This week we welcome the Jason White Jazz Trio to our series.

This week we welcome James McLean (tenor), Kimberly Barber (mezzo-soprano), Chad Louwerse (bass-baritone), Leslie Fagan (soprano), Anna Ronai (piano) & Lorin Shalanko (piano) to our series.

This week we showcase the instructors from the Beckett School at Laurier.

We’re a vibrant alternative worshipping community drawn from across campus and the broader community. While remaining Lutheran, we explore new ways of “doing church.” In other words, in addition to a group that worships together, we’re an incubator for worship innovation!

For more information, visit our web page. 

Take some time each Monday to pause with contemplative music at Luther. Co-ordinated by Gerard Yun, adjunct faculty at Luther and assistant professor in Laurier's Faculty of Music. We host sessions weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Read and reflect each Tuesday with Luther. Join us as Mona Tokarek LaFosse, Luther's assistant professor, reads the Acts of the Apostles. Followed by reflection and discussion. We host session weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Scheduling a personal appointment is your first step to joining the Lazaridis MBA Program.

At the session, we will discuss admission criteria, the application process, and help you determine your eligibility. Personal appointments are approximately 30 minutes long and must be pre-booked through the MBA events page, or directly, with Holly Paterson. You can also contact us at lazaridismarketing@wlu.ca.

We look forward to meeting with you!

Join us weekly for Coffee Club!

Meet new people and share experiences from your own country while learning more about Canadian culture in a relaxed and informal setting. Coffee, tea and snacks will be served.

No need to register! Just drop in at Laurier International to join in.

Students who attend 8 sessions will get a designation on their Laurier Experience Record.

The exchange information session will give you more information about going on exchange including:

• the application process
• course credits
• eligibility for exchange
• our exchange partners
• and more!

There is no need to register. Just drop in!

Applications to go on exchange for the 2020/21 academic year are due in January 2020. Attending an information session is a mandatory part of the application process.

This week we welcome Katie Schlaikjer (cello), Anya Alexeyev (piano) & Heather Taves (piano) to our series.

This open house is an opportunity for Laurier faculty members, staff, and researchers to learn about VERiS, one of Laurier’s newest research centres. Learn also about evolvGREEN, the clean economy innovation hub that VERiS is part of. Finally, you can get a tour of evolv1, Canada’s first commercial net-positive energy multi-tenant office building.

As part of this event we will share opportunities for you to become involved with VERiS (e.g., as an affiliated member or through collaborations on projects). An opportunity for questions, discussion, and networking and a light breakfast will be provided.

Registration.

The Beckett School at Laurier invites you to come Dance with Bach! This concert will feature the faculty for the following two-day workshop on January 11th and 12th, 2020. The workshop is an opportunity for singers, string players and keyboardists to explore the relationship between J.S. Bach’s music and the dances that inform it. This concert will kick off three days of exploring Bach's music together!

We’re a vibrant alternative worshipping community drawn from across campus and the broader community. While remaining Lutheran, we explore new ways of “doing church.” In other words, in addition to a group that worships together, we’re an incubator for worship innovation!

For more information, visit our web page. 

Take some time each Monday to pause with contemplative music at Luther. Co-ordinated by Gerard Yun, adjunct faculty at Luther and assistant professor in Laurier's Faculty of Music. We host sessions weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Read and reflect each Tuesday with Luther. Join us as Mona Tokarek LaFosse, Luther's assistant professor, reads the Acts of the Apostles. Followed by reflection and discussion. We host session weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Join us weekly for Coffee Club!

Meet new people and share experiences from your own country while learning more about Canadian culture in a relaxed and informal setting. Coffee, tea and snacks will be served.

No need to register! Just drop in at Laurier International to join in.

Students who attend 8 sessions will get a designation on their Laurier Experience Record.

Join us each Wednesday for Prayers for the World with Luther. Master of Divinity students will lead prayers for the world and all are welcome. We host sessions weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Now is the time to learn about all of our Lazaridis MBA degree formats and ready your application: full-time and co-op in Waterloo and part-time alternate weekends in Toronto.

At the information session you will learn about all of our MBA formats: the full-time options (including co-op), Part-time Evenings, the MBA with CPA and the new double degree, MBA with Master of Finance. We will discuss the admission criteria, the application process, and help you determine your eligibility. We offer application counselling, and classroom visits.

Pre-registration to the MBA information session is appreciated. Register online or contact Holly Paterson, who is also available to schedule a personal appointment.

