DATS Events
Annual Conference 19-20 November 2009
This year we will be looking at ready to wear dress, both from a historical and contemporary viewpoint, textile production in various parts of the British Isles, and the issues relating to curating textiles in a country house interior, including a short practical workshop on identification of 17th & 18th furnishing textiles.
We are being kindly hosted by Leeds City Museums, with one day being spent at the central museum and Art Gallery and the other at Temple Newsam House. We have an excellent programme of presentations, as well as a tour of the house and a special ‘textiles by candlelight’ tour. Lunch is provided on both days within the booking fee, and we will be arranging an additional meal on out at a convenient location in Leeds on the Thursday evening for those who wish to join us.
This is an interesting programme as well as an unmissable learning opportunity! The draft programme is attached along with a booking form. Please book as soon as possible, it really does help the organisers to plan!
Pre conference visit invitations, opportunities to see exhibitions.
Katina Bill has kindly offered that she will be pleased to show any delegates who are travelling by car and planning to arriving on Wednesday around the stores and new galleries at Batley ( opening October 2009); any delegates wishing to do this MUST contact her directly on Katina.Bill@kirklees.gov.uk or on 01484 223806. She can show them examples of shoddy, or items from the ethnographic collections.
Jill Winder, Curatorial Officer, University of Leeds International Textiles Archive, St. Wilfred's Chapel, Maurice Keyworth Building Moorland Road Leeds LS2 9JT j.r.winder@leeds.ac.uk An invitation to visit Ulita – the international textiles archive at Leeds university. Contact Jill at the above address. Jill also has given information about the Marks & Spencer archive exhibition at the university - Marks in Time Exhibition, Centenary Gallery Parkinson Building Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT.
Any additional visit information will be circulated with the conference pack.
Please download the programme here.
Please download the booking form here.
DATS 2008 conference
November 27th and 28th 2008
Download the conference programme here
Thursday 27th November
Access to Stored Collections
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, AV Room 10-5pm
Chamberlain Square
Birmingham B3 3DH
Friday 28th November
Identifying Materials
BM&AG Museum Collections Centre 10-4pm
25 Dollman Street
Nechells, Birmingham B7 4RQ
2007 Conference IDENTIFYING, COLLECTING AND CARING FOR 20th AND 21ST CENTURY COLLECTIONS
Thursday 22
and Friday 23 November 2007 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Committee hopes to publish the papers
given at the 2007 conference in the form of a journal in Spring 2008.
2008 Day Trip
The 2008 single day event will be to a collection in the South of England. Details to be posted later in 2008
Events
Exhibitions
Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
TECHNOTHREADS - What Fashion Did Next
The Art and Science of Future Fashion
Shirts that send hugs from a loved one, spray-on dresses and semi-living clothes. Not a scene from a science fiction movie but from a new exhibition at the recently opened Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin. The exhibition offers viewers a glimpse into the future of fashion in a world where Biotech and Nanotech are combined with traditional craft and Haute Couture skills. With work from designers such as Walter van Beirendonck, Yoshiki Hishinuma and Freedom of Creation, it promises to show off the most innovative, cutting edge and exciting designers the world has to offer as well as raising issues for global debate, such as the use of tissue culture to produce semi-living clothes.
26th April – 25th July 2008
Tuesday – Friday 12.00 – 20.00
Sat – Sun 12.00 – 18.00
Admission Free
Tel: + 353 1 895 4091