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• Digital Photography Online

  • Start
    11 Jan 2022
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  • End
    26 Jul 2022
  • Schedule
    15 sessions
  • Location
    Online Zoom conference software

  Digital Photography

  This interest group will hold a series of informal “get-togethers” to exchange photography skills and tips.  All skill levels are welcome.  The only requirements are a digital camera and a willingness to experiment.

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  Guests are welcome but are expected to join CALL after evaluating the program.
  

  Meetings are held "on-line" via Zoom conferencing software.

  
  

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• Hags & Crones 3

  • Start
    24 Feb 2022
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  • End
    22 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    17 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom Online

  Hags and Crones 3: A Conversation Group

  We are a group of CALL women who meet to share our stories, to discuss public issues and personal challenges, and to explore our power and possibilities as women and as elders. Our group has eclectic interests.  Discussions so far have included topics on feminism, Sally Armstrong’s Massey Lectures, women's ailments and treatments as we age, "The Alphabet versus the Goddess” and world death rituals.
  

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• Board Meeting

  • Start
    21 Mar 2022
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  • End
    19 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom Online

  CALL Board meetings

  The Board usually meets on the third Monday of the month from 9:30 to 11:30 am. 

  Currently we are meeting on Zoom. 

  Members are invited to attend.

  Please contact executive@calgarylifelonglearners.ca if you wish to attend as a guest. 

  
  

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• Guitar Jam

  • Start
    12 May 2022
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  • End
    25 Aug 2022
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  • Schedule
    15 sessions
  • Location
    Room 310 cSpace

  Guitar Jam

  If your guitar is collecting dust in the closet, now is the time to dust it off and join us for some fun.

  Guitar Jam is an opportunity for guitar players to get together and play and sing their favourite songs.

  Participants are encouraged to bring a song or two that they would like to share with the group.

  Bring your ipad and a music stand if you have one.

  
  

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• Lawn Bowling

  • Start
    25 May 2022
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  • End
    05 Oct 2022
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  • Schedule
    20 sessions
  • Location
    Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club

  Lawn Bowling at Stanley Park

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• Open Studio

  • Start
    01 Jun 2022
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  • End
    28 Sep 2022
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  • Schedule
    18 sessions
  • Location
    Online or in City Parks

  Open Studio (formerly Creative Projects)

  For June, July, August, and September we will meet online in inclement weather or in city parks in good weather. 
  

  Facilitator: Barbara Amos

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• World Events Group 2 Wednesdays

  • Start
    01 Jun 2022
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  • End
    21 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    14 sessions
  • Location
    Marda Loop Community Centre

  World Events Discussion Group 2 

  This group focuses exclusively on international current events and related background issues. Members seek to broaden their knowledge and understanding about all regions of the world in a friendly, informal atmosphere.

  For more information click here.

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• World Events Group 1 Mondays

  • Start
    13 Jun 2022
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  • End
    12 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    14 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  World Events Discussion Group 1 

  This group focuses exclusively on international current events and related background issues. Members seek to broaden our knowledge and understanding about all regions of the world in a friendly, informal atmosphere.

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• World Events Group 3

  • Start
    17 Jun 2022
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  • End
    16 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Online with Zoom

  World Events Discussion Group 3 

  This group focuses exclusively on international current events and issues. Members seek to broaden their knowledge and understanding about all regions of the world in a friendly, informal atmosphere.

  For a full description click here. 

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• Walrus Magazine

  • Start
    21 Jun 2022
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  • End
    20 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    TBD

  The Walrus Magazine Discussion Group

  Every month Walrus (www.thewalrus.ca) has articles that intrigue, provoke and challenge and beg conversation. And that’s what we do. Members take turns leading a discussion on an article, and we cover 3 or 4 articles per meeting.

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• Hags & Crones 1

  • Start
    21 Jun 2022
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  • End
    15 Nov 2022
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Online using Zoom

  Hags and Crones Group1

  Hags and Crones 1 is now full. Please contact the facilitator to register to the wait list if interested.
  

  This group seeks to hear women’s voices and value their thoughts, opinions and stories.
  
  We share experiences, learn from each other and talk about current issues, challenges and concerns. Our conversations examine “where we are now” in terms of identity, power and collective voice.

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• Hags & Crones 2

  • Start
    21 Jun 2022
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  • End
    20 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Online using Zoom

  Hags and Crones 2

  
  

  Hags and Crones 2 is now full. Please contact the facilitator to register to the wait list if interested.

   

  Hags and Crones Group 2 meets on the third Tuesday of each month for discussion based on topics agreed upon at the previous meeting. We focus on issues of immediate interest to our group members. These may be political, economic, social, cultural, literary, etc. The scope may be international, national, local, or individual. We share ideas, perspectives, experiences, and further sources of information such as books, articles, films, websites, etc. We have found that current events tend to drive our choices and discussion.

  
  

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• Readers Theatre

  • Start
    24 Jun 2022
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  • End
    23 Jun 2023
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  • Schedule
    19 sessions
  • Location
    Meeting Online & In Person

  Readers Theatre
  

  Readers Theatre is for those who enjoy reading aloud with expression. It requires only the voice to provide meaning to the text.
  

  As a group, we have evolved from reading complete plays to reading scenes or short plays.  This gives us the opportunity to bring our interpretation to the character and scene.  Our intent is that we should all participate and have fun.

