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RACCS folks in Southern Maine: It’s time to connect with some of your colleagues! Join us for a time of food, friends, and fun as we kick off fall in style on Friday, October 11 from 6 - 8 pm at Batson River Fish Camp in Wells. This meet-up is geared towards RACCS members in Maine but is open to all! Are you a registrar in the area looking to meet new colleagues? Are you a collections specialist needing to gab about collections management systems? Maybe a DAMS administrator who needs to go outside for once? Come join RACCS, enjoy the changing leaves, and toast to the fall season! Bonus points if you bring a Registrar or Collections colleague who is not yet a member of our squad. When you get there, be on the lookout for Peggy Wishart! She will be your host for this fall gathering. RSVP on the NEMA website: https://ow.ly/Gshy50Tomyj

The Community of Practice: Interpreting Histories of Enslavement and Freedom will hold their next meeting on September 24 from noon to 1 pm. RSVP on the NEMA website: https://ow.ly/vzQq50Tj8vj

Is your organization struggling with the inherent challenges of maintaining and preserving sports-related items in your collection? Join us for an in-person workshop at the Major Taylor Museum in Worcester, MA, on October 7, that will include presentations by collections specialists and conservators. Attendees will gain greater insight into the unique nature of sporting artifacts and how best to care for them long term. Presented by the Conservators PAG & the Sports Community of Practice. Registration deadline is October 3. Sign up and find more information here: https://ow.ly/4YHL50T6rXV

We want to make attending #NEMA2024 as affordable and accessible as possible. Our generous sponsors have enabled us to offer a range of registration options that make the conference accessible to everyone regardless of their financial circumstances. So here are several important tips to help you save! - Apply for a scholarship! Scholarship applications are due September 27. Click here for complete details: https://ow.ly/kT1050TkgOy - Register by the early-bird deadline of October 4 and save! See this page for more details: https://ow.ly/EBB750TkgOw - NEMA member museums can send 5 employees and save 5% or send 10 or more and save 25% off the member rate! Contact the NEMA office at [email protected] to register. Please note that the discount only applies to the full conference member rate. - NEMA provides a roommate and carpool matching service. Email [email protected] or indicate on your registration form that you'd like to use this service. - Volunteer! Volunteering is an easy way to save you and your institution money while still being able to attend the conference. Complete details on volunteering can be found here. Volunteer slots fill up fast, so don't delay! https://ow.ly/kEzS50TkgOx - NEMA offers a discounted rate at our conference hotel, the Newport Harbor Island Resort if you reserve by October 15. Book early as the hotel will sell out! https://ow.ly/ijGl50TkgOv

On September 19 at noon, grab your lunch and join the Historic Sites PAG for an informal virtual chat. We'll meet up every month to problem solve, commiserate, and socialize. Each lunch will start with a theme but other topics are encouraged too. All are welcome, so bring your lunch and bring your questions. For our September lunch, the Historic Sites and Conservators PAG have joined forces to answer your burning questions! Conservators Camille Breeze and Barrett Keating will take questions about what projects are ok to tackle on your own or when it's really a good idea to call in a professional. All are welcome to this conversation! Sign up: https://ow.ly/JipV50TjfbZ

Southern Maine Museum People! Join us this Friday, September 13 for a meet-up in Kennebunk. Join the Brick Store Museum to create a community art project during Kennebunk’s September Art Walk. You’re invited to work together with colleagues, friends and family to painting sections of the outdoor crosswalk on the Museum campus. Enjoy archival images set to music while exploring the Brick Store Museum (and the Downtown Art Walk) while networking with your southern Maine colleagues in the Museum’s Bauman Gallery! Lawn games and Gemini Cakes treat truck will be serving up additional fun. RSVP here: https://ow.ly/ErNm50Tj4sM

Are you a student or recent graduate, or do you know one? Students are invited to participate in the new 2024 NEMA Conference offering: Gallery of Ideas: Student Posters! While submissions are welcome from all NEMA members, the review committee is specifically seeking posters from undergraduate and graduate students, and individuals who graduated in the last three years. Share your completed project with the NEMA community and brush up on your public speaking skills. Benefits include an opportunity to connect and engage with museum professionals, one year of NEMA Individual Membership (if your Academic Program/Institution is not a current member), a chance to share your work in our journal, New England Museums Now, and one day of complimentary conference registration. Important dates: Deadline: Friday, September 20, 2024 Notifications: October 4, 2024 Apply online here: https://ow.ly/yxYN50SJast

We all know voting is a cornerstone of our democracy. As civic institutions, museums are excellent places to offer voter registration & engagement between now and the November 5 election. And as long as you aren't telling people who or what to vote for, it's completely within your bounds to do so. This workshop is open to museum workers across the U.S. It will cover basic strategies for voter registration & engagement to help you organize a voter effort even if you have limited resources. It will include: - Concrete tools and resources to support voting in your community - Examples of museum voter events and projects - Breakout rooms by state to encourage collaboration & mutual support This virtual meeting will be held by Zoom on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (National Voter Registration Day) from 3:00pm to 4:30pm EST. Find more details and sign up on the NEMA website: https://ow.ly/qCmO50TeEVP

Will you be attending the AASLH Annual Conference in Mobile, Alabama later this month? Be sure to join your NEMA friends and colleagues at this informal gathering. We'll be at The Royal Scam from 6 - 8 pm on Friday, September 13. RSVP here: https://ow.ly/fEUw50Teoj1