Royal BC Museum 2014/15 Program Guide

2014–2015

Program Guide

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The Royal BC Museum’s mission is to promote an understanding of the living landscapes and cultures of British Columbia and engage people in a dialogue about their future. This commitment, aligned with the UN’s Earth Charter, drives everything we do.

To achieve this we; + Take a leadership role in research and scholarship + Develop, preserve and exhibit a world-class collection + Deliver innovative programing and partnerships

Refer to our at-a-glance event guide for easy reference

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16 March

04 October

20 April

06 November

22 May

10 December

24 June

12 January

26 July

13 February

26 August

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SEPTEMBER

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12 – 1 pm

Grant Keddie, Curator of Archaeology

By Donation

On the Move: Bringing Vikings to Victoria

Music for Natural History Sound Workshop September 25

September 20

1 – 4 pm

An afternoon of sound exploration with composer and intermedia artists Tina Pearson Family Programs and Paul Walde.

Adult Programs Lecture $45 per person Tour

7 – 8:30 pm

Head of Exhibitions Mark Dickson will take us through the ins and outs of bringing a large exhibition to Victoria.

Free I Greater Victoria Public Library, Oak Bay Branch

Exhibition Members

Wonder Sunday: Vikings

Friends of the BC Archives: Quarantined September 28 1 – 3 pm September 21

2 – 3:30 pm

Peter Johnson $5 per person, free for Friends of the BC Archives members

10 pm

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Race Rocks Ecological Reserve Tour

October 4

10 am – 1:30 pm

Set sail from Victoria with Eagle Wing Tours and scientific staff from the Royal BC Museum and cruise out to Race Rocks Marine Protected Area for a visit Family few Programspeople Adult Programs Lecture ever get to make.

Tour Exhibition $350 per person Members

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Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Art

October 9

$10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

7 – 8:30 pm

Join Nancy Turner as she addresses questions about First Peoples of northwestern North America and their complex, ever-changing relationships with plants and environments. $16 per person

Speaking Pictures: A Poetry Workshop 1 – 4 pm

Poet, activist and educator Susan Rich will lead a workshop on poetry written about art.

All levels of writers are welcome. $45 per person

Friends of the BC Archives: Photographic Album

October 19

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm

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Learning, Sharing & Adapting

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2 – 3:30 pm

Don Bourdon, Curator of Images & Paintings Free

Family Programs

Wonder Sunday: Adult Programs Live @ Lunch: Lecture Halloween Tour The Good, the BadExhibition and the Ugly

October 1

Members

12 – 1 pm

Dr John Ford, Research Scientist, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries & Oceans Canada and author.

By Donation Family Programs Join the Victoria Symphony Adult Programs Lecture Tour for a concert of remembrance: Exhibition Members Lest We Forget, with a backdrop of Royal BC Museum film footage from the Great War. October 25 www.victoriasymphony.ca Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture

October 26

1 – 3 pm

Come in costume and wonder about how Halloween was celebrated a century ago.

Free with admission or membership

Night Shift: Living & Dying in Victorian Times

October 31

8 – 11 pm

Drown your sorrows and stir up the past as we summon the spirits of Halloween long ago. $30 per person, 19+ only, ID required

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Night Shift: Creative Collections

November 21

8 – 11 pm

An evening of images and the art of doing mixed with libations and a dash of music.

Get your creative juices flowing with our Artists in Residence. $30 per person, 19+ only, ID required

Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Music

Live @ Lunch: The Great War of 1914 – 1918

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm

November 5

$10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

Dr Lorne Hammond, Curator of History

By Donation

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Remembrance Adult Programs Lecture Commemorations Tour Exhibition

November 5 – 11

Members

10 am – 5 pm

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Booksmack: WWI

November 5

7 pm

A team of librarians and a Royal BC Museum curator will speed review asPrograms many books and Family Adult Programs Lecture films about WW1 as they can in an hour.

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12 – 1 pm

Christmas in Old Town

November 14 – January 11

10 am – 5 pm

Celebrate the sights and sounds of Christmas long ago.

Free with admission or membership

Creative Collections Workshop

November 15

1 – 4 pm

Pick a side – Natural History or Human History – visit the collection, choose a specimen or an artifact and then respond creatively. $45 per person

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Friends of the BC Archives: Nursing on the Battlefield

November 16

2 – 3:30 pm

8 – 10 pm

Join researchers from the Royal BC Museum at Willows Beach and get up-close with as many as 20 species of fish, crabs, shrimp, and other invertebrates.

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November 21

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November 22

Glennis Zilm, Honorary Professor, UBC School of Nursing $5 per person, free for Friends of the BC Archives members

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Wonder Sunday: Language

November 30

1 – 3 pm

Together we wonder about the incredible diversity of First Nations languages.

