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UWC TORONTO WWW.UWCTORONTO.CA SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
UPCOMING EVENTS
We will be launching our fall speaker series
with a slightly different format, serving pre-
UPCOMING EVENTS dinner appetizers instead of a full sit-down
dinner, and opening up registration to
members of the Faculty Club and their
guests. As long as pandemic regulations
and restrictions permit, we welcome the
SPEAKER SERIES: THE opportunity to meet together again to hear
HONOURABLE MARVIN ZUKER | our speakers, but we are ready to switch
back to a Zoom speaker format if COVID
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 14 AT 5:30 PM precautions require us to do so. In the
meantime, we hope to see each other
Fight for the Things you Care About again at Marvin Zuker’s talk.
We are excited to return at
last to in-person speakers at Here are the details:
the Faculty Club with a talk
on Wednesday, September 14, September 14, 2022, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm,
by The Honourable Marvin in the Main Lounge of the Faculty Club, 41
Zuker, former Justice in the Willcocks Street, Toronto.
Ontario Court of Justice. Registration fee (includes the lecture and a
selection of pre-dinner appetizers): $27
From 1978 until his retirement in 2016, Marvin per person for UWC and Faculty Club
Zuker presided over the Ontario small claims, members; $37 per person for guests of
family and criminal courts. He currently holds UWC and Faculty Club members.
the rank of Associate Professor in the
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult To register, email info@uwctoronto.ca, and
Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies if you are a Faculty Club member, please
in Education. Throughout his career, whether provide your membership number.
in his popular books, “The Law Is NOT For PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION FOR
Women” and “The Law is NOT For Kids”, or in THIS EVENT MUST BE MADE BY
his numerous articles for legal journals, his WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.
radio and TV appearances, or his many public
After enjoying Marvin Zuker’s lecture and
lectures, Marvin has championed the rights of
pre-dinner appetizers in the Main Lounge,
those in society that are often at a
members and their guests may wish to move
disadvantage before the law, such as women,
on to the Faculty Club’s Pub or Dining Room
children, and prison inmates. For his talk on
to continue their discussion of the
September 14, Marvin will take inspiration from
evening’s talk over dinner. We invite you to
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s admonition to “Fight
contact the Faculty Club at 416-978-6325
For The Things You Care About”.
or faculty.club@utoronto.ca to make a
reservation.
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UWC TORONTO SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
It’s sad when summer comes to an end but there is
certain excitement as September approaches. For many
years, September was the beginning of a new school
year which provided an opportunity to take on new
challenges and to meet new friends.
There is an excitement at the Club as September
approaches. While the Club continued to offer many
activities during the summer including Bridge, Le petit
cercle, International Dining, Book Clubs and Patio
evenings, September will be busier with the return of
Mah Jongg and a speaker event which will be held at
the Faculty Club, the first in person speaker event since
March 2020. In addition, a yoga class is being offered
and there are three evenings at Soulpepper Theatre.
There is also an International Dining event. The last
page of the newsletter has a calendar which has a
summary of the activities being offered in September.
The Club relies on its members on various committees to
organize activities and to oversee the operations of the
Club. Many of the committees need additional
members. I encourage members to read the article in
this newsletter about the Club’s committees and then
join a committee or volunteer to help with an activity.
We need your ideas and energy. Being on a committee
or helping with activities is a great way to meet
members, learn more about the club and make a
contribution to the Club.
On Thursday, September 8th there is a Welcome New
Members reception at the Faculty Club to welcome new
members and visit with members whom we may not have
seen over the summer. As well, many of the committee
chairs will be attending the reception so it will be an
opportunity to meet and speak with them about the
work their committees do.
I am pleased to welcome Ruxandra Pop and Jane Vining
to the Club’s Board of Directors. Ruxandra Pop has
been a member of the Speaker Committee for several
years and she will be the Secretary for the Board. Jane
Vining is an active Bridge player and she will be the
Director of Fundraising, a new position.
I look forward to seeing
members in September at the
various activities.
