A great opportunity to practice your capacities in interpretive writing, at a beautiful venue and within an international group of participants.
This five-day course for Certified Interpretive Writers (CIW), in English, was due to take place from 4 to 8 November, in Ronda, Spain, but it has been postponed so there is still time to register your interest and we will keep you informed about the new dates. Following Interpret Europe’s latest curriculum, enriched with new activities and training material, it will provide participants the opportunity to improve their interpretive skills according to the principles of value-based heritage interpretation, and gain an IE certificate to prove it! More specifically, through every day on-site practice, individual and group work, site visits, discussion, self and peer evaluation, participants will try out interpretation through writing for different heritage phenomena. Finally, the learning continues even after the course, since all participants will be asked to explore how to use these principles for their own sites.
IE’s CIW course is designed for people who already possess some basic experience in writing and want to develop media such as panels, audio-guides, leaflets, etc. in an interpretive style. It offers an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to make a visitor centre or museum more meaningful, set up an exhibition, or present any type of tangible or intangible heritage to visitors. As with all IE courses, participation is open only to IE members. If you have not yet joined our community, you can find out about membership here: https://members.interpret-europe.net/.
Course venue
Algaba de Ronda is a cooperative business initiative, located close to the touristic town of Ronda, in Malaga, Spain. It successfully weaves together three thematic spaces; history, nature and culture, and it offers opportunities to discover the geology of the Serranía, the biodiversity of the Mediterranean forest and its agroecological use, focusing especially on extensive livestock farming and the recovery of livestock breeds in danger of extinction. You can find more information at https://www.algabaderonda.com.
ID of the course
Name: IE’s course for Certified Interpretive Writers (CIW)
Date: TBC November or December 2024
Trainer: Valya Stergioti
Organiser: Algaba de Ronda and Pedro Morais
Language: English
Cost: €440 (training only), or €800 (training and accommodation/food)
Venue: Algaba de Ronda, Ronda, Spain
Registration: https://forms.gle/J9eMwJRgoBBTa8pt9
Valya Stergioti is an interpretive writer, planner and a certified IE trainer. Her experience in writing includes developing interpretive services for protected areas and visitor centres, co-creating interpretive texts with locals and writing/ translating books and articles. She can be contacted at: vster@outlook.com.
To cite this article: Stergioti, Valya (2024) ‘Inspired interpretive writing in Spain – Join us for an IE CIW course’ in Interpret Europe Newsletter 3-2024, pg.13.
Available online: PDF-Newsletter_2024_3.pdf
