Free opportunities at Canterbury WEA during October 2024
Join WEA at these FREE upcoming offerings in October 2024. All sessions are held at their Central City location (59 Gloucester Street).
Find out about other courses or sessions coming up at the Canterbury WEA. Discounts are always available to those with a Community Services or Hāpai Card.
Games from Days Gone-by
Networking for Wellbeing (N4W) brings you "Games from the Past" - with WEA and Christchurch's Heritage Festival. This session will feature the games we played with our grandparents. People are encouraged to bring their own old games along.
Date: Saturday 12th October 2024.
Time: 1 to 4pm.
Cost: Donation or koha appreciated.
Find out more about this old-time games session, including how to register.
Lincoln Efford Memorial Lecture: Tangata Tiriti. We’ve Got Your Back
Denis O’Reilly will give this year's Lincoln Efford Memorial Lecture. He works with organisations which seek both economic prosperity and a better society. He is also one of New Zealand’s most capable community developers with international experience working in large-scale industry change programmes.
Date: Wednesday 23rd October 2024.
Time: 7 to 8.30pm.
Denis believes that the people of Aotearoa are our nation’s most valuable resource. He promotes pro-social behaviour, high rates of social and economic participation and high value contribution amongst unrecognized and even unlikely knowledge workers, innovators, and entrepreneurs.
Register to attend the 2024 Lincoln Efford Memorial Lecture. Seats are limited so register now to avoid disappointment.
Lincoln Efford was a prominent peace activist and CWEA secretary until 1948. We hold a lecture each year at this time that honours issues he was passionate about: peace, prison reform and social justice.