Museum Of Ordinary People (MOOP)

The idea for the Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) started as an idea. It attracted more and more local people and volunteers who thought it was a good idea. A year later, the museum had been built, telling poignant stories about ordinary people’s lives.Ideas are just ideas until they are turned into actions. And the small actions we take can have huge ripple effects.For MOOP Talk: Action, we were interested in ideas that take flight, what can block people from taking action and how to overcome it. We had four amazing speakers who took action and brought positive change to Brighton’s community.The speakers were:Tim Holtam, founder and director of Brighton Table Tennis Club - 00:08:26Jacob Berkson, founder of Thousand 4 £1000 - 00:23:56Liz and Maddocks from activist group #LWithTheT - 00:41:22After hearing from the speakers, we hosted a group brainstorming session for ideas that each of us could turn into actions.If you’d like to take action and get involved with or support the Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) we’d love to hear from you: museumofordinarypeople@gmail.com

MOOP Talk: MuseumThe Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is a pop up museum that champions the magic and mundanity of everyday life. We celebrate the ripples people leave behind. We want to challenge existing paradigms and rewrite the history books.The idea of MOOP Talks is to explore themes that resonate with us and what we do.MOOP Talk: Museum was a way of exploring how museums are evolving, and how they are being challenged and disrupted. The idea was to foster discussion between existing spaces. We were interested in the definition of a museum itself, emotional resonance, connection and representation, voices (who’s speaking, and who has a voice), the future, belonging and participation.The speakers were:• Richard Martin, curator of public programmes at The Tate - 00:00:00• Edith Ojo, Freelance Arts Consultant and Tshepo Skwambane, Community Advocate and Facilitator - both speaking about co-creating the “Fashioning Africa” project at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery - 00:19:38• EJ Scott, founder and curator of the Museum of Transology - 00:44:55We hope you enjoy! Our next talk, MOOP Talk: Action takes place in Brighton on October 1st - tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moop-talk-action-tickets-50062797174