Our hybrid format allows you the choice of attending lectures in person at Harcourt United Church in Guelph or watching the livestream lecture, from home.
The Winter 2025 lecture topics are Canada's North (AM), and The Energy Spectrum (PM). See the lecture schedule and details on our Lectures page. Registration is now open and continues until January 1, 2025; please go to our Registration page. We hope you'll join us!
TALG offers four lecture series annually, two in the fall session, two in the winter. Each series includes eight lectures, over eight Wednesdays (one series in the morning, another in the afternoon).
As of September 2022, all lectures are at Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Avenue in Guelph and simultaneously streamed online. Registrants can choose which way they want to attend.
TALG is a volunteer run organization which has been offering lecture series over a broad range of topics, since 1988. If you’re looking for stimulating opportunities to learn, question, and share knowledge in a friendly, social environment, we hope you’ll join us. We are mostly retirement age, but all are welcome.
Third Age Learning Guelph offers four lecture series each year, two in the Winter and two in the Fall. Each series comprises of 8 individual lectures given by experts in their various fields. As of September 2022, all lectures are at Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Avenue in Guelph and simultaneously streamed online.
The Winter Lecture Series will run from January 8 to February 26, 2025.
The cost is $55 for an 8-lecture series.
AM Series
Our Winter 2025 morning lectures will focus on Canada's North, a topic of increasing importance in today's geopolitics. The Canadian Arctic covers 40 per cent of Canada's territory and is home to more than 200,000 inhabitants, more than half of whom are Indigenous. Our speakers will talk about subjects ranging from resource extraction to defence, biology, geology, archaeology, art, and exploration.
PM Series
Energy is the driving force for so many aspects of our lives today, and we take it for granted until it's suddenly not available. As our dependence on technology grows -- think banking, health care, transportation, manufacturing, the list goes on and on -- the need for reliable, sustainable electrical energy grows too. And as people and goods are in constant motion, whether it's on local trips to the grocery store or flights to the other side of the planet, we use various sources of energy to fuel all this movement. Yet all of our energy use is impacting the planet in ways we may not always be able to see or understand. In this series we will look at what energy is, the different ways in which we access it, and what some of the challenges and possible solutions may be as we move forward. The final week will feature a three-person panel focusing on the Guelph community -- What innovations are happening here? What challenges still need to be tackled? What actions can individuals take to address these problems? Please join us for what is sure to be an 'enlightening' series.
Our FYI page is a digital "bulletin board," where you’ll find information on special TALG events and other interesting opportunities happening in the Guelph area. You’ll also find links to groups with whom we have a connection, given our mutual involvement with lifelong learning experiences and activities. We hope you’ll check it out!
TALG welcomes your enquiries, input and feedback! We’d love to hear from you, whether you have a question, a great topic or speaker to suggest, or are interested in volunteering.
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