Scenario discussion with Collections Trust – Object entry/ Acquisition and accessioning
Do you have a collections management issue you’d like to troubleshoot with a group of sector colleagues?
Collections Trust are trialling a new session format; this bitesize session will take a scenario approach to explore a variety of issues and themes related to Object entry and Acquisition and accessioning. Perhaps you would like to discuss how to prevent or deal with unsolicited donations, uncollected objects, the decision-making process for acquisitions, or an ethical issue.
Small groups will each be given a different scenario, submitted by attendees, to consider. Thoughts and questions will then be fed back to the wider group for open discussion. To encourage honest discussion, this session will not be recorded. Register by 20 September.
Touring Exhibitions Group – Marketplace 2021
Join colleagues nationwide for two days of networking and inspiration at Touring Exhibition Group’s Marketplace 2021, the UK’s principal touring and partnership exhibitions event.
This year’s Marketplace will be held entirely online, on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 October 2021.
The theme is ‘The Sustainability of our Industry’, and speakers will examine future facing topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion; digital technology and skills: and the economic situation through case studies, panel discussions and audience Q&As.
As well as inspirational and informative speakers, there will be opportunities to:
- Take part in virtual tours of exciting new exhibitions.
- Share your current and future projects, via ‘3-minute Share Sessions’ and networking activities.
- Meet organisations offering and looking to host exhibitions.
- Meet one-to-one with a range of commercial companies and sector support organisations providing services, products and exhibitions to touring exhibition producers.
The 3-Minute Share Sessions are an opportunity to present information about upcoming tours, loan or partnership exhibition projects to delegates, to ask for input or find partners. Details on how to book a presentation slot will be sent to you when you purchase your Marketplace ticket. There is no extra cost for participating but early booking is essential for this popular element of Marketplace. Speaking slots are available on a first come, first served basis.
To book your place, please go to Touring Exhibition Group’s Marketplace 2021.
Touring Exhibitions Group – Marketplace 2021
Join colleagues nationwide for two days of networking and inspiration at Touring Exhibition Group’s Marketplace 2021, the UK’s principal touring and partnership exhibitions event.
This year’s Marketplace will be held entirely online, on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 October 2021.
The theme is ‘The Sustainability of our Industry’, and speakers will examine future facing topics such as equality, diversity and inclusion; digital technology and skills: and the economic situation through case studies, panel discussions and audience Q&As.
As well as inspirational and informative speakers, there will be opportunities to:
- Take part in virtual tours of exciting new exhibitions.
- Share your current and future projects, via ‘3-minute Share Sessions’ and networking activities.
- Meet organisations offering and looking to host exhibitions.
- Meet one-to-one with a range of commercial companies and sector support organisations providing services, products and exhibitions to touring exhibition producers.
The 3-Minute Share Sessions are an opportunity to present information about upcoming tours, loan or partnership exhibition projects to delegates, to ask for input or find partners. Details on how to book a presentation slot will be sent to you when you purchase your Marketplace ticket. There is no extra cost for participating but early booking is essential for this popular element of Marketplace. Speaking slots are available on a first come, first served basis.
To book your place, please go to Touring Exhibition Group’s Marketplace 2021.
Heritage Volunteering Group West Midlands
Heritage Volunteering Group (HVG) West Midlands is a regional networking group covering Birmingham, Black Country, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Telford and Wrekin, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. The group is for anyone who works with volunteers in the heritage sector in the West Midlands.
HVG West Midlands meet quarterly to problem solve together, share best practice and learn from each other. To attend the next Zoom event or stay in the loop with future meetings please email Becky Benson.
This regional networking group is part of the national Heritage Volunteering Group (HVG) who’s mission is to help you unlock the power of volunteering through collaboration and sharing best practice. You can find out more about HVG on the website http://www.heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk.
Community Forum Live for Museums
The Audience Agency is hosting this special event for all museums and galleries who are using Audience Finder, including those taking part in the Audience Champions programme. This is a chance to share their experiences and offer support in a friendly environment online with other Audience Finder users from the sector.
To book for this free event click here.
For new users looking for some extra help and more support between training check out the Onboarding Live events.
Award-winning Dementia Project sharing session
A sharing session with the National Trust Back to Backs reminiscence volunteers team to hear about their award winning work and plans for themed virtual tours.
The volunteers most recently won the 2021 Dementia Hero Award, their third award since they started their project back in 2018.
If you are interested please email lead volunteer Gill Parry to book your place and kindly cc Muks in the email
Itinerant Imaginaries – seminar three
How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells us about itself through the work of Black artists and artists of colour in Britain?
Creating Interference and CREAM, University of Westminster invite you to three events constituting the first of a two-part series that will continue in October 2021.
These online gatherings aim to address the impasse we are currently facing by applying non-linear, collective and fragmentary methodologies to the work of Black artists and artists of colour situated in Britain and the diaspora. They will address critical questions relating to intertwined histories of empire, memory, forgetting, radical collecting practices and the process of unsettling national archives.
- Monday 7 June (6pm-8pm) Keynote speaker Françoise Vergès will talk to us about activist approaches to knowledge work, a decolonial feminism and archives and anti-racist strategies urgent needed for our future.
- Tuesday 8 June (2pm-4pm) In conversation session with Sepake Angiama and Rose Nordin who will critically engage with artistic practices that challenge national institutional frames and introduce DIY cultures.
- Tuesday 8 June (6pm-8pm) Roshini Kempadoo will chair a conversation with Annie Jael Kwan (Asia Art Activism), Bisan Abu Eisheh amongst others to discuss how artists/ activists with relationships to the global South speak back to and/ or evade national formations?
Itinerant Imaginaries – seminar two
How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells us about itself through the work of Black artists and artists of colour in Britain?
Creating Interference and CREAM, University of Westminster invite you to three events constituting the first of a two-part series that will continue in October 2021.
These online gatherings aim to address the impasse we are currently facing by applying non-linear, collective and fragmentary methodologies to the work of Black artists and artists of colour situated in Britain and the diaspora. They will address critical questions relating to intertwined histories of empire, memory, forgetting, radical collecting practices and the process of unsettling national archives.
- Monday 7 June (6pm-8pm) Keynote speaker Françoise Vergès will talk to us about activist approaches to knowledge work, a decolonial feminism and archives and anti-racist strategies urgent needed for our future.
- Tuesday 8 June (2pm-4pm) In conversation session with Sepake Angiama and Rose Nordin who will critically engage with artistic practices that challenge national institutional frames and introduce DIY cultures.
- Tuesday 8 June (6pm-8pm) Roshini Kempadoo will chair a conversation with Annie Jael Kwan (Asia Art Activism), Bisan Abu Eisheh amongst others to discuss how artists/ activists with relationships to the global South speak back to and/ or evade national formations?
Itinerant Imaginaries – seminar one
How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells us about itself through the work of Black artists and artists of colour in Britain?
Creating Interference and CREAM, University of Westminster invite you to three events constituting the first of a two-part series that will continue in October 2021.
These online gatherings aim to address the impasse we are currently facing by applying non-linear, collective and fragmentary methodologies to the work of Black artists and artists of colour situated in Britain and the diaspora. They will address critical questions relating to intertwined histories of empire, memory, forgetting, radical collecting practices and the process of unsettling national archives.
- Monday 7 June (6pm-8pm) Keynote speaker Françoise Vergès will talk to us about activist approaches to knowledge work, a decolonial feminism and archives and anti-racist strategies urgent needed for our future.
- Tuesday 8 June (2pm-4pm) In conversation session with Sepake Angiama and Rose Nordin who will critically engage with artistic practices that challenge national institutional frames and introduce DIY cultures.
- Tuesday 8 June (6pm-8pm) Roshini Kempadoo will chair a conversation with Annie Jael Kwan (Asia Art Activism), Bisan Abu Eisheh amongst others to discuss how artists/ activists with relationships to the global South speak back to and/ or evade national formations?
Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) applicant guidance webinar
The Museum Estate and Development (MEND) fund is open for applications. MEND is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England to apply for funding to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance backlogs which are beyond the scope of day-to-day maintenance budgets.
The guidance can be find here. There is £18.8m available for England in 2021/22.
ACE is holding a webinar on 7 June are for any organisations who want more information before applying to the fund.
This webinar will cover:
- Who can apply and how much you can apply for
- What any potential applicants can to do to prepare with some key deadlines and dates.
