Join us on Saturday 22nd June 2024 at 11:15am – 12:30pm to celebrate Refugee Week (theme: “Our Home”) in the heart of London at Benjamin Franklin House, 36 Craven Street.

Meet our illustrator in residence, Kremena Dimitrova, and hear about her research related to the museum.

Learn about one of 36 Craven Street’s lesser-known 18th C residents.

Discover how illustration can be used to visualise history by practicing your existing creative skills and by learning new artistic techniques.

Participate in the co-creation of a research comic to be exhibited at Benjamin Franklin House on 2-18 December 2024.

Make your very own visual creations to take with you home.

This FREE workshop is designed primarily for KS4 children aged 14-16. However, all are welcome to take part.

Remember: Before signing up, please make sure you have read the information/participation letter and signed the consent form (attached).

Number of participants: Maximum 15.

Activities: Storytelling, tracing, erasure poetry and erasure illustration, mapping.

National Curriculum Links: History/geography/art.

This workshop is a part of our FREE Visualising History series this summer:

“Creative and collaborative work helps to uncover and communicate marginalised and diverse stories. But, it is essential to acknowledge how much we do not – and will never – know about children’s lives in the past. This offers valuable scope to engage visitors in the practice and ethics of research and story-telling.” (Lamb & Pooley, 2023, p. 2). Traversing histories and geographies across time and space, this workshop draw on R.G. Collingwood’s (1946/1994, p. 245) theory and approach to re-constructing knowledge about the past that relies on the historical imagination, or in Collingwood’s own words “… the historian’s picture of the past is… in every detail an imaginary picture…”.

Related Visualising History workshops you might be interested in joining:

Thu 9 August 2024

Thu 23 August 2024

Fri 31 August 2024