Archive for August, 2012
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For the last two years HRP learning have been working with an organisation called RepLondon which has been preparing young people from the five Olympic boroughs to volunteer as Team London Ambassadors at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Alex Drago, Education Manager at the Tower of London, and Alan Kingshott, Chief Yeoman Warder, have run a [...]
We have worked with the Needlefoot Dance company over the past couple of weeks to create a film Into the Digital Dollhouse Five short dance films were created in different locations inside and outside the palace combining young professional dancers and actors and community participants. They will becreatively edited and the finished film will be [...]
Hello, This is my first blog post from my placement at Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, Holland. I arrived by eurostar on Sunday evening and settled into my lovely new flat just outside the centre of Apeldoorn. The town is gorgeous, very leafy and quiet with lovely little roads and parks to explore. I tried out [...]
Goedemorgen, I’m Jenny Wedgbury, the Education Officer at Kensington Palace and I’m just about to start a month’s placement at Het Loo Palace in Holland. I’ve been given a grant from the European Commission Leonardo programme to spend a month working with the education team at Het Loo Palace. The aim of the placement is to [...]
Throughout the summer holidays we have been having lots of fun on Mondays with our “Fun Monday” free family activities. Over the 5 Mondays which we have run activities we have had 1627 happy visitors, breaking our record from last year by 115 – which is great – especially as the first three Mondays were [...]
Last term we worked with Chocolate Films and students from Brentford School for Girls on the Take me to London project. As part of this project, young people from West London visited a number of different museums and galleries in central London and learned digital story telling skills through creative workshops. Take Me To London is a creative [...]
Roll up to Hampton Court Palace with both the devil and the angel on your shoulder on Monday 3rd September, as we celebrate lives of virtue and of vice. Inspired by the decadent and divine subjects featured in our current exhibition The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned, we’ve teamed up with those learned rogues [...]
Here are some images of our new Cabinet of Curiosities at Kensington! We worked with artist Tom Barnecut and Year 7 boys from Westminster School to create objects and cataloguing inspired by Queen Caroline’s cabinet of the 1730′s. This cabinet was originally housed at Kensington and consisted of the following weird, wonderful and curious items: • Flaggons [...]
We’ve just had a set of 2D illustrated Crown Jewels created for use at community events – and we think that they’re great! We commissioned the artist Emma Rios to make a huge gold frame so that people can try on robes, stand (or sit on a throne!) behind it, and hold the cartoon regalia [...]
Did you miss the chance to see our recent Take One exhibition at Banqueting House? Well, fear not – you now have the chance to view selected images of work from our Take One Armour project online, by visiting our Flickr site. Click on the link to be redirected automatically. Please feel free to add [...]