{"id":11067,"date":"2020-08-17T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2020-09-04T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:04:08","slug":"campaign-for-empathy-x-arbury-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/campaign-for-empathy-x-arbury-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign for Empathy x Arbury Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, Enni-Kukka Tuomala<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cCampaign for Empathy: A Message\u201d is a travelling audio artwork spreading messages of hope, joy, togetherness and empathy from the future generation, in their own voices and their own words. The \u201cCampaign for Empathy: A Message\u201d marked what would have been Arbury Carnival 2020, the popular local event which normally brings everyone together in North Cambridge.<\/h2>\n

Of course, like many events in 2020, Arbury Carnival could not go ahead as planned. Understanding how important the carnival is in bringing together the local community, Kettle\u2019s Yard<\/a>\u2019s Open House artist in residence, Enni-Kukka Tuomala, wanted to find a way to bring people together through a shared experience, whilst remaining safe and physically distanced.<\/p>\n

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Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, Enni-Kukka Tuomala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Artist Enni-Kukka Tuomala was selected by North Cambridge residents back in January this year, to work with them and Kettle\u2019s Yard throughout 2020. Finnish-born Enni describes her practice as an empathy artist and designer. Tuomala\u2019s ambition for her 2020 residency is for North Cambridge too become the most empathetic community in the UK and in March launched the #CampaignforEmpathy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, photo credit: My Linh Le<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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To mark National Empathy Day on the 9th June, pupils at the Grove Primary School in Kings Hedges worked throughout the week with artist Enni-Kukka Tuomala to explore empathy in their revamped school settings. Enni, who is based in London, joined the class virtually over pre-recorded videos and shared creative activities through the school.<\/p>\n

One special element of the project was recorded messages from the children to give encouragement to their local community in Kings Hedges and Arbury. The messages included support for the community, personal thanks to neighbours who have been helping individual families, and also a group thank you to the NHS. These messages were shared from a loud speaker from a specially adapted bike which travelled to mark what would have been Arbury Carnival. The \u201cCampaign for Empathy: A Message\u201d is a travelling audio artwork spreading messages of hope, joy, togetherness and empathy from the future generation, in their own voices and their own words.<\/p>\n

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Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, photo credit: My Linh Le<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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University of Cambridge Museums<\/a> (usually) supports the Arbury Carnival by bringing together artists and local community groups to create costumes for the annual procession. The theme for 2020\u2019s procession was to celebrate countries of the world. Artist Anu Ann Templar instead devised a series of costume-making video tutorials to enable people to make and take part from home. The videos were shared via Facebook in the lead up to the carnival and people then shared their videos and photos of their own \u2018at home\u2019 processions through social media.<\/p>\n

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Anu Ann Templar, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The \u2018Campaign for Empathy: A Message\u2019 bicycle travelled the route of the procession sharing the children\u2019s messages before travelling through local neighbourhoods and shopping parades to enable residents to enjoy the messages from their doorsteps.<\/p>\n

One by-stander mentioned:<\/p>\n

\u201cI would normally be manning my stall at Arbury Carnival. It’s so lovely to hear these messages and to bring a smile to our faces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another mentioned:<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we are not in lock-down any more, it’s a great way to help those who are feeling isolated and give them hope. Thank you\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, photo credit: My Linh Le<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The special Campaign for Empathy bicycle was joined by members of the Arbury Carnival committee and carnival host, Jezo, to bring the carnival feeling to everyone physically distancing at home. People dressed up in their crafted costumes and shared images to develop a \u2018virtual procession\u2019 from home.<\/p>\n

It is more important than ever for us to sustain and strengthen our community partnerships throughout the pandemic and enable local groups to continue to do their amazing work empowering neighbourhoods in the city to shape the diverse cultural offer of Cambridge.<\/p>\n

To listen to the Grove Primary Schools special messages, click here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

To find out more about the Campaign for Empathy follow the #campaignforempathy<\/strong> on social media or visit for information and activities to try at home: www.kettlesyard.co.uk\/campaignforempathy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, Enni-Kukka Tuomala The \u201cCampaign for Empathy: A Message\u201d is a travelling audio artwork spreading messages of hope, joy, togetherness and empathy from the future generation, in their own voices and their own words. The \u201cCampaign for Empathy: A Message\u201d marked what would have been Arbury Carnival 2020, the popular local event which normally brings… Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,168],"tags":[219,218,216],"coauthors":[189],"class_list":["post-11067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engagement","category-kettles-yard","tag-collections-engagement","tag-cultural-value","tag-society"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11067"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11104,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions\/11104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}