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\n

Sampad South Asian Arts and British Council India Launch a New Anthology<\/h3>\n

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\nBirmingham-based organisation Sampad South Asian Arts and British Council India are proud to announce the launch of a brand new collection of short stories, poems and reportage compiled from the winning entries to their major international writing competition, \u2018Inspired by my Museum\u2019.<\/p>\n


\nThe competition invited budding writers, aged 16 and over, from around the world to record and share their personal reactions, connections or experiences inspired by a visit to a museum. Participants could respond to a museum space, architecture, design, a specific object or objects within a museum, or even a museum\/exhibition curator.<\/p>\n


\n480 entries were received from 32 countries around the world including Canada, Croatia, India, Ukraine, the UK and New Zealand.\u00a0 Writers took their inspiration from a diverse range of museum, both large and small, including Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, BMAG (UK), the Victoria & Albert Museum, V&A (London), the Indian Museum (Kolkata), the Museum of Broken Relationships (Croatia), the Slave Trade Museum (Nigeria), the BATA Shoe Museum (Canada) and the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (Ukraine). <\/p>\n


\nThe anthology was launched in Birmingham earlier this month as part of a special event hosted by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Soul City Arts, which saw a range of local and international artists also taking inspiration from the museum\u2019s environment and delivering live spoken word, poetry and musical performances responding to the gallery\u2019s current exhibition \u201cTrue to Life? New Photography from the Middle East\u201d.\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nDuring the event, writers of entries selected for publication were presented with their personal copies of the anthology and Frances Gapper from Rowley Regis was announced as the overall UK winner of the competition, with her entry \u2018The Terror of the Oceans\u2019 inspired by the Natural History Museum in London.<\/p>\n


\nFrances says:<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI’m absolutely delighted and thrilled to have been chosen as the overall UK winner – what a wonderful surprise! I’m pleased that my tribute to the Natural History Museum was selected, as I used to love going there as a child, with family and friends\u00a0 – we would always visit the awe-inspiring model of a blue whale, which I gather is still one of the main attractions. I’m proud to have a story in this excellent and beautifully produced anthology\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPiali Ray, Director of Sampad South Asian Arts says:<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe are delighted to have partnered with British Council India and the Museums\u2019 Association to realise this project and our special thanks go to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for hosting the launch of this new anthology. The response from 32 countries highlights the phenomenal diversity and rich culture of museums across the globe, which has inspired some very personal and emotional reactions from the writers. We were impressed and moved by the depth, range and imagination of the resulting work\u201d. <\/p>\n


\nThe three overall winning entries are:<\/p>\n


\nINDIA<\/p>\n


\nJaya Jain<\/p>\n


\nThe Fall , Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n


\nUK<\/p>\n


\nFrances Gapper<\/p>\n


\nThe Terror of the Oceans, Natural History Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nRUSSIA<\/p>\n


\nKatherine Turkina<\/p>\n


\nBlank Verse of Shadow Theatre. K. Malevich. \u201cBlack Square\u201d, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow<\/p>\n

Outstanding entries<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nINDIA<\/p>\n


\nAshwini Gowariker

\nThe Anchor of Wood, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Poland<\/p>\n


\nSharmila Mitra

\nThe Halls of Shadows, The Indian Museum, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nGaurav Sharma

\nUgly\/Beauty, The Louvre, Paris, France<\/p>\n


\nUK<\/p>\n


\nAndrew Lemming

\nLove Among the Exhibits ,Various<\/p>\n


\nLizzy Ridout

\nHanging Out ,National Portrait Gallery, London<\/p>\n


\nKenneth Adams

\nInspired By My Museum, Fleetwood Museum, Lancashire<\/p>\n

Highly Commended entries<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nCANADA<\/p>\n


\nJennifer Footman

\nAstarte\u2019s Pendant, The Cyprus Exhibition, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh<\/p>\n


\nINDIA<\/p>\n


\nAdrija Bandyopadhyay

\nNikita\u2019s Arrival ,The Indian Museum, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nShambhobi Ghosh

\nIn Time,The British Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nMrudula Patil

\nMuseum of National History, New York<\/p>\n


\nSharon Puthur

\nThe Handkerchief, The Prince of Wales, Museum, Mumbai<\/p>\n


\nNeelam Saxena Chandra

\nMahatma, Anand Bhawan, Allahbad<\/p>\n


\nUK<\/p>\n


\nSkye Bayley

\nTrapped ,Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent<\/p>\n


\nAndrew Campbell-Kearsey

\nThe Brighton Museum Cat ,Brighton Museum, East Sussex<\/p>\n


\nOran Crawford

\nThe Day I Met Evil, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Poland<\/p>\n


\nPhilip Howard

\nPauline in the Yellow Dress, Sir James Gunn, 1944: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire<\/p>\n

