[BCMA] Join us for BC Archives Awareness Week events! (Nov 16 - 22, 2025)

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We invite our heritage colleagues to join us for *2025* *BC Archives
Awareness Week* events as we celebrate memories and milestones in the
Archives! A range of online presentations have been planned Nov 17 - 21 and
are free to attend.

For more information and to RSVP for an event, please visit the AABC
website at: Archives Association of British Columbia - 2025 Archives
Awareness Week <https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/2025-Archives-Awareness-Week>

*Monday, November 17, 2025*

*AABC Trivia Quest! 35 Years of Membership Memories*

We invite all current AABC members to participate in this online trivia
event over lunch as we quiz your knowledge about archives and the AABC
including organizational milestones, events, and activities from the past
35 years! *Note: this event is for AABC members only*

- Time: 12:30 - 1:00pm PST

- RSVP deadline: Nov 17, 10:00am

*Prizes include:*

   - 1st place: free individual workshop registration for an upcoming event
   of your choice (1 day workshop, value $180)
   - 2nd place: free individual annual membership renewal for 2026-2027
   (value $72)
   - 3rd place: free registration for 2 AABC webinars (value $50)


*Tuesday, November 18, 2025*

*Roundtea: "School Archives: Behind the Desk"*

*- *Time: 10:30 - 11:45am PST

- RSVP deadline: Nov 17 @5:00pm

Join us to learn about the work happening behind the scenes in the archives
held at Crofton House School (est 1898) and Victoria High School (est
1876). Both schools are gearing up to celebrate milestone anniversaries in
the coming year and this creates exciting opportunities for showcasing the
school archives and the enduring work being undertaken by staff and alumni
volunteers maintaining these collections.


*Wednesday, November 19, 2025*

*Webinar: "Seacans and Trailers and Records….Oh My!"*

- Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm PST

- RSVP deadline: Nov 18 @5:00pm

Do you find yourself faced with the challenges of using a unconventional
storage space like a shipping container (Seacan) or a repurposed trailer to
store your records? We invite you to learn about how to make the best of
this space - including a review of storage best practices, what type of
pests to look out for, how to cost-effectively retrofit a Seacan with
shelving, and other supplies/equipment that should be considered.


*Thursday, November 20, 2025*

*Film Screening: "Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again"          *

   - Time: 9:30am - 11:30am PST
   - RSVP deadline: Nov 19 @5:00pm

Watch the film trailer <https://www.nechakoriver.ca/>


Nechako is a crucial documentary from Lyana Patrick that follows two
Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. When the Kenney Dam
was built in the 1950s, it diverted 70 percent of the Nechako River into an
artificial reservoir, severely impacting the lives of local Stellat’en and
Saik’uz Nations. What followed were decades of resistance, including legal
actions against the Canadian federal and provincial governments and Rio
Tinto Alcan, a subsidiary of a global mining conglomerate. Nechako follows
the people fighting today to restore a river and a way of life: Nations
going up against industry, community leaders advocating for their people,
Elders documenting their histories and community members living off the
land. An urgent call to action, Patrick’s film asks what survival looks
like when it serves everyone, in a story 70 years in the making—a story of
hope and resistance against all odds, amidst large-scale environmental
destruction and despite the will of powerful institutions.


Lyana Patrick will join us online after the film to talk about it and her
role working with Indigenous communities in BC and how archival records and
building relationships were part of her filmmaking process.


*Friday, November 21, 2025*

*Roundtea: "5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment: “Implementing an Online
Museum and Archives”          *

- Time: 10:00am - 11:30am PST

- RSVP deadline: Nov 20 @5:00pm

Achieving a major milestone - join us to learn more about the multi-year
process that the 5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment, a small, volunteer run
museum and archives located on Vancouver Island, went through in
implementing a system to provide online access to their collection. This
presentation will also include a "live" demonstration of the user view of
their software system with a focus on how users can search for items of
interest.


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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