To start the New Year and think together, the International Young Friends committee of the WFFM is delighted to invite you to a virtual meeting on Zoom

Wednesday 31st of January 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Montreal time / 6 p.m. Paris time 

(duration: 1 hour)

Introduction to Curatorial Dreaming : A Playful and Critical Exercise

with Shelley Ruth Butler, PhD

This presentation will introduce Curatorial Dreaming as a scholarly experimental methodology and as a tool that can help democratize and shift museums by supporting diverse communities (including employees and volunteers) to engage critically, constructively, and creatively with exhibitions, collections, and institutions. Topics to be addressed include : critical visitorship, hacking the museum, creativity and constraints, reflexivity, and limits of Curatorial Dreaming. 

Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist and award-winning teacher at McGill University, Shelley Ruth Butler’s researches critical museology and heritage. She is co-editor of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (2016) and regularly offers Curatorial Dreaming workshops to museum professionals, researchers and students (www.curatorialdreams.com). Butler is also the author of the widely taught museum ethnography Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa (1999) examining a controversial exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum.

This event is organized by the CCFM-FCAM in partnership with the WFFM, based on an original idea by the Canadian Young Friends and the International Young Friends Committee of the WFFM. Special thanks to Megan Batty and Audrey Gray.

RSVP here to reserve your spot.