Our events are held every Sunday at 11am
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE IN A DIFFERENT BUILDING FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING:Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St., Room 2111.
This week our featured speaker will be Nicole McLachlan. Growing up in Canada, Nicole always knew she’d love Africa, and sure enough after volunteering for several months in South Africa and Namibia, she fell in love with it beyond even her imagination. Nicole is especially taken with Africa’s wildlife, and their plight against poaching, habitat encroachment, and unknowingly harmful Western tourist dollars. She has taken her passion for Africa’s wildlife home with her through the retelling of stories and sharing of photography, in an effort to raise funds for organizations that touched her heart. She hopes to become more involved in more fundraising, in an official capacity, in order to entrench herself more closely with conservation, hoping to one day reside in Africa. Nicole will recount how she first ventured to Africa, and what’s lured her back many times since. Hear some personal stories of Nicole’s; beaten up by baboons, stranded in a national park with a flat tire, but also the reasons why she’s become so involved in educating about the plight of Africa’s most vulnerable animals.
For our musical act, we are so enthused to have three of our favourite and most familiar musicians: Erik Bleich accompanied by Cassie Norton and Tristan Murphy. Erik is a singer/songwriter whose genre blends classic pop and folk traditions – from street lit lullabies to manic, rambling romps. It’s his vision of folk music for the Internet Age. Cassie Norton is our music director and a Toronto based singer-songwriter, classically trained violinist/folk leaning tunesmith with a punk rock heart. Tristan Murphy aka Amateur is characterized as “old instruments, new music” and plays experimental pop songs on a variety of acoustic instruments.
To RSVP to this event please visit our Meetup page.