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We're pleased to launch Museums For Me, a project to engage Canadians on why museums matter. We would love your input, and encourage you to participate by learning more and filling out the brief survey at www.museumsforme.ca.

Cultural Diplomacy as Critical Practice: a virtual research summit is the first of three events organized by the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative. This first summit is co-hosted by Royal Ontario Museum and Queen's University. ICOM Canada is proud to be involved with the project and looks forward to engaging with participants next week. Learn more about the September 24 and 25 program, as well as the questions to be discussed, on the event page below. Register now to confirm your participation! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cultural-diplomacy-as-critical-

This event is part of an ongoing townhall series with the Minister. See the Business and Arts website for more information.

Cultural Diplomacy as Critical Practice: a virtual research summit is the first of three events organized by the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative. This first summit is co-hosted by Royal Ontario Museum and Queen's University. ICOM Canada is proud to be involved with the project and looks forward to engaging with participants next week. Learn more about the September 24 and 25 program, as well as the questions to be discussed, on the event page below. Register now to confirm your participation! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cultural-diplomacy-as-critical-

For the interpreters among ICOM Canada's membership, you may want to look at this international virtual conference coming early in 2011. It is co-hosted by Canada's own Interpretation Canada!

The deadline to apply for the Covid-19 Emergency Support Fund for Heritage Organizations from Canadian Heritage is coming up soon! Remember to apply by September 1st. For more information: http://ow.ly/dg1B50AQPWr

This event is part of an ongoing townhall series with the Minister. See the Business and Arts website for more information.

The deadline to apply for the Covid-19 Emergency Support Fund for Heritage Organizations from Canadian Heritage is coming up soon! Remember to apply by September 1st. For more information: http://ow.ly/dg1B50AQPWr

From New Brunswick last week out to BC this week, we continue our Board Bios with Leah Best, Head of Knowledge at the Royal BC Museum and ICOM Canada Director elected in 2019. Learn more about Leah's work up to managing a curatorial team of 8 historians and scientists at the provincial museum in BC. Reflecting on the current pandemic situation, Leah notes that "the biggest opportunity for Canadian museums coming out of COVID-19 is reckoning with our own racialized and gendered systems and making a commitment to be actively anti-racist not passively non-racist." See Leah's bio and more from the Board here: https://www.icomcanada.org/2020//20/icom-canada-2020-board/

From New Brunswick last week out to BC this week, we continue our Board Bios with Leah Best, Head of Knowledge at the Royal BC Museum and ICOM Canada Director elected in 2019. Learn more about Leah's work up to managing a curatorial team of 8 historians and scientists at the provincial museum in BC. Reflecting on the current pandemic situation, Leah notes that "the biggest opportunity for Canadian museums coming out of COVID-19 is reckoning with our own racialized and gendered systems and making a commitment to be actively anti-racist not passively non-racist." See Leah's bio and more from the Board here: https://www.icomcanada.org/2020//20/icom-canada-2020-board/

Du Nouveau-Brunswick la semaine dernière à la Colombie-Britannique cette semaine, nous continuons notre biographie du conseil avec Leah Best, chef du savoir au Royal BC Museum et directrice d'ICOM Canada élue en 2019. Apprenez-en davantage sur le travail de Leah jusqu'à la gestion d'une équipe de conservation de 8 historiens et scientifiques au musée provincial de la Colombie-Britannique. Réfléchissant à la situation actuelle de la pandémie, Leah note que la plus grande opportunité pour les musées canadiens qui sortent du COVID-19 est de tenir compte de nos propres systèmes racialisés et sexués et de s’engager à être activement antiracistes et non passivement non racistes. Voir la biographie de Leah et plus encore du conseil ici: https://www.icomcanada.org//20/conseil-administration-2020/

Du Nouveau-Brunswick la semaine dernière à la Colombie-Britannique cette semaine, nous continuons notre biographie du conseil avec Leah Best, chef du savoir au Royal BC Museum et directrice d'ICOM Canada élue en 2019. Apprenez-en davantage sur le travail de Leah jusqu'à la gestion d'une équipe de conservation de 8 historiens et scientifiques au musée provincial de la Colombie-Britannique. Réfléchissant à la situation actuelle de la pandémie, Leah note que la plus grande opportunité pour les musées canadiens qui sortent du COVID-19 est de tenir compte de nos propres systèmes racialisés et sexués et de s’engager à être activement antiracistes et non passivement non racistes. Voir la biographie de Leah et plus encore du conseil ici: https://www.icomcanada.org//20/conseil-administration-2020/

Meet the ICOM Canada Board for 2020! At our AGM at the beginning of July, Sophie Cormier from New Brunswick was elected to the Board. Learn about how a summer family vacation sparked Sophie's 20+ year career in museums, and what she hopes to contribute as an ICOM Canada Board member. Find her bio on our website. More Board bios coming soon! https://www.icomcanada.org/2020//20/icom-canada-2020-board/

Rencontrez le conseil d'administration d'ICOM Canada pour 2020! Lors de notre AGA au début de juillet, Sophie Cormier du Nouveau-Brunswick a été élue au conseil. Découvrez comment des vacances d'été en famille ont déclenché la carrière de 20 ans et plus de Sophie dans les musées et ce qu'elle espère apporter en tant que membre du conseil d'administration d'ICOM Canada. Retrouvez sa bio sur notre site internet. Plus de biographies de Board à venir! https://www.icomcanada.org//20/conseil-administration-2020/

"By seeing the ways that museums are tackling the greatest global challenges of this moment, their unique and vital role in society becomes clearer, and their potential decimation becomes darker" | Read more on World Economic Forum https://ecs.page.link/D8QLE

The Canadian Museums Association / Association des musées canadiens has released their new Strategic Plan. Give it a read in the link below and let us know what you think! L'Association des musées canadiens a publié son nouveau plan stratégique. Lisez-le dans le lien ci-dessous et dites-nous ce que vous en pensez!

Cela fait déjà une semaine que nous avons tenu notre première AGA virtuelle d'ICOM Canada! Merci à tous ceux qui ont participé et participé aux activités annuelles d'ICOM Canada. Notre AGA est un élément important de notre fonctionnement en tant qu'organisation affiliée et nous sommes impatients de partager notre travail continu avec vous pendant le reste de 2020. Regardez notre site Web et nos réseaux sociaux cet été pour découvrir les histoires de Recontrer le conseil . Visitez http://www.icomcanada.org pour toutes les dernières nouvelles.

It is already one week since we held our first ICOM Canada virtual AGM! Thank you to everyone who attended and took part in the annual business of ICOM Canada. Our AGM is an important part of our operation as a membership organization and we look forward to sharing our ongoing work with you through the remainder of 2020. Watch our website and social media channels this summer for "Meet the Board" stories. Visit http://www.icomcanada.org for all the latest news.

ICOM Canada wishes to congratulate Alberta museum professional Ann Ramsden for her appointment as the new Commonwealth Association of Museums Secretary-General. Ms. Ramsden is taking on the role from Catherine Cole, the longtime Secretary-General who is remaining on as a special advisor. ICOM Canada also wishes to congratulate Ms. Cole on her past and ongoing work for CAM and Canadian museums. Ms. Cole was the recipient of ICOM Canada's 2019 International Achievement Award, honouring a Canadian museum professional or organization that has demonstrated and promoted excellence in Canadian museology on an international scale. With CAM, Ms. Cole has also been closely involved with ICOM Canada and other international initiatives across ICOM's global body. You can learn more about the award here: https://www.icomcanada.org/activities-en/