BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3088@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180126 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180416 DTSTAMP:20180108T144121Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/museum-liverpool-blind-school-pi oneering-people-places/ SUMMARY:Museum Of Liverpool: Museum of Liverpool: The Blind School: Pioneer ing People and Places DESCRIPTION:Personal stories and objects reveal the history of the UK’s first school for blind people\, in a new exhibition to be staged at the Mu seum of Liverpool.\n\nFounded in 1791\, Liverpool’s Royal School for th e Blind\, in particular its buildings and the everyday lives of students\, is central to The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places\, running at the Museum of Liverpool from 26 January until 15 April 2018.\n\nSuppor ted by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)\, The Blind School: Pioneering Peo ple and Places has been made possible thanks to National Lottery players. \n\nThe exhibition features unique objects from the Museum’s own collect ion alongside loans\, personal stories and a film made in partnership with visually impaired and blind students from St Vincent’s School for Senso ry Impairment\, West Derby.\n\nThe exhibition is curated in partnership wi th Accentuate’s History of Place project\, which explores 800 years in t he lives of deaf and disabled people\, and highlights accessible interpret ation including audio description\, BSL and multisensory features.\n\nIt i s estimated today that there are one billion disabled people in the world. Yet the history of deaf and disabled people continues to be overlooked\, despite their stories being intrinsic to the environments we live in and a round every day. The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places\, explor es what the architectural legacy of the School can reveal about the lives of those connected with it.\n\nThe Liverpool Blind School was founded by t he blind abolitionist and human rights campaigner Edward Rushton\, along w ith a number of his blind and sighted associates.\n\nRushton had first han d experience of slavery through working on slave ships. His compassion for \, and proximity to enslaved people led him to contract a disease which co st him his sight. As a result of his experiences of blindness and poverty and realising the poor treatment and life chances of many less wealthy bli nd people\, he founded the school to offer training and skills.\n\nThe exh ibition gives us a moving insight into the daily lives of the pupils\, the strict rules that they had to follow\, how they crafted superb objects fo r sale and their leisure pursuits. The exhibition also considers how altho ugh learning trades enabled students to earn a living this sometimes repla ced the basic education they were entitled to.\n\nCentral to the story are the three purpose-built buildings that housed the school during its histo ry and how changing attitudes reflected the changing architecture to meet the needs of pupils.\n\nKay Jones\, Curator of Urban Community History sai d: “We are proud to be working with History of Place on this exhibition. The story of Liverpool’s Royal School for the Blind is not only a fasci nating local story but has a much broader relevance too. The School has be en through many changes and this exhibition draws on these to reflect chan ging attitudes in society.\n\n“This remarkable\, pioneering school was s et up in Liverpool by blind and sighted individuals. As only the second s chool of its kind in the world\, it led the way in educating and empowerin g blind people. It has changed hundreds of people’s lives in its almost 300 year history\, and continues to do so.”\n\nEsther Fox\, Head of the Accentuate Programme said: “Our History of Place project has been workin g with communities across the country to shine a spotlight on 800 years of history\, specifically telling the stories of deaf and disabled people. O ur exhibitions hosted by our partner museums represent a fantastic opportu nity to showcase artefacts which have not been seen before as well as push the boundaries as to what we mean by making exhibitions accessible.  Dis abled people have been at the heart of the research process\, along with t he design and creation of the exhibition\, this leads to a much richer and more authentic experience.”\n\nwww.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/blindschool\ n\n#BlindSchool\n\nThe Blind School: Pioneering Places and People is part of History of Place\, a national project run by Accentuate\, to explore t he deep connections between the histories of deaf and disabled people and the built environment.\n\nYou can also visit History of Place’s other ex hibitions:\n\nBrave Poor Things: Reclaiming Bristol’s Disability History  at M Shed\, Bristol\, until April 2018.\n\nWithout Walls: Disability and Innovation in Building Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London \, 10 February – September 2018 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/01/Courtesy-of-National-Museums-Liverpool-Stewart-Bale-collection-9 747-1-Merseyside-Maritime-Museum-email.jpg LOCATION:Museum Of Liverpool\, Pier Head\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool \, L3 1DG\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406165;-2.995119 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Pier Head\, Liverpool Water front\, Liverpool\, L3 1DG\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100 ;X-TITLE=Museum Of Liverpool:geo:53.406165,-2.995119 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR