engage International News, Reports and Reviews
This page contains a rotating selection of short international news items,
international publications and international events from the
engagements listings section of the website; and longer downloadable
reports and reviews of international events, publications and projects.
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International News, Publications and Events
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items. Other event details can be found via the training
and events section, and further publications via
publications area.
If you have any news items to include in this section, please send to
laura.cherry@engage.org (100 words maximum).
Event:
| Title | European Museum Forum Workshop: Volunteers in cultural heritage and museums: promoting active citizenship |
| Organisation | European Museum Forum |
| Date(s) | 17-21 October 2007 |
| Details | The workshop is for coordinators of volunteers and senior managers in the heritage sector, museums and galleries. It will examine volunteers and volunteering in the cultural heritage sector from a European perspective and in a comparative way, in order to identify and explore interesting and successful case studies and produce guidelines to support good practice by volunteer managers/coordinators, organisations and volunteers themselves. Further information about the course and an application form are attached. |
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Event:
| Title | Workforce celebration |
| Organisation | Iniva |
| Date(s) | Thursday 15 October 2009 |
| Details | Shiraz Bayjoo has transformed Rivington Place’s Education Space into a temporary artist-run factory. Exhibitions visitors, schools and community groups have contributed free labour – stitching, sewing and exchanging conversation to communally manufacture a giant flag. The completed artwork will be unveiled at this celebratory event with a chance to meet the artist. It reflects the different identities of the workers and picks up on themes of textile production and labour in the exhibitions by NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen. The flag will then be on display 12.00-6pm Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays until 21st November. |
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International Reports, Reviews and Projects
International members and other colleagues have kindly contributed the
following reports, reviews and other information which you may download as word
documents or PDFs. If you would like to contribute something that you think
would be of interest to others involved in gallery education, please email
laura.cherry@engage.org. To submit a report on an event or conference,
please complete the pro-forma which you can download
here.
Brenda Valdes, a Mexican gallery educator who has been doing some voluntary
work for engage has produced the following documents in Spanish and is
working to develop a network of gallery educators in Spain. You can contact
Brenda at brendavarr@yahoo.com.
- What is
engage ? / Que es engage information sheet
- engage
espana newsletter June 2005
- engage
espana newsletter Spetember 2005