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• The Dark History of the Black Sea

  • Start
    4 Apr 2024
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  • End
    2 May 2024
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Cedar Park Church, Ladner
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  Did that get your attention? Very little is taught in the West about the Black Sea basin. The grain crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought to our attention the vital importance of that thoroughfare.

  This five-session course will explore some of the  important phases of this area’s history.  Participants are expected to do some independent research and pre-readings and to be prepared to participate in class discussions.

  5 sessions: $50   Class size: max 30

  Thursdays, April 4, 11, 18, 25 & May 2nd   1:30 - 3:00pm

  Presenter: Guillermo Bustos (Retired History Educator)

  Location: Cedar Park Church, Ladner

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• What's News

  • Start
    16 Apr 2024
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  • End
    7 May 2024
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre, Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall
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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 four to six newsworthy topics each week. The course leader, Rod MacKinnon, avidly follows current events in the news. Each week he will focus on topics of interest at the international, national, and local levels.

  Participants will also be encouraged to present talking points for a newsworthy topic of their choosing. 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.

  4 Sessions, $40    Class size: max 12

  Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3:30pm   April 16, 23, 30 & May 7

  Presenter:  Rod MacKinnon (Returning Presenter & Retired Lawyer)

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

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• Field Trip to Canada’s First Chinese Canadian Museum

  • When
    8 May 2024
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    9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre, Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall
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  Join us on this field trip to the newly opened Chinese Canadian Museum located inside the Wing Sang building, the oldest heritage structure in Vancouver's Chinatown.
  
  You will learn the story behind this museum, the first in Canada, while our tour guide navigates us through their exhibits, including: Odysseys and Migration and The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act. You will also discover the story of how Yip Sang’s family built a “community within a community” within the walls of the Wing Sang Building.  It’s an incredible journey.
  
  After the tour we will walk to the nearby International Village Mall food court where you can either purchase lunch from one of the vendors or eat your own bagged lunch before we catch the bus to head back home.
  
  1 Session,  $30 (Includes bus transportation, entrance & guided tour fees) 

  Class size: max 20
  Date: Wednesday May 8th,  9:30 - 3:00
  Private Guided Tour by Museum Staff
  Transportation via Tsawwassen Shuttle, Departing from ElderCollege

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