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1. Call for Newsletter Contributions
Twice per year, the YHMA publishes a newsletter with news, events, updates, and research from the Yukon heritage sector. And we would love to share work from you!
We are now accepting contributions for this year's Spring/Summer newsletter. If you have any Yukon heritage-related stories, announcements, or photos you'd like to share, send them our way. Please direct submission inquiries to info@heritageyukon.ca and we’ll get back to you with details. We look forward to hearing what you have to say!
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2. Horses and Hominins, Pliocene to Pleistocene fossils from Ethiopia
Date & Time: January 22, 2022, 1-4 pm
Location: Long Ago Yukon Facebook page
Long Ago Yukon is pleased to announce that Dr. Eric Scott will be the third Long Ago Yukon SKYPE lecturer in its 2021-2022 speaker series. Dr. Eric Scott is a vertebrate palaeontologist. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, he is the Principal Paleontologist for Cogstone Resource Management, Inc., a consulting firm in southern California as well as a long-time adjunct instructor at California State University, San Bernardino. His main research focus has been the evolution and extinction of Plio-Pleistocene large mammals in North America and globally, with a strong emphasis on equids. This pursuit has taken him from Alaska to Mexico and Texas to Ethiopia. He is emeritus Curator of Paleontology at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California, and a research associate of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles. Learn more
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3. Softcore Exhibition
Dates: January 16-29, 2022
Location: Yukon Energy Community Gallery, Yukon Arts Centre
Softcore is the first exhibition by Whitehorse-based North Node Collective featuring Courtney Holmes, Rebecca Manias, Katie Newman and Heather Von Steinhagen. Through the medium of soft sculpture, humour and discomfort are employed as a challenge to tired yet stubborn body standards and harmful social constructs. Learn more
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4. Collective Memory Tie-In Events
Kids Kreate - Doll Making
Date & Time: January 23, 2022, 1 pm
Location: Zoom
Create a colourful doll based on the “De fil en histoires: Les personnages d’un territoire” creative cloth dolls created by community members in a L’Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY) project. The dolls can be seen in the Collective Memory exhibit in the Yukon Arts Centre main gallery. Make a simple doll with Maya Rosenberg on Zoom from socks and other supplies! Pick up a free supplies kit at YAC (in the lobby from 10-4pm weekdays), or use supplies from home (list available at link). Learn more
Curator Talk - Permanent Art Collection
Date & Time: January 26, 2022, 7 pm
Location: Zoom
Join Curator Garnet Muething for a free online talk and tour of Collective Memory. In honour of the 40th anniversary of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection, this retrospective exhibition of more than 75 works from different eras of the collection’s holdings is on display in the Main Gallery at the Yukon Arts Centre. Register now
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Funding, Opportunities & Resources
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5. Yukon Tourism Training Fund Call for Applications
Intake Deadline: February 15, 2022
Looking for financial assistance to fund training for your tourism career? The Yukon Tourism Training Fund (YTTF) may be for you!
Funded by the Yukon Government’s Department of Education, Advanced Education branch, the YTTF is administered by TIA Yukon. The main purpose of the YTTF is to provide tourism training that is responsive to industry and employee training needs. The fund contributes to achieving a more qualified Yukon tourism labour market that can support an increasingly competitive industry. Learn more
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6. Museums Assistance Program: Digital Access to Heritage Information Session
Date & Time: February 3, 2022, 9-10 am PDT/MST (10-11 am CST)
The Digital Access to Heritage component of the Museums Assistance Program (MAP) provides funding to heritage organizations to digitize collections, develop digital content and build their capacity in these areas.
The aim of this component is to foster improved access to heritage collections through collections digitization and digital content development, as well as activities that build capacity in these areas. The component also supports the development and delivery of related training, resources and services that benefit multiple museums.
In order to better understand the exciting opportunities this grant provides, the Association of Manitoba Musuems be hosting a webinar to discuss the grant with Erin McIntyre from the Department of Canadian Heritage on February 3. The initial session will be presented in English but questions may be asked and answered in French. Register now
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7. Call for Archaeological Conservation Services for 2022–2023
Application Deadline: February 15, 2022
The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) is currently accepting requests for archaeological conservation services for 2022–2023. This call includes requests for pre- and post-excavation archaeological conservation treatments as well as requests for archaeological conservation field services.
To apply, please complete one of the following forms:
For questions or assistance in preparing your application, please contact John Moses, Manager, Treatment and Collections – Objects, Paper and Archaeology Division.
Requests are evaluated against CCI’s assessment criteria. Clients will be advised of results by March 30, 2022. Please note that requests received after February 15 will not be assessed until the following year.
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8. Canadian Heritage Information Network: Digital Preservation Decision Tree
This digital preservation decision tree helps cultural heritage institutions decide which of their existing digital resources should be preserved for the long term. The tree may be used to help develop the institution’s digital preservation policy (a key document that supports and helps determine the institution’s digital preservation action plan) or to support an existing policy for resources not already covered by it.
The new version of this tree differs from previous versions in that it includes a detailed subtree for technical considerations. These considerations are a distillation of issues identified and taught by Joe Iraci and Ern Bieman in the Canadian Conservation Institute’s “Modern Information Carriers and Digital Preservation” workshops held between 2017 and 2019. Access resource
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9. New media funding programs support Yukon content creators
The Government of Yukon is launching new film, television, and digital media funding programs to support the territory’s media content creators and provide economic benefits and employment opportunities to Yukoners working in screen based industries.
These programs consist of the:
- Predevelopment Fund;
- Development Fund;
- Media Production Fund; and
- Training Fund.
Learn more
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Training & Professional Development
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10. Interpretation Canada National Conference Call for Proposals
Conference Dates: October 3-7, 2022
Proposal Deadline: March 18, 2022
Location: Halifax
Theme: Storytelling: Making People Care Since...Forever
It’s difficult (if not impossible) to separate the human experience from storytelling. We seem to have a fundamental need to connect with each other and ourselves through the sharing of stories. They are the tool we use to make sense of our lives, experiences, events in history and the world around us. Stories, like interpretation itself, help us make meaning of the world.
Interpretation Canada’s 2022 National Conference (Halifax) explores the connection between interpretation and storytelling through presentation and discussions on this broad theme. IC is looking for diverse and dynamic presenters to help explore the topic, offer case studies, share research findings, or challenge participants to experience new ways of perceiving the science and art of storytelling. Learn more
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11. Photography on a Dime: Thrifty Tools and Free Software for Heritage Professionals (CCI Workshop)
Dates: March 9 & 16, 2022
Cost: $25
In this webinar, CCI photographers will:
- share ideas on how to fabricate studio equipment from common household items when working with a small budget,
- highlight valuable open-source software programs and demonstrate their key features for editing cultural heritage images and
- discuss the inexpensive tools that they use in the CCI studio.
This webinar will also be an opportunity for participants to exchange ideas. Register here
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12. Museums Canada Summit postponed
Given the uncertainty of Omicron’s effect, the 2022 Museums/Musées Canada Summit has been postponed but not cancelled!
Museums Canada is monitoring the numbers with a plan to hold the in-person Summit later in February or early March. Learn more
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13. Documentary series shows how wildlife veterinarians care for northern animals
The second season of Arctic Vets includes a trip to the Yukon Read more
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14. The Gold Rush legacy of Fr. William Judge
Historians agree that the discovery of gold in 1896 was the single-most important event in Yukon history. This is the 125th anniversary of the world- famous Klondike Gold Rush. Read more [subscription required]
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