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Ottawa will host the country’s first museum telling the stories of Canadians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, two-spirit and more with a planned 2021 opening at a prime LeBreton Flats location.
The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) launched both a $10-million fundraising campaign and year-long consultation “on how folks would like to use the space” at an event Thursday.
The 15,000-square-foot facility planned as part of a mixed-use development near the Canadian War Museum includes three galleries to host changing exhibits, a theatre and performance space, and rooms for education programs and community organizing.
“We want it to be more than a museum,” Calla Barnett, board president of the CCGSD, said at the launch at the Canadian Museum of History in front of a group of local teens who snapped their fingers in enthusiasm for the project.
She pointed to stories ranging from the inspirational, like the late gay activist Gilbert Baker’s first rainbow pride flag which sat next to the podium at the event, to dark chapters in Canadian history such as the “gay purge” from the military and civil services, for which the government recently apologized.
There are also the little-known ones, like the traditional role of two-spirited people in Indigenous communities.
But while organizers are sharing their ideas, they want to be “challenged, engaged and open,” Barnett said, as they make a home for exhibitions focusing on the stories, histories, art, performances and culture of LGBTQI2+ people from across Canada and around the world.
“This is not our space, it is yours,” she said. “We invite all Canadians to send their ideas, wants and needs to us so that we can build the space that we all need and deserve.”
The facility will include the first two-spirit healing lodge and community space, said Elena Abel, the centre’s two-spirit project advisor, acknowledging the First Nations, Inuit and Métis traditions of people “gifted by the Creator, we walk the sacred path.
“This unique space for Indigenous LGBTQI2+ and two-spirit persons will be a place of healing, cultural support and celebration,” she said.
Another innovative element is that the museum aims to stage exhibits that are replicable, meaning they can be downloaded and recreated in homes, schools and workplaces anywhere.
“We recognize that our work is changing,” said Jeremy Dias, the founder of CCGSD and its executive director. “When we started doing workshops in schools 14 years ago, we were explaining basic LGBTQI2+ terms and experiences.
“Today, we find Canadians are hungry to learn about LGBTQI2+ history, culture and art and as an educational institution we see this as a natural evolution of our work.”
Mark O’Neill, the president and CEO of the Canadian Museum of History, said the new museum’s organizers contributed their expertise to the Canadian History Hall by, for example, loaning the Gay Sweater. Knitted of human hair donated by members of the community, it was a project combating the use of “gay” as a slur that’s appeared at more than 1,000 anti-bullying events.
Now the history museum can repay them by lending curatorial expertise and support in helping create a new “museum experience” in the capital, he said.
“I can think of no one better placed to spearhead this project than the centre,” O’Neill said, pointing to CCGSD’s educational, history and art projects and other “groundbreaking” work.
Claridge Homes vice-president Neil Malhotra said that the builder is working with the centre to incorporate the museum into a proposed development mixing up to 1,500 housing units with commercial space. It is still going through the planning process.
He declined to put a dollar figure on Claridge’s contribution but said the company wanted to be involved in bringing another institution to a diverse, redeveloping neighbourhood.
“A cultural facility helps attract people,” Malhotra said. “It contributes to the overall vision of LeBreton Flats. Destinations help drive people and people make community.”
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The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) launched both a $10-million fundraising campaign and year-long consultation “on how folks would like to use the space” at an event Thursday.
The 15,000-square-foot facility planned as part of a mixed-use development near the Canadian War Museum includes three galleries to host changing exhibits, a theatre and performance space, and rooms for education programs and community organizing.
“We want it to be more than a museum,” Calla Barnett, board president of the CCGSD, said at the launch at the Canadian Museum of History in front of a group of local teens who snapped their fingers in enthusiasm for the project.
She pointed to stories ranging from the inspirational, like the late gay activist Gilbert Baker’s first rainbow pride flag which sat next to the podium at the event, to dark chapters in Canadian history such as the “gay purge” from the military and civil services, for which the government recently apologized.
There are also the little-known ones, like the traditional role of two-spirited people in Indigenous communities.
But while organizers are sharing their ideas, they want to be “challenged, engaged and open,” Barnett said, as they make a home for exhibitions focusing on the stories, histories, art, performances and culture of LGBTQI2+ people from across Canada and around the world.
“This is not our space, it is yours,” she said. “We invite all Canadians to send their ideas, wants and needs to us so that we can build the space that we all need and deserve.”
The facility will include the first two-spirit healing lodge and community space, said Elena Abel, the centre’s two-spirit project advisor, acknowledging the First Nations, Inuit and Métis traditions of people “gifted by the Creator, we walk the sacred path.
“This unique space for Indigenous LGBTQI2+ and two-spirit persons will be a place of healing, cultural support and celebration,” she said.
Another innovative element is that the museum aims to stage exhibits that are replicable, meaning they can be downloaded and recreated in homes, schools and workplaces anywhere.
“We recognize that our work is changing,” said Jeremy Dias, the founder of CCGSD and its executive director. “When we started doing workshops in schools 14 years ago, we were explaining basic LGBTQI2+ terms and experiences.
“Today, we find Canadians are hungry to learn about LGBTQI2+ history, culture and art and as an educational institution we see this as a natural evolution of our work.”
Mark O’Neill, the president and CEO of the Canadian Museum of History, said the new museum’s organizers contributed their expertise to the Canadian History Hall by, for example, loaning the Gay Sweater. Knitted of human hair donated by members of the community, it was a project combating the use of “gay” as a slur that’s appeared at more than 1,000 anti-bullying events.
Now the history museum can repay them by lending curatorial expertise and support in helping create a new “museum experience” in the capital, he said.
“I can think of no one better placed to spearhead this project than the centre,” O’Neill said, pointing to CCGSD’s educational, history and art projects and other “groundbreaking” work.
Claridge Homes vice-president Neil Malhotra said that the builder is working with the centre to incorporate the museum into a proposed development mixing up to 1,500 housing units with commercial space. It is still going through the planning process.
He declined to put a dollar figure on Claridge’s contribution but said the company wanted to be involved in bringing another institution to a diverse, redeveloping neighbourhood.
“A cultural facility helps attract people,” Malhotra said. “It contributes to the overall vision of LeBreton Flats. Destinations help drive people and people make community.”
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