Your Place Or Mine? Engaging New Audiences With Heritage

02 November 2006 – 03 November 2006, United Kingdom

* How can we bring new audiences to heritage? * What does access mean? What does success look like? * Why are we trying to engage missing audiences with heritage? * What does heritage mean to people? * How do we change as organisations in order to respond to different views of heritage? * What is the impact on local communities? How do we measure this? * All these questions and more will be explored in this major, national conference in November 2006 organised by English Heritage and the National Trust. "Your Place or Mine?" will be a unique two day opportunity to explore, debate and learn from the achievements of the sector across the UK and internationally. It will be an opportunity to share and document the ways in which heritage organisations draw new audiences into our work, inspire them and engage them in the processes of understanding and valuing the historic environment around them. It will look at how and why we engage missing audiences with heritage, especially: Black and Minority Ethnic groups, young people, people on low incomes and people with disabilities. A dynamic combination of workshops, debates, panel discussions and performance will look at the realities faced in the sector: from building sustainable relationships and the needs of different social and cultural groups, from what to do when things go wrong to embedding culture change across your organisation. There will be practical sessions for building skills, sharing ideas and innovative projects and meeting new colleagues. The conference will include work on display and in performance by community groups, who will share the platform in talking about the impact of this work.

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