Peace Concluded - Cross-cultural workshop exploring the theme of conflict + conflict resolution

NEW OBJECT LESSONS: PEACE CONCLUDED
01/06/09
2.00PM - 5.00PM
WAI YIN CHINESE WOMEN SOCIETY
61 MOSLEY STREET
MANCHESTER M2 3HZ
Directions: http://www.waiyin.org.uk/contact.html

Places are still available on Peace Concluded, cross-cultural content development workshop part of the New Object Lessons programme presented in partnership with Wai Yin Chinese Women Society (Manchester). Using two Chinese inventions as starting points, Peace Concluded will explore Manchester's global impact through everyday objects, museum items + iconic 19th century figures linked to either its gun industry or its peace movement(s). Participants will undertake a series of activities devised to encourage them to:

- (using museum collections) consider various ways to look at the theme of conflict + conflict resolution
- develop cross-cultural narratives facilitating a constructive approach to difficult topics
- develop outreach schemes, promoting local heritage as well as introducing new audiences to science + art history

They will also be invited to reflect on the role of the curator as a social healer.

Aimed at anyone involved in celebrations such as Black History Month, Science + Engineering Week, the Cultural Olympiad or interested in developing science +/or arts outreach projects, this new cross-cultural journey will start in Manchester's Chinatown where the Wai Yin Chinese Women Society is based.

The session costs £5 - payable on the day.

Peace Concluded will be followed by Curating for 2012 (08/06/09, 2.00pm-5.00pm, Wai Yin Chinese Women Society) To find out more about the full New Object Lessons programme or to book a place, please email naturalcontent@googlemail.com

Centrepiece textile wall hanging for Ordsall Hall Museum, Salford: Brief

Centrepiece textile wall hanging for Ordsall Hall Museum, Salford: Brief



Salford City Council Heritage Service wishes to commission a textile hanging(s) to be displayed in the 16th century Great Hall of Ordsall Hall. The piece will be of high artistic quality and in keeping with the design, theme and historical context of the room.

Thanks to an HLF award the Hall is undergoing a major programme of conservation, refurbishment and development before reopening in Easter 2011. For further details, visit http://www.visitsalford.info/conservation or http://www.salford.gov.uk/leisure/museums/ordsallhall.htm


We expect that this work will commence in late 2009.


The hanging(s) should:

Be of high artistic quality and enhance the interpretation of the Hall when it reopens.

Convey stories of the Hall, the local area and its community.

Be designed for display in the Great Hall above the dais.

Be in keeping with the environment within which the piece(s) are displayed, but it is not required to be a historic reproduction.


The commissioned artist will have experience of completing similar projects and will be confident at consulting with and engaging community groups to develop ideas for the themes/stories of the hanging(s). The chosen artist will also be confident in the facilitation of workshops/skills sharing sessions with a range of different audiences.


To declare your interest, please submit your CV, examples of work and an outline (500 words or less) detailing how you would approach this commission to Hazel Fenton at the address below. As audience development is a priority for Ordsall Hall, we would like this commission to have an element of community engagement, therefore it would be beneficial for your outline to briefly describe how you might go about facilitating this.


The budget for this commission will be £11,500, to cover all costs including installation. Please enclose with your submission a breakdown of how you would propose to use this budget.

The deadline for applications is 1 July 2009. To apply, or to discuss the commission further, please contact:


Hazel Fenton

Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Peel Park

Salford

M5 4WU

T. 0161 778 0837

E. hazel.fenton@salford.gov.uk

HELP TO SAVE THE GASKELL HOUSE

Manchester Historic Buildings Trust, which acquired The Gaskell House on Plymouth Grove in 2004, is appealing for funds to restore it and open it to the public. We can only succeed if enough people support us, on paper and with cash. Will YOU be one of them, and write us a letter in favour of the project? Judi Dench has, but we need lots more.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1. Send letters or emails of support to:
Janet Allan, Chairman, Manchester Historic Buildings Trust,
c/o 10 Dale Road, New Mills, High Peak, SK22 4NW
email: janet@janetbook.fsnet.co.uk

