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Join the BC Museums Association as we explore topics of importance to the cultural heritage community in BC, and around the world. Listen as we talk with sector professionals, volunteers, and other guests about their work in BC museums, galleries, and arts & culture institutions.
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Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
In this episode, we explore collaboration in museums as seen in our latest issue of BCMA's Roundup Magazine. Roundup is the quarterly magazine published by the BCMA and available on our website. For Issue 272, editor Jane Lemke compiled stories of collaboration, tips on how to do it right, and how community collaboration is bringing our province together. New BCMA Podcast contributor Chelsea Forseth explores how UBC Museum of Anthropology is Getting It Right with collaboration at the centre. This issue is also Jane's final episode with designer Shannon Bettles. Both are on to different projects and we wish them well! BCMA Podcast host Ben Fast talks with the incoming editor, Dezirae DaCosta, about her interest in editing the magazine and what's coming soon for Roundup.
Join us in Kelowna, October 21-23 for sessions, workshops, keynotes, and lightning talks! Registration is open now through September 14. Visit http://bit.ly/BCMAconfregister for more information.
Music in this episode by Sound of Picture.
Monday Jun 25, 2018
Monday Jun 25, 2018
In this special bonus episode, listen to four lightning talks (short, 6-minute sessions) presented on the Saturday morning at the Museums and the Web Conference, held in Vancouver in April. You'll hear from Diana Pan (MoMA), Rob Rothfarb (Exploratorium), Naomi Seixas (Local Projects / London Mithraeum) and Kelly Skelton (Aukland War Memorial Museum).
The BCMA was excited to host the Saturday morning Lightning Talks session at MW18. The session featured 11 presenters from around the world giving 6-minute talks about an exciting project or initiative at their institution. While on the final morning of conference, we were happy to see so many eager session attendees still make it out to hear the presentations. Thanks everyone!
The BCMA is bringing lightning talks to our annual conference for the first time this year. Join us in Kelowna, October 21-23 for sessions, workshops, keynotes, and yes, lightning talks too! Early-bird registration is open now through July 14. Visit http://bit.ly/BCMAconfregister for more information.
Music in this episode by Sound of Picture.
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Tuesday May 29, 2018
In this episode of the BCMA Podcast, host Ben Fast talks with BCMA Executive Director Erica Mattson and recaps the Canadian Museum Association and Museums and the Web conferences that took place in Vancouver in April. Erica gives an overview of the CMA conference she attended one week, and then Ben shares some experiences from MW18 that took place the week after. Ben also plays clips from interviews with Chris O'Connor (Royal BC Museum), Derek Tan (Beaty Biodiversity Museum), Hannah Turner (Simon Fraser University) and Robert Cawston (National Museum of Scotland).
This episode was recorded at Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, BC, with interview clips recorded at the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver.
Music in this episode by Sound of Picture.
Friday May 11, 2018
Friday May 11, 2018
In this episode, join host Ben Fast as he talks with Luc Desmarais about deaccessioning. Luc presented the first BCMA Regional Workshop of 2018 in Abbotsford on March 19 about caring for collections in small- and medium-sized museums in BC, focusing on how deaccessioning – the act of cleaning out a collection – is important to museums in their daily role as stewards of artifacts and histories.
This episode was recorded at the Sikh Heritage Museum and Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, BC. Luc will also be presenting the same Caring for Collections: The Long Road to Deaccessioning Workshop in Quesnel on April 30.
Music in this episode by Sound of Picture.