How To Register for Courses

Register online by going to kals.ca

In person on McArthur Island at 1550 Island Parkway Dr. through-out the semester during office hours Monday-Friday 9am-4pm (Closed from 12pm-1pm). Credit, cash or cheque

Register by Phone by Calling 1-250-376-1525

Course List

2 Hours
Western Canada Theatre is 50: A Short, Exciting History
Oct 7, 2025
$0
2 Hours
Maintaining Momentum after Stumbling into Children’s Book Publishing
Oct 14, 2025
$10
2 Hours
Great Canadian Plays You May Have Seen
Oct 14, 2025
$35
2 Hours
Homelessness 101
Oct 15, 2025
$10
2 Hours
A Metallurgy Lab Tour – Recovering Metal from Rock
Oct 16, 2025
$10
2 Hours
Solutions Journalism: What is it and Why is it Important?
Oct 17, 2025
$15
1.5 Hours
Art & Conversation: Luminocity
Oct 21, 2025
$0
2 Hours
Fire Centre Tour
Oct 22, 2025
$10
2 hours
From Covid to the Common Cold: Understanding Viruses and the Diseases They Cause
Oct 23, 2025
$10
2 hours
The Wren: New Long Form Journalism
Oct 23, 2025
$10
2 Hours
Political Populism
Oct 24, 2025
$10
1.5 Hours
Sustainability at TRU: From Run-of-the-Mill to Running the Mill
Oct 27, 2025
$10
2 Hours
What is Restorative Justice & Who Does it Help?
Oct 27, 2025
$10
2 Hours
The CYCLE of Life: Poetry Never Dies
Oct 29, 2025
$50
2 hours
Forest & Climate – Can Small Lands Make a Big Difference?
Oct 29, 2025
$10
2 hours
AI and Augmented Technologies: What does “real” even mean anymore?
Oct 30, 2025
$10
2 hours
The Power of Good Habits: Blue Zone Wisdom Through a Cancer Diagnosis
Nov 4, 2025
$10
2 Hours
The Beatles and Transformation
Nov 5, 2025
$25
2 hours
Ethics, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Nov 7, 2025
$10
2 Hours
The Incredible and Probably Mostly True Story of Grand Chief N’Kwala (Nicola) and the Century That Created British Columbia, 1760-1860
Nov 10, 2025
$25
2 hours
Backpacking in the Grand Canyon
Nov 12, 2025
$10
2 hours
Jukebox Musicals
Nov 13, 2025
$20
2 hours
Travels to the Galapagos and Peruvian Amazon
Nov 13, 2025
$10
2 hours
Come to the Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Recomposed
Nov 14, 2025
$10
2 Hours
Meet Greg Stewart: two time gold medal winner in Paralympic Games
Nov 14, 2025
$10
2 Hours
Explore Your Library
Nov 17, 2025
$10
2 hours
Art & Conversation: Dear Universe
Nov 18, 2025
$0
2 hours
Water
Nov 20, 2025
$10
2 hours
Come to the Concert: Winds of Change
Nov 21, 2025
$10
2 hours
Wildfire Recovery & the Intersection of Social-Ecological Systems
Nov 24, 2025
$10.00
2 hours
Albert Einstein
Nov 25, 2025
$35
3 hours
Stories of Hope & Resilient Futures
Nov 27, 2025
$10
2 hours
Op Faust: Hunger Winter ‘45
Dec 8, 2025
$10
2 hours
Cougars
Dec 11, 2025
$10
2 hours
TRU Nursing Field School in Nepal
Dec 11, 2025
$10
2 hours
Come to the Concert: Christmas with the KSO
Dec 12, 2025
$10
2 hours
Art & Conversation: mgbe mmuo na-agba bgwu (When Spirits Dance)
Dec 16, 2025
$0

Upcoming Courses

Western Canada Theatre is 50: A Short, Exciting History
Cost: $0
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

This presentation will provide an overview of WCT over 50 years. Find out how we started. Learn about big players, grand performances, accolades, our education program, and our Indigenous productions. You will even learn about where we are headed. As a follow up to this class, we suggest enrolling in Ginny Ratsoy’s class, Great Canadian Plays You May Have Seen, which begins Tuesday, October 14.