2. Join the Friends of Plymouth Grove + get regular news of events.

3. Volunteer to help.

4. Contribute funds. Every penny counts.

winter events at gaskell house

The Gaskell House
84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester M13 9LW
www.thegaskellhouse.org

NOVEMBER
Sunday 4th International Open Day 12-4pm
Exhibitions, International Refreshments & Bookstall
To celebrate the diversity of life in Manchester
we are making this a International Open Day,
with a special welcome to the many residents
who originate outside our own small island.
To add to the pleasure we hope to have some International
dishes to sample.

DECEMBER
Sunday 2nd Open Day 12-2.30 and at 3p.m
A Christmas Miscellany with Delia Corrie
and Charles Foster with Carol Singing,
followed by a free glass of mulled wine
and mince pies
To book, phone Hilda Holmes (0161) 487 2593
Cost £7 50 Pay on the door*

*Early booking is advised for both events
as our two previous events
were sold out

manchester's boxing pride - 1968

manchester's boxing pride, alan tottoh, went to manchester royal infirmary to give a tonic to alan barker, secretary of the BOS boxing club, who is recovering from a cartilage operation. tottoh, a member of the BOS, donned his olympic outfit for mr barker's benefit + also won admiring attention from staff nurse arthurs + staff nurse stewart.
source: M.E.N - 20/09/1968

meet the locals is teaming up with the friends of victoria baths + the friends of 84 plymouth grove to set up an exciting reminiscence project focusing on the year 1968.
to find out more the 1968 memories project , go to http://sixty08.blogspot.com/ or send an email to info@victoriabaths.org.uk.

harriet beecher stowe meets the gaskells

harriet beecher stowe to her daughters:

"i spent the day before leaving london with lady byron. she is lovelier than ever, and inquired kindly about you both. i left london to go to manchester, and reaching there found the rev. mr. gaskell waiting to welcome me in the station. mrs. gaskell seems lovely at home, where besides being a writer she proves herself to be a first-class housekeeper, and performs all the duties of a minister's wife. after spending a delightful day with her i came here to the beautiful 'dingle,' which is more enchanting than ever. i am staying with mrs. edward cropper, lord denman's daughter.
"i want you to tell aunt mary that mr. ruskin lives with his father at a place called denmark hill, camberwell. he has told me that the gallery of turner pictures there is open to me or my friends at any time of the day or night. both young and old mr. ruskin are fine fellows, sociable and hearty, and will cordially welcome any of my friends who desire to look at their pictures.
"i write in haste, as I must be aboard the ship to-morrow at eight o'clock. so good-by, my dear girls, from your ever affectionate mother."

source: life and letters of harriet beecher stowe by anne fields

talking about our (re)generation - architecture week event

the gaskell house
23/06/07
1.00pm-4.00pm
FREE EVENT

84 plymouth grove
ardwick
manchester
01663 744233
http://www.gaskellsociety.co.uk/grove.html

in partnership with meet the locals + the friends of 84 plymouth grove, the gaskell house is offering a special opportunity to discover the fascinating history of one of the last remaining victorian houses on plymouth grove.
throughout the event the memories collected will be displayed alongside old maps + photographs. past + present residents can also bring their own photographs.

victoria baths - audio guide

audio guide http://www.audioguide2go.com/guide.php?guide=192
following the theme of women, health and nature, the walk will take you around chorlton-on-medlock and include stops such as:

#the victoria baths
http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/

#the original manchester high school for girls
http://www.mhsgarchive.org/index.php

#the pankhurst centre
http://www.thepankhurstcentre.org.uk/

the audio guide was produced by victoria baths as part of international women's week 2006. on 08/03/06 guided walks around Chorlton-on-Medlock were also organised in partnership with meet the locals, the gaskell house, the pankhurst centre + the university of manchester.
each participant was offered a pack containing a map + a set of postcards
map http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/documents/Women%27sWalk.pdf