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.
We are on a summer break now but will return in September with two topics: Fall 2026, AM - The Future of Health, and PM - The Global Shift. Please check our LECTURES page for details. Registration begins August 10th and lectures begin September 16th.
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).
All lectures are held 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 Fall and two in the Winter. Each series comprises of 8 individual lectures given by experts in their various fields. All lectures are held at Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Avenue in Guelph and simultaneously streamed online.
The Fall Lecture Series will run from September 16 to November 4, 2026; watch the website for full details by late July. The cost is $55 for an 8-lecture series.
AM Series
The World Health Organization defines “good health” as a dynamic balance involving physical, mental, and social well-being. This series explores the intersection of technological innovation and health care, examining how research breakthroughs can improve our daily lives, whether it’s related to monitoring our physical health, or developing techniques to improve memory and hence mental and emotional well-being. Advances in nanomedicine are enabling a more targeted treatment for certain conditions, and a global pandemic reignited interest in vaccines for zoonotic diseases such as Lyme, while researchers continue to grapple with the challenge of antimicrobial resistant bacteria.
Developing a variety of tools for building and maintaining physical, mental, and emotional well-being is a good strategy for healthy aging. We begin this series by looking at the dynamic balance between Indigenous ways of knowing and Western medicine which is fundamental to the Two-Eyed Seeing approach to promoting Indigenous health equity. We conclude with a big-picture look at human potential from a physician who contributed a great deal to medical research and then literally reached for the stars.
PM Series
The Global Shift, Challenges and Opportunities will look at some of the areas in our world that are changing, and how we are dealing with, embracing, and coping with these changes. One of the most notable aspects of this theme will be the speed at which these changes are taking place. We are experiencing change at a faster pace than ever before in our history. Some of these changes bring fabulous outcomes, such as improved communication, but with that comes the challenge to adapt to the twenty-four hour news cycle. Sources of energy are changing. What is the cost? We can travel to many places, but what about the disruptions of war and disease? The series will explore these areas of change and highlight the accompanying challenges.
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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