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SPACE TO THINK: RURAL WELLBEING

June 22, 2021 - August 31, 2021
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom
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Free
Ploughing field with a tractor

Created by 3rd year Museum Studies Students: Katherine Barnes, Madeleine Bousfield, Jack Chandler, Jemma Jarman, and Freya Pook. Discussing and raising awareness of mental health has increased in recent years, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic. This exhibition explores the topic of mental health and the countryside in relation to art, gardening, music, literature, and farming. The exhitbion […]

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QUEER CONSTELLATIONS

July 6, 2021 - September 23, 2021
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom
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Free
Black and white photograph of two men looking at each other in a landscape setting, by Gemma Dagger.

Queer Constellations is an exhibition that poses the question as to whether there is queerness in rural life. It brings together artists from around the UK and Ireland, including Epha J Roe, James Aldridge, Emma Plover, Gemma Dagger, Eimear Walshe, Claye Bowler and Daniel Baker, to delight in the strangeness of rural life and to […]

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THE STARS ARE BRIGHTER HERE

July 7, 2021 - July 14, 2021
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom
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£10
Poster for The Stars Are Brighter Here, written and directed by Timothy Allsop

The Stars Are Brighter Here is a Turn of Phrase production by Timothy Allsop based on oral testimony from interviews with LGBTQIA+ people from across the UK. On a site-specific journey through different parts of the museum, including the galleries and garden*, you will get to meet modern and historical characters and hear some of […]

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