News

Resources

Indigenous Repatriation Handbook

The Royal BC Museum and Haida Gwaii Museum have published an Indigenous Repatriation Handbook! This vital resource was created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. bit.ly/2WCgZKA

Adapting Heritage Toolkit

From the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador

Heritage NL’s new Adapting Heritage Toolkit includes lots of useful information for communities and owners of historic buildings on finding new uses for under-utilized heritage structures. Access the toolkit at heritagefoundation.ca/restoration/adaptingheritage-toolkit/

Over 60 million pages of digitized Canadian heritage documents now accessible

As of January 1, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network has made its Canadiana collections – the largest online collections of early textual artifacts pertaining to Canadian culture – fully accessible to the public at no charge. www.canadiana.ca/

Events

BC GLAM symposium

British Columbia’s GLAM (gallery, library, archives and museums) sector partners – BC Museums Association, BC Library Association and Archives Association of BC – proudly present the second annual GLAM symposium in Surrey on May 8, 2019.

Here and Now: Practical Ideas, Local Solutions for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums will showcase the power of collaboration in the GLAM sector and set the agenda for future innovation and partnership. Participants from across the province will come together for a day of learning and discovery as they listen to their colleagues’ achievements and aspirations for the sector.

New Exhibit

There is Truth Here

Museum of Vancouver

There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools is on now at the Museum of Vancouver. The exhibit was featured in our last issue of Roundup, and focuses on rare surviving artworks created by children who attended the Inkameep Day School (Okanagan), St Michael’s Indian Residential School (Alert Bay); the Alberni Indian Residential School (Vancouver Island) and Mackay Indian Residential School (Manitoba). The focus of the exhibition is not on the schools themselves, but upon witnessing the experiences of the survivors as conveyed through their childhood artworks – for some the only surviving material from their childhoods. Co-curator Andrea Walsh will deliver the keynote at the BC GLAM symposium on May 8.