#the wallich

[thewhitecurl]

OCTOBER LOT

Join us in raising funds for @TheWallich and @ShelterCymru this month, check them out in the thread below! Donate £5 for 1 or £10 for 3. Just donate directly at the links below and send us a DM on Twitter. More info here: http://thewhitecurl.com/new

Donate directly to @TheWallich. Throughout the Coronavirus crisis, services remain open across Wales, with teams committed to ensuring that help is there for anyone experiencing homelessness.

https://thewallich.com/donate/

Donate directly to @ShelterCymru. Your donations mean their frontline services can continue to help individuals and families to find and keep a home, services that are needed now more than ever due to the current crisis.

https://sheltercymru.org.uk/donate/donate-now/

If currency restrictions or region locks prevent you from donating, please reach out for other options! As always, you never pay for production or shipping so we can maximize what these charities receive. Check out our FAQs to learn more. https://www.thewhitecurl.com/frequentlyasked

[museumwales]

Our Who Decides? exhibition is closing on the 2nd September. All this week we’re sharing some thoughts and memories of the project.

Big big thanks to the 10 volunteer curators from The Wallich who collectively spent more than 1000 hours creating the exhibition!

The project would not have been possible without them, and their hard work and brilliant ideas have changed our museum for the better.

[museumwales]

Our Who Decides? exhibition is closing on the 2nd September. All this week we’re sharing some thoughts and memories of the project.

If you’re unfamiliar with the project, this piece from The Wallich gives a good overview: 

“Art belongs to us all but only a small number of people are empowered to make decisions about how museums decide what to show, what is collected and how it is represented. National Museum Cardiff has invited The Wallich's service users - many of whom have experienced homelessness - to co-curate their own exhibition of modern and contemporary art. Who Decides? has been selected from the hundreds of paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, prints, and installations that the Museum and the Derek Williams Trust have acquired over the last 10 years.”

It’s not too late to visit, but you’ll have to hurry!

[museumwales]

Great news! Our wonderful exhibition Who Decides?, curated by people who have experienced homelessness, has been shortlisted in the 2018 Epic Awards.

The project has not just challenged perceptions of homelessness, but also made contemporary art accessible to all by challenging widely held beliefs and misconceptions.

It would be amazing if you could take 60 seconds to follow the link and vote for ‘The Wallich - Who Decides’!

[museumwales]

Alexander Adams - Boy (C)

(Olew ar gynfas / Oil on canvas, 1998-1999)

See this work and many others in our Who Decides? exhibition of contemporary art, curated not by museum staff but service users from The Wallich.

[museumwales]

Mae casgliadau'r amgueddfa yn eiddo i bawb, ond fel arfer, nifer fach o bobl sydd yn cael penderfynu beth a gesglir, a sut mae’n cael ei arddangos.

Ydy hyn yn deg?

Mae Penderfyniad Pwy? wedi'i guradu gan bobl sy'n defnyddio canolfan Y Wallich, elusen sy’n cefnogi pobl sydd â phrofiad o fod yn ddigartref yng Nghymru.

Gallwch chi gyfrannu at Penderfyniad Pwy? trwy bleidleisio i ‘ryddhau’ eich hoff waith celf o’r storfa a’i arddangos yn gyhoeddus.

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The museum's collections belong to everyone, but only a small number of people normally make decisions about what is collected and how it is displayed. 

Is this fair?

Our forthcoming exhibition, Who Decides?, is curated by service users from The Wallich, a charity supporting people who have experienced homelessness in Wales.

You can also contribute to Who Decides? by voting for your favourite work to be ‘released’ from the store and placed on public display.

Read more on our website.