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 TEDx talk by Garry Gray, a University of Victoria Sociology professor and a Network Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. The video was selected and will be introduced by Tim Mt. Pleasant, a Toronto Oasis volunteer. After we watch the TEDx talk, Tim will do a 15-minute presentation putting the talk into a Canadian context.
We will also be having live music! Our featured musicians will be the Ugly Bug Band. Here is how they describe themselves:
“The Ugly Bug Band got together in the 1990s out of a desire to write the songs that happy and sometimes cranky hoboes might want to sing in a world where the moon had a tendency to fall out of the sky, pirates were the heroes of any stories they were in, and the world was always already in the process of ending. Over the past thirty years, members have come and gone but that mission hasn’t changed, and the Bugs have brought their gnostic folk songs full of monkeys, angels, and rewritten bible stories to audiences from Roncesvalles to the Annex – and back! The members of the Ugly Bug Band are Michael Kaler (bass), Martin Loomer (guitar), Arnd Jurgensen (guitar and banjo), Wendy Banks (stylophone, kalimba, bowed ukelele, accordion, music box), and Mark Blaauw-Hara (percussion). Everyone sings, and the Bugs hope that you will too!”
Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/298831862/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
The guest musician was recorded: GMT20240324-152947_Recording_640x360.mp4