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.

Family Workshops at the Museum of Croydon

As a part of the SAILING TO BRITAIN exhibition at the Museum of Croydon in Croydon Clocktower this summer TARA with the museum team ran a series of workshops for families to animate the exhibition. Working with an artist, children with their parents and guardians created treasures chests and masks inspired by Lascari objects from the exhibition.

Over 121 adults and children participated in the heritage workshops and 2000 visitors experienced the exhibition in May and June 2010.

We are grateful to the Heritage Lottery Find - young roots programme for the support of the heritage work on SAILING TO BRITAIN in 2010.

Congratulations - Arts Award success!

The team at TARA are delighted to congratulate Ross Binfield, Raychell Mack, Saif Beejay, Hannah Phillips and Hannah Brennan on being awarded a Bronze ARTS AWARD for their contribution to and participation in SAILING TO BRITAIN this year.

Sailing to Britain - telling untold stories of Lascars

Presentations from the SAILING TO BRITAIN exhibition at the Museum of Croydon, summer 2010. Highlighting the untold stories of Lascars and the young people's acheivements who are participating in the project.