Global Derbyshire in Ten Objects: In conversation with Alison Solomon
Laura Phillips and Alison Solomon (left-right)
Global Derbyshire in Ten Objects is a series of ten mini podcasts produced by the University of Derby for Being Human Festival. These podcasts will discuss how objects in our local collections can be the start of larger stories and prompt honest conversations about our past, present and future, touching on themes of exploration, exploitation and Empire.
In this episode, released to coincide with Black History Month, storyteller and artist documenter Alison Solomon talks to Derby Museums’ Head of Interpretation and Display Laura Phillips about two objects from the World Collection Gallery at Derby Museum and Art Gallery - a wooden toy theatre and an ordinary throwaway tin. These objects form a part of Alison’s new display The Human Programme, which works from Derby Museums’ collection to capture, reclassify and display objects of intolerance.
You can listen to the conversation here or download to your device (21mb).
The Human Programme is open until 31 January 2021.
You are invited to attend our ‘Labelling the World’ workshop to co-produce labels for the latest addition to the World Collection Gallery, a painting by Punjab-born artist Gurbux Singh Theathi depicting Sikh Guru Amar Das’ Free Kitchen. It was painted in the 1980s and given to the museum by Derby’s Guru Arjan Dev Gurdwara in 2001. Click here to reserve your place.
Image (left): The Community Kitchen for All (Free Community Meals) by Gurbux Singh Theathi, acrylic on panel.
This audio piece was produced in collaboration with the University of Derby as part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, taking place between 12–22 November. The festival is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.
