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2008 Events Programme For Schools

Living History Days: 19th and 20th June

The “Living History” event, which we hope will take place between Thursday 19th and Sunday 22nd June 2008, will consist of an innovative programme of demonstrations and workshops run by artists, farmers and craftspeople, which will bring to life for visitors to the Museum the traditional skills and rural crafts associated with agricultural life in the farm townships of the past through such activities as ploughing with horses, blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, organic and storytelling.

The demonstrations and workshops that are planned for the 19th and 20th June are linked to the history curriculum and will be aimed at school and home-educated children. The demonstrations and workshops will provide the children with the opportunity to watch and have a go at some of the traditional skills and rural crafts associated with the farm townships of the past such as the Township of Auchindrain in a hands-on and fun way. Whilst the “Living History” event planned for the 19th and 20th June is primarily aimed at school children and home-educated children, the Museum will remain open to the general public and visitors to the Museum will be given the opportunity to participate in the workshops and demonstrations, where practical.

2008 Events Programme For Children And Families

Living History Days: 21st and 22nd June

The “Living History” event, which we hope will take place between Thursday 19th and Sunday 22nd June 2008, will consist of an innovative programme of demonstrations and workshops run by artists, farmers and craftspeople, which will bring to life for visitors to the Museum the traditional skills and rural crafts associated with agricultural life in the farm townships of the past through such activities as ploughing with horses, blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, organic and storytelling.

On the 21st and 22nd June, the "Living History" event will be aimed at increasing participation in the Museum by encouraging repeat and first time visitors. It will provide visitors with an opportunity to watch and have a go at some of the traditional skills and rural crafts associated with the farm Township of Auchindrain in particular and the farm townships of the past in general.

Show Scotland: 3rd and 4th May

Gaelic Waulking Performances
Storytelling Sessions

CHANTICA Events

See events below.

2008 Culture, Heritage and Nature Together in Contemporary Art (CHANTICA) Programme

In July 2008 Auchindrain Museum will host the Scottish cultural action based around the farm Township of Auchindrain as part of a twenty-four month project (CHANTICA) that will involve five partners in five European countries; Grampus Heritage & Training Limited (England), ARCH (Scotland), Vitra, Centre for Sustainable Development (Slovenia), STROPEK (Slovakia) and e-isotis (Greece). Each partner will bring young people (up to forty young people per partner) to work on a cultural action in each other’s countries in Scotland’s case at Auchindrain Museum. All of the partners will run actions at five-month intervals based around a cultural venue, starting with Slovenia in May 2008 and Auchindrain Museum (Scotland) in July 2008.

The cultural action that will take place in Scotland is based around the farm Township of Auchindrain and will take place from 19th-27th July 2008. The young people will work with Museum staff to investigate what life was like for the tenant farmers who once lived and worked in the Township of Auchindrain. The Museum will then run a number of workshops led by artists and craftspeople where participants from the partner countries, local community groups and visitors to the Museum can learn about and have a go at the traditional skills and rural crafts associated with the Township.

The aim of CHANTICA is to provide opportunities for young people from rural areas in the periphery of Europe to travel to partner countries and participate in cultural activities. CHANTICA is specifically aimed at:

1) Young people from Mid-Argyll and Kintyre (Inveraray, Lochgilphead and Campbeltown).
2) Young people from Cumbria (Keswick).
3) Young people from Slovenia (Cerknica).
4) Young people from Eastern Slovakia (Stropkov).
5) Young people from Greece (Athens).

During the course of the cultural action at Auchindrain Museum local people from the largely rural area surrounding the Museum i.e. the towns and villages of Inveraray, Furnace, Minard, Lochgair and Lochgilphead will be encouraged to participate in the workshops.

Participating in international projects such as CHANTICA will help to raise awareness of Auchindrain Museum both nationally and internationally. Through the workshop element of the project the Museum will be able to increase access to the Township of Auchindrain for a wide range of people, create new audiences for the Museum through its participation in this creative and imaginative project and encourage local people and tourists to pay a repeat visit or first visit to the Museum. Participating in CHANTICA will also helping the Museum to develop a network of partners and enabling it to participate in national and international partnership working activities.

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