BCMA Partners with Theatre BC, Design Member GO Cards in Circulation, Province-Wide
Your personalized BCMA membership card is your passport to "members only" information, services and resources throughout BCMA's interactive website, (See Member Login), as well as privileged admission and purchase prices at participating museums and art galleries, PLUS all Budget and Choice Hotels across Canada. The BCMA has partnered with Theatre BCto provide members of both orgainzations discounts at participating establishments across BC.
To get your own personalized BCMA GO Card: JOIN ONLINE
Services Canada Posts New Youth Employment Program Information...
(Mar 2/07)
"Canada Summer Jobs is a new initiative of the Summer Work Experience program. It provides wage subsidies to help Canadian employers of not-for-profit, public sector, and smaller private sector organizations with 50 or fewer employees create career-related summer jobs for students between the ages of 15 and 30 at the start of employment."
Deadline: March 30, 2007.
For CJS details, please visit: www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/epb/yi/yep/programs/scpp.shtml
UPDATE! Managing Editor Named
-- Revised Copy & Publishing Deadlines
Council's Selection Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Joan Kew as Managing Editor of Museums Roundup, effective immediately.
Revised advertising and copy deadlines for 2006-07 were also announced:
Issue #236: March 15 (Publication date: April 15, 2007)
Issue #237: May 31 (Publication date: June 30, 2007)
Issue #238: August 15 (Publication date: September 31, 2007)
Issue #239: November 1 (Publication date: December 1, 2007)
Download the revised Ad Rate Sheet
REMINDER! "Conference 2-007: A Time to Bond"
Annual BCMA Provincial Meeting Comes to Richmond
The City of Richmond (Heritage Services), in partnership with the Gulf of Georgia Cannery and Tourism Richmond, will host BCMA's annual provincial Conference 2-007: A Time to Bond on October 24-27, 2007 at the Radisson President Hotel & Suites in Richmond, BC.
The announcement was made at BCMA's Annual General Meeting at Conference 2006. Program Committee Co-Chairs Mark Sakai & Bryan Klassen also issued a province-wide Call for Proposals.
Read the 2-007 Proposal Guidelines (in Word).
Read the Proposal Form (in Word).
Watch here & on our BCMA-L listserv for updates and announcements...
To subscribe: Members@museumsassn.bc.ca
"Spirit of BC Week" February 9-17, 2007
Subsidies for BCMA's Institutional Members
ArtsNOW & BCMA partnered to encourage BCMA's Institutional Members to participate in their local Spirit of BC Week 2007 celebrations and in turn, help promote local appreciation of their community's own rich heritage. Read the Spirit of BC Week Subsidies announcement.
REMINDER! Provincial Court Ruling on School Fees
-- BCMA's Online Survey Added to Monitor Impact
Since the BC Supreme Court ruling this fall that BC school districts cannot charge fees "for any materials or equipment required to finish a course leading to graduation", or "for field trips considered necessary to the curriculum", the potential repercussions and the future of school programs are just beginning to come to light.
How will this ruling affect school field trips to BC's museums, art galleries and heritage or historic sites? How will, or could your institution be affected?
Due to the response to this initial BCMA-L query, the BCMA has developed this brief online survey:
See also our Youth Employment Programs online survey (below).
REMINDER! Survey: Youth Employment Program Cuts
to have Major Impact on BC's Museums, Art Galleries
Take the School Fees Survey and View Findings to date.
For more background information on the School Fees ruling, please visit...
CBC (Oct 1/06) Court clamps down on B.C. school fees
In Support of Public Education:
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/newproposals/archives/031690.html
BC School Trustees Association (Sep 9/01)
http://www.bcsta.org/pub/edufax/Sept-9-01.htm
Briefing Paper (Oct '06) BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils
BCMA conducted a survey on BCMA-L to gain member input regarding their participation in Youth Employment Programs in 2006, in response to the federal government's announced cuts to Summer Career Placements and Young Canada Works Programs, (see below).
Review the compiled editorial on Museums, from October 5.
Heritage Committee Votes to Restore MAP Funding
(Oct. 5) Yesterday, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage passed three motions related to the Museums Assistance Program cuts and a new Canadian Museums Policy.
Read the Survey Findings to date.
Those BC-based museums, art galleries, historic sites, parks and heritage properties that have not yet contributed their institution's youth employment details of 2006 are invited to do so by clicking the following online survey:
Impact of Cuts to Youth Employment Programs in the BC Museums Community
Watch here & on BCMA-L for application updates and guidelines...
Federal Government Cut $1 Billion, 66 Programs: MAP $4.63 million, Youth Employment Programs $55.4 million
(September 25, 2006 CBC News) - Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Treasury Board president John Baird announced $1 billion in savings over the next two years by cutting or trimming 66 federal programs, citing "numerous examples of waste and duplication", while heralding a budget surplus of $13.2 billion--all of which has been applied to Canada's accumulated debt to save an estimated $630 million in interest payments. Affected programs include Canadian Heritage's "Museums Assistance Program" (MAP), the primary federal funding program for Canadian museums, by $2.3 million in each of the next two years. Introduced in 1972, MAP's original $9 million budget has never been increased and is part of the federal museums policy that is now over 30 years old.
Also affected, and having an even greater impact than MAP cuts, are cuts to youth employment programs including Summer Career Placement and Young Canada Works, ($55.4 million). Small museums across Canada have routinely utilized these programs to help run summer visitor and local public programs.
The announcement has unleashed a loud outcry from BC museums and the BCMA and a flurry of media stories. For complete Tory government cutback details, read the Globe & Mail editorial on Museums, from October 5.
Heritage Committee Votes to Restore MAP Funding
(Oct. 5) Yesterday, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage passed three motions related to the Museums Assistance Program cuts and a new Canadian Museums Policy. Read the CMA Communique...
180 Delegates Come to PG
-- Complete a Participant's Survey
BCMA's 50th annual provincial Conference 2006: Fit at Fifty-Grow Stronger, Live Longer drew 180 delegates, presenters & exhibitors to Prince George, BC for another highly successful event.
Hosted by The Exploration Place & Two Rivers Gallery, October 18-21, 2006, Conference 2006 featured Pre-Conference Workshops; a 'blast' of an Opening Reception at The Exploration Place; BC Reports Reception at two Rivers Gallery; introduced networking dinners and Ideas Cafes; a sold-out Trade Show; a return of the Minister's Luncheon with The Honourable Gordon Hogg, Minister of State for ActNow BC; the annual "Museums in Motion" Awards Banquet & launch of BCMA's yearlong 50th Anniversary celebrations; and the annual general meeting.
Read Minister Hagen's Welcome Letter to Conference 2006 Delegates.
Read Minister Hagen's "Congratulations to Delegates"
Download: Conference 2006 Program sample.
Download: Participant's Evaluation (in Word).
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Museums Roundup - Issue #235
