Category: Events
National Creative Arts Competition for Over 65s
Re-imagining Wellbeing…
Re-imagining Wellbeing: Digitally Connecting the Dots… Ageing, Music, ICT and the Climate Crisis
on Feb 9th, 3 – 4.30 pm GMT
Please read poster for full details, including Zoom link and passcode.
Festival of Learning
Award Ceremony – Tuesday 3 November 2020, 6.00 – 7.45 pm
The award ceremony is a part of the inaugural Lifelong Learning Week, hosted by the Festival of Learning . Read more about the festival on their website and register your interest to attend the Awards Ceremony.
Ransackers Research Forum and AGM
“Learning from co-researchers: health, wellbeing and avoiding isolation”
10:00 – 16:00 on October 14th, 2019
Committee Room 1, Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt St, London NW1 1BD
(Mornington Crescent tube)
Book this FREE event: via Eventbrite, or email Hilary Farnworth
Download Flyer – 2019 Research Forum and AGM for full details
Ageing Well series of Public Talks at OU – starting 22nd October
Have your say to the Adult Education Commission
Workshop: Thursday, May 30th 2019, 11.00 to 1600
Location: Futurelearn, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP run by AEA (Association for Education and Ageing)
AEA present: Older Adult Education and Learning: the way forward
Ransackers supports this workshop and invites any later life learners who can get to North London to attend.
The Workshop will be discussing the issues, and then putting together a response, to the Adult Education Commission’s Call for ideas and evidence on the way forward for Adult Education in the UK in the future*. The Call comes on the occasion of the centenary of the post WWW1 Ministry of Reconstruction’s hugely important Report to Government, which established the principles of adult education provision in the UK up to the 1990s.
This Workshop will focus on the education and learning of older people in the UK in the next decades and collect together views and arguments that will be forwarded to the Commission after the workshop. A central issue will be the role of the State.
The format on May 30 will be a pre-workshop collection of responses to the introductory document, introductory short inputs, small group working sessions and concluding debate.
All welcome. Free attendance
*See https://www.wea.org.uk/get-involved/our-campaigns/adult-education-100
AGE/NCY: Art, Ageing and Transition
An exciting (and free) Tate Modern workshop organised by Flourishing Lives in collaboration with several artists, community groups and organisations, including Age Allies (Age UK London)
26–28 APRIL 2019, Blavatnik Building, Level 5
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/agency-art-ageing-and-transition
Age Allies have developed a plan of the Tate Modern exhibitor space, which is conceptualised as a board game, ‘Continuum‘
Lifelong learning at the RIBA and other museums
Wilson Yau
Digital Outreach Manager, RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is just one of many museums and cultural organisations in the UK working with older people to support lifelong learning. Together, they offer cultural activities, each unique to the communities they serve, locality and the historic and modern artefacts that they hold in their collections.
Since 2016 from its London base, the RIBA has grown its outreach activities and it works with older people, both individuals and community groups such as the Ransackers. This work uses architecture to reduce social isolation, break down digital barriers and support older people wanting to stay active and learn new skills. How has it done this? Firstly, by opening up its HQ building, exhibitions and library to enable everyone to learn about architecture for free. Back in May 2017, the RIBA team had the pleasure to spend time with the Ransackers when they visited for a guided tour of its building and architecture exhibitions.
The second was to welcome people by supporting their visits through engaging and free educational and creative art activities, such as drawing on iPads and model making, all with experienced RIBA staff. Uniquely, all visits and activities are inspired by architecture, whether that’s through the built environment in general, the RIBA’s own building or its collection of four million architectural books, models, photographs and drawings. The feedback received is that a visit to the RIBA is a positive and welcoming experience which offers participants a chance to overcome digital barriers in a supportive and social environment, and above all it was enjoyable for everyone involved – both staff and visitors.
Continue reading “Lifelong learning at the RIBA and other museums”
The Ruskin Gathering
Ransackers Association Conference and AGM 2018
‘Active Minds – Still Studying’
Celebrating International Day of the Older Person – October 1st
10:00 – 16:00 on 1st October, 2018
at FutureLearn, Hawley Crescent, London NW1 8NP – Google maps
Book this FREE event: via Eventbrite, or email Hilary Farnworth
Download 2018 flyer and programme for full details
