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News From CALL February 2022
Photo by Della Ho, a member of the Digital Photography Interest Group
“It was taken at Brown Lowry Park on the weekend. I like the the texture and the color of the lichen and moss.“
Coming Events
Check the CALL website for details of the following events. Registration is required for all these events. You must be a member to register. Join or renew your membership now and watch for email announcements for programs and events.
For Zoom events, please register at least a couple of hours before an event to ensure the registration confirmation email with the event link arrives in your inbox in time.
February Events
Science and Environment
The New Trails Act
Tuesday, February 1, 7:30pm on Zoom
Speaker: Jason Unger
From user conflicts to environmental impacts, management of trails on public land in Alberta has been a long-standing challenge in the province. The recently passed Trails Act provides the Minister with a variety of powers to delegate authority over public trails. Our speaker, Jason Unger, will provide a review of the recently passed Trails Act and how trails management and trails legislation could be reformed to create accountability in siting, construction and management of trails. The new act has been decried by environmental groups and legal commentators as damaging to the environment and risks allowing private control of public land.
Jason Unger is the Executive Director and General Counsel of the Environmental Law Centre (ELC), an Alberta based charity focused on legal education and environmental and natural resources law reform. Jason’s practice has focused on issues of water law, legal tools for conservation on private lands, environmental assessment law, species at risk and pollution prevention.
For more details and to register go to the Science and Environment page.
Readers Theatre invites you to Un‑Valentine’s Day
Friday, February 11, 10:30am by Zoom.
"The course of true love never did run smooth…”
– Lysander (William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene I)
Seldom is any romantic relationship as straightforward as the fairy tale ending – “and they lived happily ever after”. CALL’s Readers Theatre explores the twists and turns as love is sought, found, lost, and, possibly, rediscovered. Join us on Zoom for this (mostly) comedic adventure into the human heart.
For more details and to register go to the Readers Theatre page.
NOTE: The Readers Theatre Interest Group is accepting new members. For details and to contact the facilitator go to the Readers Theatre page.
Treks and Travels
Ethiopia North
Wednesday, February 16, 7:30pm on Zoom
Presenter: Richard King
In 2019, Richard and Mavis King and their daughter Lara spent five weeks touring northern Ethiopia. Richard will use pictures and stories to share their experiences in this fascinating country.
For more details and to register go to the Treks and Travels page.
CALL to the Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire
Saturday, February 19, 4:00pm on Zoom
Members of this Interest Group will individually view a filmed theatre production of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire, available from National Theatre At Home (UK). The group will meet on Zoom to discuss the production at 4pm, Saturday, February 19.
If you are already a member of this Interest Group you don’t have to register for each session. If you are interested in joining the group, contact the facilitator through the information on the CALL to the Theatre page.
CALL Café Online
Emily Carr: 150 Years
Wednesday, February 23, 7:00pm on Zoom
Speaker: Ryan Green
Do you miss visiting art galleries and museums? On February 23 at 7pm, CALL Café Online will bring the art to you. To mark 150 years since the birth of Emily Carr, Ryan Green, President of Masters Gallery, will discuss the life, art, and lasting legacy of this extraordinary Canadian artist.
You must be a CALL member to register for Emily Carr: 150 Years, but the registration process allows you to bring 1 to 4 guests. To register and for more information, go to CALL Café Online.
Looking for a New Interest Group for 2022?
Check out the Written Word groups!
- Book Clubs that read a bit of everything have spaces – So Many Books, So Little Time and Variety Book Club.
- Indigenous Literature members read a wide variety of Indigenous authors.
- Interested in learning more about poetry or you are writing poetry yourself? Both of CALL's Poetry groups are welcoming new members...ModernPoetry: Discussion Group and CALL-ing All Poets.
Look for more information and how to register on the linked pages.
CALL for Submissions to CALL Newsletter
The CALL Newsletter group invites members to submit photos, sketches, stories, poems, descriptions of projects etc. for use in CALL newsletters. We know that CALL members are creative. Do you have a photo taken on your daily walk or from your window; a poem written as you reflect on life; a sketch of a scene that catches your eye? Have you turned a memory into a short story or a response to something you have heard or read?
We will keep all submissions on file to use in future newsletters. Send submissions to newsletter@calgarylifelonglearners.ca, include your name and a sentence giving CALL permission to publish in the newsletter.
Your CALL Newsletter
The CALL Newsletter is our way to communicate what is going on in our community. It's a way to highlight events of interest, ‘peek behind the curtain of CALL’ and to give some general information about CALL groups and members.
You are invited to send your ideas and suggestions for future issues to newsletter@calgarylifelonglearners.ca. We reserve the right to edit submissions and to determine when submissions will be published.
CALL Newsletter dates for posting:
- February 11, 25
- March 11, 25
- April 14, 24 – NOTE: April 14 is a Thursday
- May 13, 27
- June 10, 24
Meanwhile, be well, stay well in every sense of the word.