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Session Title:

Spirit of the Sikhs at Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives: A Sustainable Community Partnership

Presenters:

Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives: Annemarie Hagan (Supervisor & Curator), Gurratan Singh (Board Member and Coordinator Sikh Heritage Month at PAMA Committee) and Erin Fernandes (Marketing Coordinator).

Session Description:

This past April, the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA) partnered with volunteers from the Sikh Community to present Sikh Heritage Month. Working together, they coordinated over 25 events and 5 exhibits over the month, and more than tripled the usual April attendance. The collaboration produced The Spirit of the Sikhs exhibition, with programming featuring local artists. This session will look at Sikh Heritage Month as a Pilot Project/Case Study and what it has taught us all about community collaboration, shared curatorial authority, thinking about facility space differently, and the many lessons learned. Plans are already underway for Sikh Heritage Month 2016 at PAMA.

Session Slides: 

Unavailable at this time.

Annemarie Hagan Supervisor & Curator (Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives)

Annemarie Hagan joined the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) as Supervisor and Curator of Museum Services in fall 2014.  Prior to that, she had been with the City of Mississauga’s Museums for twenty years, as first curator of Benares Historic House, Program Supervisor, and then Manager of Museums starting in 1998.  Previously, Annemarie worked as an Interpretive Planner at the Royal Ontario Museum as well as with Sears and Russell Consultants on a number of projects.  She holds a B.A. in History and Women’s Studies from University of Toronto and an M.A. in Public History from the University of Waterloo. 

Gurratan Singh Board Member and Coordinator Sikh Heritage Month (Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives Committee)

Biography coming soon.

Erin Fernandes Marketing Coordinator (Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives)

Erin is currently the Marketing Coordinator at the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA). With her undergraduate degree from Trent University in Business and Cultural Studies she puts her love of arts and culture to good use. Prior to her role at PAMA she held various marketing roles at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) where her main focus was marketing support for their Parks and Culture (Black Creek Pioneer Village), Education and Foundation divisions.