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. 

What you'll need:

See some of the public submissions for the Royal BC Museum's Covid-19 Collecting project and meet some of the folks who subitted. What do you think should be collected, and how do you think BC communities will want to remember this historic time?

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/99846316454

Due to the very high risk air quality in Victoria, we have cancelled this RBCM@Outside session. Please be safe if you must go outside. You can monitor Greater Victoria's air quality here: https://weather.gc.ca/airquality/pages/bcaq-010_e.html

Alternative School Supplies with Franny, Rupert and Skye

The school year is beginning, and whether that learning happens in a classroom, a living room or out in the community, we all need to be prepared. And while paper, pencils, books and a Zoom account are important, there are other school supplies that perhaps even more important for learning. 

Join Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, co-curator, for a virtual visit to the Sikh Heritage Museum located in the Gur Sikh Gurdwara (temple), a National Historic Site in Abbotsford, BC. The museum serves as a place for innovative programming and exhibits recognizing and raising awareness of Sikh heritage and history in B.C. and Canada.

Please click the link below to join the webinar
https://zoom.us/j/99037733300

Learning about Leaves with Dr. Ken Marr

Everyone classifies objects into groups all the time, whether it is our clothing, toys, movies or books. But why do we do this? And how does it help us make sense of the world around us.  

Join staff from Science World to learn about coding without a computer. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/94419995325 

Seeing and Sketching with Mitra Nikoo

Nature is amazing. There are so many things to see in the world around us, from big trees to little insects. But how can we better understand what it is we are seeing. 

Join us this week as science illustrator Mitra Nikoo shows us some of the ways to understand nature through sketching. We'll discover the tools that you can use when you are outside exploring, and then learn skills about how to sketch a specimen.

Jana Stefan, the production team lead of exhibitions at the Royal BC Museum, has lived and worked in Antarctica for two seasons and is intimately familiar with R.F. Scott’s expedition hut.  Join us to learn about the extreme living conditions, breathtaking views and painstaking conservation work at the world’s most remote historic site.  

Link to join Webinar

https://zoom.us/j/95861151299