Dates:
Tuesday October 7, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Terri Runnalls
Location: Kelson Hall
Maintaining Momentum after Stumbling into Children’s Book Publishing
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

Braden Hallett wrote and illustrated not one, not two, but THREE middle grade books about living with clinical anxiety while dealing with an invasion of brain-eating hamsters. They have been published. They have won awards. They have sent him on book tours. And the publisher has asked Braden to keep writing for them. Braden is understandably confused about all this, but he is very happy to share how it happened. Braden will share his method for writing and illustrating, and of getting a book series published from start to finish. He will also give a quick primer on the conventions and requirements of publishing books for children.

Dates:
Tuesday October 14, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Braden Hallett
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Great Canadian Plays You May Have Seen
Cost: $35
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

In the spirit of community, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Western Canada Theatre by studying some past Canadian productions of the company. Expect a brief introduction to Canadian theatre history, along with in-depth looks at several short — and exciting — plays: Ernestine Shuswap gets her Trout, Women of the Fur Trade, Unity (1918), Serving Elizabeth. The instructor will provide you with details on how to purchase the plays closer to the start date of the course. As an ideal prelude to this course we suggest in enrolling in Terri Runnalls class, “Western Canada Theatre is 50: A Short, Exciting History”.

Dates:
Tuesday October 14, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday October 21, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday October 28, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday November 4, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Ginny Ratsoy
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Homelessness 101
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

The Mustard Seed is a nonprofit organization with a vision to eliminate homelessness in the communities it serves. Operating for 40 years in 7 cities in Western Canada, the Mustard Seed leads this vision by providing hope and well-being to the most vulnerable in our city. In this presentation, we discuss the complex causes of homelessness and why people in our community experience poverty. We also discuss what the Mustard Seed is doing and the programs we offer. This presentation is information-based, with a short experiential learning piece.

Dates:
Wednesday October 15, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Katie Hutchins
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
A Metallurgy Lab Tour – Recovering Metal from Rock
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 20

Multi Session

Single Session

We will provide a tour of the ALS Metallurgy Kamloops laboratory. We will demonstrate how we run testing programs to determine appropriate processes to recover metal out of rock, and provide engineering groups with data to determine if such processes would be economically feasible. We will also tour the comminution laboratory where we do tests that determine the amount of power required to break rock ahead of metal recovery, which is a key parameter to determine mine capital and operating costs. The tour will also include the mineralogy laboratory, where we use powerful microscopes to examine what mineral forms the metals are in, and how much breakage is required to physically separate the minerals of economic interest. We will also tour the sample preparation laboratory, where rocks and test products are prepared and then the assay laboratory where the content of metal in rock and test products is determined. Finally, we will visit the pilot plant where processes can be tested on a continuous basis. Wear closed-toe shoes, long sleeve shirts, and long pants. Please plan to arrive a few minutes before 10 to ensure we begin on time.

Dates:
Thursday October 16, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Helen Coombs
Location: 2951 Bowers Place
Solutions Journalism: What is it and Why is it Important?
Cost: $15
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

Solutions journalism is considered a newer practice with a focus on solutions. “Solutions journalism investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, how people try to solve widely shared problems,” the Solutions Journalism network states. In the class we will explore more about what it is and why it is important by examining various examples of ways of reporting and comparing and contrasting their differences with traditional media.

Dates:
Friday October 17, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Macarena Mantilla
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Art & Conversation: Luminocity
Cost: $0
Min: 8
Max: 20

Multi Session

Single Session

Every two years, Luminocity presents a selection of artworks that respond to the current state of the world through diverse perspectives. With each iteration, the global context seems to be increasingly in flux with the entrenchment of power systems. At the same time, the environmental emergency becomes harder to ignore. Luminocity lets in the light, offering insight into the world around us through artworks that open up networks of cultural exchange and transport us to other realms. We will meet at Rotary Bandshell in Riverside Park. The tour will begin promptly at 7:00pm and will be approximately 90 minutes long. Comfortable walking shoes, weather appropriate clothing and water are recommended.

Dates:
Tuesday October 21, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Instructor: Kristen Gardner
Location: Rotary Band Shell – Riverside Park
Fire Centre Tour
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 12

Multi Session

Single Session

We will visit the Centre for Wildfire Research, Education, Training and Innovation – a hub dedicated to advancing knowledge and practices in wildfire management amid the growing challenges of extreme fire behaviour and its impacts.

