MONDAY, APRIL 13

7:45 am – 4:00 pm Offsite: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Cascade Lodge no. 5 103 Caribou Street

The bus departs the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel at 7:45 am from the Bus Entrance. Please arrive 10 minutes ahead of your scheduled departure time. Pre-registration required.

Open to Directors only!

9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Study Tour — Offsite Insights:A Journey Through Banff National Park

The bus departs the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel at 9:00 am from the Bus Entrance. Please arrive 10 minutes before departure. Delegates will be able to pick up their badges and ticket for the Study Tour beginning at 8:15 am. Pre-registration required.

6:00 – 10:00 pm

Opening GatheringWild Bill’s Legendary Saloon

The bus departs the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel at 5:45 pm and 6:15 pm from the Bus Entrance. Please arrive 10 minutes before departure. The bus will return to the Fairmont Banff Springs at 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm. Pre-registration required.

Registration & InformationMonday, April 13 .................. 1:00 – 5:00 pm .......... Spanish WalkTuesday, April 14 ............8:00 am – 6:00 pm .......... Spanish WalkWednesday, April 15........7:00 am – 5:00 pm ....................... OvalThursday, April 16 ...........7:00 am – 4:00 pm ....................... Oval

Unless otherwise noted all sessions will be held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. Pre-registration is required for all Workshops, Study Tours and Optional Evening Events.

TUESDAY, APRIL 14

9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Full Day Workshops1. When Disaster Strikes Norquay

Facilitator: Michael Harrington, JHG Consulting Network Inc.

Presenters: Anton Antonov, XL Insurance Company; Irene Karsten, Canadian Conservation Institute; Irene Kerr, Museum of the Highwood; Jesse Moffatt, National Music Centre; Gail Niinimaa, Niinimaa Enterprises 

Kindly supported by:

2. IPOP Theory and Practice: Alhambra Making Exhibitions for Everyone

Facilitators: Jean-François Léger, Canadian Museum of History and Andrew Pekarik, Smithsonian Institution

9:00 am – 4:00 pm

PMA Meeting Offsite: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Attendees are responsible for their own transportation to the meeting.

9:00 am – noon

Half-Day Workshops1. Museums: The New Town Square Ivor Petrak

Facilitators: Steve Bukowski and Brian McAlonie, Thinking Outside the Square

2. Build, Launch and Engage! Sir Edward Beatty

Facilitators: Ryan Dodge and Cheryl Fraser, Royal Ontario Museum

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Half-Day Workshops 1. Perfectly Good Guitar: Ivor Petrak Popular Culture & Object Agency Facilitators: Steve Bukowski and Brian McAlonie, Thinking Outside the Square

2. Geocaching: A Crazy-Amazing-Futuristic Frontenac Way to Explore Heritage and Engage New AudiencesFacilitators: Jessica Glombick, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Center and Nancy Schulz, Royal Alberta Museum

CMA CONFERENCE APRIL 13 –17 • BANFF ALBERTA

2ND ANNUAL

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Reception with the Exhibitors Visit more than 20 exhibitors, and enter our draw for wonderful prizes! To qualify for the draw, have the exhibitors initial your ballot. Deposit your completed ballot at the Prize Table by 1:30 pm on Thursday, April 16. Included with Conference registration.

6:30 – 9:30 pm

Optional Evening EventAn Evening of Art: Whyte Museum of the Canadian RockiesBus will depart from the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel at 6:15 pm and 6:45 pm. Please arrive 10 minutes before departure. The bus will return at 9:00 pm and 9:30 pm. Pre-registration required.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15Simultaneous interpretation provided.

