Global Excellence in Interpretation Webinars
Since 2022, the Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation has hosted the Global Excellence in Interpretation series of webinars. These international webinars hosted by interpretation organisations around the world are free to all interpreters, regardless of membership or affiliation with any of the sponsor organisations! English-Spanish live translation will be available where possible.
2024 Webinars
The next webinar will be on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, at 01.00hrs GMT. Hosted by Interpretive Guides Canada.
Title: Interpretation: Land Trusts and Indigenous Partnerships
Description: Join adventurer, conservation writer, motivational speaker and IGA-certified interpretive guide Joanie McGuffin as she shares her 30-year journey paddling Lake Superior, the largest freshwater expanse on Earth, alongside her husband Gary. Her time on the water revealed the beauty and challenges of humanity’s connection with nature, sparking a shared mission to protect and care for the lake’s vast watershed through interpretation. Together, she and her husband founded the Lake Superior Watershed Conservancy and discovered interpretation. Bringing the two together has helped them create a stronger, more effective voice for all people who live and work along the Lake's shores.
AHI hosted a webinar Using museum collections to spark climate conversations on Wednesday, 28 August 2024 at 18:00
A recording of this webinar is available via the via the GAHI website.
Stromness is a small town of around 2000 people and its museum is one of the oldest independent museums in Scotland. Its collection comprises ethnographic, social history, maritime and natural history collections. Katy and her team have been working to use the collections as a springboard to start climate conversations. This outreach and interpretation activity begun after COP26 in Glasgow and has continued ever since. Katy will describe the award-winning Changes in a Lifetime: Climate Cafes project and elaborate on this project’s legacy.
Katy Firth is Climate Change Exhibitions and Outreach Officer at Stromness Museum, Orkney, Scotland. Katy was born and brought up in Orkney and studied Archaeology and German at the University of Glasgow. In her heritage-related career she has had roles as Park Ranger, Community Archaeologist and has worked freelance in heritage education and learning since 2015. She is passionate about Orkney’s natural and cultural heritage
2024 Recordings:
Recordings of the previous webinars are available to view on the GAHI website:
Webinar 1 - 10 April 2024 – National Association for Interpretation: Parks for All!
Webinar 2 - 11 June 2024 – Interpretation Canada: New voices at the table: Using interdisciplinary Interpretive Planning to transform visitor experiences
Webinar 3 - 20 August 2024 – Interpretation Australia: Creating First Nations Community-led Digital Interpretation at Murrook Culture Centre
Webinar 4 - 28 August 2024 - AHI: Using museum collections to spark climate conversations
Webinar 5 - 27 September 2024 - InterpatMX - Experiencias interpretativas para niños y sus familias / Interpretive Experiences for Children and Their Families
Webinar 6 - 11 October 2024 - Interpret Europe - EVRYNOUS’, in Greek, means open-minded
Saving Ukrainian Heritage
Webinar 1, July 2022: The Love of Freedom: Why the World Needs Skovoroda, and Ukrainian Culture
On Friday night, May 6, 2022, a Russian missile set fire to the Hryhorii Skovoroda National Museum in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. Skovoroda was a beloved poet, philosopher, teacher and composer whose work is still influencing modern poets today. He has been seen as a symbol of the “love of freedom” and for many, the attack on the museum (which is actually originally Skovoroda’s home) felt like an attack on the soul of the country. We will learn about the Skovoroda museum, before and after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, why the world needs Skovoroda, how interpreters are helping make it visible to the world, and how you can help.
Webinar recording may be viewed on the GAHI Website.
