Stay safe at home this winter with the Historical Museum of St. James-Assiniboia.

We are pleased to announce our new Multi-Media Event Series made possible through Safe at Home Manitoba. This exciting new series will explore the intersections between history, art, and music through a series of unique, interactive events.

All events (except “What it means to know Winter”) will be premiered on our Facebook and available to watch afterwards on our website (see below for links to events). Please stay tuned for more details as each event approaches.

Pioneer Life in the 1890s

Program Premiere: January 8, 2021 (click here to re-watch tour)

Educational programming based on the Manitoba Social Studies curriculum to students at home featuring a theatrical tour of the Museum’s 1856 Red River Frame House (originally owned by Scottish immigrant William Brown and Métis Charlotte Omand).

In addition to our theatrical tour, join us throughout March for Facebook Lives where we will present interactive, engaging activities for children and provide a look into museum education and pioneer life.

Schedule:

March 5th at 2pm: Pioneer Life Scavenger Hunt (for younger children)

March 19th at 2pm: What is an Artifact? (for older children)

March 29th at 11:30am: Cameras in History (for all ages)

“Flower Photo Inkblots” and “Deconstruction Mandalas”

Program Premiere: January 30, 2021 (click here to view “Flower Photo Inkblots”) and February 7, 2021 (click here to view “Deconstruction Mandalas”)

Explore art and history through a photographic art show and lecture by professionally trained photographer and artist with works displayed in Europe, Canada, and Hawaii.

Valentine’s Guitar Concert

Program Premiere: February 14, 2021 (click here to view concert)

Romantic guitar concert for Valentine’s dinner. Take a romantic tour of historical music through the classical guitar, a great dinner companion on this most romantic day of the year. Featuring a former Dalhousie University professor of music who has performed across Canada.

“What it means to know Winter”

Part I: February 27, 2021 at 2pm / Part II: March 13, 2021 at 2pm (Click here to re-watch program)

Features Indigenous teachings presented by Museum Elders Clarence and Barbara Nepinak who have delivered educational programs to Indigenous based schools including workshops, performances, and teachings throughout the world.

“What it means to know Winter” will be a live event. To pre-register for Part I or Part II, please email st.jamesassiniboiamuseum@gmail.com with your name and the number of spots you would like to reserve.

Community Show: Year 2020

How will the year 2020 be remembered?

It’s been said that the way we live history is not the way historians tell history.              

This is your opportunity to take your place in history and show us your personal life experiences and observations during the year 2020.

The Historical Museum of St. James-Assiniboia is creating a photographic show and we are looking for anyone that would like to be a participant in this collaborative  venture.

When submitting your photograph, think about what makes your image reflect the year 2020.  Show us photographs that capture your daily life, a specific event, a certain special individual, family or friends, a business, a place, sports, pets, school life, work environment, or virtually anything you can capture to tell the story of the year 2020.

We will collect your photograph(s) over the month of December 2020 and up till January 25, 2021.  (Submissions from all ages welcome.)

Participation Guidelines:

• Email photographs taken between January 1 2020 – December 31, 2020, as a JPG attachment to st.jamesassiniboiamuseum@gmail.com.  

• Please limit your submission to 6 photographs per individual and include name, and age of person taking photograph.

• Please include a caption with each photograph submitted giving date the photograph was taken, where it was taken, and names of any individuals (optional), people, places, events, and any information that helps define the context of the photograph.

By participating, you agree to the following when submitting your photograph(s):

• You have the permission of any and all individuals featured in the photograph to submit the photograph to the Museum.

• You relinquish all rights of the photograph(s) to The Historical Museum of St. James-Assiniboia Inc. to use the photograph(s) in a public show, on-line presentation, publication or for other Museum related purposes.

• Although The Historical Museum of St. James-Assiniboia will do its best to feature all submitted photographs in a public showing, events or activities, we cannot guarantee that all photographs will be included.

We thank all participants in advance. 

Stay safe and be well.

(*Please stay tuned to the Museum’s Website, Facebook and Instagram towards the end of January 2021 for announcements of how and where your photographs will be shown.)