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• Doug Husband Discovery Centre

  • When
    24 Feb 2025
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    10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Discovery Centre at 4450 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Ladner.
  • Spaces left
    31

  FIELD TRIP
  The Douglas J. Husband discovery centre is an accessible space for dialogue and discovery about our community’s past, present, and future. Featuring authentic objects, digital experiences, and fascinating stories.  Everyone is welcome to engage with Delta’s storied history. Learn about the Discovery Centre’s exhibits, artifacts and stories through a 30 to 45-minute gallery tour.

  Presenter: Discovery Centre Tour Guide
  

  1 Session, Free   Class Size: 30
  Monday, February 24th, arrive at 10:15am. 
  Guided tour starts at 10:30am.

  Location Note: You must provide your own transportation to the Discovery Centre at 4450 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Ladner.  We will help facilitate car-pooling if requested.

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• Races, The Trials and Tribulations of Canada’s Fastest Family

  • When
    28 Feb 2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    36

  Presenter: Valerie Jerome (Olympian, Activist, Author and Advocate)
  
  

  In the 1960s Harry Jerome set seven world records; including the 100-yard dash, earning him the title of the world's fastest man! His grandfather, John "Army" Howard, was Canada's first Black Olympian, competing in Stockholm in 1912 against nearly impossible odds. Harry's sister, Valerie, competed for Canada at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

  
  Valerie Jerome's book Races sets the record straight on her heroic family's history and the racism they fought along the way—from their community, the press, their country, and even inside their family home.  Races tracks Harry's life through his inimitable athletic career and into his work as an advocate for youth sport and education. Bringing readers inside the Jerome household,

  Races reveals the hurdles they faced during the heavily segregated '60s and the long reach of racism that plagued their family history.
  
  

  A tale of courage and conviction, Races is the difficult yet inspiring story of the Jerome family: what propelled them in life and on the track. You won’t want to miss this event in celebration of Black History Month.
  
  

  1 Session, $15.   Class Size: max 35

  Friday, February 28th,  10:00 – Noon

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

  Celebrate Black History Month

  
  

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• What Happens When Lord Shiva Awakens?

  • Start
    6 Mar 2025
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  • End
    3 Apr 2025
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre & Cedar Park Church
  • Spaces left
    45

  When the Indian subcontinent was partitioned, it was one of the poorest areas of the Third World. The Cold War made India and Pakistan coveted allies. Forty years after the Bhopal tragedy, India has become an economic powerhouse.
  
  

  This five-session course will explore these and other aspects of the Indian subcontinent since independence, such as the political turmoil that afflicts India and Pakistan, the conflicts between India, China, and Pakistan, the nuclear race, the revival of religious nationalism, and the Indian diaspora and its effects on the Western world.
  
  

  Participants are expected to do some research, complete assignments, and share their findings and personal expertise.

  
  

  Presenter: Guillermo Bustos (Retired Educator, Returning Presenter)

  
  

  5 Sessions, $55    Class Size: 45

  Note, the first session is at ElderCollege, remaining sessions at Cedar Park.
  
  Thursday, March 6, at the ElderCollege Learning Centre then,

  Thursdays March 13, 20, 27 & April 3rd at Cedar Park Church

  Times: 1:30 – 3:30pm

  
  

  
  

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• Frida Kahlo: ‘My painting carries with it the message of pain’

  • When
    12 Mar 2025
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    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Cedar Park Church, Ladner
  • Spaces left
    45

  Frida Kahlo’s life was shaped by traumatic events - polio as a child, a devastating accident at 18, and a destructive marriage. Many of her paintings are uncompromising self-portraits that show physical or psychological wounds.

  She was an unconventional Mexican woman with a fierce will to live fully, to fight sorrow with creativity, and to combat pain with an insistence on joy. Come to this class for a better appreciation and understanding of her incredible body of work.

  Presenter Linda Quigley (Art Historian, University Instructor, Artist, Returning Presenter)
  

  1 Session, $15   Class Size: 45

  Wednesday, March 12th, 2 – 4pm 

  Location:  Cedar Park Church, Ladner

  
  

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• Louis Riel: Visionary, Martyr or Madman

  • When
    1 Apr 2025
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    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
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    36

  Louis Riel has been called the most controversial figure in Canadian history. He is considered a hero and a “martyr” by many since he dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of his Métis people.
  
  However, he was hanged in 1885 for treason. Some still think of him as a traitor. A further complication is that his trial was founded on a plea of insanity.
  
  Was he “insane”? Riel spent time in more than one mental institution during his life. Despite all this, Riel has since been declared the honorary first premier of Manitoba and has been called a Father of Confederation by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Visionary, martyr, or “madman”? Come and join us for the discussion to follow.
  
  

  Presenter: Allan Quigley (Retired Post-Secondary Adult Educator, Historian, Returning Presenter)
  
  

  1 Session, $15.   Class Size: max 35

  Tuesday, April 1st,  1:30 – 3:30

  Location ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

  
  

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• Indigenous Art of North America

  • Start
    10 Apr 2025
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  • End
    8 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    21

  This course given by Jim Morin has a wider approach and new material that will enhance your knowledge of Indigenous art and artists from North America.
  
  Through engaging presentations featuring slides, text, videos, and class discussions, we explore a wide range of art forms, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, jewelry, beading, and clothing. By the end of the course, you'll have a deeper appreciation and understanding of the rich cultural heritage and artistic contributions of Indigenous communities.

  Presenter:  Jim Morin (PhD, Retired Educator, Geologist & Returning Presenter)

  5 Sessions, $55   Class Size: 20
  Thursdays, April 10, 17, 24, May 1 & 8th,  1:30 – 3:30

  Location:  ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

  
  

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• The Sacred Whalers’ Shrine, plus Trans-Pacific Indigenous-Asian Connections

  • When
    15 Apr 2025
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    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    35

  Elder Margaretta James is a visiting scholar at St John’s College, UBC and speaks to the social, historical, political and economic importance of Yuquot, also known as Friendly Cove, on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. 
  Learn how in the eighteenth century this trade route was a source of early contact between first peoples, Europeans and others. 

  
  You will also learn about the “Whalers’ Shrine”,  which stood in the forest for more than a millennium before being surreptitiously taken in 1904 for the American Museum of Natural History.  

  
  In 1923 Parks Canada recognized it as a national historic site, as a unique ceremonial structure, and the most significant monument to a purification ritual on the west coast.  Repatriating this sacred shrine to its home is not just a matter of cultural heritage and respect for the ancestors, it is part of a path of healing for the wounds of the past.

  
  Presenter:  Margaretta James (First Nations Elder of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht, Historian, Scholar and Social Activist)
  

  
  

  1 Session, $15   Class Size: max 35

  Tuesday, April 15th, 1:30 – 3:30  
  Location:  ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• What’s News

  • Start
    22 Apr 2025
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  • End
    13 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    16

  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.

  Presenter:  Rod MacKinnon (Returning Presenter, Retired Lawyer)
  

  4 Sessions, $45    Class Size: 16

  Tuesdays,  April 22, 29, May 6 & 13th,  1:30 – 3:00pm 

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre

  
  

  
  

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