do you collect cartons for local studies?

Go and have a look at the Cartongraphy site.  Fruit and vegetable boxes are a great way of recording changes in agriculture, and of relevance to local studies.

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Alongside the installation of cartons at Cairns Art Gallery are a couple of posters, one with cartons from the Mareeba Shire and Atherton Tablelands, the other of cartons from the Cassowary Coast, the former arranged by longitudes east to west, the latter arranged by latitudes north to south. Both posters show cartons flattened, so that all sides are visible. Together they are intended to be representation of cartons from Far North Queensland (FNQ), but admittedly there are quite a few out there in the wild that are not yet part of the collection. The two lists in the 3rd image are details of each of the cartons, arranged in order of grid location, as per image 2.

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Toil Inntinn - bilingual local studies

An Lanntair has launched a 3 year arts-based ‘Dementia Friendly Community’ project in the Western Isles, in partnership with Life Changes Trust. The project will engage with people who are living with dementia and those in their circle of care, as well as reaching out to the wider Western Isles community, with the intention of building a bi-lingual dementia friendly community that reflects the specific needs of the place and its people (from An Lanntair https://dfclanntair.wordpress.com/about/).

You can read more about the grant here.

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This seems an important project which used bilingual information as part of dementia care, but also as part of recording local studies information.