We are excited to announce our Utopia Season at the Rumble Museum starting in May and running through until the end of July. The season will explore the concept of utopia throughout history to the present day, as well as looking ahead to ideas and hopes for the future, through a range of displays, projects, competitions, debates, and events, culminating in a Utopia Day on Monday 3rd July.
We are kicking off our season of events with a school wide competition to some up with an artistic response to the concept of utopia, whether it be in art, as a poem or story, or an essay or some other means. We will turn all the entries into a Utopia digital and literal wall at our Utopia Day. Professor Danny Dorling from the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford will be our first speaker to launch the season on Friday 5th May.
We have created a display of utopian fiction and writing through time in our front reception display case, with labels and also large letters decorated by our Year Nine Museum Council students to reflect utopian ideas. The cabinet includes Plato's Republic, Thomas More's Utopia, William Morris' News from Nowhere, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, ARIA by Kozue Amano set in a future Venice-like city, Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, and other utopian works. You can pop in and take a look at the display between now and the end of July.
More news about Utopia Season will be posted here so keep an eye out for events, talks and more, all on a utopian theme!
