Each issue’s content is curated around a theme selected by the Common Ground Leaders Programming Group. The Leaders are a community of 18 to 25 year-olds interested in arts and heritage who have been involved with guiding and designing Common Ground. The Programming Group are three Leaders who helped to plan and produce the Common Ground Symposium on the 25th November 2022.
The Group chose an umbrella theme of alternative ways of seeing heritage. Under this, they chose the 3 sub-themes of Non-traditional, Play and Access to help underpin the programming and content for the Common Ground Symposium. The Leaders feel that each theme helps to communicate important elements of Common Ground’s work and helps to frame the most successful ways of engaging young people.
ACCESS
Common Ground has been striving to identify methods of making heritage accessible, inclusive, and meaningful to young people. Young people involved with Common Ground have had repeated and various opportunities to have their voices heard, whether as project participants, Common Ground Leaders, or Young Community Artists.
In inspiring young people to share perspectives and in attempting to catalyse a power shift in heritage, not only has Common Ground urged young participants to get involved with heritage, it has also shown that heritage can be approached progressively.