[BCMA] Registration Reminder! Join us for BC Archives Awareness Week events: Nov 13-19, 2022

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*"I'm Still Standing: Archives 2022"*
*BC Archives Awareness Week: **November 13-19, 2022*

Join the AABC in a series of events to celebrate, connect, and learn with
the BC archival community! The past three years have been beyond difficult
for many of us as we’ve navigated a deadly virus, burn-out, funding
disruptions, and have had our capacities to engage with our professional
practice diminished. Archives Awareness Week seeks to uplift archival
workers, recognize the amazing work we’ve done throughout the pandemic, and
leverage our capacities.

All Archives Awareness Week events are free (except the Oral History
workshop). Pre-registration is required to indicate your RSVP for the
individual sessions. We hope that you will be able to join us for at least
one, if not all of the Archives Awareness Week events.

You can also join in online by sharing your amazing holdings, exhibits, and
events with us using the hashtag #BCAAW2022.


*Archives Awareness Week Event Schedule*

*Tuesday, November 29, 2022* (note this is a new date for the workshop
previously listed as Monday, Nov. 14)

Workshop: Managing an Oral History Program (9:30am - 12:30pm PST)

Description: Join us to learn about this treasured record found within many
archival collections.
In this ½ day workshop, participants will learn strategies for managing
legacy oral history collections and how to assess, appraise, and discuss
best practices for digitizing existing interviews in your holdings. The
second part of the workshop will review steps for establishing a new oral
history program and consider topics including interview questions, consent
forms, and review copyright and privacy considerations.

Who should attend: This workshop is designed for archivists, curators and
collections managers responsible for managing, participating in, or
preserving oral history records.

Registration fee: AABC members: $90.00; Non-members: $135.00
Registration deadline: Monday, Nov. 28, 2022 @5:00pm
Register here: https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-5026581



*Tuesday, November 15, 2022*

*Unarchived* Film Screening and Q&A (10:00am - 12:30pm PST)

Description: The AABC and the ACA Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee
are pleased to announce a joint event to host an online screening of the
2022 feature documentary film *Unarchived*. A Q&A panel discussion with the
filmmakers and film participants will follow the screening.

>From the National Film Board, in *Unarchived*, “co-directors Hayley Gray
and Elad Tzadok highlight community archives across British Columbia to
reveal some of what has been erased from the official record...Through a
collage of personal interviews, archival footage and deeply rooted
memories, the past, present and future come together, fighting for a space
where everyone is seen and everyone belongs. History is what we all make of
it.”

*View the Official Trailer
<https://vimeo.com/747104255?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=44219905>
for Unarchived*


Screening schedule:
10:00 - 11:30am: AABC & ACA introductions and Unarchived film screening.
Participants will be sent the VIMEO streaming link to view the film on
their own device (computer/tablet/phone). Closed captioning is available.

11:30 - 12:30pm: Q&A session with filmmakers and film participants. Event
participants will return to the Zoom meeting to engage with our guest
speakers.

Registration: Free, pre-registration is required to RSVP for this session:
https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-5026803
Registration deadline: Sunday, November 13, 2022 @5:00pm


*Wednesday, November 16, 2022*

MIRR Engagement Session (10:00 - 11:00am PST)

Speaker: Matthew Kinch, Executive Director, Residential School Response,
Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.

Presentation Description: The Ministry of Indigenous Relations and
Reconciliation (MIRR) is supporting First Nations across BC as they lead
the way to locate, document, and protect burial sites associated with
former Indian Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals in BC. A key part of
the investigative process is locating state and church records that may be
relevant to this research. This includes information specific to burial
sites as well as information that provides context for the day-to-day
experiences of Indigenous children at these institutions. This research,
combined with the increasing interest among former students, their
families, and their communities to find records for personal, historical,
or other purposes, has resulted in an exponential increase in the volume
and complexity of record access requests. With the goal of supporting
connections between communities and local BC archives, this session aims to
provide an overview of the work currently happening across BC, discuss
potential research barriers and challenges, and consider how BC archives
and indigenous communities can work collaboratively to locate, access and
transfer Residential School records.

Speaker: Naomi Lloyd (she/her) is the Metadata Team Lead at the Indian
Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), UBC.

Presentation Description: With the discovery in May 2021 of 200 unmarked
graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School, the call for the release of
residential school records from government, church, and other archives, has
been amplified. Researchers from Indigenous communities need these records
to locate unmarked burials and identify missing children. Survivors need
these records to see their experiences accurately and fully represented.
Indigenous leaders have noted that healing for Indigenous communities can
only come with a full understanding of the truth of the schools, and TRC
Call to Action #70 draws attention to Indigenous people’s “inalienable
right” to know the truth of what happened at the schools and why it
happened. This truth is also crucial if meaningful reconciliation is to
take place between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. During the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2008-2015), government, church, and
other archives were required to submit all records related to residential
schools to the Commission. This requirement has yet to be fully met. In
addition to this, only a fraction of the approximately five million records
submitted to the TRC, now housed at the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation (NCTR), have been made available to the public.

In the light of the above, and at the request of researchers from
Indigenous communities in British Columbia, the Indian Residential School
History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at the University of British Columbia
(UBC) is working with the Ministry of Indigenous Relations and
Reconciliation (MIRR), to create a list for each of the eighteen BC schools
of repositories (archives, libraries, museums, and other organizations)
that hold records related to each school. It has recently made available a
small list of core repositories for each of the schools. We are now looking
to collaborate with archives, libraries, museums and other repositories to
enhance these lists. This presentation outlines the steps we have taken
thus far and describes possibilities for the future of this project.

Registration: Free, pre-registration is required to RSVP for this session:
https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-5026657
Registration deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 @5:00pm


*Thursday, November 17, 2022*

Indigenous Archives Forum (11:00am - 12:30pm PST)

Description: The AABC is pleased to provide this session as an open forum
for Tribal/First Nations Government administrators, archivists, cultural
memory keepers, community members, students and volunteers working to
support Indigenous archives programs. Participants will have the
opportunity to connect with and support each other through questions and
updates. This will be an informal gathering so bring your coffee and lunch
and join us!
Host: Lisa Glandt, AABC Education and Advisory Services Coordinator

Registration: Free, but pre-registration is required to RSVP for this
session: https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-5026684
Registration deadline: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022 @5:00pm


*Friday, November 18, 2022*

Archives Awareness Week - Networking and Updates (1:00 - 3:00pm PST)

Description: Join your colleagues for an afternoon Roundtea to catch up,
ask questions, and celebrate achievements over the past few years! This
session brings together iSchool students and professors to talk about their
research and current projects and give an update on what's going on these
days at UBC.  Archivists will share trends, issues and interests within
their work…we are the caretakers of stories after all! Our heritage
colleagues – historians, librarians, curators, volunteers, and those
interested in archives are welcome to attend this session and engage in
questions with students and professionals alike. This will be a moderated,
but informal session and a chance for networking and introductions between
colleagues.

Registration: Free, pre-registration is required to RSVP for this session:
https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-5026720
Registration deadline: Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 @12:00pm


Regards,

Lisa

Lisa Glandt, MAS
Education and Advisory Services (EAS) Coordinator
Archives Association of British Columbia
email: aabc.advisor at aabc.ca
website: aabc.ca

I respectfully acknowledge that I work on the unceded, traditional and
ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh
(Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
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