The Heritage Collectives

Churchill Park Academy Glass Exhibition 720 x 480

Join your local Heritage Collective in Great Yarmouth, Norwich, Kings Lynn or Thetford to explore the history of the local area in a creative way.

Heritage Collectives are aimed at young people aged 18-25 years. The groups agree the projects they want to work on. They they co-deliver and co-produce work in collaboration with colleagues in local libraries and museums.

So, if you want to influence what happens in your local library and museum then join your local Heritage Collective. Topics range from devising trails, to uncovering local history, to putting on exhibitions of your work.

If you have ideas and want to come and help to make those decisions, please email kickthedust@norfolk.gov.uk. You can come and find out more, and help us to choose our next project. It might be:

To find out information about archives and the local area
To create a game
Curate an exhibition
Set up escape room
Make a murder mystery
Write and edit a zine
Highlight our local history
Try a new challenge

We can't do it without you so get in touch!

What our groups have been up to

The Bridge for Heroes charity worked with the group in Kings Lynn and community artist, Nicola Marray Woods. They created a mural to remember the veterans who the charity supports.

The Time Turners made a Civil War Siege Shuffle card game using archives and artefacts linked to the English Civil War.

Groups have curated an exhibition about Glass. We chose the artefacts from the collection and placed the objects alongside work by Churchill Park Complex Needs School students who had designed and painted their own themed glass collection.

In Norwich the Climate Change group worked with artist Gennadiy Ivanov and Councillors to develop their responses to the Climate Murals and host an event in City Hall

More information is available from kickthedust@norfolk.gov.uk