Full list of \u2018Inspired By My Museum\u2019 entries selected for publication<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nCANADA<\/p>\n


\nCheryl Braganza

\nMy 1964 Sexual Awakening: Grosvenor Gallery,London, UK<\/p>\n


\nJennifer Footman

\nAstarte\u2019s Pendant: The Cyprus Exhibition,

\nNational Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK<\/p>\n


\nNayoung Jin

\nSeahorse: The Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver<\/p>\n


\nCROATIA<\/p>\n


\nIva Tkalec

\nOrdinary Love: Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb<\/p>\n


\nFRANCE

\nLouise Robinson-Brouze

\nAn Awakening: The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt 8<\/p>\n


\nINDIA

\nVinita Agrawal

\nPriest King: National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan<\/p>\n


\nFrancis Anthony

\nHow Tropical Kerala Unearthed my Buried Cultural Memories:

\nMattancherry Palace, Kochi, Kerala<\/p>\n


\nAdrija Bandyopadhyay

\nNikita\u2019s Arrival: The Indian Museum, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nAnneshya Banerjee

\nInspired by My Museum: Netaji Museum, Giddapahar, Kurseong<\/p>\n


\nIshani Banerji

\nIn Midst Of Oblivion: The Indian Museum, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nSiddhartha Basak

\nHome: The British Museum, London, UK<\/p>\n


\nDivyesh Bhandari

\nMuseum Man: Leeds City Museum, UK<\/p>\n


\nMegha Chatterjee

\nKurusura Submarine Museum: Vishakhapatnam<\/p>\n


\nMadhulika Dutta

\nDreams: National Museum, New Delhi<\/p>\n


\nManaswita Ghosh

\nAn Imagination from the Past, an Inspiration for the Present:

\nVictoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nShambhobi Ghosh

\nIn Time: The British Museum, London, UK<\/p>\n


\nAshwini Gowariker

\nThe Anchor of Wood: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Poland<\/p>\n


\nAnjali Gupta

\nImpressions\u2026: Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India<\/p>\n


\nNita Idnani

\nA National Museum on The Life and Works of Sardar Patel:

\nSardar Memorial-Ahmedabad<\/p>\n


\nDeepa Kylasam Iyer

\nWall Paper: La Tour de la Lanterne, La Rochelle, France<\/p>\n


\nJaya Jain

\nThe Fall: Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n


\nMukul Kumar

\nThe Remnants of Independence: Swatantrata Sangram Sanghralaya,

\nRed Fort, Delhi 45<\/p>\n


\nSreya Mallika Datta

\nInconsequentiality: Museo Nacional Del Prado, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n


\nSharmila Mitra

\nThe Halls of Shadows: The Indian Museum, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nArchita Mittra

\nThe Silent Storyteller: Kolkata Panorama (Town Hall), Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nArpita Mittra

\nThe Museum of Museums: The Heritage of North Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nUtsa Mukherjee

\nMe and my Colours!: National Museum of Bhutan, Paro, Bhutan<\/p>\n


\nJuhi Neogi

\nMy Visit to the Bard\u2019s Home: Tagore Museum,

\nJorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata<\/p>\n


\nMrudula Patil

\nMuseum of National History, New York, USA<\/p>\n


\nSharon Puthur

\nThe Handkerchief: The Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai<\/p>\n


\nMythili Rao

\nThe Threshold: Museum at Jaipur and Delhi<\/p>\n


\nNeelam Saxena Chandra

\nMahatma: Anand Bhawan, Allahbad<\/p>\n


\nMithu Sen

\nMOU (Museum of Unbelongings):

\nThe Cabinets at my Home, New Delhi<\/p>\n


\nGaurav Sharma

\nUgly\/Beauty: The Louvre, Paris, France<\/p>\n


\nVatsala Sharma

\nPhotographs: A Window to the Past and Memories:

\nNational Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi<\/p>\n


\nAarushi Singh

\nCuriousete: CSMVS, Fort, Mumbai<\/p>\n


\nShanta Singha

\nShe: Guwahati, Assam State Museum<\/p>\n


\nShreya Sudesh

\nOf Light on Legacies: Egmore Museum, Chennai<\/p>\n


\nSneha Sundaram

\nThe Weeping Woman: Tate Modern, London, UK<\/p>\n


\nAnnie Besant Tresa Rani

\nWelcome to the Museum: The British Museum, London, UK<\/p>\n


\nIRELAND<\/p>\n


\nZoha Ahmed

\nVincent Van Gogh: The British Museum, London, UK<\/p>\n


\nITALY<\/p>\n


\nMartin Bennett

\n\u2018The Last of England\u2019: After a painting by Ford Madox Brown,

\nBirmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK<\/p>\n


\nNEW ZEALAND<\/p>\n


\nShih Yen Chang

\nLotus Shoes: Otago Museum, Dunedin<\/p>\n


\nNIGERIA<\/p>\n


\nEmecheta Christian

\nThe Museum: National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos<\/p>\n


