Friday, June 23

12-1 PM (PST)

 

Description:

Join the BCMA and Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra in a follow-up workshop to her webinar from three years ago, #MuseumsAreNotNeutral: White Supremacy in Museums and Calls To Immediate Action

In this workshop, Sharn will encourage participants to question if museums have learned from the calls to actions from Black Lives Matter resurgence movement in 2020, and where anti-racist change is still needed in museums today.

This workshop will involve participation in breakout rooms, as engaging with this work is everyone’s job (not just that of the presenter). We encourage folks to send their questions to communications@museum.bc.ca before the session so that we can discuss some of the challenges staff in museums, heritage, and cultural organizations grapple with today in relation to anti-racism and ongoing calls to action and accountability. 

 

About the Facilitator: 

Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra (Sharn) is a Historian with Parks Canada, sessional faculty in the Department of History at UFV, and founder of Belonging Matters Consulting. Before this, Sharn worked as Coordinator at the South Asian Studies Institute at UFV for more than 12 years and as co-curator and co-manager of the Sikh Heritage Museum, National Historic Site and Gur Sikh Temple (gurdwara). Sharn’s PhD looks at the affective experiences of museum visitors through a critical race theory lens with the dissertation is titled “Museums as Spaces of Belonging: Racialized Power in the Margins.” 

Sharn is a passionate activist, building bridges between community and academia through museum work. She is a past member of the BC Museums Association and past Director with the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration. Sharn has been featured most recently in the Knowledge Network series “B.C: An Untold History,” is a published author, and has been featured on local, and international podcasts and media.

 

Please note: This session is free to attend. If you've never registered for a BCMA activity before, you may be asked for an address - but no further billing information will be required.

BCMA Workshop - Are Museums Still Not Neutral?

  • June 23, 2023