GLAM Cares

@glamcares.bsky.social

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A care and support network for people who work with communities in galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

Bright yellow banner with the words 'GLAM Cares' on the left, over a grey heart and sparkles. On the right the text reads 'a care and support network for GLAM community engagement professionals'
Bright yellow banner has the logo for the organisation GLAM Cares on the left, the name of the organisation over a pale grey heart with sparkles around it. On the right the text reads 'a care and support network for GLAM community engagement professionals'
Photo shows a long piece of paper with a drawing of the UK and the text 'whete are you from?'. In different colour pen, people have labelled the cities they travelled from to attend the conference. Cities from the Midlands to the east of Scotland are labelled
A photo of a screen explaining 'what is a zine', with images of some zines and the words small, self published, pamphlet style small books, hand made'
A slide is shown about the Maternal Journal project, supporting birthing parents with mild or moderate mental health needs, using creative activities and prompts to boost wellbeing
A large screen shows a yellow slide asking 'have you ever led a project that didn't turn out how you'd expected? Have you ever experienced outcomes you couldn't have foreseen?'
A large screen shows the questions, what is the cost to you, what is within your control, what do you need to let go of, what impact would this have on you?
A group of people are shown standing up from the back. At the front a large screen shows a slide with a picture of a tree and the phrase 'root deep, stand strong, branch out'
A large screen displays the GLAM cares logo and session title, community engagement and participation
Photo shows a room of people looking at a screen. The screen is green with three discussion questions as listed in the text above
Photo shows a room full of people looking at a screen with a presentation saying 'advocating for staff support!
Photo shows a presentation on screen exploring exhibition co creation l, with topics including prison nursing and children's nursing
Photo shows people looking at a presentation on a screen. The presentation shows before and after pictures of a wellbeing area for nurses
Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below is a photo of a speaker at the event with the text 'Building a network of creative health practitioners: maternal journal in Wakefield and West Yorkshire, Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield, and Diane Saxon, Art House Wakefield.'
Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below are three photos of speakers at the event with the text 'Afternoon panel discussion, Sophie Beckett, Birmingham Museums Trust, Philip Newton, York Museums Trust and Jane Findlay, Dulwich Picture Gallery'
Yellow bordered square with the words 'GLAM Cares Conference 2025' top right over a yellow heart. The conference date and location, Thursday 26th June 2025 at Leeds Museum, are top left. Below are four photos of speakers at the event with the text 'Morning Panel Discussion with Joanne Charlton and Zoe Brown, North East Museums, Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff, Heritage Doncaster, and Susan Griffiths, GLAM, University of Oxford'
Advert for a conference. The image is surrounded by a yellow box containing text saying ' Save the date. GLAM cares conference. Thursday 26 June 2025 at Leeds City Museum.' The banner logo for the organisation reads 'GLAM cares, a care and support network for GLAM community engagement professionals'. The hashtag reads #GlamCares2025