Event Calendar
**THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE SECULAR HUMANISTS OF ALBERTA**
Student’s Union Building, in the lounge. They will be set up at a table or sofa area, with the secular humanists logo on display.
An evening of lively intelligent conversations. Feel free to suggest a humanist topic for an ice breaker. The topics flow naturally after we get started. Each meeting is uniquely enjoyable with the diverse crowd of like-minded individuals.
Please RSVP to the meetup group if you are attending, as they are limited to numbers due to the nature of the space.
We meet at 9am and go for a few hours, please make sure you dress for the weather and we would advise AGAINST sandals or shorts/capri pants as the grass gets pretty long and dirty. Please also be advised that Alberta Transport requires volunteers for the highway cleanup to be at least 9 years of age.
Our section of the QE II is the east side of the road, just north of Highway 625.
Meeting Location:
South end of the Sparrow Drive Service Road in Nisku at the cul-de-sac just south of the Blackjacks Roadhouse. When you turn into the dirt road, Blackjacks is in front of you, turn left to the end of that road where the billboards are.
GPS: 53.338802,-113.544435 http://goo.gl/maps/Rdxuh
SEA will supply:
Safety vests (but please bring one if you have one)
Water
Garbage Bags
Volunteers should bring:
Ski pole, or stick with nail on end to pick up garbage
Sunscreen/hat/sunglasses – be prepared for the weather
Bug spray
Work gloves/thick gardening gloves (latex gloves are not suitable)
We meet at 9am and go for a few hours, please make sure you dress for the weather and we would advise AGAINST sandals or shorts/capri pants as the grass gets pretty long and dirty. Please also be advised that Alberta Transport requires volunteers for the highway cleanup to be at least 9 years of age.
Our section of the QE II is the east side of the road, just north of Highway 625.
Meeting Location:
South end of the Sparrow Drive Service Road in Nisku at the cul-de-sac just south of the Blackjacks Roadhouse. When you turn into the dirt road, Blackjacks is in front of you, turn left to the end of that road where the billboards are.
GPS: 53.338802,-113.544435 http://goo.gl/maps/Rdxuh
SEA will supply:
Safety vests (but please bring one if you have one)
Water
Garbage Bags
Volunteers should bring:
Ski pole, or stick with nail on end to pick up garbage
Sunscreen/hat/sunglasses – be prepared for the weather
Bug spray
Work gloves/thick gardening gloves (latex gloves are not suitable)
Sherlock Holmes runs a trivia night on Tuesdays, join our team ”The Heathens”!
Bacon, on a Sunday.
TOPIC:
Come discuss the state of public education in our province under the UCP government. We’ll talk about the MacKinnon Report and changes made by the Minister of Education to remove the word ‘Public’ from our school boards.
What do these things mean? What cuts can we expect based on the recommendations in the report, and what things have school boards been doing pre-emptively in order to prepare? How does this tie into religious schools, and funding?
Jasper Place Library, Meadowlark area
We meet afterwards for drinks and continued conversation, starting around 9pm.
Join us after round table for continued discussion and drinks.
**THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE SECULAR HUMANISTS OF ALBERTA**
Student’s Union Building, in the lounge. They will be set up at a table or sofa area, with the secular humanists logo on display.
An evening of lively intelligent conversations. Feel free to suggest a humanist topic for an ice breaker. The topics flow naturally after we get started. Each meeting is uniquely enjoyable with the diverse crowd of like-minded individuals.
Please RSVP to the meetup group if you are attending, as they are limited to numbers due to the nature of the space.
Coffee, tea and great conversation! A great event for newcomers.
**NOT HOSTED BY THE SEA**
Reviewing chapters from the book GETTING RIGHTS RIGHT by Robert MacQuarrie.
Discuss how we are ethical people outside of organized religion, all respectful voices are welcome.
6:30- 8:00pm
**THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE SECULAR HUMANISTS OF ALBERTA**
Student’s Union Building, in the lounge. They will be set up at a table or sofa area, with the secular humanists logo on display.
An evening of lively intelligent conversations. Feel free to suggest a humanist topic for an ice breaker. The topics flow naturally after we get started. Each meeting is uniquely enjoyable with the diverse crowd of like-minded individuals.
Please RSVP to the meetup group if you are attending, as they are limited to numbers due to the nature of the space.
Dinner and drinks, great conversation. Come join us!
Sherlock Holmes runs a trivia night on Tuesdays, join our team ”The Heathens”!
Bacon, on a Sunday.
The FreeThinker Book club meets in the basement of the Westwood Unitarian Church at 7:00 PM on the last Wednesday of the month from Oct-April. The format varies but typically begins with a round table check-in and first reactions to the book. This is followed by a free ranging discussion, triggered by questions from other members.
All are welcome – atheists, humanists, agnostics, and theists and of course ‘free thinkers!!
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Us.
Homo Sapiens .
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights; to trust money, books, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens , Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical — and sometimes devastating — breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?
Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power…and our future
All invited, 7:00 PM April 24th in the Church basement!