- Wendy
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS EVENT |
UPCOMING EVENTS THURSDAY, SEPT 8 AT 5:00 PM
Our Club is pleased to welcome many new members over
the past several months. On September 8th at 5 pm, all
members are invited to the "Welcome New Members Night"
JOIN US FOR OUR at the Faculty Club. Every new member will be offered a
Meet & Greet
glass of bubbly in celebration. Come for the conversation
and to meet our newest members.
Members are welcome to stay for dinner. Please indicate
this in your RSVP.
CLUB NEWS
ONTARIO COUNCIL We are so pleased to welcome Donna Craig,
SPEAKER SERIES Christine Haselmayer, Donna Holmes, Marilyn
Osborne, Sandra Nandi, Carol Shaw and
The Ontario Council Speaker Series is Marianne Sztuka to our club. We hope to see
beginning on October 15 via Zoom. them soon and often.
Details are on the Ontario Council
website - cfuwontcouncil.org. Do come to the Patio Evening on September 8
Register with them if you can attend. starting at 5:00. It will be a wonderful
occasion to meet our new members and to
The speakers and issues are always reconnect with all of your friends.
interesting and topical. The speakers
are always excellent, thought-
provoking and inspirational.
CONDOLENCES
MEMORIAL MASS We send our sincere sympathy to
FOR NANCY A. LUNNEY Arlene Kushnir on the loss of her
brother, Michael. Flowers were
Held At: Holy Rosary Catholic delivered on your behalf.
Parish, 354 St. Clair Ave.
W.,Toronto, Ontario Norah Brochu’s dear daughter,
Time and Date: 10:30am. Fri. Christine, passed away on August
Oct. 7th, 2022 3. Flowers were delivered on your
Refreshments to follow behalf with our deepest sympathy
and condolences.
Kindly: R.S.V.P. By Sept. 15th,
2022 to: rmlunney001@aol.com
Or 416-322-0215 4
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MEET YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nonprofit boards are anything but static, and as Wendy has mentioned in her note
above, we are no exception! New members join, old ones leave, and even older ones
return! Our Club is led by a wonderful team - 14 women who bring new ideas to the
UWC Toronto, to further a cause that they are passionate about.
We have had many new members join in the past year, and would like to take this
opportunity to introduce to you our current board.
Position/Responsibility Name
President.................................. Wendy McCallum
VP and Director of Advocacy..... Cindy Bromley
Treasurers................................ Susan LeRoy &
Trish Stewart
Secretary................................. Ruxandra Pop
Past President.......................... Susan Freeman
Membership............................. Lucia McCurdy
Communication........................ Jo-Lynne Sutherland
& Ellen Thompson
President of the Foundation...... Marianne Anderson
Program Committee................. Pamela Horton
Scholarships............................ Christine Ward
Special Events......................... Arlene Kushnir
Fundraising.............................. Jane Vining
To learn more about your board members, please go to the Member Profiles, found
on our website under Member Resources. (This is a password protected section of
our website. If you don’t know the password, please contact Lucia, our Director of
Membership - luciamccurdy@sympatico.ca)
UWC COMMITTEES OFFER
PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES!
GET INVOLVED
One of the fantastic characteristics of the Toronto University Women’s Club is the many
opportunities to work together for the benefit of the Club, and for the betterment of those
we support within our community. September brings a renewal after a summer rest, and your
Club has some opportunities for you to share your skills and expertise on committees.
Here are the nine committees, along some Convener opportunities, within UWC and what
they do… and some are looking for additional members to support their good works! If you
are interested, please contact the Director listed.
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GET INVOLVED Membership
Director: Lucia McCurdy
(luciamccurdy@sympatico.ca)
Purpose: Monitors membership, welcome new
Advocacy members, introduces new members to activities
and participation opportunities, provides
Director: Cindy Bromley (cintorb@gmail.com) outreach to older, ill and bereaved members and
Purpose: Currently considering initiatives to recruits new members.
improve the lives of women and girls, with a Members needed? Yes. Two members needed.
priority to support projects by less-privileged
women. For next year, we are proposing a focus on
women in climate change, and the education of Nominating
older women.
Members needed? Always open to active Director: Susan Freeman
participants. (susanmary.freeman@gmail.com)
Purpose: Invites suggestions from the
membership for possible nominees to the board,
Communications monitors the terms of all board members and
nominates the candidates eligible for election
Co-Directors: Ellen Thompson to the Board.
