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Hair: 'Community Stories from Birmingham’ is a free exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery that explores the links between hair and cultural identity in the city over the past 50 years.

Artworks, objects and photographs are brought to life by people’s stories from across Birmingham.

Hair and our identity

The interactive exhibition showing from 25 July 2008 until 1 March 2009, will explore Asian, African-Caribbean and punk rock hairstyles, in an exciting programme of events including talks and interactive family activities.

Hair and cultural identity

Family fun summer workshops

During the summer holidays the exhibition will be accompanied by an exciting programme of free drop-in family fun workshops every Tuesday and Thursday 11am – 4pm. See a full calendar of events below:

Tuesday 29th July - You’ve been framed

Explore stories surrounding hair and create a hair-tastic collage.

Thursday 31st JulyÌý - 3D hairstyles

Make a three dimensional hairstyle to take away with you

Doing it like Beckham

Tuesday 5th August – Puppet Play

Create your own puppet characters with funky haircuts.

Thursday 7th August – Masquerade

Personalise a mask with a carnival hairstyle.

Thursday 7th August – TALK (Going Natural)

Dr Shirley Anne Tate will explore African-Caribbean beauty and the natural/unnatural hair debate

Traditional barber shop

Tuesday 12th August – Crowning glory

Be a King or Queen for a day! Decorate a wire crown with beads and basic wirework.

Thursday 14th August – Hair crazy

Create a new you! Try on different wigs or have your hair restyled in a past fashion.

Tuesday 19th August – Dress your hair in style

Create your own decorative hair accessories using handmade felt and beads.

Thursday 21st August – Wonder-band

Design you own alice or karate band.

Why do Muslim women wear a Hijaab?

Tuesday 26th AugustÌý - The singing hair

Listen to colourful tales about fantastic characters and their amazing hair.

Thursday 28th August – Brilliant bandanas

DecorateÌý a bandana to wear in the summer sun.

Thursday 28th August – TALK (Hair and Muslim women )

Ulfah Arts looks at hair from a muslim woman’s perspective and explores why some of these women choose to wear the hijaab.

Afro-Caribbean hairstyles

Tuesday 2nd September – Hair Crazy

Create a new you! Try on different wigs or have your hair restyled in a past fashion.

Photo days

On special photo days their will be an opportunity to add your own hairstyle photographs to the exhibition.

Also look out for further events in the autumn, Christmas and spring half term holidays.

More information

For more information about the Hair exhibition contact the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Tel no: 0121 303 2834 or visit the website.