\nFrancis Ugochukwu Maduakor

\nGloom: National War Museum, Umuahia<\/p>\n


\nUbio Obu

\nThe Last Drum of Freedom: Slave Trade Museum,

\nCalabar, Cross River, Nigeria<\/p>\n


\nPAKISTAN<\/p>\n


\nAriba Zahir

\nOf Massive Wings, Metallic Bodies And Mechanical Birds\u2026:

\nPAF Museum Karachi, Shahra-e-Faisal<\/p>\n


\nRUSSIA<\/p>\n


\nKatherine Turkina

\nBlank Verse of Shadow Theatre. K. Malevich \u201cBlack Square\u201d:

\nThe State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow<\/p>\n


\nSERBIA

\nMilan Simonovic

\nWhen My Dream Comes True: Narodni Muzej, Belgrade<\/p>\n


\nSINGAPORE<\/p>\n


\nYu Ching Tan

\nGlass Changes: National Museum of Singapore<\/p>\n


\nSRI LANKA

\nRossana Favero-Karunaratna

\nThat Small Museum!: Yatala<\/p>\n


\nSWIZERLAND

\nElsa Fischer

\nThe Old Masters: \u201cStill Life\u201d Exhibit. \u2013 Kunstmuseum, Basel 2009<\/p>\n


\nUKRAINE<\/p>\n


\nAntonina Litak

\nWe Are All Leaves Of The Same Tree:

\nThe Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Uzhhorod<\/p>\n


\nAlla Vovk

\nKiev, Independence Square<\/p>\n


\nUNITED KINGDOM

\nKenneth Adams

\nInspired By My Museum: Fleetwood Museum, Lancashire<\/p>\n


\nRobert Awork

\nMy daughter and the Museum: Liverpool Museum<\/p>\n


\nPeter Barnfather

\nReflections: Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris, France<\/p>\n


\nSkye Bayley

\nTrapped: Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent<\/p>\n


\nSarah Beney

\nRemembrance: RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, Neatishead, Norfolk<\/p>\n


\nAnna Berg

\nThe Teacher Smiled: Imperial War Museum North, Manchester<\/p>\n


\nRachel Bourne

\nThe Bigger Picture: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry<\/p>\n


\nBecky Bye

\nThe Museum: Sturminster Newton Museum, North Dorset<\/p>\n


\nTerry Caffrey

\nGlass I: St. Helen\u2019s Glass Museum, Merseyside<\/p>\n


\nAndrew Campbell-Kearsey

\nThe Brighton Museum Cat: Brighton Museum, East Sussex<\/p>\n


\nJane Campion Hoye

\nWaterfall Glory: The Guinness Storehouse Museum, Dublin, Ireland<\/p>\n


\nGlynis Charlton

\nKrill: Maritime Museum, Hull<\/p>\n


\nLynda Clark

\nClimbing Stairs in Karlsruhe: Badisches Landemuseum,

\nKarlsruhe, Germany<\/p>\n


\nPhoebe Clothier

\nThe Will To Survive: Imperial War Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nOran Crawford

\nThe day I met Evil: Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Poland<\/p>\n


\nMel Cross

\nSalute: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford<\/p>\n


\nNija Dalal

\nLost; Manchester Museum, Manchester<\/p>\n


\nLinda Delderfield

\nWaste of Space: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham<\/p>\n


\nCathie Devitt

\nKelvingrove:Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n


\nRani Drew

\nHeritage: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge<\/p>\n


\nJoss Emmett

\nArt In Every Form: The Holburne Museum, Bath<\/p>\n


\nOlive Gallagher

\nThe Cloam Oven: Combe Martin Museum, North Devon<\/p>\n


\nFrances Gapper

\nThe Terror of the Oceans: Natural History Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nRosie Garland

\nSir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of his Wife:

\nManchester Museum, Manchester<\/p>\n


\nUschi Gatward

\nToothbrush Ring: Huntingdon War Museum, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire<\/p>\n


\nThomas Giles

\nLost Technology: National History Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nWendy Goulstone

\nEarth Mother: Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand<\/p>\n


\nLinda Hardy

\nAt The Museum: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham<\/p>\n


\nHilary Hares

\nA Gift for the Button Museum: Birmingham Button Museum (now closed)<\/p>\n


\nPhilip Howard

\nPauline in the Yellow Dress, Sir James Gunn, 1944:

\nHarris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire<\/p>\n


\nAnna Hunter

\nA Journey Into Awe: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland<\/p>\n


