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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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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.
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 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 May 2022:
- Iconic hall of UBC Museum of Anthropology now demolished for redevelopment | Urbanized
- What's in a costume?: Burnaby Village Museum tackles reconciliation through clothing
- Restored exhibit highlighting Indigenous peoples in BC to open at New York museum | CBC
- News
- Museum of Anthropology exhibit showcases social-change-making Xicanx artists
- LGBTQ+ sailors in the spotlight at new Maritime Museum of B.C. exhibit
- Royal BC Museum to be rebuilt at the cost of $789M | CBC News
- After over a decade, Vancouver's museum show of 'ugly' neon signs is turning off the lights
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
In this week's episode of Queer(y)ing Museums, we chat with Angelic Goldsky. Angelic (they/t[he]m) is a Russian-Jewish queer trans community arts builder and poet. They are the co-founder and creative director of the Transgender Expressions Haven, a virtual center for arts expression and transgender creative genius celebration.
Angelic chats with us about queer and trans futures within museum and gallery spaces, the possibilities when queer and trans artists are supported, spiritual justice, long-term inclusion frameworks, and more.
You can visit the Transgender Expressions Haven here: https://thehaven.lgbt/
Mentioned in this podcast:
Alok Vaid-Menon: https://www.alokvmenon.com/about
Writing New Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i27YaBjzYqY
Kimya Dawson, Utopian Futures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFiP4wo0S0
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Join Leia Patterson, the BCMA's Engagement Coordinator, and Matthew Lovegrove, Manager/Curator at the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives for a chat about the Repatriation Call to Action, and the work being done at Sunshine Coast Museum!
Launched in 2021, the BCMA is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Call to Action through discussions with signees and the launch of a new year of hand-selected resources for Repatriation Call to Action signees. Stay tuned for further episodes!
Sign on to the Repatriation Call to Action through our Indigenous Resource Portal, and learn more about Sarah Jim's artwork on the BCMA website.
Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
How Museums Can Create a More Inclusive Future
The BCMA is excited to announce a new partnership with UBC’s new Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) to seek to improve heritage practices through work in anti-racism, decolonization, social justice and workplace equity.
Join the BCMA and ACRE for a digital fireside chat with Dr. Henry Yu, history professor and Asian Canadian Community Engagement Initiative (ACCE) co-chair at UBC and Ryan Hunt, BCMA Executive Director exploring how museums can confront difficult truths about our past and present and work towards building a brighter future.
Thank you for joining us today. Find the full BC Museums Week schedule on our website.
Use our exclusive BC Museums Week promocode JoinBCMA2022 for a 25% discount to all new membership applications.
Useful links:
- ACRE (Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement): https://www.arts.ubc.ca/acre/
- INSTRCC (Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies): https://instrcc.ubc.ca/
- ACAM (Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies minor program): https://acam.arts.ubc.ca/
- National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: https://events.ubc.ca/national-forum-on-anti-asian-racism/
- Chinatown Reimagined: https://www.chinatownreimagined.ca/
- Fish Tales (partnership with Gulf of Georgia Cannery): https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/whatsyourfishtale/
- Backyard Garden (partnership with Museum of Vancouver): https://museumofvancouver.ca/backyard-garden
- Paper Trail: https://1923-chinese-exclusion.ca/
- Chinatown, Existing field trip: http://chinatownexisting.ca/
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
Museums, galleries, science centres, and heritage organizations are amongst the most trusted institutions in our society. On the first day of BC Museums Week explore how cultural organizations are defying the expectation that they remain “neutral” and using their voice to make a difference.
ScienceUpFirst is a national initiative that works with a collective of independent scientists, researchers, health care experts and science communicators. They share the best available science in creative ways to stop the spread of misinformation.
Join us for a conversation on how misinformation and disinformation are spread and how to address them.