Opportunities To Ignite Your Mind
Fall Lectures 2024
BE READY!
Sunday Sept.22, 2024
3-5PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission Free but Registration is Required
Emergency Preparedness Workshop
By Canadian Red Cross
As recently as 15 years ago, Red Cross Responses to Disasters here in Canada were predominantly helping those who were impacted by local house and apartment fires and the very occasional ice storm and power outage. Gradually Red Cross Volunteers find themselves occupied by a dramatic increase in climate-related and other events . We now plan for annual fire and flood seasons that dislocate more and more people, responding to Tornados and Hurricanes is unprecedented . Deployments across the country are year round.
In this course you will learn what steps you can take to prepare for a range of emergencies; the particular risks in your community; the plan you need to make; and the kit you will need to take of yourself and your family . The more people can take care of themselves for that first 72 hours of a disaster, the more our first responders, such as police, fire, ambulance, hydro, water and road crews, can focus on helping those who cannot help themselves.
Getting to know you:
How we (mis)judge others and ourselves
Tuesday October 15, 1-3pm PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but Registration is Required
Our behaviour towards others depends a lot on the initial impressions we form of them. How do we form these impressions? How valid are they? And what might we do to increase their validity.? Psychology researchers have been trying to answer these questions at least since Darwin’s other book, “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals”, which was published in 1872. Warren Thorngate will offer an overview of the research and its implications for reducing the errors in judgment we indulge in everyday.
Warren Thorngate is a retired professor of human decision making and social psychology at Carleton University. He has been blessed with opportunities to lecture about bad decision making around the world, including Australia, the UK, Germany, Spain, most of South America,Cuba, the US (Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Santa Barbara), Poland, Russia, and Iran. A resident of Almonte since 2004, Warren is the former coordinator of Almonte Lectures.
Traditional Storytelling
Then & Now
Wednesday,
Nov.27th
7-9PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but Registration is Required
"The Tale Is a Lie, What it Tells Is the Truth.” Anon
The telling of tales, directly from mouth to ear, and thence into heart, mind and soul has been at the centre of human communication and knowledge sharing for most of our time upon the earth. But …. over the last few centuries, the traditions and practices of oral culture have largely been replaced, first by literacy and more recently by technology. These two now stand at the centre of how people share knowledge, entertain themselves and tell one another what they believe to be important. In this lecture you will hear a few of the old tales and then explore why these old stories and their telling might still have something fundamental to offer human kind in this rapidly changing world.
Jennifer Cayley has been telling stories for more than 30 years anywhere people want to listen. Venues have included the National Arts Centre, a community hall in a Welsh mining town, a club in Australia, a garden in Hawaii, as well as festivals, schools and libraries all over Canada. Traditional folk and fairy tales, along with the great myths and epics have been the centre of her work. As a performer, she especially loves the image-filled silence a powerful story can create in that space between teller and listener.