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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">December 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Royal BC Museum hits the ground running in 2016<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC –</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">The Royal BC Museum rings in the New Year with an exciting slate of engaging and illuminating January events, along with the opportunity to visit the museum and archives
by donation.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">Community Days
</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">runs from Saturday, January 2 to Saturday, January 9, giving everyone the opportunity to enjoy the permanent and temporary exhibitions and galleries of the Royal BC
Museum by donation.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">January 2 also marks the beginning of
<i>Letter Writing Week</i>, a throwback to what’s fast becoming an “old-fashioned” form of communication. We will provide the paper, pens, envelopes and even stamps to encourage visitors to stop by our letter writing stations, sit down and pen a note. Who knows,
the letter you write could one day become part of our future archives.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The January 6
<i>Live @ Lunch</i> will see Royal BC Museum Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Dr. Gavin Hanke share how the museum and archives acquires whale specimens for our research collections, and the unique challenges associated with preparing and storing these large animals.
This free talk begins at noon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">A series of events exploring music and the sounds of nature culminates on January 15 and 16 with
<i>Music for Natural History,</i> a live performance that gives voice to the taxidermied birds and mammals, human-made trees and painted landscapes that form the Natural History Gallery.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Through careful cataloguing, research and transcription, the sounds of the flora and fauna of the dioramas have been made into two naturalistic compositions that
provide performers and audiences an entry to forgotten ways of listening and sounding. The performances begin at 7 pm and are $25 per person/per night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">On Sunday, January 17, the Friends of the BC Archives presents
<i>The De Cosmos Enigma</i>, a talk from Amor de Cosmos biographer Gordon Hawkins. Hawkins’ new biography brings BC’s second premiere to focus by exploring the eccentric life of the bombastic visionary. Admission is $5 and the talk begins at 2 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">James Daschuk’s book
<i>Clearing the Plains</i> examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate and politics played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s ‘National Dream.’ Daschuk will speak about this
and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day at
<i>An Evening with James Daschuk,</i> on Wednesday, January 27 at 7 pm. Registration is required for this free event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">For more information on these and other events visit royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding
of BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking to the future, the Royal BC Museum will be
a refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Media contact:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Royal BC Museum Media Inquiries
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">250-387-3207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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