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Educational Sessions Updated: October 31, 2008
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Storytelling in BC
People, Places & Perspectives
November 19-22, 2008 - Victoria, BC
Download the Complete Program (PDF)
The following will provide you with descriptions of Conference 2008 Educational Sessions.
All workshops and sessions will be assigned to either one of the three venues in The Fairmont Empress; the Newcombe Convention Centre at the Royal British Columbia Museum; or to St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site, based on registrations for each session. Venue assignments will be indicated in the Delegates Program as part of your official Delegates Package upon check-in.
Please use the corresponding session codes on your Registration Form.
This will assist with venues & catering for Refreshment Breaks.
(See also "Schedule At A Glance"--at left).
Any changes or updates to Sessions are listed in RED. Day ONE:
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Pre-Conference Day
Registration Desk
8:30am - 7:30pm
Palm Court, Fairmont Empress
Pre-Conference Workshops
9:00am - 4:30pm (PC-1, 2, 3 & 4)
(See "Pre-Conference Workshops" descriptions link at left)
Trade Show Opening
9:00am - 7:30pm
Palm Court, Crystal Ballroom
Fairmont Empress
Opening Reception
5:30 - 7:30pm
Tearoom , Palm Court, Crystal Ballroom
Fairmont Empress
721 Government Street
Victoria, BC
Day TWO:
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Registration Desk
8:30am - 5:30pm
Palm Court, Fairmont Empress
Please use the corresponding session codes on your Registration Form.
Opening Ceremonies
9:00 - 9:30am
Crystal Ballroom, Fairmont Empress
Keynote Address:
"The Art and Humour
in Storytelling"
Guest Speaker:
Arthur Black
9:30 - 10:00am
Crystal Ballroom, Fairmont Empress
Refreshment Break with Trade Show Exhibitors
10:00 - 10:30am
Palm Court, Crystal Ballroom @ Fairmont Empress
Plenary A:
"Changing Trends:
Challenges and Opportunities
for Culture and Heritage Travel
in BC"
Special Guest Speaker:
Berkeley Young
10:30am - 12:00noon
Crystal Ballroom, Fairmont Empress
Minister's Luncheon
Special Guest:
The Honourable Bill Bennett, Minister,
Tourism, Culture and the Arts
12:00noon - 1:30pm
Kipling's, Fairmont Empress
Series A
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1:30 - 3:00pm
Balmoral, Kensington & Buckingham Rooms @ Fairmont Empress;
Newcombe Convention Centre, Royal BC Museum
St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site
A-1 Doors Open Richmond
On April 26 and 27, 2008 Richmond launched its first Doors Open Richmond 2008 to celebrate the diversity of art, culture, and heritage in our city. A collaborative community partnership that brought together diverse groups from various sectors of the community under a signature citywide event. Open Doors was groundbreaking in Richmond's history. This session will outline the event, marketing surrounding the two-day event, and outcomes. Session participants can get ideas for their own Doors Open and learn how to work with partner organizations to tell the story of the own community.
Presenter:
Peter Harris, Richmond Museum and Heritage Services
A- 2 Visitor Research to Support Your "Story"
Tourism BC and the Canadian Tourism Commission provide operators with “on the ground” resources for research that can be used at the operational level.
Presenters:
Alison Aspinall, Tourism British Columbia
Eugene Thomlinson, Canadian Tourism Commission.
A- 3 Storytelling in the 21st. Century and Beyond:
Preserving Archival Records for the Ages (Part 1)
Digitizing your archival records can enrich your institution's ability to reach both traditional and non-traditional users, which allows for richer and more diverse storytelling. The workshop will outline the methodology of preserving digital records to ensure future access, including best practices for digitization and streaming audio, video, and film. We will also discuss how to select a metadata scheme and how rights management may affect a digitization project.
Presenter:
Lara Wilson, Archives Association of British Columbia.
