Sep 2019
Job Advertisement
16/09/2019 - 07/10/2019
12:00 am
Glamorgan Archivist
For more information, see Cardiff Council Jobs: https://jobs.cardiff.gov.uk/jobdetails.aspx/10320/Glamorgan_Archivist/?sSectorLook=546
Oct 2019
Cultural Ambition: Diversifying the heritage workforce through collaboration, opportunity and skills
01/10/2019
12:00 am
Would you like to be part of the next generation that tells the story of Wales?
Have you thought about a career in museums, castles, archives or cultural venues? If so, the Cultural Ambition Project could be right up your street.
What is Cultural Ambition?
The Cultural Ambition Project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Welsh Government’s Museums, Archives and Libraries Division.
The project is administered and run by Creative & Cultural Skills. Cultural Ambition aims to support young people to gain experience and skills in the cultural heritage sector by creating 33 paid training placements at various sites across Wales.
The project is linked strongly with the Fusion: Creating Opportunities through Culture programme and the Andrews report Culture and Poverty.
How to get involved
This training programme is an exciting opportunity for a young person wishing to learn about working in the cultural heritage sector. Trainees will spend 12 months in three different cultural heritage sites and will receive a bursary of £800 a month for every month of the traineeship.
The programme will cover a variety of skills which will lead to a qualification and increased employability skills.
Trainees would be working towards an NVQ Level 2 Cultural Heritage qualification as part of this traineeship, delivered on-the-job with support from Cardiff and Vale College.
To apply, you’ll need to be:
- Aged 18-24
- Not in education, employment or training
- Not a graduate
There are seven regions across Wales that are involved in the project:
- Cardiff & Caerphilly
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Gwynedd
- Newport & Torfaen
- Swansea & Carmarthenshire
- Wrexham
Please refer to the Trainee Profiles for a breakdown of the cultural heritage sites that are involved within each region, as well as for further information on how to apply.
We are currently recruiting for an October 2019 start date.
Recapturing the Historic Levels Landscape
10/10/2019
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Glamorgan Archives, Leckwith, Cardiff.
Following several months of studying old manuscripts and maps, the Living Levels history research volunteers – the RATS – want to share their discoveries with you!
Come along to the Archives for a series of short illustrated talks on the theme of ‘recapturing the historic landscape’.
Contact Living Levels to book a place: info@livinglevels.org.uk
Exhibition: Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins
25/10/2019 - 31/12/2019
All Day
Glamorgan Archives, Leckwith, Cardiff.
As our Glamorgan’s Blood project to catalogue and conserve the coal collections at Glamorgan Archives draws to a close, visit our exhibition and find out more about the records of the south Wales coal industry and what they tell us about life in the coalfield.
Talk: Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins
25/10/2019
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Glamorgan Archives, Leckwith, Cardiff.
Join us to celebrate our Wellcome Trust project, Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins – Cataloguing and Conserving the Records of the National Coal Board. Guest speaker, Dr Steve Thompson of Aberystwyth University, will discuss health and wellbeing in the coalfield. Project staff will highlight items from the collection and the work undertaken to make them accessible.