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• Southern Tier Access and Identity Workshop

  • When
    October 23, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    The History Center in Tompkins County, 1110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

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  Access and Identity Workshop

  Southern Tier

  The History Center in Tompkins County

  
  

  1110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

  
  

  Wednesday, October 23 2019

  9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  
  

  Registration: $35 MANY Members / $45 Non Members

  Includes lunch

  
  

  9:30 AM

  Welcome by The History Center

  
  

  10 - 11:30 AM

  Collaborative Projects in Recording Neighborhood History
  
  John Diefenderfer, Archivist, Documentary Heritage Program, New York State Archives

  Daniel DiLandro, Archivist/Special Collection Librarian, SUNY Buffalo

  Natalie Milbrodt, Director, Queens Memory Project, Queens Public Library
  
  Panelists will discuss on-going efforts to create a more equitable historical record through innovative use of documentation planning, capture, dissemination and community archiving projects.

  11:30 AM - 12 PM 

  MANY Update: Advocacy & Programs by Erika Sanger

  
  

  12 - 1 PM

  Lunch and Time to Visit the museum

  
  

  1 - 2:30 PM

  Our Museum in Action: Engaging Hard to Reach Donors in Small 

  Projects

  
  

  Ken Meifert, VP Sponsorship and Development, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

  
  Three years ago the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum launched a program called Our Museum in Action. Focused on small digital preservation and conservation projects, the program allows donors to contribute towards specific small projects and in many cases fully fund the project providing the donor with a sense of “ownership.” The Museum has successfully engaged new donors who were not previously contributing while funding important projects that would otherwise put a crunch on the operating budget. The presentation will cover what has worked and what has not since the launch of the program, and provide takeaways for you to launch your own Our Museum in Action program regardless of your organizations' size.  

  
  

  2:45 - 4:15 PM

  Finding Your Roots: Genealogy Tours and Tourism

  Rachel Dworkin, Archivist, Chemung County Historical Society

  Jonathan Palmer, Archivist, Greene County Historical Society

  Helping patrons with genealogy is the bread and butter for small historical societies. Helping visitors reconnect to their roots can expand our audiences and help generate community. In this session, we will discuss the institutional and wider economic implications of genealogy tourism.

  
  

  Schedule subject to change.

  
  

  No refunds if cancellation within 48 hours of the workshop.

  All workshop attendees are invited to MANY's Southern Tier Meet-Up following at 4:30.

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• Southern Tier Meet Up

  • When
    October 23, 2019
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    History Center of Tompkins County, 110 N. Tioga St. Ithaca, NY 14850

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  Southern Tier Meet-Up

  The History Center in Tompkins County

  110 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850

  Wednesday, October 23, 2019

  4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  We will gather together for a discussion about important issues and share information about upcoming MANY professional development opportunities. Please join us for light refreshments and time to network with Southern Tier colleagues.

  Admission free

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• Capital Region Access and Identity Workshop

  • When
    October 24, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Mabee Farm, 1100 Main Street Rotterdam Junction, NY 12150

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  Access and Identity Workshop

  Schenectady County Historical Society

  at Mabee Farm

  
  

  1100 Main Street, Rotterdam Junction, NY 12150

  
  

  Thursday, October 24 2019

  9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  
  

  Registration: $35 MANY Members / $45 Non Members

  Includes lunch

  
  

  9:30 AM

  Welcome by Mary Zawacki, Executive Director, Schenectady County Historical Society

  
  

  10 - 11:30 AM

  Exclusive and Inclusive: Behind the Scenes Collections Tours for the 21st Century

  Kathryn Murano Santos, Senior Director, Collections and Exhibitions, Rochester Museum & Science Center

  Stephanie Ball, Archivist/Librarian, Rochester Museum & Science Center

  Linda Saalman, Volunteer, Rochester Museum & Science Center
  
  Behind the Scenes Tours hold the potential to educate funders and the public about collections stewardship requirements as well as build excitement for collection use and encourage institutional support. In this session, participants will work to innovate the Behind the Scenes tour model and document best practices.

