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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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Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
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.
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 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, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!
Stories for the month of November 2023:
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 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 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
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 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 Lorenda, as we explore the latest MuseNews!
Featured News for September 2023:
Opinion: The Okanagan Mountain Fire forever changed our landscape and our psyche
Racist policies against Chinese revealed in new Coquitlam Heritage exhibit
Royal B.C. Museum collections building underway after First Nations blessing
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