Heritage Workshops
Heritage BC is partnering with the BC Association of Heritage Professionals (BCAHP) to bring heritage workshops to your community.
Do you want to protect buildings or neighbourhoods in your community?
Do you work to conserve local heritage, but need guidance in next steps?
Are you unsure of whether your community even has heritage?
Book a workshop for your organization and delve into your local heritage with the support of a BCAHP facilitator. Depending on the needs of your community, you can learn what is heritage, identify your heritage resources, learn about the heritage tools that fit your context, and more.
» View Heritage Workshops
» View Pricing
» Download the Heritage Workshops Outline as a PDF
1. Custom Webinar
Choose a topic of your choice from the list of topics outlined below. Our presenter will customize the webinar to be relevant to your community’s history and capacity.
Duration: 1.5 hours (incl. 30 min Q&A)
Location: Virtual
Attendance: Unlimited participants
Learn More
Webinars are a great way to learn about a specific part of the heritage planning process, or to add a new skill to a community’s heritage toolkit. For each custom webinar, we will prepare customized examples that fit with the context and needs of the community.
- Developing a Heritage Register
- Establishing Conservation Areas
- Heritage Property Management
- Heritage Revitalization Agreements
- Writing Statements of Significance
- Using the Standards and Guidelines
- Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities
- Making the Case for Heritage
2. Heritage Basics
Introduction to Values Based Management and Heritage Values; what they are, how to identify them in your community. Includes overview of the relevant tools available to develop a heritage plan for your community.
Duration: 3 hours (incl. 1 hour Q&A)
Location: Virtual
Attendance: Unlimited participants
Includes: A consultation call
Learn More
Heritage Basics is great for the community who needs a refresher on the best practices for heritage planning as it pertains to their context. The workshop includes a consultation call with the presenter so that the workshop can be customized to the community’s specific situation, and the variety of tools covered in the presentation will be relevant to local capacities and needs.
An hour-long Q&A session with the facilitator following the presentation allows the community to dig into the specifics of their context and get the answers they need to embark on a self- directed heritage planning strategy.
3. Heritage Values
Facilitator leads participants in workshop discussions to identify the heritage values in your community to identify buildings or areas of heritage value in your jurisdiction.
Duration: 5 hours (9:00 – 2:30)
Location: in-person
Attendance: 25 participants maximum
Includes: A consultation call, Heritage Basics workshop.
Learn More
The Heritage Values workshop includes everything that is offered in the Heritage Basics workshop and more. In addition to the Heritage Basics presentation and Q&A, the Heritage Values workshop facilitates a conversation with participants to identify the heritage values in their community and to find the heritage resources that reflect those values.
Participants in this workshop will leave the session with a solid understanding of their community’s heritage, and a basic understanding of the tools available to conserve and manage heritage resources.
4. Heritage Plan
Facilitator leads participants in building a draft outline for a heritage work plan that focuses on the sites you identify in the Heritage Values workshop.
Duration: 7 hours (9:00 – 4:30)
Location: in-person
Attendance: 25 participants maximum
Includes: A consultation call, Heritage Basics and Heritage Values workshops.
Learn More
This full day workshop builds upon the Heritage Basics and Heritage Values sessions. Once participants identify their community’s heritage resources and heritage toolkit, the Heritage Plan workshop facilitates a discussion to build a heritage work plan for their community.
This work plan will be based on the heritage values and goals identified in the Heritage Values workshop and can take many forms – from building a draft outline for a heritage management plan to outlining a basic conservation strategy for a specific resource.
Add On : Follow-Up Report
Following the workshop, facilitators will write a detailed report based on their presentation and subsequent group discussions. The report will include recommended next steps for your group or team. You will be sent this report along with a copy of the presentation for reference.
Heritage Workshops Pricing
| Workshop | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
| 1. Custom Webinar | $500.00 | $600.00 |
| 2. Heritage Basics | $1000.00 | $1200.00 |
| 3. Heritage Values | $2300.00 | $2500.00 |
| 4. Heritage Plan | $3300.00 | $3500.00 |
| Add Ons: | ||
| Follow-Up Report | $300.00 |
You can purchase an annual Heritage BC membership here.
Please Note: Travel costs are not included in these fees.
Communities will be responsible for covering costs associated with BCAHP facilitators travelling for the workshop session. We will do our best to find facilitators local to your region, but we cannot guarantee this.
