 |
Toronto Pursuits in the Summer – 10th Anniversary
LATE EDITIONS – Celebrating Creativity in Late Life
Sunday, July 13-Friday, July 18, 2008
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
As we gear up for our Tenth Anniversary, a weeklong celebration of later life creativity, I wish to acknowledge the generous support of our good friends:
University of St. Michael’s College Continuing Education has provided support and encouragement to Classical Pursuits from the outset and is proud to be its leading sponsor this anniversary year. 
Creativity is an essential part of CARP's DNA, and so we are delighted to sponsor Harry R. Moody's appearance at Classical Pursuits' LATE EDITIONS: Celebrating Creativity in Later Life. The fact that Mr. Moody comes to us from AARP, our American cousin, only adds to our pleasure in being involved with an event where Zoomers can pursue their passion for learning and growing.
Finally, I wish to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of The Law Offices of Mark B. Packer in Bellingham WA. The Packer Prize has made it financially possible for a number of people to take part in Toronto Pursuits. Here is what Mark had to say in 2005 about his week of discussing Vanity Fair:
“And we, sitting together in our focused seminar, or afterwards for that matter... , ourselves form a kind of perfect democratic union, where only our interest in the joint project of shared analysis counts,... magnified many-fold through the reciprocity of the exchange far and above what our own solitary ruminations might yield up to us.”
|
About 200 people from across Canada and at least 20 states will gather on the shady garden campus of the University of St. Michael's College. About half will be returnees and half will be there for the first time. About half will be working and half will be retired. They will range in age from early thirties to mid-eighties. Some will stay in a new campus residence; others will opt for a nearby hotel. Still others will commute each day from home.
 Out-of-towners get started early Sunday afternoon, July 13, with a demonstration "shared inquiry" discussion and an optional get acquainted dinner with seminar leaders at a local restaurant. On Monday evening, we take over an upscale Italian restaurant with a garden patio for a 10th anniversary celebration with a festive gathering for hors d'oeuvres and drinks. From Monday through Friday, twelve seminars take place concurrently each morning, with no more than fifteen in each group, then we all gather for an excellent lunch together. During the afternoons and evenings, we offera wide variety of cultural and social activities - topical talks, walking tours, film screenings, theatre, small dinners, and much more. We conclude with a festive farewell gathering late Friday afternoon.
Click here for a schedule of activities.
Already Registered? Click here for the the Participant Handbook.
Choose one week-long seminar from the following:
| Catalog > 2008 Toronto Pursuits in the Summer |
 |
|
See details 
|
The Play's the Thing (No Longer Available)
|
The play is among the oldest and most immediate literary forms. Some think the drama best presents the dramatic. Plays tell our greatest stories, pry into the most difficult questions, and provoke deep thought about the nature of man and his condition.
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
The Education of Henry Adams (No Longer Available)
|
Late in life, Henry Adams (1838 - 1918) wrote what is considered one of the greatest autobiographies, a Pulitzer Prize winner and first on the Modern Library Board's list of the greatest 20 th century works of non-fiction in English. Adams belonged to one of America's founding families, the...
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
A Wider Vision: Daniel Deronda (No Longer Available)
|
In the 1870s, when George Eliot was in her 50s and at the height of her fame, she knew many believed "I must have already done my best," but she was amazed by "the number of and wide variety of subjects that attract me, and the enlarging vista each brings with it."
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
A Country for Old Men (and Women)(No Longer Available)
|
Before the 20th century few great poets lived to old age, and still fewer continued to write important poetry when they did. Perhaps under the influence of T. S. Eliot, who even when young wrote in the voice of an old man, modernist poets explored this territory in a profound and thorough way. We...
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
Old Wineskins (No Longer Available)
|
Longevity certainly ain't what it used to be. Adam lived to be over 900 years old, and Noah wasn't considered long in the tooth until his 800th birthday. Think of it, life would have been almost nothing but the golden years. Of course, the seniors' homes would have been crowded, but then there...
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
The Really Old Masters (No Longer Available)
|
Many artists die far too early - Masaccio, Raphael, Caravaggio, for example - others are granted the privilege of great age which allows them to communicate an entirely new set of values in their work. Priorities change, and youthful enthusiasm gives way to a more profound understanding of the...
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
The Leopard and Lampedusa's Art of Memory (No Longer Available)
|
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard is considered by many to be one of the greatest Italian novels. Written late in life by an impoverished prince of an ancient and exhausted line, this novel represents the swan song for an era and a mindset facing inevitable decay and disappearance. In...
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
See details
|
Hemingway: First and Last (No Longer Available)
|
Despite the changing fortunes of literary reputation, Ernest Hemingway remains a formidable icon of 20 th Century literature. As a ground-breaking modernist, an infamous expatriate, and a media-driven personality, he lived large and wrote lean, muscular prose, forging a minimalist style that...
|
Price: $ 0.00
|
|
|
|
