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Yahoo
15-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Digital Museums Canada awards over $2 million in funding to museums and Indigenous organizations
GATINEAU, QC, May 15, 2025 /CNW/ - Digital Museums Canada (DMC) is pleased to announce an investment of over $2 million in 18 new online projects developed by museums and heritage, cultural and Indigenous organizations across Canada. DMC is managed by the Canadian Museum of History, and these projects were selected by a national advisory committee from the 2024 Call for Proposals. "This year we received over 150 proposals for inspiring online projects from every province in Canada," said Leah Resnick, Director, Digital Museums Canada. "We continue to see a record number of proposal submissions from museums, demonstrating their keen interest in digital storytelling and building their online capacity." Awarded projects This year, 18 organizations have been awarded funding across the Community Stories and Digital Projects streams. The innovative projects selected touch on a diverse range of topics, including Indigenous heritage and language revitalization, immigration, mental health and community health care, sports and the Olympics, visual art, geology, military history, and 2SLGBTQIA+ stories. Community Stories Black Loyalist Heritage Society (Shelburne, N.S.)Forged in Fire: The Black Loyalists, 1775–1800 Bobby Orr Hall of Fame (Parry Sound, Ont.)Sport and Anishinaabe Values: Seven Grandfather Gifts and the Seventh Generation Principle in Parry Sound Bonne Bay Cottage Hospital (Norris Point, N.L.)The Bonne Bay Cottage Hospital: Community Health Care in Rural Newfoundland, 1938–2001 Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society (Vancouver, B.C.)The Untold Stories of Force 136 – From Canada to [Hong Kong, India, and Borneo] Fredericton Region Museum (Fredericton, N.B.)Forgotten Loyalty: New Brunswick's Hidden Connection to the No. 2 Construction Battalion Harambec (Montréal, Que.)We're Here, We've Always Been Here: Tracing the Struggles and Contributions of Black LGBTQ+ Women and Non-Binary People in Quebec Kelowna Museums Society (Kelowna, B.C.)Kelowna's Forgotten Chinatown: A Digital Reclamation McCord Stewart Museum (Montréal, Que.)The Olympic Games in Montréal The Reach Gallery Museum (Abbotsford, B.C.)Honouring Semá:th X̱ó:tsa: Community Stories of Sumas Lake Digital Projects Art Windsor-Essex (Windsor, Ont.)IAIN BAXTER&: What's the Big Idea? Capital Heritage Connexion (Ottawa, Ont.)Voices from the Past, Echoes of the Future: Black History Across Canada Gwagwaltama Revitalization Society (Port Hardy, B.C.)Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala Revitalization, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Resurgence: Bringing Their Voices and Dialects Forward Hesquiaht Language Program (Port Alberni, B.C.)Voices of Hesquiaht: Stories Carried Through Time Marieval IRS and Cowessess Gravesite Project, Cowessess First Nation (Cowessess, Sask.)Preserving the Legacy: The Marieval IRS and Cowessess First Nation Story Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council (Mill Bay, B.C.)Branches of Her Wisdom: Stories of Traditional Practices of Food Sovereignty and Cultural Preservation Pacific Museum of Earth (Vancouver, B.C.)Mineral Journeys: Pasts, Presents and Futures Société des arts technologiques (Montréal, Que.)IN/VISIBLE: Reimagining the Worst Day of My Life Toronto Ward Museum (Toronto, Ont.)Driving Canada: A Digital Exhibition A full list of awarded projects, with descriptions provided by each organization, is also available here: Community Stories Digital Projects Digital Museums Canada is the largest investment program of its kind in the country, having provided over $22 million in funding to more than 275 projects to date. It offers Canadian museums and heritage organizations funding, expert guidance, and user-friendly tools to tell stories on a variety of online platforms, such as virtual exhibitions and tours, online games, web apps, and educational resources. DMC is committed to online accessibility as well as to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in the heritage sector. Eligible organizations are invited to apply during the next Call for Proposals, which opens on June 15. For more information, please visit the DMC website. Managed by the Canadian Museum of History, the Digital Museums Canada (DMC) investment program helps build digital capacity in museums and heritage, cultural and Indigenous organizations across Canada, offering unique access to diverse stories and experiences. For more information, visit Follow us on Facebook or LinkedIn. If you would like to have your name removed from our distribution list, or if this information should be directed to someone else, please send us an email. SOURCE Canadian Museum of History View original content:
Yahoo
31-01-2025
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Texas shop owner goes viral for refusing to ‘re-Nazisify' a Hitler Youth knife
