08- Raising the voices within: Protest, Resilience and Resistance at Cumberland Museum & Coal Creek Historic Site (Extended 11-3:30)

Facilitators:   Christina Jones & Dawn Copeman
Extended workshop session
Time:   11:00 – 3:30pm   (break for lunch)
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Location: Cumberland Museum & Archives (2680 Dunsmuir Ave, Cumberland)
and Coal Creek Historic Site (20 min walk)
Max (in-person): 16

Grades: 5+ – Discriminatory Government Policies, Immigration, Impacts of Colonial Settlement, Resource Extraction  

The program will include 2 components held at 2 sites;
indoors at the Cumberland Museum and outdoors at the Coal Creek Historic Site (off of Comox Lake Rd.) It is about a 20 minute walk or 4 minute drive between the two sites. The group will be divided in 2 and then swap sites. There will be an hour allowance for lunch break to explore Cumberland.

Christina Jones’ 13+ years of experience as an Art Education specialist has included roles as Educator and Family Programs Coordinator at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011-2022), the creation of activated visual literacy spaces such as Cumberland Museum & Archives’ Collaboration Studio (2024) and The Vancouver Art Gallery’s Young Activist Reading Room (2021-2024).

She facilitates tactile arts programming for adults in care at the Cumberland Lodge and is founder and director of Tiny Pencil Studios in Cumberland, BC . She holds the position of Curator of Learning at the Cumberland Museum & Archives and sits on the board of Directors of the Comox Valley Arts Council. Christina studied Visual Art at the University of Western Ontario (B.A. 2006) and Art Education at the University of British Columbia(M.A. 2016)

Email contact: programs@cumberlandmuseum.ca for more info. Register ticket below.
  •  February 18, 2025
     11:00 am - 3:30 pm
Details Price Qty
Free Ticket $0.00 CAD