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UPCOMING EVENTS 2010
May Day Family Event
Location:
Michelham Priory (near Hailsham)
Date: Sunday May 2nd & Monday May 3rd, 2010
Participants: General
Public / family groups
This
is an annually held, two day public event located at ESAMP's Iron Age Activity
centre at Michelham Priory. The event is designed to show people of all ages (through a series
of engaging practical activities) what life might have been like for people living
in the Iron Age in Sussex. This event was initially designed and set up by ESAMP
and has been run every year for the last eighteen years in partnership with the
Sussex Archaeological Society. On average two thousand five hundred people attend
the event each year. Activities include weaving, making pots and woodwork. There will be demonstrations of cooking and flint tool making.
Moulsecoomb Heritage Festival
Location: Moulsecoomb School, Brighton
Date: Tuesday June 29th - Thursday July 1st, 2010
Participants: schoolchildren from East Sussex/ teachers/numerous local organisations and heritage groups/ the local community
This three-day event offers students and teachers from schools across Sussex to participate in numerous workshops and activities. Full description coming soon.
Ancient
Crafts & Technologies Summer School course (University of Sussex CCE)
Location:
Michelham Priory
Date: 12th-16th July 2010
Participants: 15 students from
CCE
This is an ESAMP course
run in partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society and the Centre for Community Engagement at the University of Sussex. It is held at Michelham Priory and attracts people
from across the UK. Participants are taught a very wide range of ancient crafts
by ESAMP staff and trainees. The course is recognized as being unique nationally
in its scope and quality. This is the nineteenty year which the course has been
offered.
Woodfair
Location:
Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum
Date: 17th-19th September 2010
Participants:
General Public/family groups (over 20,000 visitors)
ESAMP
has had a continual presence at Woodfair for the last twelve years. Woodfair is one
of the largest environmentally themed events of its type in the UK. ESAMP presents
a variety of demonstrations and activities over the three days. Our work and reconstructed
buildings are designed to show people the rich tradition of early building types
in Britain and to allow the public to explore the rich tapestry of everyday skills,
knowledge and crafts which were commonplace in the past.
Archaeology
Family Days
Location:
Lewes Castle & Anne of Cleves House Museum
Dates: tba
Participants: General Public /family groups
As
part of its partnership with the Sussex Archaeological Society, ESAMP runs
family events with archaeological themes at Lewes Castle and Anne of Cleves House
Museum. These wonderful historical settings provide an excellent backdrop for
the archaeological education workshops which ESAMP runs.
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ESAMP
Training services and educational work
ESAMP
has been providing heritage and environmental training since 1984. Alongside this
ESAMP also runs a diverse public archaeological education programme. ESAMP continues to build on this existing work, developing new opportunities for local
people to participate and work in their local cultural and environmental heritage.
Training
and voluntary work
ESAMP provides high quality training and volunteer placements for
local people who are not in work. These training placements run in partnership
with East Sussex County Council, The Sussex Archaeological
Society and the Brighton and Hove Museums Service.
Many of the people who participate in the training and voluntary work move into
employment at the end of their time with ESAMP.
Schools'
Education Programme
ESAMP offers a rich and diverse public and schools education programme.
There are a number of strands to ESAMP's schools work. ESAMP works in partnership with Brighton Museum on an exciting outreach
partnership. This involves taking a range of local Saxon grave goods and information on skeletal
material into local schools and enabling the children to have a high level of
direct access to this material. They are encouraged to investigate and interpret
the material in a wide variety of ways. This work complemented ESAMP's existing
archaeological outreach programme which is offered to a number of schools. ESAMP
also carries out major reconstruction building projects with schools in East and West Sussex. These projects involve simulated excavations, the building of reconstruction
Iron age roundhouses and a rich supporting programme of craft activities. The
buildings become long term educational resources for the schools and ESAMP aims to
work with the schools to develop further historical learning programmes and events.
Public
Education Programme
ESAMP delivers a wide range of public education events. These range from 'Family Archaeology Day' at Lewes Castle to designing and running an 'Ancient Crafts and Technologies'
course for the University of Sussex. ESAMP is present at many other public events including Woodfair, at the Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum.
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CURRENT PROJECTS
...update coming soon...
RECENT PROJECTS
For information about the 2006-2008 Interreg IIIA 'Common Roots of European Culture' project, please follow this link to the ESCC website. You can also visit the 'Common Roots' project picture gallery here.