{"id":14380,"date":"2012-10-19T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=14380"},"modified":"2012-10-18T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:40:52","slug":"release-city-museums-collisions-i-connections-conference-at-museum-of-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/10\/19\/release-city-museums-collisions-i-connections-conference-at-museum-of-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: \u201cCity Museums: Collisions I Connections\u201d conference at Museum of Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14382\" title=\"CityMuseums_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/CityMuseums_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cCity Museums: Collisions I Connections\u201d &#8211; Museum of Vancouver<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>October 24-26, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (CAMOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, presents \u201cCity Museums: Collisions I Connections\u201d, a conference on city museums and their engagement in city life at the Museum of Vancouver, October 24\u201326, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will bring speakers and delegates from around the world together to talk about how city museums are reconsidering their role in civic life due to the enormous pressure cities face in terms of aging infrastructure, the need for urban regeneration, economic and environmental crises, and social issues such demographic shifts, global diasporas, and increasing immigrant and urban Aboriginal populations. The conference will look at city museums under development, urban\/edge city museums, and city museums in large and small cities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to presentations by speakers from more than 15 countries, the conference features keynote addresses by:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Internationally-respected urban planner <strong>Larry Beasley<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7 Former Director of the Museum of London, now CEO of the Royal British Columbia Museum, <strong>Jack Lohman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conference will also include behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum of Vancouver, an opening reception at the Museum of Anthropology\/UBC, National Film Board premiere at VIFF, Ignite! sessions, poster competition, meeting at the Vancouver Art Gallery, an off-site workshop in North Vancouver, and optional tours of Richmond or Gastown.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/camoc.icom.museum\/index2.php \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CAMOC<\/strong><\/a> is \u201ca forum for people who work in or are interested in museums about cities, urban planners, historians, economists, architects or geographers, all of whom together can share knowledge and experience, exchange ideas and explore partnerships across international boundaries.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofvancouver.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Museum of Vancouver<\/strong> <\/a>is Canada\u2019s largest urban history museum focusing on the life of a city.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCity Museums: Collisions I Connections\u201d &#8211; Museum of Vancouver October 24-26, 2012 The International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (CAMOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, presents \u201cCity Museums: Collisions I Connections\u201d, a conference on city museums and their engagement in city<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/10\/19\/release-city-museums-collisions-i-connections-conference-at-museum-of-vancouver\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;RELEASE: \u201cCity Museums: Collisions I Connections\u201d conference at Museum of Vancouver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[792,978,1835,309,10419,10420,10418,571,1272,10414,10417,357,10415,5248,10416,1067,214,753],"class_list":["post-14380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-canada","tag-ceo","tag-director","tag-gastown","tag-international-committee-for-the-collections-and-activities-of-museums-of-cities","tag-international-council-of-museums","tag-jack-lohman","tag-larry-beasley","tag-london","tag-museum-of-anthropologyubc","tag-museum-of-london","tag-museum-of-vancouver","tag-museum-of-vancouver-october","tag-national-film-board","tag-royal-british-columbia-museum","tag-urban-planner","tag-vancouver-2","tag-vancouver-art-gallery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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