Treat yourself to a night at Café Galt – designed to educate, entertain and enrich! Explore and discuss current exhibits and ideas, take in film screenings, workshops, lectures and other unique experiences.
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Galt
Museum Virtual Tour
Click on icon above to tour the Galt Museum & Archives. Select a room from the pulldown menu on the bottom left hand side. Use controls to move up, down or left and right. This virtual tour requires QuickTime. |
Dark Lullabies
Polarized as their heritage is, many children of survivors and of perpetrators of the Shoah [Holocaust] share a legacy of silence. Canadian filmmaker Irene Angelico, herself a child of survivors, undertakes a deeply personal journey; she asks what happened, and why? This powerful and award-winning NFB feature documentary takes her to Montréal, Israel and Germany.
1985, 81 min
Can Enemies Become Friends? Case of Reconciliation in South Africa.
Guest Speaker Trudy Govier, Philosophy Department, University of Lethbridge
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Dr. Govier has worked extensively on political forgiveness, trust, and reconciliation. Her teaching interests include political philosophy, ethics, and critical thinking. Dr. Govier will speak about the |
work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa.
Trudy Govier is a popular public speaker and the author of eleven books on philosophy. She has enjoyed radio and television work with the CBC and elsewhere. She is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge. Dr. Govier has a B.A. from the University of Alberta, an M.A. from the University of Calgary, and a Ph.d. from the University of Waterloo.
Wed MAR 14 | 7:00 pm
Surviving the Holocaust: A discussion of Chava Rosenfarb’s Short Stories
Guest Speaker Goldie Morgentaler will talk about her mother's experience in the Lodz Ghetto and her survival from Auschwitz. Chava Rosenfarb will be available to sign her book Survivors: Seven Short Stories, available at the Museum Store.
Goldie Morgentaler is associate professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of a book on Dickens and of articles on Victorian literature. She is also translator from Yiddish to English of much of Chava Rosenfarb's work, including The Tree of Life and Survivors: Seven Short Stories. Her translation of Survivors was recently awarded the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize for Yiddish Studies by the Modern Language Association. This translation also won the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award in 2005.
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Chava Rosenfarb is a Holocaust survivor (Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen) who has published poetry, prose, and drama in both English and Yiddish. She is one of the last literary writers of Yiddish, the |
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traditional language of East European Jews. Her English titles include Survivors: Seven Short Stories, published in April 2004; Bociany; and Of Lodz and Love. Her most recent book is The Tree of Life, the first of a trilogy. She lives in Lethbridge, Alberta. |
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The Journey to What Ought to Be: The rights of persons with disabilities
Guest Speaker: Dave Lawson, Lethbridge Association for Community Living
LACL is founded on the belief that all people are entitled to the rights and benefits of citizenship. The citizenship that many of us take for granted can be a daily struggle for some people as the try to overcome a legacy of discrimination and isolation.
Dave will provide insight into the history of segregation and exclusion, the community living movement, inclusion in education and the self advocacy movement. He will challenge us to understand the barriers to people with disabilities living rich meaningful lives and the role each of us can play in overcoming those barriers.
Dave Lawson has been involved in supporting people with developmental disabilities for almost 30 years. In the past two years he has been the Executive Director of the Lethbridge Association for Community Living (LACL). This organization has provided support and advocacy for people with developmental disabilities and their families in Lethbridge and area for 50 years.
Dave works along with families and self-advocates as
they build awareness of the issues that can prevent people from being
fully included in society. Awareness is fundamental to creating a welcoming
inclusive community that values the contributions and potential of all
of its citizens.
Residential Schools: Personal Reflections
Jordan Head, past CEO of the Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute, and Blanche Bruised Head, the Galt’s Blackfoot Interpreter, will speak on their residential school experience.
Wed APR 25 | 7:00 pm
The Old Lie: The Protocols of Hate
Guest Speaker: Dr. James R. Linville
Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge
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Dr. Linville teaches World Religions, Hebrew Bible and Judaism at the University of Lethbridge. He obtained his B.A from the University of Alberta and went on to earn a PhD from the University of Edinburgh with a |
thesis on the biblical book of Kings.
He is deeply interested in poetic and historical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and the creation and interpretation of mythologies as expressions of changing identity.
One of the most insidious documents in the modern
anti-Semitic library, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, purports to
reveal a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. The history of the ideas
in the book stretches back for centuries. This will be explored along
with history of the document itself from its production by the Czarist
secret service (by plagiarizing another book) to its wide dissemination
around the world in more recent times. The historical survey raises questions
about how groups of people establish boundaries between themselves and
others and the impact this can have on latter generations. It also raises
the difficult question of an appropriate modern response to the dissemination
of ‘hate literature’.
