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.
During our Winter 2025 lecture series on Canada's North, we were delighted to offer a display of treasured Innuit items belonging to a young Guelphite, Alex, and his mother. Please visit our FYI page to see photos of this event, https://talg.ca/fyi/.
We are now on a break, with no lectures offered in the spring or summer. But if you're looking ahead, check out our Fall 2025 Lecture Series on The Brain and The Nordic Nations (see descriptions below and on the Lectures page). Full lecture details will be posted in July, and registration will begin August 5th. To be sure to receive notices, please Subscribe to our Mailing List (see navy blue box below).
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 Fall Lecture Series will run from September 17 to November 5, 2025.
The cost is $55 for an 8-lecture series.
AM Series
Although it makes up only about 2% of the average person's weight, the brain uses about 20% of the body’s energy, mostly to transmit millions of impulses along its complex neural network at incredible speeds of up to 120 metres/sec (or 268 mph)! It controls learning, memory, behaviour, and how we process experiences and emotions. In other words, it's central to defining who we are.
This series will look at how some brains can function differently — such as is the case with autism — as well as how a brain can change and adapt in response to experiences and even injury — its plasticity. We will consider what changes are happening in the brain when things go wrong — when someone displays addictive behaviour, for example, or signs of dementia. We’ll look at how to prevent and recover from an injury to the brain — from a stroke or concussion. We will also explore the amazing effect of music on brain function, and how we can use that understanding to our benefit. And finally, we will learn what strategies we can use to promote healthy cognitive and emotional functioning.
PM Series
Join us for a fascinating series on the history of the Nordic Nations. Dr. Carolyn Harris will take us on a journey to the northern countries that have brought us IKEA, Volvo, Lego, and …. ABBA. We will follow the Vikings to Iceland and North America. We will discover the golden age of Sweden, the Grand Duchy of Finland, and Royal Denmark. These are the lands of Ibsen, Munch, and brooding Scandinavian detectives. And let us not forget that the Nobel prizes have been presented in Norway and Sweden for more than one hundred years. All in all, a great saga.
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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