  11:30 AM - 12 PM 

  MANY Update: Advocacy & Programs by Erika Sanger

  
  

  12 - 1 PM

  Lunch and Time to Visit Mabee Farm

  
  

  1 - 2:30 PM

  Humanities NY Workshop with Michael Washburn, Director of Programs, HNY

  
  

  2:45 - 4:15 PM

  Expanding Visitor Experiences: Engaging Tour Ideas for Historic Sites

   

  Amy Hufnagel, Vice President, Interpretation & Engagement, The Olana Partnership/Olana State Historic Site

  
  

  Allowing visitors to create their own narrative in historic sites has become an increasing trend.  How do we provide a compelling visitor experience that expands the diversity of the stories we tell?  Hear success stories from two house museums using new tour formats.

  
  

  Schedule subject to change.

  No refunds if cancellation within 48 hours of the workshop.

  All workshop attendees are invited to MANY's Capital Regional Meet-Up following at 4:30.

  
  

  
  

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• Capital Region Meet Up

  • When
    October 24, 2019
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Mabee Farm, 1100 Main Street Rotterdam Junction, NY 12150

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  Capital Region Meet-Up

  Schenectady County Historical Society

  at Mabee Farm

  
  

  1100 Main Street, Rotterdam Junction, NY 12150

  Thursday, October 24, 2019

  4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  We will gather together for a discussion about important issues and share information about upcoming MANY professional development opportunities. Please join us for light refreshments and time to network with Capital Region colleagues.

  Admission free.

  
  

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• NYC Meet Up

  • When
    October 29, 2019
  •  
    3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave. New York, NY 10028

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  New York City Meet-Up

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, October 29, 2019

  3 - 7:00 PM

  3 PM

  Welcome by Thomas Schuler, Chief Government Affairs Officer

  3:15 - 4:14 PM 

  To Post or Not To Post: Social Media at The Met and Beyond

  Claire Lanier, Senior Manager of Social Media at The Met

  Social media – now a vital tool for marketing, communications, and audience connection – is a vastly and rapidly changing landscape. How do museums, big and small, adapt to new practices, ideas, platforms, and technologies while remaining true to our educational missions and audiences? Explore how The Met engages its followers in 5,000 years of art history, and learn a few tips, tricks, and best practices to take back to your cultural institution.

  4:15 - 4:45 PM 

  The Reinstallation of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Galleries and how government funding was secured for the project with Allysa Legamo and Tom Schuler, Frances Escano, Government Affairs Specialist, City Issues

  4:45 - 5:30 PM

  Galleries Open

  5:30 - 7 PM

  Reception

  Schedule subject to change.

  Admission free.

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• Long Island Access and Identity Workshop

  • When
    November 06, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Hofstra University Museum of Art, 112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549

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  Access and Identity Workshop

  Hofstra University Museum of Art
  

  
  

  112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549

  
  

  Wednesday, November 6 2019

  9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  
  

  Registration cost: $35 MANY Members / $45 Non Members

  Includes Lunch

  
  

  9:30 AM

  Welcome by Karen Albert, Acting Director, Hofstra University Museum of Art

  
  

  10 - 11:30 AM

  Your Story, Our Story with The Tenement Museum

  
  

  Kathryn Llloyd, Director of Programs, The Tenement Museum

  Whose stories belong in museums? How do we open our museums to visitors’ and students’ stories? In this session, we’ll look at the Tenement Museum’s Your Story, Our Story initiative, an online exhibit and digital storytelling project that explores American identity through the objects and traditions in our lives. We’ll explore stories from the collection, consider our own stories and identities, and learn how museums can use the Your Story, Our Story initiative to open their collections to new narratives and underrepresented perspectives.

  11:30 AM - 12 PM 

  MANY Update: Advocacy & Programs by Erika Sanger

  
  

  12 - 1 PM

  Lunch and Time to Visit the gallery

  
  

  1 - 2:30 PM

  Is Your Museum a Destination?

  Bob Provost, President & CEO, New York State Tourism Industry Association

  Sara Poe, Vice President for Marketing and Communications, The Strong

  Beth Duane, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Corning Museum of Glass

  Ross Levi, Executive Director / Vice President, New York State Division of Tourism - I LOVE NY

  
  

  How can your museum drive tourism and increase the economic impact of your community? What marketing tools can museums use? How can museums partner with their local tourism promotion agency to drive visitors to their organizations? Hear from industry professionals on how to make your museum a destination.