A- 4 Can't Talk About It:
Suppressed Narratives Inherent in Museum Work
During this session participants engage in lively discussion and articulate ideas about how we might address our reluctance or inability to tell certain stories. Participants are invited to bring stories with them that could not, or cannot, be told and asked to think critically about how stories are constructed, censored, edited, made comfortable.
Presenters:
Carol E. Mayer, UBC Museum of Anthropology,
Karen Duffek, UBC Museum of Anthropology,
Roberta Kremer, UBC Education Department.
A- 5 Telling the Community's Stories: Celebrating
BC's 150 with New Partners and New Approaches
Unique partnerships and unique ways of telling community’s stories are presented through two sesquicentennial projects. At the Alberni Valley Museum an interdisciplinary team prepared an exhibit weaving together historical information, maps and photographs and original poetry. Programming further explores the connection of museums, literacy and poetry. CBC Radio shows how programming can elicit community stories plus how media and the web can support the work of local history projects
Presenter:
Jean McIntosh, Alberni Valley Museum
REFRESHMENT BREAK
with TRADE SHOW EXHIBITORS
3:00 - 3:30pm
Palm Court, Crystal Ballroom @ Fairmont Empress
Series B
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
3:30 to 5:00pm
Balmoral, Kensington & Buckingham Rooms @ Fairmont Empress;
Newcombe Convention Centre, Royal BC Museum
St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site
Please use the corresponding session codes on your Registration Form.
B- 1 Telling Your Story through Social Networking Technologies
Is your museum or cultural organization using social networking technologies to tell your stories and connect with new audiences? Explore some of the many free "Web 2.0" services available to enhance networking, marketing, communications and visitor experience. Facebook, Flickr, Ning, anyone?
Presenter:
Heather Dunn, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).
B- 2 Interpreting BC Stories: Case Study of the
Royal BC Museum's 'Free Spirit' Exhibition's Actors Program
and Multicultural Participation
How can museums tell the story of individual or collective histories in provocative, entertaining and authentic ways? Community involvement is paramount in telling the story of BC’s multicultural memories/experiences and performance-based programming within exhibitions can add a thoroughly entertaining dimension to the visitor experience. Evaluating audience responses is key to success – initial survey and observational results will be discussed with their implications to the program’s intent. Anyone interested in visitor-centeredness within the walls of the museum and in community collaborations outside museum walls will be engaged in this discussion, The objective of the session: understanding our visitors better and making them part of a program’s developmental process.
Presenters:
Janet MacDonald, Royal BC Museum, Dr. Lorne Hammond, Royal BC Museum,
Jim Leard, Story Theatre Company, Kim Gough, Royal BC Museum.
B- 3 Storytelling in the 21st. Century and Beyond:
Preserving Archival Records for the Ages (Part 2)
Digitizing your archival records can enrich your institution’s ability to reach both traditional and non-traditional users, which allows for richer and more diverse storytelling. This workshop will outline the methodology of preserving digital records to ensure future access, including best practices for digitization and streaming audio, video, and film. We will also discuss how to select a metadata scheme and how rights management may affect a digitization project.
Presenter:
Lara Wilson, Archives Association of British Columbia.
B- 4 Historica Fairs: Collaboration between Museums and Schools
Participation in a Historica Fair provides students with an opportunity to explore an aspect of Canadian, community, or family heritage that is personally relevant and then share their stories at a public celebration. Museums provide background workshops and resources and teachers assist students with their research and preparation of the project. It is a win/win for all. Teachers and students satisfy BC curriculum requirements in Social Studies and English and museums have an audience of students and parents visiting the site.
Presenters:
Gail Sumanik, a former high school principal, Patti Kilback, Kelowna Museum,
& Alexandra Weaver, Richmond Museum.
B- 5 N'ha-a-itk: An Okanagan Perspective
The voice of Aboriginal women is significant to the historic record of Aboriginal culture. Often overlooked, Aboriginal women were powerful storytellers. N’ha-a-itk: An Okanagan Perspective, relates Ogopogo, the Eurocentric version of the ‘so called’ Okanagan lake monster to the holistic approach to teaching and storytelling taken by the Okanagan Westbank First Nation. Drawing on their oral traditions, stories are recreated, bringing them to the present.
