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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+) in Nova Scotia. 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. Classes are offered in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Liverpool, Mahone Bay, and Truro.
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Free Public Presentation
March 21, 2025 (Friday)
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Lunenburg Academy of Musical Performance (LAMP) Concert Hall
97-101 Kaulback St, Lunenburg (The beautiful black and white building at the top of the cemetery hill in Lunenburg)
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Lunenburg Academy of Musical Performance (LAMP) Concert Hall
97-101 Kaulback St, Lunenburg (The beautiful black and white building at the top of the cemetery hill in Lunenburg)
Lecture with Performed Music in a Concert HalL
In talking about music, we typically place composers and genres into categories which we view as separate from one another, reflective only of the time they were written and the style of the composer. In reality, music exists on an ever evolving continuum, each new generation building upon the traditions of the past- even seemingly dissimilar genres, separated by hundreds of years, have more similarities than differences. To illustrate these connections, the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance’s Pianist in Residence Ian Tomaz presents a lecture concert focused on comparing the music of baroque composer J.S. Bach to jazz compositions by Nikolai Kapustin and Brad Mehldau, ending with Mehldau’s arrangements of Beatles songs.
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IAN TOMAZ is Pianist in Residence at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in the 2024-2025 season. He is performing the first book of J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier in numerous concerts and lectures around Nova Scotia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the University of Wisconsin, studying with Martha Fischer, and pursued additional studies in France with Pascal Roge, Anne Queffelec, Bruno Rigutto and others. Ian has many more accomplishments which you will learn about in our introduction.
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Free Public Presentation
March 24, 2025 (Monday)
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Hybrid presentation
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Hybrid presentation
- In-person at Hope United Church
- Online via Zoom webinar
Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
Andrea Currie, the author of Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, will describe her own journey as a child of the Sixties Scoop. She will give her critique of the colonial practices that permeate child welfare agencies and the challenges of living with profound cultural loss that result. Andrea eventually found her birth family and will talk about the healing that is sometimes possible.
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ANDREA CURRIE is Saulteaux Métis from the historic Métis homeland in southern Manitoba, currently living in Nova Scotia. She is a psychotherapist, writer, and musician who’s been working for the past 20 years in the Mi’kmaq community. She is currently with the Kiknu Indigenous Student Centre at St. Francis Xavier University.
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship. This series of treaties did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We recognize the significance of these treaties and the need for continual learning and engagement in the work of the truth, reconciliation and equity. We are all treaty people. We also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies and contributions have enriched that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia for over 400 years.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship. This series of treaties did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We recognize the significance of these treaties and the need for continual learning and engagement in the work of the truth, reconciliation and equity. We are all treaty people. We also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies and contributions have enriched that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia for over 400 years.