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Spring 2023 Rural Voices Seminar Series

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By Rural Museums Network / Posted on Monday 20th February 2023

Rural Museums Network is delighted to present its online Spring 2023 Rural Voices Seminar Series.

In Your Words – Breathing new life into the Survey of English Dialect

Thursday 2 March, 3pm-4.30pm

The Dialect and Heritage Project is a national project based on a partnership between the University of Leeds and five member museums of the Rural Museums Network. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we have been taking dialect and heritage resources out of the archive and putting them back into the local communities where they truly belong. At the same time, we have been encouraging members of the public to share their present-day dialect with us. The project has tapped into massive public appetite for sharing dialect leading to huge media coverage. In this talk, we will introduce you to the rich dialect archives held at the University of Leeds, explain what the project has been up to and how you can access the resources, hear from museum partners about what they have got out of it, and think about where we might be headed next.

Find out more and book In Your Words – Breathing new life into the Survey of English Dialect

Utilising Intangible Cultural Heritage to Actively Support Rural Crafts

Thursday 20 April, 3pm-4.30pm

Heritage Crafts is the national charity for traditional crafts skills and the only UNESCO-accredited ICH NGO in the UK focusing solely on the domain of traditional craftsmanship. Daniel Carpenter, Executive Director of Heritage Crafts, and Greta Bertram, Curator at the Crafts Study Centre, will talk about the work of the organisation and the way in which it has partnered with museums to raise awareness of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), as well as the challenges museums face in incorporating ICH into their offering in a way that actively supports the continuation of embodied craft knowledge, skills and practices.

Find out more and book Utilising Intangible Cultural Heritage to Actively Support Rural Crafts

Disability in Rural Museums – past and present narratives

Thursday 4 May, 2pm-3.30pm

Explore how rural museums can better represent D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in our museums and use our collections. Karen Sayer, Professor at Leeds Trinity University, askes how might we discover the history of disability in rural museums, and Emily Goff, Project Manager at Curating for Change, looks at how rural museums can enable and retain a more diverse work force, essential for museums to remain relevant for themselves and their communities.

Find out more and book Disability in Rural Museums – past and present narratives

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