Apply to Attend a New CCI Workshop on Energy Sustainability
You can now apply to attend the Canadian Conservation Institute’s (CCI) advanced professional development workshop, “Energy Sustainability for Heritage Institutions.” The workshop is aimed at professionals who make energy management decisions and who are interested in learning about how to make their heritage institutions more sustainable.
You can choose to attend the one-day conference only or the full workshop, which also includes two days of practical training and a half-day activity. The conference will be held at the Canadian Conservation Institution (1030 Innes Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1B 4S7); if you are unable to attend in person, you can still sign up for the live webcast of the one-day conference.
The three-and-a-half-day conference will be held from November 18 – 21, 2019, with the one-day conference on November 18, 2019. The conference is facilitated by Stephen Dixon and Michel Parent, Canadian Institute for Energy Training (CIET), and staff from the CCI Preservation Services Division.
Registration Fees (includes HST):
$250.00 One-day conference in person
$150.00 One-day conference via live webcast
$750.00 Three-and-a-half-day workshop in person
The deadline to apply is September 6, 2019.
Would you like to find out more about how to be sustainable in your museum or conservation lab? Would you like to learn more about what sustainability even means? Then this is the workshop for you!
Find out more and register here.
Pop Up Session at the OMA Conference! Advice for Museums Seeking Climate Justice – How Can We Help One Another Do Better?
The Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice – GTHA Branch invites you to take part in a day-long collaborative and interactive POP UP experience, working together with us to mobilize and support museum workers and their organizations in building public awareness, mitigation and resilience in the face of climate change.
When: Thursday October 25, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
What: An Advice Booth will provide real time advice to spark conversations and ideas about how museum professionals and institutions might handle topics around climate change and climate justice. Watch the Alberta Museums Association/ CMCJ Museums and Climate Action Videos. Using Post Its we will work together to create an ongoing continuum of impactful ideas, partnerships, and stakeholders. A white board will act as a “bathroom wall” where we invite participants to grafitti what they really think about climate change. Do you have a story where something you or your museum did made a difference? Share your climate action story!
Come for information and inspiration, stay for the varied ways to engage, and return throughout the day to see how things evolve!
*Special thanks to the Ontario Museum Association for the invitation to participate free of charge in the Conference. Your ongoing interest and support are appreciated!!
For more information – Visit us at the OMA Conference or contact us here
Museum Educators for Climate Justice, Part II: Putting Ideas to Work
Working together to make a difference in our museums’ communities by building public awareness, mitigation and resilience in response to climate change.
When: Monday May 28, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Where: Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, Claude Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G6
Cost: FREE but space is limited so please PRE-REGISTER
Open to all, the second Museum Educators for Climate Justice workshop supports putting plans into action. Bring your ideas for climate justice to this peer-learning event, where all participants will help one another develop individual, and possibly collaborative, projects.
A number of tools for project implementation will be introduced to create public programs with impact. In this cooperative environment we hope to work with tools like the Critical Assessment Framework and to cultivate projects that tackle climate justice through public engagement. Return to your site with positive, practical ways to help address climate justice.
This workshop is offered free of charge. Each participant is responsible for their own beverages and lunch. We care about the environment, too. Please bring your own coffee cup and/or water bottle. Situated in Downtown Toronto, the iSchool is easily accessible by public transit – please use the ‘Better Choice’, if at all possible. Parking is extremely limited.
This Workshop is now FULL! Thanks to everyone for your rapid response. If you are interested in participating in future workshops, please drop us a line at Museums4Climate@gmail.com.
Museums are being challenged to take an active and leading role in addressing climate change. Museum educators are destined to play a key role in mobilizing our institutions and community partners to ensure that climate justice becomes core to our practice. How will we do that?
Lead by Douglas Worts, WorldViews Consulting, this full-day workshop is designed by and for museum educators and students in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to help address us these questions:
What resources are available to help us build our understanding of this complex issue?
What tools can we use to create public programs and collaborative initiatives through our institutions?
How can we serve as catalysts for engaging citizens, local businesses, schools, organizations and other museums in dialogue with these issues?
We will begin to
- Gain skills and use tools to help better understand the complex forces that have created climate change
- Generate innovations that can help to affect and/or disrupt impacts that are the consequences of climate change.
In this ‘peer-learning circle’, we will weave together systems mapping and innovation generation into a planning process to help facilitate this work. We hope that the result of our efforts will be both a clearer picture of the complexity of the problem, as well as potential public engagement strategies that extend beyond the traditional use of exhibits and on-site programs.
We ask that each of us comes prepared to participate to the best of their abilities in the discussions, brainstorming and thinking ‘outside-the-box’ dialogues throughout the full day of the workshop and beyond.
(One of the goals of the event is to continue challenging each other as we to share our successes and insights resulting from efforts in our museums that we develop and implement over the first half of 2018. Stay tuned for details!)