We look forward to meeting you there!

Traumatic Brain Injury 101: Understanding the Basics and How to Help

Halina (Lin) Haag, Faculty of Social Work Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability in Canada, yet a lack of knowledge and understanding of TBI often leads to misdiagnosis and inadequate support, resulting in higher rates of mental illness, poverty, unemployment, and homelessness.

This lecture will raise TBI awareness by helping people understand the basics (how you get one, what it looks like, and what happens for people after a TBI), and discussing the increased challenges experienced by people in particularly vulnerable populations (women exposed to domestic violence, homeless and/or criminalized individuals, and people struggling with mental health and addictions).

De-stress with some of our four-legged friends! We host chilling with dogs each week over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

This week we welcome Arnaud Schotte (trumpet), Guy Few (trumpet) & Stephanie Mara (piano) to our series.

This session is free for students, but registration is required.

Please email glebecentre@wlu.ca to register.

Join us each Friday over the lunch hour for reflection.

You are welcome to join us beginning at noon for a contemplative art activity or, if you prefer, to drop in at 12:30 p.m. for the focused conversation as the day’s contemplative art activity continues. The 20-minute focused conversation will be on the Calls for Justice prescribed in the report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

See the flyer. 

We’re a vibrant alternative worshipping community drawn from across campus and the broader community. While remaining Lutheran, we explore new ways of “doing church.” In other words, in addition to a group that worships together, we’re an incubator for worship innovation!

For more information, visit our web page. 

Join Laurier students in concert

The exchange information session will give you more information about going on exchange including:

• the application process
• course credits
• eligibility for exchange
• our exchange partners
• and more!

There is no need to register. Just drop in!

Applications to go on exchange for the 2020/21 academic year are due in January 2020. Attending an information session is a mandatory part of the application process.

New members are welcome to join Inshallah, the 140+ voice choir singing global songs, during the first three weeks of each term. No auditions. All welcome. For more information about Inshallah, visit inshallah.ca

Join us each Wednesday for Prayers for the World with Luther. Master of Divinity students will lead prayers for the world and all are welcome. We host sessions weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Join us for our weekly Open Door communion service. Open table. All welcome.

The Audit and Compliance Committee is responsible for ensuring the appropriate controls and accountabilities exist within the University as relate to finance, statutory and regulatory compliance, and policy requirements. The Committee also provides an avenue of communication among the external auditors, management, the internal auditor, and the Board of Governors.

The agenda will be posted approximately one week in advance of the meeting and approved minutes will follow once approved at the subsequent meeting.  Full agenda packages can be accessed on Laurier Connect.  

Please contact Anne Lukin or Ana Juhik if you have any questions or concerns.

De-stress with some of our four-legged friends! We host chilling with dogs each week over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

The Buildi​ngs and Property Committee is responsible for all matters of property, most notably acquisition and renovation. 

The agenda will be posted approximately one week in advance of the meeting and approved minutes will follow once approved at the subsequent meeting.  Full agenda packages can be accessed on Laurier Connect.  

Please contact Anne Lukin or Ana Juhik if you have any questions or concerns.

Presented by the History Students' Association

Learn more about East Asian history and culture through a display of informational posters focusing on East Asian art, and create your own artwork.

Refreshments will be provided.

The agenda will be posted approximately one week in advance of the meeting and approved minutes will follow once approved at the subsequent meeting.  Full agenda packages can be accessed on Laurier Connect.  

Please contact Anne Lukin or Ana Juhik if you have any questions or concerns.

This session is free for students, but registration is required.

Please email glebecentre@wlu.ca to register.

Fiction writer Carrianne Leung is serving as Wilfrid Laurier University’s Edna Staebler Writer in Residence for the Winter 2020 term, and a welcome reception will be held in her honour at the Hawk’s Nest on Jan. 23. Doors open at 7 p.m., with welcome addresses and Carrianne’s talk, titled “Writing Truth, Writing Lies: between fiction and nonfiction,” starting at 7:30 p.m.. The event is free and open to the public.

Carrianne Leung is an award-winning author of two books of fiction. Her nationally bestselling book, That Time I Loved You, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2019, and her first book, The Wondrous Woo, was a finalist for a Toronto Book Award in 2014. She is WLU's eighth Edna Staebler Writer in Residence.

Kathleen Wynne, who served as premier of Ontario from 2013 to 2018, will be visiting Luther in Waterloo to deliver a talk on faith and public life. 

This event is free but please register.

Organized by Luther's Centre for Public Ethics.

