Community Archives and Heritage Group Conference

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Community Archives and Heritage Group’s (CAHG) 13^th annual conference. This free day of presentations, workshops and poster displays will be held in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow  on Wednesday 10 July 2019. Places will be limited and we recommend early booking to avoid disappointment!

The conference will be co-hosted by the Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland), Glasgow City Archives and the Scottish Council on Archives and aims to provide a platform for volunteers, community groups and professionals to learn from one another, share experiences and create future working partnerships. This will be the first time the conference has been to Scotland and we hope you can join us to celebrate the richness and diversity of community archives across the UK and Ireland.

This year’s theme is on migration in community archives and will feature Omar Shaikh, founder of Colourful Heritage, as the conference’s keynote speaker. The provisional programme also currently features:

• Larysa Bolton and Dr Alexander Mitchell – Protest, pysanky and pechevo: scoping the archive of the Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain
• Caroline Catchpole (The National Archives) and Bette Baldwin (Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust Community Archive) – Moving memories, moving data: manage your collections and Discovery
• Lorna Elms (Irish Community Archive Network) and Hazel Morrison-Pagett (Moycullen Heritage Group) – Bringing home the Irish diaspora: the community archive as conduit, connector and catalyst
• Catherine Gillies (Scottish Community Heritage Alliance) – We are all in it together!
• Mia Gubbay (Glasgow Museums) – Collecting around Kurdish cultural heritage: questions, challenges and experiences
• Harvey Kaplan (Scottish Jewish Archives Centre) – Documenting Jewish immigrants and refugees in Scotland: the work of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
• Don Gray and Dom Miller-Graham (OurStory Scotland) – Coming in: archiving stories of migration and identity in the LGBT+ community
• Jo Robson (The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust) and Zara Hakobyan (Aratta) – Community-led collecting: Decentring the Power of the Archive

The day will also reveal the winners of the annual CAHG Awards and will be rounded up with a ‘One Minute Mayhem’ segment where delegates have a 60-second ‘soap-box’ opportunity to share their news and views on any aspect of community archives. Delegates can opt in to this during the registration process. Lunch is also provided as part of the day and any dietary requirements can be noted during registration.

Finally, as part of this year’s conference, we are giving groups the opportunity to design and display their own A2 poster showcasing their activities and projects. We can provide guidelines, templates and examples of posters and will professionally print your poster for display during the conference. Your poster will be available after the conference for your group to use in future outreach events. You can register interest during sign-up.