\nSophie-Louise Hyde

\nStill Credited to a Woman: Charnwood Museum,

\nLoughborough, Leicestershire<\/p>\n


\nLucy Jackson

\nTouching the Past: The Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire<\/p>\n


\nSimon Jackson

\nSgriob: The Dufftown Whisky Museum, Speyside, Scotland<\/p>\n


\nTom Jones

\nThe Museum: Newark-on-Trent Museum in about 1953<\/p>\n


\nI.M. Khalifa

\nSakura and The Ivory Carver: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford<\/p>\n


\nChris Kinsey

\nThe Meteorite Hunters: The Spaceguard Centre,

\nnear Knighton, Powys, Wales<\/p>\n


\nBrian Francis Kirkham

\nAnother Earth: Imperial War Museum North, Manchester<\/p>\n


\nTim Knight

\nBetween The Threshold: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge<\/p>\n


\nMariia Kukkakorpi

\nRemains: Natural History Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nNeil Laurenson

\nFree Admission: Salt Museum, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire<\/p>\n


\nAndrew Lemming

\nLove Among The Exhibits: Various (School Trips: 1975 to 1977)<\/p>\n


\nJane Lovell

\nBalto the Sled Dog: Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio, USA<\/p>\n


\nSafoora Masood

\nBackbone of the Town: Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n


\nS J Menary

\nMy Ancestor and I: Jewry Wall Museum & the Nasby Battlefield Project,

\nLeicester<\/p>\n


\nNaeem Mirza

\nDiscovery Road: Eureka! National Children\u2019s Museum,

\nHalifax, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n


\nZahid Mirza

\nOpen Spaces: Cartwright Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n


\nFrances Nagle

\nWith Simon in Florence: The Bargello in Florence, Italy<\/p>\n


\nKaren Naylor

\nCobra: Wakefield Museum, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n


\nMiruna Olaru

\nAm I not a Woman and a Sister?: National Maritime Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nVerity Owen

\n\u2018Things\u2019: Sedgwick Museum and Zoology Museum, Cambridge<\/p>\n


\nSeanagh Palmer \u2013 Pilgrim

\nThe Bayeux: Museum of Reading, Reading<\/p>\n


\nLaura Parkes

\nGrounded by the M-Shed: M-Shed, Bristol Docks, Bristol<\/p>\n


\nKauser Parveen

\nThe Theme of Life: Cartwright Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n


\nSaiqa Parveen

\nThe Palace Museum: Amar Mahal Palace, India<\/p>\n


\nDavid Pearce

\nHarriet: Fleetwood Museum, Fleetwood<\/p>\n


\nMary Pearson

\nFirst Nation People: G Catlin \u2013 Native American Portraits,

\nBirmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham<\/p>\n


\nLynn Pegler

\nChance Encounter with a Flying Suit:

\nImperial War Museum North, Manchester<\/p>\n


\nOlivia Phillips

\nQuality Time: Victoria & Albert Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nJenna Plewes

\nLeave Me in the Light: Lynn Museum, King\u2019s Lynn, Norfolk<\/p>\n


\nAmanda Quinn

\nWallace: Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland<\/p>\n


\nJoyce Reed

\nPoetry Reading at the Museum: Manchester Museum<\/p>\n


\nLizzy Ridout

\nHanging Out: National Portrait Gallery, London<\/p>\n


\nT E Samad

\nLong Live the Bard:Shakespeare\u2019s Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon<\/p>\n


\nRebecca Audra Smith

\nSea Dirge; The Manchester Museum, Coral Exhibition<\/p>\n


\nMary Stableford

\nGoodbye-ee: Tate Britain, London, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford<\/p>\n


\nAugustus Stephens

\nJina: Victoria & Albert Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nLaurence Sullivan

\nIn The Tea Leaves: The V&A Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nAlice Taylor

\nCypresses: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA<\/p>\n


\nLaurence Tilley

\nKissing under the Pterodactyl, An Odd Ode:

\nNatural History Museum, London<\/p>\n


\nMichelle Tudor

\nStanding Still: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, Japan<\/p>\n


\nJocelyn Watson

\nInspirational: National Portrait Gallery, London<\/p>\n


\nUSA

\nElvis Alves

\nThree Legged Buddha (after the sculpture by Zhang Huan):

\nStorm King Art Center, New York<\/p>\n


\nJoann Cook

\nMuseum of Glass: Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York<\/p>\n


\nTorsa Ghosal

\nBata Shoe Museum, Toronto: Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n


\nJessica Goody

\n\u201cMadonna and Child\u201d: Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia<\/p>\n


\nOjaswee Rajbhandary

\nThe Man in the Khaki Pants: American Museum of Natural History,

\nNew York City 223<\/p>\n


\nSJ Wolfe

\nPadihershef and Me: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum,

\nSpringfield, Mass \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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