Furniture and Wooden Objects Group: Lightning Talks & AGM
We invite you to the Furniture and Wooden Objects Group AGM and lightning talks.
6pm – 8pm BST17 April 2023+ Add to calendar
Green Room, Holborn House Community Centre, Holborn, London WC1
Free for members
The Icon Furniture and Wooden Objects Group is delighted to announce its upcoming in-person event: Lightning-talks accompanied by the group’s 2023 Annual General Meeting (please see the Agenda below).
The event will consist of a series of five-minute in-person presentations followed by questions and discussion.
Anyone with an interest in care, restoration and/or conservation of furniture and woodwork is welcome to give an in-person five-minute presentation. Presentations could include sustainability, education, career development, preventative conservation, treatment practices, theory, history, ethics, outreach and funding.
If you would like to give an in-person five-minute presentation, please send a titled abstract with your name and affiliation to Michel Aslangul, vice-chair, at [email protected] by Monday 10th April 2023. Please get in touch as soon as possible for further details or to discuss your ideas.
AGENDA
1. Welcome and Introduction by the Chair, Anthony Beech ACR
2. Apologies for Absence
3. Minutes of the previous AGM
4. Annual report for the period ended 31st March 2023
5. Annual accounts for the period ended 31st March 2023
6. Resolution to change the name of the Group from FWOG to Furniture and Woodwork
- Proposed by Anthony Beech ACR
- Seconded by Michel Aslangul
7. Elections to the committee
8. Looking ahead
9. AOB
10. Members of the Group present in-person 'lightning' talks of 5 minutes each outlining a recent project and relating what made it interesting or significant.
11.Close of formal meeting
Attendees are invited for a conversation with colleagues over some food and drink