| Heritage Canada Foundation's AGORA-L: A new way to connect and protect What is Agora-L? How do I join Agora-L? Click here for more info: AGORA-L USER GUIDE. Heritage Canada Foundation Launches SPERO-L A free email-based discussion tool dedicated to finding solutions for places of faith at risk in Canada. Increasingly, historic churches, synagogues and other places of worship across the country—both urban and rural—are threatened with deterioration and demolition. The reasons are many: shrinking congregations, years of deferred maintenance, shifting demographics and rising urban land values. If you are facing a challenging situation, or if you would like to share how re-purposed historic places of faith are being preserved and reused in your community, simply send a message to: spero-l@heritagecanada.org. Willowbank School of Restoration Arts The Summer Employment Documentation Program Program Details: Willowbank is launching a new paid internship program for people with drawings skills and an interest in historic places. The six-week program will run from July 6 – August 14, 2009. The internship program pays minimum wage plus travel and other expenses associated with the field work. The program is open to anyone 18 and over, whether a high school senior, a college or university student, or someone unemployed or in the middle of career change. The program targets historic places at risk, whether due to proposed demolition, abandonment, or other threat. It involves an intensive one-week training program in the documentation of historic structures and places, through a combination of historical research, measured drawings, and photographs. Participants will then go on site and undertake the necessary fieldwork. They will return to the Willowbank studios and develop a combination of hand-drawings, AutoCAD drawings, other illustrative mappings, and photo essays, combined with historical research notes. The final products will be prepared for exhibition, with copies deposited in the appropriate archival institutions. All field and studio work will be based in the Niagara region. Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2009, and must include evidence of drawing skills. For application and brochure visit www.willowbank.ca or contact Shelley Huson, Administrator, at (905)-262-1239 x 23 or shelley.huson@willowbank.ca Call for Papers International Symposium The purpose of this international symposium is to identify and understand innovative heritage possibilities for the future of convents, monasteries, and, more generally, religious houses in Quebec, the rest of Canada, and in Western society. By comparing cases and putting them in theoretical, historical, and geographical perspective, we hope to make a contribution to what these urban and rural architectural groupings become. We thus aim to examine specific ways of implementing the proposals and studies conducted in Quebec, and to share these experiences in order to, more globally, to identify, explore but mostly, to contribute to the resolution of the problematic raised in Western societies. OUTLINE OF THEME All through the West (Europe and the Americas), religious communities have been driven by falling recruitment to leave the convents, abbeys, monasteries, or missions in which they have traditionally lived and animated. Increasingly abandoned or in the process of becoming so, monumental religious houses still occupy strategic positions in the regional landscape or urban fabric and maintain an important place in the collective memory and imagination of our societies. These soon to be abandoned builds also arouse the greed of many developers. The conversion of these structures into high-end office buildings, luxury housing, and prestige hotels fires their imagination, particularly as the religious houses are often located on highly desirable sites, shielded by walls of green space—the very lungs of the cities that now surround them—or replete with intimate gardens, cloisters, or courtyards protected and preserved from the modern hustle and bustle. PROPOSALS Interested researchers and professionals are invited to submit a participation proposal before February 28, 2009. Submission, including an abstract (title and 300-word description) and short résumé will be sent to the attention of Prof. Dre. Lucie K. Morisset, president of the Scientific Committee: Or by mail: After evaluation by the Scientific Committee, authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by March 31, 2009. Please note that the Organizing Committee will pay for travel and journey expenses of a certain number of speakers. For information: Luc Noppen, Director K.D. Drafting Ltd Heritage Extant (As-Found) Documentation and recording skills provided for Historic buildings and structures. This documentation may be used for an Archival record, rebuilding, renovation or restoration purposes, to upgrade for public use, for energy audits, for electrical / mechanical / plumbing upgrades, to install sprinkler systems, as a record for a new owner and for use by other consultants. We are eager to work anywhere across Canada or beyond. Over 50 projects completed in 4 provinces in 30 years for Federal and Provincial Departments. (780)454-5155 kddrafting@telus.net Do you have a historic property in Ontario for sale? Do you wish to purchase a historic property in Ontario? Let HALP help you. Contact HALP (Historic Architecture Linking Program), the online referral service of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario at www.hips.com/ACO View current listings at www.hips.com/halp |
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Jobs Add a job posting using the on-line submission form - at no charge! Summer Field School in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes, 2009 The University of Laval is presently accepting registrations for the Summer Field School in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes that will be held in the Gaspe Peninsula, Québec, Canada from 18 May to 5 June 2009. This intensive three-week course will be of interest to those wishing to develop their field recording techniques, to learn to interpret buildings and sites, to work with local interest groups in community development, and to sensitively intervene in regional cultural landscapes. Open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professionals of a variety of disciplines, the course welcomes both English and French speakers. The number of places is limited to 15. Registration begins 16 March 2009. For more information, click here. To register or to obtain more information contact us by email at patrimoine@arc.ulaval.ca or by telephone at (418) 656-2131, extension 2052.
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