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Colourful, diverse, dramatic – this is the start of our Interpret Europe conference in Pisa.   This is an  opportunity to get up close to European heritage traditions.   It is an opportunity to see things differently, hear perspectives of shared history that we have not heard, to see how people’s relationship with the land […]

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I heard yesterday that after nineteen years the Environmental Trainers Network will close in March. Their sad announcement states that ‘the continuing impact on our audience of the economic downturn has meant that this year for the first time ever, bookings have become too low and unpredictable for the programme to be sustainable.’ For those […]

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I am thrilled to bits to have been invited to contribute to a new course on Representing and Interpreting Culture: World Arts and Museum Ethnography at the School of Museum Studies, Leicester University next month. I have to confess to to a bit of uncertainty about just what I will do in my two hours […]

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Well, that was a blast! I am now fully confident that my adrenal glands are still fully functional and have discovered that giving a keynote gives me the sort of terrors before and rush afterwards that I usually associate with roller coasters. Thank you to everyone who was so enthusiastic about my talk, especially those […]

I love being a consultant when …

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… we’ve worked with a client long enough to feel part of their team … when the client is ready, eager and willing to make changes … when our roles feel like being a catalyst (which just sets a whole new dynamic reaction in motion) … when we have the opportunity to stay around to […]