Next month, we’re off to Leicester in the English East Midlands for the latest Saturday Heritage Fair hosted by our friends at the Documentary Media Centre and the Independent Heritage Network.
Leicester is one of the UK’s most diverse cities and a motivation behind the heritage fairs is using heritage to show how much people have in common despite differences of gender, faith, ethnicity, age, and language. The fairs are open to the public to explore and engage with a range of stands, talks, screenings, and workshops.
So why are we attending? Well, the DMC team took a keen interest in the Story of Splott in 50 Objects project and are keen to support communities across Leicester curate their own pocket museums and to use the co-curation process as a way of building community relations. We’ll be showing how they can get the process off the ground.
For more details about the Heritage Fair, check out this short blog, but while we’re there we will drop by the Afghan Language Café hosted by Qadir Bayat to pick up some Farsi or Pashto phrases;
as a keen podcaster our Russell will be wanting to listen to Colin Hyde’s talk about the East Midlands Oral History Archives;
and as keen music fans we’re keen to listen to Megg Nicol’s talk about Leicester-born composer and music publisher, Lawrence Wright, who founded the music journal Melody Maker in 1926.
We’ll be lining up alongside an extensive list of exhibitors, including:
- Serendipity Institute of Black Arts and Heritage
- Leicester Civic Society
- Museum of Community Media
- Conflict Memory Education Centre
- Genocide Education Network
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