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Heritage Interpretation Workshop for Sligo - Tuesday 27th July 2010

Heritage Interpretation is essentially about sharing stories and connecting people to places, wildlife and history.  The Heritage Office of Sligo County Council is hosting a FREE one day Heritage Interpretation Workshop on Tuesday 27th July 2010.  The workshop is being delivered as an action of the County Sligo Heritage Plan 2007-2011.

The workshop is targeted at local communities in Sligo who wish to share their love and knowledge of their local area with others; by putting up an information/interpretative panel in their village, graveyard, historic site, woodland etc. or through printing an information leaflet on their area.

The workshop will provide practical, appropriate and easy to understand advice and guidance on how to tell people about your local heritage. Attendance at the workshop will equip community groups, graveyard committees, tidy towns groups, local development associations and heritage groups with best practice guidance on how to plan and present their information for maximum benefit to achieve the best results, as well as considering the legislative requirements for erecting interpretative/information panels.  Good interpretation doesn’t happen by accident. It involves careful planning, thinking about your site, your visitors and your community group and then being creative about how you can communicate. 

The workshop will be delivered by Susan Cross MA AMA FAHI, who is one of the best-known heritage interpreters in the UK. She has spent 25 years building memorable connections between people, place and history first as a natural sciences curator and later as an environmental educator, writer, interpreter and poet. She established TellTale in 1987.  Susan's work focuses on strategic and advisory work, pushing the boundaries of interpretive writing, and providing training to inspire the next generation of interpreters. She is endlessly fascinated by places and her approach to on-site communication combines celebration and discovery with the practicalities of visitor management, informal learning and budgets. She is Vice Chair of the Association for Heritage Interpretation and Convener of the Training and Accreditation Sub–group.  Susan is passionate about interpretive writing. She will help you learn how to marry creative writing and interesting design to give visitors something worthwhile to look at (or better still take home).

As workshop places are limited to 20, priority will be given to members of community and heritage groups based in County Sligo. For more details see www.sligococo.ie/services/heritage/newsandevents/ or contact Siobhán Ryan, Heritage Officer, Sligo County Council at T: 071 9111 226 or by email: heritage@sligococo.ie .

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