BBC's The Repair Shop star to visit Derby museum for event celebrating city's heritage

Sustainability advocate and celebrity furniture restorer Jay Blades MBE is set to visit Derby Museum Of Making to champion cultural heritage. 

Jay, who is Heritage Crafts co-chair, is among a stellar line-up of passionate culture supporters who will visit Derby for the event in March 2024. 

The event is a celebration of craftsmanship and how it crosses over with other domains of living heritage, such as folk music and puppetry performances.

People can book onto the event and meet craft demonstrators and performers from across the UK, who will talk about the skills they have inherited and which they hope to pass on to the future.

The event on Saturday, March, 16, 2024 is in the run-up to the UK joining the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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In December the UK Government announced the historic decision that the UK would be joining 182 other countries around the world in ratifying the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

What is Intangible Cultural Heritage?

This is knowledge, skills and practices that make up our cultural heritage.

It is traditions that exist within humans and that come to life through performances, through music, dance, festivities or making.

On the day, people can learn more about the decision to ratify the Convention.

They can explore how the Convention might reinvigorate the way in which Derby and the wider UK thinks about itself and its heritage in its broadest sense, and how diverse communities from all across the country can be empowered to celebrate their distinctive making traditions.

This event is part of an ongoing partnership between Derby Museums and Heritage Crafts, the national charity set up to support, celebrate and safeguard traditional crafts skills in the UK.

Tickets range from £20 for members of Heritage Crafts to £30 for non-members.

There is also an optional grab-and-go lunch offer provided by The River Kitchen at the Museum of Making for an additional £8.

For more information about this event visit the museum website by clicking here.