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As part of the Museum’s marketing campaign – it was envisaged that it would be good for Red Location Museum to work on a community project with the immediate surrounding residents which would simultaneously afford the Museum the opportunity to add to its collections.

A Group of 20 Red Location Residents (age group 50 and upwards) is to be invited to participate in a project where they would be able to tell their narrative in a three dimensional memory book format.

Such an exercise would equip Red Location Museum with authentic and creative constructions for its permanent collection, encourage the community to tell their stories in visual format and subsequently provide an opportunity for the participants to earn income from the project through promotional materials (booklets and postcards)
to be produced and marketed from the memory books.

All profits through the latter would go to the participants.

Objective:
The Red Location Museum Memory book Project is intended to create an awareness of the functions of art and how the individual can benefit from its processes. The project was initiated with the aim of providing an introduction to the knowledge and skills, employed by artists using found objects from their environment, in
the visual expression of personal and private narratives.

Participants attending the workshops will be provided with practical and visual examples of how the creative individual, through the medium of art, can participate in a social beneficiary excavation of meaning and memory.

The Memory Book Project will thus engender a responsibility for every creative individual to take part in the creation of a flexible, diverse and cohesive social language, the artistic language, with the quintessential aim of self and social empowerment.

‘Art’ should be everybody’s activity; it should commit itself to a continuous revaluation of human thought, a philosophical recording of concepts, behaviours and belief systems that have, thus far, had any significant influence on the context in which humanity has understood and experienced itself.

This project will focus on the facilitation of a creative environment in which each participant will be assisted in the production of and art work (memory book) using found material sand objects from their environment.

The project will assist in producing a forum for open discussion on various topics related to artistic creativity, ranging from the formal elements of art to subject matter and the creation of personal iconography.

Sanrio Memories book. This fantastic book details all of Sanrio's characters from the 1970s to 2010. There's really rare characters in here that I had never seen before! I promise that I'll scan some of my favourite pages for all to enjoy...