(thompsonellen@mac.com) & Jo-Lynne Sutherland Members needed? Not currently.
(jo-lynne@rogers.com)
Purpose: Responsible for internal and external
communications, including newsletters, website, Speakers' Program
social media, brochures, directory, posters, flyers
and other marketing collateral. Director: Pam Horton
Members needed? Not currently. (pdorotheahorton@gmail.com)
Purpose: Secures and supports the presentation
of interesting speakers for the Club; shares the
Finance and Investments schedule with members on the website, in the
newsletter and through other communications
Co-Directors: Susan LeRoy opportunities.
(susan.f.leroy@gmail.com) & Trish Stewart Members needed? Not currently.
(trishstewart6@gmail.com)
Purpose: R esponsible for the oversight of all of
the Club’s financial activities, such as maintaining Special Events
accurate and complete financial records, helping
the Board understand the Club’s finances including Director: Arlene Kushnir
its investment portfolios & its financial statements, (arlene.kushnir@sympatico.ca)
and budgeting and anticipating the Club’s Purpose: Plans and coordinates events in the
financial challenges & opportunities. Club’s interest, including dinners, special
Members needed? Yes. Anyone with a financial occasions, learning opportunities, lectures, and
background or information technology skills would activities. These may be organized as
be a great asset to help build a strong and vibrant fundraising events to supporting the Fundraising
finance team. and the Advocacy Committees.
Members needed? Yes. This committee has no
members and is ready to be activated!
Fundraising (formerly Charitable
Giving) Scholarship
Director: Jane Vining (jane@janevining.net) Director: Christine Ward
Purpose: Develops and executes fundraising (wardchris2012@gmail.com)
strategies, seeks grant opportunities, etc., to Purpose: Develops and coordinates a
raises funds for the Club’s charitable work; may scholarship program that targets deserving
also seek collaborative opportunities with UWC young women in high-needs communities within
clubs and community organizations. Toronto; provides financial support for these
Members needed? Yes. This is a new committee students’ first year in post-secondary education.
with no members yet and is ready for motivated Members needed? Not currently.
women.
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UWC TORONTO SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
GET INVOLVED CONVENER OPPORTUNITIES
These activities require a member, or a few members
partnering, to schedule and lead events a few times
each year. If you are interested in leading one or
more of these events, please contact Club VP Cindy
Bromley at cintorb@gmail.com:
Out & About – tours, special visits, etc. at museums,
galleries, special exhibits, etc.
Walks – highlighting interesting neighbourhoods, or
locations that feature a unique existence.
Movies Night (or afternoon) – attending movies or
presented documentaries of interest.
WANTED – PHOTOGRAPHS FROM OUR YEARS AT 162 ST. GEORGE ST
The Club will be celebrating its 120th anniversary next year. The Club spent many
wonderful years at 162 St. George St., Toronto before moving to The Faculty Club in
2012. If you have photographs of life at 162 St. George St. that you would like to share
with members, please contact Wendy McCallum at mccallummwendy@gmail.com and she
will arrange to collect from you and return to you.
- Wendy
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ADVOCACY
REPORT
SETTING OUR FOCUS FOR All CFUW and University Women’s Clubs in Toronto
ADVOCACY PROJECTS! have an advocacy focus within their clubs. The
five other city clubs in addition to ours, North
Over the summer, the UWC Advocacy Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York and
Committee has been researching Leaside-East York, all plan annual advocacy
opportunities to build a strong advocacy activities. Some support local community groups
program for our Club. This spring, many of interest through fundraising, they write letters
members responded to our survey that of support for their causes to municipal and
asked what one issue feels most pressing provincial decision-makers, others promote
for women and girls in our community. awareness on their specific advocacy topics with
From those responses the Advocacy the media. Some clubs choose advocacy themes
Committee chose two areas of concern to that may vary from year-to-year while others have
focus on the summer, in an effort to themes that remain consistent for several years.
