<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">LMCG is pleased to announce an addition to our July 24th virtual meeting: Focus on Sustainability <br><br><b>SAGE - Building a Tool, Building a Community of Practice<br>Viviane Gosselin, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Vancouver</b><br><br>This presentation will share the origin story of SAGE (Sustainable Arts and Green Ecosystems), a Vancouver-based community of practice rethinking how exhibitions and stage sets get made. It will trace how SAGE grew from a two-year, grant-funded experiment into a network of museums, theatres, and makers who share design hacks, materials, and a commitment to circular production. It will introduce the SAGE Toolkit, Canada's first resource for sustainable exhibition and set design, and walk through its 5Rs of circularity: Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recirculate. Ultimately, the presentation hopes to encourage participants to learn more and get involved!<br><br>This presentation will kick off our 2:30-4:00pm meeting, followed by: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br><b>Local Collections, Global Perspectives: The Making of Future Geographies </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Andrea Valentine-Lewis, Curatorial Assistant at Vancouver Art Gallery </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Greening the Museum’s Climatology</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paul Harrison</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Conservator at Phoenix Conservation</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All are welcome to attend this free session, but RSVP is required. Emai<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:lowermainlandcurators@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue">lowermainlandcurators@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>to RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></p><img src="cid:ii_mrmg6a9w0" alt="July 25 Lower Mainland Curators.jpg" width="419" height="542"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p></div>