
Museum Ethnographers Group
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| Contemporary Egyptian art and craft symposium - confirmed speakers |
KHAMSEEN SYMPOSIUM
8 and 9 July 2009
The Ismaili Centre, London SW7
Khamseen (sandstorm in arabic) will explore how art and craft practice in Cairo is impacting on society through the work of contemporary practitioners and innovative art projects.
It will ask how society can nurture traditional skills whilst remaining open to innovation?
Why Cairo? Because in Cairo today we have a model where the recognition of the value of traditional skills is in resurgence and is playing a pivotal part in the regeneration of Cairo and artistic practice across the Middle East.
Khamseen will bring together leading artists and professionals to discuss the context for this change and how it might relate to contemporary practice here in the UK.
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| About MEG... |
The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG), formed in 1976,
is committed to the following aims -
- To encourage good practice in curatorship of all ethnographic collections
in the United Kingdom.
- To encourage and disseminate research on ethnographic collections
in the UK.
- To promote the exchange of information and resources, nationally,
internationally and locally.
- To maintain the profile of ethnography with respect to other groups
of museum professionals and in relation to other museum bodies more
broadly, such as the Museums Association and MLA.
- To educate the public through the use of ethnographic collections
and thereby to foster an awareness of their educational value.
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