Free with admission or membership

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition opens

December 12

Daily

Celebrating 50 years of images, Wildlife Photographer of the Year showcases award-winning images that tell the astonishing stories of our natural world while pushing the boundaries of technical skill.

Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Crafts

Carol-Along with the Carillon

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm

December 7

$10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

Enjoy carols with cookies and hot chocolate.

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December 3 & 6

Family Programs Adult Programs

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Dr Martha Black, Curator of Ethnology & Michelle Washington, Cultural Programs Coordinator

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Adult Programs Kids’ Club: Visit with Lecture Tour Father Christmas Exhibition

4:30 – 5:15

Father Christmas in Old Town

December 5 – 7 11 am – 3 pm December 12 – 14 11 am – 3 pm December 19 – 21 11 am – 3 pm Visit with Father Christmas in Old Town, have your photo taken and share your holiday wishes.

Included with admission or membership Photo by donation

Members

December 6

9 – 10 am

Don’t forget your Christmas wish list! In addition to meeting Father Christmas, you will create a special Christmas craft in Old Town. $10 per child I Members’ only program

Helmcken House Old-Fashioned Christmas

December 20 – January 4

Included with admission or by donation

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Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Writing

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm

BATEMAN IMAGE

$10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

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January 28

7 – 8:30 pm

Join Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster as they revisit their round the world journey they took in 1967/68 and hear what it meant and how it resonates with them today.

Family Programs Adult Programs $50 per person Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

Letter Writing Week

January 2 – 9

11 am – 2 pm

Stop by our letter writing station to sit down and pen a note. Supplies provided.

By donation

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January 7 & 10

12 – 1 pm

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Friends of the BC Archives: Victoria – A City Goes to War

January 18

2 – 3:30 pm

Jim Kempling $5 per person, free for Friends of the BC Archives members

Wonder Sunday: Superheros Unite!

January 25

1 – 3 pm

Explore the Natural and Human History galleries to discover the drama of saving the world!

Free with admission or membership

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FEBRUARY

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Our Living Languages exhibition

On Now

Daily

This groundbreaking exhibition celebrates the resilience and diversity of First Nations languages in BC in the face of change. Learn what First Nations communities throughout the province are doing to help their languages survive and flourish, in this beautifully designed exhibition space, featuring original First Nations artwork and interactive stations.

In partnership with

Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Photography

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm $10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

Workshop Sunday: Superheros Unite!

February 1

Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

1 – 4 pm

Join comics artist Gareth Gaudin and help save the world through drawings. $35 per person I Ages 8 +

Family Day

February 9

10 am – 5 pm

Celebrate all the different ways that one can be a family.

Free with admission or membership

Night Shift: Wild Romance

February 14

8 – 11 pm

Birds do it, bees do it, but how? We go wild for an evening of performances, presentations and adult only activities. $30 per person, 19+ only, ID required

Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

Live @ Lunch: Beyond our Southern Shores

February 4 & 7

12 – 1 pm

Heidi Gartner, Invertebrates Collections Manager

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Friends of the BC Archives: Ship Building in Victoria and Vancouver in WWI

February 15

2 – 3:30 pm

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International Mother Languages Day

February 21

7 – 9 pm

Visit Our Living Languages exhibition and then join a discussion on how languages change. $16 per person

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IMAGE: Spring Break - kids

Friends of the BC Archives: Rushing for Gold

March 15

2 – 3:30 pm

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Family Programs Spring Break Camp: Adult Programs Lecture Focus on Nature Tour Exhibition

March 9 – 13 March 16 – 20

Members

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Fashion Machine

March 28 & 29

Join us for a one-of-a-kind performance/ visual art experience where kids take selected attendees’ outfits and remake them into new works of wearable art, with an impromptu fashion show at the end. $10 per person, $30 per family, per event (up to 2 adults & 3 youth) Presented in partnership with Theatre SKAM and The Makehouse

Wonder Sunday: Fashion Machine

March 29

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Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

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March 4

12 – 1 pm

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Presented in partnership with the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.

Spring 2015

7 – 9 pm

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Live @ Lunch: Presentation

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April 1

12 – 1 pm

LAST CHANCE: Wildlife Photographer of the Year Closes

April 6

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Workshop Wednesday: Fashion Machine

April 15 & 22 Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

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BC Archives on Display

Mon – Fri

10 am – 4 pm

This display showcases some of the world’s most unique and historically significant items from the BC provincial collection.

