[can-events] Reminder: Sustainability Workshop - October 19 2007, registration closes soon

REMINDER - REGISTER NOW TO ENSURE YOUR PLACE AT:

 

Framing the Future: Planning for Sustainability

Museums & Galleries NSW and Armidale and Region Aboriginal Cultural
Centre and Keeping Place Inc. (ACCKP)

 

Date and time: Friday 19 October, 8.45am - 4.00pm

Venue: Armidale and Region Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place
Inc., 128 Kentucky Street, Armidale

 

A workshop highlighting the importance of planning in creating
sustainable museums and introducing a wide range of planning techniques
and tools to assist museums, Keeping Places, galleries and other
cultural businesses survive - and thrive.

 

Keynote Speaker:

*	Hugo Leschen (Acting Deputy Director General, Arts NSW) - "Plans
are nothing, planning is everything" 

 

Supporting Speakers:

*	Michael Grieve (Regional Manager for Northern and Central NSW,
AusIndustry: Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources) - How to
keep plans alive 
*	Kent Mayo (Museum Director, Uralla Historical Society
[McCrossins Mill Museum]) - Case study: Run of the Mill? You've got to
be joking? 
*	Sue Valis (Project Officer/ Conservator, Australian Museum) -
Sustainable conservation of cultural collections 
*	Peter White (Indigenous Cultural Development Officer, Arts NSW)
- Case study: An insight into successful and innovative Keeping Places 
*	Daisy William (Director, Armidale and Region Aboriginal Cultural
Centre and Keeping Place Inc.) - Financial management: How to plan ahead
to ensure your cultural business is financially sustainable 

 

You should attend if you are:

*	A museum volunteer 
*	A manager of a cultural organisation 
*	A local government representative working with cultural
organisations 
*	Involved in regional development and sustainability 
*	Involved in local tourism and audience development 
*	A potential Standards Program participant 
*	A student of museology or arts administration 
*	Interested in ensuring the longevity of your cultural
organisation 

 

Key themes:

*	Cultural and economic sustainability 
*	Importance of planning for the future 
*	Putting plans into action 
*	Business management in a cultural setting 
*	Conservation and long-term planning 

 

Special evening event at ACCKP (Thursday 18 October, 5.30pm onwards): 

Framing the Future delegates and the general public are invited to an
evening of bush tucker food, performance and an exhibition by local
Aboriginal artists Adam Spencer and Debra Walford. This is an
opportunity to socialise and relax before the workshop, to meet the
artists and enjoy the hospitality and facilities of the Keeping Place.

 

For further information about Framing the Future including the special
evening event please go to www.mgnsw.org.au <http://www.mgnsw.org.au/>
or phone 02 9358 1760, freecall 1800 114 311 (regional NSW) or email
info at mgnsw.org.au

 

 

Kristin Anderson
Programs Coordinator (Mon. - Wed.)
Direct Line. 61 (0)2 9339 9914
Email.  kristina at mgnsw.org.au
------------------------------------------------------------
Museums & Galleries NSW
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
General  Line. 61 (0)2 9358 1760
Freecall (regional NSW). 1800 114 311
Fax. 61  (0)2 9358 1852
Website. www.mgnsw.org.au
-----------------------------------------------------------

 

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the
sender.

Views expressed in this message are those of the individual  sender, and
are not necessarily the views of the MGnsw.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.collectionsaustralia.net/pipermail/can-events/attachments/20071009/32825a86/attachment-0001.html