Visit to the IMAX

Lea Silver from IMAX Victoria will give you an insider's view of the operations and a sneak peek at what coming in the year ahead.

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Create an Underwater Forest with the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea

British Columbia's kelp forests are teeming with life — sea stars, urchins, rockfish and so much more.

For this session of RBCM@Home (Kids), join Aneka from the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea as she introduces us to some of her favourite kelp forest residents while guiding us through the creation of our own mini habitat.

Supplies needed:

Introduction to the BC Archives

Archivist Genevieve Weber gives us an overview of how to access the BC Archives. Great for first-timers or if you need a refresher.

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Join learning program developer Liz Crocker and curator of archaeology Grant Keddie for a virtual tour of Victoria’s Finlayson Point. Finlayson Point is the location of a thousand year old Indigenous defensive site. We will learn about the archaeological excavations undertaken here and examine the features of the landscape that reveal the hidden past of the people that lived here. 

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Emily Carr Inspired Art Making with Jeri Engen

To celebrate the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing, RBCM @ Home (Kids) will have three sessions over three months that will explore Emily Carr as an artist and her art making through hands-on projects.  

Session #3- Portraits

Looking at Emily Carr’s portrait paintings from the Royal BC Museums’ collection, we will create our own portrait artwork of a friend, someone we love or even ourselves while learning about abstraction and rules of the face.

Emily Carr After France

Join Kiriko Wantanabe, Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator of the Audain Art Museum for a discussion about Emily Carr's work after she returned from France. This talk is part of our ongoing programming during the run of Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing - French Modernism and the West Coast on until January 24, 2021.

Join RBCM@ Outside host Liz Crocker and Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary site manager Jay Rastogi for a seasonal virtual walk up Christmas Hill on Vancouver Island.

CANCELLED - In Search of Woo: Monkey, Muse, Mystery

In 1923, Victoria artist Emily Carr went to a Government Street pet shop and traded one of her dogs and $35 cash for a young Javanese macaque. For the next fifteen years, the monkey, named Woo, formed a bond with Carr that proved crucial to her artistic legacy. In a talk based on his 2019 book Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr: A Biography, Grant Hayter-Menzies explores the shared life and legacy of Carr and Woo.  

Since 2003, the United Nations has designated December 11th as “International Mountain Day” to call attention to the world about the importance of mountains to life. 

Join RBCM@ outside host Liz Crocker and John Adams, historian and owner of Discover the Past, for a virtual walk around Emily Carr’s Victoria neighbourhood. We’ll start at national historic site Carr House where artist Emily Carr was born and grew up. At Carr House we’ll meet site manager Kate Kerr for a quick chat about the significance of the house in Emily’s life.

Festive Trilobite Cookies! with Dr. Victoria Arbour

Trilobites are a completely extinct group of animals that look a little bit like today’s horseshoe crabs, and they are some of the most abundant fossils found on the planet – including in British Columbia! We’ll learn about trilobites and their fossils in British Columbia, and get into the holiday spirit by making some festive shortbread cookie versions of trilobites.

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Curator of history, Dr. Lorne Hammond will tell us (and show us) what Christmas in Victoria was like during Emily Carr's lifetime. 

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Emily Carr Inspired Art Making with Jeri Engen

To celebrate the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing, RBCM @ Home (Kids) will have three sessions over three months that will explore Emily Carr as an artist and her art making through hands-on projects.  

Session #2- Tree Painting

Using Emily Carr’s Trees in France, 1911 as inspiration, we will explore Carr’s use of abstraction through colour and movement to create a painting of an Arbutus tree from our region.

Supplies needed:

Grab some holiday baking and a cup of good cheer and join  Provincial Carillonneur Rosemary Laing who will use photos and videos to teach us about the carillon. At the end she'll play a carol from her piano and we can all carol-along from home.

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https://zoom.us/j/97419222096

The sights and sounds of Christmas long ago. Visit the wood-cobbled streets laced with festive garlands and see the shops decked with seasonal finery. And explore more of the museum with a family friendly Father Christmas Escape Room

Join Learning Program Developer Liz Crocker and CRD Cultural Programmer Leslie McGarry from the Kwakwaka’wakw - Kwagiulth First Nation as we explore the forest of Mill Hill Regional Park from an Indigenous perspective. We invite you to take a virtual walk with us to discover how Indigenous Peoples gather various plants, bark and leaves for a multitude of purposes, while maintaining a harmonious sense of relationship to everything around them.

Making Paper Cranes with Laura Minta Holland

Join artist-educator Laura Minta Holland and learn how to make your own origami crane.

This workshop is inspired by the Japanese practice of senbazuru , folding 1000 cranes in hopes of having one wish granted. Most often this is in relation to happiness, luck, recovery from illness or injury.

Six institutions, six perspectives, six works, one question: Which piece by Emily Carr has shifted and deepened your thinking most about Carr’s influence and impact?

The Exploration Place in Prince George is a vibrant museum and science centre with a focus on local history and hands-on science. Our hosts Chad Hellenius and Lisa Connor will share highlights of the centre and how they've adapted during Covid-19. 

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The Royal BC Museum is filled with specimens of animals of all kinds. Some are big and some are small. Some are furry and some are scaly. Some have two legs, and some have six. Some can be found deep in the ocean and some high up in trees. 

For this session we’ll read a book about animals, then look at a few of the animals within our museum collection and sketch them.

Get your paper and pencil ready for a wild journey among the wild animals of BC.