This will be an in-person event that is free to attend.
Description:
Author Scott Saxberg will speak about his inspiration and process for creating the book, read selections to the audience, take questions, and sign books.
Speakers:
Readers can buy Those We Carry for $18.00 at:
The Museum’s gift shop or order online for local pickup - https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/product/those-we-carry/
On Amazon (softcover and Kindle) - https://www.amazon.ca/Those-Carry-Scott-Allen-Saxberg/dp/1068915404
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The Thunder Bay Museum is once again offering exclusive Behind The Scenes Tours on select dates for Culture Days 2024. This is your chance to glimpse the collection hidden away within the Museum which is not normally accessible to the public.
Send additional questions to collections@thunderbaymuseum.com
Join the Thunder Bay Museum and our partner, Science North, for a scary tour of the galleries featuring vignettes from crimes in Thunder Bay's history.
This will be an in-person, timed-ticketed event. It has multiple sessions on 18 & 19 October and family-friendly sessions on 20 October. The family-friendly event has a separate event page. Please ensure you buy tickets for the date and time that work for you and your group.
Tickets are $25.00 per person. Family friendly tickets on Sunday are $15.00 each. Society member discounts are available. Please check your email for the promo code.
CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE SCARY SESSIONS 18 & 19 October (this link will take you to Eventbrite's website)
EVENT DESCRIPTION -
For the Scary event - Follow your tour guide in groups of up to 10 through The Thunder Bay Museum galleries, encountering the nightmares of the phantoms who haunt the halls looking for justice. Your terror will last approximately 45 minutes. Science North will also offer a brief respite partway through your flight of fear for learning against your will.
Note that this experience involves fake smoke, strobe lights, and intense images and sound, and it could cause significant mental stress and is not suitable for all persons. Please use your best judgment for you and your guests.
For the Family Friendly Event - sign up for 2 hour session to explore the spooky galleries and visit Science North stations.
Once you survive your tour, visit the Museum's gift shop and pick up some great books and gifts.
In partnership with:
Special Thanks for material support from Fort William Historical Park
Parking
The Thunder Bay Museum has a free parking lot on the East side of the building, but there are only 16 spaces. On-street parking and other lots nearby are available, but please note that as of 1 June 2024, the City of Thunder Bay parking rates and times have been expanded as follows.
Short-term meter rates are effective Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., free on Sunday.
There is a minimum $2.00 fee when parking in a metered space. There is no longer a time limit for metered spaces, and the 15-minute grace period at the end of paid time has been eliminated.
More information about the City of Thunder Bay parking and rates can be found here: https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-services/parking-rates-and-locations.aspx
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Join us at the Thunder Bay Museum for this in-person class. This course is designed for ages 18 and up.
Do you love Acting? Poetry? Writing? This 12-week course is an intriguing exploration of acting out classic and contemporary monologues from the Theatre to Motion Pictures. In this course, you will learn the basic skills of acting and recite a selection of monologues. You will also write your very own monologues as well. There will be a culminating class of a final presentation of an exciting evening of Monologue Recitation – A Monologue Café!! No previous acting experience is required. Come out and have some fun!
Class Registration is $216 for Society Members and $240 for non-members. To purchase a membership, visit here: Membership Application.
Cancelled sessions will be rescheduled.
The course starts on Monday, 21 October, and meets weekly, with a two week break at Christmas time. Classes resume Monday, 6th January, 2025, the last class on Monday, 12th January.
A minimum of 10 students must be signed up otherwise the class will be cancelled and refunds issued.
Instructor Tammy Wilson Biography:
Tammy Wilson is a professional singer, songwriter, musician, writer, vocal music educator, dance educator, choir director, arts & culture consultant Artistic director, and founder of Euphoria Productions.
Tammy has 30 years of experience in the performing arts as a professional singer and 25 years of experience as music educator and commercial voice coach for professional singers. She was a voice coach for the following commercial music theatre productions and companies: The Full Monty, (The Centaur Theatre), Guys and Dolls (The Centaur Theatre), The Sound of Music, (Randy Kantor's Children's Company), Corporate Glee Competition (St. Denis Theaters) in Montreal, QC, Canada
She has performed at a wide variety of musical venues; clubs, resorts, restaurants, coffeehouses, and Canadian Music Festivals (Du Maurier Jazz Festival0Toronto, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Thunder Bay Blues Society Event, Red Rock Folk Festival, Cambridge Folk Festiva and Owen Sound Folk Festival). She has appeared on Toronto's City-TV's Breakfast Television and was chosen as a featured Canadian Independent Artist and was interviewed on Biography North, an Artist's Showcase program on CBC Radio North. She is currently working on her next musical project of original music with guitarist and songwriter Adam Sabaz. She is also writing a book of memoirs that will be adapted to monologues.
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Short-term meter rates are in effect Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., free on Sunday.
This will be an in-person event that is free to view. The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in person and recorded and then to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.
Speaker Bio:
As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her beloved Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She developed warm friendships with some other children but also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults. In her teen years, Chacaby became an alcoholic herself, and, at twenty, she moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape a violent husband. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2014, Chacay helped lead the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay.
This lecture session is part of a the Society's long tradition of holding free public lectures. Talks on a wide range of topics are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Thunder Bay Museum from September to April.
2024-2025 Thunder Bay Museum lecture series is sponsored by the Lakehead University Department of History.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Ageless Grace in a Great Place
Ageless Grace® is a seated brain and body fitness class set to tunes that will get your movin' and groovin'! It's based on the science of neuroplasticity. Improve cognitive and physical function through the creative, simple and fun 21 tools of Ageless Grace.
