<div dir="ltr"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">Over the last year, the Canmore Museum has engaged in many conversations about what its role is and should be in the community. We invite members of the museum community to join the Canmore Museum and Robert J. Janes, author </span></font><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">and cultural sector leader </font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">as we examine the role museums should play in speaking about and acting on issues that affect the communities they serve, framed around Janes's book </span><em style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(137,137,137)">Museum Activism</em><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43)">. Registration is free for BCMA members; <a href="https://canmoremuseum.com/event/museum_activism/" target="_blank">register online</a> through the Canmore Museum website.</span></font></b><div><font color="#2b2b2b" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><b style="color:rgb(31,30,61)">>> <a href="https://canmoremuseum.com/event/museum_activism/" target="_blank">REGISTER ONLINE</a></b><font color="#2b2b2b" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font><div><strong style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></strong></div><div><strong style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ABOUT THE BOOK</font></strong><br></div><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;margin-top:1.2em;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries, and heritage organizations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices, and environmental crises, was met with skepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values. Today, although the idea remains controversial, the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge-based, social institutions is changing. Museum Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice.</font></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;margin-top:1.2em;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice, this groundbreaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore, analyze, and critically reflect upon the museum’s relationship to activism. Including contributions from practitioners, artists, activists, and researchers, this wide-ranging examination of new and divergent expressions of the inherent power of museums as forces for good, and as activists in civil society, aims to encourage further experimentation and enrich the debate in this nascent and uncertain field of museum practice.</font></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;margin-top:1.2em;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Museum Activism elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities, injustice, and environmental challenges. This makes the book essential reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, gallery studies, arts and heritage management, and politics. It will be a source of inspiration to museum practitioners and museum leaders around the globe.</font></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;margin-top:1.2em;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,43,43)"><strong style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ABOUT ROBERT R. JANES</font></strong></p><img src="cid:ii_ky1y9w3d0" alt="image.png" width="542" height="407"><br><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;margin-top:1.2em;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,43,43)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Robert R. Janes is the Editor-in-Chief of Museum Management and Curatorship, a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (UK), an Adjunct Professor of Archeology at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the former President and CEO of the Glenbow Museum (1989–2000). His museum books include Museums and the Paradox of Change (1995; 1997), Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility (with Gerald T. Conaty – 2005), Museum Management and Marketing (with Richard Sandell – 2007), and Museums in a Troubled World (2009). Janes has worked in and around museums for 36 years as a director, consultant, author, editor, archeologist, board member, teacher, and volunteer. 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