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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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”.

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.

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.