Author Archives: lynmooneyarts
Schools Workshop
Great news! This advert is going out to Glasgow schools. Please feel free to pass this information on / contact me for a copy. BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE FAIR! Where do Fun Fairs come from and where do they go? Use museum displays, objects and role-play to learn about the life and work of Showpeople in Glasgow. This workshop includes the Carter Family Caravan, an insight into early cinema and fun activities such as ‘setting up a stall’. Formal […]
Categories: Education, Glasgow Museums
Handling Objects
Working with schools in the museum, Learning & Access use displays to bring history to life and to start conversations about all sorts of topics. As we are not allowed to touch most of the objects in the museum, we use ‘handling objects’ to make the experience as true to real life as possible. We have original objects which pupils can carefully hold and touch. Some handling objects are too fragile for whole classes to touch but they can be […]
Categories: Education, Glasgow Museums • Tags: education, objects, The Riverside Museum
Amazing Spaces
‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ is a Channel 4 architecture series about living / holidaying in small spaces : http://www.channel4.com/programmes/george-clarkes-amazing-spaces/4od#3488336
Categories: Reference • Tags: George Clarke
Photies …
Categories: Visits • Tags: collection, Glasgow Fair, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Kelvinhall, models, objects, poster, wagon
Fun at the Fair – Largs visit
All the Fun of the Fair: – good company – fresh air – local museum – old photographs – history – sea – market – fish tea – ice cream – hook-a-duck – waltzers – sunshine – conversations – ideas
Categories: Visits • Tags: fair, Fair Glasgow, hook-a-duck, Largs, stalls, visit, visits
Just for fun …
When was the last time you went to a fun fair? What was your favourite ride or stall? As a child I liked to feel dizzy on the Waltzers and fly high on the Chair-o-planes. I love a bit of hook-a-duck but I’ve yet to win a prize! Do you remember being a showchild helping run the family business? Did you go on many rides? Did you ever sneak off to play when you should have been grafting?
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: business, Carters, children, rides, stalls, steam fair
Education for All
I believe that education should be accessible to all and that learning should be for life. So the work of the Scottish Traveller Education Programme (S.T.E.P.) is of great interest to me. S.T.E.P. have outlined some definitions of various travelling communities in Scotland on their website http://www.step.education.ed.ac.uk The following text is copied from the S.T.E.P. website and helped me to better understand the term ‘Showpeople’ from the outset of this project. Showpeople Showpeople are officially known as Occupational Travellers (currently this official label […]
Your Paintings
Here is John Powell’s ‘Motorcycle Speedway’: Motorcyclists (rounding board). Find this and 200 more paintings from The Dingles Heritage Centre online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings For more about Dingles see http://www.fairground-heritage.org.uk
Categories: Archive, Painting • Tags: Dingles, heritage, paintings, speedway
Fair Scotland 