August 2007

Museum, Gallery and Archives ManagerJob SummarySalary £31,509 - £34,137 per annum inclusiveReference JGP 855/50038900Location London Borough of Waltham ForestHours 36 Hours per weekClosing Date 07 September 2007You will be responsible for managing the Vestry House Museum, the William Morris Gallery, the Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies library. We seek an effective communicator, with proven experience of developing a museum, able to build and motivate audiences and a staff team. A major area of the work involves the implementation of our development plan as part of quality day-to-day operations whilst maintaining high standards of collections management. Key to this will be development of effective partnerships with other organisations and the ability to secure external funding to enable delivery of engaging exhibitions, events and activities for the whole community. If you are a highly organized, experienced, self-motivated manager, able to hit the ground running, please join our team.Interview date: 25th September 2007

The excellent E17 Art Trail kicks off on 1 September and continues until 9 September. The trail see’s art exhibitions throughout Walthamstow, as well as guided talks and events.

For the entire programme please see www.e17arttrail.co.uk, where you can download maps, posters and programmes. Of particular relevance is the Inspire exhibition taking place in Wood Street, which features work inspired by William Morris, also see Loakes and Co Trail of Distruction Antiscrap say: Please join us on this small trail from the William Morris Gallery to Vestry House Museum. On the way we will be stopping off to remember theatres, adult education centres, cinemas. We will view large open spaces and wonder where all the books have gone. Now that everything must justify itself at the altar of cost effectiveness, arts groups, clubs, rehearsal space and drop-in centres are threatened or gone because meeting rooms have closed or become too expensive to hire. If you think there’s more to life that working, sleeping, and shopping ­ join us on this guided walk with speeches. If you arrive in fancy dress or wonderful hats that’s fine, bring a flag, drum or guitar. Bring children; it’s their future that’s under threat. We want to show how arts, life and leisure are connected and we want the destruction to stop. Assemble Sunday 9 September outside the closed toilet in front of Lloyd Park main gates at 1pm. Download the map here.

Council Backlash
Cllr Reardon confirmed today that the Council is refusing to publicize the entire E17 Art Trail in Council venues such as the boroughs libraries because they feel unfairly attacked with the Walk and Inspire exhibition. It’s a real shame that their actions will only affect the artists and potential visitors, most of whom are local Council Tax payers. Please contact Cllr Geraldine Reardon with any concerns you may have over this.