PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — July 18, 2020
Conversations on the Commons invites you to:
Reopening, Part III: Planning for the fall
A conversation with Lesley Herzberg and Katie MacDonald
It’s official: we’re now in Phase III. While some places are staying closed through the summer, others are back to welcoming the public, with modifications. In these unprecedented times, history organizations across the state are redefining “open,” re-envisioning fall programming, and rethinking metrics of success. Join us on July 24th for the third in a series of informal conversations about reopening historic sites and organizations in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peer panelists will be Katie MacDonald, Executive Director of the Old Colony History Museum and Lesley Herzberg, Executive Director of the Berkshire County Historical Society. Conversation moderated by Penni Martorell, Curator and City Historian at Wistariahurst.
Friday July 24, 1:00-2:30 pm
Registration is free! After you register, we’ll send you an invitation to the meeting.
We’ll discuss:
What are you up to? Are you open, closed, or somewhere in between? What guidelines are you instituting? Share your issues, questions, obstacles, and successes in navigating the reopening process.
Report back! If you are open, what are you seeing? What are your concerns, lessons learned, and other observations?
Do you have an education program? What is it going to look like for this fall? What are some strategies for engaging families? Educators? Schools?
When you can’t grow your physical attendance, programs, and other activities that usually serve as performance metrics, how do you measure your success?
This event will be LIVESTREAMED. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments in YouTube during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.