Common Ground

Discover, Define and Design Your Heritage

PROJECTS

TPOAC

Supported by Common Ground, Ten Pupils of Abbey College (TPOAC) in Ramsey worked with sound artist Bill Vine and community artist Jack Wilkin to create electroacoustic music inspired by their local heritage 🎙️⁠

Playtest

Over the summer of 2022, we collaborated with local young people along with four heritage partners at sites across the East of England, lead artist Coney and four Community Artists for Playtest, a playful exploration of heritage through games.

Collective Impact

Working with Story Makers and young participants from Volunteering Matters’ Peer Action Collective, we creatively used Ipswich Museum’s collections to make an online space telling stories meaningful to young people

Capturing the Common

In August 2021, we teamed up with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and invited local young people to join us at Roydon Common in King’s Lynn for a wildlife filmmaking course.

Virtual Peckover

In June and July 2021, we joined a group of young people along with the National Trust, theatre-maker Michelle Roche and virtual reality creators Curatours at Peckover House to create an alternative virtual tour.

7 Days Grounded

We worked with The Prince’s Trust, young people in Peterborough and emerging creatives create Grounded Challenged – youth designed social media challenges, inspired by local heritage.

Flip the Museum

In October 2020, we collaborated with artists MUTINY, Arts & Heritage festival NessFest and young people from Lowestoft to created animations and spoken word pieces inspired by Lowestoft museum’s collection.

Image credits (top to bottom): Will Fielding, Kerry Bensley, Chris Laing


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