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“Learning is Forever” … LIFE! LIFE/acknowledgements /disability notice/dates to LIFE INSTITUTE is the largest program partner in Programs for remember ...... 3 50+ in The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ombuddy/20 min reminder 4 Ryerson University. LIFE offers lifelong learning programs to No scents policy ...... 4 adults 50+ who are retired or preparing for retirement. Members of LIFE can attend stimulating daytime classes and participate in Spring welcome/wait lists/ creative learning at Ryerson or at off-campus locations. All refunds/classroom times members have full access to Ryerson facilities—the library, and locations ...... 5-6 audiovisual materials, bookstore, cafeteria, the International LIFE board members ...... 6 Conference Centre, and the Ryerson Athletic Centre. Courses and activities LIFE INSTITUTE offers a wide variety of study groups and lecture by category ...... 7-8 courses in the arts, humanities, sciences, technology, and Course details ...... 9-38 contemporary issues. Computer classes, theatre outings, and Clubs ...... 39-41 creative writing classes are just some of the many programs Accessibility at Ryerson ... 41 offered in daytime classes throughout the Fall, Winter, and Spring TAN ...... 41 semesters. Spring courses at a glance LIFE INSTITUTE is a non-profit organization managed by a board ...... 42-43 of directors elected annually by members of LIFE. Members are LIFE registration form ...... 44 encouraged to participate in the many facets of the board’s Thank you, Volunteer activities in furthering new concepts in lifelong learning programs. Instructors ...... 45 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Notes ...... 46 Thanks to: Map of Ryerson/LIFE contact information . 47-48  Sharon Zeiler, Chair, Glenn Frost, Wendy Nurgitz, Mark Fernley, Wendy McDonald, Gail Maron, Simon Pearson, Dorothy Disability Notice Rubinoff, Martha Wall, and Elisabete Way who formed the core committee If access to classes is difficult due  Eva Bell, Elaine Goldbach, and Marcel Deurvorst, who provided to a disability (mobility, hearing, invaluable help vision, or other), please advise your class host or the office at  Rosanne Bernard, LIFE Institute Office Manager e: [email protected]  Sumintra Naraine, LIFE Institute Office Assistant t: (416) 979‐5000, Ext. 6989.  Denise Smith, Manager, Volunteer Services.

DATES to REMEMBER – Spring 2019 Session

Monday, April 1 at 7 a.m. Registration commences Friday, April 19 Good Friday; Ryerson University is closed Monday, May 20 Victoria Day; Ryerson University is Closed Canada Day observed; Ryerson University is Monday, July 1 closed

Monday, August 5 Civic Day; Ryerson University is Closed

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allergies and chemical IT’S WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT sensitivities, please refrain from wearing cologne, perfume, after-shave or other Looking for more classes or things to do? scented products. Why not look in this calendar at

the clubs on Pages 39 - 41 that LIFE offers? LIFE’s OMBUDDY will assist

members who have special Also, please view our website’s GET INVOLVED financial needs. If you are page where clubs and other volunteer experiencing difficulties paying

opportunities are listed your fees, or if you have any other

problems you wish to discuss confidentially, please contact your Ombuddy, Jack Marmer [email protected] For all other enquiries, call the office at (416) 979‐5000, staff ext. 6989

Remember: You have 20 minutes Please consider the possibility that the between morning classes distance between back-to-back classes and noon classes. You have 20 minutes between may not be ideal for you. noon classes and afternoon classes. Plan accordingly!

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The calendar for Spring 2019 offers a varied Confirmation of registration: confirmation is selection of courses reflecting a range of styles immediate when you register on-line. If you and delivery. register by mail, you will be notified by mail or email that your registration has been processed. Membership and course registration  Both membership purchase and course NOTE ON WAIT LISTS registration can be done on-line (payment by Some courses are extremely popular and fill up credit card) at www.thelifeinstitute.ca. Mail-in very quickly. If you do not get in, you may remain registrations are also accepted (payment by on the Wait List or choose a different course. individual cheques ONLY; no cash). We regret, we do not accept walk-in registrations in the BE CONSIDERATE weeks prior to and during registration. As a courtesy to your fellow LIFE members, if you  Only LIFE Institute members can enroll in know that you are going to be away for several courses and activities (except as specified in classes, please do not register for the course. If the calendar). Membership for the year ending you do register but find that you cannot attend, June 30, 2019, is $80 per person. please withdraw as soon as possible so the LIFE  Registration is required for all classes, walks, office can add a member from the waitlist. Your and events you wish to attend, even for those cooperation is greatly appreciated. that are free, except as specially marked in the calendar. LIFE policy for refund of fees

Refund of course fees, less a $20 administration  REGISTRATION PROCESS – PLEASE READ charge, will be made upon written application Registration commences Monday, April 1, before: 2019 On-line registration will begin at 7 a.m. - the first session of a 1 - 4 week course each day. You will enroll for your: - the second session of all courses 5 weeks or  Monday courses on Monday, April 1 more  Tuesday courses on Tuesday, April 2  Wednesday courses on Wednesday, April 3 Course materials, admission, or other unique  Thursday courses on Thursday, April 4 and costs included in the fee may not be refundable.  Friday, Saturday and Sunday courses on Friday, April 5 If a course is cancelled, the entire fee is refundable, and the administration charge will not For those who wish to register by mail, please apply. submit separate cheques and course registration forms for each course so that the same process No refunds will be made for any single- can be observed. Important: The LIFE office does session course, event, or the walks program. not open until 9 a.m.; consequently, your mailed- in form and cheque will not be processed until Theatre Alive: There is no refund once the block after the office opens on each day of registration. of tickets has been purchased. Tickets are not

mailed; they are picked up at the first play of the Priority of registration: registrations are season. processed as received, on a first received, first processed basis.

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LIFE Institute The Chang School, Ryerson University Note: Class hosts will be individually phoning 350 Victoria Street only members who do not have email, to let them Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 know their class locations. or email it to: [email protected] Due to class-size based on registration, Class times and dates classroom locations may change. LIFE in SPRING 2019 Class times and dates are usually as shown in the calendar. Occasionally, due to circumstances beyond our control, class times and/or dates may BE AWARE be changed, and classes may be held off the Ryerson campus. There are occasions when the distance between ‘back-to-back’ classes is an issue. Please Classes start and end on different dates; please consider the possibility that back-to-back classes read the course descriptions carefully. From time may not be ideal for you. to time, due to unforeseen circumstances, a class

(or classes) in a course may have to be cancelled. Should this happen, your Please advise the LIFE office at (416) 979-5000, understanding will be very much appreciated. ext. 6989 if you have difficulty with a class due to a disability (mobility, hearing, vision, or other). Classroom location Sometimes we can work out a solution. Some rooms for our LIFE courses will not be assigned until the week before classes start. As

soon as they are available, the full list of rooms

LIFE Board of Directors 2018-2019 .

Chair and President - Virginia Bosomworth Vice Chair, Governance - Donna Woolcott Vice Chair, Strategy - Angèle Mongul Treasurer - Alan Lavine Secretary - Milvi Ester

Phillip Abrahams Barbara Atlas Harvey Bernstein Lorne Bernstein Tracy Eckebrecht Sandra Kerr (ex officio) Howat Noble Rhonda Singer Charles Wright

To reach any of our board members, please contact the LIFE office.

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Spring 2019 courses and activities by category

Category Code Title of course Pg ART/ART HISTORY S10 Drawing with Mixed Media 12 S66 Getting Out: Exploring Toronto’s Cultural Neighbourhoods - FRI 33 S37 Getting Out: Exploring Toronto’s Cultural Neighbourhoods - WED 22-23 S55 Klimt and Schiele 30 S57 Spirituality of Colour 16 S22 Watercolour – Beginners 16 S26 Watercolour – Beginners Plus 17-18 CULTURAL STUDIES S28 Passion and Politics of Islam 18 S8 Politics of Modern Iran 11-12 S24 Self and God in the Western World 17 S29 Social Innovation: New Ideas for Old Problems 18-19 S21 Understanding Islam 16 S25 War and Peace in the Middle East 17 S18 Window on Central Africa 15 FILM S63 Documentary Films 32 S49 Provoc-auteurs: Controversial Filmmakers 27 HEALTH S51 Canada’s Food Guide 27-28 S65 Get Psyched 33 S65 Long Term Care Planning 29 S41 Your Health and the Healthcare System 24 HISTORY S1 Archaeology of Ancient Canaan, Israel and Jordan 9 S40 Hey. Hey! We’re the 60s 23-24 S15 History of Business 14 S16 History of Espionage 14 S7 History of Fashion 11 S3 History of Scandinavia 9-10 S60 History of the Ancient Near East 31 S70 Ireland: 200 Years of Rebellion 36 S47 Latin America THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED 26 S23 New History of Nazi Germany 16-17 S56 Remembering 1968 29 S72 Russia Under the Romanovs 37 S14 WWII: The Struggle Against Fascism 13 LITERATURE S32 Book Talk 20 S11 Golden Age of Detective Novels 12-13 S31 Transformations – Eight novels that Continue Literary Classics 19-20 MISCELLANEOUS S68 Afternoon Tea and Tour of the Ontario Legislature - SPECIAL EVENT 34 S39 Feast Your Eyes on This Part IV 23 S20 How to be a Smart Consumer and Not Get Ripped Off 15-16 MUSIC S59 Explorations in Early Music 31 S13 Music of Gustav Mahler and Igor Stravinsky Explained 13 S67 Music of New Orleans 34 S35 Piano Concertos 21 S71 Why Music? 36 PASTIMES S38 Cheering for the Home Team 23 S45 Creating Photobooks (12:10 p.m.) 25-26 S52 Creating Photobooks (2:10 p.m.) 28 S5 Creating Video Memories 10 … continued on page 8 www.thelifeinstitute.ca 7 (416) 979‐5000 Ext.6989 [email protected]

Category Code Title of Course Pg PASTIMES continued S69 Inner Peace through Mandala Meditation 35 S43 Intermediate Photoshop Elements 24-25 S12 Introduction to Floral Design 13 S50 Sorting Your Photographs 27 PHILOSOPHY S53 Fifty Shades of Freedom 28 S34 Introduction to Philosophy 20-21 S42 Philosophy of Love and Happiness 24 POLITICS/ S46 Diverse Opinions: Commentary from the World Press 26 PUBLIC AFFAIRS S58 The Economist Seminar 30 S44 New Supreme Court 25 S4 Politics, People, and Other Issues 10 S9 Trump 12 SCIENCE S19 Amazing Creative Nature 15 S61 Heavens: History of the Universe 31-32 S30 Story of Science: Part II 19 TECHNOLOGY S2 Cybersecurity Skills (Mac) 9 S6 Cybersecurity Skills (PC) 10-11 S33 Implications of Disruptive Technologies 20 THEATRE S17 Stratford Festival Preview 14-15 S36 Theatre Alive! 21-22 WALKS S27 High Park Nature Walks 18 S48 North of Bloor – Food and Art Walking Tours 26-27 S62 Photo Walks 32 S73 Spring and Summer Walks 2019 38 WRITING S64 Leaving a Legacy: Your Life Story 32-33

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Spring 2019 COURSES S2 Cybersecurity Skills for Mac LIFE in SPRING 2019 Class Times and Locations Users NEW We’re still expanding! As a result, Cyber-attacks that specifically target older adults course times shown in the calendar are increasing at an alarming rate, and most and rooms first allocated for LIFE times, they become victims because of limited classes may be subject to change. If cybersecurity skills. With cyber-attacks this occurs, it is in order to obtain the best continuously evolving, it has become critical for possible classroom space for our members, and older adults to acquire the requisite cybersecurity we thank you for your flexibility, understanding skills so that they will know how to counter these and patience. inevitable cyber-attacks. This hands-on MONDAY interactive course will equip you with the requisite knowledge and skills that you need in not only S1 The Archaeology of Ancient knowing what to do, but more importantly, Canaan, Israel and Judah learning how to do cybersecurity tasks so that you will be better able to protect yourselves and The region in and around modern Israel lies at your devices against cyber-attacks. Bring your the crossroads between Asia and Africa and has, own device and learn how to securely configure as a result, played a key role in the history of it! humanity. It is where archaeology has the first This is a hands-on, interactive course taught by evidence of modern humans outside of Africa and an expert in the field. It is designed for Mac it is one of the first areas where agriculture users. A course for those who use PC based developed. Ultimately, it was the home of the devices is available at 12:10 p.m. Canaanites, Philistines, Israelites, and Judahites, Dr. Carlene Blackwood-Brown holds a PhD in of the Old Testament. Over eight weeks, Information Systems with a concentration in participants will be exposed to the archaeology of Information Security/Cybersecurity from Nova over a million years of a region whose cultures Southeastern University, and a Cybersecurity: have had a lasting impact on human society. Managing Risk in the Information Age certificate Participants will learn from an expert in the field from Harvard University. She teaches Information through a series of illustrated lectures. This is a Systems-related courses at Sheridan and Seneca repeat of a course previously taught at LIFE. Colleges. She also provides cybersecurity-related consulting, training, and technical services to Dr. David Lipovitch (Harvard, ’99) is an organizations. archaeologist who has worked with Limited to 25 participants archaeological excavations in southern Ontario, Dates: April 29–May 27 (4 sessions, no class May 20) Israel, Jordan, the Republic of Georgia, and Time: Mondays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. Turkey. He has been lecturing since the 1990s Fee: $56 and is a course instructor in Wilfred Laurier Instructor: Carlene Blackwood-Brown University’s history and archaeology departments, as well as a Research Affiliate at S3 The History of Scandinavia the University of Toronto. He is also the zooarchaeologist at U of T’s excavations at Tell NEW Ta’yinat, Turkey and Gadachrili Gora, Georgia. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland are among the top 20 countries to live in according to Limited to 60 participants the United Nations Human Development Index. Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) However, these nations in northern Europe Time: Mondays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. experienced a turbulent history. We will explore Fee: $92 key topics in the history of Scandinavia including Instructor: David Lipovitch the region’s prehistory, the Viking Age, the monarchies of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, the Golden Age of Sweden, Finland and the

