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Stories of the World (SOTW) is much bigger than just London Transport Museum.
SOTW is a national programme, but here in London we are working closely with five brilliant museums, supporting their work with young people during 2010-11 and beyond.
The museums are all very different, but have one thing in common: journeys. This is the shared theme that links all our SOTW work.
The Journeys museums are:
Cuming Museum (Southwark) - Mapping their own journeys in Southwark, and inspired by the Cuming Museum's world shoe collection, young people will combine art and history for an exhibition at the museum in late 2010.
Florence Nightingale Museum (Lambeth) - Young people will follow the journeys taken by twentieth century nurses inspired by Florence Nightingale. They will create a new audioguide (re)interpreting the Florence Nightingale Museum for visitors from around the world.
Hackney Museum (Hackney) - Young people's experience of Hackney's evolving transport system will produce documentary film and drama charting changes in this Olympic Borough leading up to 2012.
Jewish Museum (Camden) - Using the collections of the Jewish diaspora in London; young people and a community curator will create films for the new Jewish Museum London, used online and within the museum's schools programme from 2011.
Orleans House Gallery (Richmond-upon-Thames) - Taking a modern perspective on the collection of explorer Sir Richard Burton at Orleans House Gallery, young people will work with artists in residence to create an exhibition in 2011.
There are even more museums involved in Stories of the World across London. London Transport Museum is working with the Museum of London, The Geffrye Museum and the Horniman Museum to make SOTW an incredible programme of culture and change across London's museums.
Find out more about young people and museums in London on the SOTW London Facebook page.
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Become a Volunteer in 2012
Are you aged 16-19? Are you looking to:
- Access new opportunities
- gain work experience
- learn new skills
- meet new people
London Transport Museum is looking for young people to join our Journeys Youth Project. Become a volunteer and discover how to organise projects and deliver public events. A great way to gain work experience and boost your CV!
To find out more come along to our introduction and selection day on Saturday 11th Febraury 2012, from between 11:00 -15:00, at London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, WC2E 7BB.
Please note that spaces are limited. To book your place and for more information email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 020 7565 7264.
The Charter School, February 2011
Students studying the Creative Media Diploma at the Charter School in Southwark are the latest group to create artwork as part of the Museum’s Bus Shelter project. Working with filmmaker Ben Clough from Chocolate Films students created ‘A New Beginning’, a short dance film based on the theme of journeys. The young people were involved in the whole filmmaking process, from creating a concept and pitching their ideas, to allocating roles, organising props, costumes, filming and editing their work.
A short trailer for their film will be available for download at a Bus Shelter on Coldharbour Lane / Denmark Hill from Monday 28 February until Sunday 13 March. You can watch the full length version here.
A New Beginning from Chocolate Films on Vimeo.
A blog documenting the progress of their project was created by one of the Museum’s young volunteers, Godwin Asante. Godwin took part in the Camden Bus Shelter project and has been working as a volunteer with the Museum since November 2010. The blog can be found at http://cmdartefact.weebly.com
The Ismaili Centre’s Youth Arts Initiative, January 2011
Our latest bus shelter project showcases the talents of young people from the Ismaili Centre’s Youth Arts Initiative. Working with professional lyricists, visual artists and filmmakers they have created artwork and a spoken word film based on the theme of journeys.
Using the Museum’s collections as inspiration the young people looked at the idea of a journey as both a physical and spiritual concept. They developed ideas around seven key journey themes; motivation, perspective, spice, challenges, movement, expression and inspiration.
Their artwork will be displayed and a short trailer for their film will be available for download at a Bus Shelter on Gloucester Road from Monday 31 January until Sunday 13 February 2011.
Related links: Chocolate films, Orly Orbach, KMT
Young Consultants Take Over LTM, November 2010
On Friday 12 November, our four fantastic Young Consultants took over the museum to speak about their year of work on Stories of the World. This was part of the national Takeover Day event, run by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.
