The Cardiff Story Museum is celebrating being shortlisted for Culture 24’s Connect 10 artist finale.
The Connect10 competition is a part of Culture 24’s Museums at Night festival which aims to inspire after hours cultural events at museums, galleries and heritage sites. The competition allows museums, libraries and archives to win the chance to work with a contemporary artist, and use the experience to reach out to new audiences and create a lasting legacy.
The Cardiff Story Museum has been shortlisted for the prize to work with Janette Parris alongside People’s History Museum, Manchester; Weston Park Museum, Sheffield and The New Art Gallery, Walsall. The winner of the prize will be selected via public vote. The public vote will open on Tuesday 14 January until Tuesday 28 January. Voting details can be found on Culture 24’s Museums at Night webpage www.museumsatnight.org.uk.
If successful the Cardiff Story Museum will be collaborating with the acclaimed contemporary artist Janette Parris whose work has been exhibited across the UK, and will receive a £2,000 bursary to create ‘alternastive’ tours delivered by a combination of actors, comedians, ventriloquists and puppets.
Cabinet Member for Sport, Leisure and Culture, Cllr Ramesh Patel, said
“This competition is a fantastic opportunity for the museum to work with artist Janette Parris and will be a unique opportunity for the museum to work with its diverse communities in a new way. I would encourage people to get behind the Cardiff Story Museum and cast their vote.”
Museum Manager, Victoria Rogers added, “Working with an acclaimed artist like Janette Parris is exciting enough, but asking Janette to be inspired by our galleries, objects and people’s stories collection means she will be sourcing her inspiration from the people of Cardiff. We want to make these tours as participatory as possible so if we beat the three other museums we are up against we will be looking for the people of Cardiff to help us co – create these tours and become a part of the story being told.”
