When: Saturday 16 March 2024, 10am to 4pm
Where: Museum of Making, Silk Mill Lane, Derby DE1 3AF
As the UK prepares to join the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage, join Heritage Crafts and Derby Museums to celebrate!
In December the UK Government announced the historic decision that the UK would be joining 182 other countries around the world in ratifying the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. But what is Intangible Cultural Heritage? Quite simply it means the knowledge, skills and practices that make up our cultural heritage… traditions that exist within humans and that come to life through performances… whether that be music, dance, festivities or MAKING!
Join Heritage Crafts Co-Chair Jay Blades MBE and others for a celebration of craftsmanship and how it crosses over with other domains of living heritage, such as folk music and puppetry performances, and meet craft demonstrators and performers from across the UK talking about the skills they have inherited and hope to pass on to the future.
Learn how the decision to ratify the Convention might reinvigorate the way in which the UK thinks about itself and its heritage in its broadest sense, and how diverse communities from all across the country will be empowered to celebrate their distinctive making traditions.
This event is part of an ongoing partnership between Derby Museums and Heritage Crafts. Tickets range from £20 for members to £30 for non-members.
Programme
Speakers include:
- Jay Blades MBE, Heritage Crafts Co-Chair and BBC Repair Shop
- Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, Minister for Arts and Heritage
- Daniel Carpenter, Heritage Crafts Executive Director
- Oliver Hymans, marionette maker and performer
- Andrea Chappell, kilt maker
- Imogen Bright Moon, weaver and Heritage Crafts Trustee
- Daahir Mohammed, lime plasterer
Demonstrators and performers include:
- Andrew Grundon, sign writer
- Chris Tummings, bamboo sax maker
- Nicholas Konradsen, Lincolnshire smallpipes maker
- Lawrence Dodd, lute maker
- Katie Sims, weaver and textile designer
- Sane Mafa, furniture designer / material developer
- Joel Aspinall, digital maker / product designer
- The Smallprint Company, letterpress printing
Other speakers, demonstrators and performers to be confirmed.
Pop-up members’ gallery
Members are invited to bring an object they have made, to showcase at our pop-up gallery.
If you would like to participate, please email info@heritagecrafts.org.uk with details of the object you wish to exhibit, before Friday 8 March to allow enough time for us to print attributions/descriptions.
Objects need to be able to be displayed on a flat surface, so please ensure to bring a table stand if you want your object to be displayed in that way.
