Bc Museums Association Podcast

Join our host Lorenda for a conversation about the new Inspiring Museum Educators Bursary. Established with the support of Dr. Lisa McIntosh in 2023, this bursary encourages the pursuit of excellence in education within the museum, gallery, and heritage sector. The Inspiring Museum Educators Bursary provides up to $2,000 for staff or volunteers of BC Museums Association’s Institutional or Individual Members, to engage in an educational opportunity (course, seminar, workshop, or conference) that supports the development of new skills, innovative approaches and novel ways of thinking about teaching and learning in informal settings.   Suggested opportunities:  University of British Columbia’s Master of Museum Education Program University of Victoria’s Culture Resource Management Program University of Victoria’s Visitor and Community Engagement Certificate  Visitor Studies Association Conference Athabasca University – Advanced Issues in Interpretive Programming Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Seri

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, Lorenda and special guest Santa as we explore our favourite MuseNews! In this final MuseNews of 2023, each of our hosts picked their favourite stories to reshare. Thank you to our listeners for another wonderful year of news. Happy New Year! Stories we replayed this month: ‘Honoured properly’: Protocols put in place for Indigenous exhibit at Vancouver’s Science World Nuxalk Nation celebrates return of totem pole from Royal B.C. Museum A sawmill storage house in southeast B.C. was home to North America’s first gurdwara, researcher says Rare blankets made from fur of extinct woolly dog on display at North Vancouver museum New Paldi museum celebrates Punjabi Sikh history – Victoria Times Colonist This jellyfish was the terror of the sea 500 million years ago World-renowned artists o

Join our host Lorenda Calvert in conversation with Sean Holman of the Climate Disaster Project. Sean is the Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism at the University of Victoria, a former investigative journalist, and an information historian. In this latest episode of our ongoing Climate Leadership & Action for Museums podcast series, Sean describes the work that the Climate Disaster Project does with climate-disaster survivors to share and investigate their stories. They discuss how the Climate Disaster Project came to be, their trauma-informed practice, the role of museums and cultural institutions in times of crisis, and more. Climate Disaster Project BC Heritage Emergency Network Extreme Weather Events Resource for Museums Surviving, in Their Own Words Profiles of resilience: The Climate Disaster Project

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!   Stories for the month of November 2023: Expansion Project at shawnigan lake museum nets $500,000 grant BC government begins planning South Asian museum in Metro Vancouver BC filmmaker races to interview Canada’s Second World War veterans before they are all gone Exploration Place celebrates milestones B.C. Vintage Truck Museum could lose its home with six months’ notice

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!   Stories for the month of October 2023: News release - Famed Indigenous carver's 57-year old totem returns home to his family  New monster museum opens in Burnaby | CityNews Vancouver  New exhibit at The Reach in Abbotsford highlights South Asian history  Nanaimo Art Gallery exhibit invites viewers to breathe deeply Vancouver has Canada's only public art gallery dedicated to contemporary Asian, Asian-diasporic perspectives B.C.'s new fossil emblem an 80-million-year-old marine reptile called elasmosaur - Burnaby Now

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia and Lorenda, as we explore the latest MuseNews! Featured News for September 2023: Opinion: The Okanagan Mountain Fire forever changed our landscape and our psyche  Nanaimo Museum considers the sacred in Coast Salish art revitalization exhibit - Vancouver Island Free Daily  Racist policies against Chinese revealed in new Coquitlam Heritage exhibit Royal B.C. Museum collections building underway after First Nations blessing

We live in a complicated world. And with the explosion of AI tools over the past year that promise to blur the line between the real and the imaginary, it isn’t looking like life will get any simpler in the foreseeable future. Welcome to the Digital Dialogues discussion series. Over the next several months, the BC Museums Association will be joined by experts, innovators, and critical thinkers to discuss the societal effects of technology to equip the sector with the tools to make ethical equity-informed steps toward digital innovation. In the rush to embrace new and seemingly innovative technologies, it can be easy to start using these tools in our work without first thinking about their broader social, environmental, and cultural impacts. The Digital Dialogues series is designed to complement the 2023 gathering on Haida Gwaii, to help make additional space for important discussions that can’t fit into the agenda and to help continue dialogues sparked at the event. To learn more about this discussion series

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia and Ryan, as we explore the latest MuseNews! Featured News for August 2023: World-renowned artists open new gallery in small community of Enderby, B.C Vancouver translator finally compensated for unauthorized work in British Museum 'We can achieve the impossible': Nisga'a delegation to return home with memorial pole This jellyfish was the terror of the sea 500 million years ago Archaeological dig uncovers remnants of WSÁNEĆ village dating back more than 1,000 years Canada's oldest Chinese temple in Victoria throws fundraiser for repairs  

Join the BCMA and Literary Translator, Yilin Wang as we chat about the British Museums theft of her translated work, lack of apology, and complete mismanaging of the experience. Museums can and should have a plan in place to recognize and compensate for copyrighted work. Consider how your organization approaches this work and also how your organization approaches mistakes.    Links:  Yilin Wang Website British Museum Statement Yilin Statement Qiu Jin

In this episode, listen as IBPOC Network Coordinator Jazmin Hundal and Indigenous Education Programmer Nicole Priessl chat while on location at Burnaby Village Museum. They discuss the work Nicole has done to transform the Indigenous spaces at the museum, including the Cedar Grove, Matriarch's Garden, and Indigenous Learning House. Jazmin and Nicole also chat about the value of intersectional storytelling and representation in heritage sites, the power dynamics that come into play when determining what counts as history, and the incredible importance of including contemporary Indigenous stories in combatting harmful colonial myths. We’re always looking to share stories of professionals and organizations working hard to improve representation of racialized communities! If you would like to be a guest on the IBPOC Network podcast, please reach out to Jazmin at communications@museum.bc.ca.

