Programs & eVENTS

Celebrating and Preserving our Past

 

     Grey Highlands Café

     2011 Speaker Series

 

Treat yourself to a couple of hours at the Grey Highlands Café – designed to educate, entertain and enrich!   Follow our dynamic speakers as they discuss current works, ideas and other unique experiences.  Always fun! 

Location: Kinplex Community Centre, Flesherton

(2 Highland Dr across from Arena)

 

Cost: $7 per lecture, $12 per couple *Museum members $5, $10 per couple

 

Tickets can be purchased at the door or can be pre-purchased at the Museum

 

 

Tuesday May 17th, 2011  1:00 – 2:00

Dorothy Duncan

Feasting & Fasting: Canada’s Heritage Celebrations

 

Tuesday June 21st, 2011  1:00 – 2:00

Dr. John Carter,

Uncertain Future in an Unknown Place - North American Political Prisoners in Van Diemen’s Land

 

Tuesday July 19th,  2011  1:00 – 2:00

Wayne Townsend

Possessions & Possession Planning - what to do with it when the kids don’t want it?

 

Tuesday August  23rd, 2011  1:00 – 2:00

Wendy Tomlinson

Underneath it All: The History of Undergarments

 

Tuesday September 20th, 2011  1:00 – 2:00

Bruce Brigham

Abandoned Ontario - the Photographic Legacy of our Disappearing Heritage

 

Friday October 18th 2011  1:00 – 2:00

Mark Stephenson-Jackman

The Unpopular Toad - the tale of a witch’s familiar

The Beers of Old Ontario

A beer tasting to benefit the South Grey Museum

 

Join us for the first in our new “Booze & Banter” Speaker Series for a lively talk & taste led by Bill Nesbitt, Supervisor of the Oakville Museum and craft beer brewer.   Learn about the rich brewing heritage of the province and sample 4-5 craft brewed beers representing the most popular styles of the 19th century.  Lunch is included.

Date: May 14th at11:30am 

 

Location: Donabie’s Restaurant (back room) in Flesherton

 

Tickets $35 per person

Tickets are limited and must be reserved.