  
  

  2:45 - 4:15 PM

  Interpretation for Placemaking: Humanities NY Workshop

  
  

  Scarlett Rebman, Grants Officer, HNY

  Darren St. George, Education and Public Programs Director at Preservation Long Island

  
  

  Scarlett Rebman, Grants Officer at Humanities New York, and Darren St. George, Education and Public Programs Director at Preservation Long Island, will share how an HNY Vision Grant supported the development of the Jupiter Hammon Project. In 2020, the project will explore the legacy of enslavement on Long Island through the life of Jupiter Hammon. Hammon was the first published African American poet who wrote and was enslaved at the Joseph Lloyd Manor, one of Preservation Long Island’s three historic house museums. Through an activity and discussion, participants will be invited to reflect on the importance and challenges of reinterpreting sites of enslavement and other difficult histories. 

  
  

   

  Schedule subject to change.

  
  

  No refunds if cancellation within 48 hours of the workshop.

  All workshop attendees are invited to MANY's Long Island Meet-Up following at 4:30.

  
  

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• Long Island Meet Up

  • When
    November 06, 2019
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Hofstra University Museum of Art 112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549

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  Long Island Meet-Up

  Hofstra University Museum of Art

  112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549

  Wednesday, November 6, 2019

  4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  We will gather together for a discussion about important issues and share information about upcoming MANY professional development opportunities. Please join us for light refreshments and time to network with Long Island colleagues.

  
  

  Admission Free

  
  

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• Hudson Valley Access and Identity Workshop

  • When
    November 13, 2019
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman St. Beacon, NY 12508

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  Access and Identity Workshop

  Dia:Beacon

  
  

  Wednesday, November 13, 2019

  9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  
  

  Registration: $35 MANY Members / $45 Non Members

  Includes Lunch

  
  

  9:30 AM

  Welcome by Tom Shannon, Director of Facilities, Dia:Beacon

  Vice-President, MANY Board

  
  

  10 - 11:30 AM

  Multi-Step Strategies for New Exhibit Funding, Design, Development and Production

  Peter Hyde, Owner, Peter Hyde Design

  Gary Urbanowicz, Executive Director, New York City Fire Museum

  Thomas Sullivan, Fire Safety Officer, FDNY
  

  
  

  How does an institution successfully fund, plan, design and produce a new exhibit when all the resources are not in place at the start? What if they do not have to be? The session will present strategies by the New York City Fire Museum for the “Fire Safety Learning Center”. 

  11:30 AM - 12 PM 

  MANY Update: Advocacy & Programs by Erika Sanger

  
  

  12 - 1 PM

  Lunch and Time to Visit the gallery

  
  

  1 - 2:30 PM

  The Present is Queer: Case Studies & Strategies for LGBTQIA+ Representation in Museums

  
  

  John-Duane Kingsley, Consultant, Twisted Preservation

  Zachary Bowman, Manager of Education and Visitor Experience, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

  Danielle Bennett, Independent Museum Professional

  
  

  Museum professionals identifying as members of the LGBTQIA+ community discuss successful models of LGBTQIA+ inclusion and representation within American museums. With examples ranging from contemporary art to heritage preservation, national best practices and personal experience will be leveraged for a conversational primer on engaging with the cultural legacy and demographic needs of the LGBTQIA+ community inside and outside the walls of your institution.

  
  

  2:45 - 4:15 PM

  Access to Art: Creatively Engaging Visitors with Disabilities at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 

   

  Karen Duval, Access & Community Coordinator, Albright Knox Art Gallery

   

  How can museums create a more inclusive environment for all visitors and break down barriers to participation? From smaller adaptations like signage, to large scale building modifications, and customized programs. In this session, learn how the Albright-Knox Art Gallery uses modern and contemporary art as the impetus to creatively engage visitors with disabilities in Access AK programs.

  Schedule subject to change.

  No refunds if cancellation within 48 hours of the workshop.

  All workshop attendees are invited to MANY's Hudson Valley Regional Meet-Up following at 4:30.

  
  

  
  

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• Hudson Valley Meet-Up

  • When
    November 13, 2019
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman St. Beacon, NY 12508

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  Hudson Valley Meet-Up

  Dia:Beacon

  
  

  3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
  

  
  

  Wednesday, November 13, 2019

  4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  
  

  We will gather together for a discussion about important issues and share information about upcoming MANY professional development opportunities. Please join us for light refreshments and time to network with Hudson Valley colleagues.

  
  

  Admission Free

  
  

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