Forthcoming Event
DCLG: A Love Your Local Market fortnight will be held from 23 June to 8 July, designed as an opportunity for budding entrepreneurs have the opportunity to test & develop their business ideas on a market stall.
NA: The archive sector is inviting archives and their users to help develop a UK Archives Accreditation Scheme. To kick-start this collaborative process, The National Archives are running a series of workshops across the country, including Edinburgh, York, London and Newtown, Wales.
The workshops so far have proved to be stimulating & challenging and, although these are now fully booked, you still have a chance to participate in the discussions by joining a webinar on ‘Creating Archives Accreditation’ – a condensed version of the workshop. The webinar will take place on 9 February 2012.
ScotGov: One of Barack Obama’s key aides will head the line-up for the Scottish Government’s 2012 National Food & Drink Conference (7 March 2012). Key themes of the conference will be education & innovation within Scotland’s food & drink industry. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear about projects currently underway, as well as listening to a debate by school pupils on food advertising to young people.
DCMS: One of the 5 pillars of Islam central to Muslim belief, Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must make at least once in their lifetime if they are able.
This exhibition (Hajj: Journey to the heart of Islam) at the British Museum compares how pilgrims over the centuries negotiated this often monumental undertaking and how it continues to be experienced by people from all corners of the globe today. Tickets are now available for the exhibition which opened last week and runs until 15 April 2012.
This exhibition (Hajj: Journey to the heart of Islam) at the British Museum compares how pilgrims over the centuries negotiated this often monumental undertaking and how it continues to be experienced by people from all corners of the globe today. Tickets are now available for the exhibition which opened last week and runs until 15 April 2012.