Dates:
Wednesday October 22, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Jill Harvey
Location: 800 TRU Way (off McGill)
From Covid to the Common Cold: Understanding Viruses and the Diseases They Cause
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

There is much confusion and concern about viral infections, their origins, transmission, treatment and prevention.  With the recent increase in measles cases, avian flu, RSV, HPV, as well as Covid, understanding viruses is key to managing our health.

Dates:
Thursday October 23, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Janice Joneja
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
The Wren: New Long Form Journalism
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

My presentation will be on the  growing independent news ecosystem in B.C. and what we’re learning in Kamloops since launching The Wren in 2022. The Wren is an online publication devoted to intensive coverage of local issues.

Dates:
Thursday October 23, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 am

Instructor: Brandi Schier
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Political Populism
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

Understanding political populism helps us recognize how leaders appeal to “the people” instead of the elites, often using emotional language and simple solutions. It is useful for identifying potential threats to democracy, media manipulation, and polarization—making us more informed citizens in an age of political upheaval and misinformation. In this interactive seminar, we will watch, and discuss, a number of videos and other sources of information through which you will be introduced to the causes, characteristics, and consequences of political populism.

Dates:
Friday October 24, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Paul Clark
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Sustainability at TRU: From Run-of-the-Mill to Running the Mill
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 25

Multi Session

Single Session

This one-hour talk will cover a variety of topics that the TRU Sustainability Office is currently working on to retain its position as a sustainability leader in the post-secondary sector in Canada. Topics will include everything from energy, transportation, waste, and biodiversity initiatives to trying to influence everyday behaviours and decisions on academic programming and research to the biggest sustainability project the university has ever undertaken.

Dates:
Monday October 27, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Instructor: James Gordon
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
What is Restorative Justice & Who Does it Help?
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

Join us to learn about a way of responding to harm and conflict that focuses on justice as healing.  Restorative justice principles and practices can be applied in criminal, family, community and school settings. It is shown to have tremendous benefit for people and relationships.

Dates:
Monday October 27, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Alana Abramson
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
The CYCLE of Life: Poetry Never Dies
Cost: $50
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

“The poetry of earth is never dead.” That was the opinion of English poet John Keats. If what he says startles you, puzzles you, or intrigues you, and you begin to wonder what others think of his idea, then this course is the place to be for the next six weeks. You read, discussed and enjoyed poems in school a few years ago – but then poetry dropped out of sight as life took over. This class is an opportunity to reconnect with the expressive power of poetry that Keats also asserts “is ceasing never.” As a group of like-minded colleagues we will bring our life experience, our language knowledge and our critical enthusiasms to help unlock the subtlety and rich complexity of meaning in the poems we examine.

Dates:
Wednesday October 29, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday November 5, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday November 12, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday November 19, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday November 26, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday December 3, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Rod Michell
Location: Parkview Activity Centre – 500 McDonald Avenue
Forest & Climate – Can Small Lands Make a Big Difference?
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

This research looks at how small private forests near Wells Grey Provincial Park could help fight climate change through conservation and carbon offset projects.  Using field data, satellite imagery and community interviews, we explore the carbon storage potential, economic value, community perspective, and policy suitability of these lands and what it would take to make them part of a climate solution.

Dates:
Wednesday October 29, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Cristhina Florez
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
AI and Augmented Technologies: What does “real” even mean anymore?
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

We have robots providing emotionally supportive caregiving, we have Artificial Intelligences (AI) creating art and writing our emails, and glasses placing us in datafied worlds on top of our physical spaces. How are we making sense of these technologies? How are our concepts of connection, creativity and space changing? Does it still make sense to distinguish the real from the simulated? We will ask these questions and more in our 2-hour seminar, during which we will explore examples and recent cultural discussions related to AI and our increasingly augmented reality.

Dates:
Thursday October 30, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Shannon Smyrl
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
The Power of Good Habits: Blue Zone Wisdom Through a Cancer Diagnosis
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

A cancer diagnosis is life-changing, frightening, and overwhelming, but managing this diagnosis with resilience and vitality is still possible.  Strategies such as regular exercise, balanced nutrition, stress management, and strong support systems help individuals through all stages of a cancer diagnosis. These positive lifestyle habits echo the strategies recommended by InspireHealth.  Learn how InspireHealth uses a holistic, research backed approach to empower cancer patients to make changes that improve quality of life.

