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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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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
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, visit: https://museum.bc.ca/brain/digital-dialogues-series
The Digital Dialogues are supported by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
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
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
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.
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Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
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.
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
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
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
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
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
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:
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‘Overdue’: B.C. First Nations welcome Pope’s hint that Vatican will return Indigenous artifacts
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BC government provides $20 million to repair Science World's leaky dome
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Sacred Journey makes a splash as it lands at Victoria’s Royal B.C. Museum
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Chilliwack Museum saw exhibition admissions more than double to 5,086 in 2022
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Indigenous artifact to return to Squamish Nation following Prince Edward visit
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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 Station Museum Reflects on South Asian Immigration
- New Exhibit explores Legacy of Haida Artist Bill Reid alongside contemporary Indigenous Art
- Museum of Surrey's Spring Exhibits
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
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.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
News from this episode:
- Penticton Art Gallery's full funding restored
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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.
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
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