News From CALL November 2022

Collage by Barb Mostowich, a member of the Sketch Club Interest Group

CALL AGM Elects Board of Directors

At the October 17th CALL AGM the following members were elected to the Board:

CALL Board of Directors 2022-2023

EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Committees with vacant chair positions will continue to operate.

Thanks to everyone who attended, voted and asked questions. And thanks especially to those who have agreed to act on our Board of Directors. Please note that there are still some empty positions. If you are interested in a position or just looking for more information, contact Andy Peters, Chair of the Governance Committee. For information about how to contact any Board member, go to the Contact Us page.

Recorded CALL Events

Selected CALL events will now be recorded and made available to CALL members. These events will be posted on the website a few days after the event and will be available for viewing for 30 days. Accessing these recordings is very easy:

• Go to the CALL website and log in to your account on the Login Icon.
• Click on the Resources tab
• On the Drop-Down menu, scroll to the bottom and click on CALL Event Recordings.
• Select the event recording

Currently available are the October 24th CALL Café, Economics for a Planet in Peril, and the October 3rd Whither Democracy: Egalitarianism or Authoritarianism events.

Thanks to event organizers, Zoom teams and the CALL web team for making this resource available!

November Events

Science and Environment
Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX)

Tuesday, November 1, 7:30 – 9:30pm. Online with Zoom
Speaker: Roger Pilkington.

In this presentation Roger will provide details of the Arctic Coring Expedition that led to the extraction of a core from the Lomonosov Ridge which extends from Greenland to Russia over the North Pole. A Swedish ice breaker, a Norwegian supply boat and a Russian nuclear icebreaker carried out this operation. The presentation will cover details of the ice conditions, drilling operations, life on board the ships, a picture of the North Pole, and some of the findings of the project.

For more details and to register, go to the Science and Environment page.

Intergenerational Speaker Series –Connecting Through Film and Conversation

Wednesday, November 2, 11:00am – 1:00pm Mt. Royal University

The second event in this four-part series will focus on intergenerational communication. We will be screening a short film, I am a Unicorn, which was shown at this year’s Third ACTion Film Festival. This event will allow participants to share stories, reflect on intergenerational similarities and differences and connect with others through an artistic experience.

The film will be introduced by Amber Dukart who co-founded an intergenerational program in Vancouver and is currently a Masters of Clinical Social Work student at the U of C. Her research is on the reciprocal benefits of intergenerational programming from the perspectives of youth and older adults. She is passionate about intergenerational community building, equity and social justice.

You do not need to have attended the first event.

All are welcome. Registration is through the MRU website.
To register, go to their Events page and click on Connecting through Film and Conversation.

Treks and Travels

Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 – 9:00pm. Varsity Presbyterian Church
Presenter: Michael Taylor

Join Michael Taylor as he concludes "In Franklin’s Footsteps”. In October, he focused on the natural beauty experienced on a five-week adventure cruise in 2017 through the North West Passage. But Michael’s biggest learnings were from the waves of peoples who occupy these apparently barren lands; from pre-history, through colonization, to today’s Arctic generations, eagerly awaiting the promises of reconciliation as global pressures roil Canada’s third coast.

This is an in-person event for CALL members but non-member guests are welcome for a fee of $5.

CALL Café: End of Life Care Is a Right for All … Isn’t It??

Monday, November 21, 7pm – 8:30pm Online with Zoom

How do we imagine a ‘good death’? Can palliative care and a ‘good death’ ever be truly equitable for all? 

How we answer these questions will be central to Dr. Simon Colgan’s presentation. A palliative care physician, Dr. Colgan is the founder of CAMPP (Community Allied Mobile Palliative Partnership). CAMPP is a low threshold, harm reduction focused, mobile palliative program targeting structurally vulnerable persons experiencing homelessness and others vulnerably housed. Working closely in partnership with various organizations to help ensure seamless, equitable care, CAMPP provides advocacy and navigation to people to ensure equity of care and to avoid their slipping through the cracks. Dr. Colgan’s presentation will challenge us to think about what palliative care means for those experiencing homelessness.

You must be a CALL member to register but the registration process allows you to bring 1 to 4 guests. If you decide to invite guests after you have registered, you will need to cancel your registration (Cancellation Tips) , then register again and indicate the number of guests that you will bring.

To register and for more information, go to the CALL Café page.

CALL Greeting Cards Sale

Tuesday, November 15, 12:00 – 2:00pm Room 310 at cSpace

December Events

Science and Environment
The Evolution of Parental Care in Birds

Tuesday, December 6, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Dorothy Hill

Animals that provide parental care greatly increase the likelihood that their offspring will survive to adulthood. Birds are well known for their parental care and in many species both members of a mated pair will share the parental duties of feeding, brooding, or defending the young from predators. However, providing parental care is not cheap! It takes time and energy to raise offspring and this means there are fewer resources available for other activities such as self-maintenance, defending territories from competitors, or producing a greater number of offspring. This conflict between the needs of the offspring and the impacts on the caregivers has helped shape the mating systems of birds and has resulted in some fascinating alternative reproductive strategies.

Registration opens November 2
For more details and to register go to the Science and Environment page.

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:

• November 11/25
• December 16
• January 13/27

Meanwhile, be well, stay well in every sense of the word.