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Russian Empire, Denmark’s changing borders in S5 Creating Video Memories the 19th century, and Norway’s independence in the 20th century. The history of Scandinavia Have you ever wished you could put all your continues to influence the culture and politics of favourite photos and video clips from your smart the region to the present day. phone or digital camera into a professional- Participants will learn from an expert in the field looking video that told a compelling story you through a series of illustrated lectures with some could share with family and friends? Well, if opportunity for discussion. you’ve got the urge to holler “lights, camera, Carolyn Harris is a historian and author. She action”, then this is the course for you! This received her PhD in history from Queen’s introduction to video storytelling will guide you University. She is the author of three books, through a range of practical tips and beginner skills for shooting and editing your own

LIFE in SPRING 2019 Magna Carta, Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe, and Raising Royalty: 1000 Years “productions”. We will begin with animating our of Royal Parenting. She frequently provides photos using slide show templates and then historical commentary on TV and radio. move to shooting our own video interviews and Limited to 60 participants scenes. Equipment you will need include: a Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) smart/iPhone, a DSLR or HD video camera and a Time: Mondays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. laptop with installed video editing software (i- Fee: $92 movie or FCP-X for Mac users, and Filmora for Instructor: Carolyn Harris PC users). Ascending this learning curve will be reinforced through the use of online video editing S4 Politics, People and Other tutorials. Issues The course is not for “techno-phobic” individuals; however, the sessions will address both We face many important and challenging issues beginners and more experienced students of the today, issues that will have far-reaching impact video medium. This is a repeat of a course on our lives. We focus in this group on the previously offered at LIFE. fundamental questions and key people driving Karen Robbins is a professional video producer these world events. We welcome opposing views, and digital storyteller who loves to help people which make for a stimulating dialogue, carried on put their stories and their most cherished in a collegial and respectful manner. Participants memories into polished and impactful videos. choose the topics for discussion at the beginning Karen uses her production company, Video from of each semester. the Heart (www.videofromtheheart.com), as a This is a discussion class, led by its course springboard for her unique “video heirloom” leaders. approach that encourages people to create a Jay Waterman has been a member of the class moving legacy for future generations. for many years and has served as a Board member of LIFE. He is a Toronto native and Limited to 9 participants retired lawyer. Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) Lloyd Cadsby is also a retired lawyer who is Time: Mondays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. intrigued by the political and financial issues that Location: VIC607A dominate our lives. His background in mediation Fee: $60 is useful in the give-and-take of class discussion. Instructor: Karen Robbins Limited to 30 participants Date: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) S6 Cybersecurity for PC Users Time: Monday, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. NEW Fee: $60 Cyber-attacks that specifically target older adults Instructors: Lloyd Cadsby and Jay Waterman are increasing at an alarming rate, and most times, they become victims because of limited cybersecurity skills. With cyber-attacks continuously evolving, it has become critical for

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older adults to acquire the requisite cybersecurity study “a thinking person's fashion history”. Are we LIFE in SPRING 2019 skills so that they will know how to counter these truly what we wear? inevitable cyber-attacks. This hands-on Participants will learn from an expert on the interactive course will equip you with the requisite subject in a series of illustrated lectures. This is knowledge and skills that you need in not only an updated version of a course previously taught knowing what to do, but more importantly, at LIFE. learning how to do cybersecurity tasks so that David Chandross, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D. is you will be better able to protect yourselves and currently a professor in residence at Humber your devices against cyber-attacks. Bring your College where he leads initiatives in simulations own device and learn how to securely configure and serious game development. He is a two-time it! award-winning game designer who collaborates This is a hands-on, interactive course taught by with numerous organizations to improve learning. an expert in the field. It is designed for those who Clients include the Faculty of Medicine, University use PC based devices. A course for those who of Toronto, Elections Canada, the Canadian use Mac devices is available at 10:10 a.m. Armed Forces, the Senior Executive of the Chang Dr. Carlene Blackwood-Brown holds a PhD in School at Ryerson, Baycrest Health Sciences and Information Systems with a concentration in the College of Family Physicians, Ontario. Information Security/Cybersecurity from Nova Limited to 60 participants Southeastern University, and a Cybersecurity: Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) Managing Risk in the Information Age certificate Time: Mondays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. from Harvard University. She teaches Information Fee: $92 Systems-related courses at Sheridan and Seneca Instructor: David Chandross Colleges. She also provides cybersecurity-related consulting, training, and technical services to S8 Politics of Modern Iran NEW organizations. This course will introduce participants to Limited to 25 participants contemporary Iranian politics through the lens of Dates: April 29–May 27 (4 sessions, no class May 20) cultural productions including short stories and Time: Mondays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. novels written in the modern era. The course will Fee: $56 critically explore major political events since the Instructor: Carlene Blackwood-Brown beginning of the 20th century that have shaped the Iranian political landscape including: the S7 A History of Fashion: 1900- Constitutional Revolution, the Oil Nationalization 2017 (Chanel, Dior, Suffrage and Movement and subsequent 1953 Anglo-American Pop) Coup, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the Green Political Uprising of 2009. Through In this course we will look at the history of fashion analyzing these events, participants will develop starting with the Belle Epoch of Paris all the way an understanding of Iran’s relationship with the to modern runway shows. Beginning with Coco international community and in particular, Chanel, Poirer, Worth and later Dior, Yves Saint Iran/United States relations. Laurent, Lagerfeld and onto McQueen, Galiano Participants will learn from an expert in the field and Lucian Matis (stylist for the Trudeau family), through a series of illustrated lectures. The we trace the history of fashion into the present instructor will provide participants with short day. What social, political and philosophical recommended readings which will be discussed movements found their home in the early design in class. houses and the Moulin Rouge? Which artistic or Maral Karimi is a PhD student at the department aesthetic influences shaped early design? How of Social Justice Education at the University of did feminism grow from the suffrage movement, Toronto. She is the author of The Iranian Green through the flappers, into the second wave of the Movement of 2009: Reverberating Echoes of 60s, and into the third wave of the women's Resistance, released in August 2018. movement? Come join us for a journey of design, Limited to 60 participants music, cinema, philosophy and sociology as we

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Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) personal style and to explore and invent your own Time: Monday, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. techniques and begin to discern your own Fee: $92 themes. Instructor: Maral Karimi Sue Ericsson has taught Drawing Fundamentals for Ryerson since 1974. The City of Toronto S9 Trump: Is He Making America Archives owns three of her works. Great Again? NEW Limited to 25 participants Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) In the 2016 election, Trump promised to Make Time: Mondays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. America Great Again. We will assess how Fee: $92 successful he has been in achieving this goal by Instructor: Sue Ericsson, BFA, SCA examining several of his actions, policies, and

LIFE in SPRING 2019 *Please Note: Do not buy any new supplies. interactions with other countries. We begin by Bring whatever drawing supplies you already studying what has happened at the federal own. A list of required materials will be given out government level, especially in The White House. at the first class. The approximate cost is $15. We will look at why and how relations have changed with America’s European allies, Russia, the Middle East countries, China, Canada, and S11 The Golden Age of Great other countries. Why has Trump started tariff Detective Novels NEW wars? What has been the impact? We will This course offers participants a lively look at discuss Trump’s possible future from “The Golden Age of Detective Fiction” of the impeachment to re-election. 1920s and 1930s and includes a look at the lives This course will provide opportunities for and times of writers as diverse as Dorothy L. discussions based on readings and short Sayers, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, and presentations by participants who wish to do Margery Allingham. We'll look at the books by them. these writers and explore how they followed the Paul Rook was a high school history and politics established conventions and clichés that limited teacher. He has moderated several courses at any surprises on the part of the reader to the LIFE including the 2008 and 2012 American details of the plot and, primarily, to the identity of Presidential Elections, Criminal Minds and the murderer. Most importantly, we'll explore the Investigations, and Religion and Politics. Paul's “careers” of whimsical characters including: life-long interest in politics includes being a Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Whimsey, Father candidate. Brown, Allan Grant, Chief Inspector Alleyn and Limited to 35 participants Inspector Maigret, who delight readers as much Dates: April 29–June 10 (6 sessions, no class May 20) today as they did back in the golden age. See if Time: Mondays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. you can outsmart these clever sleuths in the Fee: $50 whodunits of the 20s and 30s. Instructor: Paul Rook This is a lecture course, taught by an expert, with S10 Drawing with Mixed Media opportunity for discussion. A list of suggested readings will be made available, which will enrich NEW your enjoyment of the classes, but they are not An intermediate level course that moves from the required reading. study of slab tone (applied with a stick on conté, charcoal or graphite) to more versatile Jeffrey Canton has lectured on great travel applications of linear tone (using any material that writers, contemporary essayists, the memoir, and will make a line) and fluid tone (using a brush). the novella at LIFE Institute as well as at the Basic colour principles are covered so that with Baycrest Learning Academy. He was for many these tools a wide range of materials can be used years a lecturer in the Children’s Studies Program in a variety of ways on their own and in a mix of at York University. He’s also a writer and media. You will be encouraged to develop your performer and has appeared as part of the Toronto Storytelling Festival, Myseum

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Intersections, Nuit Rose and the Hamilton Fringe Rite of Spring. Maestro Thomas’s lectures include LIFE in SPRING 2019 Festival. biographical information, personal anecdotes, Limited to 60 participants rehearsal segments, and commentary. If you’ve Dates: April 29–June 24 (8 sessions, no class May 20) struggled to appreciate Mahler’s famously long Time: Mondays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. and large-scale symphonies, this is your Fee: $92 opportunity to explore his music with an expert Instructor: Jeffrey Canton guide and discover why he is regarded as the master of the symphonic form. The course leader S12 Introduction to Floral Design will present additional information on: NEW  A brief history of classical music Many of us wish we had the ability to make floral  The art of the conductor arrangements like we see at the florist shop. In  Biography of Michael Tilson Thomas and this course, students will realize their potential in other famous conductors this teachable skill that can be picked up at any  Life and times of Anton Bruckner, including age. Over the course of four weeks participants excerpts from his Symphony No. 4 will examine the elements and principles of Marcel Deurvorst, lifelong opera and classical design and understand how to utilize them from a music aficionado continues in his fourteenth year single stem to a perfected arrangement. of presenting superb music to LIFE members Participants will learn how to make hand tied from his own CD/DVD collection. bouquets and arrange flowers in vessels. We will Limited to 60 participants talk about indoor gardens and how to maintain Dates: May 6 - June 17 (6 sessions, no class May 20) them and how to take advantage of what our Time: Mondays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Canadian seasons offer and how to bring the Fee: $50 outdoors in. Instructor: Marcel Deurvorst This is a lecture and demonstration course with some limited opportunity for hands-on activity. S14 World War II – The Struggle Aimé Blanchette is a professionally trained florist Against Fascism NEW with almost 10 years of experience in the Millions of people sacrificed their lives to stop industry. She has a passion for all things floral aggression by the Axis powers - Nazi Germany, and strives to bring colour into our everyday lives. Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan - during World Limited to 30 participants War II. This course will cover key events through Dates: April 29–May 27 (4 sessions, no class May 20) to the end of World War II, starting with the rise of Time: Mondays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Fascism, with attention to conflicts in Spain and Fee: $50 (includes $10 materials fee) Mongolia that shaped the outbreak of war in Instructor: Aimé Blanchette 1939. Participants will learn from an expert on the S13 The Music of Gustav Mahler subject in a series of illustrated lectures with an and Igor Stravinsky Explained NEW opportunity to ask questions. Join fellow music-lovers in celebrating spring by Dr. Dennis Bartels taught about World War II in exploring the life, times, and symphonic works of a course on ‘War and Aggression’ offered at two great composers, Gustav Mahler and Igor Memorial University of Newfoundland. In addition, Stravinsky, with the legendary Michael Tilson he taught anthropology for many years. Dr. Thomas as your lecturer and conductor. Through Bartels’ publications include Eastern Air War DVD presentations of a ground-breaking initiative (June 1941-April 1945). by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra called Limited to 60 participants “Keeping Score”, we will enjoy both the expertise Dates: April 29–June 3 (5 sessions, no class May 20) of its eminent conductor and the beauty of the Time: Mondays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. music performed by his orchestra, including Fee: $65 excerpts from Mahler’s Symphonies No. 1, 5, and Instructor: Dennis Bartels 9, and Stravinsky’s dazzling The Firebird and The www.thelifeinstitute.ca 13 (416) 979‐5000 Ext.6989 [email protected]

