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#InspiredMuseums Webinar: Beyond Tokenism : Approaches to Delivering Inclusive Programming

Speakers: Donna Gabaccia, President and Chair, Toronto Ward Museum; Jade Pichette, Volunteer + Community Outreach Coordinator, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. The Ontario Museum Association (OMA) presents Beyond Tokenism : Approaches to Delivering Inclusive Programming, a webinar and opportunity to learn how different museums and cultural institutions approach diversity and inclusion and integrate practices to support truly inclusive programming. Discussion will cover key lessons learned and exemplary practices for creating a space and place for underserved and underrepresented communities within the museum and cultural sector. Speakers will include: Donna Gabaccia, President and Chair, Toronto Ward Museum & Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough will speak to shared authority, inclusive storytelling and co-developing/delivering programming as a museum without walls. Donna Gabaccia is well-known around the world as a scholar of international migration, gender and food studies and for her interdisciplinary and digital history collaborations with scholars, librarians, and students. She has written and edited fifteen books on U.S. immigration, migration in world history, and the history of the worldwide Italian diaspora. She is the past president of the Social Science History Association and the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and recipient of many awards and honors including the 2013 University of Minnesota Community Service Award for Faculty, which acknowledged her work with immigrant and refugee communities. Jade Pichette, Volunteer + Community Outreach Coordinator (BSW, MSW), Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), will speak to the CLGA's planned name change and steps to intentionally becoming a more inclusive organization. Jade serves as the Volunteer + Community Outreach Coordinator. They started at the CLGA as the Volunteer Coordinator. Jade is an anti-oppressive educator, who has worked as an advocate in LGBTQ2+ communities for over ten years. They have previously worked at Kind (formerly Pink Triangle Services) in Ottawa as the Education Programs Coordinator, and has worked with over 50 different organizations across Ontario to develop queer and trans inclusive policies. Jade is an avid lover of history and in particular has interest in trans and bi erasure in LGBTQ2+ communities, LGBTQ2+ Interfaith work, and continuing to challenge their own position of white-privilege. Who Should Attend? -Anyone interested in learning how to develop inclusive programming within their institutions. -Those who want to learn how to authentically engage Ontario's diverse communities in a respectful and wholly inclusive way. This webinar will utilize the OMA's existing webinar platform, WebEX. Registration is free to all OMA members. For details on how to join, visit here: https://members.museumsontario.ca/programs-events/current-initiatives/diversity-and-inclusion/webinars

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Nov 29, 2017

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