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Continue your life-long learning by joining the Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia, a volunteer-based registered non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable non-credit academic courses to seniors (age 50+). Courses are for your learning enjoyment, without tests or assignments. Full membership entitles you to attend any number of the courses offered per year whether they are delivered in-person or online. Online membership entitles you to attend any number of courses that are delivered online. It also allows you to participate in further developing this dynamic learning organization. In addition to online courses, in-person courses are offered in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Liverpool, Mahone Bay, Truro, and Port Williams.
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Free Public Presentation
November 19, 2026, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
- Hope United Church, 3055 Connaught Avenue, Halifax
- Zoom webinar
- Hope United Church, 3055 Connaught Avenue, Halifax
- Zoom webinar
MY 5-YEAR OLD CAN DO THAT!
A Conversation About Contemporary Art
A banana taped to a wall, a pile of bricks, an empty room, a person standing completely still. Is this really art? In this presentation we will explore how artists challenge our ideas about what art can be, and the ways contemporary art can be beautiful or baffling, often carrying fascinating stories.
A Conversation About Contemporary Art
A banana taped to a wall, a pile of bricks, an empty room, a person standing completely still. Is this really art? In this presentation we will explore how artists challenge our ideas about what art can be, and the ways contemporary art can be beautiful or baffling, often carrying fascinating stories.
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MARGARITA FAINSHTEIN (Kherson, Ukraine) has a BFA from the University of Haifa and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited across North America and Europe, including the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Fainshtein’s practice explores multicultural identity, migration, and the intersection of personal and political histories.
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Free Public Presentation
January 11, 2027, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
- Hope United Church, 3055 Connaught Avenue, Halifax
- Zoom webinar
- Hope United Church, 3055 Connaught Avenue, Halifax
- Zoom webinar
Healthy Aging: Adding Life to Years, Not Just Years to Life
Two of Nova Scotia’s public health physicians, both recently retired and “on the aging journey” themselves, share practical, evidence-based advice for staying well in later life. Dr. Shelley Deeks will explain how to protect yourself from infections, including which vaccines matter most as we age, and how to spot health misinformation. She will also talk about some of the broader benefits of vaccines and how to advocate for prevention, for ourselves and our communities. Dr. Robert Strang will cover staying active and eating well, staying socially connected, alcohol and other substance use, using prescription and over-the-counter medications safely, and preventing falls and other injuries. Throughout, they will look at a question many of us think about: how do we balance the length of our lives with their quality? That includes frailty, cognitive decline and planning for the end of life.
Two of Nova Scotia’s public health physicians, both recently retired and “on the aging journey” themselves, share practical, evidence-based advice for staying well in later life. Dr. Shelley Deeks will explain how to protect yourself from infections, including which vaccines matter most as we age, and how to spot health misinformation. She will also talk about some of the broader benefits of vaccines and how to advocate for prevention, for ourselves and our communities. Dr. Robert Strang will cover staying active and eating well, staying socially connected, alcohol and other substance use, using prescription and over-the-counter medications safely, and preventing falls and other injuries. Throughout, they will look at a question many of us think about: how do we balance the length of our lives with their quality? That includes frailty, cognitive decline and planning for the end of life.
SHELLEY DEEKS, MD, FRCPC, FAFPHM is a public health physician with 30 years of experience, with a particular focus on communicable disease control and immunization, in Canada and internationally. Most recently she was Nova Scotia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health. She is past Chair of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization where she served for more than a decade, and sits on Canada’s National Certification Committee for both polio eradication and measles elimination. She continues to advise the World Health Organization on polio eradication, vaccine communication and vaccine safety.
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ROBERT STRANG, MD, FRCPC has been a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist for over 30 years and was the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health for the past 20 years. During that time he lead the Nova Scotia through two pandemics, helped guide the restructuring the province’s the provincial Public Health system and championed a broad range of policies and initiatives to support healthier communities.
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Land Acknowledgment: All of Nova Scotia is part of Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people, and we acknowledge that the land is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship..
Land Acknowledgment: All of Nova Scotia is part of Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people, and we acknowledge that the land is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship..