Some fascinating 3 min talks coming up in our February Heritage Show + Tell – hope to see some of you Yorkshire-based folks there! Helen
Heritage Show + Tell is a chance for people passionate about heritage in Yorkshire to come together and share their work, get feedback on ideas and meet new collaborators. Everyone welcome: community heritage groups, freelancers, museum professionals, archivists, students and academics.
The next Heritage Show + Tell will be hosted by Leeds Museums and Galleries onThursday 5 February 2015. Join us for an optional tour of Leeds Art Gallery at 4pm, followed by Heritage Show + Tell from 5pm to 7pm around the corner at Leeds City Museum.
4.00-5.00pm Tour of Leeds Art Gallery
5.00-7.00pm Heritage Show + Tell at Leeds City Museum (Thoresby Room)
We have six three-minute presentations followed by lots of opportunity to meet and mingle over a glass of wine. Speakers include:
Barbara Hahn (Rethinking Textiles, School of History, University of Leeds), What can the History of Technology add to Industrial Heritage?
Emma Burgham (Special Collections, University of Bradford), The Eleventh Hour: update on the University of Bradford’s Mitrinović Project
Alan Radford (Leeds Waits), Leeds Waits: the Official Civic Musicians 1530-1835
Nina Kane (Cast-Off Drama), Cast-Off Drama: Playing with Life-model Theatre in the Gallery Space
Morticia (MA Creative Practice student, Leeds College of Art), Gathering Trace: St George's Field and Victorian Death Culture as Inspiration
Lizzie Nolan and Sarah Hill (MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Leeds),The Individual Remains: Untold Stories of the First World War
If you’d like to come to the Heritage Show + Tell event, register by [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Please indicate if you would also like to book a place on the tour.
We still have a couple of presentation slots available, so if you would like to rise to the challenge of sharing your work in three minutes, please get in touch with Helen Graham via [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Heritage Show + Tell is funded through the University of Leeds Cultural and Creative Industries Exchange<http://www.cciexchange.leeds.ac.uk/> and co-hosted by Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage<http://www.ccsmgh.leeds.ac.uk/> and the Centre for Collaborative Heritage Research<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/heritage/>. It is organised in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries<http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/default.aspx>.
For more information, see our blogsite<http://heritageshowtell.wordpress.com/>
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