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• Men's Sheds

  • Start
    06 Jul 2022
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  • End
    31 Aug 2022
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Kerby Centre

  Men's Sheds 

  Through our working careers, perhaps too many of our social contacts and activities are work related, and it may be that too many of our friends are really colleagues. Men's sheds are an opportunity for men to get together in a relaxed and informal way, and establish new connections. We are hoping to have ongoing small building projects that will give us a chance to collaborate, and to give back to our community.
  

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• Garden

  • Start
    14 Jul 2022
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  • End
    18 Aug 2022
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    various

  CALL to the Garden

  We are a group of CALL members who love to garden and during the Calgary gardening season learn more about gardening through monthly tours of Southern Alberta gardens.
  

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• HK Mah Jong 1

  • Start
    02 Sep 2022
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  • End
    30 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    18 sessions
  • Location
    cSpace

  Hong Kong Mah Jong (Fridays) Group 1

  This is a fun, recreational game of mah jong based on Hong Kong rules. 

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• Indigenous Awareness

  • Start
    05 Sep 2022
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  • End
    19 Jun 2023
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  • Schedule
    20 sessions
  • Location
    online

  Indigenous Awareness

  We are a growing group of CALL members interested in expanding our awareness of Indigenous history, culture and issues. We let each other know about various exhibits, performances and events that take place in and around Calgary.

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• Alberta Views

  • Start
    08 Sep 2022
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  • End
    08 Jun 2023
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    TBD

  Alberta Views and Beyond Discussion Group

  Alberta Views (http://albertaviews.ca) is an award-winning magazine that covers political, economic, social and cultural issues of Alberta.

  This group has been meeting monthly to discuss topics covered in the latest albertaviews issue, with members leading the discussions on selected articles. Going forward, discussions may also include topics selected by members from other current publications relevant to Alberta.

  Click here for the web page with complete information.

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• Thinking about Reasoning and Argument

  • Start
    08 Sep 2022
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  • End
    24 Nov 2022
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    TBD

  The purpose of this group is to explore, discuss, and understand some important conditions of good and flawed argument. We employ as a resource Mark Battersby’s book Is That a Fact? (Second edition, Broadview Press 2016). Participants will obtain and read Battersby’s book, seek examples relevant to our study, and engage in discussions about related topics such as selectivity in social media, and conspiracy theories. The facilitator will also describe and explain important fallacies such as appeals to ignorance, faulty analogy, false dichotomy, and begging the question.

  For more information visit Thinking about Reasoning and Argument

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• Joy of Poetry: Discussion Group

  • Start
    08 Sep 2022
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  • End
    08 Jun 2023
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Joy of Poetry: Discussion Group

  Poetry is so much more than metrical writing! It is inspirational, intuitive, and mystical: a concise distillation of an idea. The medium is the line through which the poet creates art that selects, chooses, polishes and twists words to manage contortions with grace. A good poem is a sculpture that rises from the page and invites inquiry. It is a tug of war between form and content.

  This group invites you to enter into the form and content of selected poetry and to share with your peers the poets who have moved something within you. We meet once a month on the second Thursday from 1-3 pm by Zoom. We discuss poets from all periods, ancient to the most modern. We focus on meaning, language, images, sounds and all that which makes poetry the delightful, enriching experience it is.

  When it is your turn to present, group members are asked to choose a favorite poet, to select 6-7 of that poet’s works and share with the other participants. This year we are experimenting with poets reading their works on-line and with some guest poets for whom we will need to pay a small stipend. We welcome all who have enjoyed or have yet to enjoy the written and the spoken word we know as a poem.

  Before you register, you must be a member of CALL.

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• CALL to the Cinema

  • Start
    13 Sep 2022
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  • End
    13 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    7 sessions
  • Location
    Online via zoom

  CALL to the Cinema

  We are a group of film lovers who meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays (Sept - Dec 2021) Online via Zoom to intensely discuss the best films currently showing in Calgary theatres.

  Films are chosen democratically. This process often allows us to discover the best in contemporary cinema before the films are widely known.

  Discussion centers on both the literary aspects of film such as character, story, symbolism and theme as well as the cinematic elements of music, costume, lighting and camera work. The goal of the group discussion is to bring out subtleties individual members might have missed.

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• Short Reads: Great Women Writers

  • Start
    15 Sep 2022
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  • End
    15 Jun 2023
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom online

  Short Reads: Great Women Writers

  This CALL group is based on the idea that it is essential to hear both women’s and men’s voices. Historically, women’s voices were not valued.  As Elizabeth Lesser puts it in her book Cassandra Speaks, when women’s voices are heard, the full scope of human experience is shown.
  

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• Zentangles

  • Start
    05 Oct 2022
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  • End
    09 Nov 2022
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Zentangles

  Zentangles are beautiful patterns, that are drawn free hand and yet have a mathematical appearance. They inspire creativity through the engagement of meditative practices. Zentangles can be developed as an artform with many outcomes from personal cards to large murals on buildings. 

  New members are welcome. No drawing experience necessary.
  

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• Never too Late

  • Start
    17 Nov 2022
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  • End
    08 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Never Too Late

  Igniting creativity is the topic of the book, It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again, Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Mid life and Beyond, by Julia Cameron .

  We will be working with the opening four chapters which explore reigniting wonder, freedom, curiosity and purpose. We think this book will offer interesting discussions and open new creative possibilities for exploration. If possible, read the introduction and the first chapter prior to the opening conversation.

  Available at most book stores: It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again, Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Mid life and Beyond, author Julia Cameron.

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