaginative and grounded ways into difficult questions.
Online - Tuesday 26th September 12.30 – 14.00
Details and sign up at link in bio
Stormy Socials - speaking with courage and clarity
Work for a museum and use social media? Concerned about the information disorder sweeping the social media eco-system?
Join our open conversation with
@our_moh exploring ethical use of social media for museums.
See link in biog (and also check out our Storytelling for Transformational Change workshop!)
Museum Storytelling for Transformative Change
How could innovative approaches to storytelling help us (and our audiences) imagine new possibilities and open up capacity and agency for transformative change?
Read more and sign up for our online workshop - link in biog
Tues 4 Feb 12.30 - 14.00
Fantastic programme of online sessions from
@PlacesPlayful exploring the different ways staff and volunteers can develop and enhance play in cultural venues!
First session 7th November looks at Front of House playful approaches.
Register here 👇
/cc/people-make-play-3716589
Coming this autumn - a fresh season of online conversations from Happy Museum.
Last call for input to help shape the season:
What conversation do you really want to have that’s not happening elsewhere? What burning question(s) do you want to explore?
Have you attended past Happy Museum sessions? What stood out for you?
What impact did it/ they have for you?
Share your thoughts with us via this link (also in biog) https://shorturl.at/aTBjd
OR
email us at [email protected]
See you in the autumn!