understand more about the issues, and Taking a closer look, here are the variety of
learn about what work is currently advocacy themes that our five sister clubs
underway by women in our community. address;
Our two topics are supporting women
addressing climate change and supporting · Gender-based violence
education opportunities for older women, · Early learning and childcare
perhaps with a focus on immigrant · Women’s education
women. As the committee discussed in our · Long term care and home care
June meeting, climate change is urgent · Affordable housing and homelessness
and we all need to do our part. We also · Pay equity
want to ensure that we are reflecting our · Issues facing Indigenous women and girls
advocacy mandate of supporting women · The climate crisis, and single use plastics
and girls, so we’re determining where · Refugee women
women are working to address climate · Food banks
change. Educating older women, research · Newcomer language skills
shows, can have a positive effect of also · Guaranteed basic income, and poverty
improving the lives of her children. We are · Gun control
considering a focus on older immigrant · The opioid crisis
women (perhaps over 40 years old?) who
are arriving with skills that need When we look over this list of long and varied list
upgrading or refreshing to meet Canadian of advocacy activities by Clubs within the city,
regulations. we see opportunity to both stand out with our
unique projects and to collaborate on common
This fall the Advocacy Committee will themes. This is our advocacy work, to make the
recommend specific groups and/or world better for women and girls.
projects to the Board that we feel are Your UWC Toronto Advocacy Committee is:
great candidates for Club support. Over Director Cindy Bromley; Members Julia Arbanas,
time we hope to expand our support work, Susan Bellan, Karen Falconer, Susan Freeman,
but for now we want to start small and Pamela Gough, Christine Haselmayer, Judith
stay focused to ensure we deliver on our Lewis and Linda Ward.
promises. We also want to look for
opportunities to collaborate with the - Cindy
other Toronto-based clubs.
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In 2013, I left Syria and arrived in Turkey, where my
SCHOLARSHIP NEWS family and I settled for two years. In 2016 we
moved to Canada, and we had to start all over
again. Looking for jobs, adjusting to the school
Our summer got off to a great start with system, learning a new language, making new
our June 15 Scholarship Reception. For friends... I was lost and lonely, but I remember the
those of you who were unable to attend, one thing my father told us, “we need to succeed.”
I have included the two speeches made Success was our only option.
by two of our scholarship recipients: So here was my plan, to learn the language, and
Sham Al Mukdad, a UWC Scholarship trust that everything else would fall into place.
recipient in 2020, and Sameen Ali, our Quickly, my English began to improve, and in one
second Mary Macdonald Scholarship year, I was moved into the enriched program at my
awardee. school. I learned about a program called the
Newcomers Orientation Week in my school that
They spoke on behalf of our 39 welcomed newcomers. I became ecstatic at the
scholarship recipients since 2019. Enjoy! prospect of meeting others who had similar
experiences and stories to mine. I also
Respectfully submitted, participated in most of my school's clubs and
- Chris Ward founded two of my own. It was the first time I
heard of the "valedictorian address" when it came
time for my sister's graduation, Sara, who is two
years older than me. Although I didn’t know that
SPEECH FROM SHAM this person was called a “valedictorian,” I knew
Good evening everyone, that I was going to be “that person” when I
graduate. And I was.
I am honoured and humbled
to be able to speak in front Four years later, I was voted on by my peers to be
of such a determined, the valedictorian of my class, and my speech was
ambitious, hardworking, and published in Maclean’s magazine. There were
deserving of scholarship and nights where I didn’t sleep doing assignments and
studying for tests, others I slept with my damp
and recognition gathering of strong women. Thank pillow and my eyes swollen, nights where I didn’t
you for this wonderful opportunity. I would like to sleep of happiness, and others because my heart
begin by giving a huge thank you to the University wouldn’t stop pounding with excitement. But after
Women’s Club Foundation for making today’s all, I succeeded.
ceremony happen. According to UNESCO
estimates, 129 million females are out of school Who would have guessed that the girl who formerly
worldwide, including 32 million of primary school lived in a place where schools, education, and
age and 97 million of secondary school age. even life are meaningless to a corrupt system that
Foundations such as University Women’s Club governs one of the most beautiful countries on the
provide scholarships that have enabled many of us globe. A girl who could have died at any time,
to continue our education while alleviating some someone illiterate or suffering from physical illness
financial pressures associated with joining an or mental trauma. Me standing in front of all of
undergraduate degree in Canada. So Thank you! you is a privilege I am immensely thankful for. Huge
thanks to Ms. Conroy, my amazing high school
Today is a day of incredible privilege for me. guidance counsellor who was always there for me
Almost eight years ago, I was in one of the world's and who was the one who nominated me for this
most dangerous countries, Syria, governed by a scholarship. Thank you for believing in me.