After our 30-minute Ageless Grace® class, get your daily steps in with walks through the Museum exhibits and galleries.
This class is for anyone who wants a gentle workout with friends in a great place - the Thunder Bay Museum!
Carpooling encouraged.
Your instructor is Age BIG founder Nancy Angus, a certified Ageless Grace® leader.
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Do you love to sing? Come out for a 14-week journey enjoying the art of singing in an ensemble. This class is designed for beginner and intermediate singers. You will learn basic vocal techniques and how to sing with others. You'll sing repertoire from a variety of genres, including well-known folk, pop, soft rock, and gospel pieces. No audition, no prior choral experience, and no sight-reading skills are required! There will be a lovely final presentation of a Choir concert! Come on out and have some fun!
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Class Registration is $252 for Society Members and $280 for non-members. To purchase a membership, visit here: Membership Application.
The course starts on Wednesday, 23 October, and meets weekly, with a two week break at Christmas time. Classes resume Wednesday, 8th, January, 2025, the last class on Wednesday, 5 February, 2025.
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You Will Learn:
Tammy has 30 years of experience in the performing arts as a professional singer and 25 years of experience as a music educator and commercial voice coach for professional singers. She was a voice coach for the following commercial music theatre productions and companies: The Full Monty (The Centaur Theatre), Guys and Dolls (The Centaur Theatre), The Sound of Music (Randy Kantor's Children's Company), Corporate Glee Competition (St. Denis Theaters) in Montreal, QC, Canada.
She has performed at a wide variety of musical venues; clubs, resorts, restaurants, coffeehouses, and Canadian Music Festivals (Du Maurier Jazz Festival0Toronto, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Thunder Bay Blues Society Event, Red Rock Folk Festival, Cambridge Folk Festiva and Owen Sound Folk Festival). She appeared on Toronto's City-TV's Breakfast Television, was chosen as a featured Canadian Independent Artist, and was interviewed on Biography North, an Artist's Showcase program on CBC Radio North. She is currently working on her next musical project, which is original music, with guitarist and songwriter Adam Sabaz. She is also writing a book of memoirs that will be adapted into monologues.
Join us at the Thunder Bay Museum for this in-person class. This workshop is designed for ages 12 and up.
Workshop Registration is $35 for Society Members and $40 for non-members. To purchase a membership visit here: Membership Application
Future sessions will take place on the last Sunday of each month except December.
Cancelled workshops will be rescheduled.
See below for the class objectives, topics to be covered, information about the instructor, and supplies provided.
Description
Scrapbooking with a group of people is inspiring and a lot of fun. The group encourages one another to try something new, to go outside of their comfort zone. We share ideas, supplies, tools, and lots of laughter.
Each month we will learn about one of the basics of page design which will give you the groundwork from which you can develop your own style. These page designs work with whatever page size you’re working with – even cards. :)
By setting aside a day a month we push ourselves to get some scrapping done. It may be the only day we scrapbook or it could start us on a roll. :)
Come join us. Meet some new scrappers; learn some new scrapbooking tips and techniques and have some fun preserving your photos and memories.
Instructor:
Catherine Mochrie is a retired teacher with over 20 years experience in the education field having worked in the elementary and high school panels as well as with adult literacy. Catherine has delivered workshops on Writing and Communication at various conferences and in her local community. Catherine has been involved with teaching scrapbooking classes for over 15 years in Northwestern Ontario.
Kit and Supplies:
For more information, call Catherine @ 285-1395
Join author James Aldridge, in partnership with The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, for a special event commemorating the veterans of the Lake Superior Regiment through the publication of his book Follow the Tracks. The book chronicles the history of the Lake Superior Regiment during the Second World War based on oral history interviews with over 80 soldiers.
Author James Aldridge will be signing books after the event.
Tentative Speakers List:
Copies of the Follow the Tracks:
Free Thunder Bay Military Museum Admission during the event
Special thanks to this event's sponsor the late, Eva Martha Cousineau.
Join the Thunder Bay Museum for a presentation of local residents' memoir projects. In the spring of 2024 the presenters took a class at the Thunder Bay Museum entitled Memoirs Made Easy. These presentations are to highlight their work documenting their lives for future generations.
Featuring the work of:
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The event will be recorded then posted to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.
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This will be an in-person French language event that is free to view. This lecture is sponsored by the Club culturel francophone de Thunder Bay.
The French began travelling into Ojibway territory in the mid-seventeenth century. They established trading posts at the mouth of the Kamanistiquia River and on the north shore of Lake Nipigon, and later at Grand Portage. Official French activity ended in 1760, though many of the French voyageurs ended up in the employ of the North-West Company a few years later. Come and learn about key traders, governors and voyageurs of that period. Some copies of voyageur contracts dating back to before 1700 will be on hand to peruse.
Gérard Boyer is a retired teacher-principal who spends much of his time researching and writing about his ancestors in Canada. He is originally from the Lower Ottawa Valley, is a member of the Société généalogique Canadienne-française in Montreal and is trained in the transcription of old French documents. He has organized extended family genealogical trips to Acadia (Annapolis Royal) twice, to France and to Scotland. Ask him what his personal connection is to the Fort Kamistiquia historical plaque at City Hall.
This event will be presented in partnership with Science North.
This will be an in-person ticketed event.
Tickets are TBD per person, but only TBD for Museum members.
EVENT DESCRIPTION - TBD
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Frequently asked questions
When and where is the event?
The event runs on Saturday June 1st from 7pm-10pm at the Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald St E)
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