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Annual Conference 2018 Conference Program (August 17, 2018 edition) With The Toronto, Oct 24-26 Toronto Museum Network #OMAConf2018 & City of Toronto 1 Photo: Tourism Toronto Photos: Tourism Toronto Toronto Toronto is Canada’s biggest and most culturally diverse city. Take in all the excitement of the city with: Over 70 Museums! Bring your delegate badge to visit select sites for free on Saturday (sites TBC) Historic neighbourhoods including the Distillery District, Kensington Market, Hoggs Hollow, and more Beautiful city parks including Trinity Bellwoods, Etienne Brule Park, and Rouge National Urban Park World-class concerts, musicals, theatre, dance, opera, and other performing arts Excellent cuisine from all over the world—visit Greektown for souvlaki, Little Ethiopia for injera, Chinatown for Dim Sum, Little India for curry, or Little Italy for pizza—you can find almost any kind of food in Toronto! Conference Themes Collaborating for Impact: Not Business as Usual considers how the museum sector is stronger working collaboratively, and how museums, art galleries, and historic sites can be a positive force for change in Ontario society. Hear how colleagues are working with others in the culture sector and with some unexpected partners outside of it, and changing the game when it comes to reaching diverse audiences, preserving our heritage, and shaping our communities. Building on different examples of successful (or failed!) sectoral and non-sectoral models, Collaborating for Impact: Not Business as Usual looks at the connections museums form in their communities and serves to provide a fresh approach to the role of museums in contemporary society. The Conference will examine the theme of collaboration within three streams: workforce, collections, and audiences. Workforce Collections Audiences Look for these symbols throughout the conference program to identify sessions following each theme. 2 *Program subject to change See & Do More at Conference Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Two Exciting Pre-Conference Study Tours! Visit bit.ly/18Study for more details! Opening Reception at the Royal Ontario Museum Opening Reception included in all FULL Registrations Thank you to our Partners!asfsa Photo: Tourism Toronto Trivia Night: in partnership with iSchool After the Opening Reception Test your Ontario knowledge and enjoy a fun evening with the sector’s up-and-comers. Trivia Night, now on Wednesday following the Opening Reception, is hosted by the OMA and the Group of Ontario Emerging Museum Professionals (GOEMP) Committee. This event is open to all conference delegates, including mentors and mentees participating in the Conference Connections program, and is a great way to meet with other museum professionals in a casual setting! Thursday, October 25 Reception with Exhibitors Get to know suppliers, consultants, transportation companies and more! OMA Awards of Excellence Gala & TOTAL Dance Party Celebrate excellence in Ontario’s Museum community, then dance the night away with music from every era! Gala included in all FULL Registrations (except for Student Registrations). Extra tickets for the Awards Gala can be purchased on the OMA Website or by calling 1 866 662-8672 Thank you to our Partner! 3 For latest updates visit: bit.ly/OMAConf2018 Session Descriptions—Thursday Oct 25 Lunch: 11:50am-12:45pm Concurrent Sessions, 11:00 am start Collaborative Models for Millenial Engagement Laura Gibbs, City of Pickering; Kimberley Lai, Council of Plenary Session, 12:45-1:35 pm Heritage Organizations in Ottawa; Clara Wang, Emerging Inclusion 2025: Where Are We Now? Young Artists; Kristy Van Hoven, Royal Ontario Museum Michael Bach, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion Thursday, 11:00-11:50 Thursday, 12:45-1:35 How are we collaborating to engage, encourage, and equip millennials to interact with our museums? Hear how the ROM Concurrent Sessions, 1:45 pm start has engaged young donors and supporters through the Young Patrons Circle; how Emerging Young Artists brings millennial OMA Content TBD artists and curators together to produce exhibitions; and how the Thursday, 1:45-2:15 Council of Heritage Organizations in Ottawa (CHOO|COPO) is building on the success of its previous Emerging Cultural Collaborating Across Experience for Succession Planning Professionals Conference with its new Capital Heritage Success Mentorship Program. Discuss how we are all having an impact Madeline Smolarz, City of Kingston & Petal Furness, Grey on the next generation of cultural professionals. Roots Museum & Archives Thursday, 1:45-2:30 Bringing Women’s History into the 21st Century Shawna White, Aurora Museum & Archives; Alyssa Gomori, At first, the concept of succession planning may be daunting, but Erland Lee Museum National Historic