Booking now open for ARA Annual Conference 28-30 Aug: Climate & Crisis: Tackling it Together
Booking now open for our Annual Conference: 28-30 August 2024, Birmingham, UK
‘Climate and Crisis: Tackling it Together’
Book here - early bird rate closes 1st May
ARA’s 2024 conference will take place in the new BCEC, a purpose built conference venue in the centre of Birmingham.
The 2024 theme is ‘Climate and Crisis: Tackling It Together’ and over three days we address the major crises and challenges facing our communities and our profession, learning from our community and building stronger responses, together. The Climate Crisis is the challenge of an era with the responsibility to take action falling upon us all. Our profession must respond, learn from best practice and find new ways to contribute to the global effort. Our work faces other crises not least funding and resourcing challenges. We are better tackling this together too, and we want the conference to be a catalyst for this.
We are very pleased to announce that Lorraine Finch will be our Friday keynote speaker. Lorraine is director of LFCP, which is accelerating the cultural heritage sector’s climate and environmental actions through research, knowledge sharing and resource creation. She is also a sustainability leader who advocates on the international stage for sustainability in cultural heritage participating in conferences, leading workshops and training, publishing books and articles and collaborating with leaders in the field in the USA and Europe. In recognition of her role as founder and Chair of the Institute of Conservation’s Sustainability Network, she was presented with a David Middleton Sustainability Award. She is also a Director of Climate Museum UK and an accredited conservator of archives, photographs, film and sound.
Our Wednesday keynote will be Alistair Brown, Head of Museums, Libraries and Archives Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Alistair leads the Heritage Fund’s policy on archives, museums and libraries and across the UK, and has supported the Fund’s delivery of a wide range of projects in the sector, including the Fund’s recent Dynamic Collections campaign. Prior to working at the Heritage Fund, Alistair was the Policy Manager for the Museums Association where he led on a range of policy initiatives including the review of the Code of Ethics for Museums, the delivery of the Museums Change Lives campaign, and a series of successful sector advocacy campaigns. He has also previously worked in cultural and regional policy roles for the Scottish Government and the European Commission.
Expect a versatile programme that we hope will cater to our wide variety of stakeholders, an action-packed Information Village and social networking functions so that we can carry on the conversations across three separate evenings.
Themes include:
climate advocacy and education,
passive and sustainable storage,
digital recordkeeping and the cloud,
conservation,
forward planning for climate change,
sustainability of the recordkeeping profession,
climate collecting.
We had a phenomenal turnout for ARA 2023 - 'Communities' and we would like to build on this and invite you to join us for what promises to be an exceptional conference.
Registration and Fees
Full Conference including 2 nights’ accommodation
On Wednesday and Thursday nights; Tuesday night can be purchased at cost.
ARA Members £675 to 1 May £735 after that date
Non Members £860 to 1 May £950 after that date
Full Conference no accommodation
ARA Members £575 to 1 May £635 after that date
Non Members £760 to 1 May £850 after that date
Daily Rate (no early booking rate)
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday (per day)
ARA Members £225
Non Members £325
New for 2024
Two Day Rate (no early booking rate)
Any combination of 2 consecutive days
ARA Members £400
Non Members £600
Full details of what each rate includes are available here.
Speaker Registration
Speakers will be sent an invitation to register with a bespoke link to their presentation information by 25 March. Please do not use the delegate links below. If you haven't received your invitation email by this date please email araconference@opening-doors.org.uk.