BOOKING FORMTextile Society 31st Annual Conference and AGM,

‘Embroidering the Truth’Liverpool, 1st-3rd November 2013

NB: Friday 1st November. Limited availability

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Date / Time / Venue and Event / Cost / Please tick if you wish to attend / Please indicate if you are a member
Friday 1st Nov / 10.00am / Liverpool Cathedral: visit to the embroidery archive / £5.00 for members £7.50 for non members / Full
Friday 1st Nov / 1.30 – 2.30pm / Walker Art Gallery: visit to the Kemp Archive with Pauline Rushton
(Lunch not provided) / £5.00 for members £7.50 for non members / Full
Friday 1st Nov / 3.15 – 4.15pm / Rex Makin Lecture Theatre, County Sessions House, (next to Walker Art Gallery) William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL.
AGM / FREE
Friday 1st Nov / 4.15pm / Rex Makin Lecture Theatre, County Sessions House Lecture by Professor Gale Owen-Crocker. ‘Fools in the Bayeux Tapestry.’ / Free eventbut booking essential.
Friday 1st Nov / 7.00pm / Evening Dinner. Gustos, Edward Pavilion
Sat 2nd Nov / 10am – 4.30pm / Rex Makin Lecture Theatre, County Sessions House
Whole day conference. / £30.00 members
£40.00 non-members
Sun 3rd Nov / TBC (will be announced at the conference on Saturday) / Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead. Visit to the AH Lee Archive. Introduction to the archive by curator Colin Simpson; visit the archive.
Lunch not included but can be purchased at the Museum café.
Return mini bus to Liverpool. / £15.00 for members £20.00 for non members
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Textiles: Embroidering the Truth

Textile Society Annual Conference and AGM, 1 Nov - 3 Nov 2013

Rex Makin Lecture Theatre, County Sessions House,(next to Walker Art Gallery) William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL

This year's conference explores how studying evidence helps us to understand objects. Papers will take a long hard look at first-hand evidence with a critical eye in order to understand what it tells us about the object. A strong ecclesiastical thread is provided by visits to the Anglican Cathedral and Liverpool Archives

PROGRAMME

Friday 1st Nov

  • 10.00am Visit to Anglican Cathedral to see exhibition of ecclesiastical textiles and East Grinstead Archive.
  • 12.00-1.00pm lunch
  • 1.30- 2.30 Visit to Liverpool Archives to see Kemp Altar frontal and talk by Pauline Rushton (curator of Liverpool Museum) on Charles Kempe.
  • 2.45pm Registration and tea/coffee at Rex Makin Lecture Theatre
  • 3.15 AGM
  • 4.15 Lecture by Professor Gale Owen-Crocker. ‘Fools in the Bayeux Tapestry.’
  • 7.00 Society evening dinner

Saturday 2nd Nov

  • Introduction by Pauline Rushton
  • Talks and lectures all day in Rex Makin Lecture Theatre -programme to be finalised
  • Lunch at the Walker Art Gallery (next door).

Sunday 3rd Nov

  • Trip 'over the water' to Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead to see A.H.Lee Archive
  • Curator Colin Simpson will give a talk and show us textiles.
    Lunch at cafe at the Williamson.

Please send the booking form with cheque to: Louanne Collins, Treasurer, 159a Chester Road, Hazel Grove, Stockport, SK7 6HD. Cheques should be made payable to The Textile Society. Please keep a copy of form for your records. If you require written confirmation and don’t have e.mail please supply a stamped addressed envelope.