Date: Saturday 12 October 2024, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Join us at the Castle Museum to celebrate Black History Month for a day of talks and tours to accompany Museumand’s exhibition, 70 Objeks and Tings. Lynda and Catherine, Directors of Museumand will give two guided tours of their exhibition and Yvie Holder, who has contributed to the exhibition, will be giving a poetry reading sharing stories and thoughts from the Windrush Generation.
Included in museum admission.
Timetable
10:30 – 11:30 – Guided tour
12:30 – 13:30 – Poetry reading
14:00 – 15:00 – Guided tour
Meet the team
Catherine Burrell – Founder Director of Museumand
I emigrated to the UK from the Caribbean island of St Kitts in 1958, aged seven years old, as part of the Windrush Generation. As the Founder Director of Museumand, I’m responsible for all the museum does (and what it doesn’t!) including how we present our projects in a way that engages, connects, and encourages visitors to recommend others should “come see”. When people tell us they came because of a recommendation or we overhear the phrase “I never knew that” our team high five each other, knowing it’s been a job well done and we’ve got the interpretation right.
A key part of my role involves harnessing collaborations, building partnerships, fundraising, and representing the museum at various events.
I am also a published author, former teacher, and management consultant. I have been a national strategic development adviser at both The British Red Cross and The Scout Association.
Lynda Burrell – Creative Director of Museumand
I studied fashion at London College of Fashion and Middlesex University and went on to have an exciting career in New York as a fashion designer for companies including Marc Jacobs, and as a fashion editor with magazines including Vogue and Marie Claire. I have also owned and run a number of successful beauty businesses and a line of cosmetics.
As the Creative Director of Museumand, I oversee every aspect of the creative process to make sure our projects are second to none, with every detail carefully crafted. We work with a diverse and multi-talented range of curators, artists and other creatives on exhibition-events and projects, but we manage and lead on all these aspects ourselves.
Creative excellence is at the heart of our vision and mission as an organisation, both in terms of our innovative, collaborative, unique approach; and our high-quality production values. I devise new ideas and unexpected ways of telling heritage stories that capture people’s imaginations and encourage them to become advocates for heritage sites and landscapes – including those who may not be familiar with, or feel welcome in, traditional heritage institutions.
Yvie Holder – Poet
Yvie Holder draws on her UK-Caribbean heritage to explore themes of memory, migration, loss, love and celebration. She has lived in Yorkshire for over sixty years. She enjoyed writing poetry during her schooldays in Hull and took it up seriously in later life.
Yvie features in York Castle Museum’s Objeks and Tings exhibition, one of the ‘Voices of York.’ As a descendant of the ‘Windrush Generation,’ she will read poems inspired by objects of her own and by the exhibition.
A former schoolteacher, adult education tutor and university equalities director, Yvie has experience as a volunteer, including trades union work, school governing, community relations and in the Alzheimer’s Society.
Winner of the Helen Cadbury Poetry Prize 2021, Yvie was commended (2014) and long-listed (2015) in the York Literature Festival Poetry Competition. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies, journals, magazines and online.