Presenters:
Gayle Liman, Westbank First Nation
TRADE SHOW CLOSING
5:00 - 5:30pm
Palm Court, Crystal Ballroom @ Fairmont Empress
EVENING EVENT:
5:30- 7:30pm
Maritime Museum of British Columbia
28 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
(See "Evening Events" link at left)
Discover the Past's
"Ghostly Walks" Tours
7:30- 9:00pm
(John Adams is your Guide,
beginning in Bastion Square)
Day THREE:
Friday, November 21, 2008
Registration Desk
8:30am - 5:00pm
Upper Foyer South, Fairmont Empress
Please use the corresponding session codes on your Registration Form.
Series C
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00 - 10:30am
Balmoral, Kensington & Buckingham Rooms @ Fairmont Empress;
Newcombe Convention Centre, Royal BC Museum
St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site
C-1 Secrets from the RBCM for the Small Museum
- Big Results with a Little Budget (Part 1)
Do you want to bring a vibrant and professional element to your exhibits but don’t have the budget and staff? Each presenter will discuss a technique that is used at the Royal BC Museum to achieve professional looking results in exhibit creation and how these techniques can be adapted to the budget, skill level and facilities of a smaller museum. Produce fabulous, professional looking labels without breaking the bank! Make molds and sculptures using materials readily available at the hardware and hobby store. This is a two-part presentation with the first half being a showcase of work that has been done by these three technicians for the museum environment and a discussion of techniques and materials used. Participants are encouraged to bring problems they are facing with exhibits from their museums and possible solutions can be discussed.
Presenters:
Megan Anderson, Colin Longpre and Kate Kerr,
(three members of the Exhibits Team at The Royal BC Museum).
C- 2 Student Case Study Competition,
Tourism British Columbia (Part 1)
Part I: BC Tourism / Hospitality Students present to industry leaders the skills that program graduates can bring to a business and the heritage sector. Also, it will be an opportunity for the sector to see and listen to the future leaders of tomorrow. This is a two-part presentation.
Presenters:
Tourism British Columbia representatives, tbc.
C- 3 Every Day You Write the Book:
Sharing Ideas on Ways to Manage Collection Databases
Everyday we use our databases to help us record, and then later re-tell, the stories that our collected objects hold. Instead of looking at database management as a chore, we should look at it as a way to use technology in innovative ways. We all know how valuable recording this information is to what museums do, but the questions remain: How do we capture these object details, keep the information manageable, and yet get full use out of our database tool? All institutions face the challenges of how to choose software, manage data and keep up with the constant need to enter new information that ensures the database is up-to-date, available, and useful to staff and public looking for information about our collections. Shelley Reid, Central Registrar of the Royal BC Museum, will look at these challenges in a large institution; Caroline Posynick, Heritage Officer of Government House, will review the questions from a small-staff perspective.
Presenters:
Caroline Posynick, Government House and Shelley Reid, Royal BC Museum.
C- 4 Storytelling at Barkerville
This session looks at the use of resources for telling stories; the use of artifacts in telling stories; first person and third person interpretation; telling the story of ethnic diversity and its meaning in the British Columbia context; keeping an audience and challenging them to think; expanding the audience and keeping them coming back for more
Presenters:
Judy Campbell, Robin Sharpe, Bill Quackenbush & Anne Laing, Barkerville Historic Site.
C- 5 Documenting Young Aboriginal Identity's Urban Context
Aboriginal Youth from Richmond, B.C., (the Canadian municipality with the largest immigrant population in Canada), visually and narratively document their perspectives on Aboriginal identity. With National Aboriginal Day and the newly opened Pathways Aboriginal Centre as backdrops, the youth tell their story as a group of young Aboriginal youth reflecting on their successes, difficulties, challenges and achievements in embracing their Aboriginal identity in an urban environment that hasn’t always acknowledged it’s rich Aboriginal history and current Aboriginal contemporary realities.
