Exposições em Curso

Chegaram hoje por correio 2 catálogos de exposições em que participo.

O da Viarco Express no Museu da Presidência da República, Belem até 15 de Novembro. E o da Diários Gráficos. Desenho em Cadernos que se realiza em Lagos de 31 de Outubro a 31 de Dezembro 2009.

Com conferências dos Autores em varios dias. 7 de Novembro, 15h, José Louro, João Catarino, Manuel Sanpayo e Eduardo Salavisa. Dia 5 de Dezembro, 15h, Pedro Salgado, Pedro Fernandes e Guida Casella. Comissariada por Eduardo Salavisa.

220 Training Places Created Thanks to Lottery Boost for Traditional Heritage Skills

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) today announced seven projects, under its existing Training Bursary Programme, that are set to benefit from an additional £2.85m investment. This will deliver a wide range of skills training - including blacksmithing, botanic gardening, stone masonry, gold leafing and thatching – and immediately create over 220 additional training places. These placements will provide accredited work-based training with highly-skilled crafts people and environmental specialists.

Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, said:

“We've allocated this extra money because we wanted to make a real impact now, when it is needed most.  More than ever in difficult times, HLF wants to offer people skills that will give them a future career whilst also meeting the needs of the sector.  This investment will help make sure heritage skills are protected for the future and is designed to attract people who might not usually consider a career in heritage.”

Schemes benefiting today are:

• The Historic and Botanic Gardens Scheme, a partnership of 17 heritage organisations led by English Heritage, has been awarded £338,000 to create 34 practical placements.   
• The Institute of Archaeologists has been awarded £355,000 for 20 archaeology placements across the UK. 
• ICON (The Institute of Conservation) has been awarded £490,000 for 20 bursary placements in the conservation of objects and collections - from books and textiles to metalwork and architectural details.
• The Traditional Building Skills for England and Wales Scheme, run by English Heritage and the National Trust, has been awarded £500,000 for 56 placements.
• The Masonry Conservation in Scotland and Northern Ireland Project, run by Historic Scotland, has been awarded £436,800 for 14 year-long and 50 short-term bursary placements. 
• The Natural Talent Project, run by the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV), has been awarded £389,100 to offer training for 12 new apprentices to develop skills in the conservation of specialist habitats.
• The LEMUR Scheme, run by Herefordshire Nature Trust, has been awarded £331,600 to help 18 trainees learn about natural heritage conservation skills.

HLF’s £7m Training Bursary Programme, originally launched in 2004, has been a resounding success, already providing over 300 people with high-quality on-the-job accredited training over a range of 50 skill sets.  89% of those who completed placements in 2008-09 went on to secure jobs in the heritage sector. 

The additional funding announced today will be followed by a further £5m for HLF’s new programme, entitled ‘Skills for the Future’ to be launched in December 2009.  Also focussed on work-based training, ‘Skills for the Future’ will equip the heritage workforce with an even wider range of skills, for example, those needed to work with digital technologies or to open up heritage to new audiences.

Organisations interested in ‘Skills for the Future’ should call HLF’s Information Team on 020 7591 6044/6042. 

http://www.hlf.org.uk/HLF/Templates/V2_templates/v2_MediaCentre_Archive.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7B6BE65D14-5B2E-4CA2-ACFE-322F6564C057%7D&NRORIGINALURL=%2FEnglish%2FMediaCentre%2F&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest

Symposium on Copyright, Contracts and Creativity

CIPPM and the Business School, host event on Friday 25 September

This event has now concluded. Please visit the post event web page.

A Symposium on Copyright, Contracts and Creativity is being hosted by the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) and the Business School at Bournemouth University on 25 September organised by Professors Martin Kretschmer and Ruth Towse.

It brings together academics, people concerned with policy and creators in the creative industries to discuss the relation between copyright law and the contracts that creators generally face with a view to better understanding common problems, especially with digital usage. The topic has been identified by the government's Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (SABIP) as one of the areas of strategic importance to the UK that could be considered in any future reform of copyright law and therefore in-depth research into it is needed. The Symposium seeks to establish what research would be appropriate.

The Symposium takes the form of short presentations by and discussions with panels of experts in various fields - literature and journalism, visual arts, photography, film and music - with a keynote speech by Rob Kirkham (Head of Copyright Contracting BBC Vision). Also participating are Joly Dixon, Chairman of SABIP, Mr Justice Arnold, Professor Richard Watt (Canterbury, NZ) as well as academics from several UK universities. There will be ample opportunity for informal participation from the floor.

The meeting is being held at BU's new Executive Business Centre in the centre of Bournemouth from 10am to 6pm (walking distance from the mainline railway station). Lunch and refreshments are being provided by the Business School and there is no fee for participation.

