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What’s
your story?
The national
theme for AAC 2011 is Culture and Diversity:
What’s Your Story? It is celebrating culture, creativity,
the arts and diversity (people from different cultures in a community i.e. minority
groups, or being different to other people because of religion, sexuality etc).
Attention
grabbing events
Archives and
other organisations are invited to put on a broad and exciting programme of
activities and events to promote their collections in culture, creativity
(fashion, film) the arts (music, architecture, design)
and diversity. These could include:
·
exhibitions
·
workshops
·
lectures
·
open
days
·
talks
·
performances
·
fashion
shows
·
street
entertainers
·
on
street competitions
·
prize
draws
·
showcasing
films
·
music.
And just
about anything else you can think of that is attention grabbing! Your records
may unearth a ‘local hero’ who was an esteemed artist of their
generation, a fashion entrepreneur from a century ago or an unsung music hero.
Equally you could celebrate multiculturalism in your community.
AAC
& The National Archives
AAC team
along with the National Archives will be interpreting the theme and celebrating
culture in particular by commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Festival
of Britain. From spring to the winter there will be a number of activities
including an online and on site exhibition (TBC) at The National Archives. The Festival
of Britain in 1951 was held to promote Britain and took place 100 years
after The Great Exhibition of 1851. It consisted of a number of attractions
centered in London including the South Bank exhibition and the opening of the
Royal Festival Hall on the River Thames. Southbank Centre will be
celebrating its
anniversary with a four-month festival opening on 22 April. In addition, The
Victoria and Albert Museum is also planning to commemorate the festival
with a series of activities.
Support
Archives are
welcome to celebrate records related (as mentioned above) to culture,
creativity (fashion, music), the arts,
diversity etc. However if you do not have archives of that nature, you could
celebrate records you have of the Festival of Britain.
This year we
are also inviting archives to host launch events on the theme. Instead of the
annual AAC Conference in September, it would be great if one or two archives
from each region hosted an event to ‘open’ the theme in their
area/region. The launch event should focus on the overall theme Culture and
Diversity: What’s Your Story? or you could celebrate your records of the Festival of Britain.
Finally, AAC
will be able to offer you some support to put on an activity in your community
or in hard to reach groups.
This
year, the theme will run from late spring/summer through to winter.
N.B If you are planning
to focus your activity/event around the Festival of Britain please let
me know as soon as you can as I will need to engage with you further.
2012
The theme
for 2012 will be centred on sports, games and the Olympics
Warm
wishes
Angela
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