Workshop: This is your history

Thursday 3 April 2008, 10am - 4.45pm

You are invited to this workshop which brings together museum practitioners, community heritage activists, researchers, historians, and teachers in the UK who have worked on 2007 projects related to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

Come and share your diverse experiences of working with communities in curatorial and consultation / partnership and education processes.

How have the diverse experiences of 2007 enhanced and contributed to your own professional development as a museum practitioner and as a community heritage worker? How do we  make the processes of museum practice more inclusive and what does equality really mean in partnership working?

The workshop will enable museum practitioners and community representatives to share methodologies for working together. It is expected that the workshop will help create a ‘toolkit’ for future working that builds on best practice and will assist in the management of  equitable partnerships.

Admission: Free
To book a place please contact our Box Office on 0870 444 3850.

Workshop programme

Chair: David Spence
Rapporteurs: Lucy Watts (ICOM UK) with UntoldLondon

10am	Welcome and Opening Address : David Spence (Director, Museum in Docklands)
10.10am	Colin Prescod: The Consultative process of making London, Sugar and Slavery
10.30am	Dr Tom Wareham: A curator’s response
10.50am	Questions to speakers Oration by Inua Phaze Ellams
11am	REFRESHMENTS
11.20am	Lucie Amos and Lynda Agard with community representative: How we worked with the Communities in making London, Sugar and Slavery
11.50am	Journey to Accompong, a community led exhibition
12.05pm	Dr June Bam-Hutchison and Leslie Ikomi Braine: Building trust through dialogue with diverse voices and perspectives
12.30pm	PANEL DISCUSSION with speakers Oration by Inua Phaze Ellams
12.45pm	LUNCH Tour visit to London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery with Colin Prescod and Dr Tom Wareham Understanding Slavery Initiative Exhibition
2pm	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Mike Philips Oration by Inua Phaze Ellams
2.30pm	Ruth Fisher in conversation with Arthur Torrington on the community development process and the Equiano Project
2.50pm	Michaela Alfred-Kamara: Practitioner reflections in the Anti Slavery International 2007 Heritage Network
3.10pm	REFRESHMENTS
3.30pm	York University, Institute for Public Understanding of the Past – Dr Geoff Cubitt and Kalliopi Fouseki, "1807 commemorated: methods and reflections"
3.50pm	PLENARY discussion with London, Sugar and Slavery Consultative Group: towards a model of best practice for museums in the  21st century (A workable toolkit) Oration by Inua Phaze Ellams
4.40pm	Closing remarks: Fiona Davison, London Museums Hub