World Heritage UK 2024 Spring Workshop, at Bangor University, North Wales.

Dates: Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th April 2024

Format: In-person plus broadcast live via YouTube

Theme: Industrial Heritage; the workshop will include broad topics that will be of interest to all World Heritage and heritage professionals

Programme:

Wednesday 10^th April – Opportunities

• 09.30am – Registration/teas/coffees
• 10.00am – Welcome from Bangor University and World Heritage UK
• 10.15am – Keynote: Introduction to and explanation of Industrial Heritage by Prof. Ian Wray, Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool
• 10.45am – Industry, Heritage and (city) Regeneration by Katie Wray, Deloitte
• 11.15am – Regeneration through Sustainable Tourism, with VisitEngland’s Niamh Walsh, Policy and Public Affairs Manager
• 11.45am – tea/coffee break
• 12.00pm – Industrial Heritage Festivals with ExtraSchicht, the Ruhr, Germany
• 12.30pm – Industrial Heritage and STEM with Prof. Teresa Anderson from Jodrell Bank WHS and Manchester University
• 1.00pm – buffet lunch at Pontio Arts & Innovation Centre, Bangor University
• 2.00pm – travel to Dinorwig Quarry & Llanberis Slate Museum
• 2.30pm – site visit at the quarry and museum with Heritage Consultant and Historian Daffyd Gwyn as our tour guide
• 3.30pm – Presentation from Cadw on Industrial Heritage in Waiting: conserving industrial artefacts without re-use
• 4.00pm – Slate Museum film
• 4.20pm – slate cutting demonstration
• 5.00pm – travel from Llanberis to Blaenau Ffestiniog; a very scenic drive through the Slate Landscape WHS
• 6.00pm – social event at Cellb Cinema & Arts Centre in Blaenau Ffestiniog (food and live music)
• 9.00pm – travel to Bangor
• 10.00pm – arrive Bangor

Thursday 11^th April – Challenges

• 09.30am – teas/coffees
• 10.00am – Welcome by from Bangor University and WHUK
• 10.15am – Extractive Industrial Heritage; highlighting the challenges of sustainably managing WH status within active mining/quarrying landscapes, with Friederike Hansell, Coordinator for World Heritage, Ministry of the Interior, Saxony State Government (digital)
• 10.45am – Industrial Heritage and Local Communities with Blaenavon WHS’ Ashleigh Taylor
• 11.15am – Communicating and Celebrating Intangible (Industrial) Heritage with DCMS’ Phil Foxwood (digital)
• 11.45am – tea/coffee break
• 12.00pm – Industrial Society and Slavery with academic Prof. Pat Hudson from Cardiff University
• 12.45pm – Q&A/workshop wrap up
• 13.00pm – buffet lunch at Pontio Arts & Innovation Centre, Bangor University
• 14.00pm – travel from Bangor to Penrhyn
• 14.15pm – visit to Penrhyn Castle; National Trust link to slavery/plantations/Penrhyn Quarry etc (please bring your NT Membership card if you’re a member)
• 15.30pm – travel from Penrhyn Castle to Penrhyn Quarry
• 16.00pm – Penrhyn/Bethesda Quarry visit; opportunity to see working quarry and how commercial activity works adjacent to heritage conservation
• 5.00pm – Travel back to Bangor
• 5.30pm – Arrive Bangor and workshop ends

Tickets will be available on February 5, 2024