Interpreting Winter Holidays with Your Community - Live Webinar
Includes a Live Web Event on 06/12/2025 at 3:00 PM (EDT)
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Webinar Description
Building upon the AASLH publication Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites and our 2024 webinar on Maximizing Your Museum's Holiday Potential, this webinar will explore how historic houses and history museums can transform the holiday season into a powerful opportunity for community engagement, inclusivity, and innovation. Focusing on Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, this presentation will offer case studies of successful programming and exhibits from across the country and brainstorming on how participants can scale and adapt these ideas to fit their local contexts and community needs.
Presenters include:
- Max van Balgooy, President of Engaging Places LLC, co-editor of Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites, and co-facilitator of AASLH's onsite historic house museum workshop
- Ken Turino, co-editor of Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites and co-facilitator of AASLH's onsite historic house museum workshop
- Martha Katz-Hyman, independent museum consultant
- Morgan Loyd, Programming Coordinator of the African American Museum in Philadelphia
Details
DATE: June 12, 2025
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 pm EASTERN (Remember to adjust for your time zone)
COST: $25 members/$45 nonmembers
ACCESS: You will be provided with instructions on how to access the live event upon registration.
Learning Outcomes
During this webinar, participants will:
- Understand how holiday programming can draw in new audiences and increase community relevance
- Recognize the value of changing or refreshing existing holiday programming
- Discover how sites around the country are interpreting winter holidays with diverse audiences
- Learn about designing programming that is respectful and inclusive of different traditions and beliefs
- Gain actionable tips for scaling programming ideas up or down based on your budget and resources
Book Discount
Registrants will receive a promo code for 30% off Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites, co-edited by Ken Turino and Max van Balgooy.
Recording and Captioning
We will record this event. Captioning is provided for the live event.
Connecting the Content
This webinar will especially help organizations enrolled in STEPS address multiple standards under the Audience section of the STEPS program.
The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS) from AASLH is a self-study, self-paced assessment tool designed specifically for small- to mid-sized history organizations, including volunteer-run institutions. Through a workbook, online resources, and an online community, organizations enrolled in STEPS review their policies and practices and benchmark themselves against national standards.
How to Register
Click here for instructions on how to register yourself or another user for this event.
Cancellation/Refunds for onsite workshops must be submitted in writing via email to learn@aaslh.org or mail to 2021 21st Ave S., Suite 320 Nashville, TN 37212. Cancellations made prior to the early-bird registration deadline date will receive a full refund. Cancellations made between the early-bird deadline date and eight days prior to the workshop will be subject to a $55 processing/materials charge. No refunds will be given within seven days of the workshop date. AASLH is not responsible for cancellations that were mailed or emailed but never received.
Cancellations/Refunds for online professional development (webinars and online courses) must be submitted in writing via email to learn@aaslh.org or mail to 2021 21st Ave S., Suite 320 Nashville, TN 37212. Cancellations made prior to the start date for the online course or the day of the webinar will be given a full refund. No refund will be given after the start date for the online course or on/after the day of the webinar. Registrants may transfer their registration to another person. Registrations cannot be transferred between courses or course sessions. AASLH is not responsible for cancellations that were mailed or emailed but never received.
If you have any questions, please contact AASLH Professional Development staff at learn@aaslh.org or 615-320-3203.
Ken Turino
Museum Search and Reference
Ken Turino joined Museum Search & Reference as a Senior Search Consultant in July 2023. Previously, he managed community partnerships and resource development, focusing on exhibitions and community engagement for 24 years at Historic New England. A noted public historian, Turino has published extensively on interpreting historic sites and LGBTQ+ history. He co-edited Reimagining Historic House Museums (2019) and Interpreting Christmas at Museums and Historic Sites (2024). Active on the AASLH Council, he also teaches workshops on historic houses. Ken consults for museums on interpretive planning and interpreting LGBTQ+ history at such institutions as Frank Llyod Wright’s Fallingwater, the Gibson House, and Connecticut Landmarks. He also teaches museum studies at Tufts University and will lead a learning weekend course at Harvard in fall 2025.
Max A. van Balgooy
President
Engaging Places LLC
Max A. van Balgooy is co-editor of Reimagining Historic House Museums: New Approaches and Proven Solutions, a new anthology of two dozen essays by leaders in the field, and director of the History Leadership Institute, which provides professional development for mid-career and advanced professionals working in history organizations. These experiences provide a rich source of ideas for Engaging Places LLC, where he blogs occasionally about the opportunities and challenges facing historic sites and house museums.
Morgan Lloyd
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Morgan Lloyd is an Afro-Indigenous (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape descent) public historian, educator, activist, and artist based in the greater Philadelphia area, where she works in the Public Programming department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
Her work centers on a holistic and decolonial recentering of Black, Brown, and American Indigenous histories, with a particular focus on the 18th and 19th centuries. She serves as the Co-founder and President of 1838 Black Metropolis, a research-based educational nonprofit extension of the National Park Reconstruction Network.
Martha Katz-Hyman
Consultant
Martha Katz-Hyman received her B.A. in American studies from Simmons College and her M.A. in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York at Oneonta. For almost twenty years she was an associate curator in the department of collections at Colonial Williamsburg,and today is an independent museum consultant.
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