Introduction To 'The Please of Collecting' exhibition

Trying something new with digital projects means being open to the unexpected, and taking risks. This webinar explores how to embrace unforeseen challenges in your work and ways to build resilience and flexibility into your practice.

How to embrace the unexpected

Andrew Hill

Steven Skelley (Community Heritage Curator) in conversation with Grace Rutherford about her time working and living at Worsbrough Mill in the late 1980s when her husband at the time, Jim Wood was the curator. This interview has been recorded as part of #WorsbroughMill400 a National Lottery Heritage project supported by Barnsley Museums & Heritage Trust, in a year long celebration of the mill's 400th anniversary.

Grace Rutherford Oral History Interview, August 2025

As part of the Horizons Community programme and the Summer at IMMA programme, IMMA is teaming up with The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme to bring you “The Sound of Connection”. 

The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme is a collaborative storytelling project promoting equality, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion. At its heart, the project seeks to share the lived experiences of individuals often labelled as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘local’, or ‘newcomer’—showing how meaningful connections are nurtured in the community through empathy, exchange, and creative collaboration. 

For this iteration of the project, which started in DCU in 2016, The MELLIE Programme brings together Phibsboro residents, Dublin City University staff, and International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees living in Phibsboro, Dublin. This showcase, The Sound of Connection presents a collection of is the integration of sound, recorded by the participants themselves and facilitated by sound artist Dafe Orugbo. This addition invites a multi-sensory engagement with participants’ stories, offering new ways of listening, understanding, and connecting. 

The Sound of Connection / Friday 22 August 2025 / 10am–5:30pm / Studio 9 & 10.

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/the-sound-of-connection/

The Sound of Connection - Noeleen & Oksana

As part of the Horizons Community programme and the Summer at IMMA programme, IMMA is teaming up with The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme to bring you “The Sound of Connection”. 

The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme is a collaborative storytelling project promoting equality, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion. At its heart, the project seeks to share the lived experiences of individuals often labelled as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘local’, or ‘newcomer’—showing how meaningful connections are nurtured in the community through empathy, exchange, and creative collaboration.  

For this iteration of the project, which started in DCU in 2016, The MELLIE Programme brings together Phibsboro residents, Dublin City University staff, and International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees living in Phibsboro, Dublin. This showcase, The Sound of Connection presents a collection of is the integration of sound, recorded by the participants themselves and facilitated by sound artist Dafe Orugbo. This addition invites a multi-sensory engagement with participants’ stories, offering new ways of listening, understanding, and connecting. 


The Sound of Connection / Friday 22 August 2025 /10am–5:30pm / Studio 9 & 10 at IMMA.

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/the-sound-of-connection/

The Sound of Connection - Anne & Muna

As part of the Horizons Community programme and the Summer at IMMA programme, IMMA is teaming up with The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme to bring you “The Sound of Connection”.  

The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme is a collaborative storytelling project promoting equality, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion. At its heart, the project seeks to share the lived experiences of individuals often labelled as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘local’, or ‘newcomer’—showing how meaningful connections are nurtured in the community through empathy, exchange, and creative collaboration.   

For this iteration of the project, which started in DCU in 2016, The MELLIE Programme brings together Phibsboro residents, Dublin City University staff, and International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees living in Phibsboro, Dublin. This showcase, The Sound of Connection presents a collection of is the integration of sound, recorded by the participants themselves and facilitated by sound artist Dafe Orugbo. This addition invites a multi-sensory engagement with participants’ stories, offering new ways of listening, understanding, and connecting.  

The Sound of Connection / Friday 22 August 2025 / 10am–5:30pm / Studio 9 & 10 at IMMA.

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/the-sound-of-connection/

The Sound of Connection - Jo & Hussain

As part of the Horizons Community programme and the Summer at IMMA programme, IMMA is teaming up with The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme to bring you “The Sound of Connection”.  

The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme is a collaborative storytelling project promoting equality, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion. At its heart, the project seeks to share the lived experiences of individuals often labelled as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘local’, or ‘newcomer’—showing how meaningful connections are nurtured in the community through empathy, exchange, and creative collaboration.   

For this iteration of the project, which started in DCU in 2016, The MELLIE Programme brings together Phibsboro residents, Dublin City University staff, and International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees living in Phibsboro, Dublin. This showcase, The Sound of Connection presents a collection of is the integration of sound, recorded by the participants themselves and facilitated by sound artist Dafe Orugbo. This addition invites a multi-sensory engagement with participants’ stories, offering new ways of listening, understanding, and connecting.  

The Sound of Connection / Friday 22 August 2025 / 10am–5:30pm / Studio 9 & 10 at IMMA. 

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/the-sound-of-connection/

The Sound of Connection - Molly, Mustafa & Adam

As part of the Horizons Community programme and the Summer at IMMA programme, IMMA is teaming up with The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme to bring you “The Sound of Connection”. 

The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme is a collaborative storytelling project promoting equality, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion. At its heart, the project seeks to share the lived experiences of individuals often labelled as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘local’, or ‘newcomer’—showing how meaningful connections are nurtured in the community through empathy, exchange, and creative collaboration.   

For this iteration of the project, which started in DCU in 2016, The MELLIE Programme brings together Phibsboro residents, Dublin City University staff, and International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees living in Phibsboro, Dublin. This showcase, The Sound of Connection presents a collection of is the integration of sound, recorded by the participants themselves and facilitated by sound artist Dafe Orugbo. This addition invites a multi-sensory engagement with participants’ stories, offering new ways of listening, understanding, and connecting.  

The Sound of Connection / Friday 22 August 2025 / 10am–5:30pm / Studio 9 & 10 at IMMA.

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/the-sound-of-connection/

The Sound of Connection - Tamara & Olga

The Sound of Connection - Fadila & Claire

As part of the Horizons Community programme and the Summer at IMMA programme, IMMA is teaming up with The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme to bring you “The Sound of Connection”.  

  

The Dublin City University (DCU) MELLIE Programme is a collaborative storytelling project promoting equality, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion. At its heart, the project seeks to share the lived experiences of individuals often labelled as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘local’, or ‘newcomer’—showing how meaningful connections are nurtured in the community through empathy, exchange, and creative collaboration.   

  

For this iteration of the project, which started in DCU in 2016, The MELLIE Programme brings together Phibsboro residents, Dublin City University staff, and International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees living in Phibsboro, Dublin. This showcase, The Sound of Connection presents a collection of is the integration of sound, recorded by the participants themselves and facilitated by sound artist Dafe Orugbo. This addition invites a multi-sensory engagement with participants’ stories, offering new ways of listening, understanding, and connecting.  

  

  

The Sound of Connection / Friday 22 August 2025 / 10am–5:30pm / Studio 9 & 10 at IMMA. 

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/the-sound-of-connection/

The Sound of Connection - Aurelie & Natalia

Welcome to Barnsley Museums! These are the stories behind the collections and the people covering the 5 venues: Experience Barnsley, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Worsbrough Mill, Cannon Hall & The Cooper Gallery