BC Museums Association Podcast

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 Chi...

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 Direct...

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...

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”. Pleas...

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...

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 f...

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 h...

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...

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!

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 u...

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...

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 tha...

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...

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...

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-sele...

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 Canadi...

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,...

In this special episode of Queer(y)ing Museums, Tanya and Desirée chat with Andrew Kushnir (he/him) - a gay, Ukrainian Canadian playwright, actor, educator and activist living in Toronto/Tkaronto.  Throughout this conversation, we weave through a variety of topics including, what is the "war within a war" happening in Ukraine right now for LGBTQIA+ community and how is the LGBTQIA+ movement intert...

For the third episode of Queer(y)ing Museums, we were thrilled to have Carmel Tanaka, founder and Executive Director of JQT Vancouver, and Alysa Rutenberg, Archivist at the Jewish Museum & Archives of BC, join us to chat about the BC Jewish Queer and Trans Oral History Project. In part two of this two-part episode, Carmel and Alysa discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on the Oral History Project, and o...

For the third episode of Queer(y)ing Museums, we were thrilled to have Carmel Tanaka, founder and Executive Director of JQT Vancouver, and Alysa Rutenberg, Archivist at the Jewish Museum & Archives of BC, join us to chat about the BC Jewish Queer and Trans Oral History Project.  In part one of this two-part episode, Carmel and Alysa discuss the intergenerational and community engagement aspects of...

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 April 2022: BC Chinese community raises more than $50,000 for burned Lytton museum | Vancouver Sun ​​ Former...

What does Earth Day mean to you? Are climate conversations part of your personal or professional lives? How do you contribute to climate action already taking place in your community?   The heritage and culture sector is privileged to support research, education, and action against climate change. This Earth Day, the BC Museums Association has invited some in our sector and the community at large...

What does Earth Day mean to you? Are climate conversations part of your personal or professional lives? How do you contribute to climate action already taking place in your community?   The heritage and culture sector is privileged to support research, education, and action against climate change. This Earth Day, the BC Museums Association has invited some in our sector and the community at large...

In the second episode of Queer(y)ing Museums, BCMA’s Desirée Hall and Tanya Pacholok chat with Amelia Smith, a transgender lesbian emerging museum professional who holds a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. In this episode, Amelia shares with us about her approaches to exhibition design and community engagement; how cisgender privilege shows up in museum spaces and in how we...

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 March 2022:   Chilliwack Museum sets high water mark with opening reception of Qoqo   The possibilities for...