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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">September 13, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Spooky, smart and sublime special events
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">at the Royal BC Museum this October<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></b><a name="OLE_LINK5"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Pull on
a sweater, kick your way through the fallen leaves and head to the Royal BC Museum to explore the many special events and activities we’ve planned this October, including the final days of our feature exhibition<i> Family: Bonds and Belonging</i>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Our
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105106/wonder-sunday-canada-c3-coast-coast-coast"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">Wonder Sunday</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">
family series returns from summer holidays. We’re spending most of the month getting our sea legs, as we focus on the C3 voyage--an epic 150-day science-focused journey from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage. Join us Sunday 1, 8, 15, and 22 from
1:00 to 3:00 pm as we explore scientific findings from the C3 ship and incorporate environmental research with hands-on learning.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Added bonus: two Royal BC Museum curators, Dr. Joel Gibson and Dr. Henry Choong, will be aboard the C3 vessel during the month.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">The last Wonder Sunday of the month, on October 31, is dedicated to Halloween: this event is a perennial (and spooky) favourite of
families. All Wonder Sunday events are included with museum admission or membership.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">On Wednesday, October 4, bring a sandwich to our Live at Lunch presentation,
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105156/live-lunch-prohibition-british-columbia"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">Prohibition in British Columbia</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">:
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">How the Prohibitionists Won the Battle but Lost the War</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">.
Archivist Frederike Verspoor will regale you with a story of fraud, duplicity and corruption. Have a seat and take it neat, bub. The event is by donation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Join us on Saturday, October 7, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm for
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105137/artsy-fartsy-youth-centred-day-place-making-and-design-thinking"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">Artsy Fartsy:
A Youth-Centred Day of Place Making and Design Thinking</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">. This drop-in event, presented in conjunction with
</span><a href="http://rethinkthinking.ca/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">Rethinking Thinking</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">
and the Summit at the Bay, is for dreaming, designing, debating and discovering. Magicians, musicians and poets will perform throughout the day to inspire youth to think outside the box and put their ideas into action. The event is by donation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">On Saturday, October 14, we are hosting a City of Victoria initiative called
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105131/performance-medicine-indigenous-performance-art-symposium"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">Performance as
Medicine</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">, an Indigenous Performance Art Symposium. Participants will present and explore Indigenous philosophies and contemporary expressive
forms. Registration is $40 and is required for the workshops (9:00 am to 3:00 pm); from 3:30 to 5:30 you are welcome to drop by for a free performance on the Legislative Assembly lawn and a panel discussion in the museum’s Clifford Carl Hall.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Also on Saturday, October 14, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, the Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve is the site of a
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105190/fieldtrippers-archaeology-walk"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">Fieldtrippers: Archaeology Walk</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">,
led by Dr. Genevieve Hill, Royal BC Museum archaeology collections manager. Participants will learn about the ways in which Cowichan First Nations and their ancestors have long lived in this ecologically and culturally rich area. Nature Conservancy of Canada
staff will also share the conservation story of the preserve. A donation of $5 per person is suggested.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">The latest of the dynamic, themed discussion series we call
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/learn/adult-programming/it%E2%80%99s-complicated-discussion-series"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">It’s Complicated</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">
takes place on Wednesday, October 18, from 5:15 to 7:00 pm in Clifford Carl Hall. This
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">month’s theme,
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105133/its-complicated-new-immigrants"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue;background:white">New Immigrants</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">,
is an opportunity to discuss a reality many of us can readily relate to: how are new immigrants in Victoria coping with
<i>connection</i>, and how can the larger community better support the process? Let’s talk</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">. Admission by donation.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">On Saturday October 28, we host our ever-popular adults-only Halloween event,
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/105151/night-shift"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue">Night Shift: Dark Circus</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">.
This is rapidly becoming Victoria’s hottest Halloween party, and this year’s tickets SOLD OUT in less than an hour. The best way to get advance warning about Halloween and Valentine’s Day Night Shift tickets is to
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/newsletter-subscription"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue">sign up</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""> for our
newsletter. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">We’re bidding farewell to the
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/family"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue">Family: Bonds and Belonging</span></i></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
feature exhibition on Tuesday October 31. Don’t miss the chance to check it out or revisit it. It’s a thought-provoking and emotionally-resonant experience, grounded in the Royal BC Museum’s collections and pointedly asking: what is family, anyway? Come see
for yourself with your family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Our summer hours (Sunday to Thursday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Friday and Saturday 10:00 am to 10:00 pm) end on October 7, when the museum switches to winter hours (Monday
to Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">For more information about any of these events, visit our online calendar at
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:blue">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;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. We are a hub of community connections in BC– onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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