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Dear All
 
There a few remaining places available for this event on Saturday.
 
Our History – Ourselves
Saturday 8 December   9.30am-4.30pm
London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
£10 (bring a picnic) - Booking Essential on 020 7332 3851
 
A day of workshops and talks around researching, collecting, conserving, writing and communicating LGBTI  personal, local and community histories.
 
Peter Daniels fourth creative writing workshop, MODERN TIMES,  takes place on this day.
See below for more details.
 
Programme
 
9.30am – Doors open, Sign in and coffee
 
10am -     Welcome
 
10.10am – History Matters. Why telling the stories of LGBT individuals, groups and communities is important.
 
10.20am – Collecting personal, local and community    histories. What to gather and what to keep…
 
10.40am – Outing the Past: Identifying, Showcasing and Celebrating the Wealth of LGBT Evidence in every        Archive. Kathryn Rooke and Paul Fairweather, Lancashire Archives
 
11.15am – Coffee
 
11.30 – Presenting and Sharing Your LGBT Histories – a practical workshop session exploring different styles and    approaches to bringing your materials together for personal interest and / or public  access.
 
12.40pm – Lunch Break (includes archive tour and document display)
 
2pm - 4.30pm- Practical / Creative Workshops (Choose One)
 
1. Creative Writing workshop: Modern Times with writer Peter Daniels
 
2. Sorting History Out! – researching LGBT histories, planning a project, caring for and organising materials, what to do with your collections and stories once gathered together
 
4.30pm – Close
 
More about Peter Daniels and his workshop.
 
MODERN TIMES
LGBT Creative  Writing Workshop
Acclaimed writer Peter Daniels will be leading creative writing workshops inspired by LGBT material from the LMA archive collections.
 
Sat 8 December—Modern Times
Change, progress, radical ideas and a new assertiveness...
 
ABOUT PETER DANIELS
Peter Daniels has been writing poetry for many years. In the mid-1980s he was part of the gay poetry group the Oscars, which became the Oscars Press which published a number of books.
In 1994 he became Listings Editor of Poetry London Newsletter, eventually becoming Production Editor until 2001.
 
Peter won the Ledbury competition in 2002, the International Poetry Competition in 2008, the Ver Poets Competition and the TLS Poetry Competition, both in 2010.
 
Counting Eggs is Peter’s first poetry collection, (Mulfran Press).
Visit: www.peterdaniels.org.uk
 
 
 
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