BC Museums Association Podcast
Join the BC Museums Association as we explore topics of importance to the museum community in BC, and around the world. Listen as we talk with museum workers, volunteers, and audiences about their work in BC museums.
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BCMA Podcast: Equity and Leadership with Illana Hester (opens the original)
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Join our host Lorenda and Illana Hester, Executive Director of The Old School House Arts Centre, arts advisor, and coordinator of Creative Coast, for a conversation about leadership, accountability, bravery, and community-building. Explore leadership as a collaborative practice grounded in care, curiosity, transparency, vulnerability, and a willingness to learn from failure, and reflect on how arts and cultural organizations can build trust, share decision-making, challenge hierarchical systems,
BCMA Podcast: Equity and Leadership with Sally Kim (opens the original)
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Join our host Lorenda and Sally Kim, Objects Conservator at the Royal BC Museum, for a conversation about accessibility, conservation, relationship-building, and repatriation. Sally reflects on her experiences as a deaf museum professional and explores how museums can move beyond accommodation toward meaningful accessibility grounded in listening, transparency, universal design, and disability justice. Consider how collaboration, cultural knowledge, and human connection can reshape conservation
BCMA Podcast: Equity and Leadership with Michelle Richard and Emma Wilton (opens the original)
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Join our host Lorenda and Michelle Richard and Emma Wilton from the Sooke Region Museum for a conversation about community engagement, leadership, and reimagining a local museum. Ahead of the museum’s 50th anniversary, Michelle and Emma share how community feedback is guiding a complete refresh of its permanent exhibits. Explore the challenges of widening historical narratives, recognizing bias, improving accessibility, and creating space for more people to see themselves reflected in the museum
BCMA Podcast: Equity and Leadership with Wedlidi Speck (opens the original)
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Join our host Lorenda and Wedlidi Speck, hereditary chief and Vice President for People, Culture and Reconciliation at the Royal BC Museum, for a conversation about leadership, healing, accountability, and decolonization. Drawing on his work as a therapist, cultural leader, and museum professional, Wedlidi reflects on the importance of listening, humility, psychological and cultural safety, and collaborative decision-making. Explore how values become meaningful through action, how circles can re
BCMA Podcast: Equity and Leadership with Elroy White (opens the original)
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Join our host Lorenda and Q̓íx̌itasu Elroy White, Haíɫzaqv archaeologist, hereditary chief, elected council member, historian, singer, and dancer, for a conversation about leadership, cultural stewardship, archaeology, and repatriation. Explore the M̓ṇúxvit approach, grounded in Haíɫzaqv laws, knowledge, relationships, and collective responsibility, and reflect on what changes when museum objects are understood as belongings connected to living families, ceremonies, songs, and inherited rights.R
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