TUESDAY Wars, technological changes, and the Cold War confrontation after 1945. We will focus on British, S15 The History of Business NEW German, and U.S. - Russian intelligence. The In this course we will be looking at the History of course will survey the role that intelligence played Business through the ages, from the ancient in securing Allied victories during the two World world of Aristotle to the modern world of Jeff Wars and in crucial Cold War events like the Bezos. We will examine business conduct and arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the activity through a multiplicity of influences, Vietnam War. Theoretical principles of including religion, culture, and politics on the intelligence gathering and assessment will be social and economic environment. Earlier topics explored as will the portrayal of espionage in are focused on Europe and Great Britain, but popular culture. We will conclude with an LIFE in SPRING 2019 later we shift our attention to the United States examination of the challenges intelligence and Canada. This change of focus and location is services face today and the changing nature of partly a reflection of the shifting global balance of spying in the post-Cold War and post-9/11eras. power, but also indicative of the innovation in This course is a lecture series taught by an expert thought and practice taking place in North in the subject. America. While considering particular economic Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker, sectors and countries, along with broad trends investigative historian and a professor at Ryerson and themes, we will also consider the role of University where he teaches the history of particular individuals, such as Henry Ford, J.P. international relations, espionage, war crimes, Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie, and assess the genocide, warfare and terrorism. He holds a PhD dynamism, vision and innovation which in Criminal Justice History and Espionage in underpinned their success. Today, we have a International Relations from the University of new set of business entrepreneurs who, like their Toronto. He is the author of three bestseller predecessors, are skilled in the “creative histories of serial killers, including the recently destruction” which has proven to be necessary to published Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers social and economic progress under capitalism, From the Stone Age to the Present. and which has produced so much invention, Limited to 60 participants innovation, and expansion in the modern world. Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) This is a lecture series taught by an expert in the Time: Tuesdays, 10:10 – 11: 50 a.m. field. Fee: $92 Dr. Gordon Bannerman received his Ph.D. from Instructor: Peter Vronsky King’s College London (KCL) in 2005 and has an extensive publication record of books, articles, S17 Stratford Festival Preview and reviews. Dr. Bannerman was admitted as a These spirited lectures will enrich your theatre- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2015 for going experience. Talks on selected plays being his contribution to historical scholarship. He offered this season at the Stratford Festival will currently teaches ‘The History of Business’ and be spiced with lively anecdotes, readings, short ‘Government and Business’ at the University of scene presentations, discussions, and Guelph-Humber, Ontario. background information on authors and theatre Limited to 60 participants history. Enjoy some coffee, tea, and cookies Dates: May 7 – June 25 (8 sessions) along with informal discussion during the half- Time: Tuesdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. time break. List of plays in order of presentation Fee: $92 are: Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Instructor: Gordon Bannerman Othello and Henry VIII; Kate Hennig’s Mother’s History of Espionage NEW Daughter; Wajdi Mouad’s Birds of a Kind; and S16 Edward Kemp’s version of Nathan The Wise. Join us in an examination of the evolution of Other plays may be touched on. intelligence services throughout the twentieth Participants will learn from an expert in the field century with particular reference to the two World through readings, presentations, and discussions.

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Vrenia Ivonoffski is founding artistic director of can be a carnivore. We will also look at how LIFE in SPRING 2019 ACT II STUDIO, professor of acting at George different plants and animals use clever Brown Theatre School, a director (30+ credits) techniques to find a living environment and and playwright (14 produced plays). Awards and reproduce. We will look at a wide range of forms, distinctions: Theatre Ontario Talent Bank, body structures, and life styles in the animal Ryerson’s GREET teaching award (2002), kingdom from the very simple to the very Patron’s Pick (Leacock Live!, 2010 Toronto complex, and also discuss phenomena such as Fringe Festival), Theatre Ontario’s 2014 Maggie how animals “breathe”, how they “eat” and other Bassett Award, past-president Toronto curious animal behavior. In addition, you will get Association of Acting Studios. an insight into the fascinating world of the *Please note starting and ending times. kingdoms of bacteria, protists and fungi. Limited to 30 participants This course is a series of illustrated lectures Dates: April 23 – May 14 (4 sessions) taught by an expert in the field. It is a repeat of a Time: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. noon* course previously offered at LIFE. Location: VIC502 Christine Dimanche is an enthusiastic higher Fee: $83 education professional with over 20 years of Instructor: Vrenia Ivonoffski international experience in teaching with a focus on biology, human biology, nutrition, health, and S18 Window on Central Africa NEW wellbeing. She has taught varied student Come learn about life in Central Africa today. populations, including adults with special needs During this course we will look at various aspects and seniors, and is experienced in health and of life of the people living in the heart of Africa to fitness program development. Christine is capture what life is like for the millions who live in currently teaching biology and nutrition courses this fertile part of the world. We will concentrate for George Brown College. on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Limited to 60 participants Uganda, and Kenya. Topics to be discussed Dates: May 7 – June 11 (6 sessions) include infrastructure (roads, buildings, water and Time: Tuesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. electricity), health challenges, politics and Fee: $74 democracy, education, and the ever-increasing Instructor: Christine Dimanche influence of China in this part of the world. This will be a lecture course enhanced with video and pictures. S20 How to be a Smart Consumer Dr. Philip Wood is a retired surgeon who has and Not Get Ripped Off NEW worked for many years in central Africa. He has The customer is always right? That’s not the case just returned from three months in the Democratic anymore. Many companies disguise the truth Republic of Congo. He has previously taught about products and services they sell, asking you several courses at LIFE Institute. to sign documents you don’t understand and Limited to 50 participants making it difficult to reach a decision-maker when Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) you complain. This course will help you get a Time: Tuesdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. better deal when buying or leasing a car or a Fee: $60 home and negotiate the best rates with financial Instructor: Dr. Philip Wood institutions, insurance companies, and telecom (phone, internet, television) providers. Strategies S19 Amazing Creative Nature on how to stretch your travel dollars will be discussed, and you will learn how to spot frauds This will be a journey to explore the fascinating and scams and how to shop online without being life of organisms of diverse kingdoms and marvel ripped off. at their amazing ability to adapt to their living This is a lecture series taught by an expert in the environment or to extreme environmental subject. conditions. Find out how animals and plants can Ellen Roseman has been a Toronto Star survive in the desert or the arctic, or why a plant www.thelifeinstitute.ca 15 (416) 979‐5000 Ext.6989 [email protected]

columnist for 20 years, helping readers resolve and creativity. their complaints with large corporations. She is a This is a creative activity class. *Students will be consumer advocate and the author of seven expected to purchase supplies that will cost books including Fight Back (Wiley Canada, approximately $80. Supplies are provided for the 2013). first class only and we discuss what is needed at Limited to 60 participants that time. One class will involve sketching in High Date: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) Park. Participants will be expected to travel there Time: Tuesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. on their own and will need an inexpensive sketch Fee: $92 pad and a way to take photographs they can print Instructor: Ellen Roseman for use at the next session. Lorraine Ireland is a practising artist and teacher

LIFE in SPRING 2019 S21 Understanding Islam NEW with over 30 years experience. She has taught This course will guide you through the facts and for many art institutions, art groups and schools myths surrounding Islam and its more than 1.7 including: George Brown College, Sheridan billion followers. How familiar are you with the College, Visual Arts Mississauga and the LIFE world's second largest and fastest-growing Institute. She participates in juried shows and religion? Many in the West know little about the has a one woman show coming up in 2020. faith and are familiar only with the actions of a Limited to 18 participants minority of radical extremists. This course aims to Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) demonstrate the basic principles of Islam and Time: Tuesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. how it has evolved over the last 1400 years. A Fee: $92* (Plus materials – please see above) high level of engagement with the audience will Instructor: Lorraine Ireland be encouraged to clarify understanding and dispel certain negative attitudes associated with S23 A New History of Nazi the religion. Germany 1933-1945 NEW This is a lecture course, taught by an expert in Much of what we popularly know of Nazi the field, with plenty of opportunity for discussion. Germany is based on journalist William Shirer’s Uzma Siddiqui has an MBA with over twenty bestseller book, The Rise and Fall of the Third years of corporate experience in finance, Reich, published in the 1960s. Since the end of consulting and training and over ten years of the war in 1945, historians have been revising teaching experience, including at Ryerson and updating what we thought we knew about the University. Her vision is to reclaim Islam and rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. In present it as a religion of love, harmony, the last fifteen years, intelligence and military tolerance and progress. archives have started to declassify some of their Limited to 60 participants holdings and while some will remain classified Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) ‘top secret’ until 2045, we are learning new Time: Tuesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. shocking things about the Third Reich. This Fee: $92 course focuses on the results of new research Instructor: Uzma Siddiqui into the nature of Nazi Germany and its criminality. S22 Watercolour Painting for This is a lecture course taught by an expert in the Beginners subject. This class is for the raw beginner who wants to Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker, start painting in watercolours. We cover all the investigative historian and a professor at Ryerson basics and start with washes, followed by colour University where he teaches the history of mixing, composition and values. A trip to High international relations, espionage, war crimes, Park will inspire us to paint landscapes and genocide, warfare and terrorism. He holds a PhD flowers. We will paint a still life, floral, spring in criminal justice history and espionage in landscape and learn to work from personal international relations from the University of photographs. Join us for this voyage of colours Toronto. He is the author of three bestseller

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histories of serial killers, including the recently Instructor: Svitlana Kobets LIFE in SPRING 2019 published Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers War and Peace in the Middle From the Stone Age to the Present. S25 Limited to 60 participants East Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) This lecture series is for participants who are Time: Tuesdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. interested in understanding the underlying issues Fee: $92 and conflicts that have besieged the Middle East, Instructor: Peter Vronsky from the civil war in Syria to the rise of Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and ISIS, to the strife in S24 Self and God in the Western Iraq, the terror in Yemen and the Israeli- World NEW Palestinian conflict. This course will give This course will survey the history of participants a unique perspective and deeper conceptualizations of selfhood as expressed in understanding of the political and social masterpieces of philosophy, spirituality, literature, environments in the Middle East and how the and art. Through a variety of works representing 2011 “Arab Spring” turned into the “Dark Winter” different times, cultures, and societies, we will of today. explore paradigms of the human understanding of This course features a series of illustrated selfhood and its place in society. We will examine lectures. This course, which was previously attitudes toward the individual and selfhood as offered at LIFE, has been updated with recent expressed in classical Greek philosophy (Plato, developments. Marcus Aurelius), works of early Christian Amnon Zohar is a high-tech business asceticism (Palladius, John Climacus), writings of entrepreneur and founder of internet and social medieval European mystics (Hildegard of Bingen, media companies. He was born and educated in Bernard of Clairvaux) and findings of Israel and is a graduate of the Israeli Academy for psychoanalysis (Jung). We will conclude with the Computer Sciences. He studied Political Science discussion of the quest for the individual self and and International Relations at York University. spirituality under totalitarian regimes in Zamiatin’s After spending forty years in Canada he returned celebrated novel “We.” Issues important to our to the University of Tel-Aviv, majoring in discussions will include the individual and society, International Relations, Islamic, Middle East and freedom and submission, self-awareness and the Global Security studies. failure of self-knowledge. Limited to 50 participants Participants will learn from an expert in the field Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) through a series of illustrated lectures. The Time: Tuesdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Lecturer will provide a reading list and handouts Fee: $60 with questions for class discussions. Instructor: Amnon Zohar Svitlana Kobets has lectured on Culture, S26 Watercolour: Beginners Plus Religious Studies, Literature and Film at several This class is all about making better paintings, by North American and European Universities and learning more techniques and enhancing the programs for life learners including University of basics. If you have taken a beginner class, or Notre Dame and St. Michael’s College Continuing Beginners Plus before, this class will be a Education Program. Her research bridges Late continuation as we explore how values increase Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modernity and she is realism; how salt effects add interesting textures deeply interested in sharing her knowledge about to a background and how a limited pallet can World Literature, spiritual traditions and cultures. make a dramatic spring landscape painting. We Svitlana’s PhD dissertation (University of Illinois) will visit High Park for inspiration and take discusses the Eastern Orthodox tradition of holy photographs and then we will use these photos foolishness in Byzantium and Russia. as subject material. Limited to 60 participants Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) This is a creative activity class. Bring all your own Time: Tuesdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. supplies and 140 lb. Arches Medium Cold Fee: $92 Pressed paper (green cover). One class will

