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These events are held at the David Thompson Astronomical Observatory located in Fort William Historial Park

Indigenous, spirituality, traditions, stories and seasonal rounds are influenced by all of creation, including the Earth, Moon and stars. With the sacred blanket of snow covering the land, it is time to share the stories of the night sky and creation. Experience the richness and wonderment of the night sky through Anishinaabe stories and traditional teachings.

Group bookings available, contact organizer for details.

$10 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students/Youth, Children 5 yrs and under are free

WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE SHOW!! THE SPRING HOME & GARDEN SHOW WILL BE HELD ON MARCH 31st, APRIL 1st, and APRIL 2nd, 2023!!

March 31: 4pm-9pm

April 1: 10am-6pm

April 2: 11am-4pm

More info: CLE (807) 622-6473 or email to clex@tbaytel.net

http://www.cle.on.ca

Admission is $5.00, with Children under 12 Free. Parking is free. Displays are in 5 buildings on the C.L.E. Grounds, at 425, Northern Avenue, Thunder Bay. The Dove Building (only OPEN on Saturday), the Coliseum, Heritage, Claydon, the Cardinal Room (on side of the Coliseum), The Scarnati Building.

Upcoming Dates:

Saturday, February 18, 2023 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 25, 2023 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 4, 2023 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 11, 2023 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 18, 2023 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Address:

Canadian Lakehead Exhibition – Dove Building
425 Northern Avenue, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
View on Google Maps

Category:

  • Arts and Heritage
  • Children and Youth
  • Food and Drink
  • Teas / Markets / Craft Shows
  • Tourism

Details:

The Market is open year-round Wednesdays at 3:30pm – 6:30pm and Saturdays at 8am – 1pm
Open on the CLE Grounds in the Dove Building- 425 Northern Ave

Location:

Canadian Lakehead Exhibition – Dove Building

Cost:

FREE

Stories & Society

About the Series


Date(s): Wednesdays, January 25 to February 22, 2023
Time: 9:30 to 11:15 am
Place:  Virtual OR In-person
Price: $59 (plus HST)

Stories are central to human communication. We use stories to help us imagine, to better understand one another, and to solve problems and create solutions. Storytelling is more than just entertainment.

This Third Age Learning Lakehead (TALL) series will explore stories and the role of storytelling in society through a sociological lens. We’ll examine questions like: How do our narratives—the stories we tell and are told— shape our lives, our community, our country? How are these narratives constructed? Does science fiction try to predict the future? What is the role of alternative forms of storytelling – like podcasting – in the changing world of media? And how can stories be used in education?

Ways of Escape: The Use and Abuse of Narrative


Dr. Kim Fedderson

Dr. Kim Fedderson
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Questions about identity are at the forefront today. It’s personal. Who am I? Where do I come from? Where should I be headed?

It’s also social. Who are we? What is our identity? Is there a national culture? Is there an underlying, sustaining coherence to Canada’s multicultural story or are we currently witnessing its unravelling?

The spaces in which these questions get addressed—mainstream media, social media, service clubs, coffee shops etc.—are turbulent ones.  We often find ourselves buffeted between an extreme populist right and an extreme populist left.

On the one side, an ALT right in the grip of a fear of otherness—other nationalities, other races, other sexes, other genders—is possessed by a fervent nostalgia that hopes to restore a pristine past that never was.

On the other, a CTRL left whose passionate commitment to difference—giving voice to the voiceless, bringing the marginalized to the centre—propels the unflinching zeal with which it judges both the past and present by the standards of a utopian future yet, if ever, to come.

One slams the brakes, the other hits the gas pedal.

How do our narratives—the stories we tell and are told— shape our lives, our community, our country? How are these narratives constructed? What materials do they use and how do they put these materials together? And, most importantly, can we step outside these stories that shape us, so that we can tell which ones we should remember and which ones we should forget?

Kim Fedderson was the founding dean of Lakehead University’s Orillia campus and is a Professor Emeritus in Lakehead University’s department of English.His research focuses on the history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory. His published work explores how cultural moments of the past, as represented in novels, films, paintings, ceremonies and monuments, are preserved, celebrated, transformed, or simply forgotten in the present.

Dr. Kim Fedderson will attend in-person.

Indigenous Storytelling (to be updated)


Armand Ruffo

Armand Ruffo
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

(To be updated)

(To be updated)

Armand Ruffo will attend virtually.

Looking Beyond: Science Fiction and Our Future in Space


 Julie Czerneda

Julie Czerneda
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

At its core, science fiction is a thought experiment told as a story. Writers speculate what might happen if, for example, we start living on Mars, or discover extra-solar planets. Ideas once considered far-fetched—science fiction– are now in the daily news. Yet science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future. Writers pay attention to what’s possible now and predicted soon, then use their imaginations to look beyond and consider what if…? To celebrate wonder and reveal potential consequences. It’s powerful stuff. Join acclaimed author Julie E. Czerneda for a look at space and what we might do and become there, through the lens of science fiction.

