Muslim Film Festival: Winds of Change sweeps the ICA
17 September 2011
A Palestinian exile’s return home and the temptations of a deeply devout Muslim are two of the stories depicted in a new film season beginning in London next week.
Winds of Change: Cinema from Muslim Societies aims to challenge the “highly distortive
Download Stories of the World Young Londoner Museum Trail For Free
22 March 2011
Follow young Londoners through time at local London museums....
What follows is a text version of the trail, scroll to the bottom for pdf download.
What would life have been like as a teenager or young adult in London across time?
Sometimes filled with freedom
On Going Forth Into the Book of the Dead Exhibition at the British Museum and Coming Out the Other Side Alive
12 November 2010
The British Museum's Autumn blockbuster exhibition 2010 focuses on Africa, Ancient Egypt to be precise. The round reading room has been split into 11 rooms filled with treasures and manuscripts never before seen together. In the best traditions of explorers past, Untold London ventures into
Museums, volunteering and the Big Society
09 November 2010
Museums are one of the test beds for the big society. 'Vanguard community' Liverpool is to build "a volunteer programme so they can keep museums open longer" - the words of David Cameron in his first major speech on the big society as prime minister.
Young Londoners track a Victorian explorer in Stories of the World at Orleans House
01 November 2010
It might sound strange - a project bringing together vulnerable young Londoners, a firmly moral Indian artist, and a maverick Victorian explorer with a penchant for erotic literature. But Orleans House is making it work.
The scheme is part of Stories of the World -
Book review: Landscape, Race and Memory: Material Ecologies of Citizenship by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly
27 October 2010
The season of mists and fruitful mellowness is upon us, who wants to go out in that? Untold London searches out some nourishing books to feed your brain in the forthcoming period of enforced hibernation.First up, Martha Mingay reports back on Landscape, Race and
Stories of the World maps journeys into diversity at the London Transport Museum
07 October 2010
If you want to check out 'Museum 2.0', you can find it now at the London Transport Museum. Four young people with diverse backgrounds have been collaborating with LTM on some of its biggest decisions, and bringing new perspectives to its collection.
Adelah, Elvis, Aobakwe and
Shedding Light
21 September 2010
Never has murky subterranean London been so refreshing; never somewhere so dark so illuminating. The contemporary art on display in the winding tunnels of ShoreditchTown Hall’s basement is as diverse in both execution and quality as one might expect from any group show
Explore magic, sacrifice and divination in the Congo, Paris.
23 July 2010
If you’re feeling the holiday buzz, but can’t tear yourself away for a full week in the sun, why not summer in the Congo (Paris) at the Quai de Branley Museum this weekend?The Quai de Branley holds a renowned collection of African
Lost Portrait Of Mary 'Mother' Seacole Goes On Display At NPG
16 April 2010
Caroline Lewis goes to see the only known painted portrait of Mary Seacole, the famous black nurse of the Crimean War, on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
The portrait, by an obscure artist, had been concealed under a framed print until a dealer unsealed
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