Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

POP SOCKET

Date Range From

2014

Date Range To

2019

Materials

PLASTIC, PAPER

No. Pieces

1

Length

12

Width

7.6

Description

POPPER SOCKET BACK IN UNOPENED PLASTIC PACKAGING; ROUND SOCKET INSIDE PACKAGING IS WHITE WITH LETHBRIDGE PRIDE FEST 2014-2019 LOGO. LOGO DEPICTS A RED HEART WITH ORANGE AND BLUE BANNER RUNNING HORIZONTALLY ACROSS; WHITE TEXT ON THE BANNER READS, “LETHBRIDGE PRIDE FEST”. A WHITE PAPER INSERT INSIDE PACKAGING SHOWS INSTRUCTIONS FOR ATTACHING SOCKET TO A PHONE, WITH GREY, WHITE, AND ORANGE VISUALS. PLASTIC PACKAGING IS UNOPENED; OVERALL EXCELLENT CONDITION.

Subjects

TELECOMMUNICATION T&E

Historical Association

COMMEMORATIVE

LEISURE

History

ON JULY 25, 2019, GALT MUSEUM CURATOR AIMEE BENOIT AND COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED ELISABETH HEGERAT REGARDING HER DONATION OF PRIDE MATERIALS. ON THE CELLPHONE POP SOCKET, HEGERAT NOTED, “EIGHTEEN IS THE PREVIOUS PRIDE FEST LOGO ON A POP-SOCKET FOR USING WITH YOUR PHONE. THAT WAS JUST MERCHANDISE WE HAD FOR SALE AS A FUND RAISER.” “[IT WAS A] FUNDRAISER/STEALTH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT I GUESS. THE FIRST YEAR WE HAD THE WHOLE SELECTION [OF BUTTONS AND MERCHANDISE] A COUPLE OF OTHER PEOPLE AND I DRAGGED THEM OUT TO ALMOST EVERY PRIDE FEST EVENT WHERE IT IS CONDUCIVE TO SELL MERCHANDISE AND SET THEM UP.” “WE [MADE FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FROM BUTTON SALES] THE FIRST YEAR…I THINK THAT WAS ALL IN. JUST ME COUNTING THE CASH AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, NOT COUNTING THE SUPPLIES. [THE PROFIT] GOES TOWARDS ALL THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS PRIDE FEST OFFERS. SOME OF IT MIGHT GO TOWARDS BUYING MERCHANDISE FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT WE DON’T PUT THE BUTTON MONEY STRAIGHT BACK INTO MAKING BUTTONS. IT ALL GOES INTO A GENERAL REVENUE.” IN AN INTERVIEW WITH HEGERAT FROM JULY 25, 2019, HEGERAT RECALLED HER TIME WORKING WITH THE LETHBRIDGE PRIDE FEST SOCIETY, NOTING, “I THINK IT WAS 2016 THAT I FIRST STARTED VOLUNTEERING WITH THE PRIDE BOARD…WHEN WE MOVED HERE IN 2006…PRIDE IN THE PARK DIDN’T EXIST, OR THE PARADE, OR ANYTHING ELSE. THERE WAS A BARBECUE, AND WE NEVER REALLY WENT TO IT, BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW ANYBODY…WE KNEW WE COULD SHOW UP AND PEOPLE WOULD BE GLAD WE WERE THERE, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT IT STILL KIND OF FELT LIKE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRASHING SOMEBODY’S FAMILY BARBECUE, BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW ANYONE.” “WHEN PRIDE IN THE PARK STARTED, I KNOW THERE WERE A COUPLE OF YEARS WHERE WE WANDERED OVER AND CHECKED IT OUT, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT [I] DIDN’T REALLY KNOW ANYBODY. WHEN, I THINK IT WAS 2015, [ONE OF THE PRIDE IN THE PARK PROGRAMS] WAS THEY HAD AN AUTHOR FROM CALGARY, A POET, COME AND DO A READING…WE WENT, AND WE LISTENED TO HER READ, AND I KNOW THE PEOPLE AT THE U OF L BOOKSTORE QUITE WELL THROUGH DOING LIBRARY STUFF, AND SO WAS HANGING OUT WITH BECKY COLBECK, AND KARI TANAKA, AND ONE OF THEIR BOOKSTORE STAFF, NICK ANTSON—HE AND HIS HUSBAND, DERRICK, WERE ON THE PRIDE BOARD. SO I ENDED UP TALKING WITH THEM, AND THEN STARTED THINKING…“MAYBE WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING AT THE LIBRARY NEXT YEAR.” AND THAT, AND SORT OF A FEW OTHER COMMITMENTS WITH WORK, AND A PUSH FROM THE LIBRARY TO GET MORE INVOLVED…IN THE COMMUNITY…I SHOWED UP FOR THE FIRST PRIDE FEST BOARD MEETING, AND JUST KEPT SHOWING UP…AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IN, I THINK THE MEETING WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE OCTOBER, 2015, BUT IT WAS FOR THE 2016 PRIDE. SO, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED AS A VOLUNTEER SINCE THEN, AND HAVE DONE SOME WORK LIAISING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN PRIDE FEST AND THE LIBRARY FOR PARTNER PROGRAMS…FOR 2019 PRIDE, I’M FINISHING MY FIRST TERM AS AN ELECTED BOARD MEMBER.” FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION, PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENENT FILE P20190020001-GA.

Catalogue Number

P20190020018

Acquisition Date

2019-07

Collection

Museum

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