Please join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society for a lecture from Nancy Angus, founder of Age BIG and co-coordinator of the Places and Faces project. 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 posted to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.
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Description:
Join Nancy Angus, founder of Age BIG and co-coordinator of the PLACES & FACES project as we share its stories. Learn more about the concept of placemaking and hear how our storytellers, all 65 years or better, captured their stories digitally (in videos composed of photos and voice-overs), as audio recordings and as written accounts.
PLACES & FACES asked storytellers to recognize a place or places that fostered a sense of connection and belonging to their community, outside of their home. With senior centres and other facilities closed during the pandemic, we heard many stories about how older adults engaged in placemaking to overcome barriers to social connection. This project demonstrated how resilient and creative people can be in making those connections.
Placemaking is often concerned with planning, designing, and managing public spaces in ways “that promote people’s health, happiness, and well-being.” Emerging research is now focusing on placemaking as a way that people “transform physical spaces into socially relevant and meaningful places.” PLACES & FACES has gathered some of the stories that highlight how older adults in Thunder Bay are actively creating and negotiating their sense of place as they age.
Join Nancy and our storytellers as we celebrate their stories and learn from their experiences. Through stories such as these, we hope to inspire others, young and old alike, to find or create their own places. In doing so, they can help others who are physically isolated or feeling lonely to find connections that matter as well.
Speaker Bio:
Nancy Angus is based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Lakehead University and certificates from Ryerson University (Gerontology) and the University of Victoria (Adult and Continuing Education).
After 35 years in the workforce, with roles in recreation, volunteer management and freelance writing & broadcasting, she launched Age BIG. As a speaker, blogger, storyteller, community connector and workshop facilitator, Nancy engages individuals and audiences to age BIG - Boldly, Inquisitively and Gratefully. Nancy proudly is involved in the PLACES & FACES project with the Thunder Bay Museum. She has been recognized as an Influential Woman of Northern Ontario in 2015 and was recognized as a Superior Northerner in 2017.
A believer in life-long learning through recreation, she learned to swim at age 55. And, as a true recreationist, she threw herself a party at a municipal outdoor pool to celebrate this accomplishment!
- Free Museum Admission during the event
- Refreshments will be available
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This lecture session is part of 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.
The 2022-2023 Thunder Bay Museum lecture series is sponsored by the Lakehead University Department of History.
ZOOM INFORMATION
When: Mar 28, 2023 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Free Public Lecture - Nancy Angus - Places and Faces: The Stories behind the Stories of Place During a Pandemic and Today
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