2023 Deadlines - Funding, PD & Conferences

On December 15, 2022, Edgar Tumak presented a cheque in the amount of $1,000 at the Thousand Islands History Museum as a donation to the Paul O. Robertson Memorial Bursary Fund. The Ontario Museum Association created the fund to support the attendance and participation of members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in attending and participating in the OMA’s annual conference as delegates and emerging museum professionals. The fund was named in honour of Tumak’s late husband.

“As the widower of Paul Robertson, I was immensely honoured by the OMA’s desire to establish a memorial bursary fund in Paul’s name,” said Tumak. “As past president of the organization, Paul would have been immensely honoured as well as a reflection of the regard in which he was held and as a testament to the work he provided as a volunteer within the broader museum community while working as a curator for the City of Kingston.”

Read more HERE.
Learn more about the Paul O. Robertson Memorial Bursary HERE.
Make a donation HERE.

Online
Wednesday January 18, 2023
12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Registration Required

This webinar will present two innovative cartographic approaches designed to map collections of stories and interviews. The first one will be structured around Atlascine, a free, online and open-source software developed to map collections of stories. Through the full interaction between media and maps, Atlascine offers new ways of navigating within and between audiovisual stories. Here, the map is envisioned not only as a way to reveal places as described in stories, but also to expand the possibilities of accessing, listening, visualizing and connecting these stories. The second cartographic approach will be devoted to the exploration of the inner parts of these stories using "sensibility mapping.” Sensibility mapping is a creative way of investigating the intimate, emotional and personal dimensions of stories.

Through this webinar, participants can expect to familiarize themselves with the potential, limits and complementarity of both approaches to expand the access to (corpuses of) interviews.

Speakers:

• Sébastien Caquard, co-director of COHDS and a professor in the department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University
• Élise Olmedo, post-doctoral researcher at the department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University.

Read more and register HERE.

Upcoming CCI Webinar:
Photography on a Dime - Thrifty Tools and Free Software for Heritage Professionals
Canadian Conservation Institute, Ontario Museum Association and Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries

Online 
Webinar 1: February 9, 2023 (1:00 - 3:00 PM ET)
Webinar 2: February 16, 2023 (1:00 - 3:00 PM ET)
OMA and GOG members register at 'Members' rate

This Canadian Conservation Institute webinar series is co-presented by the Ontario Museum Association (OMA) and Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG). Interested participants are those who are currently or will be involved in photodocumentation projects within a heritage institution. Participants are expected to have a fundamental knowledge of camera settings and functions (such as ISO and aperture) and a basic understanding of lighting equipment as this information will not be reviewed in the webinar. Participants should also possess practical computer skills.

Register HERE.

Ontario Culture Days announce new guides
with a focus on inclusive arts, culture and heritage experiences
North York Mirror

Ontario Culture Days has added 11 new ON Culture Guides leading into 2023. The guides cover areas in the central, northern, eastern and southwestern parts of the province - highlighting inclusive tourism and spotlight diverse cultural experiences, local businesses, and unique community histories throughout Ontario. Several of the new guides were produced in consultation with Indigenous Tourism Ontario and Jacqueline Scott, an expert in Black tourism, arts, culture, and heritage in Ontario.

This project is supported by a $500,000 Government of Canada investment through the Tourism Relief Fund, delivered by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).

Read more HERE.

Carolyn King, a historian and former chief of Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN), created the Moccasin Identifier project in 2011 to educate Ontarians about Indigenous culture and treaty rights. Since then, imprints of traditional First Nations moccasins have popped up at public art installations, crosswalks, heritage trails, hospitals, downtown buildings, parks and college campuses from Toronto to Haldimand and Norfolk.

Port Dover Harbour Museum curator Katie Graham said the half-dozen moccasin identifiers found inside the museum nicely complement a display about Indigenous fishing on Lake Erie prior to European settlement.

Demand for moccasin identifiers is “growing exponentially,” said King, with requests coming in from school boards, municipalities, conservation authorities, libraries and businesses that want to incorporate Indigenous education in their physical spaces and programming. To meet that demand, Mississaugas of the Credit recently secured $497,900 in community infrastructure funding from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.

Read more HERE.

 
Learn more about our 50th Anniversary HERE.

As museums across Ontario face the challenges of reopening safely and renewing relationships with your communities, the OMA is here for you. Your support, participation, and membership make our work possible.

If you are already an OMA member, thank you! Please renew your membership when you receive an email reminder. If you are not yet a member, please consider an individual, institutional, or commercial membership for yourself, your colleagues, or your institution. You can find information about member categories and benefits on our website.

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