Dates:
Tuesday November 4, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Janice MacDonald
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
The Beatles and Transformation
Cost: $25
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

The Beatles revolutionized not only pop music but popular culture, fashion, attitudes and values. Their evolution from a pop sensation (Beatlemania) to serious artists who pioneered new approaches in recording and the rise of the rock album was accompanied by changes in hairstyles, clothing, attitudes towards personal relationships and new forms of spirituality in the culture at large. This course will trace the Beatles’ transformative journey.

Dates:
Wednesday November 5, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Wednesday November 26, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Wednesday November 19, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Bruce Baugh
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Ethics, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

This session will feature members of faculty and Masters program students from the TRU research cluster, Innovation for Social Good (ISG), within the Faculty of Business and Economics. ISG draws on students and faculty from a range of disciplines.  The intent is to promote the creation of businesses that produce social, environmental, and commercial value for society, rather than just shareholder profits.

Dates:
Friday November 7, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Bruce Martin
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
The Incredible and Probably Mostly True Story of Grand Chief N’Kwala (Nicola) and the Century That Created British Columbia, 1760-1860
Cost: $25
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

In a three part series, Constitutional Professor and local historian Craig Jones recounts some almost unbelievable stories from his forthcoming book “First Nation: Grand Chief N’Kwala and the Struggle for the Interior Plateau”.  There are three parts:

Part I (November 10): Finan McDonald, Pelkamulox III, Kaúxuma Núpika, and the Buffalo Wars 1800-1812 – Professor Jones pieces together the hidden story of how a far-sighted Okanagan chief, a gigantic Scot, and a remarkable Ktunaxa female warrior-prophet brought the fur trade to the Interior Plateau.
Part II (November 17): Grand Chief N’Kwala and the Fur Traders 1812-1841 – How Pelkamulox’s son Chief N’Kwala (Nicola), through peacemaking and through war, came to dominate the economy and politics of the Interior, from the early days of Fort Kamloops to the manhunt that followed the killing of Chief Trader Samuel Black.
Part III (December 1): The End of the Trade, the Gold Rush, and Chief Spintlum’s Peace 1842 to 1862 – covers the Hudson Bay Company’s power plays, the imposition of the border at the 49th Parallel and the straining of the Secwepemc-Okanagan confederacy, and documents the remarkable emergence of the alliance of Indigenous nations that held the gold miners in check and averted annexation of British Columbia by the United States.

 

The correct class times are below:
Nov 10 – 1:30-3:30
Nov 17 & Dec 1 – 10:00-12:00

Dates:
Monday November 10, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Monday November 17, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Monday December 1, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Craig Jones
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Additional Comments:
Please ignore the above class times. The correct class times are below: Nov 10 – 1:30-3:30 Nov 17 & Dec 1 – 10:00-12:00
Backpacking in the Grand Canyon
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

Over 5 million people visit the Grand Canyon every year, the vast majority of whom stay on the road that follows the South Rim. But it’s possible to go down into the canyon and explore the trails through this amazing wilderness.  Join us to hear about the pleasures and perils of a week long backpack along the Tonto Trail from South Bass Canyon to Grandview.

Dates:
Wednesday November 12, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Diane McKelvey
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Jukebox Musicals
Cost: $20
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

A Jukebox Musical takes pop hits and places them in a musical theatre production. Some like “Mamma Mia” place the songs of a particular artist or songwriter or musical genre into an original story, while others, like “Jersey Boys”, are known as Bio Musicals, and centre on the life and career of a particular artist. We will explore both types and listen to lots of music from the most popular that have appeared on Broadway and beyond: “Mamma Mia”, “Movin’ Out”,  “Rock of Ages”, “Bat Out of Hell”, “We Will Rock You”, “Jagged Little Pill and Juliet”, “Jersey Boys”, “Tina”, “The Cher Show”, and so many more

Dates:
Thursday November 13, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Thursday November 20, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Julie Simmons
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Travels to the Galapagos and Peruvian Amazon
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

My wife, Mary, and I travelled to Ecuador and Peru in April of this year. The Galapagos Islands and the Amazon were both key destinations on our bucket list, and we combined them in a 4 week trip. This presentation will provide a brief overview of Ecuador and Peru together with a more detailed description of the wonders of the Galapagos and the Amazon. Both destinations should be on your bucket list!

