Workshops
Unless otherwise noted all sessions/events take place at the Sheraton Newfoundland Hotel.
[T] indicates sessions offered with simultaneous translationExplora at Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada
Intangible Cultural Heritage 101
Telling the Story from the Inside Out: Interpretive Planning for the Cupid’s Interpretation Centre
All the News that's Fit to … Link
Build Your Own Project Manager! A Look at Project Management in Canadian Museums
Explora at Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada - SOLD OUT
Workshop leader: Tamara Tarasoff, National Products Specialist, New Media and Exhibitions
Date: Monday, May 10
Time: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Signal Hill Tattoo Training Facility, Signal Hill. A short walk from the Sheraton, delegates are required to make their own way to the Signal Hill Visitor Centre. Wear warm, waterproof clothing and good walking shoes.
Fee: $20. Includes printed material and health break.
More than a view – more than a tour!
Walk the trails of Signal Hill and learn about a leading-edge technology that is immersing visitors in the cultural and natural history of this amazing landscape. In 2008-2009, Parks Canada developed and piloted a handheld GPS-triggered guide at Signal Hill called Explora. An extensive evaluation of the guide indicated that visitors enjoyed and learned from the text, images, audio, videos and quizzes presented on the device. “It’s the best invention since the light bulb,” one enthusiastic user exclaimed! Come and experience first-hand the benefits of this new technology. Lessons learned from Explora will help participants guide the development of similar tours in their park, gallery, natural history site or museum.
For more information, please contact:
tamara.tarasoff@pc.gc.ca
819-934-0374
Limited to 30 participants.
Facilitated by Parks Canada
Intangible Cultural Heritage 101
Facilitated by: Dale Jarvis, ICH Development Officer, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and Dr. Jillian Gould, Public Sector Folklorist, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Date: Tuesday, May 11
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fee: $55. Includes printed material, two health breaks and lunch.
This informative workshop will provide a brief overview of intangible cultural heritage, and outline four broad goals for safeguarding our living heritage. It will take participants through the process of planning their project; from establishing goals, doing preliminary research, addressing issues around ethics and consent, choosing personnel, documentation methods, processing collected materials, equipment, and budgets. This workshop will be beneficial to museum professionals who are contemplating folklore and oral history projects of all types, ranging from short-term projects involving a single researcher, to complex and long-term projects involving many researchers.
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Dale Gilbert Jarvis is a folklorist, researcher, and author, who has been working for the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador (HFNL) since 1996. He is the Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer for the province, one of only two provincially-funded folklorist positions in Canada. He is the former provincial registrar for Canada’s Historic Places Initiative, a past president of the Newfoundland Historic Trust, and chair of the board for the St. John’s Storytelling Festival.
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Dr. Jillian Gould teaches courses about interviewing and fieldwork methods at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she is an assistant professor in the department of folklore. Her specialties/ interests include public folklore, ethnography and fieldwork, Jewish culture, foodways, and the culture of aging. In the public sector she was Education Coordinator at the Eldridge Street Project (now Museum at Eldridge Street) in New York City, and has completed projects for the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the Ontario Jewish Archives.
For more information, please contact:
ich@heritagefoundation.ca
Limited to 50 participants.
Telling the Story from the Inside Out: Interpretive Planning for the Cupid’s Interpretation Centre
Facilitated by: Interpretive Planner Marion McCauley, Architect Ron Fouger and Archaeologist Bill Gilbert
Date: Tuesday, May 11
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fee: $30. Includes printed material, health break, lunch and transportation.
Experience firsthand how a picturesque community in Newfoundland and Labrador worked with professionals to plan a world-class interpretation centre to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Guy's establishment of the first English colony in Canada. The centre will be nearing completion, the celebrations will be underway, but where did it all begin? You will get a behind-the-scenes tour of the new centre and a tour of the archaeological site where 144,000 artifacts and five 17th century structures have been uncovered to date. This tour will provide attendees with the best practices in interpretive planning that you will be able to consider and implement in your own institution. This tour will be of particular interest to archaeologists, curators, interpretive planners, special event coordinators, community museum workers and anyone interested in developing a site from the ground up.
For more information, please contact:
pdowden@cupids400.com
709-528-1610
Limited to 30 participants.
All the News that's Fit to … Link - SOLD OUT
Facilitated by the Canadian Heritage Information Network
Date: Tuesday, May 11
Time: 9:00 am - noon
Location: offsite, TBD.
Fee: $35. Includes printed material, health break and transportation.
In 2009, the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) launched the Professional Exchange to contribute to museum professionals’ standards of excellence in the use of digital media. Using the Professional Exchange as a model, participants in this hands-on workshop will gain a clear understanding of how news aggregators and social media (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook) function. Attendees will learn ways to connect online with their peers to discuss subjects of common interest, to share best practices, to connect with visitors and engage them more fully in their institution’s website.
For more information, please contact:
wendy.thomas@pch.gc.ca
1-800-520-2446
Limited to 20 participants.
Build Your Own Project Manager! A Look at Project Management in Canadian Museums - SOLD OUT
Presenters: Julie Leclair and Audrey Vermette, Canadian Museum of Civilization; Sylvaine Champagne, Canadian Museum of Science & Technology
Date: Tuesday, May 11
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Fee: Free. Session includes printed material, access to blog, and a health break.
In this highly interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a forum concerning project management in Canadian Museums. Centered on a group-built project manager “model,” the session will be organized into three activities: Building the P.M., the Health Check, and the Growing Chart. In the first exercise, participants will build a model project manager and reflect on the desired qualities: What top five skills will be required? What training is available? Why are eyes and arms so important in this job? Once the model is complete, the group will be required to undertake a health check of their model. This second part will focus on sustainability in project management and entertain a discussion on the general state of project management in Canadian museums, based on an informal survey that was sent to various museums. The third and final part – the Growing Chart – will look at the future of museum project management and how we can all participate in making it evolve. Targeted to project managers and all museum professionals involved in exhibition development, the session will also introduce participants to a project management blog created to encourage discussion and knowledge-sharing.
For more information, please contact:
Audrey Vermette
audrey.vermette@civilisations.ca
819-776-7190
Limited to 50 participants.