We'll send confirmation at the time, but we're currently scheduled to turn off the old DDE system at 18.00 on 11th March. We'll be putting up a help page with lots of information and links, so don't delete your bookmarks just yet - and to prevent last-minute panic, don't forget to check and update your information. 

 

Everyone who has registered their information with us will be sent a new username and password over the weekend. More help and information will be available on the Culture24 site and at http://www.24hourmuseum.net/production/dataentry.

 

All your information and events are being updated in the new system already. As soon as you have a username and password to log in to the new system, you'll be able to see and edit all your existing information.

Things you need to know:

To make sure that you're set up in the first set of users, please head to this form and give us your information if you have not already done so: https://culture24.wufoo.com/forms/understanding-your-organisation/

 

BBC Hands on History

As you may know, Culture24 is the official cultural data provider to the BBC and we've been working to register cultural organisations and channel their activities to the BBC via a range of project themes, starting with Hands on History. 

 

Since the partnership launched last autumn to coincide with the Turn Back Time series, over 300 museums, galleries, libraries and heritage organisations have registered and are linking their activities to Hands on History.

 

With the new Things To Do website now set to launch in early Spring, the BBC team have given us a sneak preview of some of the projects and promotions coming up in 2011 that partners can get involved with, including:

 

- The Reel History of Britain - a 20-part series in which Melvyn Bragg takes to the road with a vintage mobile cinema to reunite people with footage of their ancestors.

- Digging for Britain - Dr Alice Roberts returns for a second series to reveal some of the newest finds, research and social history via large scale archaeology digs.

- Domesday Reloaded - the BBC reopens the 1986 Domesday project to chart some of the ways Britain has changed over the last 25 years.

 

With plenty of other projects in the pipeline, now's the perfect time to sign up to be a BBC partner with our online registration form here: https://culture24.wufoo.com/forms/culture24-bbc-things-to-do-partner-registration/
 

If you are already a partner, please take a moment to check that your activity details are up-to-date and looking good (with photos!) on Culture24.

 

For more details on how to register as a BBC partner or feature your activities on Things To Do, please contact Conrad, our Activities Editor: conrad@culture24.org.uk.

From the Newsdesk

For International Women's Day we will be doing a special edition of the website and have lined up a series of pieces that will see Culture24 devoted to women in arts and heritage on March 8th http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

 

If you have anything you want to tell us about email Culture24 editor Richard Moss on richard@culture24.org.uk and make sure you enter your events into DDE. 

 

Stakeholder Group for the  BBC/PCF 'Your Paintings'  project, Race Online, Museums & Heritage Show, Arts Council, HLF, MLA, Ed Vaizey, Museums Association, Arts Marketing Association, Visit England, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Chelmsford Museum, Manchester Museums, Essex Fire Museum, Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, National Maritime Museum, First World War Centenary Digital meeting.

Conferences


Culture

Whitworth Art Gallery, Cornerhouse Manchester, Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, Tate Britain, National Gallery, NPG, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Royal Cornwall Museum, Curve Gallery Barbican, Design Museum, South London Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool, FACT, British Museum, The Lightbox Woking, Royal Academy, Nottingham Light Night, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Opera House