Launch of ‘Your Place or Mine? Engaging New Audiences with Heritage’ Blog!
Announcing the launch of the ?Your Place or Mine? Engaging New Audiences with Heritage? Blog!
Your Place or Mine? is a two day conference in Manchester on November 2nd and 3rd that will explore one of the biggest issues in the heritage sector today ? how do we reach out to wider audiences and tell the stories of the diverse communities who make up our society?
Whether or not you attend the conference, you can still be part of the debate: the Your Place or Mine? Blog is now online. This is your chance to get involved and have your say!
It?s simple, just go to http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/yourplaceormine and click on the Blog link. Over the conference, we uploaded information from the panel debates, interviews with key speakers, photos and audio. Have your say on issues raised by clicking on Join the Debate and posting a comment. Don?t forget to add your e-mail address for immediate updates, and contact the Editor if you want to add your Blog to the Blogroll.
At the conference, over 350 practitioners and policy makers from heritage, cultural and community organisations will be sharing ideas, learning new skills and debating the big questions that engaging new audiences with heritage challenges us to explore: whose story are we telling? Do we need to redefine ?heritage?? What do roots, identity and sense of place mean in today?s society? There were practical workshops covering topics from how to engage young people with heritage to involving communities in re-interpreting historic properties, from understanding the needs of different social and cultural groups to embedding culture change across organisations.
In the weeks following the conference, this website will grow to be an interactive, multimedia resource that will work for you as a place to come for information about running community based heritage projects. It will include information and downloadable handouts from workshops, summaries of the key debates, audio and video interviews with speakers and delegates, and importantly a chance for everyone to take part in the discussions that will begin at the conference.
The conversation has started ? have your say now and play an active role in shaping the debate.
Miriam Levin Head of Outreach, English Heritage. mailto:yourplace@english-heritage.org.uk
