[BCMA] BCMA Launches BC Museums Week - May 14-21, 2017

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Hello,



The BCMA is excited to announce the launch of BC Museums Week 2017, taking
place May 14-21, 2017!  Attached to this email you will find an image of
the BC Museums Week Proclamation.   To learn more about BC Museums Week, visit
our website <http://bit.ly/2oMrkDg>.



BC Museums Week is perfectly situated in the international museum calendar
as it includes International Museum Day (IMD), an ICOM-sanctioned
international celebration that takes place annually on May 18 to raise
awareness of museums’ roles as ”important means of cultural exchange,
enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation
and peace among peoples.”  ICOM’s theme for this year’s IMD is “Museums and
contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums.”



The BCMA would like to formally invite member institutions – and our
colleagues in archives, libraries, heritage and other related memory
institutions – to participate in BC Museums Week and IMD 2017.  Over the
coming days you will see a flurry of activity on the BCMA’s social media
feeds and in our listserv as we share resources, seek information and
participants, and prepare for BC Museums Week.



Would you and your organization like to participate in BC Museums Week
2017?  To begin, please consider sharing the Proclamation via social media
or e-newsletter (feel free to use the attached image, or share our recent
Facebook/Twitter posts).  You can also “attend” our Facebook event
<https://www.facebook.com/events/367967106910253/> where we’ll share
resources and connect participating organizations.  If highlighting events
on social media, please use #BCMuseums and tag us in your posts so we can
see and share what you’re doing.



If you are planning an event, program, promotion, activity, etc., please
send me an email (bfast at museumsassn.bc.ca) so I can compile and share
information.



Thank you, and I look forward to working with you during BC Museums Week!


Ben

-- 
*Ben Fast*
Programs and Communications Coordinator

BC Museums Association || 675 Belleville Street  || Victoria, BC || V8W 9W2

Direct: 250-686-2105 <(250)%20686-2105> || Office: 250-356-5700
<(250)%20356-5700>  || www.museumsassn.bc.ca
Direct Twitter: @benfaster <https://twitter.com/benfaster> Twitter:
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