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Young At Heart Choir Rehersals
Young At Heart Choir Rehersals
Will start rehearsals on Mondays at 10am. Join our wonderful choir! Choir fee is $50 for the Fall-Winter period (you will receive a $25 tax receipt). All choir participants must be paid members of the Centre. All choir participants must be paid members of the Centre.
Persuading the Undergraduates that Pride & Prejudice—and sometimes Emma—Were Not Just Dumb Girlie Books
Persuading the Undergraduates that Pride & Prejudice—and sometimes Emma—Were Not Just Dumb Girlie Books
Instructor: Eileen Conway (in-person course) Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Eileen Conway, a retired Anglican clergywoman, taught English at the University of Alberta for almost twenty years, chiefly to freshmen. This task happily often involved “Persuading the Undergraduates that Pride & Prejudice—and sometimes Emma—Were Not Just Dumb Girlie Books.” Quite often, happily, she succeeded. ...
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Use it or Lose it With Bonnie Austen
Use it or Lose it With Bonnie Austen
Use it or Lose it With Bonnie Austen Cardio & Strength training, Flexibility & Balance & Laugher Tuesdays @10:45a.m. https://us02web.Zoom.us/j/89274775349 Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60
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Are Freedom and Equality Complementary or Contradictory?
Are Freedom and Equality Complementary or Contradictory?
Instructor: David Wangler (in-person course)Fee: Members $54 | Non-Members $74 Lecture 1: What is equality and is it complementary or contradictory to whatever freedom is? Lecture 2: Are liberal democratic states, all or most of which have some form of capitalism as their economic systems, often the most unequal societies? Lecture 3: Is inequality largely ...
Whimsical Wednesdays
Whimsical Wednesdays
Join a day of Fun, Friendship & Craft! Do you play or want to play Canasta, Cribbage, Scrabble, Mah Jongg or other card/board games? This is a day when you can do whatever your heart desires! What’s more? We offer a special light lunch that day for $10 only. Please inform the Office about your ...
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Muscle in Motion with Anna Kratochvil
Muscle in Motion with Anna Kratochvil
Use Balls, Bands & Weights to Exercise & Laugh Thursdays @ 11:00a.m. https://us02web.Zoom.us/j/82287922466 Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60
Beethoven: The Giant who stood astride the Century Change
Beethoven: The Giant who stood astride the Century Change
Instructor: Dr. Michael Roeder (in-person course) Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Beethoven was a child of late 18th-century Classicism in music, but he transformed the style of Haydn and Mozart into something more urgent, more striving, more powerful, and even more peaceful. These Romantic qualities emerged as he created one expressive masterpiece after the other. ...
The Surprising Portrayals of Women of Traditional Jewish Texts
The Surprising Portrayals of Women of Traditional Jewish Texts
Instructor: Rabbi David Kunin (via Zoom course)Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95 Jewish history and tradition has been focused primarily on men, leaving out the essential contributions of women over the ages. In this class we discover amazing Jewish women (some well known and some who have largely been lost): from Hulda the Prophetess, donna ...