Community Engagement 2-Week Placement

ABOUT HACKNEY MUSEUM

Hackney Museum is the community history museum for the borough. We work with local people to collect and share stories and objects about Hackney’s histories.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is exclusively for Hackney residents aged between 18-24 years old and is for 2 weeks/10 days, which can be worked flexibly over several weeks in agreement with museum staff.

This paid placement opportunity is part of a wider project called Reimagining Hackney Museum: Empowering Communities with Collections. This project is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to transform Hackney Museum’s permanent exhibition sharing stories of migration and settlement from prehistory to modern day. This project placement is an exciting opportunity to help shape the content in the new permanent exhibition and help audiences engage with local history in new and exciting ways.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

• You will be working with community groups made up of young people of African and South Asian heritage to prepare material for two short films that will feature in Hackney Museum’s new permanent exhibition.
• These films will tell the stories of individuals who travelled to Hackney in the 1600 to 1800s, fleeing persecution from enslavement, or as sailors onboard British ships.
• You will support the research and community engagement activities informing these films.
• Some travel within the borough of Hackney to reach community venues will be required.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How to create engaging digital storytelling (e.g. how to create a reel for Instagram or YouTube/TikTok short)
• How to use museum/archive collections to research histories of migration to Hackney and histories of the local area from the 1600s to 1800s
• How to work with communities and develop projects for and with young people using this research material
• How to curate film content for a permanent exhibition
  

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• An interest in Hackney’s diverse histories, particularly relating to South Asian and African accounts of migration and history of the local area from the 1600s to 1800s
• Basic IT skills