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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 Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
In this episode, listen as IBPOC Network Coordinator Jazmin Hundal and historian Dr. Sharanjit Sandhra chat while on location at the Sikh Heritage Museum at Gur Sikh Temple Gurdwara.Jazmin and Sharn discuss representation of South Asian histories in museums, the importance of including multiple languages in exhibits, and advice for emerging BIPOC professionals in the sector. They also chat about Sharn’s work past work as a curator at this site, her current work as historian at Parks Canada, and her new consulting company Belonging Matters Consulting.
Photos and links to some of the things discussed in this episode can be found below. If you’d like to get in contact with Sharn, please email her at sharanjit.sandhra@gmail.com.
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.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 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 December 2022:
- Gabriola Island Museum Requests Funding for Sustainable Operations
- Scottish museum to return stolen totem pole in new year
- Whistler Museum eyeing major building upgrade
- Iconic Vancouver museum shutting down for most of 2023
- Reconciliation in the private art world: How Taku River Tlingit brought home their robe
- From outcasts to mainstream, B.C. museum showcases the evolution of snowboarding
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Galiano Museum Society:
- Mechelle Crocker, Executive Board Member
- Carol Robson, Executive Board Member
- Mary Jean Elliott, Executive Board Member
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Gabriola Historical and Museum Society:
- Liz Ciocea, Director
- Joan Merrifield, President
- Laura Baldamus, Museum Manager
- Janet Stobbs, Archivist
- Chris Campbell, Director
- Gloria Filax, Former Board Member
- Alison Douglas, Former Board Member
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Denman Island Museum and Archives:
- DD Fuchs, Board Member
- Barry Landeen, Archivist
- Ann Paisley, Museum display & collections
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 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 Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!
Featured news for November 2022:
- Prince George museum re-opens with new look
- Darn-it! New Maritime Museum of BC Exhibit opens
- Chinese Canadian Museum names first Chief Executive
- Ancient bison bones unearthed at Saanich construction site
- Volunteers seek to uncover ‘paper trail’ of Japanese Canadian dispossession
- Pitt Meadows Museum nears finish line of relocation planning
- New interactive, online exhibit features Richmond’s turning points
To submit your Muse News or Whoo's News, email bmca@museum.bc.ca
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Cortes Island Museum & Archives:
- Bonnie MacDonald, Executive Board Member
- Laurel Bohart, Curator, Wild Cortes
- Jill Milton, Archivist
- Melanie Boyle, Managing Director
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/
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.