<div dir="ltr"><span id="m_3669474434472891918m_6541777453162023460m_4520525616113042484m_7630469130077943067gmail-docs-internal-guid-5aa37990-7fff-0267-60b0-f649d6d48a57"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For immediate release</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i> Brilliance - Built Brick by Brick: Annual LEGO Exhibit Returns to Sidney Museum</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><br></i></span></p></span><span id="m_3669474434472891918m_6541777453162023460m_4520525616113042484m_7630469130077943067gmail-docs-internal-guid-295a2332-7fff-80b1-a975-c022070ac3f5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sidney, British Columbia, November 25, 2022</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - For the seventeenth year in a row, the ever popular LEGO exhibition is coming back to the Sidney Museum – and just in time for the holidays! On December 1st, the Museum will open the 2023 version of the exhibit entitled </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brilliance - Built Brick by Brick</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and this year it’s bigger and better, with more LEGO sets on display than ever before.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s exhibit will include all of your favourite LEGO sets, both new and old, with everything from Star Wars to Minecraft to Harry Potter. There will be floral sets, architectural sets, and even sets featuring famous artworks and sitcoms. With something for everyone, this is a show that you won’t want to miss. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As in previous years, there will be plenty of interactive elements to this year’s exhibit, including a “Guess the Number of Bricks” challenge and a scavenger hunt through our displays. There will be prize draws that you can enter throughout the run of the show, with a chance to win LEGO sets to take home. Our popular Sidney-wide Family Day weekend LEGO scavenger hunt will also be returning in February, so make sure to mark your calendars.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brilliance - Built Brick by Brick </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">is being presented at The Sidney Museum, 2423 Beacon Avenue L3, Sidney, BC from December 1 until March 31, 202. We are open 7 days a week from 10am-4pm. We will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Years Day.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">–­  –­</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 4.5pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information contact:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 4.5pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jessie Johnston, Education & Outreach Coordinator </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 4.5pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sidney Museum</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 4.5pt 0pt 9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(250)655-6355</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin:0pt 4.5pt 0pt 9pt"><a href="mailto:outreach@sidneymuseum.ca" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">outreach@sidneymuseum.ca</span></a></p></span><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:10.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,41,88)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:10.5pt"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zDPoI02wKjdnj5csaiDGgl0pcfyeHoBtLm8oCgz8w7IPMI0-LsRwiYUJy68ZkRnpGFDnK0tBs" width="200" height="50"><span style="color:rgb(0,41,88)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:10.5pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We respectfully acknowledge the Sidney Museum & Archives has been shaped by the colonial history of Canada, and</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is located in Sidney/SET,TINES on the unceded territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ People. We understand that territory acknowledgment is just one part of Reconciliation, and the museum continues to work towards other ways that we can participate in Reconciliation alongside Indigenous communities.</span></i><br></p></div></div></div>