Camden County - Camden - Costuming your Historic Site Interpreters on a Budget

Costuming your Historic Site Interpreters on a Budget Historic Preservation at MARCH
About: Do costumed guides or docents give tours or perform craft demonstrations, living history events, or reenactments at your small museum or historic site? Would you like to learn about how to improve the historic authenticity and quality of what they are wearing? In this workshop, Kimberly Boice and Tyler Putman, experts in eighteenth-century costumed living history interpretation and hand-sewing, will give participants the tools they need to improve and enhance the preservation of their historic site’s history through the people who tell their stories. This workshop focuses on sites that interpret eighteenth-century history. Who should register:  Those who work or volunteer at small museums and historic sites and oversee or participate in eighteenth-century costumed interpretation. Those who work or volunteer at small museums or historic sites who would like to introduce eighteenth-century costumed interpretation. Those who work or volunteer at small museums and historic sites and want to develop tools to evaluate the quality of costumed, outside contractors, and volunteers. Independent living history interpreters and reenactors who would like to improve their costumes (or “impressions”) are also welcome. CEUs: 1 Dates and Times: Saturday, November 2, 9:00AM-4:00PM, and Saturday, November 9, 9:00AM-1:00PM Workshop fee includes lunch on day 1. For Up-to-Date Workshop Info: https://preservation.rutgers.edu/
Status	Registration Available
Course Code	HP-115-F19
Session	Fall 2019
Days	Sa
Dates	November 2, 2019 November 9, 2019
Times	9:00 AM
# of Hours	10
# of Classes	2
# of Weeks	2
Instructors	Boice, Kimberley Putman, Tyler
Instructor Bio	Kimberley Boice has been active in the history and interpretation field beginning in her early teens and professionally since completing the requirements for a Master of Arts- History Museum Studies at the Cooperstown Graduate program in 2003. As a museum educator at a historic site, she supervised the overhaul of the period clothing collection worn by staff and volunteers and has also presented training sessions about women's clothing of the Revolutionary War throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
Location	Rutgers-Camden, Campus Center 326 Penn Street Camden , NJ 08102
Course Prerequisites	None
Cancellation Policy	Rutgers may cancel course and refund all tuition payments if minimum enrollment is not met before start of the class or workshop.
Refund Policy	Students may cancel their registration up to one month prior to the start of the class or workshop for a full refund, minus a 15% administrative fee. Registration payments for cancellations or withdrawals less than one month before the course start date, or after the course begins, will not be refunded. This policy is not applicable to half-, one-, one and a half-, or two-day workshops. Half-day, one-, one and a half-, and two-day workshops are non-refundable.
Fee(s)
$ 65	Registration fee
$ 65	Total Fees