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• Conversational Spanish

  • Start
    23 Sep 2025
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  • End
    28 Oct 2025
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    21

  This course will review basic Spanish vocabulary and some grammar to help one navigate reading newspapers and basic conversation with others on a holiday trip.  Each class will focus on a particular area of need: directions, housing, food, shopping, etc.  The following class will have some review of the previous vocabulary. Not too much work but enough to make it worthwhile!! 
  
  

  Presenter, Rosario Musso:  Returning Spanish Instructor, Peruvian Culture Lover   

  6 Sessions, $65   Class size: max 20 

  Tuesday’s,  Sept 23, 30, Oct 7, 14, 21 & 28th.   10:00 – Noon   

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre 

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• Yes!  You Can Write Poetry!

  • Start
    3 Oct 2025
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  • End
    24 Oct 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    13

  Bring along a pad, pencil and your imagination. Explore how much fun you can have playing with words in this interactive poetry class!      

  Poetry can be funny or sentimental, sad or heartwarming  

  Only you can decide how to be creative,  

  Everyone has a poem inside their heart -  

  To rhyme or not, you get to choose.  

  Relax and have fun playing with words, and remember -  

  Yes!  You are already a poet!  You simply need to know it!  

  Presenter, Catherine Moore:  Retired Teacher,  Poetry Lover  

  4 Sessions, $45.  Class size: max 12  
  Fridays, Oct 3, 10, 17 & 24th.   10:00 - Noon 

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre  

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• Paris after Dark

  • When
    15 Oct 2025
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    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    27

  By the 1860s, medieval Paris had been torn down and transformed into the city we love.  New gas lighting made it the City of Light. There were elegant new theatres, glamorous restaurants and colorful cabarets, like the Moulin Rouge. Artists Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Eduard Manet, and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec give us glimpses of this glittering, sometimes tawdry, but always fascinating city.  
  
  

  Presenter, Linda Quigley:  Art Historian, Artist and Returning Presenter
  

  1 Session, $15.  Class size: max 25 

  Wednesday, Oct 15th.    1:30 – 3:30 

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre 

  
  

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• Writing Symposium

  • Start
    31 Oct 2025
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  • End
    5 Dec 2025
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    12

  Come join other writers! The lonely solitary writer is a myth. Writing needs to be shared and writing is richer when done in community.  In this Symposium, we will share our writings. Donnaleen will facilitate the sharing of prose in several genres such as memoir, essays, and other forms of writing, and provide some ideas on methodology whilst giving you an opportunity to discuss your process.  Feedback will be given by Donnaleen and participants, giving you, and your writing an opportunity to breathe and grow.  
  
  

   Presenter, Donnaleen Miller: Retired Educator, Writer/Author, Returning Presenter   

  6 sessions: $65.   Class size: max 10  

  Fridays, Oct 31, Nov 7, 14, 21, 28 & Dec 5th.   10:00 – Noon    

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre  

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• Indigenous Art of North America

  • Start
    13 Nov 2025
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  • End
    4 Dec 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    ElderCollege Learning Centre
  • Spaces left
    17

  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
  

  4 Sessions, $45  Class size: max 16

  Thursdays, Nov  13, 20, 27 & Dec 4th.   1:30 – 3:00

  Location: ElderCollege Learning Centre 

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