Past Events
Travel Group - April 21 at 3pm
Living as a local: reflections on 16 years of Home Exchanging
Presenters: Amanda Skoll and Gerry Marquette
Home exchanging is a wonderful way to travel! It provides the opportunity to immerse oneself in non-tourist areas, take advantage of local knowledge and save lots of money. We will talk about 16 years of over 40 home exchanges and provide guidance on how to go about becoming involved in this type of travel.
If you are currently not on the email list of the EC travel interest group and wish to receive our mailings, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.
A zoom link will be sent out 2 days before each meeting.
Thursday, 21 April 2022 - 3:00pm
Community Volunteer Group - April 14 at 4pm
with invited guest Holly Jones from MOSAIC
Join us for Zoom meetings with invited guests who share volunteer oppourtunites in our community. Hosted by Nancy Gallini.
We are fortunate that Holly Jones, the volunteer coordinator at MOSAIC, will join us to tell us about volunteer opportunities for helping refugees and immigrants resettle in Canada. Several members of the Community Volunteer Group expressed learning more about this area of volunteerism, especially given the crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine, and Canada’s pledge to resettle 40,000 Afghan refugees and an “unlimited” number of displaced Ukrainians.
MOSAIC is one of the largest non-profit organizations that help immigrants and refugees resettle in Canada: https://www.mosaicbc.org/. In addition to telling us about this wonderful non-profit and related organizations that work with refugees and immigrants, Holly also will provide suggestions on how to best match your interests and skill set with volunteer positions. This will be a great opportunity to learn how we can support new residents from Afghanistan, Ukraine and other parts of the world in the course of making Canada their new home.
Join the Community Volunteer Group mailing list: members receive the Zoom links in advance of all meetings. Please email Nancy.Gallini@ubc.ca and express your interest.
Attend just this session: please contact Nancy.Gallini@ubc.ca to receive the meeting link.
*Note about group name change* In the last meeting on March 3 the group decided to rebrand as the Community Volunteer Group (formerly Volunteer Group)
Thursday, 14 April 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Council Meeting - April 13, 2022
Hybrid Meeting Confirmed
This meeting will be in hybrid format, you can join us in person at UBC or online using Zoom. Council members will be contacted by Emeritus College staff with more information leading up to the meeting date.
Wednesday, 13 April 2022 - 10:30am to 12:30pm
Green College Series on Intergenerational Trauma
Releasing the Trauma Effects of War: Healing Through The Integration of Music with Therapeutic Approaches to Trauma Recovery
This is an integrated presentation on how music and performance can contextualize injury and recovery from war related trauma among veterans and their families. This will be demonstrated through a performance developed and directed by Nancy Hermiston including music students and veteran students performing the famous "Sleep" Chorus from Silent Night, an opera depicting the famous Christmas truce of World War I, a moment when arms were laid down, voices came together in song and for a short time humanity returned to the earth.
Nancy Hermiston Chair of the Voice and Opera Divisions of UBC's School of Music, and Director of the UBC Opera Ensemble, with Richard Vedan and Marv Westwood.
Nancy Hermiston, Chair, Voice and Opera & Director, UBC Opera Ensemble
And UBC Veteran Students
Marvin Westwood - Convenor
Professor Emeritus of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education (2015)
This lecture is free to attend and does not require registration. Join us in-person at the UBC Vancouver Campus in the Old Auditorium. There will be a reception following the performance.
Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Campus Vision 2050 Engagement Session
Your voice matters! Help shape the future of the campus.
The Campus Vision 2050 Campus + Community Planning Team would like to invite Emeritus College members to share their input on the future of UBC.
Join us for a short presentation to learn about CV2050, then participate in the conversation by asking questions and providing your insights on key CV2050 topics.
About Campus Vision 2050
The UBC Vancouver campus, situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, is home to a world-class, global university, residential neighbourhoods and a vibrant community in a growing region. In early 2022 UBC Campus and Community Planning is launching Campus Vision 2050 (CV2050), a comprehensive, two-and-a-half-year land use planning process. The CV2050 process will build on the history of this unique place and plan for what comes next for a university campus and a community in changing region and world.
CV2050 will be developed through comprehensive engagement with Musqueam and the campus community, and informed by policy, principles, best practices, and societal imperatives like housing affordability, reconciliation, climate change, anti-racism, connectivity and community wellbeing. The public process formally launched in January 2022 with a broad conversation with the university community on needs and aspirations, and there will be several points of public engagement during Campus Vision 2050 to enable comprehensive community input.
CV2050 will lead to a long-term vision and ensure the future direction for the campus builds on what makes UBC a special place and enhances the livability, sociability and character of the campus within its unique context. The final vision and plans will support the needs of the university and balance the interests of our campus communities, our Indigenous hosts, the broader region, and the environment.
Read more about CV2050 and find out how to get involved: campusvision2050.ubc.ca
Privacy and Consent to Recording
Please note that this event will be recorded via Zoom and may be distributed publicly. The recording may contain attendees’ names and images. We recognize that this may be undesirable for some participants. If you do not wish for your name or image to be used in the video, please leave your video turned off during the event. You may also change your name to something generic like “Participant” or “Anonymous” in the Zoom meeting room by selecting yourself from the participants list and editing your name. By registering for this event and clicking the Zoom link that will be emailed to you, you consent to being recorded. If you do not want to participate in the live session, the recording will be posted at a later date to our YouTube channel.
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 - 10:00am
Photo Group April 8, 2022
Hybrid Meeting Confirmed!
We invite you to join us for another Photo Group meeting. This meeting will be in hybrid format, you can join us in person at UBC or online using Zoom.
If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca
Please indicate if you would like the Zoom link, or are interested in attending in-person.
Space is limited.