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Pupils act as guides at Kokeshi Exhibition

News | 2010-03-09

The Kokeshi Exhibition, currently on display at the Yorkshire Craft Centre in Bradford, explores the story of a Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, and her friends, following the atomic bomb that devastated the city of Hiroshima in 1945. ‘Kokeshi’ is a type of traditional Japanese doll that symbolises friendship.

The Kokeshi Exhibition uniquely involves using pupils as guides. These specially trained youth interpreters, or ‘Kokeshi Ambassadors’, will guide school groups through the exhibition. Education Bradford first tried this model of training youth to be ambassadors to act as exhibition guides with the run of the Anne Frank + You exhibition at Cartwright Hall and Art Gallery in Bradford in 2009. (more…)

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The Peace Museum at PeaceJam 2010

News | 2010-03-09

The Peace Museum took part in the fourth annual PeaceJam youth conference in Bradford 5-7 March 2010. Over 170 young people aged 13-19 came to the University of Bradford to spend the weekend in the company of Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of East Timor José Ramos-Horta and to learn about peace building. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘eradicating extreme poverty’ and The Peace Museum was one of eight external organisations running workshops in relation to the conference theme. (more…)

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The Peace Museum at Whitechapel Gallery round table

News | 2009-11-26

Julie Obermeyer, The Peace Museum’s Manager, participated in a round table discussion at the Nature of the Beast exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London on Saturday, 21 November 2009. (more…)

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