IBPOC Cultural Professionals Network
Connect with museum, gallery, and heritage IBPOC professionals from across British Columbia.
Responding to the immediate needs identified by racially marginalized museum workers, the IBPOC Network provides support for IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour) students, volunteers, and professionals of our community through workshops, webinars, networking, and resource development.
Programming for the network is guided by our IBPOC Network Advisory Group. If you have any questions about the IBPOC Network or would like to share suggestions, please get in touch with Jazmin Hundal at communications@museum.bc.ca.
Curious about what we do at the network? Check out this online recording where we break down all the different levels of support that you can find here.
News and Updates
New Episode!
IBPOC Network Podcast Ep.3
Check out our new episode, “Madison Bridal and Rooting for Reclamation”!
Jazmin and Madison sit down to chat about their work behind the scenes at the network, Madison’s career in museums, and her current exhibit at UVIC Legacy Art Gallery.
Popular Resource
Justification Letters
As we’ve travelled the province this year, many of you have shared with us how difficult it can be to explain the value of attending our sessions to your team.
So, we’ve written two letters that you can download to help with those conversations!
Popular Resources
Tea & Talk
Brew yourself a cup of tea and sit down with Madison and Jazmin to chat, seek advice, and get to know other cultural professionals of colour.
These sessions are always free, and don’t require registration.
Cultivating Careers Series
Join the BMCA for a new IBPOC Museum Professionals Network series on how to cultivate careers in the museum, heritage, and cultural sector.
This recurring series of sessions will focus on ways IBPOC museum, heritage, and cultural professionals can further their careers, encourage emerging IBPOC professionals, and navigate situations within their workplace all with the goal of strengthening IBPOC representation in the sector.
Feedback Survey
IBPOC Network sessions are regarded as safe spaces for all those who identify as IBPOC museum, heritage, and cultural professionals in what is colonially referred to as British Columbia. As such, the BCMA would like to learn additional ways the IBPOC Network can support these professionals.
Your responses will remain anonymous. Individuals can submit feedback more than once.
IBPOC Network Listserv
This Listserv provides a forum for IBPOC members of the arts, culture & heritage community to discuss issues and promote opportunities through a monitored mailing list.
Upcoming programming
Beyond the Margins: Networks Book & Media Club
January 8, 2024 / 12:00 – 1:00PM
The IBPOC Network and 2SLGBTQIA+ Network are excited to join together to offer a book & media club this winter season! Beyond the Margins seeks to create a supportive intersectional space focused on community building in the arts, culture, and heritage sector. This growth-oriented network provides a space to learn from one another and build solidarity amongst queer and IBPOC folks through the exploration of diverse media.
For the first season of Beyond the Margins, we will be discussing media focused on the theme of “intersectional joy”. Our first full session on January 8th will be a discussion of the Sher Vancouver Podcast Season 3, Episode 4: Norma Lize: Trans Activist and Refugee Advocate. Stay tuned for the announcement of media for February and March!
Hosting joint network events is intended as a way to celebrate and hold space for intersectionalities of identity and fill gaps in this type of programming – all who identify as IBPOC and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ are welcome!
Online Tea & Talk
January 28, 2024 / 1:00-2:00 PM
Brew yourself a cup of tea and sit down with Jazmin and Madison to chat, seek advice, and get to know other professionals of colour.
This sessions is free, and open to anyone who identifies as IBPOC. Click the link below to join on the day of.
Why the name IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour)?
Originally launched under the name BIPOC Network, Indigenous BCMA members reached out and suggested using the term IBPOC to recognize that the discussions and activities facilitated through this network are taking place on the ceded, unceded, and sovereign territories of Indigenous communities across what is now referred to as British Columbia. The BCMA recognizes that we are uninvited guests on these territories and wish to centre this network around respect and reconciliation.
We recognize that grouping such distinct identities together suggests an interchangeability that fails to articulate the differential ways that racialized people experience race and racism and will continue to evolve and update our language in consultation with the community.
This Network was inspired by the #MuseumsAreNotNeutral Webinar in June 2020. Watch the webinar
Check out this recent webinar:
Community-centred Approaches to Museum Exhibits and Programs
The IBPOC Museum Professionals Network was joined by culture executive, Karen Carter for an informative webinar on community-centred approaches to museum exhibits and programs. Participants learnt how to become a co-conspirator for DEIA, build relationships not just partnerships, and what a call-and-response communications model is.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice
Explore our growing collection of resources on equity and justice.