Site; Irene Robillard, it can also be seen as an essential collaboration between Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario; Amy Bowring, coworkers to produce a healthier museum sector for all. Led by Dance Collection Danse one experienced and one emerging museum professional, this Thursday, 11:00-11:50 unconference style workshop aims to inspire and empower participants to tackle this topic head on. The co-moderators will This session explores how we preserve and interpret Women’s use digital tools and audience-generated content to explore the History through the experiences from two collaborate projects: potential of and solutions for succession planning in the Ontario The multi-faceted digitization project undertaken by the museum workforce. Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario (FWIO) and the Aurora Museum & Archives re-mount of the play, the Temple Breaking the Glass Case of Fame. Andrea Wilson & Tom Strnad, Craigleith Heritage Depot/The Blue Mountains Museum Depot Archival Skills and New Digital Methods Thursday, 1:45-2:20 Paulina Rousseau, University of Toronto Scarborough; Rick Halpern, University of Toronto; Kelly Morrison, Student, Be inspired by a small museum! Creating film and Virtual Reality University of Toronto; Karen Black, Sashbear Foundation content, one small museum is giving visitors and partners a Thursday, 11:00-11:35 chance to reach out and touch the museum collections, the natural environment and the past. This presentation will share the experience producing and using traditional and VR films to In 2017-2018, the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections break down barriers in understanding and to generate new (CTASC) partnered with the Archives of Ontario and the Regent synergies. Find out how this project built local and Park Film Festival on a Myseum Intersections Festival event. The international collaboration, audiences and partnerships in a CTASC also partnered with a graduate student at the Faculty of small rural community. Information to produce an online exhibit of their holdings. This presentation will explore the do's and don'ts of successful *Program subject to change partnerships from the perspective of the museum professional and from the perspective of the archivist. 4 Session Descriptions—Thursday Oct 25 Networking Break, 2:15-2:45 paranormal investigations. This case study will introduce the Evening with Proo{f} event, showcase how this partnership has been beneficial to the OM and Proo{f}, and offer tips to those considering such an event at their historic house museum. Concurrent Sessions, 2:45 pm start Collaboration and Consultation: Working Toward Better Collaborative Dynamics in Ad Hoc Volunteer Groups Collections Management Lana Tran, Student, University of Toronto Nathalie Guenette, Canadian Heritage Information Part of the Ignite Sessions, Thursday 3:00-3:20 Network; Janet Reid, Markham Museum; Nathan Etherington, Brant Historical Society; Sim Salata, Grey Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale—the world’s largest outdoor art Roots Museum & Archives festival, set in rural Japan—collaborates with local people to fill Thursday, 2:45-3:30 landscape and unused infrastructure with art and cultural activity. The festival adopts a “deliberately inefficient” ethos, This session explores the maintenance and management of relying on the transient volunteer group Kohebi. This session museum collections through the ongoing and recent considers how local ideologies and community structures inspire collaborative projects undertaken by Grey Roots Museum & unconventional co-creation methods in order to integrate non- Archives, Brant Museum & Archives, Markham Museum, and Western organizational paradigms into the museum field. CHIN. Presented as short case studies, these institutions reflect on their experiences towards better collections management. Collaborations on Community Cable Speaker TBC, South Grey Museum Collapsing Silos, Building Communities: GLAM Sector Part of the Ignite Sessions, Thursday 3:00-3:20 Collaborations Kaven Baker-Voakes; Michael Rikley-Lancaster, Mississippi South Grey Museum and Grey Highlands Public Library have Valley Textile Museum; Kerry Badgley, Ontario Library partnered to establish a community cultural cable channel, Association; Lisa Snider, Archives Association of Ontario featuring videos of local community events. This presentation Thursday, 2:45-3:35 will include an overview of this collaborative project and engage participants in thinking how the model could be applied in their Pressures on public institutions are likely here to stay. Museums, own community. archives, and libraries are all facing remarkably similar challenges whether reduced volunteers, staffing, funding, or overall resources. Yet, they are similarly facing demands to be Plenary Panel,