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Preview of the Fall 2021 Program
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Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program
Complete List of the Fall 2021 Courses.
NEW 1. Geology of Thormanby Island 8. Adventures in Travel
2. Plant Based Nutrition 9. Salish Sea Ecology NEW
3. Capture Memories with your 10. Artists in the Studio
iPhone 11. Shakespeare – Contemporaries
NEW
4. Free Series, Welcome to our swiya POSTPONED to
Spring 2022 & Conspiracies
5. Hot Topics 12. Solar Energy
NEW 6. Introduction to Regional 13. Do NOT Fall for Fraud
governments 14. The Secret World of the
NEW 7. Social Robots for Brain Health Microscope
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Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program
• For this upcoming Fall 2021 session here are some
important aspects that you need to consider.
•Publication is via our own Web Site, Newsletter
(Do Sign up !) and ads in the Coast Reporter.
•Registration is via our own Web Site, NOT via SCRD.
•Payment for courses is via our own Web Site,
using Pay Pal or a Credit card.
• The cost is still only $35 since we are not required to
collect GST.
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Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program
Registration is done directly on our own Web Site at
https://sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/fall-2021/
• If you need Help, a dedicated email address is
available:
registrar@sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca
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Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program Payment of Course Fees When you select your course(s) they will be in a shopping cart, just like you are used to from other online shopping. When you have completed your selection(s) you are directed to the payment part. Payment will be accepted via PayPal, Visa Card or Master Card. If you require assistance or have questions about registration or Payments, please contact the Registrar at: registrar@sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca. 5
Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program
Contacting ElderCollege:
For all general enquires, suggestions or complaints you
may use the Contact Page on our Website:
https://sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/contact-us/
Or our info email address:
info@sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca
If you are not yet on our Mailing List, please consider signing up at:
https://sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/contact/join-our-mailing-list/
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Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS: Classes are in-person as well as on Zoom. Our age group, 55 and up, is particularly vulnerable to COVID 19 and variants are a concern. We are returning to in-person classes with great caution. ”For in person classes Elder College will follow all BC Government Health Orders and Guidelines. Accordingly masks are now mandatory in indoor areas and as of September 13th proof of vaccination will be required.” If public health guidelines change and necessitate a transition to Zoom, you will be given the opportunity to withdraw from the course, with registration costs refunded. 7
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Geology of Thormanby Island Two classroom sessions – Wednesdays, August 25th and September 8th 2 – 4 PM St Hilda’s Church Meeting Room – Presenter – Peter Hews Field Trip – Wednesday, September 1st Buccaneer Marina, Secret Cove – 11 AM – 3 PM Travel by boat and explore on foot - dress accordingly! Course Fee $35 plus an additional $80 for the cost of field trip. This additional $80 fee will be collected at the first class (payment in cash or by cheque made out to “Sunshine Coast Elder College Society”) All participants must be fully vaccinated for COVID 19 – please bring your vaccination card along for the first classroom session for verification
The Four Field Trip Site Visits
Beat the heat – You may have to wade ashore!
Why is some of Thormanby Island sand and some volcanic rock?
Ancient subhorizontal volcanic layer (dark rock)
Ancient volcanic layers folded
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19Plant-based Nutrition
September 10th, 17th, 24th,
October 1st
Deborah Pageau B.Sc. (Kin.)
Gerry Pageau BASc., M.Eng., P.Eng.
Both certified in “Plant-based Nutrition” from e-CornellThe Environmental Cost of Diet
Tobacco
Population Attributable Risk of Death (%)
Diet
Occupation
Family History (genes)
Alcohol
Mental Health
Sexual Activity
Sunlight
Drugs
RadiationPlus a vitamin B12 supplement
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33PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT of a SPECIAL FREE SERIES
More Information to Come
Open to Everyone - All Ages Welcome
Welcome to Our Swiya
This free series will provide our community
with an opportunity to learn about our shíshálh Nation 2neighbours, their
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history, struggles and aspirations in a uniquely indigenous way. The
presenter is hiwus, known as Calvin Craigan,IN G elder, hereditary chief
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and oral knowledge keeper.
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For updates see our web page, newsletter and advertising.