Dates:
Thursday November 13, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Mike Baker
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Come to the Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Recomposed
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

This class, the second in the Come to the Concert series, focuses on just two composers and two of their influential works.  At the same time, it is an opportunity to examine two significant movements in classical music of the last seventy-five years.  “Shaker Loops” by John Adams, begun as early as 1977, will invite us to explore “minimalist” elements in music.  Likewise, Max Richter’s “Four Seasons” (2012) will provoke discussion of “recomposition” or “re-processing” of music — a controversial but not exactly a new idea. Our encounter with these works will help familiarize us not only with the individual compositions themselves but with stylistic evolution of contemporary classical music.

Dates:
Friday November 14, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Rod Michell
Location: Kelson Hall 330 St. Paul Street
Meet Greg Stewart: two time gold medal winner in Paralympic Games
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

Greg will relate his experience as a Paralympic two time gold medal holder: how he became a champion para athlete in shot put and the emotional impact of such stellar performances. Greg will then go on to discuss his philosophy, “turn your self-doubt into self-confidence,” which underpins his book, “Stand Out”.

Dates:
Friday November 14, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Greg Stewart
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Explore Your Library
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 15

Multi Session

Single Session

The Thompson-Nicola Regional Library has served the lifelong learning, reading and information needs of TNRD residents for almost 50 years now.  How can it serve you?

Of course, you know that you can borrow books, CDs, and DVDs, but did you also know that, should need arise, you can borrow a guitar, a budding birder backpack replete with Vortex binoculars, a light therapy lamp, even a pickleball kit among many other surprising resources.  Is your “tech” misbehaving?  Schedule a free one-on-one session to help get things sorted out. To discover more broadly what your library has to offer, join Andree for an afternoon of library exploration.

Dates:
Monday November 17, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Andrée Beauchemin
Location: Kamloops Library – 465 Victoria St
Art & Conversation: Dear Universe
Cost: $0
Min: 8
Max: 20

Multi Session

Single Session

Dear Universe traces a line through two decades of practice by multidimensional artist Maura Doyle. Tethering together the exhibition’s works of sculpture, drawing, printed matter, video and experimental writing is Doyle’s attention to the inelegant, the easily overlooked, and the poetic possibilities lodged in day-to-day life.

Dates:
Tuesday November 18, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Kristen Gardner
Location: Kamloops Art Gallery, 465 Victoria Street
Water
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

Water, in its three forms, liquid, vapour and ice, is a major and essential part of our lives and environment. This talk will describe  the many characteristics, properties and effects of water in these three forms, looking at aspects of Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Meteorology, Physiology, Societal demands, Hydrology and many associated phenomena and the effects on our lives.

Dates:
Thursday November 20, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Dave McKinnon
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Come to the Concert: Winds of Change
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

The enthusiasm of small groups of musicians, gathered to play their different wind instruments for eager audiences must surely be as old as the invention of the instruments themselves. This class, the third in this Fall’s Come to the Concert series examines the interplay of music created for one such group, a quintet consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet bassoon and horn, the standard “wind quintet.”  The concert’s title, “Winds of Change,” suggests aspects of the of the music’s qualities: chiefly contemporary composers: Canadian (Elizabeth Raum), American (Brandon, Fine, and Coleman) and British (Alan Bullard), but with great variety, rhythmic vitality, lyrical depth and charm.

Dates:
Friday November 21, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Rod Michell
Location: Kelson Hall 330 St. Paul Street
Wildfire Recovery & the Intersection of Social-Ecological Systems
Cost: $10.00
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

In this talk, we’ll explore the complex and evolving process of wildfire recovery through the lens of social-ecological systems. From the urgent steps of bringing communities home and coordinating salvage logging and replanting, to the unexpected consequences of the emergence of morel mushrooms and the influx of harvesters they attract, wildfire recovery reveals a complex web of both opportunities and challenges. The morel boom can create sudden economic activity, but it also brings environmental pressures and social tensions. We’ll also explore the long-term healing between communities and the land, and how these relationships must adapt in the face of an ever-changing climate.

