Jun 13 – Jun 15, 2014 Fri 7:00 PM – Sun 1:00 PM $380.00     Join us for a weekend of writing and reflecting, considering your life’s journey, and creating a visual memoir to keep or share with loved ones. Using art, meditation, and reflection, facilitators will guide you through exercises to help …
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  Apr 13 – Apr 16, 2014 Sun 1:00 PM – Wed 6:00 PM $590.00     Do you facilitate or lead meetings, workshops and community groups? Does it sometimes feel like the same old, same old… Come and learn some fun and creative tools to liven up your meetings or local events. If you …
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    Mar 13 – Mar 16, 2014 Thu 10:00 AM – Sun 4:00 PM $380.00 The Arrivals Personal Legacy Workshop has toured extensively across Canada, as well as in Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean and South America. It is the culmination of ten years of focused artistic research and draws on almost 30 years …
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      Mar 5 – Mar 5, 2014 Wed 10:00 AM – Wed 4:00 PM $50.00   Lent is preparation for the Passion, just as Advent is preparation for the Nativity. By reflecting upon and responding to great works of art that depict what Christ went through on our behalf, we can more fully …
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  Monday 8 – Thursday 11 December An opportunity to watch, discuss and argue our pick of 5 of the best British films ever made: Don’t Look Now; The Third Man; Distant Voices, Still Lives; Kes and The Red Shoes. Perfect winter fare! Peter Francis sets us down for this celebration of all that is great about British Cinema. Step …
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  Monday 3 – Thursday 6 November Film. We all turn to it in times of stress and doubt. This perennial favourite of the Gladstone’s Library calendar is geared to give you the chance to explore some of the most iconic films of faith and doubt and, possibly, to introduce you to new icons and …
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  Friday 23 – Sunday 25 May ‘…For your self firstly, and then if other people want to join in then there we are.’ – R.S. Thomas John G. McEllhenney, author and a long time correspondent with Thomas, offers a fresh insight on the poems of R.S. Thomas in a course which will allude to …
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  Friday 25 – 27 April 2014 This hugely successful film course returns to Gladstone’s for the seventeenth outing of this annual film and theology weekend. Over the course of these three days films will be viewed, discussed and reflected upon. To be included: Banard’s The Selfish Giant (2013), Trapero’s White Elephant (2013), Hardy’s The Wicker Man …
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    The Fall 2013 lecture series sponsored by the McGill Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR) will address the theme of religion and performance in South Asia. The lectures illuminate the rich and complex links between performance traditions, politics, history, and identity in the living religions of South Asia including Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.   The lecture series …
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    Price: $365.00 Date: January 31, 2014 Richard Priggie   Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2014 While books of fiction may not be factual, they may also be deeply true, awakening the imagination to shape lives of meaning, intelligence and beauty. As we immerse ourselves during this year’s Light to Read By in the context and …
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