Common Ground celebrates the Commons on Flickr
Common Ground is a global meet up celebrating the Commons on Flickr. Many of the organisations which have images in the Commons will be participating in the meet-up, which will take place on the weekend of 2 and 3 October.
The meet-up will be in the form of a projection onto - or within - the participating institution's building at night (or suitable day-time location) using a slideshow of content from the Commons on Flickr accounts curated by the community.
There are over 400 images in the set, and they are an amazing selection. There are sad photos, funny ones, cute ones, one that make you think, ones that you will not expect. Some are in colour, many are black and white. Some show ordinary people doing ordinary things, some will make you gasp. They demonstrate not only the differences between the collections from which they are drawn, but also the things that are the same, the common ground.
Here at the Australian War Memorial, the images will projected on the large screen in our orientation gallery over the weekend. The Powerhouse Museum and the State Library of New South Wales are joining forces in Sydney, and the State Library of Queensland is also taking part.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the meet-up is on at George Eastman House, State Library and Archives of Florida, the Oregon State University Archives , Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library and the Swedish National Heritage Board
Read more about the Commons on Flickr, see the Memorial's images on the Commons.