Friday, November 8 - 10:45 am to 12:00 pm
Presenters:
Moderator: Pailagi Pandya, Youth Lead/ Historical Interpreter, Scarborough Museum; Devon Muhic, Youth Resource Lead, Scarborough Museum; Katie Epp, Youth Mentorship Lead, Markham Museum; Lisa Terech, Co-ordinator of Youth Engagement and Programs, Oshawa Museum; Justine Maalouf, Youth Team Coordinator, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Download the Katie Epp presentation [ PDF 3mb ]
Download the Justine Maalouf presentation [ PDF 2mb ]
Download the Devon Muhic presentation [ PDF 5.8mb ]
Download the Lisa Terech presentation [ PDF 3.5mb ]
Session Description
Heard about it? Over the past two years, one grant, many museums, and a team of youth have been making waves across Canada! Find out how their project is literally changing the face of museums across Ontario and how it’s evolving the pro-youth movement. Join the candid conversation about how museums can connect to youth and to each other, what works, what doesn’t, and everything beyond.
Warning: Participation may cause feelings of camaraderie and inspiration.
We will explore how museums involved in the Canadian Museums Youth Diversity Project have changed and grown over the past 2 1/2 years. What started as a way to get more newcomer Canadian youth involved in their communities through volunteering at museums, has evolved into a support network for those of us in the museum field who work with youth. By connecting and sharing with each other we have been able to grow the program far beyond the initial participating museums in the original project. This has allowed for fresh ideas to be integrated into the project itself and has encouraged a safe exchange of thoughts and ideas. We hope to demonstrate that as museum institutions we can move forward as part of an exciting team and not as competitors. The panel will include representatives from smaller and larger institutions and will discuss what staff are learning about community building through youth engagement, staff experiences in ideas exchange within a team of large and small museums, the advantages of involving the 14 to 24 age bracket, how participating museums are engaging youth who are under engaged or hard to reach, and how this kind of project is instrumental in succession planning by encouraging people from diverse backgrounds to get involved in the museum field. Participation will be forcefully encouraged in the form of sharing successes, fears, myths, rumours and laughs around the topic of youth invasion of museums.
Presenter Biographies
KATIE EPPVolunteer Coordinator and Youth Mentorship Lead, Markham Museum She is currently the lead for the CIC grant at Markham Museum organizing a youth mentor group going by the name of MY Community. Working with Montreal, Scarborough and Surrey Museum, she strives to create successful programming for Canadian youth. |
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JUSTINE MAALOUFYouth Team Coordinator, McMichael Canadian Art Collection |
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DEVON MUHICYouth Resource Lead, Scarborough Museum |
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PAILAGI PANDYAYouth Lead and Historical interpreter, Scarborough Museum |
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LISA TERECHCo-ordinator of Youth Engagement and Programs, Oshawa Museum |
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