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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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Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
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 October 2022:
- The Richmond Museum's new exhibition, The Arts Live Here, celebrates the city's vibrant art scene with a wide range of exhibits
- Museum exhibit highlights Truth and Reconciliation Day for Westbank First Nation
Sncəwips Museum premiering “What Does it Mean to be Syilx?” - B.C. Aviation Museum lands both a retired air tanker and its long-time pilot
- Exploration Place reopening next Saturday
- Seasonal Spooky News
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
This week we are offering a recording of the Decolonization in Practice Panel from the BCMA and Heritage BC Joint Conference Act 1 in May 2022. This recording is being offered to provide background for the upcoming Roundup issue being released online, in which Beth Boyce, curator at the Museum at Campbell River, and Hereditary Chief Cecil Dawson, reflect on the exhibit ‘Standing in the Gap”.
Please note that this recording was originally a panel presentation, so you will hear cues like “next slide” and other such notes.
You can always find the most recent issue of Roundup on the BCMA homepage, on the right side. A new issue of Roundup will be published online in October, featuring a reflection piece from Beth and Chief Dawson, along with our regular column from Tammy Bradford, and other articles featuring various projects from around the province! Stay tuned!
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.
In this episode, Leia talks to fellow BCMA staffer Lorenda Calvert about Burning Man arts and culture. Lorenda shares how she got involved in Burning Man, Black Rock City as a large-scale art gallery, and three ‘museums’ at Burning Man. Finally, we chat about the sector in general and how some of the teachings at Burning Man might help shake up how we engage the public.
Links from our conversation:
El Pulpo Mecanico by Duane Flatmo and Jerry Jerry Kunkel
The Midnight Museum of That One time at Burning Man by Jerry Snyder
Learn about MOOP and leaving no trace at Burning Man
The Museum of No Spectators by John Marx and Absinthia Vermut
We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.
Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
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 Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!
Featured news for September 2022:
- Vernon art gallery stunned by council decision to decline mural project with mental health focus | Globalnews.ca
- Tumbler Ridge fossils identified - BC News - Castanet.net
- Royal B.C. Museum apologizes after 2017 carving declared ancient Indigenous artifact
- Nisga'a Nation travelling to see stolen totem pole in Scotland - APTN News
- What is a museum? Icom finally decides on a new definition
- Indigenous objects repatriated from small British museum come home to Haida Gwaii
- 'Come in and explore': BC Aviation Museum holds first open house since pandemic
- Thor Froslev, founder of B.C.'s eagle count and Squamish art gallery, dead at 89 | CBC News
Human rights museum chooses Vancouver to launch digital residential school initiative
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
With the BC local government elections coming up on October 15, 2022, the BCMA, BC Alliance for Arts + Culture, and Arts BC are discussing all things advocacy. In this special Advocacy Week podcast, Ryan Hunt, BCMA Executive Director, speaks with Marijke Edmondson, Strategic Advisor, Local Government at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.
The BCMA has asked members for questions they have about how local governments work in British Columbia. Join Marijke and me as we discuss everything from “what’s a regional district,” to the importance of building relationships with local government staff, to why local government elections all happen at the same time.
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.
In this episode, Leia talks to Marley Leacock, the astronomer at the H.R MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver about the James Webb Space Telescope. Marley provides a brief review of the development and launch of the telescope - including some details about the Canadian Space Agency's involvement - before we dig into two of the images released to the public in July. Finally, we chat about how space centres will keep up with the expected influx of data and images from the Webb Telescope.
Related Links:
Links to the Deep Field Image and the Carina Nebula Image discussed in the show.
Image of Stephan's Quintet Marley discussed.
Marley's blog post on the Telescope background and about the Scientific Mission goals
Canadian Space Agency NIRISS Transmission Spectrum of WASP-96B
To see the oldest galaxy pointed out in the Deep Field Image, look here!
We will have more episodes in this series coming this summer of 2022 - Stay tuned for more!
We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.
Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Get to know Jazmin Hundal, the BCMA’s new Special Projects and Communications Coordinator, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
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 Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!
Featured news for June 2022:
- New museum curator takes fresh approach to Terrace history
- Museum exhibit celebrates origins of unique Nanaimo street names
- Free admission for everyone 18 years old and under at Vancouver Art Gallery
- Catholic order that staffed some residential schools in BC to hand over archives to museum
- Qualicum Beach Museum exhibit explores dark chapter of Canadian history
- Fort Nelson Heritage Museum curator receives Award of Recognition
- 'I made the wrong call': Horgan scraps $789M Royal BC Museum rebuild
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
In the early months of the global pandemic and amidst community lockdowns, the Council of the Haida Nation virtually gathered the community over a series of six webinars on food security. These webinars raised awareness of and highlighted emerging needs and conflicts relating to Haida Gwaii’s food system, and about food security and emergency preparedness for its residents. Over the course of the series it became clear there was a need for a coordinated food strategy and food policy toolbox. This kicked-off the development of the Haida Gwaii Food Strategy (HGFS), as administered by the Haida Gwaii Museum.
In this BCMA Podcast episode, hear from two Haida Gwaii residents engaged in these efforts to strengthen local, sustainable food systems and how the HGFS will, in part, serve as a public repository of local food system knowledge.
Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) is a group of more than 1,300 cultural heritage professionals working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack.
In today’s episode, Ryan Hunt and Tanya Paholock of the BCMA are joined by Dr. Kimberley Martin to discuss SUCHO, the importance of online cultural heritage, and how you can help preserve Ukrainian heritage.
You can learn more about SUCHO and their work online at https://www.sucho.org/
We will have more episodes in this series coming this summer of 2022 - Stay tuned for more!
We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.
Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.