Category: Events

At East and West Learning Connections (the Organization), we promote life experience and thought exchange between people of different cultural backgrounds at an individual level. While we greatly appreciate our guest speakers kindly taking the time to share their life stories, thoughts, concerns, and/or suggestions with our audience, the guest speakers’ opinions do not necessarily represent those of the Organization’s. We encourage our audience always to exercise critical thinking, and have frank dialogues with guest speakers as well as with one another, and the Organization.

East & West Dialogue with Keith Garebian and Jirair Tutunjian: The Odysseys of Recovering

At East & West Dialogue, volunteer guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds come to East and West Learning Connections to share their living experiences, thoughts and concerns, and have a dialogue with our audience.

This month, we are very much honoured to be joined by two prominent Armenian Canadian authors: a literary critic/poet and a magazine editor. They shall address the topics of immigrant odysseys, and how sometimes exile and self-exile can lead to a recovery of roots of identity and more!

Time: Saturday June 29, 2024 at 7:30 – 9 P.M. (Eastern Time)

Please RSVP to info@eawlc.org if you wish to participate in person or register the online Zoom session. .

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EAWLC Lunch Coaching Hour for Business Communication, 2024

EAWLC Lunch Coaching Hour for Business Communication 2024

Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce the return of the renowned communication trainer, Ric Phillips, for workplace culture and business communication coaching.  Register here!

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EAWLC Book Talks with Evelyn Chau on How To Speak To Anyone: Communication Tactics for the Quietly Ambitious Who Want to be Seen, Heard, and Valued

In our Book Talks program, authors and/or translators come to introduce their books, and facilitate discussions with our audience.

This month, we are delighted to have Toronto-based author Evelyn Chau to talk about her second works, a communication techniques book How To Speak To Anyone: Communication Tactics for the Quietly Ambitious Who Want to be Seen, Heard and Valued. 

Time: Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 7:30-9 P.M. (Eastern Time)

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English Social Conversation @East and West Learning Connections 2024

*We are constantly recruiting native English-speaking facilitator volunteers for the English Social Conversation program! Please see the invitation message at the end of this announcement.

Have you ever wondered what to talk about in a social conversation? Or, as an immigrant, do you sometimes feel it is difficult to join your local co-workers’ conversation because you don’t know the people or things they are talking about, Continue reading “English Social Conversation @East and West Learning Connections 2024”

EAWLC Dialogue with Dan Xia: Making the Best out of Travelling the World

Come to East and West Learning Connections to meet with an amazing Chinese American young man who has traveled to more than 140 countries and created a clinic on an island in Kenya to help the people he loves. Dialogue with Dan Xia, and walk home with inspiration to embrace diversity, cultivate empathy, and strive for positive changes in our interconnected world!

Time: Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 7:30-9 P.M. (Eastern Time)

Register here.

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Frank对话方柏林: 人工智能时代教育的意义/EAWLC Frank Wang’s Dialogue with Berlin Fang: The Meaning of Education in the Age of AI

This dialogue will conduct in Mandarin.  For English introduction please jump to next heading in English.

Frank对话方柏林: 人工智能时代教育的意义 

2021年作客东西联学社、畅谈过剩时期的有效学习的两位博士爸爸，今次将结合他们孩子的成长轨迹，以及最近两年的研究与思考进展，再次联袂探讨教育问题，比如公立高等教育和私立高等教育的本质区别在哪里？私立大学的吸引力又在何方，值得家庭做什么样的牺牲？学校教育如何帮助个人教育？在通才和专才的选择中，技能和思维的平衡，在人工智能时代需要如何转变？

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EAWLC Dialogue with Ed Shiller: Adventures of a Journalist and Social Justice Advocate

East and West Learning Connections is very much delighted to bring to our audience this interesting  conversation with a retired American journalist, author, publisher, and adventurous social justice advocate since young!

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East&West Dialogue with James German and Nathaniel Kingsley Quaw: Voice from West Africa

In our East&West Dialogue program, esteemed guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds volunteer their time to share life stories, knowledge, thoughts, concerns, and have a conversation with our audience.

We proudly kick off our 2024 dialogue with two guest speakers from Ghana.  They will tell us about this west African country, their interesting work, the life of neighbouring communities, hopes and concerns, some tips for tourists, and more!

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EAWLC Book Talks with George Elliott Clarke: Where Beauty Survived

Our Book Talks program brings to our audience an author, a translator, or sometimes an avid reader to share a book of their choice and facilitate discussions.

A Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17),  Professor George Elliott Clarke is also a prize-winning novelist and screenwriter, a celebrated lyricist and librettist, an internationally recognized essayist and scholar, and a revered poetry recitalist and memoirist. Continue reading “EAWLC Book Talks with George Elliott Clarke: Where Beauty Survived”