Greetings from MAIG,

 

Join members of the Municipal Archives Interest Group (MAIG) and our Executive for a virtual presentation and meeting during our annual Open House on Friday, October 14th. For those who cannot attend the in-person event at the Dufferin County Archives, this will be an opportunity to attend virtual speaker sessions and the afternoon MAIG meeting via Zoom.

Sahana Puvirajasingam will be providing a video presentation about the “Collecting the Community” project; and there will be a live virtual presentation by Alex Avdichuk and Gabrielle Major both with the City of Toronto Museums. “Collecting the Community” is an initiative by the Museum of Dufferin to engage with, collect, preserve, and interpret the past, present, and future history of historically marginalized communities in Dufferin County. Alex Avdichuk will be speaking on contemporary collecting policy and the sensitivity around collecting oral histories, and Gabrielle Major will be discussing collecting sensitive items.

 

The Zoom session details and link are below, along with biographies for our guest speakers. If you have any questions about attending the virtual portion of our 2022 MAIG Open House please feel free to reach out to our Executive team.

 

Agenda for virtual attendees:

1:00 pm-2:30 pm EST • Guest Speakers’ Sessions

2:30 pm-4:00 pm EST • MAIG Meeting

 

*The agenda package for the MAIG Open House Meeting can be viewed online here.

 

Speaker Biographies:

Sahana Puvirajasingam is a Tamil-Canadian emerging museum professional. She is the

Community Collections Curator at the Museum of Dufferin, where she is leading the Collecting

the Community project, and is also a Museum Collections Assistant with City of Toronto

Museums & Heritage Services.

 

Alex Avdichuk's museum career spans thirty years in private and public institutions. She holds a

Master of Museum Studies degree from the University of Toronto, and a Diploma in Cultural

Resource Management from the University of Victoria. Alex has been the Supervisor of

Collections and Conservation for the City of Toronto Museums and Heritage Services since 2006,

and she also teaches Care of Collections for the Centennial College Museum and Cultural

Management Program. Her interests lie in making museum collections more accessible to the

public, and she shamelessly knits in meetings.

 

Gabrielle Major is currently Registrar with City of Toronto Museums & Heritage Services, where

she manages the information and documentation of artifacts in storage and on display at the

City's ten museum sites. She has been involved with museums and collections management

since 2006, when she began her career with the Community Museums Association of PEI.

 

 

Zoom Session Details

 

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Warm Regards,

Megan Lockhart, MAIG Chair

 

 

 

 

Megan Lockhart (She/Her/Hers)

Archives Technician Oxford County Archives

Oxford County  | www.oxfordcounty.ca/archives  

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