1993-96 Demonstration Projects

British Columbia Forest Museum and Malaspina University College, Duncan, British Columbia
Adult learners collected and assembled a collection of oral histories on the logging industry called: Loggers, Wives and Sawmill Workers: Memories of the Cowichan Valley

Edmonton Art Gallery and Prospects Literacy Association, Edmonton, Alberta
Adult learners produced the catalogue "Blue Ink in My Pen", a collection of their writing about art work in the Edmonton Art Gallery.

Glenbow Museum and PAL Family Literacy Group, Calgary and Pincher Creek, Alberta
Several families researched, wrote about and displayed family objects using the "Family Treasures" model developed by Jean Bruce of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Glenbow Museum, Sir Alexander Galt Museum, Medicine Hat Museum and Gallery, Red Deer and District Museum, Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer, Alberta
Learners worked on several community-based exhibitions on contemporary youth culture.

Huronia Museum and Georgian College, Midland, Ontario
Adult learners recorded oral histories of several North Simcoe county residents and developed a resource kit based on their work for other students.

McMichael Canadian Collection, East Matt Community Services, North Albion Creative Kids, Kleinberg, Etobicoke and Rexdale, Ontario
Two family literacy groups made visual and written works about locations in their lives and about how place is expressed in the McMichaels collection.

Manitoba Children's Museum and Literacy Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
In this family literacy project, adults and children explored several themes and exhibits in the museum to create a series of written and visual works.

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and Centre de ressources en éducation populaire, Montréal, Québec
This program introduced several hundred adult learners to a selection of objects and texts in the museum.

Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke and Centre Saint-Michel, Sherbrooke, Québec,
Learners in the project "Les ateliers de l'ABC" made connections between reading, writing and visual literacy.

Musée Saint-Boniface and Pluri-elles Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Adult Learners developed an exhibition for seniors which emphasized the importance of linguistic background and oral history in maintaining pride in one's heritage.

Nova Scotia Museum and Adult Literacy Program Halifax City Regional Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia. An adult literacy group produced a quilt with text that was made in conjunction with a major exhibition on Nova Scotia quilts.

Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History and the Literacy Coalition of Nova Scotia, Halifax Nova Scotia
Adult learners throughout Nova Scotia were nature reporters whose written "This Week in Nature" accounts and observations were displayed in a changing exhibit at the museum.

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Native Theatre Group and several Aboriginal Literacy Programs, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
With the assistance of a theatre director and museum staff, learners wrote and performed a play about their cultural and personal experiences.

St. Mary's Museum and Literacy Program, St. Mary's Library, St. Mary's, Ontario.
Adult learners recorded the experiences of newcomers to the St. Mary's area.

Tom Thomson Gallery and Adult Literacy Program Owen Sound Public Library, Owen Sound, Ontario
Learners used the idea of landscape as a form of expression to create written and visual works based on their personal history.

Woodside Historic Site and Core Literacy, Kitchener, Ontario
Working with Woodside staff, learners developed a clear language brochure for this historic site.