Important info:

Due to Covid-19 ticket sales are currently frozen. The health and safety of the attendees and speakers are of the highest importance and we will be monitoring the situation carefully to create the best outcome for all.

We hope that the event will still go ahead so the tickets are now scheduled to go on sale early June 2020. but Updates for this event can be found at: @jasskthethi.

Galleries, Libraries and Archives and Museums (GLAM) are not neutral. People from BAME, LGBTQIA, Neuro-divergent, disabled and Working Class backgrounds are often overlooked, misrepresented or erased from the sector.

Well not anymore!

#IGLAM2020 is a grassroots conference organised to empower everyone within the sector by centering stories and opinions of overlooked and erased peoples. While prioritising accessibility in a LGBTQIA, Transgender, BAME and disability friendly building. 

Speakers from the most impacted groups of misrepresentation and erasure will be running the show.

This includes people of BAME, LGBTQIA, Neuro-divergent, disabled and Working Class backgrounds. Their professional and personal experience give you the tools to empower yourselves to create space for overlooked groups.

Come along and help me create a ruckus which leads to a real, dependable, and intersectional GLAM. With lunch included!

More information available at: @jasskthethi and https://intersectionalglam.home.blog/ 

Financial Assistance is available for travel and accommodation, please contact intersectional.glam@gmail.com for further information.

To ensure this conference is at inclusive as possible we have created a sliding scale cost:

Benefactor: £100

Please choose this cost if:

• The ticket is being paid for by your employer

Or if the following statements apply to you:

• I may have some debt but it does not stop me from meeting my basic needs

• I own my own home OR I can rent in most places in town

• I am employed OR do not need to work to meet my needs

• I have expendable income**

• I have access to financial savings

• I can choose whether or not to buy new items

• I can afford annual vacation or take time off

General Admission: £60

Please choose this cost if the following statements apply to you:

• I may stress about my basic needs but still often achieve them

• I may have some debt but it does not stop me from achieving my basic needs

• I am employed

• I might have access to financial savings

• I have some expendable income

• I am able to buy some new items or second hand

• I sometimes can afford a holiday

Subsidized: £20

Please choose this cost if the following statements apply to you:

• I frequently stress about my basic needs

• I have debt which sometimes stops me from meeting my basic needs

• I rent lower-end rooms or have unstable living situations• I have no access to savings

• I am unemployed, underemployed or have a low wage job

• I have no or very limited expendable income

• I very rarely buy new items I cannot afford an annual holiday or have the ability to take time off without a financial burden

*BASIC NEEDS include food, housing, transport. **EXPENDABLE INCOME might mean you are able to buy a tea or coffee at a café, go to the movies or a concert, buy new clothes, books and similar items each month.

Donations:

These donations will be used to assist ticket holders with travel and accommodation expenses if needed. All other donations will go towards creating an Empowerment Conference for LGBTQIA, BAME, neuro-diverse and Disabled Staff working in the GLAM sector.

• Result CIC

Jane Cordell and Hormoz Ahmadzadeh

Result CIC Directors will draw together the themes of the day in a participative group coaching approach. They will support participants to:

Reflect on their current roles and how they may wish to change anddevelop these within their organisations over the coming 12 months.

Compare experiences with other participants from across the sector.

Set a shared agenda for changes you as a conference group wish to see.

Decide personal action points for the year ahead.

This will be an interactive session using group discussions of participants’experience. There will be the option of quieter space for these conversations in smaller groups (or pairs) if required

About Result CIC:

Result CIC is a Salford-based social enterprise. Its Directors and associates havelived intersectional experience of disability, being BAME, LGBT and an immigrantto the UK. They draw on this experience to provide coaching and training to people who feel marginalised, empowering them to be more confident in their differences and to become positive role models to others. They also work with managers and leaders to boost their inclusion practices through greater personal awareness. Result CIC’s clients include Cabinet Office, the University of Manchester, BBC North, Manchester Health Care and Commissioning, Liverpool John MooresUniversity, Manchester Deaf Centre, DaDaFest (Deaf and Disability Arts),Manchester Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre and RECLAIM project.What is our session?

Find out more about them here: http://www.resultcic.com/people/

• Jass Thethi

Session topic: The GLAM sector is not neutral and what we can do about it

As founder and managing director of Intersectional GLAM Jass has used her lived experience along with 10 years of working within the GLAM sector to create training packages to dismantle the exclusive heritage sector.

She has worked alongside universities and cultural institutions to audit course content, exhibition interpretation and lead workshops to enhance intersectionality within the GLAM sector.

• Dr Safina Islam

Session topic: TBA

Dr Safina Islam joined AIURRRC and Education Trust from the public programmes team at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, where she was a communities and inclusion specialist. She has also spent two years as chief officer at Ananna, the Manchester Bangladeshi Women’s Organisation, where she is still chair. Her background in community engagement is important during a time in which the sector is talking extensively about “decolonising” collections; not deleting old tellings of stories, but enabling communities to produce and curate their own narratives.