tyrant who murdered the souls of over half a million Thank you to the scholarship committee for
innocent people and stole the hopes of millions of choosing all of us. Thank you to my amazing family,
young people who merely wanted to live in a just mama Taghrid, baba Adnan, and my two sisters:
and safe country. Sara and Elisar. You are my world.
According to UNICEF, the Syrian regime has taken Today, I am in the language and Intercultural
a devastating toll on education, leaving over 7,000 relations program going into my third year this
schools damaged or destroyed and about 2 million September, studying language and cognition with
children out of school. Thankfully, however, when French as my stream language. One of my
the revolution started in 2011, I was able to move to professors once told us: “you will fail in life, but
a safe town where I continued my education. you will learn to fail better.”
Thank you so much for listening!
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To me, the world has given me countless
blessings: a chance at an education, health,
strength, and resilience. I had the incredible
opportunity to receive grants through my
university and the Rising Youth committee to
co-found an organization that is close to my
heart – Women’s Education Matters (WEM).
Through this we were able to help
Indigenous youth by offering them resources
SCHOLARSHIP NEWS for their education. I hope to expand
globally and be able to provide these same
resources to girls in countries with far fewer
opportunities.
SPEECH FROM The last two years have been such a
SAMEEN tumultuous time for everyone. Personally, I
contracted COVID-19 twice, but thankfully I
Good evening everyone,
safely recovered. Because of these
Hi, I’m Sameen experiences, I realize the value of health
Finally, after a long two more than ever before. To give back, I am
years of COVID-19 we immensely grateful for the opportunity to
are able to gather for work alongside nurses and doctors at
this event. I would like Toronto Rehabilitation Institute at a brain
to say a huge thank you injury unit. To sum it up, this experience has
to the the scholarship committee of the been like no other. It has most certainly
University Women’s Club Toronto, Mary corroborated my interest in the medical
Macdonald’s Family, Christine Ward, and to all field and I hope to continue making an
the family and school staff here today who impact in health care.
have made this day possible. I feel so proud to As we lived through the pandemic and first
share this day with my fellow scholarship handedly experienced isolation and
recipients. loneliness, we have seen how much mental
Let me say, thank you for believing in my health is overlooked. As the Vice President
dreams, hopes and success. I cannot find the of Research Directors at Women Mental
words to describe how impactful and life Health Talks, I had the opportunity to help
changing it has been to be a recipient. I could facilitate many support groups offered for
not have made it to this point without my students. These support groups involved
parents and siblings. I’m sure we can all agree discussion topics such as eating disorders,
that we are each a patchwork quilt of those navigating family dynamics and boundaries
who have believed in us, those who believed we in relationships. Important topics that
would succeed even when it felt like we were require time, focus and support to ensure
going to fail, those who have offered us that mental health issues are addressed.
kindness and empathy, and those who offer us All these opportunities would not be
their hands every time we trip and fall. possible without the support I have received
We all have someone who taught us to dream. from the University Women’s Club Toronto as
For me it was my mother, she taught me that well as the Macdonald family. I have won
success is not a career, or a number. Instead, it the lottery of life and I will make it my life
is how you give back what the world has given goal to share that blessing.
you. As I try to navigate this pressurizing time in Thank you once again, you have impacted
university, I remember her words and try to many lives.
incorporate it into my university journey.
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BRIDGE | TUESDAYS AT 10:00 AM
INTEREST Join us Tuesday morning for bridge at the Faculty Club. We start with a
GROUPS refresher lesson at 10:00 am, and then play to 12:30 pm. Some stay for
lunch afterwards. Please join us!
