The British Columbia Historical Federation has awarded the Revelstoke Museum and Archives with its Storytelling Award for their Brown Bag History bi-weekly lecture series.

The Storytelling Award recognizes excellence in storytelling in non-print formats, including in-person presentation, audio, visual and digital mediums.

A long-standing program which has been running since 2003, the Brown Bag History program covers a wide variety of subjects related to the history of Revelstoke and the surrounding the area.

The program is praised for its depth of research and its focus on telling inclusive histories which highlight the diversity of the Revelstoke region.

Hosted by curator Cathy English, with occasional guest
speakers, Brown Bag History has spanned more than 400 talks to date. Since 2020, the talks have been added to the Revelstoke Museum and Archives’ YouTube Channel. (You can watch a recent installment above.)

The award was presented at the federation’s annual conference awards gala in Williams Lake on Saturday and comes with a $500 prize and a certificate.