Courage for Lydia – a Noon Hour Concert for Lydia Herrle
music by Waterloo composers
Carol Ann Weaver and Joanne Bender
Wednesday, Oct. 31st, 2012, 12:30 Noon,
Conrad Grebel Chapel
Free concert – all are welcome
Kitchener resident Patty Dorsey was at a crossroads in life. After raising five children and working with mentally challenged individuals for twenty years, Dorsey needed a change in direction. At the encouragement of her husband, she returned to school as a student in Social Development Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS). Dorsey felt like life was perfect. However, a year later, her husband was diagnosed with cancer and passed away within eight months.
Steve Thomas was a victim of bullying throughout his childhood and youth. Although filled with guilt from his pacifist Mennonite upbringing, Thomas was driven to fight back against his tormentors, all the while wishing for a better way.
The second-annual Conrad Grebel Peace Camp has just finished another action-packed week with more speakers, field trips and activities connecting youth to neighbourhoods across Waterloo region. This summer, which brought together young people from all over the tri-cities, involved such exciting projects as making recyclable monsters, fashioning a trash bag slip ‘n slide and helping cultivate a community garden and a mural at the Working Centre and Sunnydale Community Centre, respectively.
WATERLOO, ON -- Calling youth 11-14 to make memories that will last a life time at the second annual Conrad Grebel Peace Camp! This week long Day Camp, starting on July 30, is action-packed with exciting new field trips and camp games that will compel youth to inspired lives, strengthen ties and make peace happen all over Waterloo region.
For everyone at Conrad Grebel University College, Convocation is always a highlight of the year. The College takes this opportunity to honour each graduating student who has been involved over the years – whether this involvement has taken the form of living in residence, joining as an associate, studying Music, Peace and Conflict Studies, or Mennonite Studies, or for some students, all of the above!
Sam Steiner, a quiet, retired Librarian and Archivist of over 30 years at Conrad Grebel University College, has a wild past as a 1968 draft dodger resisting the Vietnam war. The story of his struggle with pacifism is brought to life this weekend in the play “Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the Draft”, performed at the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts.
WATERLOO, ON -- Nearly fifty years ago, five visionary men with five shovels broke ground to begin building Conrad Grebel [University] College. This dream of a small Christian college for Mennonite students studying at the University of Waterloo soon expanded into an academic body offering undergraduate courses in the Faculty of Arts as well as graduate programs in Theological Studies and soon Peace and Conflict Studies. Over time, the College also grew to be home to over 200 students living on campus and 4,000 students taking academic courses each year.
Governor General’s and Scotiabank Giller Prize award winners headline outstanding winter reading and lecture series celebrating the first fifty years of Mennonite/s Writing in Canada