Homeless art collaboration makes UK debut in Bury

A two-part exhibition made in collaboration with homeless people makes its UK debut at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre.

The Homeless Library and “Sing Me To Sleep”, a British-Lithuanian art project (“Padainuok man labanakt”), opens on 13 December at 2pm and runs until 21 January 2017.

The Homeless Library is a set of 50-plus handmade books, full of artworks, poems and interviews, looking at how homelessness fits into our history and what can be learned from these stories.

“Sing Me To Sleep” is a collaboration between homeless people in Lithuania and the UK, working with professional artists to remake fairytales in words, images and textiles. Work from the project went on exhibition at the National Gallery of Lithuania in one of the largest exhibitions of work by homeless people ever to be exhibited in a major gallery.

The project draws attention to the importance of the creative arts in the lives of people who are on the margins of society. Making poems and artworks can have positive health, well-being and other beneficial social results.

The project is supported by British arts organisation arthur+martha and Socialiniai meno projektai, Arts Council England and the British Council.

For more details, go to http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/sing-me-to-sleep-bury.html

Bury Art Museum is open Tuesday to Friday (10am to 5pm) and on Saturday (10am to 4.30pm). Admission is free and the museum is fully accessible. It is located on Moss Street in Bury town centre, next to Bury Library and opposite the bus/Metrolink interchange.

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Press release issued: 8 December 2016.