Blue Shield Australia (BSA) aims to promote the protection of cultural heritage in times of disaster or conflict. Each year BSA runs a MayDay campaign to raise awareness of disaster preparedness and recovery among archives, museums, galleries, local history groups, managers of sites or monuments and other cultural heritage organisations.
For MayDay 2019, Blue Shield Australia will be focussing on disaster planning via disaster bins.
During April/May Blue Shield Australia has two exciting competitions to promote disaster bins, see http://blueshieldaustralia.org.au/mayday/
Competition 1: #OurDisasterBin*
- Take a photo of your disaster bin (be as creative as you wish)
- Upload it to social media using the hashtag #OurDisasterBin
- Complete the online entry form for a chance to win a $500 voucher from Preservation Australia
*Open to all Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums, heritage places and historical societies
ENTRIES CLOSE 24th MAY 2019, WINNERS ANNOUNCED 31st MAY 2019
Entry form at http://blueshieldaustralia.org.au/mayday/
Competition 2: Win a Disaster Bin Competition **
For remote and regional cultural organisations that currently do not have a disaster bin, your organisation can win a fully-stocked Disaster Bin, delivered to your site.
Are you an Australian regional Museum, Library, Gallery, Archive, Historical Society or Heritage place and need a Disaster Recovery Bin to help in emergencies?
Complete the online entry form and enter the competition to win one of three disaster bins.
**Open to Regional and Remote Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums, heritage places and historical societies
ENTRIES CLOSE 24th MAY 2019, WINNERS ANNOUNCED 31st MAY 2019
Entry form at http://blueshieldaustralia.org.au/mayday/
Promote MayDay and Blue Shield Australia in your organisation
Blue Shield Australia has produced a poster which you can use to promote MayDay and disaster preparedness in your organisation, download the poster from http://blueshieldaustralia.org.au/
Kathryn Dan and Catherine Robinson, ASA representatives on Blue Shield Australia
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