Training and events
Elevenses – Thursday 30th July
Join us for the last Elevenses before we pause for the summer on Thursday 30th July at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We will have a focus on funding – looking at two recently launched grant […]
ONLINE – West Yorkshire Museums Forum
Join us online for your regional forum meetings! Starting at 3.00pm, online forum meetings* will offer a couple of hours to: connect with your colleagues around the region hear brief presentations from a couple of speakers and ask them questions hear news and updates from your MDO share your own updates Our theme, Developing Digital Capability, will […]
Digital Storytelling Workshop with Culture24
With digitised collections at the core, this workshop will navigate through the trickiness of finding the right channel, tone, voice and techniques to reach and connect with audiences online. We’ll look at your mission, identity and purpose; explore the specific tensions and challenges that storytelling with collections content brings and focus on the many advantages […]
Digital Storytelling with Culture24
Digital Storytelling with a Collections Focus Online, via Zoom On Tuesday 7th July and Thursday 9th July 14:15-16:15 Is your museum making the most of its digitised collections content online? Finding the right channel, tone, voice and techniques to reach and connect with audiences online isn’t easy. This workshop will explore the specific tensions and challenges […]
Julies Bicycle: Creating policies and action plans
This webinar from Julie’s Bicycle will tackle environmental policies and action plans, what they are and how to develop them. They will help you formulate and manage your policy and plan so that they are specific to your activities and impacts, including identifying what data you will need to monitor positive change! They will also […]
Julies Bicycle: Communicating sustainability
In this webinar by Julie’s Bicycle, we’ll look at different ways of communicating your environmental projects and initiatives: from explaining why you’re ‘going green’ – and how your communities can play a part – to transparently and creatively speaking about your environmental impacts and celebrating your achievements. They will also include practical tips on using […]
Julies Bicycle Webinar Series: Green Deal For Culture
The first of this webinar series “Sustainable Cultural Mobility” will start on 23rd July. In it you will consider where we are now in terms of our movement and the associated emissions, where we need to get to and how to transition to a low carbon future for touring, exhibiting and performing.
Elevenses – Thursday 2nd July
Join Liz and Alan for Elevenses on Thursday 2nd July at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. This will be an informal get together, to share experiences and thinking, and enjoy some different company! There’s no agenda, […]
Beyond Statements: Taking Action
The Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation and Art Fund are working in partnership to provide a platform to advance the conversation on structural racism by joining together voices in the US and UK to explore how museums can follow up on recent statements of support with tangible actions to address racial diversity, equity, and inclusive environments.
Elevenses – Thursday 9th July
Join us for Elevenses on Thursday 9th July at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We are going to focus on the topic of Users and Their Experiences, but we won’t have an agenda. This will be […]