Well, firstly, I’d like to apologise for a lack of updates. Lots of things have happened and we’ve both been incredibly busy!

Whilst working with the Learning team, I have been involved in a couple of major events. Firstly there was the White Night festival in October, a celebration of the cultural happenings in the city by opening arts venues into the night and putting on special events for one night only. I was working in the Music Room in the Pavilion, looking after the musicians that were performing in the room and making sure the public were well behaved and flowed through the building. The night went really well – we had almost 2000 visitors over the course of the evening and everyone was really positive about the events that were happening in our venues.

Secondly was Christmas at the Royal Pavilion. This was a five-day event held in the pavilion in the run up to Christmas in which children can visit Father Christmas and go on a special tour of the Pavilion. I was heavily involved in the organisation of the event, mainly by planning and buying the presents for the children to receive – nearly 1000 of them! I also had to buy lots of wrapping paper and spent a day wrapping presents with Foundation volunteers. During the event, I was running round, making sure the actors who play Father Christmas, his elves and various characters from the Pavilion (including the cook and Prince George) were all ok and running to time and generally helping the other people working on the event, as well as aiding the visitors. The event went really well and we have received a lot of positive comments.

Zak and I paid a visit to the Lighthouse digital media centre in The Lanes at the beginning of November. One of their employees, Alice, has been doing the same award as us through City College and we’ve met her a few times. It’s really nice to have someone to chat to who is doing similar work with College and finding out how she involves her coursework into her job. We were met by Alice and her college Jamie and were given a tour of the venue and an overview of what they do and how they work. It was interesting to find out how unique the venue is and about the projects that they do.

Just before Christmas, Zak and I completed our course!! We each made a 20 minute presentation for our Technical Certificate about the organisation in which we work and how it fits into the Creative and Cultural sector. We did our presentations in front of Marcus, our assessor and Jean who is City College’s skills advisor who were both really happy with our work! A copy of our presentation along with our award folders have gone off to the College to be assessed before we get our certificates! It was really exciting to complete our qualification and to now be able to concentrate on working until our time here ends at the end of the month.
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Recently, I’ve been working on a project with the Community Engagement Officer to produce a video to promote young people using our services. I am working with a film maker and various groups of young people who use Brighton Museum, such as Brighton Youth Theatre and the Museum’s Event Collective. If the film makes its way onto YouTube, I will make sure I post it here.

I have also been working on a project with Fundraising which is still secret at the moment but is very exciting and meant I had a lovely morning in London visiting the Sir John Soane museum to meet with their Director and Head of Fundraising.

I also spent a few days with Kevin Bacon, the Curator of Photographs, uploading images onto the asset bank and scanning slides. It was really nice to work with a curator, even though it was only for a short time, as we haven’t had much contact with collections during our time here.

We've got lots to do in our last few weeks here but I'll make sure I do a last post before we leave!


Cassie