Presenters:
Dawn Lindsay-Burns, Aboriginal Youth Centre Coordinator, Cassandra Malley,
Simone Carriere, Megan Wells, and Brad Anderson-Kling.
REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:30 - 11:00am
Palm Court, Fairmont Empress
Series D
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11:00am - 12:30pm
Balmoral, Kensington & Buckingham Rooms @ Fairmont Empress;
Newcombe Convention Centre, Royal BC Museum
St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site
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D-1 Secrets from the RBCM for the Small Museum
- Big Results with a Little Budget (Part 2)
The second half of the workshop will involve hands on work with each of the three presenters, using the techniques they have discussed. Participants will go home with first hand knowledge that they can apply to their own museum environment.
Presenters:
Megan Anderson, Colin Longpre and Kate Kerr,
(three members of the Exhibits Team at The Royal BC Museum).
D- 2 Student Case Study (Part 2)
BC Tourism / Hospitality Students present to industry leaders the skills that program graduates can bring to a business and the heritage sector.
Presenters:
Tourism British Columbia representatives, tbc.
D- 3 Welcoming Multicultural Volunteers & Visitors to Our Museum
This workshop explores how we as museum employees, volunteers and institutions can create a more welcoming and inclusive museum environment. The workshop session utilizes a series of interactive individual, small and large group activities to examine and explore common definitions of culture, inclusion and cultural competence, increase awareness about individual and collective attitudes, opinions and stereotypes and its impact on our behaviour and communication, recognize, identify and learn how to being to break down barriers to cross-cultural interactions with museum visitors, volunteers and staff, explore issues around how museums and their employees-volunteers can be more welcoming to multicultural visitors, community partners, employees and volunteers. What individual, organizational and institutional barriers exist in our museums? How can we begin to identify and reduce those barriers?
Presenter:
Steven Lorenzo Baileys, Intercultural Association of Victoria.
D- 4 Cultural Marketing Takes Flight-The Golden Raven Experience
Learn how eight distinct museums, galleries and attractions within the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George joined together under the “Golden Raven” brand to promote a cultural experience that tells the story of the culture and heritage that built northern BC. The project objectives include increased awareness of the cultural identity of the region, increased revenues and visitations for the facilities, understanding of the value of the cultural identity, and engaging in promoting that cultural identity.
Presenters:
Stephanie Killam, District of Fraser-Fort George,
Reneé McCloskey, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George,
Tracy Calogheros, The Exploration Place-Fraser-Fort George Regional Museum.
D- 5 Storytelling Techniques in Programming
This session presents ideas used by small community museums to present themes of local history in creative and engaging ways. This will be a participatory session, where all participants will be encouraged to share their ideas and experiences, including both roaring successes and dismal failures. Theatre, poetry, storytelling, puppetry and other interpretive techniques will all be discussed as ways to enliven local history. Participants will come away with new ideas and energy around interpretation and programming.
Presenters:
Cathy English, Revelstoke Museum & Archives;
Deborah Chapman, R.J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum;
Joani Cowan, Enderby Museum,
Tammy Hardwick, Creston Museum &
Cuyler Page, Royal BC Museum.
Please use the corresponding session codes on your Registration Form.
Lunch Break
12:30 - 2:00pm
Plenary B:
Strategic Developments in the Sector:
Findings from the Stakeholders Workshops for a New Heritage Strategy for BC;
Cultural Tourism Strategy Development;
Tourism BC & the Heritage Tourism Alliance of BC's
"History & Heritage Sector Marketing Plan"
Guest Panelists: Tbc.
2:00 - 3:30pm
Auditorium, St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site
Series E
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
3:30 - 5:00pm
Balmoral, Kensington & Buckingham Rooms @ Fairmont Empress;
Newcombe Convention Centre, Royal BC Museum
St. Ann's Academy National Historic Site
E-1 Tell Your Story Through Tourism
This session provides the knowledge and understanding of how to work with their city, regional, and provincial Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO). A variety of tourism programs and marketing opportunities will be discussed. Also, in recognizing the vulnerability of BC's tourism industry in the face of social, environmental and economic changes, the Council of Tourism Associations of BC (COTA), has been included in this session to provide an overview on the development and implementation of the Foresight Project, which is a long-term sustainable action plan for the future of tourism in our province.
