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| From left: Phillipa Dowdeswell, Edward Trist, Katherine-Anne Crabb and Amy Davy surveying the fruits of their labour. |
Dorset Young Remembers is a unique project. We are twenty young volunteers helping Dorset youth clubs discover their 70 year old history. It goes from tents to twitter and from hiking to hot pants. We are using games, oral history recordings, Geocaching and an exhibition at Dorset County Museum in 2012 to make this story come alive.
Friday, 8 June 2012
Fun & Friendship with Our Neighbours
By Jack Welch, Volunteer press Officer
As the compilation of the final museum display boards takes place with volunteers collapsing on sofas with exhaustion and an encroaching deadline, the team here at DYR were thankful for the additional group adrenaline, courtesy of the Dorset County Museum. Under the superb guidance of our Geocaching Co-ordinator and Graphics Designer, Edward Trist, three young members came in to support the largest presentation of a scrapbook yet! The Fun & Friendship/Activities board was the task. Katherine-Anne Crabb, Amy Davy, who is currently undertaking an MA in Museum Studies, and Phillipa Dowdeswell gave a refreshing boost in checking the content of the board, whilst keeping in check some of our group's excessive 'creative energies'. Their expertise on what works in a museum environment ensured we edited down the photographs and words to a number manageable for a museum visitor.
Not only that, but the girls who attended also learned a lot about the new system adopted for our Mac computer, known as 'Comic Life'. As they twisted, teased and scaled images to suit the template we are working with, they too learned the necessary technical skills, which up till now they had only reviewed. As they left to return to the museum, the group were very pleased with the efforts made by our young volunteers and are very excited to introduce the innovative and colourful display to the general public soon.
