Saturday, April 2, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
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 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.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
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
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
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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:
Taught by Ian Scott and Bob Ramsay, the course has a class resource page with helpful links related to the various topics covered:
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.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Celebrating a Decade of the Arts at Seniors College
Seniors College of PEI announced an exciting new project at its Christmas Get Together held on December 6th at the Jack Blanchard Family Centre. With funding from a Government of Canada
New Horizons Leadership grant, the project will celebrate the accomplishments of its member artists, writers, musicians, photographers and actors who have developed their skills in courses taken at Seniors College over the past ten years.
Seniors College will mount an exhibition of paintings, drawings and digital photographs by students of art classes held throughout the Island. Their work will appear in a gallery exhibition and will continue to appear in a virtual gallery on-line.
In addition, the College will publish a journal of creative writings by the students of the creative writing classes, both in hard copy and on-line.
The choral music class will produce a CD of their music from the past several years and share it with the community on-line.
Finally, the most ambitious part of the project will be the launch of The Venerables, a play that ran for over 20 years and helped focus attention on issues and societal views on aging. This will be a live production with a web based version also available.
“This is an important and exciting community project,”says Ian Scott, Past President of Seniors College and Chair of the New Horizons Project. “For everyone learning new skills in retirement, having their work publicly displayed or aired recognizes the value and enrichment that their creative efforts give to our own communities and worldwide on the Internet.”
Julie Dowling, President of Seniors College, says, “After a decade of developing creative arts programs for hundreds of PEI seniors all across the Island, we wanted to celebrate these contributions by sharing their work with the broader community. Now, with the help of the New Horizons grant, all four components of the project will come together at a celebration event in the fall of 2011.”
Seniors College is a dynamic and rapidly growing organization devoted to providing learning opportunities for seniors on Prince Edward Island. The College offers a wide range of stimulating courses in three regions of PEI from October to May.
New Horizons Leadership grant, the project will celebrate the accomplishments of its member artists, writers, musicians, photographers and actors who have developed their skills in courses taken at Seniors College over the past ten years.
Seniors College will mount an exhibition of paintings, drawings and digital photographs by students of art classes held throughout the Island. Their work will appear in a gallery exhibition and will continue to appear in a virtual gallery on-line.
In addition, the College will publish a journal of creative writings by the students of the creative writing classes, both in hard copy and on-line.
The choral music class will produce a CD of their music from the past several years and share it with the community on-line.
Finally, the most ambitious part of the project will be the launch of The Venerables, a play that ran for over 20 years and helped focus attention on issues and societal views on aging. This will be a live production with a web based version also available.
“This is an important and exciting community project,”says Ian Scott, Past President of Seniors College and Chair of the New Horizons Project. “For everyone learning new skills in retirement, having their work publicly displayed or aired recognizes the value and enrichment that their creative efforts give to our own communities and worldwide on the Internet.”
Julie Dowling, President of Seniors College, says, “After a decade of developing creative arts programs for hundreds of PEI seniors all across the Island, we wanted to celebrate these contributions by sharing their work with the broader community. Now, with the help of the New Horizons grant, all four components of the project will come together at a celebration event in the fall of 2011.”
Seniors College is a dynamic and rapidly growing organization devoted to providing learning opportunities for seniors on Prince Edward Island. The College offers a wide range of stimulating courses in three regions of PEI from October to May.
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