June 24, 2022
The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre has completed its digitization of Families on the Coast: The Madokoro Collections. The collections include the Thomas and Sachi Madokoro Family Collection and the Mamoru Madokoro Collection. Both contain valuable materials that document the economic, historical, and cultural history, particularly BC’s fishing industry, of Japanese Canadians before, during, and after the Second World War.
The digitization of Families on the Coast: The Madokoro Collections was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program.
For more information about the 2021/2022 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
Source: Nikkei National Museum, 2019-17-2-13-125
www.nikkeimuseum.org
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June 17, 2022
As part of Indigenous History Month, a new exhibit has launched in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. View featured materials from Xwi7xwa’s Indigenous language collection, and learn how the branch supports language revitalization on campus and in the community.
Join Xwi7xwa Library on Tuesday, June 21st from 10-3 to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day and learn more about the Indigenous territories you live on, have been to, or would like to visit! The library will be displaying our Indigenous floor map on the second floor of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Student librarians will be present to answer questions and help you find further information in your learning journey.
Learn more about how Xwi7xwa Library supports language revitalization on campus and in the community here.
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June 10, 2022
Simon Fraser University English Department has completed its digitization of a collection of primarily Contemporary Literature Collection audio recordings held in SFU’s Special Collections & Rare Books. Digitized works include those from the Fred Wah fonds, the Women and Words fonds, the Daphne Marlatt fonds, the Filling Station fonds, and others.
The digitization of Unarchiving the Margins: Digitizing Literary Audio by Represented Groups was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program.
For more information about the 2021/2022 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
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May 31, 2022
Barkerville Historic Town and Park has completed its digitization of the Barkerville BC Historic Maps. The project digitization included maps, posters, architectural drawings, blueprints, and other historically significant artefacts in Barkerville’s archives, spanning over 150 years.
The digitization of Barkerville BC Historic Maps was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program and is available to view through the Government of British Columbia’s Provincial Heritage Artifacts Database.
For more information about the 2021/2022 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
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May 28, 2022
C.E. Gatchalian
Biography
Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (colonially known as “Vancouver”), currently dividing his time between Vancouver and Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian (he/him/his) is a queer Filipinx diasporic author, editor, playwright, dramaturge, teacher and consultant of Tagalog, Ilocano, and Spanish ancestry. A graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing program, he is the author of six books and co-editor of two anthologies. He was the 2013 recipient of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. His plays, which include Crossing, Motifs & Repetitions, People Like Vince, Broken, and Falling in Time, have been produced nationally and internationally, as well as on radio and television. Formerly Artistic Producer of the frank theatre company, Vancouver’s professional queer theatre company, he is the founder of QueerAsian, an ongoing series of writing workshops for 2SLGBTQIA+ Asians hosted by Historic Joy Kogawa House, and is the Outreach and Social Media Manager for CultureBrew.Art, a national searchable database of Indigenous and racialized practitioners in the performing, literary and media arts. His memoir, Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty and the Making of a Brown Queer Man, was published in 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press, and he is currently co-editing Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing, to be published by Cormorant Books in Spring 2023. His current work focuses on intergenerational and inherited trauma, and the intersections between race, class, sexuality, and gender; society and the self; history, the present and the future. IG: @ce_gatchalian. Website: cegatchalian.com
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May 28, 2022
Bri Watson
Biography
Bri Watson (@brimwats) is a disabled, white, queer & nonbinary settler living in Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish. They are currently a Vanier Scholar at University of British Columbia’s iSchool focusing on histories of information and the practice of equitable cataloging in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections. Watson is the Archivist-Historian of the American Psychological Association’s Consensual Nonmonogamy Committee (div44cnm.org) and the Haslam Collection on Polyamory at the Kinsey Institute. They serve on the editorial board of Homosaurus (homosaurus.org), an international linked data vocabulary for queer terminology, and are the Director of HistSex.org, a free and open access resource for the history of sexuality. For 2022-23, they are one of UBC Library’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Scholars-in-Residence.
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May 28, 2022
Nneka Allen
Nneka Allen is a Black woman and a descendant of the Underground Railroad. Her African ancestors had a historic relationship with the First Peoples of Canada and as result, the Cherokee and the Ojibwe are also her relations. She is a 6th generation Canadian and a Momma.
Born in the 70s, Nneka was raised during a time of Black power and acute political awareness in North America. As a result, the air in her childhood home was generous, brilliant and proud. Her parents and their siblings with great intentionality poured their consciousness into her multi-ethnic identity.
Today, Nneka is a relationship builder, a stone-catcher, a freedom fighter, a professional coach and a storyteller. As a lover of justice, Nneka has inspired philanthropy as a Fundraising Executive in the charitable sector for almost 25 years. As the Principal and Founder of The Empathy Agency Inc., she helps leaders and their teams deliver more fairly on their missions by coaching them to explore the impact identity has on culture and equity outcomes.
Nneka is also the founder of the Black Canadian Fundraisers’ Collective, a group of fundraisers who inspire and elevate the philanthropic sector in the African tradition of Ubuntu – “I am because we are“. She is an award-winning author and joint editor of a book featuring the first-person narratives of 15 Black contributors, mainly fundraisers from the United States and Canada called Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love.
Nneka’s ultimate joy is her daughter Destiny and her husband Skylar, who are both Environmental Scientists and philanthropists. Along with their dogs Sophi and Sammi, they live and work on the unceded shared territory of the Sumas and Mastqui First Nations. She honours the survival of the Indigenous nations of Turtle Island, despite genocide. She recognizes the theft and the subjugation of colonization and white supremacy culture. And as a forced inhabitant of these beautiful territories, she is challenged to confront the cost of living on this land. It is only through the historic relationship and collective wisdom of her African and Indigenous ancestors that she is here today and her activism emerges.
“Us and Them: What it Really Means to Belong” with Nneka Allen took place at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Peña Room. Nneka’s article from this talk is accessible here.
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May 26, 2022
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April 26, 2022
The BC Society for the Museum of Original Costume (SMOC) has completed its digitization of photographs and marketing materials of Vancouver-based fashion designer Lore Maria Wiener’s (31 March 1920 – 16 July 2019).
The digitization of the Rainforest Elegance: Designer Lore Maria Wiener Archive was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program and is available via Arca.
For more information about the 2021/2022 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
Photo Collection: Lore Maria Wiener (31 March 1920 – 16 July 2019)
https://arcabc.ca/islandora/search/lore%20Maria%20Wiener?type=dismax
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