Cultural Heritage Day - 15 May 2012

Aim of the day

  • To engage adults in learning about, or through, cultural heritage (arts, heritage, museums, archives, libraries, Welsh language)

Ideas for events:

  • All Aboard!: guided bus tours or train journeys
  • Spray that Again?: introducing young graffiti artists to the wider art world through tutors in local art galleries
  • Community Arts: willow-sculpting in a local park
  • Back in the Day: museums and care centres working together to organise reminiscence sessions for older adults using museum collections
  • Music  Swapshop: younger adults coming together with older adults to share musical tastes and create their own mixed CDs
  • A Night at the Museum: museums sleepovers and late night guided walks and talks (links with the Museums at Night campaign 13-15 May)

This focus day is very flexible and presents an opportunity to be really creative in the way providers reach, and meet the needs of, adults in the community. Art-based activities are regularly the most popular during Adult Learners' Week but they present a challenge when it comes to signposting to ongoing courses.

Perhaps you could seek to embed other learning in a cultural heritage event (basic skills, IT etc). Perhaps you could approach it the other way around and include a creative activity in your basic skills or IT events?

Cultural heritage activities have tremendous appeal as intergenerational events with the power to break down barriers of fear and mistrust between generations in a community. 

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