To do right now!! Introductions at your table your name your - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

 Introductions at your table  your name  your organization  hope for the day  1 minute each!!

To do right now!!

 We will adjust timings as required and start promptly

after breaks

 Washrooms…  Cellphones…  Emergencies…

Housekeeping…

Fort Lennox NHS PQ where German Jewish refugees were held in world war II

Deline, NWT: The Manhattan Project

Dachau Memorial Site Guide Interpretation Project

War Heritage Research Initiative warheritage.royalroads.ca

Hastings Park Japanese Canadian Internment site

William Head Institution, Metchosin, BC

Vimy , France: Education Expo

 Silenced, forgotten or distorted history  Politics of remembrance  Dissonance  Myth and the challenges of cultural memory  Questions of ownership, authenticity and giving

voice

 How the past is represented in the present  Interpretation

Contested Histories as

Your thoughts on contested histories in BC…

 “Systemic cultural genocide of First Nations people in Canada:

breaking treaties, IRS, 60s scoop, tuberculosis hospitals; Racist historical laws vrs people of colour in Canada: e.g. Chinese Head tax, segregation policies targeted schools, public spaces like pools, hospitals and cemeteries; Racist immigration policies (i.e. refusal of entry Jewish refugees in WWII, Sikh, Muslim and Hindu passengers--all British citizens-

• in 1914 on the Komagata Maru); Vancouver’s vibrant black

community in Hogan's Alley was destroyed and buried under the Georgia Viaduct using urban renewal policies as excuse; Municipal and federal government’s forced sale of Japanese- Canadian property during WWII using internment as excuse for "urban renewal" in Vancouver's Japantown; Contesting monuments and memorials of colonizers as continuing to cause harm and trauma for communities of colour.”

Our aim with this forum

 To share, listen, and learn about ideas,

approaches and good practices

 A museums, arts, culture and heritage

sector focus

 Opportunities that foster inclusion,

diversity and reconciliation

Our scope of practice

 Tangible heritage: sites of memory, buildings  Intangible heritage: traditions, ceremonies  Exhibitions: Museums, galleries  The arts: installations, writing, etc.  Commemorations  Celebrations  Journeys, Parades  Community and site interpretation projects

Our goals for today

• 1. To build momentum…
• 2. To consider ways to create opportunities…
• 3. To learn about…
• 4. To articulate what we need…
• 5. To help toward setting a vision…

 Ideas and potential partners  Developing a short discussion paper

 Reflect discussion of today  Offer recommendations to provincial

• rganizations



Articulate needs and ideas from around the province

Outcomes

Ways to provide input

 Table discussions  Online survey  Padlet for online participants

Table Discussion

 One panelist speaks (15 minutes)  20 minutes of table discussion  Facilitator to provide support  Recorder to gather ideas  Five rounds over the course of the day  Brief table reports  Full information collected on padlet

Our Panelists

 Ms. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, Coordinator, South

Asian Studies Institute, University of the Fraser Valley and Director BC Historical Federation

 Ms. Jodi Simkin, Director, Cultural Affairs and

Heritage, Klahoose First Nation

Table Questions: ‘First Steps’ Panel

 Please discuss key values, lessons learned / guiding

principles from the panelist with regard to first steps.

 What are key challenges or pitfalls in this part of the

process?

 Refer to survey results as you wish. (Ques. 2 and 3)

Until 11:00

Until 12:45

Table Reports

 https://padlet.com/geoffrey_2bird/keyideaspanel1

Our panelists

 Ms. Brittney Crump, Business Management

Coordinator, Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure (assisting with Stop of Interest signage program)

 Ms. Sherri Kajiwara, Director | Curator, Nikkei

National Museum

 Ms. Marnie Rice, Cultural Planner, Vancouver

Commemorates Canada 150+

Table Questions

 What are key lessons learned/guiding principles from

the panelist with regard to first steps?

 What about key challenges or pitfalls in this part of

the process?

 Refer to the survey results if you wish (6, 7 & 8)

Thank you to our table and online facilitators and the media tech team!

Kulwinder Buttar Gillian Dixon Shrubabati Halder Ann-Kathrin McLean Lauren Shea ++ Brian MacDonald Dan Anthon Trevor Henry

Where to from here?

 Event has been recorded  Website well underway.  An evaluation sent to you  Report to write  What about you?