Update # 1

Hello world! As the standard blog start used to say.

Pre-pandemic we launched a newsletter on this website, but, with the pandemic and other projects taking over this fell away a little before it really had time to gain much momentum.

Right now though the website is going through a bit of a change, and we’ve decided to start a blog as our main feed of information, so please feel free to subscribe to this instead.

Here’s some updates…

Our News:

Our book “Museums and Well-being” will shortly be out on Routledge, and until end of Nov 2022 you can take advantage of our 20% off launch sale (discount code: ASM09). More about that in later posts….

What we’ve been reading:

The book Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales, is a really interesting exploration of not only the relevance of the Greek/Roman myths, but how they have shaped our world view, often tragically.

What we are watching:

Sheng Wang’s new stand-up special Sweet and Juicy of Netflix is beyond hilarious. Must see.

Agatha Christies Poirot, on ITV, for some wonderfully well written whodunnits and beautiful sets. Classic.

What we are listening to:

In the world of podcasts, the ACFM crew have a fairly recent episode about Care so go switch on your listening ears.

adrienne and Autumn over at the end of the world podcast have recently done a couple of episodes exploring bell hooks book ‘all about love’. here and here, as ever essential.

Industry News:

The Arts Council have published a “Creative, Health, and Wellbeing Plan“, which outlines how they’re going to “work within health and social care, and how we’ll promote collaboration between organisations and practitioners in the creative and health sectors.” This will we are sure be essential useful reading for many.

Events:

Enough is Enough: National Day of Action. 1st October. https://wesayenough.co.uk/oct1/

Association for Heritage Interpretation conference: 12 – 14 October 2022, Snowdonia
Y cysylltiad / The connection ‘In an age of change, how can heritage interpretation adapt, embrace, and connect? https://ahi.org.uk/conference-2022_event/

Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club selection, That Bird Has My Wings by imprisoned Buddhist author Jarvis Jay Masters. [https://www.freejarvis.org/] – encourage you to read this, with or without Oprah.

Apocalypse News:

The apocalypse continues apace, and recently as part of the Heatwave Plan for England, all local authorities were encouraged to set up a register of ‘Cool Spaces’, now we’re going into a winter period of fuel crisis museums and local authorities are being asked to provide ‘warm spaces’. You have to wonder if there’s another way?