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involve sketching in High Park. Participants will Canada from almost 60 different parts of the be expected to travel there on their own and will world, so there is plurality of thought and practice need an inexpensive sketch pad and a way to within the core message of the faith. There is a take photographs they can print for use at the spiritual component of Islam and another aspect next session. that has been politicized. This course will trace Lorraine Ireland is a practising artist and teacher the trajectory of what Islam meant as a message with over 30 years’ experience. She has taught of faith and how it was politicized to become for many art institutions, art groups, and schools violent and radical as we see today. including George Brown College, Sheridan This is a lecture series, with some opportunity for College, Visual Arts Mississauga, and the LIFE discussion, taught by experts in the field. Institute. Raheel Raza is President of the Council for

LIFE in SPRING 2019 Limited to 18 participants Muslims Facing Tomorrow, founding member of Dates: April 30 – June 18 (8 sessions) The Muslim Reform Movement, the Director of Time: Tuesdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Forum for Learning, an award-winning journalist Fee: $92 plus any additional materials required and public speaker and an advocate for human Instructor: Lorraine Ireland rights, interfaith dialogue, gender equality and dignity in diversity. WEDNESDAY Sohail Raza has had a long-term involvement in S27 High Park Nature Walks NEW community services as Director of Forum for Join us to learn about the unique flora and Learning and Muslims Facing Tomorrow. In this fascinating fauna that call High Park home, capacity he has dealt extensively with extremism including butterflies, birds, trees and wildflowers. and radicalization. We will hike through High Park’s natural Both Raheel and Sohail have taught courses at ecosystems including the globally endangered George Brown College and Ryerson for the past black oak savannah, wetlands and woodlands to five years. better understand this vital urban green space. A Limited to 60 participants series of four 90-minute walks in High Park will be Dates: May 1 – June 19 (8 sessions) guided by an experienced naturalist. Time: Wednesdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. This is an outdoor activity which will take place Fee: $92 rain or shine so please dress for the weather! Instructors: Raheel and Sohail Raza Jon Hayes joined the High Park Nature Centre team in 2006. After receiving his Bachelor of S29 Social Innovation: New Ideas Education at OISE/University of Toronto, Jon fell for Old Problems NEW in love with teaching in an outdoor setting and “Social innovation is the process of developing has been doing it ever since. Jon looks for ways and deploying effective solutions to challenging to connect people of all ages with their local and often systemic social and environmental ecology through immersive, hands-on issues in support of social progress”. experiences. (Stanford University) Limited to 20 participants This course will explore the work of social, Dates: May 22 – June 12 (4 sessions) purpose-driven organizations such as charities, Time: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.– 12 p.m.* non-profits, cooperatives, social enterprises, and Fee: $80 values-focused businesses. You’ll become more Instructor: Jonathan Hayes familiar with all these forms of social innovation *Please note start time as we examine their benefits, challenges, and potential solutions through the use of real case S28 Passion and Politics of Islam: studies. We’ll ask questions and debate Islam and Muslims Today responses: How do the various forms of social innovation work together in the ecosystem? Can Islam is the faith of 1.8 billion Muslims and is partnerships within and without the sector benefit practised in diverse ways. Muslims come to

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the organization and society? How will some interactions between religion and science and LIFE in SPRING 2019 charities deal with scarce resources? Is there a modern poetry. He has studied how perception, conflict between the bottom line and socially attention, and memory occur in the human brain. responsible business practices? From the He is intrigued by the creative human mind. Arthritis Society to the United Way, from Me to Limited to 50 participants We to Toronto Co-op Housing, all these Dates: May 1 – June 26 (8 sessions; no class June 12) organizations play a vital role in society. Come Time: Wednesdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. and discover how important they really are. Fee: $92 After an initial introduction by the instructor, each Instructor: Terry Picton session will include questions and considerable discussion and debate. Various social innovators S31 Transformations – Eight will be guests. Novels That Continue Literary Rick Blickstead is a senior general management Classics NEW executive with experience in both the Canadian Curious about what went on below stairs in the and American public, non-profit, and private household of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy or what might sectors. He specializes in organizational have happened next to Isobel Archer? This revitalization, social and strategic innovation, and course offers participants a chance to enjoy the operational execution. Rick has a diverse imaginative re-creations, transformations, background in organizational branding and extensions and re-imaginings of some of the most positioning, retail, and consulting, having led deeply loved classic works of literature by some organizations such as Peoples Jewellers, of the most exciting and innovative writers Walmart FJ (USA), RONA, Wellesley Institute, working in contemporary fiction. See what might and Diabetes Canada. He is an Adjunct Professor have happened next, what might have happened at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of Social before and whether we even want to continue our Innovation Generation Canada@ MaRS, and led explorations of these classics. Writers like the operational team for “Canadian CEO’s in the Margaret Atwood, John Banville, and JM Coetzee Community”, an initiative of the Prince’s Trust transform these great works in exciting and (UK) and Prince’s Charities Canada. innovative ways, but what do we think of these Limited to 50 participants transformations? Dates: May 1 – June 5 (6 sessions) This is a lecture course, taught by an expert, with Time: Wednesdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. opportunity for discussion. A list of suggested Fee: $50 readings will be made available, which will enrich Instructor: Rick Blickstead your enjoyment of the classes, but they are not required reading. S30 The Story of Science, Part II Jeffrey Canton has lectured on great travel NEW writers, contemporary essayists, the memoir and This course will consider how science has the novella at LIFE Institute as well as at the developed over the centuries. We have Baycrest Learning Academy. He was for many discovered much about how the world works and years a lecturer in the Children’s Studies Program learned many ways to control it. By considering at York University. He’s also a writer and the history of science, we may perhaps performer and has appeared as part of the understand more clearly what we now know and Toronto Storytelling Festival, Myseum discover how to learn new things. This is the Intersections, Nuit Rose and the Hamilton Fringe second of a two-part course. However, there is no Festival. need to have taken the first part. Limited to 50 participants This is an illustrated lecture course, with Dates: May 1 – June 19 (8 sessions) discussion, taught by an expert. Time: Wednesdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. Fee: $92 Terry Picton is a retired scientist who has taught Instructor: Jeffrey Canton several courses for LIFE on the human brain, the

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S32 Book Talk Town and a lecturer in Global Management Studies at Ryerson University. Come and join the discussion about books in this Issie Lyon, Master of Environmental Studies, lively, thought-provoking group where we explore, York University, managed an economic policy debate and enjoy an assortment of contemporary unit in the Ontario Ministry of Economic novels and biographies. You will be notified of the Development and Trade, worked in Finance, and first book once you have enrolled in the course. chaired the Standards Council of Canada’s Books for the remaining classes will be decided Advisory Committee on Corporate Social by the group at the first meeting and presented by Responsibility. members at each subsequent meeting. Limited to 60 participants Participants are encouraged to bring their own Dates: May 1 – June 19 (8 sessions) book suggestions.

LIFE in SPRING 2019 Time: Wednesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. This class involves participant presentations and Fee: $92 lively discussion. Instructors: Mohammed Elmi and Issie Lyon Deborah Wingate, Patricia O’Sullivan, and Lindy Small are pleased to moderate this long- From Socrates to Sartre: An standing group for LIFE. Deborah and Patricia S34 are retired librarians, and Lindy is a retired Introduction to Philosophy educator. They enjoy books of all types and have “The feeling of wonder is the mark been avid readers since childhood. of a philosopher”- Plato. Limited to 16 participants Join us on this journey of growing in deeper Dates: May 8, 22, June 5, 19 (4 sessions) wisdom as we ponder the big questions Time: Wednesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. philosophers ask about life: What is real? What is Fee: $40 truth? What is the good life? Why are we here? Instructors: Deborah Wingate, Patricia This introductory course provides an overview of O’Sullivan and Lindy Small the foundations and history of philosophical The Implications of Disruptive thought, through reflection on the wisdom of S33 prominent Western and non-Western Technologies NEW philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to major A disruptive technology is one that displaces an historical figures whose ideas and theories form established technology and shakes up the the basis of modern philosophy. industry, or a ground-breaking product that This course is taught by an expert in the field creates a completely new industry, like 3-D through a series of illustrated lectures. Critical printing in healthcare and self-driving cars. This thinking and questions will be an integral part of course emphasizes the possible impact of these this course. This is a repeat of a course new technologies and systems on society previously offered at LIFE. including jobs, income distribution, Dr. Marianne Loranger has a diverse consciousness, legal rights, and liability. background in philosophy, theology and science Disruptive technologies are underpinned by high- and has taught at the University of Toronto, speed internet, Big-Data, artificial intelligence, OISE/UT and Niagara University. She has also and cloud computing, all changing how people taught two other courses of philosophy at LIFE, live their lives, buy things, and work. This lecture encouraging 50+ learners to connect philosophy series critically examines these technologies and with everyday life. their implications for society at large. Additionally, Limited to 60 participants this course intends to ask what cost society is Dates: May 1 – June 19 (8 sessions willing to pay for these technologies. Time: Wednesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. This is a lecture series, taught by experts in the Fee: $92 field, with discussion. Instructor: Marianne Loranger Mohammed Elmi is a PhD candidate in Information Systems at the University of Cape

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S35 The Piano Concerto NEW starvation. But the New World is giving them a LIFE in SPRING 2019 second chance, and they embrace it to the fullest. Narrated by the Wanderer - part showman, part The piano has long been the musical instrument Rabbi - this genre-bending music-theatre hybrid of choice for composers of classical music. From stars Klezmer-folk sensation Ben Caplan and is Mozart and Beethoven to Bartok and inspired by the real-life story of Moscovitch’s Shostakovich, piano concertos were often great grandparents. premiered with composers as star pianists. The piano concerto is prominent among our most Six Drama Desk Award nominations important classical music compositions. This New York Times Critic’s Pick course will trace the history of the piano concerto. “Emotionally engaging, visually stunning and at Each of the six sessions will feature the 80 minutes leaves us wanting more.” presentation of a complete concerto. The Musical Theatre Review discussion will focus on the musical and social context behind the featured piece. We'll listen, Wednesday, May 15 - 1:30 p.m. discuss and assess some great concertos. CAA Theatre Performances will be drawn from the vast 651 Yonge Street (Yonge/Bloor area) YouTube library. Participants will be encouraged Musical Stage Company production presented by to assess, evaluate and comment on the music. David Mirvish This course involves lectures, listening to piano Next to Normal concertos, and class discussion. Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey Bob Fabian has previously offered eight music Music by Tom Kitt courses at LIFE. His academic training was in math, but music has always been important. Next to Normal explores a suburban household Presenting these courses drives him to explore affected by mental illness. With a gripping story music that interests him and allows him to and a surging contemporary rock score, Next to organize and share what he discovers. Normal is a raw depiction of a family in crisis Limited to 50 participants trying to overcome the past. Dates: May 1 – June 5 (6 sessions) Dora Award-winner Philip Akin directs an Time: Wednesdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. exhilarating new production of this contemporary Fee: $50 musical featuring a powerhouse ensemble of Instructor: Bob Fabian Canada’s top performers and starring internationally acclaimed actress Ma-Anne S36 Theatre Alive! Dionisio (Miss Saigon, Les Misérables). Wednesday, May 8 – 1:30 p.m. Winner of three Tony Awards including Best Tarragon Theatre Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for 30 Bridgman Avenue (Dupont/Bathurst area) Drama. A 2B theatre company production

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story Next to Normal has been praised for “expanding By Hannah Moscovitch the scope of subject matter for musicals” With songs by Ben Caplan & Christian Barry Pulitzer Prize Committee

A new play from the Governor General’s Award- “A brave, breathtaking musical” winner and the prestigious Yale University The New York Times Windham-Campbell Prize.

Halifax, 1908: Two Romanian Jews stand in line at Pier 21, would-be immigrants to an unknown country. Chaim’s entire family was murdered in a pogrom; Chaya lost her husband to fever and Wednesday, May 22 - 2 p.m. Factory Theatre www.thelifeinstitute.ca 21 (416) 979‐5000 Ext.6989 [email protected]

125 Bathurst Street (Bathurst/Adelaide) IMPORTANT: Please be aware of the start times Beautiful Man of each performance as some theatres do not By Erin Shields allow latecomer seating.

