Programmes

Please note that the Fall 2012 Later Life Learning lectures are scheduled as follows:

Series A – Monday morning @ 10:00 am
Series B – Thursday morning @ 10:00 am

Series C – Friday afternoon @ 1:30 pm

 

The Fall 2012 registration package is mailed/emailed to active members on March 15, 2012.

When general membership registration is complete, any courses that are not full will be opened up to those on the Waiting List.  Waiting List members will be contacted either by an LLL volunteer or by email to determine if they are interested in attending the course(s) that is/are available. 

 

Fall 2012

Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors: American Movies and the Politics of Idealism

Lecturer – Kevin Courrier

Monday Mornings – September 10 to November 19, 2012 (No class October 8, 2012-Thanksgiving)
What took us so long!  Kevin Courrier is one of the best known lecturers and reviewers on the Toronto film scene.  And finally he’s coming to Innis Town Hall to give us a new slant on how American movies reflect the political times.  When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States in November 2008, the historic event ignited a fever of idealism not felt since 1960 when John Kennedy first declared the coming of a New Frontier.  Due to that sixties’ utopian spirit, you could turn to almost any American film and recognize the political period that spawned it.  In this series, Kevin examines how key American movies from the last forty years have come to echo the secret aspirations and dashed expectations of the country’s deeply divisive elements.
Ten Classical Masterpieces that Changed Music
Lecturer – Rick Phillips
Thursday Mornings - September 13 to November 15, 2012
We got to know him through the CBC Radio’s long-running Sound Advice and we got   to love him as Later Life’s classical Man of Music.  Now Rick Phillips, writer, speaker, musical tour guide and broadcaster, is back to take us on a journey through the ages.  Throughout history, he says, great art, literature and music have caught and reflected
our lives and times – the human experience.  Here the touchstone is music and he’ll be bringing us legendary recordings from the past and the present, often classical masterpieces that opened up new perspectives and altered the development of music.  Plus, of course, his special insights designed to increase our interest, love and
enjoyment of classical music. Forever.
 
The Realm of Dance

Lecturer – Michael Crabb
Friday Afternoons - September 14 to November 16, 2012
Waltz, pirouette, jig, tango, flamenco…. so many words to describe a human activity so old, so fundamental that people danced before there was a name for it.  Dance, says our lecturer, Michael Crabb, is the outer expression of the inner pulse of life.  And how fortunate we are to have as our dance-master one of Canada’s leading literary exponents of this popular art form.  Michael has written about the performing arts for almost 40 years.  He is an author, radio producer, former host of CBC’s Arts Report, and currently dance critic for The Toronto Star.  And this is not just a course about ballet.  Richly illustrated with film and video, it goes to the very heart of the art – what is dance, and why do we dance?  Dance has been a missing ingredient in the Later Life roster.  Now we’re making up – in spades.

 

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