Family Programs Free I BC Archives Lobby Adult Programs

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Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Storytelling

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm $10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

April Fool’s Scavenger Hunt

Family Programs March 27 – April 1 10 am 5 pm Adult – Programs Lecture Tour

Don’t let us dupe you! Our team will place Exhibition Members unusual objects throughout the Royal BC Museum. It’s your job to identify the objects that don’t belong.

Free with admission or membership

5 – 7 pm

Join multi-media artist Lindsay Delaronde to learn about the history and construction of moccasins, and then make your own. $45 per person I Ages 8 +

Friends of the BC Archives:

Carlo Gentile, Colonial Photographer April 19

2 – 3:30 pm

Ron Greene $5 per person, free for Friends of the BC Archives members

Astronomy Day

April 25

10 am – 4 pm

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Gold Rush: Eldorado in BC exhibition opens

May 13

Family Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Exploring

Daily

Catch gold fever! This exhibition looks at how the BC gold rushes of the late 1800s forever changed the political, geographical and social landscape of the province.

This exhibition includes Allure of Gold from Museo del Oro in Bogota, Colombia.

Friends of the BC Archives: Gold Nuggets and Silver Salts

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm

May 24

$10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

Joan Schwartz $5 per person, free for Friends of the BC Archives members

Family Programs South Vancouver Island Adult Programs Regional Heritage Lecture Fair Tour

May 1

Exhibition Members

Workshop Sunday: Family Programs Eco in and Out Adult Programs

May 3

Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

1 – 4 pm

Watch Royal BC Museum staff dissect a marmot, then join artist Aimée van Drimmelen as she illustrates the bones. $35 per person I Ages 8 +

Night at the Museum: Gold

May 23

Plant ID Workshop: Part 1

May 30

10 am – 2 pm

Students from local middle & high schools will come together in the regional heritage fair. Free

6:30 pm – 9 am

We’ve heard rumour of gold…camp out by Family Programs Adult Programs river’s edge and search Lecture for fortune. In the Tour Exhibition morning enjoy a pancake breakfast.

Members $80 per person

2 – 3:30 pm

1 – 4pm

Work with Dr Ken Marr, Curator of Botany and Dr Erica Wheeler, Botany Collection Manager to learn terminology used in plant morphology. $45 per person

Wonder Sunday: ECO In and Out

May 31

1 – 3 pm

We connect to the living things around us and wonder what it takes to make a museum.

Then we create our own Mini-Museum.

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Our Living Languages

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Plant ID Workshop: Part 2 & 3

June 6 & 13

This groundbreaking, interactive exhibition celebrates the resilience and diversity of First Nations languages in BC in the face of change. Learn what First Nations communities throughout the provinceFamily arePrograms doing to help Adult Programs their languages survive Lecture and flourish.

Tour Exhibition In partnership with Members

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1 – 4pm

Work with Dr Ken Marr, Curator of Botany and Dr Erica Wheeler, Botany Collection Manager to learn how to use plant identification keys and how to recognize some of the more common plant families. $90 per person

Aboriginal Peoples Day

June 21

Kids’ Club Afternoon Exploration: Research

Indigenous Languages in the House of Memory

Every Wed & Thur 4 – 5 pm

June 24

$10 per child I Ages 6 – 12 Under age 10 must be chaperoned

Learn more about the records in the Halpern fonds of the BC Archives. They document the unique culture and identity of First Nations communities across the Pacific Northwest. $16 per person

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Helmcken House & St Ann’s School House open

June 2 – September 7

7 – 8:30 pm

12 – 4 pm

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Learning that shapes who you are.

2014 SPRING CALENDAR

There are many community courses available through Continuing Studies at UVic. Here’s just a sample:

Canada Day Old-Time Penny Carnival

■ The Altered Landscapewww.LearningThatShapes.ca/Spring July 1 1 – 3 pm Thursday, October 2 to November 6 Bring your pennies and step right up to try your hand at old-time carnival games.

■ The Answers are Written in Bone: Free with admission or membership Forensic Anthropology of the Human

Skeleton Wednesdays, September 17 and 24, October 1, and Saturday 4 FamilyOctober Programs Adult Programs Lecture Tour Exhibition Members

A History of the James Bay Neighbourhood Wednesday, October 22 ■

■ Amazonia: Of Head Hunters and Lost Tribes Tuesday, October 28

■ Monumental Carving of the Family Programs Adult Programs Northwest Coast Lecture Thursdays, NovemberTour 6 to December 11 Exhibition Members

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Gold Fever Trail Walking Tour

July 11 & 25 August 8 & 22

10:30 am – 12 pm 10:30 am – 12 pm

Walk in the footsteps of early gold rush participants down the Inner Harbour and around some of the buildings that served the miners of ’58. Pre-registration required. $15 per person, per tour

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