This is a scathing satire about the portrayal of Limited to 80 participants women in film and television. Three friends take Dates: May 8, 15, 22, June 12 (4 plays) us on a whirlwind tour of an upside-down world Time: Wednesday afternoons (see times above) where women are the hunters not the hunted; the Fee: $125 heroes, not the victims, the subjects, not the Coordinator: Rayna Jolley, assisted by Sharon objects, all the while gazing at the semi-nude Stibbard Beautiful Man. You’ll never watch your favourite

LIFE in SPRING 2019 binge-worthy show the same way again. Theatre Web Sites: tarragontheatre,com Wednesday, June 12 - 1 p.m. musicalstagecompany.com An Electric Company Theatre Production mirvish.com Co-presented by Canadian Stage and Luminato factorytheatre.ca St. Lawrence Centre, Bluma Appel Theatre canadianstage.com 27 Front Street East (Front /Yonge area) The Full Light of Day S37 Getting Out: Exploring Created by Daniel Brooks and Kim Collier Toronto’s Creative Neighbourhoods

Galleries, public spaces, key buildings, cafes and The Full Light of Day tells the story of Mary, an eateries and independent, design-inflected aging matriarch in a wealthy Canadian family. As boutiques are bellwethers of Toronto’s evolution. she approaches the end of her life, Mary is forced Beginning with an overview lecture and seven to contend with her husband’s legacy and the subsequent neighborhood walks, this course misdeeds that brought her family money, privilege highlights enclaves noted for their transformative and prestige. A new film/theatre hybrid from the art, design and food. We’ll visit Parkdale, East same creative team behind 12.13’s ground- Harbourfront, Leslieville/Riverside, and four other breaking Tear the Curtain! west end neighbourhoods. Newcomers as well as

returnees will experience the latest exhibitions, “Ingenious…brilliant fusion of two enduring art meet leading artists and gallerists and discover forms” great places to eat, drink and support local The Globe and Mail (on Tear the Curtain!) entrepreneurs.

Our sole on-campus session is an introductory “An immersive cutting-edge multimedia “2019 Arts Highlights” illustrated talk to provide experience” context for our adventures. Over the course of the

following seven weeks we take a different walking There will be a talkback after every tour, ending with an optional coffee-break. In performance. addition to daily itineraries, ‘cheat sheets’ will be

provided for the various neighborhoods. Tickets for all performances will be given to Betty Ann Jordan is an arts writer, commentator, you at the theatre before the first play. They and cultural tour maven. Trained as an artist, she will not be mailed to you. also gives talks on art appreciation. Betty Ann is

the founder of Art InSite tours, offering custom A reminder will be sent by e-mail before each cultural walking tours in Toronto. performance. Limited to 40 participants

Dates: May 1 – June 19 (8 sessions) PLEASE NOTE: No exchange or refund will be Time: Wednesdays, 1 – 3 p.m.* given after the final ticket order has been placed. Fee: $92 Please address any concerns or complaints to the LIFE office and not to the theatre.

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Instructor: Betty Ann Jordan talks, food tastings, and possibly tours. Sessions LIFE in SPRING 2019 *Please note start time will take place in-class as well as at locations accessible by TTC. Extra costs for the tours will S38 Cheering for the Home Team be minimal and will be reviewed in class. It is not NEW necessary to have participated in the previous sessions to take in Part Four. There are really big questions in life and then Rosalin Krieger earned a master’s degree in there are those over which we fret on a daily Sociology and Equity Studies at OISE - U of T basis. Are the Maple Leafs Stanley Cup and is a global lecturer, education consultant, contenders? Can the Blue Jays be World Series literary advisor, editor, writer and visual artist bound in the near future? Are the Raptors title- based in Toronto. She is an award-winning worthy? Stories torn from the sports pages will be broadcaster, a member of Canadian Women in enlivened by a deep dive into the varied histories Food (a local organization that supports women of our popular sports, from the early days of in the food industry through a myriad of events) cricket and lacrosse’s 19th century ascendancy, to and an intrepid food consultant-enthusiast with a our contemporary Olympian triumphs and well-known specialty food company in Ontario. national sporting obsessions. She hosts social-historical food tours in North Participants will learn from an expert in the field Toronto, Markham, Thornhill and Richmond Hill. through a series of discussions and illustrated Limited to 40 participants lectures. Dates: May 1 – June 19 (8 sessions) Bill Humber is a recent inductee into Canada’s Time: Wednesdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Baseball Hall of Fame, a one-time selector for Fee: $92 Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, and the author of Instructor: Rosalin Krieger groundbreaking books on baseball history, winter sports and climate change, bicycling, and the achievements of African-Canadian athletes. In his THURSDAY current project, Bill is examining soccer’s entry into the North American sporting mainstream. S40 Hey, Hey! We’re the 60s! NEW Limited to 60 participants We will reflect on how the formative events of the Dates: May 22 – June 26 (6 sessions) 60’s had a powerful and lasting impact that Time: Wednesdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. continues to reverberate today – not only on the Fee: $50 world stage but close to home in Canada and Instructor: Bill Humber Toronto. Audience engagement will be pivotal as students reflect on one of the most tumultuous S39 Feast Your Eyes on This: decades in history with questions like – “Where Exploring Toronto’s Evolving Food were you when...?” and “How did I miss that?” The uniqueness of this course will be the use of Cultures – Part Four actual media – live archive samples of original This course is for the ultimate foodie. If you love Toronto 60’s newspapers and magazines. Early meeting and engaging with Toronto’s eclectic issues of the Toronto Star, the Toronto Telegram, food entrepreneurs, join us. In the previous Toronto Life and others, as well as souvenirs courses, we hosted food writer Suresh Doss, from landmark sporting events will enable meat pie expert Evis Chirowa, chocolatier David participants to see and read about not just the big Chow, and “sugar-conscious” Dan Bennet, The events but also those that flew under the radar. Bald Baker. We don’t just sample food. We learn This course, taught by an expert in the subject, what motivates our guests, a bit about their family will involve illustrated lectures with some stories, early food memories, and make onsite discussion. visits, when possible. This course aims at forging Peter Willson is a graduate of the Radio and meaningful connections between the food Television Arts Program at Ryerson. He spent 25 entrepreneurs and you. years at Rogers/Maclean Hunter in sales and Like the previous three courses there will be short marketing on various publications including

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Maclean’s and Chatelaine. As Associate research literature and philosophy of love and Publisher of Hello! Canada, Peter played a key happiness. What is love? The Greeks had six role in helping shape the coverage of celebrity different definitions. What is happiness? Socrates news and human-interest stories in Canada and spoke of flourishing in life, not just getting by. The around the world. new field of emotional psychology has provided Limited to 60 participants us with many tools for understanding what makes Dates: May 2 – June 20 (8 sessions) us act. Do we do it for passion, or do we do it for Time: Thursdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. dopamine? What is passion? How does it differ Fee: $60 from companionship? What is friendship? How do Lecturer: Peter Willson we find happiness in life? Is there a minimal level of happiness we need to be content, or is

LIFE in SPRING 2019 S41 What’s Up Doc? Your Health contentment just a biochemical feeling that we and the Healthcare System NEW chase? Come explore this fascinating new field of philosophy and psychology with a researcher working in this discipline. Most of us feel blessed to have the universal Participants will learn from an expert in the healthcare system in Ontario. It is not perfect. It subject in a series of illustrated lectures. never was and never will be. Your interaction with David Chandross B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D. is it, and your family doctor, should be of utmost currently a professor in residence at Humber importance to you. College where he leads initiatives in simulations This course will give you insight into many and serious game development. He is a two-time aspects of our healthcare system, including its award-winning game designer who collaborates history, how your family doctor is trained and how with numerous organizations to improve learning. he or she thinks, the role of preventive medicine Clients include the Faculty of Medicine, University and screening, and the risks and benefits of our of Toronto, Elections Canada, the Canadian myriad of pills and tests. Having taken the course, Armed Forces, the Senior Executive of the Chang participants will be in a better position to interact School at Ryerson, Baycrest Health Sciences and with their doctor and weigh the advice he or she the College of Family Physicians, Ontario. dispenses. It will make you a more informed and Limited to 100 participants critical patient. Dates: May 16 – July 4 (8 sessions) This course is a series of lectures, case Time: Thursdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. presentations, and questionnaires with ample Location: *Please Note: this course will be held opportunity for discussion. at the North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Dr. Mark Wise recently retired from a 40-year Street. Burgundy Room, Memorial Hall, North career as a family doctor in Toronto. During that York Civic Centre time, he worked in private practice, emergency Fee: $92 departments, seniors’ residences, tropical and Instructor: David Chandross travel medicine clinics and overseas in lesser developed countries. He spent 15 years as the medical advisor to CUSO-VSO and several other S43 Intermediate Photoshop NGOs. He continues to study and teach. Elements Limited to 40 participants For those who have taken Basic Photoshop Dates: May 2 - 30 (5 sessions) Elements, here is a chance to expand your use of Time: Thursdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. this powerful editing program. Participants will Fee: $45 learn colour adjustment, straightening buildings Instructor: Mark Wise and moving photos into other photos. You will also be introduced to a number of other The Philosophy of Love and Photoshop functions such as blending modes, S42 and the amazing power of "masks". Before the Happiness NEW first class, and during subsequent classes, In this exciting new course, we will study the participants will be provided with some photos

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and explicit instructions which we will go over in important private law cases, basic procedural LIFE in SPRING 2019 class to learn specific Photoshop Elements issues and a plethora of administrative law cases. functions. Given that a majority of the Supreme Court’s This is an entirely hands-on class where justices have been on the Court for less than five participants will learn how to perform specific years and most can remain on the Court for the functions within Photoshop Elements. next decade at least, it is time to consider whether the new members of the Court are Prerequisites: This is an intermediate level following precedent, are adopting a conservative course: Participants must or activist approach to cases that come before  have basic computer skills them, and what we can expect from this majority  bring their own laptop with the Photoshop in the coming years. Elements software (cost $50 to $100US) Participants will learn through a series of already installed illustrated lectures taught by an expert in the  be familiar with Photoshop Elements — subject. you MUST BE FAMILIAR with levels and Eric Gertner is the co-founder of the Supreme know how to make selections Court Law Review in 1978. He was Director of Nan Weiner is an avid photographer who loves Research at McCarthy, Tetrault, Canada’s first shooting and editing photos. She has taught national law firm, and adjunct professor at Photoshop Elements - Basics at LIFE for the last Osgoode Hall Law School from 1981 to 2011. few years and is now ready to take those Limited to 60 participants interested to the next level. Dates: May 2 – June 27 (8 sessions; no class May 30) Limited to 6 participants Time: Thursdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. Dates: May 2 – June 6 (6 sessions) Fee: $92 Time: Thursdays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. Instructor: Eric Gertner Location: VIC607A Fee: $50 S45 Creating Photobooks Instructor: Nan Weiner Create Photobooks and have a hard copy of your photos. While it is convenient to have pictures on S44 A Few Years On: The New our phones to share, many of us have so many Supreme Court NEW photos from a particular occasion (e.g. a trip, In the last four years there has been a substantial birthday party, family event) that it is better to change in the members of the Supreme Court of have them all arranged in a printed Photobook. Canada. The only remaining members of the Participants will actually put together a Photobook Court from five years ago are Justices Abella, during this course (though it does not have to be Moldaver and Karakatsanis. There has been a printed if one does not want to). We will use complete turnover of the members of the Court Picaboo.com which enables participants to work from Quebec, and the new Chief Justice of on this and future Photobooks on their home Canada, replacing Chief Justice Beverley computer or laptop. An internet connection is McLachlin, is from Quebec. required to download the book-making program In the last four years the Court has decided and to upload the finished book when it is ready approximately 200 cases, dealing with important for printing. The skills learned will enable issues arising from the Canadian Charter of participants to create other Photobooks in the Rights and Freedoms (e.g. the right to a trial in a future. reasonable period of time), significant Prerequisites: constitutional law decisions (such as those • PC or MAC users with a working knowledge dealing with the Crown’s duty to consult of computer basics. THIS PROGRAM DOES with indigenous peoples), fundamental questions NOT WORK ON TABLETS or PHONES. about legal ethics, jurisdiction over defamation lawsuits based on material on the internet,

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• Several computers are available for use in the S47 Latin America NEW classroom, but it is preferable that participants bring their own laptops to this class. This course surveys the history of Latin America, from the “colonial period” to the present day. It • Alternatively, with a Ryerson Library card, you explores the emergence and evolution of can borrow a fully charged laptop computer for republican Latin America through an examination four hours. of key historical events with an emphasis on the Nan Weiner is an avid photographer who loves region’s changing sociopolitical realities and its shooting and editing photos. She has taught relationship with Europe and the United States. Photoshop Elements - Basics at LIFE for the last The sessions will cover such topics as: few years and is now ready to take those colonialism and the wars for independence, national identity, dependent development,

