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December 1999

1st December 1999
Grenville Unit visit to the museum

Logo for Faust production

Maggie Doyle and four young people from the unit came to the museum for advice and support with the design of a logo for their production of Faust. The logo appeared on a T-shirt and programme and refelected the contemporary nature of the production.
8th December 1999
Walter Daw visit
Phil Mawdsley and Dominic Prosser, from the Telematics Centre, visited Walter Daw to record interviews with some of the children involved in the Walter Daw Choice exhibition. The children's comments were later used as sound clips in the virtual exhibition on this WWW site and as captions in the exhibition.

17th December 1999
Atkinson Unit visit

Olaudah Equiano
Phil visited the unit and looked at slides of works from the fine art collection with several of the young people. This included dynamic discussion about a range of issues, for instance in, looking at the portrait of Olaudah Equiano (anon. 18thC) it was possible to address the history of slavery and contemporary racism.
 


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