Former biologist and textbook author Julie E. Czerneda has always been fascinated by space. Several of her science fiction novels speculate on what our future there might be like, including the Aurora-Award winning In the Company of Others, and her latest, To Each This World. Her anthology, Space Inc., explored work in space beyond the astronaut. Julie has conducted workshops for the Smithsonian Institute and Chandra Telescope on potential alien forms of life. She was inducted in 2022 into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Julie is published by DAW Books NY and represented by Sara Megibow of KT Literary.

Julie Czerneda will attend in-person.

The Power of Podcasting: A New Home for Long-Form Narrative in a Changing Media World


Liz Beatty

Liz Beatty
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

As page counts and advertising revenues shrivel in traditional print media, podcasting is booming  — from new audio ventures of established media outlets to lone-wolf storytellers with a recording setup from Best Buy.  Award-winning print, radio broadcast and podcast journalist Liz Beatty has experienced firsthand this speed-light-morphing of the media landscape.  She’s transitioned from feature writer for the likes of National Geographic and The Walrus, to documentary podcasting veteran, garnering top awards in her travel/culture beat from across North America. And all this after the age of 50.  In this talk, Liz will share not only the power of this exploding new medium, but how she’s found success among podcasting peers most often half her age.

 Liz Beatty is an award-winning feature writer, broadcaster and podcaster. She’s won all the top awards for podcasting, radio broadcasting and feature writing in the travel and culture lane. Her show North Americana took the 2021 Silver, and both 2020 Gold and Silver Lowell Thomas Awards for Best Podcast from the Society of American Travel Writers, as well as the 2021 Gold and Bronze for Best Podcast from the North American Travel Journalists Association. She is also a regular contributor to National Geographic Travel magazine, books and blogs, and writes for The Guardian, T+L, AARP, The Walrus, Toronto Life and others. She has photographed, written about and produced award-winning stories on everything from the great climbs of the 100th Tour de France for National Geographic to finding the last vestiges of nomadic gaucho culture off the grid in Northern Argentina.

Liz Beatty will attend in-person.

Global events, local stories: Narratives of education and youth across former colonies


Dr. Gary Pluim
Dr. Gary Pluim
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

(To be updated)

Dr. Gary Pluim is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead Orillia. He has a PhD from the University of Toronto, where he completed his doctoral thesis on constructions and conceptualizations of youth participation in the context of the post-earthquake, national reconstruction in Haiti. Informed by his work as a classroom teacher, an outdoor educator, and an international program director, Gary’s current research examines the nexus between global citizenship education and local, place-based education. He has received numerous awards for his research, including an International Research Partnership Award from Lakehead University and a Partnership Engagement Grant award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, provided to investigate the benefits, limits, and consequences of transferring educational curriculum between small states of the Commonwealth.

Dr. Gary Pluim will attend in-person.

How to Buy Tickets


This session of Third Age Learning Lakehead will be delivered in a hybrid format – virtually and in-person at the St. Paul’s Centre in Orillia. Light refreshments (coffee and cookies) will be served in-person. Please bring a reusable mug. Tickets for the series are $59 plus HST.

https://ec.lakeheadu.ca/tall/stories-society

*Please register for the attendance type (virtual or in-person) you intend to attend the most.*

The Thunder Bay Country Market is often known as the Farmer’s Market, but we are so much more! The Market represents an opportunity for people to start a business and earn a living doing something they’re great at and passionate about. For many of our customers, it’s a place to buy local groceries, crafts, and gifts from the talented, hard-working people who created them. For others, it’s a meeting place full of good people where they can get in touch with some of the simpler things in life. For every dollar spent at the Market, you are supporting someone’s family, their business, and their livelihood. They in turn spend that money locally, perhaps creating more jobs as their business grows and the Thunder Bay economy continues to grow and strengthen. It’s win/win! The Thunder Bay Country Market is open year-round every Wednesday from 3:30PM – 6:30PM and Saturday from 8:00AM – 1:00PM For more information, visit: Thunder Bay Country Market  

Learn more about Thunder Bay’s Community Safety & Well-Being Plan, and how we can work together to address some of the community’s most pressing safety and well-being challenges. Keynote presentations, panel discussions, community engagement, and more! Register by October 21, 2022 by visiting www.tinyurl.com/cswb2022

 


 

DAY 1 – SERVICE PROVIDERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Friday, October 28, 2022 (8:30am – 4:30pm)

DAY 2 – MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC (FREE): Saturday, October 29, 2022 (10:00am – 3:00pm)

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