LIFE in SPRING 2019 interested to the next level. Limited to 6 participants political instability, populism and military Dates: May 9 - 30 (4 sessions) dictatorship, the Cuban revolution and its Time: Thursdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. aftermath, and the influence of the United States Location: VIC607A in both the political and cultural spheres. Fee: $40 Dr. Alberto Munarriz is a published scholar with Instructor: Nan Weiner. a broad range of interests. Dr. Munarriz has **Please note this 4 session course is offered taught in several secondary and postsecondary twice at either 12:10 p.m. or 2:10 p.m. institutions. He is currently acting as an advisor to the team in charge of cataloguing and digitalizing S46 Diverse Opinions: the archive of the pioneering Argentine photographer Annemarie Heinrich while keeping Commentary from the World Press an active agenda as an educator. Do you regularly peruse the comments section of Limited to 60 participants the world’s press? Are you interested in world Dates: May 2 – June 20 (8 sessions) events? The online access we all have to opinion Time: Thursdays 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. pieces on a daily basis provides us with a source Fee: $92 of information unknown even a few years ago. Instructor: Alberto Munarriz The intention of this course will be to select several of these pieces each week to use as a S48 Let’s Go North of Bloor – Art, basis for discussion. Articles will be taken from Culture and Food Walking Tours in major Canadian news sources and the International Press. Selected columnists may North Toronto and the 905 Area include Doug Saunders, David Brooks, Thomas NEW Friedman, Dow Marmur, Tony Burman, and other We will experience an eclectic mix of foodie respected journalists. The class format will allow epicenters in North York, North Toronto, for a wide-ranging discussion around these Thornhill, Markham, Scarborough and perhaps articles each week. more. Each tour will begin with a short talk about This is a discussion class, led by the course historical buildings, cultural distinctions, and leader. special foods. Each location is accessible by Halton Doyle is a retired teacher and Guidance public transit or car. Venues will be located, Counsellor. He has been leading discussions for within close proximity to one another, along LIFE Institute at Ryerson for the past five years. Wilson Ave, Orphus Road, Dufferin Street, Limited to 20 participants Yonge Street, Ellesmere Road, Lawrence Ave Dates: May 2 - 30 (5 sessions) East and Finch West. Walking will be minimal Time: Thursdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. and at your pace. Fee: $45 Instructor: Halton Doyle This course is a combination of short talks and guided tours. Each location is accessible by TTC,

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York Region Transit, and car. Walking will be York Civic Centre LIFE in SPRING 2019 minimal and at your pace. For those with mobility Fee: $92 issues, we can take the bus together and bypass Instructor: Adam Nayman the walk between Steeles and Clark. Each tour will end with optional snacks or drinks. S50 Sorting Out Your Rosalin Krieger earned an MA degree in Photographs: An Introduction Sociology and Equity Studies at OISE-U of T and You now have many photos stored in your is a global lecturer, education consultant, literary camera … what comes next? This course will advisor, editor, writer, and visual artist based in teach you how to get photos from your camera to Toronto. your PC computer and how to name and organize Limited to 35 participants them. You will also learn how to e-mail photos Dates: May 2 – June 6 (6 sessions) and search for photos that have previously been Time: Thursdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. filed. Fee: $74 Prerequisites: Instructor: Rosalin Krieger • For PC users with a working knowledge of S49 Controversial Filmmakers: computer basics. This course does not cover Provoc-auteurs NEW Mac computers. In this course, film critic Adam Nayman examines • Students may bring their own laptops to this the careers of filmmakers whose work has class, but it is not necessary. challenged and scandalized audiences from the Nan Weiner is an avid camera enthusiast who silent era to the present day. Beginning with D.W. enjoys helping people learn how to keep their Griffith we will consider, among others, such photos organized and accessible! diverse auteurs as Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Limited to 8 participants Elia Kazan, Hitchcock, Pasolini, Stanley Kubrick, Dates: May 2 (1 session) Brian de Palma, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, Time: Thursday, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. and David Cronenberg. Each class features clips, Location: VIC607A analysis, and discussion of a group of artists Fee: $25 whose choices to apply personal, idiosyncratic Instructor: Nan Weiner and provocative methodology to a commercial medium has had serious, sometimes damning S51 Canada’s Food Guide: The consequences. These include censorship and critical and financial ruin - and have also resulted Science and the Practice NEW in some of the most important and enduring The course will provide an overview of the cinema ever created. fundamental nutrition concepts: the nutrients in This course involves a series of lectures and film food, how the body uses them, and the clips, taught by a knowledgeable cinema critic, relationship between diet and health. Then, we with some opportunity for discussion. will focus on the efforts of government and the Adam Nayman is a film critic and author based in scientific community to guide us into what we eat Toronto. He teaches at the University of Toronto to fulfill our nutritional needs in order to promote and Ryerson and has taught several classes at health and prevent disease. We should emerge LIFE Institute. He writes on cinema for a variety with an understanding of why we eat, what to eat, of publications and has published two books on where we eat, when we eat, and with whom we cinema. eat. Limited to 100 participants This is a lecture class with ample opportunity for Dates: May 16– July 4 (8 sessions) discussion. Reading material will be emailed to Time: Thursdays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. participants prior to classes and reviewed at the Location: *Please Note: this course will be held beginning of each session. at the North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Zak Sabry, PhD, taught Nutrition and Public Street. Burgundy Room, Memorial Hall, North Health at the American University of Beirut and

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the universities of Toronto, Guelph, and Fee: $40 California. He was National Coordinator of Instructor: Nan Weiner. Nutrition Canada, and served as Director of **Please note this 4 session course is offered Nutrition at the Food and Agriculture Organization twice at either 12:10 p.m. or 2:10 p.m. of the United Nations. Limited to 25 participants S53 Fifty Shades of Freedom: Why Dates: May 2 – June 20 (8 sessions) We Keep Struggling for Freedom Time: Thursdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. NEW Fee: $60 No idea or word seems to have marked the Instructor: Zak Sabry human story with such power and passion, and with such irony and skirmish as Freedom. There LIFE in SPRING 2019 Creating Photobooks S52 are many kinds of freedoms: freedom from Create Photobooks and have a hard copy of your hunger and disease, from oppression and photos. While it is convenient to have pictures on exploitation, from fear and the past. And the our phones to share, many of us have so many freedom to practise any faith or no faith, freedom photos from a particular occasion (e.g. a trip, to marry anyone or no one; freedom of speech birthday party, family event) that it is better to and conscience, freedom to be, to love, to travel. have them all arranged in a printed Photobook. This course presents a global and historical Participants will actually put together a Photobook perspective on Freedom, drawing from several during this course (though it does not have to be stories, myths, and events from theatre and films, printed if one does not want to). We will use social and political movements, and on-going Picaboo.com which enables participants to work struggles for freedom in many parts of the world. on this and future Photobooks on their home Participants will learn from an expert in the field computer or laptop. An internet connection is through a series of illustrated lectures. This required to download the book-making program course is partly based on the instructor’s recently and to upload the finished book when it is ready published book, 7000 Million Degrees of for printing. The skills learned will enable Freedom. participants to create other Photobooks in the Dr. Sehdev Kumar is Professor Emeritus at the future. University of Waterloo. For the past decade he Prerequisites: has been lecturing in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto on a variety • PC or MAC users with a working knowledge of topics such as ‘History of Cultures and of computer basics. THIS PROGRAM DOES Civilizations’, ‘Bioethics and Human Destiny’, and NOT WORK ON TABLETS or PHONES. ‘Clash of Civilizations: Real or Imaginary’, • Several computers are available for use in the ‘International Films and the Human Condition’. He classroom, but it is preferable that participants now lives mostly in the Himalayas, where he bring their own laptops to this class. conducts Spiritual Retreats, and also in the international community of Auroville in South • Alternatively, with a Ryerson Library card, you India, with 3,000 people from 60 countries. Dr. can borrow a fully charged laptop computer for Kumar is the author of several books four hours. including Lotus in the Stone: Dreams & Nan Weiner is an avid photographer who loves Consciousness and 7000 Million Degrees of shooting and editing photos. She has taught Freedom. For over a decade, he wrote a weekly Photoshop Elements - Basics at LIFE for the last column, Ideas and Beliefs, for South Asian few years and is now ready to take those Observer. interested to the next level. Limited to 60 participants Limited to 8 participants Dates: May 2 – June 20 (8 sessions) Dates: May 9 - 30 (4 sessions) Time: Thursdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Time: Thursdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Fee: $92 Location: VIC607A Instructor: Sehdev Kumar

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S54 Long Term Care Planning: deaths, many museums around the world, LIFE in SPRING 2019 including the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the What is it and Why Should I Care? Royal Academy in London, marked this milestone Adults learn what they feel they need to know or with exhibitions highlighting and offering intimate what is relevant to them. This course is definitely insights into the artistic relationship and differing “need to know” because we will all age and need creative processes of these two extraordinary to call upon the long-term healthcare system and artists. The Royal Academy’s show particularly our families for help at some point. In this course focused on the artists’ incredible drawing participants will navigate the realities of long-term practice, which is fundamental to understanding care and learn the right questions to ask, and their creative process. We will examine this where to find the answers – and leave with artistic dialogue looking closely at the art and practical solutions and peace of mind. lives of these two giants of modernity. Sessions will be led by an expert in the field. Participants will learn from a working artist and Participants will be encouraged to join in expert in the field of art history. discussions and share their stories. Role-playing Osnat Lippa graduated in art and design from will also be used so participants will get a feel for London Guildhall University, with postgraduate certain conversations that need to take place as work in digital imaging. She has taught at George we age. At the end of each session participants Brown College, worked as a freelance illustrator, will be asked to explore a certain topic of interest and presented workshops in the Silver Screens to them and report back on what they have Arts Festival in digital media. Osnat has also learned. On-line access is not required. This is a presented many popular art history courses at repeat of a course that was previously offered at LIFE. LIFE. Limited to 60 participants Karen Henderson founded the Long-Term Care Dates: May 2 – 23 (4 sessions) Planning Network, Canada’s leading centre for Thursdays: 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. aging and long-term care planning and education Fee: $56 – this as a result of a 14-year dementia care Instructor: Osnat Lippa experience. She is a well-known educator, Please Note: This course, Klimt and Schiele, and speaker, author, media commentator, and the course, The Spirituality of Colour in the Age of consultant who has created a TV series, Invention and Abstraction, run consecutively, and seminars and keynote presentations for therefore both may be taken. organizations across Canada and the U.S. ______Limited to 40 participants Dates: May 2 – June 6 (5 sessions; no class May 30) S56 Remembering 1968: Year of Time: Thursdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Protest NEW Fee: $65 We will re-examine and re-evaluate the major Instructor: Karen Henderson events of that crazy year from the pivotal S55 Klimt and Schiele: Two Giant assassinations in the USA to the unrest in China, Figures of Twentieth Century Art Vietnam, the Czech Republic and France, and the changes in Canada with the election of Pierre NEW Trudeau and the formation of the PQ under 1918 was a seismic year in Vienna. As the Levesque. “The State has no place in the Austro-Hungarian Empire crumbled, an intense bedrooms of the nation” was a catchphrase period of creative vitality drew to an end with the announcing change, so soon after the success of deaths of two of its foremost artists. One was the Expo'67. From our perspective of 50 years later preeminent and strikingly modern painter of fin- we will reassess the roles of Nixon, Kennedy, de-siècle Vienna, Gustav Klimt; the other the King, Trudeau, De Gaulle, and Mao. The course young, scandalous and prodigiously talented will also look at major political comments made Egon Shiele. Both created some of the most through pop culture in the US, namely through powerful and well-known paintings of the modern era. In 2018, the centenary of both artists’

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such vehicles as Hollywood productions, 2001: A Participants will learn from a working artist and Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes. expert in the field of art history. This lecture course, with some opportunity for Osnat Lippa graduated in art and design form discussion, will utilize film and news clips as well London Guildhall University, with postgraduate as a guest speaker who will share recollections of work in digital imaging. She has taught at George the events in Paris in May of 1968. Brown College, worked as a freelance illustrator, James A.S. Thompson has over twelve years’ and presented workshops in the Silver Screens experience in Continuing Education. He holds a Arts Festival in digital media. Osnat has also Masters of Arts degree from Durham University presented many popular art history courses at and a diploma in Art History from the Courtauld LIFE. Institute, London. He obtained his Bachelor of Limited to 60 participants

