BC GLAM Sector Symposium: Here and Now: Practical Ideas, Local Solutions for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
BC’s GLAM sector partners – BC Museums Association, BC Library Association and Archives Association of BC – proudly present a symposium that will showcase the power of collaboration in the gallery, library, archives and museum (GLAM) sector and set the agenda for future innovation and partnership.
Join us for a day of learning and discovery as presenters share their achievements and aspirations for the GLAM sector and ask symposium participants to do the same. Come ready to think, listen and engage in the collective future of BC’s dynamic GLAM sector.
We are delighted to welcome an amazing keynote speaker: Dr. Andrea Walsh, Associate Professor, University of Victoria. Dr. Walsh is a visual anthropologist and curator of the Museum of Vancouver exhibition There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools.
The GLAM Symposium is on Wednesday May 8th in the Tynehead room at the BC Library Conference hotel, the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel: 15269- 104th Ave, Surrey BC.
The day begins at 9am and continues to 3pm.
Registration is now open until Sunday April 28th.
$75 – members of BC Museums Association, BC Library Association, and Archives Association of BC $125 – Non-members. Registration includes a catered lunch.
Please register HERE. To receive the BCLA member discount, please follow the event registration steps. You will be given the opportunity to apply the discount code (glambcla) at checkout. The member price of $75 will then be displayed.
We look forward to seeing you!
If you have any questions please contact Annette DeFaveri at [email protected]