---

---

Saturday February 23, 2013
8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Seminar Fee (includes lunch): $45 ($40 for GCV&M Members)

Sessions Include:

• Introduction and Overview of Heirloom Gardening
  James M. Tammaro, 20 year heirloom gardener and award winner
• Heirloom Apples
  Mary Jean Welser, Technician at Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Seed Saving
  Randel Agrella, General Manager for Comstock, Ferre & Co and
  Seed Production Manager for Baker Creek Heirloom Seed
• Heirloom Grapes
  Gary Cox, Grape Consultant to GCV&M and the Finger Lakes Museum
• How to Submit Your Heirloom Entries to the Agricultural Fair
  John Adams, Head Gardener, GCV&M
• ...and more!

Visit www.gcv.org for more information, a registration form & a complete description of sessions!

Download Seminar Poster

---

 

2013 ALHA Conference: Developing Depth of Character Deep in the Delta

The International Museum Theater Alliance (IMTAL) is pleased to announce the IMTAL 2013 Global Conference: Evolving the Story: Innovation in Today’s Museum Theatre hosted by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC from October 6-10, 2013. Mark your calendars now!

The 2013 IMTAL Global Conference will focus on creativity and innovation in today’s Museum Theatre. In 2013, Museum Theatre is a proven, tested, educational approach in the field of museum studies. It is also an art form bringing the best of performance to museum visitors of all ages. But how is the field continuing to evolve? The 2013 Global conference will bring together practitioners, researchers, performers, and museum professionals from around the world to discuss, debate, present, and share examples of how the field is evolving and innovating.

Conference Highlights include:

• Field Trip day to a historic site near Washington, DC
• Trip to the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage
• Keynote Talks from:

• P. J. Powers of Chicago’s Timeline Theater
• Other nationally recognized leaders in the field of Museum Theatre

• Science Museum Theater Program development session in the collections at the National Museum of Natural History
• Gala Night Dinner at National Museum of American History

Download the Requests for Proposals Please submit proposals by May 1, 2013

For more information, please visit http://americanhistory.si.edu/events/imtal-2013 or email conference2013@imtal.org.

---

In 2014, Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Trades Margaret Hunter Millinery Shop will celebrate its 60th anniversary. To mark this event, from March 16 through March 19, 2014, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will present a symposium highlighting Millinery through Time.

Throughout history, the millinery trade has changed, adapted, and thrived. Beginning as dealers of Milan wares, milliners evolved to encompass a business of a thousand things, and lately to specialize in a single product, hats. This symposium will explore the rich contribution that milliners and their trade have made to the past and present and look to future possibilities. Papers should address the people, fashion, merchandising, and trade work of the milliner from the 18th to the 21st centuries.

Researchers and designers are invited to submit 300-word abstract proposals for illustrated oral lectures 25 minutes in length. Paper proposals are due to Colonial Williamsburg for peer review by March 25, 2013; acceptances will be announced May 10, 2013. Those whose abstracts are selected for presentation will receive free symposium registration. Abstracts will be published in the symposium brochure.

Submit abstracts to:

Millinery Abstracts
Attention: Janea Whitacre, Historic Trades Milliner Colonial Williamsburg Foundation P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 Or by email at jwhitacre@cwf.org

---