Sandy Belley

Sandy is an exhibition designer at the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan. An actress by training, being in touch with the audience on a stage energized the exhibitions she develops.


PRESENTATION

Women Take Space

Montréal Space for Life is made up of five major attractions: the Biodôme, the Biosphère, the Insectarium, the Jardin botanique and the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan. These prestigious municipal institutions form Canada’s largest natural science museum complex. Together, they are launching a daring and creative urban movement that redefines the connection between humankind and nature and cultivates a new way of living. Space for Life aims to make science accessible to everyone. This broad objective targets several priority target audiences, which are all areas of work to be undertaken. Here we will briefly cover the concrete actions that have been taken at the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan to improve the representation of women in science. Supported by a desire for change across the City of Montreal, the institution has taken concrete action over the past three years. An institutional policy relating to the place of women in STEM careers has been developed in the wake of these actions. Among the actions that will be discussed are:

The prioritization of female voices in the narrations of planetarium shows;

Robotics activities with time slots reserved for girls;

Parity in the work teams in contact with the public as

Date: October 18, 2022
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Planetarium Milky Way Theater

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