Dates:
Monday November 24, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Tori Verkaik
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Albert Einstein
Cost: $35
Min: 10
Max: 50

Multi Session

Single Session

These lectures will follow Albert Einstein’s scientific achievements and his controversial personal life. The importance of his scientific publications and his famous opposition to Niels Bohr will be explained. We will show that his theories fundamentally underpin much of today’s modern science and technology. This is a Zoom class so you can watch from the comfort of your home or in the company of others at the Kamloops Sports Council.

Dates:
Tuesday November 25, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday December 16, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday December 2, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday December 9, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: John Felvinci
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Stories of Hope & Resilient Futures
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

Multi Session

Single Session

Bala will share stories of hope and resilience in building communities. He will describe the on-going work with disaster-affected communities in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and BC. For example, many coastal villages in India and Sri Lanka fall under the Coastal Multi-Hazard Zone (CMZ), making them highly vulnerable to inundation due to sea erosion. Small-scale fishing communities are vulnerable to cyclones and floods. As well, they are vulnerable to losing their rights to the sea, and in addition the fishing grounds and destruction because of industrial trawl fishing and climate change events. At the end of the presentation, Bala and participants will look at our own stories of hope and resilience using narrative tools, and by doing so, create collective hope and strength.

Dates:
Thursday November 27, 2025 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Instructor: Bala Nikku
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Op Faust: Hunger Winter ‘45
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

Videographer Alison Maclean will present her latest feature video, showcasing the Liberation of the Netherlands from German occupation. It relates the history of the first ever humanitarian AID Convoy negotiated during German occupation and the leading role played by Canadian troops. Featured are archival footage, Dutch children’s witness stories and veterans’ comments.

Dates:
Monday December 8, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Alison MacLean
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Cougars
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

Cougars are native to the Americas and found in North, Central and South America, making them the most widely distributed, wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.  Though rarely seen, they can even be found within the city limits of Kamloops. Kevin will discuss the habits and behaviours of these magnificent, elusive animals.

Dates:
Thursday December 11, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Kevin Van Damme
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
TRU Nursing Field School in Nepal
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 40

Multi Session

Single Session

This faculty led international Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) practicum provides students with opportunities to gain firsthand knowledge about nursing and health care in a developing nation (Nepal) while they spend four weeks in a large urban hospital. The field school promotes their understanding of global health concepts while students also explore Nepali culture, history and politics. Join Shari and several of the student participants while they discuss their experiences with the Nepal Field School.

Dates:
Thursday December 11, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Instructor: Shari Caputo
Location: Kamloops Seniors Community Centre- 730 Cottonwood Ave.
Come to the Concert: Christmas with the KSO
Cost: $10
Min: 8
Max: 30

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The fourth Come to the Concert class helps us with our musical preparations for Christmastime.  The Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, the KSO Chorus and soloists always present a joyful selection of seasonal music. The class will explore the programme’s highlights, from familiar longer works such as Messiah, but also take the opportunity to introduce the class to some other delightful but less well-known works.

Dates:
Friday December 12, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Rod Michell
Location: Kamloops Sports Council – 1550 Island Parkway Dr.
Art & Conversation: mgbe mmuo na-agba bgwu (When Spirits Dance)
Cost: $0
Min: 8
Max: 15

Multi Session

Single Session

In this new body of work, Raluchukwu Ojah explores questions of cross-cultural exchange and the immigrant experience through fashion and dance. Ojah’s research draws upon a traditional spiritual masquerade called Ekpe, performed in his hometown of Amaekpu, Ohafia, Nigeria. Through a series of life-size dancing figures hanging from the wall, Ojah reimagines the Ekpe masquerade to reflect upon his own roots and the ways in which ancestral rituals are spread through contemporary Nigerian western fashion. Ojah’s figures capture the dynamic movement of traditional Igbo, Enugu and Ohafia dances, which have had a strong influence on contemporary dance, especially hip-hop and club dance culture.

Dates:
Tuesday December 16, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Instructor: Kristen Gardner
Location: Kamloops Art Gallery – 465 Victoria St.