Past Events

Dialogue on the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan - Tuesday, March 15

The Continuing Scholarly Activity and Engagement Committee of the Emeritus College is hosting a virtual presentation and discussion of UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP). Sheryl Lightfoot, Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Affairs and Vicki George, Associate Director of the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives will provide an overview of the ISP including the ISP implementation toolkit, and examples of how UBC units are engaging in the ISP. This session includes breakout room discussion where participants will have an opportunity to share perspectives and ideas about implementing aspects of the Indigenous Strategic Plan. 

To facilitate meaningful dialogue, currently registration this ISP session is limited. Please contact communications@emerituscollege.ubc.ca if you are interested in registering for this event. 

Volunteer Group - Mar. 3, 2022

The Emeritus Volunteer Group Third Meeting

Thursday, Mar. 3, 4-5pm

We are fortunate that Janice Abbott has agreed to speak at the meeting. Janice is the CEO of Atira Women's Resource Society, a non-profit that provides safe housing to women and children affected by violence, and engages in education and advocacy toward ending all forms of gendered violence. Having been CEO at Atira for the past 30 years, Janice knows many of the non-profits in the DTES and will be able to discuss volunteer opportunities at Atira as well as other organizations supporting women, children, public health, education and housing. In response to hearing about the Emeritus College Volunteer Group, Janice wrote: “This sounds like an incredible initiative and I can think of multiple organizations that could benefit, as well as projects, and people who would be over the moon at the opportunity.” We will begin the meeting with an open discussion around any insights participants wish to share from the last meeting with Martha Piper, or volunteer opportunities they’ve recently become aware of. Then we’ll turn it over to Janice who will speak for 15-20 minutes, after which we’ll open it up for questions/comments.

If you wish to attend, please contact me at Nancy.Gallini@ubc.ca so I can send you the zoom link the week of the meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday, March 3 at 4pm!

Photo Group February 25, 2022

There are two themes:  “Shadows” and “Space/Time/Motion” – you can chose either or both. New photos, or photos from your catalog, are welcome, and you can submit photos on other themes.

A change in meeting format: We agreed to try some changes to our meeting format, as follows:

Submit no more than 3 photos, no later than the end of the day on Thursday before the meeting.

Designate one photo to be shown first. (If there are 1 or 2 photos that show how the main photo was processed, you can show them along with the main photo.)

Number your remaining photos in order.

We will start by going through all our first choice photos , one per person*, allowing time for discussion and comment. One of our experienced photographers will facilitate a discussion of each photo, exploring questions such as:

Why did you take the photo?

Does it do what you wanted it to do?

Could it have been/be improved:

     o When it was taken?

     o In post-processing?

We will then look at the photos that haven’t been shown, one photo per person, in order, spending less time on each photo, if there is time remaining. (*if you chose to show additional photos with your main photo, we won’t look at them again.)

Meetings will be limited to 1 hour for review of photos + 15 min for feedback, and planning our next meeting.

The order of viewing will be randomised (before the meeting).

We will discuss how this worked at the end of the meeting, and decide whether to continue this way, or make some changes.

Please send no more than 3 photos to me at richard@rhspencer.ca no later than the end of the day on Thursday, Feb 24.

Future meetings: We plan to meet on April 8, and May 13. We may be able to move to hybrid meetings (in person at UBC + online using Zoom), depending on Covid.

Take and Make Better Photos: Once we can confirm rooms at UBC I will contact Neil leNobel to schedule this talk, and let you know the date, time and place.  I hope we can do this in February or March.

If you would like to join the group, please contact Richard Spencer for the zoom-link at richard@rhspencer.ca