#local heritage

[riotgrrril]

polyhedral social reflexivity

[culturaldiversityday]

Contextual learning : optimizing education experience, relevance and outcomes.

What is needed to expand and adapt education systems, as well as shape settings and teaching practices that are content and context-relevant? This is critical to strengthen education quality and achievement while better responding to today’s environment. From incorporating local heritage and indigenous knowledge to linguistic diversity, culture and arts education encompasses a broadened perspective of education that includes lifelong and life-wide learning.

[sarenput]

I may be late to the party by posting this session which was part of a two-day workshop hosted at Brown University in Sept. 2016, but both speakers highlight well the importance to caring for Egypt’s heritage in different ways. The first speaker, Dr. Monica Hanna, spoke about the devastation of many cultural sites around Egypt following the 2011 revolution and the amazing work she has done in connecting the local population with their history again. The talk emphasised greater need by western missions and expeditions to work closer with Egyptians. The second speaker, Dr. Gerry Scott, updated us on the latest conservation efforts by ARCE, who have done a phenomenal job in lending a hand to Egyptian restoration projects.

[oshawamuseum]

This cutter was made c. 1867 by Robert McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Carriage Company, a forerunner to General Motors Canada. It is a red and brown hand painted cutter, hand painted in red and yellow vines and leaves are a small deco at the front of the cutter; another painted area is at the back side and left and right side of the cutter entrance. The horse shaft is behind the buggy, colour coordinated to the brown and red, and at the front of the carriage is the fixtures to attach the horse shaft   The image below is of Col. R.S. McLaughlin, Robert’s son, sitting in the cutter.

Want to learn more about Durham Region’s rich automotive history? Be sure to check out the 2016 Heritage Showcase at the Oshawa Public Library, April 23, 2016, from 10am-3pm.  Oshawa’s heritage organizations are well represented, with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, the Ontario Regiment Museum, Parkwood NHS, the Canadian Automotive Museum, the Oshawa Libraries, and the Oshawa Museum involved!

For more information: http://www.oshawalibrary.on.ca/heritageshowcase

[objects-of-memory]

[objects-of-memory]

Dudley Archives

My meeting with Dudley archives went incredibly well, and a number of points and future events were agreed:

Firstly, I will be attending the annual Local History Day (03/10/15) , stall and temporary exhibition in toe. 

The temporary exhibition, featuring the stories of Women post-1945, will start it’s grand tour of the Black Country in the archive’s Foyer.

Hopefully a coffee/archival morning will take place there - date to be confirmed, however the thought was early september.

And finally the archive have kindly allowed me to peruse their recently compiled information/material concerning the local Glass Industry. It was a small project recently showcased during May’s International Glass Festival. 

[objects-of-memory]

[create-studios]

As part of the ...marking time ...along the Western Flyer project we have been creating an app rich with local heritage and social history. 

If you fancy being one of the first people to use the app come along to our planed wander on the Saturday 19th January to test it out. 

If you would like to join us on the walk please contact Create Studios 01793 465333 [email protected]