<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;">Sii.ngaay ‘laa dalang ‘waadluxan, good day everyone,</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;">Please spread far and wide!</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;">Are you an INDIGENOUS MUSEUM COUSIN - are you a museum worker, artist, culture-bearer, researcher etc. working in or with colonial/western museums?</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;">Don't miss the online session Indigenous Museum Cousins at 9am PST, April 26, at the Canadian Museum Association conference <a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVETTSDPLACHR/site/sessions/?event=EVETTSDPLACHR§ion=132145&id=SESJ5EQ8RECPCYKL4" class="">https://pheedloop.com/EVETTSDPLACHR/site/sessions/?event=EVETTSDPLACHR§ion=132145&id=SESJ5EQ8RECPCYKL4</a></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><font color="#050505" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><font color="#050505" class="">Open to Indigenous museum workers only.</font> Please contact <font color="#0432ff" class=""><a href="mailto:RECONCILIATION@MUSEUMS.CA" class="">RECONCILIATION@MUSEUMS.CA</a></font> to register:<font color="#0432ff" class=""> </font></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: inherit;"><b class="">Background</b></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;">On February 8, 2022 a group of Indigenous museum professionals were hosted by Saahlinda Naay Haida Gwaii Museum to discuss the relationship between their communities and the larger museum sector. This Listening Circle, which formed part of the CMA’s Reconciliation Program engagement strategy, became a therapeutic and open forum for discussion on the very serious problems faced by Indigenous museum professionals today. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;">Fortified by this coming together of people, Saahlinda Naay began a pilot project called the Indigenous Museum Cousins Network, which they are now developing into an ongoing project, guided by Nika Collison, Lou-ann Neel, Lucy Bell and Karen Aird. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x o9v6fnle c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;">-----</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;">Join Indigenous museum cousins Nika Collison, Lucy Bell and Gerry Lawson in this session to learn more about how the Indigenous Museum Cousins Network is evolving, how Indigenous museum workers can create their own safe spaces and to share our communal experiences with backing soundtrack of auntie laughter. <span class="" style="font-family: inherit;">Attached is a beautiful graphic recording from one of our pilot sessions by Kelly Foxcroft-Poirier of White Raven Consulting <3</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXW72263334" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span class="NormalTextRun CommentHighlightRest SCXW72263334 BCX0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;">Please note that the CMA session is closed to non-Indigenous participants. Graphic recorder </span></span><a class="BCX0 Hyperlink SCXW72263334" href="https://tiarelani.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: gray; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important; text-decoration: none !important;"><span class="SCXW72263334 BCX0 TextRun Underlined" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span class="NormalTextRun CommentHighlightRest SCXW72263334 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;">Tiaré Lani</span></span></a><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXW72263334" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span class="NormalTextRun CommentHighlightRest SCXW72263334 BCX0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"> will be listening in and providing non-</span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 CommentHighlightRest SCXW72263334 BCX0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;">participants</span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentHighlightRest SCXW72263334 BCX0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"> a glimpse of the discussion happening inside. To view the artwork, visit the CMA Reconciliation Program booth in the Exhibit Hall. </span></span></span>Tiaré (they) is a mixed Indigiqueer artist raised with Hawaiian values in one of their ancestral homelands, Lheidli T’enneh territories. Guided by body intuition, Indigenous aunties, queer & trans black feminism, they listen and draw to make visible collective wisdom and amplify narratives that nurture healing, belonging, co-liberation, and aliveness.</p><div class=""><span data-contrast="none" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><br class=""></span></div></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXW72263334" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><br class=""></span></span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXW72263334" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="529F347F-7040-486B-A26B-7074AF773E53" class="" src="cid:61BDC4DD-EDC9-405A-99C8-D03573C320D7@Home"></span></span></p></div></div></body></html>