SCANS
​seniors' college association of nova scotia

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 60+ courses offered per year, subject to class size limitations.  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.
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pUBLIC lECTURE oCTOBER 21

Folklore: Something Old is Always New - Clary Croft
October 21, 2019 (Monday)
1:30 – 3:30 pm (doors open at 1:00 pm)
Captain William Spry Community Centre, 16 Sussex St., Halifax
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scanS news

Instructors In the News - ​Vladimir Sitnikov
A Christmas Dollhouse is a new musical for all ages, written by Vladimir Sitnikov and Cheryl Edgett. 
It is based on a wonderful Nova Scotia's story and features some of the most talented local established and young singers, musicians, dancers and artists.
In  theatres across Nova Scotia this Christmas season!
Below is a promotional video with all the information about shows, tickets and production (please click on SHOW MORE under the video).
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sad News
SCANS is saddened with the news of the passing of Enid Collins,  wife of instructor Michael Collins.
​Read the obituary here.
The Cuban Revolution at 60, International Conference, HalifaX
SCANS members may be interested in attending this free conference and/or attending some of the speakers’ presentations.

Dr. John Kirk, a Dalhousie Cuban specialist is spearheading this conference and plans are for him to teach a course on Cuba for SCANS in the fall of 2020.

Go to www.Cuba60.ca for more information
 
The Cuban Revolution at 60, International Conference, Halifax
October 31 – November 1
Forty internationally renowned Cuba scholars, policy-makers and policy analysts will gather at Dalhousie University in Halifax this fall to take the measure of “The Cuban Revolution at 60.”

All sessions will be open to the public, and free.

The three-day symposium (October 31–November 2) will be highlighted by addresses by two of the key players in the historic 2014 re-opening of relations between Cuba and the United States. Josefina Vidal, now Cuba’s ambassador to Canada and then Cuba’s chief negotiator with the Americans, and Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the first US ambassador to Cuba following the renewal of relations, will each offer personal reflections on what happened then, and what isn’t happening now.

​Attendees will also learn the results of the very latest research into a controversial and mysterious ailment reported by some US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba. Dr. Alon Friedman, a ground-breaking neuroscientist at the Dalhousie University Brain Repair Centre who recently led a multidisciplinary study into the so-called “Havana Syndrome” for Global Affairs Canada, will present his findings at the conference.

Leading Cuba specialists from Cuba, the UK, Latin America, Europe, the United States and Canada will also participate in a series of panels to assess the successes and challenges of the Cuban economy, Cuba-US relations and Cuba’s international relations. Other panels will focus on climate change and ecological challenges facing the island, as well as social change, including issues of race, gender (in)equity, health and sexual diversity.

“This year not only marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution,” notes John Kirk, an internationally renowned Cuba scholar and one of the organizers of the event, “but it is also a time of historic transformation on the island: leadership change, constitutional reform, and a complex process of economic developments. We believe this is a good opportunity to discuss the progress Cuba has made over the past 60 years and perhaps more importantly, to analyze current developments.”

Support for “The Cuban Revolution at 60” is generously provided by the Ford Foundation, the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, WOLA, Dalhousie University, CUPW, Saint Mary’s University, the Office of the Mayor (Halifax), the Canadian Network on Cuba and NSCuba, among others.