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  • Start
    7 Oct 2026
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  • End
    28 Oct 2026
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
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  Join us for four sessions of lively but focused seminar-type presentations, where participants will be encouraged to consider and comment on newsworthy topics each week.

  The course leaders are Rod MacKinnon and Larry Weldon who both avidly follow current events in the news. Each week we will focus on six topics of interest varying from international, national and local levels. Topics will be emailed to registrants prior to each weekly session, so you can prepare for informed lively conversation.

  If you like to share your opinions and insights on what is happening in the wider world as well as closer to home, while staying up-to-date with matters affecting us all, then this is the course for you.

  Presenters:  Rod MacKinnon (Returning Presenter, Retired Lawyer) & Larry Weldon (Stanford Phd, Retired University Statistics Professor)
  

  4 Sessions, $45   Max class size, 16 

  Wednesdays, Oct 7, 14, 21 & 28th from NEW TIME; 1:30 - 3:30

  Location:   ElderCollege Learning Centre

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• Indigenous Media and History

  • When
    22 Oct 2026
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
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  Enjoy this presentation of Indigenous People's representation and situation through various media records including myth, visual art, text, history and current events. We will review and discuss changes that have taken place over the past 1500 years and illustrate them with Indigenous media.

  Jim Morin is a retired Metis educator and geologist. Come and learn things about where you live from a different perspective. Returning Presenter.
  

  
  

  1 Session, Free  Class size: max 30
  Thursday, October 22nd,  1:00 – 3:00pm
  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

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• Japanism: West meets East: Japan’s Influence on Western art and culture.

  • When
    28 Oct 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Refuge Church, 5300 44 Ave, Ladner
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  Art scholars claim that Impressionism and Modernism might not have happened if armed U.S. Navy ships had not sailed into Japan in 1853, and forced trade to open to the West. Artists were ready for a new way of seeing and Japan’s bright colors and odd perspectives freed them from rules and traditions. Soon, Japanese influence extended to architecture, gardening, fashion, and designs by Tiffany, Vuitton, and Hermes. If you look, you will see that Japanism continues today.

  Presenter, Linda Quigley:  Retired University Teacher of Art History, Artist & Returning Presenter
  

  1 Session, $15.  Max class size, 40

  Wednesday, Oct 28th, 2:00 – 3:30

  Location: Refuge Church, (formerly Cedar Park Church) 5300 44 Ave., Ladner

  
  

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• In Remembrance: Countdown to Sanctuary Wood. WWI Ladner Soldier Story

  • When
    4 Nov 2026
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    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
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  Presented by local filmmaker Cliff Caprani, this documentary traces the story of Sidney Rich, a member of one of Ladner's pioneer families, from the time of his enlistment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915, to his death at Sanctuary Wood in 1916. Follow Cliff and descendants of the Rich family, as they travel to Europe to retrace Sidney's last year of life, and better understand the experiences of young Canadian soldiers who fought in the Great War.  Conversation and questions are welcome after the film.
  
  

  Presenter, Cliff Caprani:  Documentary Filmmaker, Avid Traveller
  
  

  1 Session, $15.  Max class size, 30

  Wednesday, November 4th,  1:30 – 3:30

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  
  

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• Arctic Peoples and the Canadian North of Yesterday and Today

  • Start
    6 Nov 2026
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  • End
    13 Nov 2026
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
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  The future of the Arctic is a topic often at the forefront of Canadian politics. Beyond Canadian sovereignty, are the people who live there and the enduring nature of this northern land. This two-part presentation will introduce you to a solid foundation about the Canadian Arctic and its peoples.  The first part will be a description of the peoples, their history, their culture and early contact experience.  The second part will be an examination of communities today, the present economy, arctic neighbours, and effects of climate change.
  
  

  Presenter, Loraine Littlefield:  PhD in Anthropology
  
  

  2 sessions, $25  Max class size, 30

  Fridays, November 6 & 13th  10:00 -  Noon

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre
  
  

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• REPEAT: The Bayeux Tapestry – A Medieval Mystery

  • When
    26 Nov 2026
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
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  REPEAT of Class held on September 23rd

  The source of information for the Battle of Hastings is told in the 58 distinct visual scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry.  This priceless 11th Century medieval art, alive with controversy and myth, is currently on display at London’s British Museum, where tickets sold out in minutes through 2026.  Is this Norman propaganda to legitimize William the Conqueror's invasion of England, or is this a true account of the events as they enfolded in 1066? Come learn what is known or not known about this tapestry and the history of this conquest.  

  Presenter, Loraine Littlefield:  PhD in Anthropology
  

  1 Session, $15  Max class size, 30

  Thursday, November 26th, 1:00 – 3:00

  Location, ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

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