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2020
Our Speaker Series features Members and Community Leaders sharing their knowledge, experiences, ideas and concerns on subjects other than sailing. Enjoy dinner in the Bistro 1852 with a special prix fixe menu followed by an interesting presentation and discussion. All Members and their guests are welcome. There is no charge for attending the presentation. Dinner begins at 6:30 pm, followed by the Lecture at 7:30 pm (new time this year). When you register, please reserve your space for dinner to avoid disappointment if the event is fully booked.
TUES JAN
REDISCOVERING ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS OF OLD TORONTO
Liz Driver, Director/Curator, Campbell House Museum
For the first time in fifty years, surplus salvaged stones from demolished iconic buildings, such as the old Toronto Bank, have returned from Guild Park & Gardens to the downtown core for permanent display in the Campbell House garden; and more will be featured in a new linear park extending to the AGO. Liz Driver and one of the student co-curators of the outdoor exhibit, “Lost & Found,” consider how these historical fragments can animate today’s urban spaces.
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TUES FEB
MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS
GRAHAM COLLINGRIDGE, CBE, FRS. Director of the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases; The Krembil Family Chair in Alzheimer’s Research, Department of Physiology, U of T; Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
We as individuals are the product of our experiences. Without the ability to learn and remember we would be mere vegetables. Graham will talk about memory and how this remarkable ability – the one that defines us as human beings with our own personalities, experiences, hopes and dreams – works. Tragically, as we age, we run the risk of developing dementia - where our ability to learn and remember is impaired. What causes Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, will be the second part of his talk.
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TUES FROM PARIS TO PERSIA - WHAT ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES OF THE DESERT HAVE TO TEACH US MAR DUNCAN HARVIE, Architect OAA, RIBA, RAIC.
24 Duncan, a practising architect and educator, will illustrate some of the low-tech but high impact buildings of the desert areas of Iran. Simple but elegant in their transformation of the hostile into a paradise. Specifically, do they have something to teach us about how to meet our responsibilities to reduce global warming today?
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