7:00 – 8:15 am Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Breakfast with the Exhibitors

8:30 – 10:15 am Cascade Ballroom

Official Conference Opening and Business Meeting

10:15 – 10:45 am Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Networking Break with the Exhibitors

11:00 am – noon Cascade Ballroom

Keynote The Road to 2017 — Anxiety and Optimism

Jack Lohman Chief Executive of the Royal British Columbia Museum and professor in museum design at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Kindly supported by:

Noon – 1:00 pm Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Lunch with the Exhibitors

1:15 – 2:00 pm Cascade Ballroom

Keynote Going Mainstream: Engagement, Cheese, and the Five E’s

Jasmine Palardy Director of Programs and Partnerships, Beakerhead

Kindly supported by:

2:15 – 3:00 pm Cascade Ballroom

Keynote From Optional to Vital

Johann Zietsman CEO, EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts

3:15 – 3:45 pm Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Networking Break with the Exhibitors

4:00 – 5:00 pm Cascade Ballroom

Fellows Lecture Ethical Engagement (Or … ‘Who’s invited to the party and more importantly what are we celebrating?’)

Richard Sandell Professor of Museum Studies, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, England

6:30 – 7:30 pm Convention Centre – Theatre

2015 Awards Ceremony Open to all delegates and guests.

7:30 – 9:30 pm Convention Centre, Van Horne

2015 Awards Reception Ballroom – B/C

Included with Conference registration.

Hotel contact Information:

The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel 405 Spray Avenue, Banff, Alberta T1L1J4 banffsprings@fairmont.com • 403 762 2211 • 1 866 540 4406

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

7:00 – 8:30 am Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Breakfast with the Exhibitors

8:45 – 10:15 am

Concurrent Educational Sessions — A

Let’s Learn from Our Mistakes: Alhambra Engagement Gone Wrong Facilitators: Xerxes Mazda, Royal Ontario Museum and Megan Richardson, National Gallery of Canada

Leading Museums Through Dangerous Times: Ivor Petrak Examples of Effective Public Engagement Moderator: Sharilyn J. Ingram, Brock University

Panelists: Robert R. Janes; Claudette Leclerc, The Manitoba Museum; Richard V. Piacentini, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA

Successful Divestment. A Case Study Sir Edward Beatty

and Q and A on Divestment Issues Presenters: Lloyd DeWitt, Art Gallery of Ontario and Victoria Henry, Canada Council Art Bank

New National Museum, New Ways of Norquay Engagement Moderator: Gail Stephens, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Panelists: Angela Cassie, June Creelman and Corey Timpson, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Building Engagement Into a Major Project’s DNA: Oak My History Museum Public Engagement ProjectModerator: Anne-Marie Raymond, Canadian Museum of History

Panelists: Kathryn Lyons, Glenn Ogden and Chantal J. Schryer, Canadian Museum of History

Case Studies Frontenac

Moderator: Audrey Vermette, Canadian Museums Association

1. How to Teach Hard Topics Through Arts Based Practices: The Native Youth Program and Indian Residential School

Presenters: Jill Baird, UBC Museum of Anthropology and Francine Cunningham, University of British Columbia

2. Public Engagement in Exhibit Development Presenter: Bruce Shepard, Esplanade Museum, Esplanade

Arts and Heritage Centre

3. Creating Community Connections Presenter: Rebecca Still, Multicultural Heritage Centre

10:15 – 10:45 am Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Networking Break with the Exhibitors

10:30 am – noon Angus

Meeting of the Fellows By invitation only.

11:00 am – noon

Concurrent Educational Sessions — B

Third Space: How Digital Experiences Ivor Petrak Break Down Museum Walls Moderator: Alice Walker, Antenna International

Panelists: David Alexander, Royal British Columbia Museum; Anne Botman, Canadian Museum of Nature; Jessica Doig, NGX Interactive; Ruba Kana’an, Aga Khan Museum

What Museums can Learn from Sir Edward Beatty Science Centres: The Playful Approach to Programming and Exhibit Design Moderator: Melisa Bowerman, Royal Alberta Museum

Panelists: Evelyn Delgado, Royal Alberta Museum and Meghan Durieux, TELUS Spark

Permission Granted: Exhibitions and Norquay Programs at the Gladstone HotelPresenters: Noa Bronstein, Gallery 44 and formerly Director of Exhibitions, Gladstone Hotel and Britt Welter-Nolan, Independent Curator and formerly Managing Director, Gladstone Hotel

Government of Canada Survey of Heritage Frontenac Institutions: 2011 Presenter: Ken Amaral, Department of Canadian Heritage