Four Saturdays 2 – 4 pmST P
September 18, 25, October 9 & 16
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Venue: shíshálh Nation Longhouse, Subject to health guidelines.
An Introductory Video is available on our website, Film made by Digi Majou aka Joah
Lui, Produced by Deer Crossing the Art Farm, with funding from Canada Council of the Arts and BC Arts Council
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35Program Preview
Fall 2021Hot Topics
Six Mondays
St Hilda’s Anglican Church
Sep 20 – Oct 25 (no class Oct 11)
10 am to 12:00 pm
Moderators – Pat Hausberg
Karen BellObjectives
Hot Topics seeks to:
• Provide a congenial and safe environment for discussion
on a wide range of current issues affecting our world
• Enable diversity of points of view to be expressed in a
constructive, respectful, and supportive manner
• Encourage reflection that leads to better understanding
of the issues of our timesFormat
• Moderated round table discussion on a wide range of topics on
current affairs, spiritual, and philosophical issues
• Duration: 2:00 hrs
• One topic pre-selected by moderators – Remaining topics proposed
and voted by participants
• Proponents of a topic introduce subject
• Up to 15 minutes introduction, depending on complexity and the presenter’s
knowledge on subjectJoin us!
Enrich and renew our discussions with
your unique perspectivePreview of the Fall 2021 Program
41Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Fall 2021 Tuesday September 21/21 10:00 am. – 12:00 pm. Free Lecture on Zoom
What and Why • Social robots are robots designed with a goal of supporting human users through social interaction. • Social robots come in various shapes and sizes • Empower older adults to live well and to enjoy independence • Complement human care with robotic technologies.
Dr. Jill Dosso, PhD. Dr. Jill Dosso, PhD, Neuroscience, UBC, will present: • the current state of social robot technologies • ongoing and future research in the field of robotics and aging. Participants will: • “meet” several social robots through videos and demonstrations • discuss benefits and potential ethical issues • be invited to participate in ongoing UBC research (optional).
Social Robots for Brain Health Come and join us as we learn about these emerging assistive devices and technologies which may prove useful in the future to: • Provide companionship • Complement human support and interactions • Support independence and healthy brain function
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46A HIGHLY OPINIONATED
INTRODUCTION
TO
REGIONAL DISTRICTS
IN FOUR PARTS
DONNA McMAHON
Area E Director for the
Sunshine Coast Regional
District
Four Tuesdays
28 September – 19 October
2 PM – 4 PM on ZoomDAY ONE + The Creation Story - A Made in BC Solution + • What was the problem? + • What was the solution? + • Some Peculiarities of the breed: elected & appointed, alternate directors, weighted voting, selection of the chair, budget silos (and more on that later) + • Layers of government (federal, provincial, First Nations, Islands Trust, school districts, improvement districts, hospital districts) + • Governments organizations (FCM, UBCM, AVICC, MIA etc.)
DAY TWO + The Sunshine Coast Regional District + • History + • A Ribbon of Communities with a Vast Hinterland + • Directors + • Services + • Powers of RDs versus Municipalities + • What's not Legislated: Robert's Rules and The Carver Model
DAY THREE
The Challenges of the RD Model ... Continued
+ Whatever was leftover from Day Two
+ Failure to Update the Legislation (2010 UBCM Regional
District Task Force)
+ The Five Horsemen of the Property Tax Apocalypse
+ • Rising Costs
+ • Uploading and Downloading
+ • Regulation
+ • Taking on more services
+ • Deferred infrastructure costsDAY FOUR + What Next for Rural Residents? + A Deck Stacked Against Incorporation + — tax disincentives + — decrepit infrastructure + — rural independence + Then What?
