Heard And Not Seen

Well, we’re gearing up for another outing for ‘Heard And Not Seen’ at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in July.  The excitement is growing as we re-engage and continue to interrogate these important questions.  There are still far too few opportunities for people to have conversations about these important issues.  Is this a conspiracy to keep us from coming together?  Or is it just that artists and the media avoid engaging with these questions for fear of incurring the wrath of people with a more fundamentalist approach to Islam?  It is more important than ever that people from different communities find ways to celebrate their shared humanity, rather than focussing on their differences, and it is for this reason that we have continued to develop this project.  Let’s keep asking those ‘difficult’ questions, let’s demystify our cultures and learn to live together as we know we really should – in mutual respect and love, whatever our race, religion or cultural background.  Let’s all be heard AND seen!