Working as a Community Engagement Consultant for the National Trust property at Kedleston Hall in Derby for their Year of Listening, Anand has been working reaching out to communities and encouraging them to explore the collection as well as help inform Kedleston Hall as to how to share the future curation of the Museum. For many of these such communities living in Derby they have been invited to explore freely and feedback to the National Trust reasons to bring about the changes needed for the Eastern Museum and how they would like to see a future curation take shape with their own cultural reasons for doing so.
Anand thought it would be good idea to invite a group of artists and academics and University students from South Asian origin to also put inform the year of listening at Kedleston. Joining up with Derby Museums, various days were held to invite small groups with big minds to feedback to the team of staff at Kedleston.
We also met to evaluate how far Kedleston hall has moved in community relationships through Anand’s role (see last two photographs) and the good news has been its been an upwards trajectory with links from communities, stakeholders and organisations, artists and academics for the Trust to build on going forward!
Staff introduce artists, academics and staff into the Eastern Museum at Kedleston Hall
Artists such as Joginder begin to discuss ways of curating the objects with a whole range of different groups who may visit
Feeding back to the questions set up by Anand & staff at Kedleston Hall.
Post it notes on thoughts to further questions displayed at the museum for feedback by Asian artists and academics.
Discussions continue after lunch about the changes that could be made by artists and academics to staff at Kedleston Hall.
A before graph charting Kedleston Hall’s community outreach connections before enlisting Anand Chhabra’s help.
An after graph of communities informed, consulted, engaged and partners raised during Anand’s role as CEC at Kedleston Hall.