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Ryan, as we explore the latest MuseNews! Featured News for July 2023: Kelowna gallery featuring art of 96-year-old Canadian painter and printmaker this summer New permanent exhibition opens at Qualicum Beach Museum New Paldi museum celebrates Punjabi Sikh history - Victoria Times Colonist Supersonic jet heads to Victoria via complex highway journey RCMP investigating after Kelowna Art Gallery trans pride flag torn down 3 times in 1 month | CBC News Vintage mahogany reclaimed and redone in imaginative new Vancouver museum exhibit Vancouver art exhibition honours Black lives lost while interacting with police | CBC News

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Leia, with Ryan on location, as we explore the latest MuseNews! Featured News for June 2023 Britannia Mine Museum brings back 'Old Town, New Queens' Tumbler Ridge archivist celebrated British Museum apologizes for using Canadian translator's work without permission B.C. First Nation buys back 140-year-old robe, paying almost $40K to bring it home B.C.'s last Martin Mars water bomber could be headed to Victoria museum B.C. Indigenous artist collecting sounds across Canada for virtual Witness Blanket

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!   Featured News for May 2023: Prince George art gallery names new executive director ‘Overdue’: B.C. First Nations welcome Pope’s hint that Vatican will return Indigenous artifacts BC government provides $20 million to repair Science World's leaky dome Sacred Journey makes a splash as it lands at Victoria’s Royal B.C. Museum Chilliwack Museum saw exhibition admissions more than double to 5,086 in 2022 Indigenous artifact to return to Squamish Nation following Prince Edward visit Rare blankets made from fur of extinct woolly dog on display at North Vancouver museum More News We Couldn't Fit In!  Britannia Mine Museum Marks 100 Years of BC's Mill No.3 Victoria Dinosaur Museum if a Hands on Experience New Exhibit at Port Moody Sta

BC Museums Week 2023: BC Museum Portraits, Interview with Spencer Stuart Spencer Stuart is travelling across British Columbia speaking with museum workers in communities large and small as part of the BC Museum Portraits project. Join Spencer and BCMA Program Manager Lorenda Calvert for a discussion about shared themes from these museum portraits and reflect on the valuable role that museums and their workers play in their communities.

News from this episode: Penticton Art Gallery's full funding restored A sawmill storage house in southeast B.C. was home to North America's first gurdwara, researcher says B.C. pledges $10M funding boost for Chinese Canadian Museum ahead of opening Organization looking for permanent home to house Terry Fox collection Whistler Museum inks land transfer, launches fundraising portal for new building Buster, a dinosaur unique to B.C., comes to life in new exhibit Also, Lorenda Calvert reports live from the Canadian Museums Association's Hill Day in Ottawa.

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!   Featured News for March 2023: Vancouver Chinatown's new Chinese Canadian Museum to open this summer Royal BC Museum brings public engagement tour to Kelowna New exhibit in Prince George gallery brings personal perspective to Métis history Vancouver Island community receives $254K grant to protect Indigenous artifacts from natural disasters Penticton Art Gallery to appear before council after having funding cut, mayor says Historic Point Ellice House closing in Victoria Climate activist spreads paint on mammoth at Royal B.C. Museum

Join the BCMA and Point Ellice House Assistant Curator, Christeah Dupont, as we chat about one of museum's biggest problems: decent work. Museum staff are overworked, underfunded, undersupported, and very often underappreciated - the sustainability of our sector may very well hinge on our support of decent work.    Resources:  Museums and Decent Work Youtube Channel Aiding and Addressing Burnout Living wages in BC and its benefit to your site and staff Demystifying Unions How Labour Relations Impact Emergency Planning in Museums  

February 2023 news: Emotional return of house post connecting B.C.’s Gitxaala Nation to their ancestors Chilliwack Museum’s latest exhibit unpacks the effects of Japanese Canadian internment Two Rivers Gallery to feature unique Quebec art installation Nuxalk Nation celebrates return of totem pole from Royal B.C. Museum Art exhibit in Richmond, B.C., celebrates Black expression, connection

This is a recording from a webinar.  Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 Join the BCMA and Dr. Genevieve Hill, Curator of Archeology at the Royal BC Museum, to talk about all things archeological repositories! Log on and learn who archeological repositories are and what they do, their history and how they came to be, and some current issues and opportunities pertaining to repositories such as repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural belongings, UNDRIP/DRIPA, and working with indigenous communities. Dr. Hill will also cover things to consider when preparing cultural material for a repository and where to find support. 

This is a recording from a webinar. Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:00noon – 1:00pm PDT Good records management is essential to any organization. From paper files to emails, having a plan to manage the vast amount of information in our organizations can make a world of difference for operational efficiency, productivity and good decision-making. Join the BCMA and Bronwen Bird of Gallery 2 for this engaging webinar on the fundamentals of records management. Learn how to create a vision and strategic plan for your records management, dive into surveying and evaluating your current records management practices and craft a records manual and filing system. You will leave the webinar with a deeper appreciation for records management and with tips on how to implement records management changes.