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52Adventures in Travel
Fall Term, 2021
Four Thursdays
10 a.m. to 12 noon
September 30, Oct 7, 14, and 21The Dolpo Region of
Nepal - the snow leopard
and a living Tibetan
Buddhist culture
Elaine Futterman and Mike
AllegrettiWalking in Tuscany and in the Dordogne region of France Gillian and Ron Kydd
Uncovering some Egyptian wonders
and many surprises of Jordan
Sheila CarlsonMyanmar – Another World
Rhian PiprellAdventures in Travel
Fall Term, 2021
Four Thursdays
10 a.m. to 12 noon
September 30, Oct 7, 14, and 21Preview of the Fall 2021 Program
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Ecology of the Salish Sea
Presenter: Michael Jackson & PODS team
Four Wednesdays: Oct. 13, 20, 27 & Nov. 3rd
Time: 2 – 4 PM
Venue: The Iris and Billy Griffith Nature
Centre, Madeira Park
60Ecology of the Salish Sea
• The coastal waters of BC & Washington State are
home to some of the worlds richest biodiversity.
• The region has also been home to the Coast Salish
People for millennia and in their honour is now
officially known as the Salish Sea.
• Technically, the Salish Sea is an Inland Sea and as the
map shows the ecoregion includes the shorelines,
ocean trenches, estuaries, rivers and forests.
• In common with other coastal waters around the
world, the pressure from human population, climate
change, ocean acidification rich biodiversity has seen
this formerly rich biodiversity in decline.
Map credit: Western Washington UniversityWhat will we cover in the class?
• Local initiatives being carried out to monitor and help
understand the pressures on the Salish Sea.
• We’ll meet local “Citizen Scientists” and hear about their
work assisting researchers fields such as:
• Forage fish, their habitats and abundance
• Salmon escapement
• The many roles of Kelp forests
• Pinniped population density (seals, sea lions)
• We’ll hear about the “Blue Economy”, the concept that
sustainable management of the worlds oceans is not only
possible but that it can help coastal communities to
prosper while simultaneously rejuvenating biodiversity.Presenters
• The class will be presented by Dr. Michael Jackson,
John Field accompanied by other members of the
PODS team and guest speakers.
• The Iris and Billy Griffith Nature Centre is located at:
15200 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Madeira Park.
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64ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO Virtual Studio Visits Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Fall 2021
Overview • Virtually visit a painter, carver, digital artist & fabric artist/quilter • Participants will: • Engage in art appreciation • Try out optional art creative activities • Presenters will: • Showcase their art • Demo art creation with their media
Schedule Artist Media Date Time Lynda Mason Landscape Painting Friday Oct 15 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Paula O’Brien Digital Art Friday Oct 22 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Denis Gobeil Carving Friday Oct 29 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Karen Biddlecombe Fabric Arts/Quilting Friday Nov. 5 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Requirements • A digital device (computer or tablet, such as an iPad) • An internet connection (WiFi) Optional Art Supplies Digital art session session: a list of free digital drawing/painting applications to try out will be provided Quilting session: a mug rug quilt kit for $5.00 available for purchase • A spool of white or grey or soft green thread • Sewing needles
Lynda Mason - Painter The unexpected collaboration between my uncle and myself, who he never knew resulted in an exhibition in 2019 of sketches and paintings called “Tracing Footsteps”. Lynda will explain how this adventure came to be: from the discovery of 75 year-old sketches to the completion of 14 paintings that illustrate the story. She will also take you behind the scenes to view the anatomy of a landscape painting and a portrait.
Denis Gobeil – Wood Carver My name is Denis Gobeil, wood carver living in Gibsons B.C. I like to imagine that every piece of cottonwood bark has a face in it, hiding beneath its weathered surface. It is my art to reveal the face and to uncover its expressions, which are almost human expressions of joy, peace, kindness, humour, doubt and compassion. Tree spirits are organic art and I am blessed to be able to share them! During the Artists in the Studio course I will demonstrate how I carve my art.
Paula O’Brien – Digital Artist Paula is a long time digital artist. During her digital art session participants will: • Be introduced to the creation of digital art on iPad, mobile devices & computers • Learn the basic features of commonly used digital art programs/applications • View the main steps, tools and effects used to create digital art • Watch a step-by-step digital art creation process • Be encouraged to try creating digital art
Karen Biddlecombe – Fabric Artist/Quilter Participants will view the creation of a quilted Mug Rug. - a small quilt placed underneath hot drinks with room for a plate with a little tasty treat. • Learn basic quilting techniques, • Explore the making of a ‘quilt sandwich’
Artists in the Studio Join us in this special artistic adventure.
