Upcoming Events

E.g., Mar 29, 2024

Council Meeting | April 3

Current council members will meet

Wednesday, 3 April 2024 - 10:00am
Council members only
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
Picture from a General Meeting

UBC Giving Day | April 4

UBC Giving Day

Please join us to support UBC Emeritus College. We are pleased to be participating in UBC Giving Day on April 4 and have had an anonymous donor agree to match all gifts up to $5000. Any gift that is made on April 4 will be included in this challenge. Please help up us raise some funds to support the many wonderful programs that are presented by the College.

A link to the UBC Emeritus College giving site can be found here:

Give Now

Thank you for Participating and supporting the UBC Emeritus College!

Thursday, 4 April 2024 - 6:00pm
Online
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
Photo Group

Photo Group | Apr 12

Theme: Monochrome

As always, you can send photos on other themes, and the photos can be recent (preferred!) or from your catalog. 

Please send two photos to Richard Spencer on this theme (or your choice) before the meeting.

If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca for Zoom details

Check out the Photo Group’s Flickr account to view photos from their last meeting.

Friday, 12 April 2024 - 3:00pm
Online
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
Psychological Trauma and Resilience event poster

Series at Green College | Apr 16

Dzung X. Vo

The Amazing Teen: From Problem Focus to Positive Youth Development

Dzung X. Vo, Head, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital

Adolescence is an incredible time of opportunity and development, as well as a time of stress for many teens. The traditional view of adolescents as “problems to be managed” has does a disservice to our young people. Focusing on strengths, resilience, and positive youth development gives adolescents the best chance and support to become healthy, thriving adults.

'Psychological Trauma and Resilience' is a cross departmental collaboration between UBC's Green College and Emeritus College.

Presentations in the Emeritus College Series at Green College Intergenerational Effects of Psychological Trauma (2021-22) revealed an interest, appetite and need for further conversations related to the development of resiliency among individuals and groups, and how they can cope more effectively and recover from the impact of various traumas. Building on this foundation, the six-part series Psychological Trauma and Resilience will embark on a journey to consider the many ways in which individuals and groups respond to trauma, possible approaches to coping with trauma and specific strategies for recovery.

Series Conveners: Marv Westwood, Counseling Psychology, with Judith Hall, Pediatrics and Medical Genetics; and Richard Vedan, Social Work

Event Dates: Oct 12, Nov 9, Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 14, Apr 16

In-person with livestream option

Join us in-person at Green College on the UBC Vancouver Campus or virtually. The session will be followed by a reception. 

GREEN COLLEGE EVENT DETAILS

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 - 5:00pm
Green College
6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada

General Meeting | Apr 17

Join us at our fourth General Meeting of the 2023-2024 year.

A Special Presentation with The Poetic Odysseys Group

The Poetic Odysseys group was created in 2018 as a forum for Emeriti faculty and their partners with an interest in poetry. In the early years, it met twice each term in one of the classrooms in the building where the Emeritus College has its offices, with a broad range of participants in attendance. With the onset of the COVID pandemic, we went online, and have continued to meet twice a term using Zoom. Members who write poetry have also taken to exchanging poems with each other online, and have contributed poems to the College newsletter.

On April 17, the group will be sponsoring a poetry reading at the College’s general meeting. It will be an opportunity for members of the Poetic Odysseys group to showcase some of the poetry they have been writing in recent years.

Book Display

This General Meeting will also feature a Book Display of recent Emeriti authors.
 

Register to Attend

Schedule:
1:00 - 1:45 pm Coffee and tea
1:45 - 2:00 pm Business Meeting
2:00 - 3:00 pm Speaker 
3:00 - 3:30 pm Q&A

Location:

Ponderosa Commons Ballroom, located in Oak House
Enter across from Harvest Market and continue to lower level
Stairs and elevator available
6445 University Blvd
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2

Parking: The closest parking is either UBC West Parkade (2140 Lower Mall) or Fraser River Parkade (6440 Memorial Rd).

Please note this is an in-person event. A recording will be made available on the Emeritus College YouTube page after the event but there will be no hybrid option.

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 - 1:00pm
Ponderosa Commons Ballroom
6445 University Blvd
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
Talking to Strangers Poster

Book Launch | Apr 17

Véhicule Press and Book Warehouse Main St invite you to the launch of Rhea Tregebov's new collection of poetry, TALKING TO STRANGERS.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the event will start at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to all.

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TALKING TO STRANGERS is a book of bracing encounters. Throughout her four decades as poet, Rhea Tregebov has displayed an uncommon eye for the mysteries of ordinary life—moments where, as she writes, “[t]he simplest things / elude me.” This gift is brought to brilliant effect in her eighth book of poetry and most charged to date. In gorgeous arias of recollection and evocation, of elegy and heartbreak, Tregebov mourns, praises, prays, regrets, summons, celebrates, and bears witness with formidable artistry and tenderness (“You wouldn’t think the inanimate would get tired /but it does.”) Direct, never forced, keenly observant, and marked by scrupulous craft, these new poems unfold in beguiling, often breathtaking ways. They confirm Tregebov’s place among the most significant poets of her generation.

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Rhea Tregebov is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two novels, The Knife Sharpener’s Bell and Rue des Rosiers. Her work has received the J. I. Segal Award, the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. Retired from teaching at UBC, she now holds the position of Associate Professor Emerita and is the former Chair of The Writers Union of Canada. She lives in Vancouver.

More information

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 - 6:30pm
Book Warehouse Main St
4118 Main Street
Vancouver, BC V5V 3P6
Canada

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