National Maritime Museum - project partner on SAILING TO BRITAIN, with TARA Arts, Greenwich Theatre, the Museum of Croydon & Croydon Clocktower

SAILING TO BRITAIN has been a very important project for the museum both in terms of the significance of the maritime historical content, the approach to working with this material and the audience involved. It has been a fantastic experience working with the project team at TARA, their enthusiasm for this history and its importance has inspired and helped us in our own work. The young people involved in the week long project exploring the role of archives and archive material at the museum were amazing. There is so much potential for future partnerhsip work with the museum both through archives, exhibitions and learning - it is hard to know where to begin. It has given real impetus to the will to bring this hidden history into a wider public understanding, to explore our collections further and to demonstrate to the wider Museum that there is public thirst to know more.

We look forward to continuing our partnership on the Sailing to Britain project and collaborating on future off-shoots of this important project.

Andrea Cunningham
Head of Informal Learning and Access
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF

We are grateful to London Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England & Wandsworth Council for their sustained support of the project.

Sailing to Britain awarded the Inspire mark from LOCOG

We were delighted to be awarded the INSPIRE mark by LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) for SAILING TO BRITAIN.

A huge thanks from the team at TARA to our partners, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Theatre, the Museum of Croydon, Croydon Clocktower and the Wandsworth Museum, the SAILING TO BRITAIN team and the fantastic young people from across the whole of London who participated in the project over the past eighteen months.

To date over 300 young people have participated and over 4000 people have attended the exhibition, performances and workshops.

Teachers and students wanting to know more about the project and to run National Curriculum related activities at Key Stage 4 can download the free Education Resource Pack from http://www.tara-arts.com/#/participate

Thanks to our project funders, Arts Council, London Councils, Heritage Lottery Fund and Wandsworth Council.

Hannah Brennan and Jusnara Zaman spent five days learning archiving and exhibition skills in autumn 2009 at the National Maritime Museum at the end of the week they presented a fantastic interactive exhibition including a glimpse a the Death Book and Lascar Death Certificates! The Museum staff, friends, family and the TARA project team where hugely impressed by the girls achievement.

SAILING TO BRITAIN

An interactive summer project led by TARA which will end in a major performance on the River Thames in London 2012.

If your are aged between 14 to 19 years and want to research and perform a new piece of theatre inspired by lascars - migrant seafarers from India, China and West Africa - contact TARA Studio, Greenwich Theatre and Croydon Clocktower, or call 0208 333 4457, admin@tara-arts.com.

We will be running taster workshops at all 3 venues in June for the Story of London.

SAILING TO BRITIAN is supported by London Councils and Arts Council England.