Waking the Dead - The Hidden Histories of Kensal Green Cemetery
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St Thomas Primary
​Project Work

St Thomas' Primary School Heritage Activities

 Since September 2016 pupils from St Thomas' Primary have been taking in a number of digital media and heritage based activities this has included a spoken word workshop with Akala. They have also created a digital media art installation with local artist Michael Speechley, from the Dissenters' Gallery,  and been on a number of trips to the Tate Britain and Kensal Green Cemetery.

Waking the Dead - St Thomas' Film

Year 6 pupils from St Thomas' CE Primary School share their thoughts on life, death and Kensal Green Cemetery.

Akala Workshop

Year 6 pupils work through a series of workshops, activities and games followed by a presentation on the musical history of Kensal Green Cemetery and as a way of introducing young people to sound system culture.
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Art Installation at the Dissenters' Chapel

By taking inspiration from sound systems, Year 6 created a series of small working cardboard speakers, which the film was then projected on to and the sound from the film played out of each speaker.  Nine papier-mâché planets were created to orbit the sound system, taking inspiration from the The Sonar System, a children’s picture book by singer and MC Ras Mykha, which was part of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign. 
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​If you want to make your own cardboard speaker you can download the template below.
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Original Artwork and Poetry

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  • Home
  • The Project
    • The App
    • The Short Films
    • St Thomas Primary School Heritage Work
    • Oral History Recordings
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Key Figures
    • Andrew Ducrow
    • Anthony Perry
    • Anthony Trollope
    • Baron Baker
    • Charles Babbage
    • Count Suckle
    • Duke Vin
    • James Barry, Dr
    • Feargus O'Connor
    • Frank Critchlow
    • Harold Pinter
    • Howard Staunton
    • Isambard Kingdom Brunel & Marc Isambard Brunel
    • George Bridgetower
    • Jind Kaur
    • Joe Strummer
    • Kate Meyrick
    • Kelso Cochrane
    • Michael Abbensetts
    • Pearl Connor
    • Russ Henderson
    • Thomas Wakley
    • Wilkie Collins
    • William Makepeace Thackeray
    • The Reformers Memorial
    • The Dissenters' Chapel
  • The Exhibition
  • Gallery
    • Archive Images
  • Waking the Dead Blog
  • Contact
  • Links