Multimedia Videos
Watch our special event videos: the Bechtel Lectures, Mennonite Literature series, the Eby Lecture, and the Sawatsky Lecture.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 (all day) to Monday, May 3, 2021 (all day)
New Exhibit at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario:
“Growing Family: Design & Desire in Mennonite Genealogy”
Monday, May 6, 2019 — 8:30 AM to Friday, October 25, 2019 — 6:00 PM EDT
Meg Harder is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in the Grand River Watershed. Harder graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo, which included a six month exchange at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She studied under Paula Wilson at Haystack Mountain school of crafts in 2018. She was the 2015 Eastern Comma Artist in Residence at Rare Charitable Research Reserve and at Vermont Studio Centre in 2018. She has exhibited at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener and Area, and The Museum, Kitchener.
Monday, September 16, 2019 (all day) to Sunday, September 22, 2019 (all day)
Every year, on Sept. 21, the world celebrates the International Day of Peace. Inspired by this initiative, the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement and Conrad Grebel University College invite you to peace events throughout Sept. 16 to 22, or to plan an event to mark the occasion your way, in your community.
Saturday, September 21, 2019 — 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Join us to remember, reconnect, and re-imagine!
Join us in celebrating five years of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multi-sector approaches to peace advancement; help us vision the next five and beyond!
Program begins at 3:00 pm
Thursday, October 3, 2019 — 7:30 PM EDT
Finding Father: Stories from Mennonite Daughters, edited by Mary Ann Loewen. University of Regina Press. Presentations by local contributors Carrie Snyder, Maggie Dyck, Hildi Froese Tiessen, R.A. Plett, Ruth Loewen, Maggie Redekop, Mary Ann Loewen.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 — 7:30 PM EDT
Save the date! The 2019 Benjamin Eby Lecture will be presented by Mark Vuorinen. Join us for an engaging public lecture; the topic will soon be announced. Reception to follow.
Monday, November 11, 2019 — 12:12 PM EST to Friday, April 24, 2020 — 10:00 PM EDT
Drawing on local community partners involved in drone technologies and their applications, the "Cultural Life of Drones" explores how conversations about visual culture, technology, privacy, commercialization, safety, peace building and ultimately, the question of our shared humanity, can be brought into public dialogue via art.
Join us for an opening reception and presentation by artist Sara Matthews on November 14th, 2019.