Presenters:
Tourism British Columbia representatives, tbc.
E- 2 The People's History Project - Telling Your Own Story
In November 2007, the Royal BC Museum launched a special web site (Free Spirit - the People's History Project) to invite British Columbians to tell their stories - their own personal history, stories of their family or their community's history. The site invites contributions in words or sound, photographs and video. This session will explore what worked and what did not. It will provide useful lessons for those interested in personal history and the use of the web as a tool for storytelling. Tim will describe some of the challenges faced by projects like this - accessibility for older generations, getting the word out so that people will participate, reviewing submissions to the site. He will also share the results - remarkable stories and images that help illuminate the BC identity.
Presenter:
Tim Willis, Royal BC Museum.
E- 3 Logic Models: The Business of Storytelling
Logic models tell the journey from mission to activities, inputs, outputs, performance measures, and outcomes. Learn more about this picture and word graphic model that helps to quickly and easily share your business and operational stories to granters and funders, government, staff, and stakeholder groups.
Presenter:
Lisa Mort-Putland.
E- 4 The Museum Insurance Story in Canada
Marsh Canada...
Presenter:
Nahla Hanna, Marsh Canada.
E- 5 Relationships Between First Nations
Cultural Centres & Museums in BC
(This session is currently under development...Please watch for updates and announcements).
BC Arts Council Grants Program
- Grants Coordinator & Client Consultations
Interviews scheduled in advance with BCMA Grants Coordinator, Linda Eversole and BC Arts Council representatives, between 9:00am & 5:00pm at the Fairmont Empress.
To book: Linda Eversole, Grants Coordinator: 250-356-9398
or by email: leversole@museumsassn.bc.ca
Canadian Heritage Program Consultations
An opportunity for Conference attendees to meet with Canadian Heritage officers regarding MAP and CSC programs. As per previous BCMA Conferences, interested institutional representatives may sign-up over the course of the Conference 2008 for meetings that will be scheduled for Friday, November 21st. between 9:00am & 5:00pm.
Lesley Moore, Senior Cultural Analyst, Department of Canadian Heritage, Vancouver, BC: Lesley_moore@pch.gc.ca
EVENING EVENT:
"Museums in Motion"
& Golden Service Awards Banquet
Special Guest:
The Honourable Steven L. Point, OBE
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
6:00 - 6:30pm - Reception
6:30 - 7:00pm - Lieutenant Governor's Arrival
7:00 - 9:30pm - Banquet, Award Presentations,
& BCMA Endowment Fund Auction
(See "Evening Events" link, at left)
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Day FOUR:
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Voter Registration Desk
8:00 - 9:00am
Kipling's, Fairmont Empress
BCMA's Annual General Meeting Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30am
Kipling's, Fairmont Empress
The AGM is an opportunity for you to participate in the planning of our organization’s future. If you’d like to take part and enjoy some coffee and a continental breakfast, please join us at the AGM. Please indicate your attendance on the registration form.
Conference 2008 Closes.
The Fairmont Empress has offered Conference 2008 delegates, presenters and exhibitors an extra 3-days' accommodation at the special Conference 2008 rate of $90.00/night (plus taxes) AFTER Conference closes to allow you to relax, tour Victoria and the region, get some of that Christmas shopping out of the way and sample many of Victoria's fantastic restaurants.
MAKE A HOLIDAY OF IT!
SELF-GUIDED TOURS
(See "Tours" link, at left).
Please use the corresponding session codes on your Registration Form.
(Please remember to complete and return your "Participant Evaluation" to assist Conference 2008 committee members and local organizers to help keep your provincial BCMA Conference a relevant and energizing annual event).
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