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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">______________________________________________ <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Calling all Curators, Exhibit Designers, Conservators and Researchers! Lower Mainland Curator Group is a group that organizes meet-ups by various organizations around the <span class="gmail-il">Lower</span> <span class="gmail-il">Mainland</span>
to learn from the great work done at our museum locations. We all work hard for our exhibits – let’s share those lessons learned!</span></i> <span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Happy 2021 from Lower Mainland Curators Group. The organizing team met recently and all agreed that we have missed connecting with our colleagues at Lower Mainland museums and heritage sites. The last in-person
Meet-Up was at the Vancouver Police Museum in January 2020. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">To begin the revival, the group will host 2 Virtual Meet-Ups in 2021, one in May and one in November The groups’ focus in 2021 will be sharing experiences, solutions, and ideas on how our organizations have met
COVID-19 challenges.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Date: Wednesday, May 26<sup>th</sup>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Time: 3-4:30pm <br>
Topic: Virtual Exhibit Solutions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Attendees are invited to present for 2 minutes about how your organization created virtual tours, or another innovative way you shared your exhibits online. Share ideas on technology, content and challenges.
After all presentations there will be a group discussion and question period.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Please email May Elizabeth <a href="mailto:collections.assistant@vanmaritime.com">
collections.assistant@vanmaritime.com</a> by May 19<sup>th</sup> to RSVP as a 2 min presenter/speaker, or to register for the Zoom presentation.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Millions of Regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Colleen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Organizing Committee Member, Lower Mainland Curator’s Group<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">COLLEEN SHARPE| CURATOR OF EXHIBITS<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#76923C;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">CITY OF SURREY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#999999;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Museum of Surrey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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T 604.592.6959 | C 778.846.2201 </span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="http://www.surrey.ca/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#76923C">www.surrey.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#76923C;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
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