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[aastra]

 

We'd likely still have the zombies in RBCM management.

 

Maybe try turning that into an advantage? Give every museum visitor a paintball gun and call it a zombie adventure. You could double the cost of admission, easily.

[Mike K.]

In the world of politics, entertainment, big business, and royal families, everybody is related to somebody. At times the "coincidences of connection" are beyond laughable. Literally, you can't even be bothered to laugh about it because it's all so wildly unbelievable that any of it could have happened naturally/organically. Some of my personal favourites are the Gates family and the family of Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Seinfeld. A smaller example would be something like Dana Carvey and his brother.

As things get progressively more preposterous and overt, it's almost as if we're being dared to see through it all. Not necessarily to resist it, but rather to receive some understanding of what's really going on and what it's really all about.

Anyway, back to more important and relevant things. Did you see the plain panel cladding on that new building downtown? Talk about ugly! I'm steamed about that, for sure.

It has to be done in the open for it to be legitimized. Even if you can’t see the forest for the trees.

It’s not their problem that you can’t make the connections. As long as they present you with the information and the intent, and you happen to not understand what they’re presenting to you, that’s on you.

So yes, you are being shown, and not even dared to look through it/see through it, but expected to. It’s so you become a willing participant.

[JimV]

Today we are told that if we don’t have white teeth, fresh breath, are odor free or sweat free, that we are candidates for rejection and are at a much decreased competitive advantage. 

Oh yeah, but who pays attention to that advice.  I’m sure most employers and people looking for mates would much prefer someone with a mouthful of yellow snags and reeking of body odour.

[dasmo]

It doesn’t need to be nefarious. Bernays book Propaganda is actually a manual on marketing 🤷🏽.
The power is evident regardless when you ask yourself why you think of bacon as breakfast food. It’s because of Bernays….

Edited by dasmo, 18 January 2023 - 06:38 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Meanwhile, attendance was slumping even with the price cut that lasted much of last year. (The admission fee went back up to the previous $18 per adult at the start of this year, even though the third floor is still closed.)

The ultimate solution is very much up in the air. But the fact Old Town is still more or less intact, and the fact the RBCM gave a few people a peek, makes you wonder if there isn’t a stopgap measure worth considering.

If they retooled it and the other settler displays with more up-to-date reconciliation and cultural sensitivities, they could rebuild at least some of the museum’s attendance and revenue during the long public engagement process.

It’s very much a hot topic in the consultations to date. The government said it was going to back up and start over. It should back up completely, refresh Old Town and carry on while Plan B takes shape.

https://www.timescol...st-town-6527542

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 11 February 2023 - 05:09 AM.

[UDeMan]

they should refresh Old Town by making it like Victoria now.  Every other store front closed as the business has gone bankrupt.

Smash most of the windows, have people openly using crack and meth in front of every store front. The smell of urine and marijuana as you walk the street.

 

Random assaults of visitors too.  That would get the young people to attend, they are in to experiences now.

[spanky123]

The ultimate solution is very much up in the air. But the fact Old Town is still more or less intact, and the fact the RBCM gave a few people a peek, makes you wonder if there isn’t a stopgap measure worth considering.

 

Apparently Old Town is not intact. It has been disassembled and extra artifacts are being sold off.

[Matt R.]

they should refresh Old Town by making it like Victoria now.  Every other store front closed as the business has gone bankrupt.

Smash most of the windows, have people openly using crack and meth in front of every store front. The smell of urine and marijuana as you walk the street.

 

Random assaults of visitors too.  That would get the young people to attend, they are in to experiences now.

 

Old Man Yelling at Bike lanes is sure to be an instant hit.

[Victoria Watcher]

Apparently Old Town is not intact. It has been disassembled and extra artifacts are being sold off.

 

Not according to today's TC article.  Last weekend the Chamber had a party there and they toured it.

[spanky123]

Not according to today's TC article.  Last weekend the Chamber had a party there and they toured it.

 

I have seen pictures of boxes being packed up. 

[Victoria Watcher]

I have seen pictures of boxes being packed up. 

 

 

Guests at the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce's 160th anniversary reception visit the Royal B.C. Museum's Old Town exhibit this week.

 

 

The boarded-up Old Town exhibit was unlocked and those who wanted to were given a brief glimpse of what it looks like now. It confirmed what RBCM director Alicia Dubois told the Times Colonist in January — the place is pretty much untouched.

 

https://www.timescol...st-town-6527542

[spanky123]

^ Looks to me like the displays are empty and boxes packed up towards the back.

[Nparker]

The dioramas seem to be intact. With the proper political will it could be re-opened to the public with little effort.

[Mike K.]

The facades are there.

[spanky123]

The dioramas seem to be intact. With the proper political will it could be re-opened to the public with little effort.

 

No question you are right. Obviously what we were told about asbestos risk is BS as they allowed people to tour the galleries.

 

I guess the NDP figures leaving it closed for 8 years is the best outcome.

[Nparker]

...I guess the NDP figures leaving it closed for 8 years is the best outcome.

Since they weren't allowed to tear the entire museum down, closing portions of it off is the next best woke thing to do.

[On the Level]

I can't think of any good outcome for the museum unless we have a change in government.

[LJ]

Let's hope that happens sooner rather than later.

[Nparker]

I  can't think of any good outcome for the province unless we have a change in government.

[FawltyVic]

More than 100 years after it was taken, Nuxalk totem pole to begin trek home from Victoria museum (msn.com)

 

More than 100 years after it was taken, Nuxalk totem pole to begin trek home from Victoria museum

Story by Courtney Dickson

After being taken more than 100 years ago, a totem pole belonging to the Nuxalk Nation will begin its journey home today. 

The pole, which has sat for years in the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, B.C., will be transported by truck to Bella Coola, along B.C.'s Central Coast.

The more than 1,000-kilometre trip from the island to the mainland and up through the Interior is expected to take two or three days, depending on weather conditions.

"The repatriation of cultural property is an important way of acknowledging and reconciling the unjust treatment First Nations people have endured since contact," Nuxalk Nation elected chief councillor Samuel Schooner said in an emailed statement to CBC News in January. 

"Thousands of Nuxalk objects are housed in museums and private collections around the world, and it's time they all made their way home. This example illustrates the urgent need for funding to create our own museum, a place where we, as Nuxalkmc, can reconnect with the shared treasures of our past."

According to Hereditary Chief Snuxyaltwa (Deric Snow), the pole was carved by his great-grandfather, the late Louie Snow and former owner of the Snuxylaltwa title, in the 19th or early 20th century. It was placed outside the family longhouse in Talleomy (South Bentinck), about 330 kilometres, or a 1,000-kilometre drive, northwest of the area.

It was lost in the early 1900s when Nuxalk members, seeking to evade the smallpox epidemic, relocated about 35 kilometres north to Bella Coola.

 

*Article continued through link*

 

Edited by FawltyVic, 13 February 2023 - 12:08 PM.