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Open Philately Seminar in IBRA by Birthe King FRPSL

Discover Open Philately – the new and upcoming class

IBRA 2023, Sunday 28 May 2023, Room D/E, ‘CC Ost’, next to Hall 7

All are welcome to learn more about Open Philately

This seminar will introduce you to the fascinating world of Open Philately. You will hear about the endless possibilities of this new and exciting class which is all about good ideas, creativity, and variety of fascinating philatelic and non-philatelic material. You will be guided through the basic rules of exhibiting, and what the judges are looking for, which is what all exhibitors want to know. What makes this class different from any other exhibition class, is the use of non-philatelic material both to tell the story and to support the philatelic material. It’s creative, it’s interesting, it’s fun, it’s different, and it allows you to collect material from very different sources in one exhibit. Come and see for yourself!

If you want to become an FIP juror in Open Philately, this seminar is the first step, serving as one of the obligatory qualifying seminars that you need to attend. You should also have an Open Philately exhibit, which has achieved a Large Vermeil medal, 85 points, at an FIP Exhibition, and have served as a juror at two national exhibitions, before becoming a juror apprentice at an FIP exhibition.

Qualified jurors, who wish to be cross accredited in the Open Philately Class are most welcome.

There will be other presentations on Open Philately at IBRA 2023:

Lecture Programme in the CPh Forum Philately, Room F
Friday 25 May, 14.00-14.45:
Lecture: Birthe King: The Re-Unification of Southern Jutland with Denmark 1864-1920
Saturday 27 May, 15.00-15.45:
Lecture: Birthe King: The Importance of Non-Philatelic Material in an Open Philately Exhibit

The invitation to the seminar in pdf format:
https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FIP-seminar-ibra.pdf

Photo: The Miners, by Giancarlo Arata, Open Class exhibit pp. 30-31, Italiafil, Genova 2017.
[photo credit: http://expo.fsfi.it]

5.4.2023

News, Series

Peter Congreve talks about Philately and Social History

Michael Cortese and Charles Epting have interviewed Peter Congreve in Episode 61 of their series Conversations with Philatelists. Peter Congreve is an Australian, very active on Twitter as Peter (@stampden), with a passion – among others – for birds, genealogy, postal and social history.

“Communication happens between people and not between postage stamps”, says Peter Congreve, then adds: “when you’re holding a cover, you’re holding a piece of primary source; social history documentation, that has the capacity to tell us something about the people involved, the social and cultural period in which they lived, and perhaps something about us. Quite often social histories tend to be limited by virtue of the material that is available to the famous and the infamous, so they tend to be naturally skewed to that direction. But, through letters and covers and postcards it allows us to reconstruct the lives of those who are not any of those things, famous or infamous, it allows the stories of, what of a better term, of the common man”.

You can watch Episode 61 here: https://www.philatelypodcast.com/episodes/ep-61-peter-congreve-philatelist-as-social-historian

4.4.2023

Federations, News

New APS President: Dr Cheryl Ganz RDP FRPSL

We copy the breaking news from yesterday’s post on the APS website:

The American Philatelic Society Board of Directors unanimously elected Cheryl Ganz as president to replace Bob Zeigler, who stepped down on March 31, 2023. Ganz appointed Greg Galletti to replace her as vice president, confirmed by the APS Board of Directors.

Cheryl Ganz joined the APS in 1976 and has served in many capacities, including the Ethics Committee, Strategic Initiatives and Technology Committee, philatelic judging, and numerous show committees. She has served as Vice President of the APS Board from June 2018 to April 2023.

After earning her Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2005, Cheryl joined the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington. In 2007, she became chief curator until her retirement in 2014. She is also the United States Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee vice-chair.

Cheryl has been recognized internationally for her contributions to philately, including the Collector’s Club’s Alfred F. Lichtenstein Medal for Distinguished Service to Philately (2016) and the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (2018). In 2016, the APS awarded Cheryl the John N. Luff Award, one of the highest recognitions in philately, for Exceptional Contributions to Philately.

[photo credit: Smithsonian National Postal Museum website]

4.4.2023