SCANS
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. Membership entitles you to enrol in any number of the courses offered per year. It also allows you to participate in further developing this dynamic learning organization. Classes are offered in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Chester, Liverpool, Mahone Bay, and Truro. We are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship.” We are all treaty people.
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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
POVERTY IS A POLITICAL CHOICE
Almost 1 in 4 children in Nova Scotia live in poverty. This is the highest rate of child poverty in Atlantic Canada and the third-highest provincial child poverty rate in Canada. Behind these numbers are real people, parents choosing between paying rent, buying groceries, and heating homes as the rising costs of living and lack of government action make the situation worse. Join us at 2pm, Monday January 30, 2023 as Jackie Barkley and Alec Stratford explain the connection between this crisis and government policies, and the action that is needed to eliminate poverty in our province.
Almost 1 in 4 children in Nova Scotia live in poverty. This is the highest rate of child poverty in Atlantic Canada and the third-highest provincial child poverty rate in Canada. Behind these numbers are real people, parents choosing between paying rent, buying groceries, and heating homes as the rising costs of living and lack of government action make the situation worse. Join us at 2pm, Monday January 30, 2023 as Jackie Barkley and Alec Stratford explain the connection between this crisis and government policies, and the action that is needed to eliminate poverty in our province.
JACKIE BARKLEY is a community activist who has worked in front-line social work and therapy for over 40 years, including at the Nova Scotia Hospital and the IWK. She was a founding member of Solidarity Kjipuktuk, as well as the Metro Coalition for a Non -Racist Society and the Child Welfare Advocacy Coalition. She has lectured widely and written on issues of racism and white supremacy, parenting, and child protection issues. In 2014, she was the winner of the Ron Stratford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Social Service in Nova Scotia.
ALEC STRATFORD is the Executive Director of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers. He has worked as a child protection worker in Newfoundland, a school support counsellor in Calgary, a community organizer with the City of Edmonton and as a sessional instructor at MacEwan and Dalhousie Universities. Alec believes that engaged informed and mobilized communities can lead to transformative change.
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
FOUR WOMEN LEADERS
This lecture will introduce attendees to four historical female leaders in Canada and the United States: Frances Perkins (1880-1965), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Madeleine Parent (1918-2012), and Viola Desmond (1914-1965), women who have been noted for their contributions in various fields but whose accomplishments and lessons have largely been overlooked by management and organizational history. Dr. Williams will share what she has learned about these women and discuss the important lessons they have to offer to present day leaders, practitioners, and educators.
This lecture will introduce attendees to four historical female leaders in Canada and the United States: Frances Perkins (1880-1965), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Madeleine Parent (1918-2012), and Viola Desmond (1914-1965), women who have been noted for their contributions in various fields but whose accomplishments and lessons have largely been overlooked by management and organizational history. Dr. Williams will share what she has learned about these women and discuss the important lessons they have to offer to present day leaders, practitioners, and educators.
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KRISTIN S. WILLIAMS, Ph.D. is the Managing Director and Principal Researcher (and Founder) at Prudentia Institute: Youth Knowledge Exchange, with a mission to support the inclusive development and empowerment of youth through research and knowledge mobilization. She is the Historian in Residence with the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University and holds a Visiting Researcher appointment at the University of Eastern Finland (Innovation Management). Much of her work has focused on uncovering neglected historical female figures, novel theories, and modes of practice in management and organizational history. She is the recipient of the Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award, the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada Award of Merit, and an Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper (Journal of Management History). |
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
PART 1 - February 1, 2023 (bad weather day February 3)
PART 2 - February 15, 2023 (bad weather day February 17)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
St. John's Anglican Parish Hall, 63 Townsend St., Lunenburg
Refreshments will be served
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PART 2 - February 15, 2023 (bad weather day February 17)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
St. John's Anglican Parish Hall, 63 Townsend St., Lunenburg
Refreshments will be served
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WAR FIGHTER TO FIGHTING FOOD POVERTY
David Jarvis recounts the thrills and spills of learning how to do everything from scratch on the farm in Italy and how he learned to transfer those skills to life in Nova Scotia’s vastly different conditions and create the We Feed Lunenburg group which supports the local Food Bank and works tirelessly to alleviate food insecurity in the local community. All this whilst recounting in hilarious detail how he managed to travel the globe successfully making himself and almost everyone else around him utterly miserable and hilariously intermingling stories of epic disaster after disaster from a lifetime of dramatic over achievement.
David Jarvis recounts the thrills and spills of learning how to do everything from scratch on the farm in Italy and how he learned to transfer those skills to life in Nova Scotia’s vastly different conditions and create the We Feed Lunenburg group which supports the local Food Bank and works tirelessly to alleviate food insecurity in the local community. All this whilst recounting in hilarious detail how he managed to travel the globe successfully making himself and almost everyone else around him utterly miserable and hilariously intermingling stories of epic disaster after disaster from a lifetime of dramatic over achievement.
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DAVID JARVIS MBE
known to most law enforcement agencies around the globe as Jarvo, served for twenty-two massively overachieving years in the British Armed Forces before recklessly deciding to become a self-sufficient farmer in the hills of central Italy without a single shred of knowledge or experience. Bizarrely, in cahoots with his wife Karen, born in Halifax but with a Dutch passport who he met whilst accidentally surfing porn in Lisbon airport whilst on his way to Addis Ababa, they succeeded in doing so, much to their utter bemusement. However, after 10 years of stepping in pig poo and growing tired of the repetitive nature of farming they decided to go to Nova Scotia to be closer to Karen’s family. It’s a long and complicated story but the only way to achieve this objective was for Jarvo to return to school in Dartmouth as a very grumpy fifty-five-year-old and study to be a baker. Having gradually adapted to the massively different culture, language and food in Canada, Jarvo graduated with honours and as valedictorian and settled close to Lunenburg with Karen who begrudgingly went back to a proper job. |
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