Heritage Show + Tell
- Date
- Tuesday 1 March 2016
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 Local and Family History Library on Tuesday 1 March 2016. Join us for an optional behind-the-scenes heritage tour of Leeds Central Library at 4pm, followed by Heritage Show + Tell from 5pm to 7pm at the Library's multi-arts space, Room 700 (with a programme of short presentations and a chance to network over a glass of wine).
4.00-5.00pm Optional tour
Join us for an optional behind-the-scenes tour of Grade II* listed Leeds Central Library
5.00-7.00pm Heritage Show + Tell at Leeds Central Library (Room 700)
We have six three-minute presentations followed by lots of opportunity to meet and mingle over a glass of wine. Speakers include:
Making your own traditions: Pie & Priestley, bring back St. Blaise's Festival, UK hat throwing and more
Glyn Watkins, poet, writer and showman
Hull can take it: A Blitz heritage trail
Charlotte Tomlinson, MA Modern History student, University of Leeds
How did I get here? Using heritage for creative practice
Ann Barrass, MA Creative Practice Student, Leeds College of Art
Snapshot, 1966 and other stories
Elaine Evans, Yorkshire Fashion Archive
What's this got to do with Mexborough?
Jude Holland, Project Manager, Doncaster 1914-18, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Crime and Punishment - striking the right tone
Kitty Ross, Curator of Leeds History/Social History, Leeds Museums and Galleries
If you would like to come to the Heritage Show + Tell event, please register by emailing Fiona at ccsmghinfo@leeds.ac.uk Please indicate if you would also like to book a place on the behind-the-scenes tour.
For more information, see our blogsite.
Heritage Show + Tell is organised by the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries, with support from the Faculty of Arts and the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.