Overview | Schedule | Speakers | Inclusion 2025 | Recordings
Ontario Science Centre (770 Don Mills Rd), North York
March 23, 2018, 9 - 5 pm
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| TIME | SESSION |
| 9:00 - 9:15 AM |
Indigenous Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
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| 9:15 - 9:45 AM |
Opening Remarks & Activity
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| 9:45 - 11:00 AM |
Panel Discussion | THEME: CHALLENGE Marie Lalonde, Executive Director, Ontario Museum Association (Moderator)
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| 11:00 - 11: 15 AM |
BREAK
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| 11:15 - 12:00 PM |
Keynote Address | THEME: LEAD
|
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
LUNCH
|
| 1:00 - 1:45 PM |
Design Thinking Session | THEME: UNSETTLE
|
| 1:45 - 2:30 PM |
Afternoon Speaker | THEME: DISRUPT
Eliza Chandler, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University
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| 2:30 - 2:45 PM |
BREAK
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| 2:45 - 3:45 PM |
Inclusion 2025: Case Study Presentations | THEME: EMBRACE To launch our Inclusion 2025: A Practitioner's Guide to Museum Inclusion, staff from our 10 museum partners will present the community projects they launched to address diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion, with the support of the Advisory Committee. They are:
Staff from Museum Partners:
Tadd Tremblay, Visitor Services and Operations Coordinator, Art Gallery of Sudbury
Deanna Nebionquit, Curator Alternate & Collections Manager, Art Gallery of Sudbury
Will Hollingshead, Heritage Programmer Assistant, Ermatinger Clergue NHS
Kathy Fisher, Curator, Ermatinger Clergue NHS
Roberta Sealy, Conservator, Hamilton Civic Museums
Sonia Mrva, Curator, Heritage Policy + Project Manager, Built Heritage Inventory, Hamilton Civic Museums
Mark Scheibmayr, Assistant Archivist, Markham Museum
Janet Reid, Curator, Markham Museum
Melissa Phillips, Museum Collections Assistant, Museum Windsor
Craig Capacchione, Museum Coordinator - Education, Museum Windsor
Jasmine Fisher, Curatorial Assistant (Formerly), Niagara Falls Museums
Suzanne Moase, Curator, Niagara Falls Museums
Loretta Fearman, Museum Reception, Simcoe County Museum
Kelley Swift-Jones, Curator, Simcoe County Museum
Lucas Cabral, Communications and Digital Media Lead, Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Donna Raetsen-Kemp, CEO, Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Gracia Dyer Jalea, Founding Executive Director, Toronto Ward Museum
Donna Gabaccia, President and Chair, Executive Board, Toronto Ward Museum
Megan Crawford, Teacher/Interpreter, Museum Galleries, Waterloo Region Museum
Keri Solomon, Supervisor of Guest Services, Waterloo Region Museum
Advisory Committee:
Cheryl Blackman, AVP Audience Development, Royal Ontario Museum
Karen Carter, Executive Director, Myseum of Toronto
Pauline Dolovich, Principal, REICH + PETCH
Shelley Falconer, President and CEO, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Ravi Jain, Founding Artistic Director, Why Not Theatre
Cara Krmpotich, Associate Professor, Museum Studies, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Jess Mitchell, Senior Manager, Research + Design, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
Penny Pine, Collections Coordinator, Canadian Museum of History
Vishnu Ramcharan, Specialist: Visitor and Community Engagement, Ontario Science Centre
Anita Small, Founder and Owner, small LANGUAGE CONNECTIONS; Co-Founder and Past Co-Director, Deal Culture Centre
Jutta Treviranus, Professor and Director, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
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| 3:45 - 4:45 PM |
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| 4:45 - 5:00 PM |
Reflections + Closing Remarks
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For questions please feel free and encouraged to reach out to oma@museumsontario.com.
Ontario Museum Association
50 Baldwin Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 1L4
416-348-8672 | 1-800-662-8672
This Symposium is made possible by the generous support of the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.