Various seed mixes add patches of different colour & height. #Superbloom
Particularly loved the areas where small mounds added wave-like height & relief. #Superbloom
A final visit also with the wonderful @f_ben87 who leaves @HistEnvForum this week - certainly a metaphor for the legacy she leaves with the team of a transformed new model forum. We will miss you Fran. #Superbloom@TowerOfLondon
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Good morning from Day 3 of the #LabourConference2024 - first up a dip into the monthly @HistEnvForum meeting & now I’m at the @BritishMusicExp with our member @UNESCOUK & colleagues @BritishCouncil for a session on how culture & heritage can support a sustainable future for all.
This is an event celebrating UN Sustainable Development Goals week with @2030hub.
Discussion about locally led solutions, relational infrastructure, reduction of siloed working between orgs, reconnecting communities with their own monuments when they have been alienated in some places. Need to connect individual to global. Hearing localised voices.
Good morning from Day two of #LabourConference2024 & we are joining a discussion about government-civil partnership around culture wars with @nationaltrust and @Moreincommon_
Some fascinating material about voter profiles & views on ‘culture war’ type issues. Voters see through it.
People are interested in the “and what?” question. Unlike America we don’t have stacked issues in certain profiles. In Britain we are more issue led, issue by issue.
Good morning from #LabourConference24& the @WeAreCreativeUK Pavillion. @RhonddaBryant kicks off the programme saying cultural education should be for all & all children, that human to human engagement is of great importance & Labour wants to fix the black hole in arts provision.
A lovely start to the day celebrating young musicians from @IHLiverpool with stories of impact & performance.
@IHLiverpool @WeAreCreativeUK A spot of #Beatles for Liverpool’s heritage.
Good morning Yorkshire! En route from Ripon to @durham_uni for member meetings…
First up @durham_uni @DU_Collections Oriental Museum to see Head of Collections Craig Barclay. The museum & associated academic staff are doing some really exciting international partnership work. durham.ac.uk/things-to-do/v…
@durham_uni @DU_Collections Contemporary collecting of Japanese & Chinese material adds to a really impressive collection spanning Asia & Ancient Egypt. Lots of work underway with local communities with (for instance) Hindus coming to engage with shrines. A session for under 5s was underway during my visit.
Back in York today for catch ups with @RedfernNeil @archaeologyuk @mikeheyworth & exciting to see the team at @York_Minster Fund & have a hard hat tour at the centre for excellence for heritage craft skills & estate management nearing completion. 1/5 yorkminster.org/discover/centr…
Firstly we visited the new - almost ready - heritage skills campus & centre. Stonemasonry will be taught on site & first year apprentices will live on site to support their first year in York. The centre will be sustainable with ground source heat pumps & solar panels. 2/5
The apprentices’ rooms echo monastic cells & the quad courtyard echoes cloisters in the nearby cathedral. There will be shared gardens & meeting facilities too.
I’m on the other side of the Pennines today in York. A great meeting this morning with York’s MP @RachaelMaskell covering archaeology & planning, heritage & social prescribing, heritage-led tourism & creativity and funding for issues such as RAAC
On @RachaelMaskell’s recommendation I used my lunch break to pop into the @YorkArtGallery to see their partnership with the @NationalGallery for #MonetinYork around #NG200
The exhibition situates Monet’s Waterlilies in the context of inspiration from earlier works & legacy. Including Monet’s collection of and interest in Japanese works such as those of Hokusai.