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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. 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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Public PresentatioN
Olympic Games - a Look Behind the Curtain at Getting to the Finish Line
With less than one year to go before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games, Mike LaLeune will provide a behind the scenes look at what goes on. The anticipation, preparations, successes, and sometimes the failures of putting on the Games.
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September 14, 2023
Trinity Anglican Church, Liverpool Susan Letson, Organizer, SCANS Liverpool Chapter |
MIKE LALEUNE has had an impressive career in the sports and cultural industries. He has worked as a senior executive on 6 Olympic Games and over his professional career with more than 40 different sports in 19 countries in Asia, Europe, Central Asia, North America, South America and the Middle East. His career also encompasses producing more than 2000 unique cultural concerts and events including Luciano Pavarotti, Opera at Carnegie Hall, jazz, classical, ballet, country and children's concerts. Some time ago he was also an actor at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival.
In Nova Scotia he developed the venue plans for the recent North American Indigenous Games, ran the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship and the 2008 World Hockey Championship and was the Executive Producer of the Nova Scotia Kitchen Party. He has served on numerous national sport and cultural Boards and as a Federal Tribunal Judge. |
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
The Mi'Kmaw Creation Story
September 27, 2023, 1:00 pm, Zoom webinar*
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The Mi’kmaw Creation Story—the story of how life began for all things—is a foundational element of the Mi’kmaw culture and teachings, one that provides meaning and purpose while connecting each new generation to those of the past. To the Mi’kmaq people, whose homeland (Mi’kma’ki) encompasses much of present-day Atlantic Canada, their Creation Story expresses traditional beliefs, spirituality and core values, and emphasizes their relationship with the natural world. According to the Mi’kmaq Creation Story, there were seven levels of creation, that began with Kisu’lk (the Giver of Life, above) and continued with Niskam (Grandfather Sun, within) and Wsitkamu (Mother Earth, below). In the east the fourth level is of Kluskap (the first human being) created from a lightning bolt and earth elements. From there, the Mi’kmaq Creation Story unfolds in the cardinal directions south, west and north, which reflects the cyclical nature of the natural world, where everything has its own unique spirit, and where all must work in harmony with one another.
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STEPHEN AUGUSTINE C.M.,D.Litt., Alguimou
is a Hereditary Chief on the Mi’kmaq Grand Council. He is the Executive Director of the Marshall institute and the former Associate Vice-President Indigenous Affairs and Unama’ki College at Cape Breton University. Previously he was the Curator of Ethnology for Eastern Maritimes at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, in Gatineau/Ottawa. He holds a Masters degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University focussing on traditional knowledge curriculum development in the context of the education system and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Political Science from St. Thomas University. Stephen was recently appointed to the Order of Canada, C.M., for advancing Mi’kmaq studies, and for sharing his scholarly expertise and traditional knowledge with private and public organizations across Canada. In 2022, Stephen was awarded an Honorary doctor of letters from the University of New Brunswick recognising his dedication to supporting education through Indigenous ways of knowing and fostering an environment for collaboration between organizations. Over the years, Mr. Augustine has shared his expertise in research and traditional knowledge with many organizations, including government departments, the Assembly of First Nations, and various Indigenous communities across Canada. In his role as a Hereditary Chief on the Mi’kmaq Grand Council and by Elders’ training since an early age, Mr. Augustine has a thorough command of traditional practices, his language and the history of his people. |
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* This event is now fully subscribed. The video recording of the lecture will be available here after September 27.
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