Getting Started on Outreach
As Simone mentioned in her recent post, the Lux Project marked quite a few milestones this summer, both for Simone and I personally (it’s my turn to congratulate Simone, who got married this August and just completed her M.A. last week), and for the project. Our goal from day one has been to bring the contents of the Hetherington Collection to a wide audience, so this summer we embarked on our first outreach task: a visit to the BEEP summer program at Margaret Park School. As most Classicists will tell you, the world of the ancient Mediterranean is deeply compelling to people of all ages, but especially to children (when most of us got the bug!). Because of this, and the fact that studies of the ancient world appear twice in the Manitoba grade-school curriculum, we want to bring the Hetherington Collection into the classroom locally. We rarely get the opportunity to see Mediterranean antiquities in Manitoba, and they’re even more inaccessible to school-aged children. As one of