North West Association of
Churchill Fellows
March 2016
North West Association AGM and Spring Meeting
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington, Saturday 23rdApril 2016 12 noon-4.30pm
Dear NW Churchill Fellow,
We have finally got there and our long-anticipated Haworth Gallery event is organised! I am very pleased to invite you to our NW Churchill AGM & Spring meeting at the Haworth Gallery in Accrington on Saturday 23rd April 2016 from 12 noon to 4.30pm. This will be a rather special occasion as I step down from the Chair and hand over to Doug Jackson, who holds The Haworth Tiffany Glass Collection very dear to his heart, having spent his fellowship tracing the historic trail of Joseph Briggs, the Lancashire Tiffany Glass collector who gifted the collection to the museum. So of course Doug will be sharing with us some of the finer moments of his fellowship and his work on Tiffany glass to date, and will have copies of his recently published book at hand for us to see. You will also have the opportunity to view the gallery collections from 12 noon with a mini- guided tour.
Accrington might not be top of your list as a Saturday afternoon destination, but the Tiffany Glass collection is really something very special, as are our speakers for the afternoon. As always, we have invited some of our newest members to tell us of their recent travels and I am very pleased to welcome three of our 2015 Fellows who will be telling and showing an eclectic mix of experiences, from stick insects via letter setting to prison reform. Please do come along to learn, enjoy and contribute to the ever increasing wealth of knowledge that our Churchill fellowships bring to us all and our wider communities.
I do hope you will be tempted by our programme for the day:
1200 Haworth Gallery open, with free time to look around gallery +/- guided tour
1245 NW Fellows Buffet lunch
1330 Welcome, AGM and hand over to new chair.
1400 Douglas Jackson (1998): The Life of Joseph Briggs and his Tiffany Glass Collection
1445 Tea/coffee
1515 New Fellows short talks:
David Armes (2015): North American contemporary letterpress
Andy Laidlaw (2015): The impact of effective mentoring on reoffending and community
safety
Beth Ripper (2015): Photographing Phasmids in Queensland, Australia
1600 Close of meeting - gallery closes at 4.30pm.
(1600 Committee meeting)
We have worked hard to again keep the cost down to £10 per person (for lunch + the meeting) for early bird bookings received before Saturday 9th April,then £12.50 for bookings received by the deadline Saturday 16th April. New Fellows from 2015 and 2016 attending their first meeting are invitied to attend free as our guests (but still need to book please).
Please book on the attached form. Guests of all ages are very welcome so please bring along any friends or family members who might be inspired by our speakers or want to join us! We look forward to seeing you all in Accrington on 23rd April for another great opportunity to share our knowledge and learn from each other.
Best wishes,
Joanna
Dr Joanna Dancer
Chair NW Association of Churchill Fellows
Information for your visit
The Haworth Art Gallery is at
Haworth Art Gallery
Hollins Lane
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 2JS
For more information you can contact them by telephone on 01254 233 782 or e-mail them at
The gallery is situated in its own park on the A680, south of Accrington town centre.Car parking is available to the side of the building and is free of charge.
From Accrington bus station, the464 bus passes the gallery every 10 minutes.
The gallery is fully accessible with a ramped entrance, disabled toilet and a lift to the Tiffany displays and the Education Room on the first floor.
Click here for a link to a map of the location:
Accrington is within easy access of the north west motorway system (M65 Junction 7 ) and there is ample parking at the Gallery
There are rail links to Accrington from Manchester, Blackburn and Preston, and local bus services from station to gallery. In addition, there is a very good bus service from Manchester that stops outside the gallery.
The North West Journey Planner is here to help:
2015 Fellows Speakers
David Armes (2015) is a letterpress artist, printmaker and educator. For his 2015 Fellowship he spent 11 weeks in the US visiting studios and printers. Also during Spring and Summer 2015 he was an artist-in-residence at The Shop, a secondhand shop and café in the district centre of Nelson, Lancashire where he recreated a temporary letterpress facility that functioned as a living/working installation and as a print studio. David said of his Nelson experience: “Letterpress printing has a definite performative aspect – the action of using a printing press is almost like a strange slow dance, repetitive and constant. As I worked, head down at the table repairing the press and cleaning type, slowly and diligently, visitors would creep up and around me. Sometimes people would ask questions, sometimes they’d just watch for a while. I enjoyed these moments before a conversation when curiosity hung in the air.” You can learn more of David’s experiences at and
Andy Laidlaw (2015) is a Prison Governor currently working as Head of Reducing Re-offending at HMP Risley. Prior to his trip he was working at HMP Liverpool as Head of OMU.He has worked for Public Sector Prisons for 18 years, starting as a Prison Officer at HMP Wandsworth.He has spent time in most areas of corrections and has a particular interest in why some offenders seem to be unable to break the cycle of their offending.
Andy traveledto the USA in October and November of 2015 primarily to research the impact of effective mentoring on community safety and reducing re-offending.He discovered a plethora of examples of good practice and also some quite pioneering work in the most unlikely of places. You can read more about Andy’s work at
Beth Ripper (2015) is currently employed as the national waste inventory manager for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Beth recently travelled to Queensland, Australia to photograph and collect data about phasmids (stick insects) in their natural habitats. The expedition aims were to generate high quality macro photographs of the insects, collect data about them and share the findings with relevant research groups and members of the public. She hopes that the expedition will help others in the UK to learn about insects, to appreciate their global ecological importance and to take part in insect discovery and conservation. You can read more about Beth and her work at
BOOKING FORM: Spring Meeting of NW Association of Churchill Fellows at The Haworth Art Gallery, Accringtonon Saturday 23rd April 2016
ONLINE BOOKING
You can email your completed form or equivalent detailsto and at the same timesend youronline payment directly to our accountwith the reference being your SURNAME.
North West Association of Churchill Fellows account no 21111922
Sort code 40-23-34
Your booking will not be accepted until payment is made.
BY POST
You can send this paper booking form with your cheque (payable to North West Association of Churchill Fellows) to:
Fiona Pervez – Treasurer NW Churchill
8 Strawberry Terrace
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA13 9JE
Please ensure ALL bookings reach the NW Churchill email or Fionaby post by Saturday 16th April 2016 at the latest. Thanks.
Fellow’s Name & Year ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Tel …………………………………………………………..Email ………………………………………………………..
I will be attending the NW Churchill Autumn Meeting at The Haworth Gallery, Accringtonon Saturday 23rd April 2016 from 12 noon.
My party will comprise ………..………people.
Guest name(s)………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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Please indicate if you are a 2015/2016 Fellow wishing to attend your first meeting as our guest without charge (charge for accompanying guests/family is £10 or £12.50 as below).
Please indicate if you would like to join a short guided tour of the collection at 12 noon on arrival.
I enclose a cheque for ………………………………….
£10 per person booked beforeSaturday 9th April 2015 OR £12.50 per person booked between 9th and 16th April.
(made payable to North West Association of Churchill Fellows)
Please give details of any special dietary requirements: ……………………………………………………………………