In Above the Noise we’ve collaborated with people who live and work in the district to explore how they make and shape Bradford using media technologies. As the exhibiton run has gone on there is one exhibt that we’ve added to. We kicked off the Bradford film exhibit with Peaceophobia! a film by Speaker’s Corner…
Read MoreConfront! Challenge! Change! Calling for activist films
As part of the Above the Noise: 15 Stories From Bradford exhibition we’re calling for films that challenge inequality and are pushing for social and political change. In Above the Noise we’ve collaborated with people who live and work in the district to explore how they make and shape Bradford using media technologies. 15 different…
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Fast FM Radio: Bradford and the Origins of Muslim Community Broadcasting – Seán McLoughlin
In an effort to cut down on pirate radio stations, the 1990 Broadcasting Act allowed short-term “Restricted Service Licences” (RSLs) for the first time. Such licences enabled community groups to broadcast for around one month within a local radius of around three to five kilometres. This new opportunity prompted pioneering broadcasters working on local Asian…
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‘Above the Noise’ Open Late for Open Iftar
Join us to explore the Above the Noise: 15 Stories from Bradford exhibition at the National Science and Media Museum until 7.30pm on 22nd, 23rd and 24th May. We’ve arranged special late evening openings on these days to coincide with the Ramandan Tent Project’s Open Iftar events held in City Park. Why not take the…
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Bradford’s Big Image Problem – Si Cunningham Explores Why Modern Media Imagery is Telling a Tale of Two Cities
A Google image search for the word ‘Bradford’ throws up some predictable results. Predictable, that is, if you’re a Bradfordian. The first few pages almost exclusively feature depictions of City Park, the vast new public space that laps up to the walls of Bradford’s awesome neo-gothic City Hall. This should come as no surprise to…
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Hello. Can you see me?
Pakeezah Zahoor has held roles in a number of cultural organizations and now works at the National Science and Media Museum. She has a background in postcolonial theory and is concerned with ideas surrounding race, culture and identity. This letter is written in response to the politics and practices of ‘the diversity agenda’. Replies welcome.…
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Meet the Mediators: The City Leader
The City Leader: Margaret Eaton Margaret Eaton was the Leader of Bradford Council between 2000 and 2006. As the city’s political head at the time of the 2001 disturbances, Baroness Eaton found herself thrust into the international spotlight when the world’s media turned its attention to Bradford How do you think the media, in general,…
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Above the Noise: 15 Stories From Bradford (15th March-19th June)
The Bradford’s National Museum project is drawing on action research approaches. This means we are exploring our core questions through doing, through trying things out and through experimentation. One of the ways we are doing this – a key aspect of our research design – is to use an exhibition (opening to the public on…
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Locating Bradford in the Daily Herald Archive – by Peitong Li and Lynn Wray
What is the best way for people to recall their favourite memories? Perhaps opening up an old photo album, looking through all those snapshots of funny and heartrending moments? With the development of photojournalism, the newspaper in the twentieth century came to function like a photo album of the nation’s common memory. Every part of…
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Power, Purpose and Practices: Insatiable debates about community engagement and participation in museums by Helen Graham
This is part of a series of blogs exploring participation and community engagement. You can read about the Science Museum Group’s approach and future blogs will draw out the specific research agenda relating to participation and community engagement for the Bradford’s National Museum research project. The literature on participation and community engagement in museums can…
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