BC Museums Association Podcast

Episode 7: OWL You Need to Know Interview with Briana Sadler

Get to know Briana Sadler, MakerLab Coordinator at Two Rivers Gallery, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!

 

 

Episode 6: OWL You Need to Know Interview with Kira Westby

Get to know Kira Westby, Curator at the Bulkley Valley Museum, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!

OWL You Need to Know Micropodcast with Vanessa Gelhaar

Get to know Vanessa Gelhaar, Operations Manager for the BC Museums Association, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!

Episode 4: OWL You Need to Know Interview with Kanchan Lal

Get to know Kanchan Lal, Museum Coordinator for PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!

OWL You Need to Know Micropodcast with Sonia Nicholson

Get to know Sonia Nicholson, Archivist for the Saanich Pioneer Society, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know interview.

OWL You Need to Know Micro-podcast with Twyla Exner

Get to know Twyla Exner, Director of Public Programs at Two Rivers Gallery in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!

OWL You Need to Know Micropodcast with Lorenda Calvert

Welcome to “OWL You Need to Know” a new micro-podcast series from the BC Museums Association. In this podcast, BCMA members are given 90 seconds to answer 20 questions about themselves. If you’d like to give a 90-second interview, contact the BCMA. In our first episode of this new series, we interview Lorenda Calvert, the BCMA's new Program Coordinator.

2019 BCMA Conference Highlight

The BCMA is once again beginning to wrap up for a well-deserved holiday break. In the meantime, we leave you with this podcast episode to accompany our latest issue of Roundup Magazine. This issue focused on our 2019 annual conference. To celebrate the role museums play in connecting people through language and story, this year’s conference theme was Spoken Words, Shared Stories. This theme acknowledges the importance of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, explores how museums can become involved in language revitalization, and allows for discussion on how our organizations use stories to communicate, educate, and encourage social interactions.

Here is a recording of one of our conference presentations; Siwin: Word Power presented by Julie Bevan and Arlene Deptuck of the Nanaimo Art Gallery. The gallery’s action research project, Siwin: Word Power, contributes to revitalizing local Indigenous languages. Julie and Arlene talk about what’s at stake, about collaboration and mentorship, art as a tool for language learning and practice.

Conversation with Jordan Coble and Tania Muir - 2019 International Conference On Indigenous Languages

In this episode, Adrian Paradis (BCMA's Communications Coordinator) has a conversation with Jordan Coble (of BCMA's Indigenous Advisory Committee) and Tania Muir (BCMA's Council President) about the 2019 International Conference On Indigenous Languages.

From June 24-26, 2019, the First Peoples’ Cultural Council and the First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation hosted the international conference on Indigenous language revitalization in Victoria, British Columbia, in celebration of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. Hundreds of speakers gathered from over 20 countries for what was called the largest-ever Indigenous languages conference.

The conference was held by and for Indigenous Peoples. Workshops included successful models in Indigenous language revitalization with a focus on knowledge sharing. Discussions celebrated the successes and best practices that have been made in language revitalization and highlighted the important work currently happening in B.C. and around the world.

Among the attendees of the conference was BCMA’s Tania and Jordan. Presented here for our members who didn’t get to attend the conference, or those looking for a recap, is the conversation in full.

Music in this episode by Sound of Picture.

Megan Richardson on Sector-Wide Gaps of Digital Literacy Skills

In this episode, the BCMA is revisiting one more highlight of 2018; Adrian Paradis, our Communications Assistant, introduces a keynote speaker from our 2018 conference-Megan Richardson.

Richardson has spent her career creating and supporting connections among people and museum collections.

After establishing the education program at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Megan moved to the National Gallery of Canada where she was a manager, and then head, of education. She introduced the Gallery’s first collection app, a national online teen art contest, and the distance learning program. She also revitalized the flagship family program; and oversaw onsite and online interpretation for major international temporary exhibitions.

Megan is currently the Director of the Virtual Museum of Canada, a national digital cultural investment program, managed by the Canadian Museum of History. She is responsible for the annual calls for investment, dozens of projects in development, and the program websites. Megan is leading the VMC renewal, an intensive 3-step process to better meet the needs of Canadian museums and heritage organizations.

We hope you enjoy our first episode of the year. We look forward to presenting more podcasts for you soon. 

Music in this episode by Sound of Picture.