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Tackling Loneliness Project
Between
March
and
August
2020,
ICOH
worked
in
partnership
with
Hull
Museums
on
the
‘Life
in
Lockdown’
project.
Our
members
were
asked
to
submit
experiences
and
memories
of
their
time
during
the
pandemic
and
first
lockdown.
ICOH
facilitated
the
exchange
by
providing
translation
services
and
encouraging
members
to
produce
their
own
pieces
of
art
(e.g.
photography,
video
clips,
paintings,
poetry).
Hull
Museums
then
took
these
pieces
and
experiences
to
create
a
digital
repository
and
collage
to
demonstrate
shared
experiences.
ICOH
members,
who
are
mainly
asylum
seekers
and
were
struggling
with
isolation
and
loneliness
during
the
pandemic,
responded
positively
and
as
a
result
we
continued
the
project
by
31
March
2021
with
the
aid
of
a
small
funding
called
Local
Connection
Fund
Project
from
Department
for
Digital,
Culture,
Medica
and
Sport
in
Partnership
with
the
National
Lottery
Community
Fund.
This
time,
ICOH
worked
independently
curating
the
project,
called
‘Tackling
Loneliness’.
In
new
project
ICOH
engaged
40
participants
from
across
BAME
communities,
particularly
asylum
seeking
people,
not
just
the
Iranian
community,
producing
their
own
pieces
of
art
and/or
share
memories
through
Zoom
sessions
which
our
translators
turned
into
a
written
statement.
We
then
hosted
an
online
exhibition
using
our
website
www.icohorg.uk
,
to
share
these
pieces and experiences across the community.
Throughout
this
project
we
succeeded
to
illuminate
shared
experiences
and
demonstrated
to
our
beneficiaries
that
other
people
are
encountering
similar
difficulties
as
a
result
of
the
pandemic.
The
process
gave
beneficiaries
an
opportunity
for
social
interaction
(over
Zoom
or
telephone
conversations,
depending
on
their
technology
access)
and
a
creative
outlet,
which
we
hoped
that
decreased
their
feelings
of
isolation
and
boredom
while
improve
their
IT
skills
required
for working with remote communication platforms.
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