Curtain Up! The Practice of Archiving Performance

APAC is delighted to announce full programme details of the British Records Association (BRA) conference in partnership with APAC, taking place on 29 October 2024.

APAC members are able to book a place at the conference at a discounted price of £35 (£55 non-APAC/BRA members).

This conference is in addition to the annual APAC Conference that is free for members to attend.

PROGRAMME:

10.15 Welcome from the BRA and from APAC

Widening Access to Collections

10.30 Robyn Greenwood, Collections Manager, and Rachel Sharpe, Head of Co-Curation, Royal Shakespeare Company: Royal Shakespeare Company: Creating Transformation; Co-Curating Collections with Artists, People and Places

10.55 Georgina Donohue, Heritage Officer, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Nottingham: Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Nottingham – Heritage Mural Commission with Handmade Theatre

11.20 Maggie Gray, Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies, and Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Kingston University: Engaging Engaged Archives: Revisiting Cartoon Theatre

11.45-12.00 – comfort break

Records at Risk Panel

12.00-12.05 Introduction from the Chair

Philip Gale, Head of Collections and Cultural Property, and James Hodgson, Head of Archive Sector Funding, The National Archives: Rescuing Performance Arts Archives

Dr Toni Sant, Digital Curation Lab, University of Salford: Questioning Permanence in the Archive: Reflections on the Malta Music Memory Project

12.20 Panel Discussion

12.45-14.00 – Lunch and BRA AGM 13.30-14.00

Collaborative Curation

14.00 Erin Lee, National Theatre and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama: Active Archiving at the National Theatre: Creating a Collection Collaboratively

14.20 Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance, Victoria & Albert Museum: Collections of Dance and Dancers in the Victoria and Albert Museum

14.40 Dr Barry Houlihan, University of Galway: ‘A Fine Bit of Talk’: A New Digital Oral History Archive of Contemporary Irish Drama

15.00-15.30 Afternoon refreshments

15.30 Sarah C Jane, Archivist (Development Lead), Falmouth University and University of Exeter Penryn Campus: This is Kneehigh: Archive, Legacy, Spirit

15:50 Julian Warren, Head of the Theatre Collection and Sian Williams, Keeper, University of Bristol Theatre Collection: Beyond the Object Entry Form: Some Archival Reflections on Working with Record Creators

16.10 Conference conclusions and close.

Please visit the eventbrite page to see more details and book your place.

APAC is offering travel grants for APAC members to this conference. There is a maximum of 5 grants available of up to £75 each. Apply for a travel grant here.

Email info@performingartscollections.org.uk with the subject line ‘BRA/APAC Curtain Up Conference 2024’ for any further questions.

The British Records Association is a charity which aims to promote the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for the public benefit. It is open to anyone interested in records and archives whether local historians, academics, professional archivists, or custodians and owners of collections, or simply those who are curious about the record of our past.

BRA-APAC Conference Organising Committee
Amanda Engineer, BRA Hon Secretary
Robyn Greenwood, Collections Manager, Royal Shakespeare Company
Erin Lee, Head of Archive, National Theatre
Stephanie Nield BRA Communications
Matti Watton, BRA Chair

http://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/
https://performingartscollections.org.uk/

The event will take place Tuesday 29 October 2024, at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ.