January was largely about preparing for a number of events we have upcoming as a part of our annual Saskatchewan Archives Week celebrations. On Sunday, Feb. 7, the team will be sitting a table at the Heritage Festival at the Western Development Museum from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. I will give you folks a little sneak peak of the “game” we’re handing out here:
Find Six Differences :
There will also be a Reader’s event at 7:00, Feb. 11th at the Roxy, where local celebrities will be reading excerpts from archival materials. Admission is free, so this is a great way to get out and engage with history, for anyone so inclined!
Ongoing also through February will be a series of films by Norman Christie on the First World War, taking place at the Broadway Theatre. For more information, go here.
On February 1st we saw the end of the Great War exhibition in the Link, and have been helping with the installation of a new display on educational textbooks (this one looks interesting, folks!). With the end of the Great War exhibit, we had the opportunity to draw for a life-sized copy of Edmund Oliver’s trench map, which went to Liv Marken of Student Learning Services.
Also:
- Check out Amy Chillog’s 12 Days of Archives for 2015!
- You have WHAT in your Special Collections?
- Appraisals approaching!