Public Presentation Fall 2015 Lineup Announced
September 29, 2015
UNBC Northwest is pleased to announce the Fall 2015 Public Presentations Lineup! These events are free and open to the public; you are welcome to bring your lunch. Some events may be webcast and/or recorded, with permission of the speaker.
Location: UNBC Terrace Campus (4837 Keith Avenue)
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PMFall 2015 - Public Presentation Lineup (PDF)
- October 7, 2015: Mel Coulson and Daryl Hanson (Birchwood Cohousing) – “Intentional Communities and Telkwa’s Innovative, Intergenerational Birchwood Cohousing Project”
Learn about the principles of cohousing: environmental stewardship; sharing of common resources; participatory design and caring for our neighbours. - October 14, 2015: Alex Lautensach (UNBC Terrace campus) – “The Leap Manifesto: What’s It All About?”
This event is intended as a forum for public discussion. A brief introductory presentation will summarise the reasons why Canadians would benefit from programs like the Manifesto. In the light of those potential benefits, its fifteen demands will be interpreted and discussed. Participants are invited to comment and contribute from diverse perspectives and world views. - October 28, 2015: Rob Bryce (UNBC Continuing Studies), Kelsey Wiebe (Heritage Park Museum), Ken Newman (City of Terrace) – “Ghost Towns of Northwest BC Past to Present”
We will take you back in time during a historical presentation that will transport you from past to present exploring the fascinating stories of five of Northwest BC’s most historic Ghost Towns. Alice Arm, Anyox, Dorreen, Kitsault and Port Essington were all unique thriving Northwest BC communities at various times, but have now faded into obscurity like so many other resource based towns. Three presenters will discuss why these five ghost towns were so important to the history of Northwest BC and will show you a glimpse of what remains today.
- November 18, 2015: Film Showing and Discussion: “The Power of One Voice” About the Life and Impact of Rachel Carson
The Power of One Voice: A 50 Year Perspective on the Life of Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson is widely regarded as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. She grew ups in Springdale, Pennsylvania, where she witnessed first-hand the beauty and genius of nature juxtaposed with the ecological devastation caused by industrialization. Carson’s widely recognized talent as a writer, combined with her deep knowledge of the natural world, made her a potent advocate for the use of the precaution when working with biological systems. In 1962 her best-selling book, Silent Spring, awoke the environmental consciousness of America with poignant words of caution in the face of rapidly advancing scientific progress. - November 25, 2015: Amy Klepetar (UNBC Terrace campus) and Matt Beedle (NWCC and UNBC): “Eight Thousand Kilometers in a Year: The Slow Way”
On a layover in an airport in 2012, we started half-joking, half-daydreaming about taking time off to have a big adventure together as a family. Before having kids, we had traveled quite a lot together, and had especially loved our bicycle tours. Since starting a family, our travels became mainly centred around seeing one set of grandparents or the other, and our adventures became shorter and much closer to home, although they were exciting nonetheless! Inviting passing cyclists to stay in our home through warmshowers.org and commuting to school and work by bicycle kept our minds in the bike touring world, and eventually the time seemed to be as good as any to set off on our own tour. We left Terrace in June of 2014 and spent the next year out in the world with everything we needed (including our two kids, aged 3 and 5 at the time) attached to our bicycles. We were loaded down, we stopped often, and we didn’t travel very far each day. However, we had the time of our lives and learned some important lessons about ourselves, our world, and the wonderful people in it.
In this presentation, we’ll talk a bit about planning and executing a trip like this, we’ll show photos from our trip including the sections in Europe, South America, and the Pacific Coast of the US, and we’ll tell stories from the road. - December 9, 2015: Rod Link (Terrace Standard): “Dealing with the Myths and Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Community Newspaper Business”