Contact Marianne Anderson with any questions - ma_at_home@yahoo.com
- Marianne
LE PETIT CERCLE MAH JONGG
WEDNESDAYS AT 10:00 AM Our Mah Jongg get-togethers will start again in
September. The fall dates are Wednesdays at
Field Trip to France anyone? This summer 4:30, September 7, October 12, November 16
Le petit cercle has been meeting at and December 14, in the Faculty Club Pub. If
Nadege, enjoying the French ambience the weather is very nice, you may find us on the
and cuisine, and discussing world events. patio. We usually play until 6:00 pm, and then
New members are always welcome. stay for dinner.
Contact Jo-Lynne - jo-lynne@rogers.com
Everyone is always welcome, both new and
experienced players. Mah Jongg is an easy
game to learn, and we are very happy to review
the rules as needed. Even if you have never
played before, you are very welcome, and will
enjoy yourself.
- Lucia McCurdy luciamccurdy@sympatico.ca
YOGA IS STARTING UP
Jasmyn, an excellent and experienced yoga certified
teacher, has agreed to begin a gentle yoga class every
Friday at 9:30am on Zoom starting on Friday,
September 9th, 2022. We will ask people to sign up for
a month at a time for $10.00 per class, and classes will
take place only if we have 10 people signed up.
Jasmyn Hoa Tang is a Toronto based personal trainer and yoga teacher. She has been
helping clients get strong and flexible for over 10 years. She specializes in older adult
fitness and takes great joy in helping clients build strength & flexibility at any age. Her aim
is to help clients feel good and strong in their bodies so they can be pain free and do their
daily activities with ease. Over the years, she has helped clients manage chronic pain, build
strong bones and muscles, recover from injuries, surgeries, cancer treatments and
everything else in between.
Jasmyn is intuitive to her clients' needs whether it's a listening ear, a refined training
strategy, or good old fashioned ass kicking! When she is not coaching clients, Jasmyn can
be found trying out the latest new restaurant, cooking up a storm in the kitchen or tending
to her large plant collection.
For more info about Jasmyn or to subscribe to her email newsletter, please visit
jasmynfitness.co
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- ArleneUWC TORONTO SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
MORNING BOOK GROUP
INTEREST GROUPS FIRST THURSDAY MORNING
OF EACH MONTH
Thursday, September 1 at 10:30 am
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret
MacMillan
In this sweeping new book, international
EVENING BOOK bestselling author and historian Margaret
GROUP ON ZOOM MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of
war and society and our complicated
WEDNESDAY SEPT 28 feelings towards it and towards those who
AT 5:00 PM ON ZOOM fight. It explores the ways in which changes
in society have affected the nature of war
and how in turn wars have changed the
Topic is mystery books. New societies that fight them, including the ways
members are always welcome! in which women have been both participants
Convenor Judith Lewis: 416- in and the objects of war.
653-4931, email: New members are welcome.
judithlynnlewis@gmail.com Convenor Jean Thomson 416-421-2732 /
thomson149@yahoo.ca
NEW EVENING BOOK CLUB | SEPT 19 AT 5:30 PM
The New Book Group meets on Monday evenings, sometimes including dinner or wine and
cheese. Our book selections are often from the Heliconian Literary Lecture Series, as some
members belong to that group but it isn’t necessary. (www.heliconianclub.org/about-the-
2022-23-series) Our September meeting will be on Monday, Sept 19 on the patio at the
Faculty Club. Other meetings' times and places are not finalized yet but will be announced in
the timely newsletter. Where a choice is indicated, members will decide at our first meeting.
Below is the tentative book list for the year. The November and January choices will be made
by a discussion in the group.
New members are most welcome.
Contact Jane Hamer (jehamer1951@gmail.com) or Susan Freeman (susgula@sympatico.ca) for
more information.
Sept. 19: Randy Boyagoda, Dante’s Indiana Jan. 12: Lisa Rochon, Tuscan Daughter
An imagining of a young peasant girl who
Dante’s Indiana is affecting and strange, intimate
meets Da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Botticelli
and big-hearted – an extraordinary journey
in Renaissance Florence.Tuscan Daughter
through the darkly divine comedies of our time.
reveals the humanity and struggles of a
Boyagoda is an English prof at U of T.
young woman trying to find family and to
Oct. 24: Alice Munro. Chance, Soon and become an artist in her own right.