A Texas shop owner has gone viral after refusing a couple's request to 're-Nazify' a Hitler Youth knife. Jonathan Sibley and his wife Rhian co-own the Blade Bar situated in Ben Wheeler, an unincorporated community in Van Zandt County, Texas. The veteran bladesmith, who appeared on season five of the History Channel's Forged in Fire, was propelled to internet stardom after sharing surveillance footage of the encounter 'in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day,' he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. A couple, who remain unidentified, entered the store at about 1 p.m. carrying two sheathed knives. 'What are we wanting to put in,' Sibley can be heard asking the customers in the exchange caught on video. 'I need the emblem out of that,' the woman begins in the muffled audio, pointing to a Nazi symbol from the handle of one knife, adding she wants it placed in the hilt of a second weapon. 'Nope, won't do it,' Sibley responded sternly. 'Oh, really?,' the woman replied. Sibley continued: 'Nope, you've got Nazi bulls**t,' he continued, shaking his head. 'If you wanted a modern German forestry seal of something in… I will de-Nazify s**t but I won't re-Nazify s**t.' 'OK,' the woman said before the couple left the store. The clip, which is overlaid with 'Hitler youth knife repair… We only have a few shop rules…,' has garnered more than 300,000 views across Facebook and TikTok. Members of the Jewish community were quick to thank Sibley for 'standing up to hate.' 'As a person of Jewish ancestry, I want to say thank you. If I am ever in Texas I would like to buy you a beer,' one person commented on Faceboook. A second added: 'Thank you for standing up to the hate by refusing these people's disgusting beliefs!' Sibley told CBS 19 that he's spent more time on TikTok in the last three days than he has cumulatively in his life, responding to an outpouring of positive comments about his service denial. Rhiannon Sibley said that it's important for businesses – particularly those that sit at the heart of a community – to uphold their morals. 'We stand our ground and we hold our morals and it's incredibly important to us to show integrity in our business and our life and in everything we do,' she told the news station. 'We want to make sure that we are a part of the change we want to see in this world.' Rabi Niel Katz, who has served at the Congregation Beth El in Tyler since 2003 commended Sibley for refusing the customer's request. 'Kudos and thank you to the owner of the store and saying what they said and being who they are,' he told the news station. 'Shame on the people who walked in there.' The Secure Community Network, which bills itself as North America's largest Jewish security organization, found that incidents – which included racist remarks and Swatzika graffiti – against the Jewish community in Texas nearly doubled between 2022 and 2023 from 97 to 187. In the first nine months of 2024, 138 incidents against Jewish people were reported in the Lone Star state.
The Independent
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Texas shop owner goes viral for refusing to ‘re-Nazisify' a Hitler Youth knife
A Texas shop owner has gone viral after refusing a couple's request to 're-Nazify' a Hitler Youth knife. Jonathan Sibley and his wife Rhian co-own the Blade Bar situated in Ben Wheeler, an unincorporated community in Van Zandt County, Texas. The veteran bladesmith, who appeared on season five of the History Channel's Forged in Fire, was propelled to internet stardom after sharing surveillance footage of the encounter 'in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day,' he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. A couple, who remain unidentified, entered the store at about 1 p.m. carrying two sheathed knives. 'What are we wanting to put in,' Sibley can be heard asking the customers in the exchange caught on video. 'I need the emblem out of that,' the woman begins in the muffled audio, pointing to a Nazi symbol from the handle of one knife, adding she wants it placed in the hilt of a second weapon. 'Nope, won't do it,' Sibley responded sternly. 'Oh, really?,' the woman replied. Sibley continued: 'Nope, you've got Nazi bulls**t,' he continued, shaking his head. 'If you wanted a modern German forestry seal of something in… I will de-Nazify s**t but I won't re-Nazify s**t.' 'OK,' the woman said before the couple left the store. The clip, which is overlaid with 'Hitler youth knife repair… We only have a few shop rules…,' has garnered more than 300,000 views across Facebook and TikTok. Members of the Jewish community were quick to thank Sibley for 'standing up to hate.' 'As a person of Jewish ancestry, I want to say thank you. If I am ever in Texas I would like to buy you a beer,' one person commented on Faceboook. A second added: 'Thank you for standing up to the hate by refusing these people's disgusting beliefs!' Sibley told CBS 19 that he's spent more time on TikTok in the last three days than he has cumulatively in his life, responding to an outpouring of positive comments about his service denial. Rhiannon Sibley said that it's important for businesses – particularly those that sit at the heart of a community – to uphold their morals. 'We stand our ground and we hold our morals and it's incredibly important to us to show integrity in our business and our life and in everything we do,' she told the news station. 'We want to make sure that we are a part of the change we want to see in this world.' Rabi Niel Katz, who has served at the Congregation Beth El in Tyler since 2003 commended Sibley for refusing the customer's request. 'Kudos and thank you to the owner of the store and saying what they said and being who they are,' he told the news station. 'Shame on the people who walked in there.' The Secure Community Network, which bills itself as North America's largest Jewish security organization, found that incidents – which included racist remarks and Swatzika graffiti – against the Jewish community in Texas nearly doubled between 2022 and 2023 from 97 to 187. In the first nine months of 2024, 138 incidents against Jewish people were reported in the Lone Star state.
