Anand Chhabra’s Supnaa: Dreams of our father photographic project has been funded with an outreach effort to engage local Punjabi groups in Derby.The Museum of Making kindly and generously hosted the Sinfin Mens group. The importance of this visit cannot be understated as the Punjabi men who are mainly Sikhs in Derby have worked 30 years minimally in Derby’s factories and foundries. Sadly often groups don’t know the heritage of their work available on their doorstep and do not engage in the arts or think its for them. This was the first time for many of these wonderful gentlemen to step inside a Museum and discover so much that they had in common around the history of making that happened in Derby. Thanks to Arts Council for arranging accessibility funding for these kinds of visits and to Laura Phillips who did so much to host and made the group feel at home.
Museum of Making host the Sinfin mens group and show them the heritage of making that they themselves were part in Derby. In partnership with artist Anand Chhabra