LIFE in SPRING 2019 Education degree from the University of Toronto. Dates: May 30 – June 20 (4 sessions) Limited to 100 participants Time: Thursdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Dates: May 16 – July 4 (8 sessions) Fee: $56 Time: Thursdays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. Instructor: Osnat Lippa Location: *Please Note: this course will be held Please Note: This course, The Spirituality of at the North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Colour in the Age of Invention and Abstraction, Street. Burgundy Room, Memorial Hall, North and the course Klimt and Schiele, run York Civic Centre consecutively, and therefore both may be taken. Fee: $92 Instructor: James A.S. Thompson FRIDAY S57 The Spirituality of Colour in the S58 The Economist Seminar Age of Invention and Abstraction Our stimulating discussions are based on articles NEW from this prestigious and influential magazine. In the early part of the twentieth century many art The topics dealt with are broad in scope: issues movements formed and have developed new relating to nations, the economy, the arts, ways of seeing and interpreting the world around science, and the people influencing these them. Some of these artists particularly focused concerns. We will focus on specific articles that on the spiritual power of colour and created a the class members have been directed to and new artistic language. One of these movements, discuss the challenging issues that are raised in The Blue Rider group, formed in 1911 and those articles. Join us in a lively and respectful showcased many artists who shared similar ideas exchange of views. about the role of colour and spirituality in art Please Note: Class members will be able to derived from Kandinsky’s important book subscribe to The Economist at a considerably Concerning the Spiritual in Art. We will look at reduced annual rate. some of the artists whose work in colour was This is a discussion class, led by the course injected with spirituality including Wassily leaders. Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, Gabriel Lloyd Cadsby and Jay Waterman are both Münter and Paul Klee. We will also look at artists retired lawyers who have found there is LIFE after like Sonia and Robert Delaunay and a lesser law by pursuing their interest in world events. known female artist who has just recently Limited to 30 participants received a retrospective in the Guggenheim Dates: May 3 – June 28 (9 sessions) Museum, Hilma af Klint—a Swedish artist and Time: Fridays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. mystic whose paintings were among the first Fee: $65 abstract art leaning heavily on the teaching of Instructor: Lloyd Cadsby and Jay Waterman Rudolph Steiner and the Theosophist movement.

A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.

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LIFE in SPRING 2019 S59 Explorations in Early Music Participants will learn from an expert in the field through a series of illustrated lectures. This is a NEW repeat of a course previously offered at LIFE. This course will focus on music from the 16th to Dr. David Lipovitch (Harvard, ’99) is an 18th centuries. Each week will be devoted to a archaeologist who has worked with specific early-music-related topic. Subjects will archaeological excavations in southern Ontario, include: Vivaldi's Concertos, Chamber Music at Israel, Jordan, the Republic of Georgia and Versailles, The Elizabethan 'Broken' Consort, The Turkey. He has been lecturing since the 1990s Bach Family (Johann Sebastian's predecessors and is a course instructor in Wilfred Laurier and children), The Early Clarinet, and more. An University’s history and archaeology ability to read music is NOT a requirement; all a departments, as well as a Research Affiliate at participant needs is an enthusiasm for music from the University of Toronto. He is also the this time period! Participants will learn from an zooarchaeologist at U of T’s excavations at Tell expert in the field through a series of illustrated Ta’yinat, Turkey and Gadachrili Gora, Georgia. lectures and discussions. Some printed hand- Limited to 60 participants outs will be provided. Dates: May 3 – June 21 (8 sessions) Alison Melville holds the degree of M.Mus. from Time: Fridays, 10:10 – 11: 50 a.m. the University of Toronto and studied at the Fee: $92 Schola Cantorum Basiliensis as the winner of Instructor: David Lipovitch various awards from the Canada Council. She has taught master classes, workshops and S61 The Heavens: A History of the various courses for universities and early music Study of the Universe NEW workshops across North America. One of Since ancient times people have pondered the Canada’s leading performers on historical flutes night sky. Stories were told to explain what could and recorders, she is a member of Toronto be seen. The legacy of these stories lives today Consort and Ensemble Polaris, appears regularly in the names of the planets, stars and with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and constellations. This course will explore the history plays as a guest with numerous early music of the study of the night sky. We will begin with a ensembles in Canada and abroad. presentation on our current understanding of the Limited to 60 participants universe and then, commencing with prehistoric Dates: May 3 – June 28 (8 sessions; no class June 21) and ancient astronomy, look at major Time: Fridays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. developments such as Ptolemy’s earth-centred Fee: $92 model of the Universe; Brahe, Kepler and Instructor: Alison Melville Galileo’s observations of the sky; and Sir Isaac Newton’s discoveries, through to the Golden age S60 The History of the Ancient of Discovery led by Einstein. We will also look at Near East current theories on The Big Bang, dark energy The Middle East has always been a hotbed of and dark matter. political intrigue and warfare between great This course is a series of illustrated lectures with powers seeking to control access to the valuable some opportunity for discussion. resources of the region. Today that is petroleum, John Curtis is a retired drama and history but in the past, it was metals, wood, wine, and teacher. He worked with the Toronto District olive oil. Learn about the political histories of the School Board for thirty years. The study of the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Assyrians, night sky, and the stories it tells, have always Babylonians, and their myriad neighbours over fascinated him. the 8000+ years, from the development of the Limited to 60 participants first villages to the conquest of the Near East by Dates: May 3 – June 21 (8 sessions) Alexander the Great, and discover how little Time: Fridays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. seems to have changed over the last 2,300 Fee: $60 years. Instructor: John Curtis

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S62 Photo Walks NEW America, 2016) or Michael Apted following a group of British boys and girls into adulthood in Want a chance to explore photographic his acclaimed 'Up' series, whose instalments are opportunities while improving your skills by filmed every seven years (1964-2019), the best shooting with others at interesting local sites? docs often delve deeply into the background of This five-week course involves three weeks of on- their stories or 'characters' to try to get a handle site shooting and two weeks in the classroom for on why something happened when it did. Others critique, comparison and discussion of the photos like The Battle of Chile or The Sorrow and the taken. During the walks, instructors will point out Pity try to make sense of history, either as it good photo possibilities and advise on camera happens, or years afterwards. In any case, the operations. The objectives of this course, in finest documentaries can take their time, addition to improving your photography skills, are

LIFE in SPRING 2019 sometimes unfolding even over decades, and to capture a time and place and to see how thus make an indelible, lasting impression in the others interpret the same site. Weather process. permitting, we will be taking photo walks on weeks one, three and four at some of the This course involves a series of lectures and film following possible locations: Evergreen clips, taught by a knowledgeable cinema critic, Brickworks, High Park, Harbourfront/Bentway and with some opportunity for discussion. St. Lawrence Market. During weeks two and five This course is dedicated to the memory of Kevin we will have in-class opportunities to view and Courrier. compare our photos. Shlomo Schwartzberg has been an arts Added together, Nan Weiner, Edward Zamble reporter, film critic, and programmer for over 30 and Harold Hutner have been making years. He is the former chair of the Toronto photographs for well over a century. Together Jewish Film Society and a co-founder and regular and separately, they teach various photography contributor to the Critics at Large website. courses at LIFE and are, or have been, very (http://www.criticsatlarge.ca/). involved in the LIFE Photo Club. Each brings a Limited to 60 participants different approach and perspective to Dates: May 3 – June 21 (8 sessions) photography. Time: Fridays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. This is an interactive “hands-on” course. Fee: $92 Participants will be expected to get to the three Instructor: Shlomo Schwartzberg photo locations on their own and meet the walk leaders there. S64 Leaving a Legacy: Your Life Limited to 20 participants Story Dates: May 3 - 31 (5 sessions) You don’t have to be famous to have an Time: Fridays, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. interesting life story that deserves to be told and Location: 2 sessions in class, 3 sessions on location will be treasured as a one-of-a-kind legacy by Fee: $45 those you love today and heirs you will never Instructors: Nan Weiner, Edward Zamble and meet. In bygone days, this happened naturally Harold Hutner because handwritten letters were passed from generation to generation. But today’s S63 Documentary Cinema: The communications are usually by phone, email and Opposite of Breaking News NEW text, resulting in too few personal archives being Unlike breaking, up to the minute news, preserved. This course will help you create your documentary cinema, to be most effective, needs life story by breaking the mammoth process into a gestation period, often a long one, to make its small chunks of memories. Before class each most salient points clear. Whether it be Ezra week, you will write a new 500 – 1,200-word Edelman going back to the beginning of O.J. memoir to read aloud. Outside of class, you will Simpson's career to try to figure out what weave your individual pieces into what will happened to him later on (O.J. Simpson: Made in eventually become your complete autobiography. While this is not a teaching class, the course

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leader will, as time permits, comment S66 Getting Out: Exploring LIFE in SPRING 2019 constructively on each memoir. Also, you will be sent a comprehensive “starter” package before Toronto’s Creative Neighbourhoods classes begin. And there is a valuable after-class Galleries, public spaces, key buildings, cafes and opportunity (at the nearby Imperial Tavern) to eateries and independent, design-inflected chat with your fellow memoirists about the boutiques are bellwethers of Toronto’s evolution. projects you’re all working on. Beginning with an overview lecture and seven Tamara Handler is a former school teacher and subsequent neighborhood walks, this course an accomplished and enthusiastic memoirist. highlights enclaves noted for their transformative Martha Olynyk has been a long-time avid art, design and food. We’ll visit Parkdale, East participant in Leaving a Legacy and Recording Harbourfront, Leslieville/Riverside, and four other Recollections. west end neighbourhoods. Newcomers as well as Limited to 14 participants returnees will experience the latest exhibitions, Dates: April 26 – June 28 (10 sessions) meet leading artists and gallerists and discover Time: Fridays, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. great places to eat, drink and support local Fee: $70 entrepreneurs. Instructor: Tamara Handler and Martha Olynyk Our sole on-campus session is an introductory “2019 Arts Highlights” illustrated talk to provide S65 Get Psyched context for our adventures. Over the course of the As part of our partnership with Ryerson University following seven weeks we take a different walking we are being offered the opportunity to learn from tour, ending with an optional coffee-break. In the graduate students studying here. Each week addition to daily itineraries, ‘cheat sheets’ will be a different student will present on a psychology provided for the various neighborhoods. research topic. After their presentations, Betty Ann Jordan is an arts writer, commentator, participants will have the opportunity for and cultural tour maven. Trained as an artist, she questions, discussion and active engagement also gives talks on art appreciation. Betty Ann is with the presentation material. Topics may the founder of Art InSite tours, offering custom include: myth-busting about normal vs. cultural walking tours in Toronto. pathological cognitive changes with age, lifestyle Limited to 40 participants tips to foster healthy aging, the effects of music Dates: May 3 – June 21 (8 sessions) on hearing loss with age, aging and driving, and Time: Fridays, 1 – 3 p.m.* aging among minority groups. Topics will feature Fee: $92 cutting-edge research findings in the field, Instructor: Betty Ann Jordan ongoing research in the topic at Ryerson and *Please note start time take-away tips for participants to apply to their lives.

Each class will consist of a 50 minute lecture followed by time for questions and discussion. Limited to 50 participants Date: May 3 – June 7 (6 sessions) Time: Fridays, 12:30 – 2 p.m.* Fee: $60 Instructors: Presentations will be given by six different Ryerson graduate students (Masters or PhD) who are in the Psychology of Aging course. *Please note start time.

