Caught in the creative act - Entertainment - The Guardian

Caught in the creative act - Entertainment - The Guardian
Featured in The Guardian - the story by Sally Cole, gives the background to Celebrating the Arts event and the Celebration website

Celebrating the Arts Website

The Celebrating the Arts - a Seniors College of PEI initiative involving the visual arts, theatre, music and writing has launched an ongoing, Celebrating the Arts website. Check it out !

Celebrating The Arts

Seniors College Celebrating The Arts - on CBC

A recent item on CBC Radio, features retired publisher, Libby Oughton and myself with Island Morning host Matt Rainnie talking about the upcoming book being published of work by members of Seniors College writing classes. Libby and Dianne Morrow are both currently teaching courses with Seniors College and want to contact writers who took courses in prior year to consider submitting a item of their work.

Seniors College had offered courses for writers for over a decade, and the book is a celebration of members work from that decade.

The interview also covers the overall project and the main celebration event at which the book will be launched on November 4, 2011, at Confederation Centre of the Arts.

You can listen to the item as a slide show/video.

The project website explains more.

Seniors-to-Seniors Abuse Awareness Presenters

The UPEI Centre on Health & Aging through its project on Abuse of Older
Adults Awareness Project is seeking senior who are interested in becoming
Seniors-to-Seniors Abuse Awareness Presenters. As trained volunteers the
Seniors-to-Seniors Abuse of Older Adults Awareness presenters will provide
awareness sessions within their own community or if interested neighbouring
communities as well (you would not be expected to do more than 3
presentations per year).

We are providing training on Thursday March 24 and again on Monday March 28.
A training session is one day only and lunch will be provided, the two dates
are to provide choices.

If you or anyone you know is interested in taking the training please let me
know and I will contact them to provide more details. I sometimes work at
home so will give you all of my contact numbers which also have answering
machines so if I cannot answer the phone I will get back as soon as possible:

902-675-4312 (Home)
902-892-2841 (Work)
902-940-6702 (Cell)

I can also be contacted via e-mail: obryanton@upei.ca or olive@hhost.ca

Olive Bryanton

Research Your Nova Scotia Family Tree

This site has an innovative approach to showing geographically the concentrations for surnames within the province (in orange) - an overlay of the local historical organizations/museums (in blue) then helps show researchers resources that could be of assistance to the search.

Check it out at: Research Your Nova Scotia Family Tree

Seniors College - Family History Class Resources

Seniors College of PEI is again offering Bringing Family History to Life: The Techniques & Technology of Family History Research.

Taught by Ian Scott and Bob Ramsay, the course has a class resource page with helpful links related to the various topics covered:

• Family History Class Resources

Winter 2011 Courses - Locations Finalized

Classrooms for the following courses at UPEI have now been identified:

Understanding Jazz -- MAIN Building Room 113;
Digital Photography I -- MAIN Building Room 116;
Islam -- MAIN Building Room 113;
Film Appreciation -- AVC Lecture Theatre A;
Decorating 101 -- Kelley Building Room 211

See full schedule on the main Seniors College website.