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74Shakespeare: Contemporaries &
Conspiracies
Presented by Viveca Ohm
for ElderCollege Fall 2021
Tuesdays 10 AM - Noon
October 26 – November 16
St Hilda’s Church HallConspiracies & cover-ups in our time Communists are infiltrating every aspect of American life, inc gov’t, media & entertainment (McCarthy) JFK assassination was orchestrated by CIA/FBI The Holocaust was a Zionist hoax, never happened The 1969 Moon Landing never happened 9-11 was an inside job by US gov’t/capitalist interests The liberal left is run by a secret cabal of Satanic pedophiles (QAnon) Barack Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya Climate change is a hoax by communists/ scientists/ environmentalists/ Chinese etc
Shakespeare was a mere front man – didn’t write the works he’s famous for His authorship unquestioned in his own time, and for nearly 200 years 1590 – 1640 One of many popular playwrights of London stage 1700s: Admiration & curiosity grow late 1700s – early 1900s: the God of Drama mid-20th cent to now: ever-growing Industry 1850s – now: Literary fraud?
If not Shakespeare, then who?
Francis Bacon - mid-1800s –
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford –
1920’s to now
Christopher Marlowe - 1955 to now
Collaboration of high-born men & women of
Shakespeare’s time inc Queen Eliz herselfPreview of the Fall 2021 Program
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The Secret World of the Microscope
Presenter: Michael Bradley
Four Wednesdays: Nov. 17, 24, 31 & Dec. 8th
Fridays: Nov. 19, 26, Dec. 3 and 10th
Time: 2 – 4 PM
Venue: Capilano University Sechelt Campus
Tardigrade
81The Secret World of the Microscope • Microscopes are one of the key tools that have helped us to unveil the secrets of nature. • They have given us the ability to view, study and try to understand previously invisible things: • we can now identify and study microbes, bacilli, viruses etc. – human health • we can view small structures within larger objects – engineering • we can study symbiotic relationships between organisms - ecology • with modern developments we can examine molecules, and these days even atoms • etc. etc. • And we can use simple lenses and microscopes to learn about the world around us!
What will we cover?
• We’ll explore how and why the microscope “reveals the invisible”
• history of the microscope, from simple lens to the instruments of today.
• we’ll cover significant discoveries where the microscope played a key role.
• we’ll cover some safe, practical experiments that we can do as hobbyists
using a microscope in the kitchen, garden, on pond water …
• we’ll learn what to look for when buying a personal microscope
• each week we’ll have a chance to make our own slides and view them
• every class will include “hands-on” activities, with each person having
access to their own microscope. Bring your own specimens!
• AND WE’LL HAVE SAFE, FUN!Observe the bacteria in our cheek cells
Look deep into your kombucha!
We’ll see crystals form
Examine the world in a drop of water or on the beach The microscope allows us to observe and study the amazingly beautiful and diverse tiny organisms and plants thriving in our local micro-communities. Images of specimens found at: Roberts Creek Beach, Smugglers Cove, Dakota Ridge, garden pond, Secret Cove
How to use a cell-phone as a microscope
Presenter
• The class will be presented by Michael Bradley
• Class size will be limited to allow for each participant to
have access to a dedicated microscope for each class.
• Eyepieces and equipment will not be shared
• Laboratory and Covid protocols will be in force, all
instruments will be sanitised before and after use.
• The venue for this class is still being determined.
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90Sunshine Coast ElderCollege Preview of Fall 2021 Program
Complete List of the Fall 2021 Courses.
NEW 1. Geology of Thormanby Island 8. Adventures in Travel
2. Plant Based Nutrition 9. Salish Sea Ecology NEW
3. Capture Memories with your 10. Artists in the Studio
iPhone 11. Shakespeare – Contemporaries
NEW
4. Free Series, Welcome to our swiya POSTPONED to
Spring 2022 & Conspiracies
5. Hot Topics 12. Solar Energy
NEW 6. Introduction to Regional 13. Do NOT Fall for Fraud
governments 14. The Secret World of the
NEW 7. Social Robots for Brain Health Microscope
91Preview of the Fall 2021 Program
Registration opens at
12 noon on August 16, 2021
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