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S67 The Music of New Orleans performance or a historical vignette of some of the province's most celebrated figures. Discover New Orleans is a place like no other: a wellspring Ontario's parliamentary history and heritage as of music and the birthplace of jazz. It was also an you take a 45-minute guided tour followed by a important centre for rock and roll in the 1950s and traditional English style afternoon tea in the boasts a vibrant musical culture that continues to historic building. Get ready to escape into our this day. In this course, Dr. Mike Daley tells the province's history and enjoy delicious story of New Orleans and its music with vivid refreshments of tea, sandwiches, scones and musical examples and rare video. cream. This course, taught by an expert in the field, Limited to 49 participants includes illustrated lectures and song clips. It is a Date: Friday, May 17 repeat of a course previously taught at LIFE. LIFE in SPRING 2019 Time: 2 - 4 p.m. Dr. Mike Daley holds a PhD in music from York Fee: $30 University and has lectured at several universities Leader: John Webb and retiree learning programmes around Toronto. Location: Lobby of the Legislative Building, He is a musicologist, specializing in the history of Queen’s Park, Ontario (north of the University popular music. Mike has also toured the US and Avenue/College Street intersection, Queen’s Park Canada as a musician with Jeff Healey, the Subway on the Yonge/University line). Travellers and others, and has appeared on dozens of recordings as a guitarist and singer. Please note: This event is for LIFE members Limited to 60 participants only. Please note the start time and arrive 10 Dates: May 3 – June 21 (8 sessions) minutes early. Enter through the main doors of Time: Fridays, 2:10 – 3:50 p.m. the Legislative Building Fee: $92 Instructor: Mike Daley S68 SPECIAL EVENT: Afternoon Tea and Tour at the Legislative Building, Queen’s Park Enjoy a delightful afternoon as you visit Ontario's Parliament Building - experience a live theatrical

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SATURDAY LIFE in SPRING 2019 S69 Grasping and Retaining Our Inner Peace Through Mandala Meditation NEW Inner peace directly correlates with our mental and physical health. Research suggests that a peaceful and relaxed mind leads to a healthier, happier, and longer life. In this class, we will strategically look at the traditional Tibetan Mandala Art; understand its origin, significance, and its rich philosophical background. We will walk through each gate of the Mandala on how to reach the core of the realization to attain inner peace and will discuss ways about how to retain the stable peace of mind for the rest of our life. We will also explore the difference between a happy, peaceful and an equanimous radiant mind. You will be guided with simple steps to Mandala meditation with art and music to explore the inner radiant peace within yourself. Participants will learn from an expert in the field through a series of illustrated lectures along with meditational audio and video and some class discussion. Dechen Dorjee holds a PhD in Tibetan Studies from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies from Varanasi, India. He has nine years of teaching and research experience in the field of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Language and Fine Arts Philosophy. He immigrated to Canada in October 2017. Currently, he serves as an Advisor on the Education Policy Committee to the Tibetan Canadian Cultural Center in Toronto. Simultaneously, he works as an International Language Instructor with Toronto District School Board. Dechen also serves as a Cultural Advisor to Making Room Community Arts based in Parkdale, Toronto. Limited to 60 participants Dates: May 4 – June 15 (6 sessions, no class May 18) Time: Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 12 noon Fee: $50 Instructor: Dechen Dorjee

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S70 The Irish: 200 Years of Rebellion, From the Act of Union to Brexit NEW With the Act of Union of 1800 and the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the British government hoped to quell the “Irish Question” once and for all. As Prime Minister Pitt argued then, the Act was meant to strengthen the connection between Great Britain and Ireland. As it turned out, Ireland, for all intents and purposes, remained a colony until 1914. The spirit of Irish rebellion did not stop in 1800. And the independence of 1921, which divided Ireland into two nations, angered many. Tensions remained and troubles resumed in the 1970s. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement helped bring an end to a long period of conflict. The question is: will the disastrous negotiations surrounding Brexit (and the risk of a “no deal”) put the Irish on a renewed collision course with London? LIFE in SPRING 2019 Participants will learn through a series of illustrated lectures, taught by an expert. Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in April 2019. Limited to 150 participants Dates: May 4 – June 22 (7 sessions, no class May 18) Time: Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 12 noon Fee: $83 Instructor: Olivier Courteaux

S71 Why Music? Music has been a constant element in all cultures around the world. This course will explore the manifold ways in which music is an important – and to many a necessary – component of human life. In these sessions we will focus on a variety of subjects including Music and Medicine, Music and Spirituality around the World, the Harmony of the Spheres, What Philosophers Say about Music, the Gifts of Singing, and other topics. The course will incorporate listening, lectures, demonstrations, discussion and visual components. The type of music we will listen to includes world, folk, classical, rock, improvised and early genres. Alison Melville holds the degree of M.Mus. from the University of Toronto and studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis as the winner of various awards from the Canada Council. She has taught master classes, workshops and a variety of courses for universities and early music workshops across North America. One of Canada’s leading performers on historical flutes and recorders, she is a member of Toronto Consort and Ensemble Polaris, appears regularly with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and plays as a guest with numerous early music ensembles in Canada and abroad. Limited to 60 participants Dates: May 4 – June 29 (7 sessions, no class May 18 or June 22) Time: Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 12 noon Fee: $83 Instructor: Alison Melville

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S72 Russia Under the Romanovs: LIFE in SPRING 2019 From Splendor to Revolution NEW

In 1613, the House of Romanov was offered the throne of Russia. From 1613 to 1917, 15 monarchs (including three women) transformed Russia into a key player in European and world affairs, while imposing and maintaining an autocratic form of government. Yet, this exceptionally brilliant dynasty was marked by uninterrupted violence and countless conspiracies. This course proposes to offer a fresh look at the fascinating, tumultuous and often secret lives of the Romanov rulers: did the violence that marked their 300-year rule over Russia lead inevitably to the 1917 revolutions, the murder of the last Czar and his family, the rise of the Soviet Union and… Vladimir Putin? Participants will learn through a series of illustrated lectures, taught by an expert. Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in April 2019. Limited to 150 participants Dates: May 4 – June 22 (7 sessions, no class May 18) Time: Saturdays, 1 – 3 p.m.* Fee: $83 Instructor: Olivier Courteaux *Please note the start and finish time

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S73 Spring and Summer Walks 2019

The Beltway. Along the Don. The Brickworks. Baby Point. Chinatown. Earl Bales Park. The Ward….

Just reading that list makes us long for Spring! And those are just a few of the special Toronto areas LIFE Walkers will enjoy during the 30+ Spring and Summer Walks, 2019.

LIFE in SPRING 2019 Walks start at 10 a.m. unless otherwise indicated, and end around noon, starting and ending at TTC-accessible locales. The Walks are held on Tuesdays and Fridays in May, June and September. In the hotter weather of July and August walks are on Tuesdays only.

This is a great way to meet your fellow LIFE members, and to discover parts of Toronto both familiar and new, guided by our terrific Walk Leaders.

Please note: We have once again allowed registration of 250. We don’t expect all participants to come to all walks! Past experience shows that over the course of the season we average 40 to 60 at each walk. However, please remember that some walks attract a large number of participants which can make hearing the speaker difficult. This should be taken into consideration before signing up; we don’t want anyone to be disappointed.

LIFE members in good standing who register for the Walks Program in the spring term will have their 2018-2019 membership extended to the end of the Walks Program.

Limited to 250 participants Dates: May, June and early September - Tuesdays and Fridays July, August – Tuesdays only Registration Day: Tuesday, April 2 Time: 10 a.m. – 12 noon (approximately) Location: Various GTA Locations Fee: $30 LIFE Walks Committee: Pam Hitchcock, Bernice Holman, Donna Oke, Pam Raiken, Doug Paton (Chair)

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LIFE in SPRING 2019 L I F E C L U B S

CLASSIC NOVELS BOOK CLUB

Let’s revisit and rediscover the great works of fiction that have stood the test of time. Their themes are universal, their characters memorable, their scope large, and their insight profound. Join us as we meet – usually on the fourth Saturday or Sunday of every month - to savour some literary classics. All LIFE members are welcome to join. Dates: to be confirmed Time: 10 a.m. – 12 noon Coordinators: Patricia Wilkes (416) 766-0833, Simon Pearson, Martha Wall COMEDY CLUB

This interactive club is for all LIFE members who are fans of all types of comedy. Club meetings will discuss all types of comedy including TV sitcoms, movies, stand-up comics, and humorous books. Share funny stories and joke telling. Play trivia and fun interactive games to test your comedy knowledge. Joke writing and other types of writing workshops (no comedy writing experience necessary). The goal is to get together, laugh, socialize, have opportunities to tap into your comedic and creative sides and have fun! Meetings will be on the third Thursday of every month. Day: Thursday, April 18 Time: 2 - 4 p.m. Location: To be confirmed Coordinator: Mike Shnall To Register: [email protected] LIVING LIFE AND LOVING IT! CLUB

The Club normally meets the fourth Wednesday of the month and is meant for people whose aim is to love the life that they live. As we all know, challenges do come up and they are usually, if not always, opportunities for growth and/or change for the better. In the club we will focus on enjoying life and yet when challenges do come up transform them into opportunities. This club is recommended for people who took the course 'Live Life! Love Life!' and for members who are considering taking the course. Day: Wednesdays, May 22, June 26 Time: 2 - 3:30 p.m. Location: To be confirmed Coordinator: Christina Demeester To Register: [email protected] www.thelifeinstitute.ca 39 (416) 979‐5000 Ext.6989 [email protected]

LUNCHEON CLUB

The luncheon club usually meets the fourth Thursday of the month, from September to June, at an ethnic restaurant or one that is a neighbourhood favourite or unique in some other way. Members recommend restaurants that are reasonably priced and accessible via TTC and share in the responsibility of organizing lunches. Members are sent notices of up-coming lunches beforehand and must reply if they plan to attend. Most restaurants are small and space is limited so reservations are necessary. Coordinator: Pam Hitchcock at [email protected].

LIFE in SPRING 2019 MOVIE CLUB: LIFE Goes to the Movies

All LIFE members are welcome to join the Movie Club for monthly matinees. Membership is free and emails are sent to club members with complete details regarding each month’s film. Check the club blog to get a sense of the types of movies we enjoy: http://www.lifemovieclub.blogspot.ca/. Many members like to get together at a nearby restaurant afterward. If you plan to join in the noshing and nattering, RSVP is required the Monday before the film. No need to RSVP if you’re not going to the restaurant. Day: First or second Tuesday of each month, depending on the arrival date of new films Time: Early to mid-afternoon Location: A cinema easily reached via TTC Coordinator: Terry Poulton To register for membership: Send an email to [email protected]

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB

Are you interested in photography? Do you want to be able to make better images? Our meetings will feature discussions of ideas and techniques, equipment, computer software, common problems, etc. In addition to professional photographers who speak to our club, we include sharing and constructive feedback for each other’s images, and sometimes group shoots or gallery visits. The club is aimed at those who already have some experience making photos, but LIFE members at any level of expertise are welcome. A schedule of topics will be chosen at the beginning of each term.

You must be a LIFE member to attend. Dates: May 1, 15 and June 5, 19 Time: First and Third Wednesday of each month during term, 12:10 – 1:50 p.m. Location: to be confirmed To Register: Pay $10 fee online once per academic year to join this club. Questions? Contact [email protected]

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LIFE in SPRING 2019 TRIPLE ‘E’ INVESTMENT CLUB

The Triple-E Investment Club meets monthly to monitor the investment scene, to learn how to put together portfolios, and to enhance our investing knowledge. At club meetings we review the economic events of the past month, make presentations, review reports and books, and discuss issues raised by members. You must be a LIFE member to attend. Dates: April 10, May 8, June 12 Time: Second Tuesday of each month, 2 – 4 p.m. Location: TBC Annual Fee: $5 Coordinator: Harold Brief Register and pay online at http://www.thelifeinstitute.ca Questions about the club? Contact [email protected]

ACCESSIBILITY AT RYERSON Would you like to know where stairs, accessibility paths, ramps and automated doors are located in Ryerson’s buildings? There is a comprehensive set of Ryerson University Accessibility maps, in pdf format, available on-line at: www.ryerson.ca/cpf/accessmaps.html

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Thank You, LIFE in SPRING 2019 Volunteer Instructors!

It is time to give a heartfelt thank you to our wonderful Moderators who presented courses during the period Fall 2018 through Spring 2019.

Throughout the year, they have offered all of us a chance to engage with other members in intellectually stimulating and enjoyable courses, giving us the opportunity both to learn and make new friends. Every one of us at LIFE appreciates their dedication, enthusiasm, and generosity in devoting so much time to planning, researching and presenting their exciting courses.

Judy Beamish Aimé Blanchette Rick Blicksteed Suzette Blom Alex Borman Lloyd Cadsby John Curtis Christina Demeester Marcel Deurvorst Carol Dorman Halton Doyle David Ellis Robert Fabian Vince Fearon Tim Gauntley Rani Glick Tamara Handler Bill Humber Jess Hungate Harold Hutner Rayna Jolley Geoffrey Kemp Sandra Kingston Harvey Levkoe Neith MacDonald Wayne Marigold Rebecca McTaggart Lillian Mills Angèle Mongul Françoise Mugnier Martha Olynyk Patricia O’Sullivan Doug Paton Simon Pearson Terry Poulton Karen Robbins

Paul Rook Dorothy Rubinoff Zak Sabry Diane Schulman

Lindy Small Ken Smookler Judy Steed Edward Trapunski Chris Van Duelmen Byron Wall Jay Waterman John Webb Nan Weiner Frances Wilkinson Peter Willson Deborah Wingate Mark Wise Philip Wood Charles Wright Edward Zamble Amnon Zohar

We all know there would be no LIFE without them!

And a special thank you to the Walks Committee Chair, Doug Paton, Pam Hitchcock, Bernice Holman, Donna Oke and Pam Raiken.

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The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, ON M5B 2K3

Office location: The Chang School, 3rd floor, room 306 297 Victoria Street Programs for 50+ Office hours: The G. Raymond Chang School Monday - Thursday 9 a.m.–3 p.m. of Continuing Education Friday 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Ryerson University Tel: 416.979.5000, ext. 6989 Tel: 416.979.5103 Fax: 416.979.5286 Fax: 416.979.5286 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]