Noon – 1:20 pm Cascade Ballroom

Luncheon and Keynote

Seamus O’Regan Distinguished Media Innovator, Ryerson University

1:30 – 2:00 pm Alberta/New Brunswick/Riverview Lounge

Trade Show Closing and Ice Cream BreakKindly supported by:

2:00 – 4:30 pm

Special Double Concurrent Educational Session — C & D

Alternatives Rock: Alternative Earned Alhambra Income Generators for Museums Presenters: Steve Bukowski and Brian McAlonie, Thinking Outside the Square

Are We Living in the Past? The Evolution of Norquay Community Engagement at the Lougheed House National & Provincial Historic Site and Museum Presenter: Kirstin Evenden, Lougheed House National & Provincial Historic Site and Museum

Diving In: Experiments in Engagement Oak

Moderator: Gerry Osmond, Provincial Historic Sites NL

Panelists: Anne Chafe and Mark Ferguson, The Rooms Corporation, Provincial Museum Division

The Spirit of Alberta in Action Frontenac

Moderator: Seán MacQueen, Royal Alberta Museum

Panelists: Laura Gloor, Peace River Museum Archives and Mackenzie Centre Museum; Lucie Heins and Kyla Tichkowsky, Royal Alberta Museum

4:30 – 5:30 pm Angus

ICOM Canada AGM Open to ICOM Canada members only.

6:00 – 7:00 pm Riverview Lounge

CMA 2016 Reception

7:00 pm…. Cascade Ballroom

Banff Rocks Soirée You’re sure to have a rocking good time at the final soirée of the conference. Enjoy western hospitality while you savour an epicurean journey. Dance the night away to Calgary’s own Mercury Audio. Included with Conference registration.

Kindly supported by:

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

8:45 am – 4:00 pm

Study Tour — Offsite InsightHistoric Canmore plus Sunshine Village Historical Snowshoe and Fondue TourThe bus departs the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel at 8:45 am from the Bus Entrance. Please arrive 10 minutes before departure. Pre-registration required.

2:00 – 3:15 pm

Concurrent Educational Sessions — C

Museums and Communities: Possibilities Ivor Petrak for Participatory Governance  Moderator: Wendy Aikens, Galt Museum & Archives

Panelists: Susan Burrows-Johnson, Galt Museum & Archives;  Catherine Cole, Commonwealth Association of Museums;  Ann Ramsden, Arts and Heritage St. Albert

Small Objects, Big Meaning and Sir Edward Beatty the Many Publics of c̓əsnaʔəm: the City before the City Project Moderator: Susan Roy, Department of History, University of Waterloo

Panelists: Viviane Gosselin, Museum of Vancouver; Larissa Grant, Leona Sparrow, and Jason Woolman, Musqueam First Nation; Susan Rowley, UBC Museum of Anthropology

Diverse Staff = Diverse Public Norquay

Moderator: Wendy Ng, Royal Ontario Museum

Panelists: Elizabeth Sweeney, Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Syrus Marcus Ware, Art Gallery of Ontario

CMA Advocacy and the Upcoming Oak Federal Election Moderator: John G. McAvity, Canadian Museums Association

Panelists: Manon Blanchette, Canadian Museums Association; Ryan Dodge and John-Michael Poon, Royal Ontario Museum

Museomix — Three Days to Remix Frontenac the Museum Moderator: Audrey Vermette, Canadian Museums Association

Panelists: Ana-Laura Baz, Musée de la civilisation and Justine G. Chapleau, Museomix Montréal 2014

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Concurrent Educational Sessions — D

Placing the Visitor at the Core of the Ivor Petrak J. Armand Bombardier Museum Renewal Moderator: Benoît Légaré, MCIPanelists: Geneviève Angio-Morneau, gsmprjct° and Lyne Lavoie, J. Armand Bombardier Foundation

Small, Medium, Large: Where Public Sir Edward Beatty

Engagement is Concerned: Size Doesn’t Matter Moderator: Sarah Beam-Borg, Aga Khan Museum

Panelists: Trisha Carleton, Lougheed House, Margaret Chrumka, Kamloops Art Gallery; Jovanna Scorsone, Royal Ontario Museum

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