Join us as Laurier Faculty of Music students compete in the Laurier Concerto Competition.

We’re a vibrant alternative worshipping community drawn from across campus and the broader community. While remaining Lutheran, we explore new ways of “doing church.” In other words, in addition to a group that worships together, we’re an incubator for worship innovation!

For more information, visit our web page. 

Take some time each Monday to pause with contemplative music at Luther. Co-ordinated by Gerard Yun, adjunct faculty at Luther and assistant professor in Laurier's Faculty of Music. We host sessions weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Executive Producer and Co-creator of Degrassi, Linda Schuyler, joins Laurier's Brantford campus to share her art of storytelling as this year's People Make History speaker.

Registration.

Read and reflect each Tuesday with Luther. Join us as Mona Tokarek LaFosse, Luther's assistant professor, reads the Acts of the Apostles. Followed by reflection and discussion. We host session weekly over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Confirmed panelists are included in the Navigator Event Listing.

Wilfrid Laurier University Professor Alison Blay-Palmer has been named United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies. Led in Canada by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the prestigious UNESCO Chairs program promotes international inter-university cooperation in key priority areas for the agency. The chair program involves more than 781 institutions in 116 countries. It includes relatively few Canadian English-language universities, making Blay-Palmer only the fourth Ontario scholar to participate in the program.

Blay-Palmer is founding director of the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (LCSFS) and the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) partnership as well as a member of Laurier’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and School of International Policy and Governance, based at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA).

As a UNESCO chairholder, Blay-Palmer plans to continue to work with the LCSFS and FLEdGE to examine food sustainability from biophysical, cultural and economic points of view. With nearly 90 partner organizations around the world, the work is already international – but the UNESCO chair will help it expand its reach, with more partners in the global south and in Indigenous communities in Canada and internationally. The work will also be connected to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

In addition to working with partners around the world, as chairholder, Blay-Palmer will lead a number of Laurier faculty, staff and students working on food sustainability issues. Among these are Professor Edward Shizha, who research values traditional knowledge in Zimbabwe as scientific; Associate Professor Jennifer Baltzer, Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change; Adjunct Professor Andrew Spring, who is undertaking food security research in the context of biodiversity and climate change in the Northwest Territories in partnership with a number of communities; Laine Young, a PhD candidate who is producing a sustainable food systems podcast series with Amanda Di Battista, the LCSFS project coordinator; Jennifer Marshman, a PhD candidate who is researching pollinator habitat; and Elena Christy, acting project coordinator with support from Heather Reid.

The launch will include remarks from Sébastien Goupil, Secretary-General of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Deborah MacLatchy, President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University, Jonathan Newman, Vice-President Research, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ann Fitz-Gerald, Director Balsillie School of International Affairs and Chairholder Blay-Palmer. Remarks will be followed by a reception.

Registration.

Come learn about mental health resources available on campus and in the community, and grab a free taco while you are here! While supplies last.

Join us for our weekly Open Door communion service. Open table. All welcome.

De-stress with some of our four-legged friends! We host chilling with dogs each week over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

Pause and reflect each Thursday at Luther. We host multifaith teaching sessions each week over the lunch hour. Join us for teachings from different faiths: Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity – a different topic/faith perspective each week.

Winter Schedule

• Jan. 9 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz
• Jan. 16 – Stages on a Buddhist Path, Christopher Ross
• Jan. 23 – Christopher Rigden-Briscall, Christian Orthodox practice
• Jan. 30 – Islamic teaching, Engin and Selda Sezen
• Feb. 6 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz
• Feb. 13 – Stages on a Buddhist Path, Christopher Ross
• Feb. 27 – Islamic teaching, Engin and Selda Sezen
• March 5 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz
• March 12 – Stages on a Buddhist Path, Christopher Ross
• March 19 – Christopher Rigden-Briscall, Christian Orthodox practice
• March 26 – Islamic teaching, Engin and Selda Sezen
• April 2 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – Contemplative Music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – Prayers for the World
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; Multifaith Teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: Contemplative Arts, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Winter 2020 program flyer.

This session is free for students, but registration is required.

Please email glebecentre@wlu.ca to register.

Join us each Friday over the lunch hour for reflection.

You are welcome to join us beginning at noon for a contemplative art activity or, if you prefer, to drop in at 12:30 p.m. for the focused conversation as the day’s contemplative art activity continues. The 20-minute focused conversation will be on the Calls for Justice prescribed in the report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

See the flyer.