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This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

For our featured presentation this Sunday, we will be watching and then reflecting on and discussing YouTube videos about the Stonewall Riots – the significance, historical context, and a key personality associated with it, Marsha P. Johnson.  The topic and videos will be introduced by Toronto Oasis organizer, Tania Akon.

We will also be having live music this Sunday! Our featured musician will be Reenie Perkovic. Reenie is a queer folk-pop artist. With a soulful edge, she composes heartfelt songs that are both fun and introspective. Infusing her classical background with jazz harmony, folk rhythms, and pop sensibilities, Reenie and her guitar weave together stories of the human condition, connection, and social justice.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/rpgzssydcjbjc/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

Join us this Sunday for a talk about Spa Excess, Canada’s largest bathhouse for men – how it got started, and some of the challenges and triumphs along the way.  Our featured speakers will be the creators and owners of Spa Excess, Robert Knight and Michael Dorman.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/286241788/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This meeting has been recorded: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19li92puIBL4153Jebu_7dX4e7FtYerE1/view?usp=sharing

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

Join us this Sunday as five Toronto Oasis participants share their coming out stories – how they came to terms with a difficult part of their identity, such as sexual orientation or religious status, and shared it openly with other people.

As always, following the presentations, there will be time for a lively discussion on the topic, hopefully including lots of us sharing about our own coming out stories.

This topic was suggested by and will be introduced by Dan Cooperstock, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/285991052/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

The history of early Christianity used to be viewed as a straight-line record of success, from Jesus through Paul to the formation of the Church and its eventual triumph as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century. That view has been upended. How so?

Our featured presentation this Sunday will focus on what we now know – and, more importantly, don’t know – about Jesus and Paul and how this changes our view of how early Christianity developed.

Our featured speaker on this topic will be Barrie Wilson, PhD and Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, York University where he taught courses on the Biblical Studies, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Varieties of Early Christianity. He is the author of How Jesus Became Christian (2008); The Lost Gospel (2014); Paul vs James (2018); Searching for the Messiah (2020). Barrie has appeared in numerous documentaries as the on-camera expert including several episodes of The Naked Archeologist.

Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/285605975/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This meeting has been recorded: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_RBiv4-dux45cIvt2LqmxnNqpygI7Xl/view?usp=sharing

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

Join us this Sunday as five Toronto Oasis participants talk briefly about their favourite genres of books, TV, and/or movies, and why they love them. As always, following the presentations, there will be time for a lively discussion on the topic, hopefully including lots of us sharing about our own favourite genres.

This topic was suggested by and will be introduced by Dan Cooperstock, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/rpgzssydchbmc/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

This Sunday we’ll be watching a TED talk by Lizzo, and several YouTube video clips featuring Lizzo, an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and flautist (Lizzo – Wikipedia). The themes are self-acceptance, self-love and non-judgment. The video clips were selected and will be introduced by a Toronto Oasis organizer, Tania Akon.

Also, this Sunday, we will be having live music! Our guest musician will be Wesley Blondin-Doan, whose stage name is Kid Grit. Kid Grit’s folk songs are quiet and pensive reflections of a life lived. From the depths of isolation possible in a digital age, to the heights of exaltation, living and growing up in nature. His music travels through the processes of life and how we heal, through gentle whisperings, swelling warm harmonies, and sometimes painful personal admissions – attempting to find peace and truth in the smallest of things. 

https://kidgrit.tumblr.com/Music
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vimeo: vimeo.com/kidgrit
facebook: facebook.com/kidgrit

Please RSVP on meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/285653118/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

Culture shock can make for some really good comedy. Join us this Sunday as we watch some culture shock themed YouTube video comedy clips, curated by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer. After that, we’ll get a chance to share and reflect on some of our own culture shock experiences.

Please RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/rpgzssydchbtb/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

Our featured speaker this Sunday, Catherine Francis, will give a talk on how to spot fraud and protect yourself from becoming a victim.

Catherine Francis holds a Bachelor of Arts (1981) and Bachelor of Law (1985) degrees from the University of Toronto and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1987. Catherine is a long-time partner at Minden Gross LLP, a mid-sized downtown Toronto law firm, practicing principally in the areas of commercial and insolvency litigation. Her website is: https://www.mindengross.com/our-people/details/catherine-francis

Please RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/rpgzssydchblb/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

We will watch and then discuss a YouTube video of an interview of author and science writer Florence Williams. In this interview she talks about the topic she explores in her recently released 2022 book: Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey.

Florence Williams is a contributor to Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for National Geographic, the New York Times, O-Oprah and other publications.

The topic & talk was selected and will be introduced by a Toronto Oasis organizer, Tania Akon.

Please RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/rpgzssydchbcb/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

Moving somewhere new has the potential to be a remarkable adventure, but it can also be fraught with challenges and surprises! Whether it’s the other side of the country, or across the ocean, making a big move means expecting the unexpected.

Join us this Sunday as five Toronto Oasis participants share their unique stories of relocation. As always, following the presentations, there will be time for a lively discussion on the topic.

This topic was suggested by and will be introduced by Kristen Gane, a Toronto Oasis volunteer.

Please RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/rpgzssydcgbgc/