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. You can join the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
We will be listening to and then discussing a TED talk by Dr. Kris Alexander, associate professor at TMU, and sometimes referred to as “the professor of video games”. The topic and video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.
There will also be live music at our meeting this Sunday! Our guest musician will be Elizabeth Block. Elizabeth was born in New York and loves telling people, “I wuz boan in Brooklyn. You gotta PROBLEM wid dat?” She was brought up on Gilbert & Sullivan, Broadway musicals (when they were written for singers), and the songs of Arthur Block – her dad wrote songs. She went to the High School of Music and Art, where she was an art student, but was allowed to sing in the senior chorus in her last year. She was a choral singer for decades, and a church soloist for many years. She joined Toronto’s informal folk song circle in – she thinks – 1984. A few years later she decided she should learn to play the guitar, which she did – not well, but well enough to accompany herself and other people. She knows a lot of songs, some in other languages, many satirical and/or political. She has written new words to existing tunes, and a couple of times tunes to existing words, never an entire song – but there’s still time.
Elizabeth is a potter by trade. You can check out her pottery work on her website:
http://www.elizabethblockpottery.com/
Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/298182475/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
Our guest musician was recorded: GMT20240211-163129_Recording_640x360.mp4