Curator of art and images, Dr. India Young will present highlights from the Royal BC Museum’s collection that illustrate the impact of Emily Carr on modernist painters in British Columbia, during and after her time. The live lecture will be through Zoom and your ticket includes access to the recording. 

Land-Based Learning with Jess Housty

Join author Jess Housty as she shares personal stories and cultural knowledge about the land that she lives on and the community that she is surrounded by.

Canadian War Sites in Europe
In this armchair travel extravaganza Paul Ferguson, history collection manager at the Royal BC Museum and a war historian, will give his dream itinerary of Canadian war sites in Europe including where to stay and maybe even what to eat. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/91532657826

Curator emerita Dr. Kathryn Bridge will highlight some of Emily Carr's archival material and what it reveals to us about her art, her time and her thinking. Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing - Modernism and the West Coast is on now until January 24, 2021. 

Detail from BC Archives PDP06069

Link to join Webinar
https://zoom.us/j/97973608440 

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 #1- Postcards

Come along to the Museum of Vancouver and learn about their new exhibition A Seat at the Table , an exhibit that explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC and their struggles for belonging. Our guide with be the Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Curator of Contemporary Culture Viviane Gosselin. 

Join learning program developer and RBCM@Outside host Liz Crocker and Dr. Gavin Hanke, curator of vertebrate zoology, for a 30-minute dive into iNaturalist to learn how you can add your voice to science. The Royal BC Museum recently joined iNaturalist, a global online resource to document nature. We use iNaturalist for our own research and also to contribute our expertise in identifying the flora and fauna of BC and other parts of the world.

Discover the unique social history of a remarkable place. Join filmmaker and author David R. Gray as he discussed his book Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet.  From the original inhabitants from the Tsartlip First Nation to the lost community of immigrant workers from China and India, from a company town to the development of parkland, the wealth of history in this rich area reflects much of the history of the entire province. 

Professional development for formal and informal educators (all are welcome)

This school year is turning out to be quite unusual, however you can still connect with your community partners. Join the Royal BC Museum, Greater Victoria Public Library, The Maritime Museum of British Columbia and Pacific Opera Victoria for a discussion on the importance of creativity through books, museums and opera during these turbulent times.

Make Some Noise! with Pacific Opera Victoria

Singers, actors and dancers know how to get their voices and bodies ready to go. If you like to sing, dance or even just talk, join dancer Geoff Malcolm and opera singer Anna Shill as they lead you through their favourite warm-ups for body and voice, including some great tongue twisters.

This (she sells seashells by the seashore) session is in collaboration with Pacfiic Opera Victoria.

Curator of invertebrate zoology from the Royal BC Museum, Dr. Henry Choong will shed some light on bioluminescence (the emission of light from live organisms). From curiosities to major discoveries he will stimulate discussion and thoughts about the significance of bioluminescence and what it can tell us beyond light production and maybe some surprises too.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/93799736267

Join Royal BC Museum Learning Program Developer Liz Crocker and Point Ellice House Executive Director Dr. Kelly Black, for an outside conversation about the history of this fascinating house and property. Built in 1861-2, Point Ellice House is one of Victoria's oldest homes. It is both a national and provincial historic site. Home to the O'Reilly family for 108 years, Point Ellice House has many connections to the history of Victoria and British Columbia.

Kid Activism with author Robin Stevenson

Kids around the world are stepping up and making their voices heard about issues like climate justice, racial equity and gender inclusivity. How can books help support this momentum and give kids and families the language to speak up and support needed change in their community and beyond? 

Join curator emerita Dr. Kathryn Bridge and walk along with her in the footsteps of Emily Carr's 1911 trip to France. Where did she go? What did she paint? Who did she meet?

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/91502315191

Sea Otter Storytime with author Isabelle Groc  

Hunted to near extinction for their valuable fur in the 18th and 19th centuries, sea otters have started to recover from California to Alaska following active conservation efforts. In British Columbia, they have made a remarkable comeback since they were reintroduced. Today, scientists are still discovering the impacts of this charismatic animal on every part of their ecosystem. 

Royal BC Museum curator of entomology Dr. Joel Gibson will be joined by graduate student from the University of Berkley, Nina Pak to discuss entomology in the classroom, at the museum and on the beaches. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/98081190408

Join Dr. Tzu-I Chung, curator of history, and John Adams, historian and owner of Discover the Past and Secretary to the Board of the Victoria Chinatown Museum Society, for a virtual walk along Fan Tan Alley in Canada’s oldest Chinatown. We’ll visit a new display Peering into the Past from the Royal BC Museum, in partnership with the Victoria Chinatown Museum Society and the Salient Group. The pop-up exhibit in Victoria’s Fan Tan Alley showcases a digital version of a unique historical artifact from Chinatown.

Orange Shirt Day with Eddy Charlie and Kristin Spray

Orange Shirt Day is held annually on September 30 in Canada to bring people together to honour and remember the sacrifices of residential school survivors and their families.

For this session, join residential school survivor Eddy Charlie and friend Kristin Spray as they share some of the difficult history of intergenerational harm caused by residential schools and the paths toward healing. 

Join Alexis Bazinet, a recent UVic graduate interning with the Royal BC Museum as a NSERC USRA student under the supervision of Dr. Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology. Alexis’s research will explore fossil feather anatomy and images in the hopes to identify birds living around an ancient lake system in the Okanagan Highlands fossil assemblage

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/95360121792

Amazing Armoured Dinosaurs with Dr. Victoria Arbour

Ankylosaurs are called armoured dinosaurs because they have bony plates and spikes in their skin. 

Join curator of Paleontology Dr. Victoria Arbour as we make our own ankylosaurs out of play-doh and pasta, beads, or buttons. During this session you'll learn how animals use armour to protect themselves.

RBCM @ Home (Kids) is hosted by Chris O'Connor. 

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