You are cordially invited to attend. Please email Emily Cieciura for further details and the final programme. Places are limited to 40.

View the provisional schedule and further information about this event.

http://www.cippm.org.uk/news/symposium_on_copyright_contracts_and_creativity.html

TAVIRA

Com algum atraso publico esta noticia que não sai do prazo...

Uma iniciativa da minha amiga Marta Santos.

É com muito prazer que envio algUmas imagens da actividade de comemoração do Dia Internacional dos Museus que decorreu no passado dia 18 de Maio de 2009 em Cachopo.

A actividade contou com o apoio do Centro Paroquial de Cachopo e com a Escola Básica de Cachopo envolvendo 22 participantes, que seleccionando imagens do património cultural e natural da freguesia de Cachopo, puderam experimentar o desenho a aparo e tinta da china e as aguarelas a café.

Deixou-se de lado as agulhas de croché e as manhãs dos programas televisivos, ou as matérias lectivas dos meninos de Cachopo e pudemos juntos partilhar as técnicas de desenho e pintura na representação de moinhos, palheiros ou os elementos vegetais...

Os resultados foram surpreendentes, e quem sabe não haverá uma exposição destes novos / menos novos artistas de Cachopo!

 

Até breve!

Marta Santos

 

    

 

Câmara Municipal de Tavira

Departamento Sócio - Cultural | Serviço de Museus
Palácio da Galeria / Museu Municipal de Tavira

Tlf.: + 351 281 320 500 (Ext. 324)
Fax: + 351 281 322 888

www.cm-tavira.pt

Visualisation in Archaeology 22-23 october 2009

On behalf of the organising committee for the Visualisation in Archaeology project (funded by English Heritage), I would like to invite you to submit a proposal for a paper to be presented at the project’s second workshop. Entitled ‘Visualisation In Context: An Interplay of Practice and Theory’, the workshop will be held at the University of Southampton on the 22-23 October 2009. An outline of the 2009 Workshop is provided below whilst the attached document provides further details. We would very much appreciate it if you might circulate this Call for Papers within your department or to those researchers and/or practitioners who, you feel, would find the objectives of the workshop of particular interest.
With thanks in advance for your contribution,
Garry Gibbons
Co-project director

Visualisation
in Archaeology
www.viarch.org.uk

Funded by English Heritage under the HEEP scheme.
EH Project No: 5172MAIN




2009 VIA Workshop
Visualisation In Context:
An Interplay of Practice and Theory
22-23 October 2009
University of Southampton

The 2009 VIA Workshop is designed to probe intersections between theory (which might traditionally be represented in terms of critique -- linear and written) and practice (which might increasingly be expressed in terms of production -- non-linear and visual) within the field of archaeology as well as other disciplines from the humanities and the sciences. Whilst tensions can exist between practice and theory, arising from the perceived role of practice as providing a reservoir of images suitable for critique, critical engagement with images can provide for the contextualisation of visualisations and the processes linked to their construction. Should distance indeed exist between practice and theory, this 2009 VIA Workshop will concern itself with a productive and positive interplay between production and critique. As contributors to the 2008 VIA Workshop commented and as identified in the resulting 2008 VIA Workshop Report:

            ‘. . . the range of contributors—from students to senior professionals, academics
            to practising archaeologists—and the parity of respect with which each of their
            approaches was received, proved critical assets of the event.’

Against the 2009 VIA Workshop’s overall theme – Visualisation in Context: An Interplay of Practice and Theory -- attention will be called to arenas of practice encompassing the commercial, the academic, and the institutional in light of an historic examination of the triangulation between technology, training, and the process of visualisation. This VIA Workshop aims to build on last year’s success by providing a space for productive, multi-discipline engagement through its continued philosophy of breadth and inclusivity of content, and centres on the continued analysis of images as visual substances of knowledge in light of their circumstances of production. Where applicable, sessions will be open to papers featuring a strong project base or by referencing practical case-studies.

Contributors are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the 2008 VIA Workshop Report and to note the online video presentations of past papers -- both are available through the VIA project website www.viarch.org.uk.

Medieval Mood

I am currently doing the drawing of a 1382 medieval tomb.

It's the King D. Fernando I of Portugal.

It is kept in Museu Arqueologico do Carmo, Lisbon.

Spamula Net

http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/03/

Fascinating Renaissance woodcuts, from an alchemical treatise by one Giovanni Battista Nazari, initially entitled Il metamorfosi metallico et humano... first published in 1564.

Check this and other bizzareries in Giornale Nuovo An Accumulation of Inconsequential Notices
A weblog updated here between October 2002 and October 2007. Although now closed, its archives will be kept on-line until further notice.