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A Panel Discussion on Community and Inclusion:

Behind the Exhibit - Inclusion: The Journey to Community

Monday February 21st, 2022 | 3-4pm PST on Zoom
Free, Pre-Registration Required

Join us for a conversation on the role heritage organizations play in creating inclusive spaces in our communities.
The discussion will centre the 2021 Port Moody Station Museum exhibit, Inclusion: The Journey to CommunityBuilt in partnership with the Community Ventures Society, Inclusion BC, and BC Self Advocacy Foundation, the exhibit features the history and present day stories of their community members with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our panelists will share their experience collaborating on the exhibit and what it means to be sharing their history and stories with their community.  

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Bring your Qs to a Q&A All About Accessibility:

Working Towards Built Inclusion

Monday February 28th, 2022 | 3-4:30pm PST on Zoom
Free, Pre-Registration Required
Do you want to make your heritage building more accessible, but don't know where to start? Do you have questions, but don't know who to ask?
Conclude your Heritage Week by attending our Q&A on built inclusion, featuring the Rick Hansen Foundation's Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) as a way of increasing accessibility in your organization. Our panelists include an RHFAC Certified Specialist, a municipal accessibility advisor, a heritage building consultant, and an RHFAC certified organization that operates out of a heritage building. Together, they will answer your questions on increasing accessibility in your unique historic spaces.
To learn more about the panelists, and register for the Q&A click the link below to be directed to the event page.
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Check out our new Heritage Week All Events Calendar:
calendar icon with "Heritage Week 2022 February 21-27" and province of BC and Heritage BC logos at the bottom.
Planning your own event? Email us, or tag us @heritagebcanada so we can add it to the calendar.

Use the hashtags #BCheritageweek and #MyBCis and #MyCanadais to connect with organizations across the province participating in the week. We will promote your events on all our platforms.
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Funding Opportunities


Have recent weather events affected your organization?


The Climate Disaster Response Fund is a one-time grant opportunity that will support your organization in obtaining assistance for conservation or salvage work on heritage, First Nations, and archaeological sites damaged by recent events.
Don't know if you qualify?
Contact Jennifer, our Heritage Planner, at 250-551-7821 or by email at jdunkerson@heritagebc.ca to talk through your potential project.
Download Climate Disaster Response Fund Guidelines

Are you ready for the 2022 Heritage Legacy Fund Intake?


The Heritage Legacy Fund was established in 2003 to provide grants for the heritage sector of British Columbia. The 2022 intake will begin on Monday March 7, 2022 and end on April 29, 2022. You must contact us to verify your project eligibility, by April 22, 2022, to access the online application.
 
Download Heritage Legacy Fund Guidelines

Setting the Bar: Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents - Action #9


Action #9 calls for working with Indigenous Cultural Experts to re-write existing Statements of Significance to include Indigenous perspectives.
In approaching this task, consider these words from the First People's Cultural Council:

"The description of historic places fails to accurately describe Indigenous concepts of cultural heritage, and thus, does not recognize the cultural heritage value of Indigenous places to their full extent." (FPCC, p.27)


Challenging our western biases is a necessary step in this process. How do your Statements of Significance and other planning documents describe historical places? What weight do you place on historical, aesthetic and scientific values in cultural heritage, and are you prioritizing these over spiritual and community values that are given more weight in Indigenous cultures? 

Read Setting the Bar: Action #9

Have You Taken Action?

Setting the Bar is about actionable steps that we can take towards reconciliation. We're thrilled to see the Ladysmith and District Historical Society taking Action #1: Signing the Heritage and Reconciliation Pledge. What actions have you been taking?

A Heritage Legacy Fund Story:
Engaging with Chinatown's Past


A before and after photo of the Lim Sai Hor Kow Mok Association building, the black and white left photo shows the building with modern updates in the 1960s, the right photo shows the final update of the building.

Our 2020 HLF intake saw the Lim Sai Hor Kow Mok Association, winner of the 2019 BC Heritage Award in Outstanding Conservation (see left), and Love Intersections, a Vancouver-based queer media arts collective, come together on their collaborative project, Engaging Chinatown.

Engaging Chinatown is a digitization, web building, and oral history project that makes visible the xenophobia and systemic racism that is the foundation of Chinatown's history.
"The project has been a profound way for us to do community building in the neighbourhood and also in the broader community."

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As an organization of provincial scope, Heritage BC recognizes that its members, and the local history and heritage they seek to preserve, occupy the lands and territories of B.C.’s Indigenous peoples. Heritage BC asks its members and all people to reflect on the places where they reside and work, and to respect the diversity of cultures and experiences that form the richness of our provincial heritage.
 
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