Silence – with Dr. Magdalene Redekop OR
Nov. 10: Kim Thuy, Em Jan. 24: David MacFarlane, Likeness
In the midst of war, an abandoned baby cared for One of Canada’s most celebrated writers
by a young boy in the streets of Saigon. Kim Thuy’s gives us an occasionally hilarious sometimes
Em is a virtuosic novel of profound power and heartbreaking meditation on love, memory
sensitivity and an enduring affirmation of the and grief. A book of transcendent beauty.
greatest act of resistance: love. Feb. 20: Damon Galgut, The Promise
OR
March 27: Danielle Daniel, Daughters
Nov. 22: Anne Marie Macdonald, Fayne
An historic look at a young woman’s desire to
of the Deer
learn in 19th C. England. Another treasure from April 24: Nita Prose, The Maid
the author of Fall on Your Knees and The Way the
Crow Flies. May 23: Donna Morrissey, Pluck 11UWC TORONTO SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
INTEREST GROUPS
SOULPEPPER THEATRE –
PREBOOKED TICKETS
INTERNATIONAL DINING
King Lear is at 7:30 pm on September 16 at
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER the Soulpepper Theatre in the Young
21 AT 6:00 PM Centre in the Distillery District. Tickets will
be distributed for this and other plays, if
The International Dining group will be you subscribed, on Sept. 16 at the theatre
dining together at Nove Trattoria on and for the other plays if you asked for
Wednesday, Sept 21 at 6:00 pm. This tickets.
wonderful restaurant, known for its
authentic southern Italian food is at Queen Goneril is at 7:30 pm on
1406 Yonge Street, south of St. Clair September 20. Bad Parent is at 8:00 pm
on the west side. There is a maximum on September 29. Tickets will be with
number of 20 for our group. Please Susan in the lobby on the evening of the
note there is currently a waitlist. performance.
Please RSVP by letting Haley know –
info@uwctoronto.ca.
- Arlene
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SUBSCRIPTION
The TSO mails tickets to individual
subscribers in September. Our first
concert is October 1 at 3:00 pm.
Save the Date
OCTOBER 24TH DECEMBER 6TH
Thanks to Vijay Agnew, we have invited Our December 6 Memorial Event will
Dr. Magdalene Redekop to speak to our take place at the Innis Town Hall, with
New Evening Book Club on October 24. a ceremony to remember the victims
Dr. Redekop has written extensively on of the Montreal Massacre. Professor
the works of Alice Munro. She has Marisa Sterling, U of T Engineering's
researched and interviewed Alice Munro Assistant Dean and the Director of
and will speak to us on her life and Diversity, Inclusion and
work. Professionalism will speak. We will
Her talk will be entitled: Dear Alice: On gather for 10:00 am.
Reading and Writing About a Living The Innis Town Hall is at the corner of
Author. She will focus on a story “Soon” St. George and Sussex and is one
which is part of a collection of three short block from the St. George
stories: “Chance, Soon and Silence”. Subway. We ask that members make
More details to come. All UWC members their own arrangements for lunch
are invited. after the event. Members from all of
the Toronto CFUW clubs will be
invited. 12UWC TORONTO SEPTEMBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
what's on UWC
EVENTS
September
Every Friday Haley will
send out an email
outlining events for the
following week, together
with RSVP and Zoom links.
SEPT Morning Book Club SEPT and every Tuesday - SEPT and every Wednesday
01 at 11:00 am
06 Bridge at 10:00 am
07 – Le petit cercle
at 10:00 am
SEPT Mah Jongg SEPT Welcome New
07 at 4:30 pm
08 Members Event
at 5:00 pm
SEPT and every Friday –
09 Yoga at 9:30 am
SEPT Speaker Dr. Marvin
14 Zuker at 5:30 pm SEPT King Lear: Soulpepper
16 at 7:30 pm
SEPT New Book Club
SEPT International Dining
19 at 5:00 pm SEPT Queen Goneril:
21 at 6:00 pm
20 Soulpepper
at 7:30 pm
SEPT Pub Night
SEPT Evening Book Club
23 at 5:00 pm SEPT Bad Parent:
29 Soulpepper 28 at 5:00 pm
at 8:00 pm
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