CONTENTS
VOL. III, NO. 1 - April 1997

• Fredericton Literacy Project
• Signs and Designs: The Art of Identity
• Literacy and Traditional Knowledge
  at the Northern Life Museum
• Creatures in Our Midst
• Community Partners Project in Saskatoon

Filmmaker Visits Literacy Projects

Noted American documentary filmmaker George Stoney visited several projects during March in connection with the six-hour series he is preparing about the work and influence of renowned literacy educator Paulo Freire. Accompanying him to Western Canada was "Reading the Museum" coordinator Lon Dubinsky. The first stop was Regina, to meet learners, gallery staff and literacv educators participating in "Creatures in Our Midst", the Dunlop Art Gallery's project. The next visit was the Edmonton Art Gallery, to meet learners, curator of education Marie Lopes and writing instructor Don Trembath. This collaboration grew out of the successful 1995 literacy project "Blue Ink in My Pen," which also involved the gallery and Prospects Literacy Association.

Filmmaker Stoney then travelled to Hamilton to visit the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, because of its focus on popular education and labour history, both of which are central to Freire's work. His final stop was the Art Gallery of Windsor, for a look at a project involving the gallery and the Multicultural Council of Windsor-Essex County.

"Reading the Museum" On the Net

The "Reading The Museum" program now has a page on the National Adult Literacy Data Base web site. You can reach us at http://www.nald.ca/library/newsletter/rtm/newslet/archive.htm. Information available includes up-to-the minute program news, learning materials and publications from several demonstration projects and back issues of the newsletter.

"Small Is Still Beautiful"
Literacy Session at the CMA 50th Anniversary Conference June 11-15, Ottawa, Ontario

Plan to attend the 50th Anniversary conference of the Canadian Museums Association in Ottawa from June 11 to 15 and participate in the literacy session. It is slated for Friday afternoon, June 13 and will focus on literacy projects in small museums. The session will have a conversational format and include discussion about working with community groups, how small museums lend themselves to local initiatives and what larger institutions can learn from these experiences. The speakers are Helen Marzolf, Director, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Bill Smith, Assistant Director/ Curator Huronia Museum, Midland Ontario; Clarence Rymer, Director, Northern Life Museum, Fort Smith Northwest Territories and Charles Ramsey, Executive Director, National Adult Literacy Base, Fredericton, New Brunswick. For more information about the conference and the session contact the Canadian Museums Association at: Tel, (613) 567-0099, Fax, (613) 233-5438.