Every Friday morning all the LTM staff meet to recieve updates on projects and share information. The Young Consultants ‘took over’ Friday training, and delivered a fantastic presentation on their work so far. They talked about why working with us matters to them, and why young people taking part is really important for the museum.
Kway, Will, Elvis and Adelah have come a long way since they made their first film (see ‘Young Consultants’, December 2009, at the bottom of this page). They are now working as peer mentors to more young people who have just started as volunteers, as part of our ‘Journeys’ initiative. We hope they will stay involved as we work towards our major exhibition in 2012.
Team Awesome and the Big Museum, October 2010
When the director of The Big Museum fails to listen to young people the Young Superheroes of Team Awesome take things into their own hands! But will their determination to get a youth voice heard be enough to change things before the opening of the exhibition…?
This film was made by LTM’s Young Consultants for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Film Nation programme. Entertaining, exciting, and empowering, it shows what Adelah, Elvis, Kway and Will feel about working with London Transport Museum. Don’t forget to like the film on the Film Nation website – your vote counts!
Coram's Fields at LTM, September 2010
Throughout summer 2010 young people at Coram's Fields Youth Resource Centre used London Transport Museum collections as inspiration as they created poetry, music, dance, digital stories and visual design. The young people looked at travel in the city, but also more personal journeys such as growing up as a young person in London.
Images and sounds from the project were showcased in a temporary bus shelter exhibition at the Museum 18-26 September 2010. On Saturday 25 September young people from Coram's Fields presented a fantastic live music and dance performance in front of their Bus Shelter exhibition.
This temporary bus shelter exhibition was made possible by the invaluable support of Clear Channel UK and TfL Surface Transport.
FUSE festival young volunteers, July 2010
With two years until London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Royal Parks organised an event called FUSE: an arts festival for young people involved in dance, music, theatre, spoken word and the visual arts within Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea. London Transport Museum was there!
We made the FUSE festival the focus of a new youth volunteering project for Stories of the World. Our crack team of 10 young volunteers gave an incredible 500 hours of their time to plan, prepare and deliver our workshops at FUSE.
Over 600 people came to our tent at the festival, and we also collected over 160 Tube Map memories to help develop our 2012 exhibition. To see the project in pictures, visit the LTM Flickr site.
The Pedro Club and Eastside, May 2010
Between February and March 2010 young people from the Pedro Club and Eastside Educational Trust worked with London Transport Museum to explore what the theme of journeys meant to them.
With artists Andrew Wright and Chocolate Films the young people created artwork in the style of graphic novels. They developed stories and characters inspired by their own personal journeys or by items from the Museum's collection.
A selection of the young people's artwork has been incorporated into a contemporary design. It was on public display in a bus shelter on Morning Lane, Hackney, for two weeks from 5 July 2010.
HEART Digital Stories, April 2010
Members of the group HEART from Orleans House Gallery worked with LTM and filmmaker Jaime Taylor of Postcode Films to explore what the theme of 'journeys' means to them.
They learnt about editing software and matching sound to image. They created three digital stories and a short trailer for the stories was available by Bluetooth at the bus shelter outside Twickenham railway station for two weeks from 26 April 2010. Nearly 200 people watched the trailer over the two weeks.
Reinterpretation film, February 2010
Throughout Stories of the World, young people and community groups are saying what museum objects mean to them. Adding these new insights to museum collections is called reinterpretation.
Reinterpretation projects at London Transport Museum are exploring and revealing how London is a world city, based on the six cities features in our World City Walk gallery.
This short film was made by LTM's Young Consultants, to help explain reinterpretation to project participants from different London communities (thanks to Ken Garland for the image of Harry Beck).
Young Consultants, December 2009
We recruited our first three Young Consultants in late 2009. Adelah, Aobakwe and Will (now joined by Elvis) were chosen from over 30 amazing applicants.
They made their first simple video about 'London: World City' (the SOTW London project working title), to help project manager Steve Gardam explain what would be happening to LTM staff.
This was the beginning of a really exciting journey, for both the Young Consultants and the museum.