Museum AGM features a slideshow
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Posted 3 months ago
The Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre is sweetening the pot for those interested in attending their Annual General Meeting this year.
Susan Eaton will be featured as a guest speaker at the Civic Centre May 27.
"This is a great time to find out about the museum and what we're doing," curator Edward van Vliet said. Anybody who wants to come down and hear about the museum's past and future projects is welcome.
The museum's AGM will include the election of officers to the museum board, including two currently vacant positions.
Those who have some interest and knowledge of the areas covered by the vacant positions are encouraged to attend.
Van Vliet said he's hoping to fill the spots for vice-president Heritage (those with an interest in or affinity for the history of Canmore) as well as vice-president Geoscience.
"We need people who can be champions for those components and who can get excited about the various projects that we're doing," he said.
Eaton's presentation will likely be especially sweet for those who followed the project on elysiumepic.org.
The museum sponsored Eaton's venture because she's a geoscientist and when the museum found out about her work, wanted to be involved in her research and documentation of climate change in the Antarctic, van Vliet said.
A talk and slideshow will follow by Eaton, whom the Canmore Museum supported as she was one of over 50 explorers who went south to document the frozen continent in "Elyseum – Shackleton's Antarctic Visual Epic."
Eaton's talk, "Antarctic Exploration and Discovery in the 21st Century" will recount the documentation project named after Ernest Shackleton, the British explorer who gained fame for his multiple visits to the Antarctic at the turn of the 20th Century.
The project's website lists the groups goals as "To follow his footsteps, not for the glory of being the first to cross the Antarctic or the first to climb the highest mountain but to produce a momentous documentation of one of the most beautiful places on Earth."
The group collected visual evidence of the diversity of the area both above and below the surface of the ocean and warn of the impacts of climate change in the sensitive area.
The AGM begins in the Civic Centre at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 27. Eaton's presentation begins at 8 p.m.
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