Community Day - Celebrating Culture, Community & Creativity
Date: 11:00-15:00 9 August 2024
Join us for a day full of family fun from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Friday 9 August 2024 for our free event.
Teddy Bears Picnic
Bring your your favourite stuffed animal for the teddy bears picnic. It's free but book your place as they fill up quickly.
11:30-12:00 12:30-13:00 13:30-14:00
Collaborative Artwork
Come along on and help us create a wonderful collaborative art exhibition. You will be creating unique artwork by exploring the themes of David’s childhood, exploring Central Africa, special artifacts/objects from the museum. Your stunning artwork will be displayed at the museum. We will be using colourful collage, markers, tissue paper, to express ourselves and to create artwork inspired by the objects from the museum collection. No Experience required, all welcome. Our lovely tour guides will take you into the museum, you will have storytelling session and explain to you about various items in the collection for you to be inspired to create something your very own artwork for our living legacy to David Livingstone.
Chief Chebe’s Magical Music
Join Chief Suleman Chebe on 9th of August from 11am 3pm for interactive music and storytelling session.
Science, Creative Museum Collection and Livingstone
Join us for science-based creative session, focussing on the local environment, with families and children, Get inspired by our museum collection and story, encouraging families, young people to learn about their local environment through science, creativity art and Culture
The Power of Poetry
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at poetry? We have just the opportunity. Be inspired by the beauty of nature around you in the parklands and the amazing collection in the museum and who knows you might find yourself ready to put pen to paper. This session will be lead by our in house poet Reyhaneh.
Classic School Sports Day
Join us in the main meadow for a day of classic school sports day activities, we will be hosting various games such as: Team Relay races, egg and spoon race, sack race and many more. We will round off our day with a mass game of rounders and a tug of war.
Please also see our other Events information.
