Rachel Dakin

Actively looking for new opportunities | Interest in audience development, community engagement and exhibition/project management and assistance

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Put the finishing touches on my latest sewing project yesterday, so of course I wore it today haha - so impatient because I am in love with this design 💚💙🤍

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@xanniex92 Haha oh Annie! Never change ❤️

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Very happy with today’s sewing!
#mask #sewing #handmade #davidbowie #ziggy

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Wow! Can't believe it was 5 years ago that I was looking after this little one in the middle of the Australian outback. How time flies! 🐮🥰

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@RealBobMortimer Haha, was in tears after watching this moment 🤣

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@stxwelsh @SlaveryMuseum looks like a brill opportunity! 😊 Am currently looking for a new role as unfortunately my contract at MM and WAG couldn't be extended.. thanks for sharing and hope you are doing well @stxwelsh

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@NWfilmarchive @MENnewsdesk This is amazing! Love the paper process of designing the newspaper pages - fascinating 📰

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Brilliant idea - with the rise of TikTok and Zoom - video have formed an essential part of everyday life and communication in the last few months

[North West Film Archive @NWfilmarchive]

The NWFA is asking for YOUR help – we want to create as wide-ranging a picture as possible of what #LockdownLife was really like in the North West of England during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, so we’re looking to collect your videos of these unprecedented times. Watch this:

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

So important to ask these questions

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Is great to see work like this!

[the Whitworth @WhitworthArt]

Many of the objects and artefacts we value and admire as art have a problematic history. How did they come into our cultural institutions? How can we address and resolve these issues? – Thameena #Decolonisation

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@lsutherland @HeritageFundNOR Great, thanks Louise :)

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@HeritageFundNOR Is this role quite a collaborative role, working with other members of the NLHF team on projects/with community groups? #HeritageJobs

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@HeritageFundNOR Hi! My question please is how has Covid19 affected the strategic focus of NHLF projects- e.g. do you think there will be more of a focus on encouraging projects to tackle isolation, getting out into nature (sustainability), digital engagement with arts/heritage? #HeritageJobs

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

my week ❤
- started on my family history project (found out my Grandad built a telescope and a canoe from scratch!)
- completed my homemade skirt
- completed a 15k run along the river
- sketched a design for July's sewing project
- started a Project Management course

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Is great to see that this sort of work is gaining momentum. Very inspiring and educational.

https://t.co/cQAjkkUrm3

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Fascinating example of co-curation! Really goes to the core of how we draw on our own experiences to understand what we see! #cocuration #sydneymuseums #photography #history

[Museums of History NSW @MusHistoryNSW]

Go behind the scenes of our fascinating new online exhibition, A Thousand Words, the first major collaboration between Sydney Living Museums and @nswarchives https://t.co/nrh4ef3ZdX #ATWexhibition

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Check out my latest masks made on request. It’s been a productive sewing week (25 masks and counting)! Open to more requests 😁 #productive #denimfacemask #facemasks #bee #bekind #thebeesknees

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Great addition to the Manchester Museum in Quarantine!
Bees have been a symbol of hard working Mancunians for years, and this hard working nature is epitomised by our key workers at the moment
#MMinQuarantine #McrMuseum #bees #ourkeyworkers #Manchester

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

A great blog about how we can support small artist business' during this difficult time! I am very lucky to work with some of these fabulous people ❤
Whitworth Loves! Support Artists and Small Businesses. https://t.co/GXn1nUlmmc
#manchester #supportlocal #lockdowninitiatives

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

@HelgaberryHelen Course! More than happy to send it - you’ll have to excuse the laboured writing haha 😂 mad looking back a year and a half later!

[Rachel Dakin @reddakin]

Makarrata is a complex Yolngu word describing a process of conflict resolution, peacemaking and justice.

This article has just re-inspired me to look at my MA dissertation which was based on the idea of truth telling within museums to aid decolonisation https://t.co/gwGrR2vXJ9