Facilitator:  Cathy Socoban, Raise Your Voice Coaching

It's normal to feel nervous speaking in front of a crowd. But with some practice we can become a more engaging speaker. You'll gain some tips on how you can open up your voice and position your body to make a positive connection. Then you'll have an opportunity to practice speaking in front of the group. Video feedback is included.

• Build self-confidence
• Manage nervousness
• Reach your listeners

To register, please email Maureen at maureen.martin-edey@humber.ca or register here.

Thank you!

The Lakeshore Campus of Humber College will again be hosting two literary readings during the 2017-2018 academic year. The readings will begin at 12 noon. They will occur in the Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive (at Kipling Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard West.). The authors will read selections from their work. Afterwards there will be time for questions from the audience. The readings are free and open to the public.

Krista Bridge will open the series on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Krista is the author of The Virgin Spy. This collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and a ReLit Award. The Vancouver Sun advises that “… for [Krista Bridge’s] staggering talent and honesty, you shouldn’t pass over this superb collection of stories … sizzling language and alluring, memorable characters threatened by competing desires….”  The Globe and Mail reports that “The Virgin Spy is entrancing, and Krista Bridge is vastly talented.”

Krista’s first novel, The Eliot Girls, a novel full of drama and insight into the world of an all-girls’ private school, was a finalist for the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The Eliot Girls was also shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Antanas Sileika will read on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. In 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian journal Descant. At Humber, he went on to become the director of the distinguished Humber School for Writers.

Antanas published his first novel, Dinner at the End of the World, in 1994. His second book, a collection of linked stories, Buying on Time, was nominated for the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. His third book, Woman in Bronze, was published in 2004. It compares the life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his new life as a struggling sculptor in Jazz Age Paris. His last novel, Underground, was released in 2011. It was named as one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2011. His latest book, The Barefoot Bingo Caller: A Memoir, has just been released. Of this book, award-winning author Miriam Toews proclaims that it “is evocative, unfailingly honest, wry and dead-on funny.”

For more information, please contact Ben Labovitch at 416.675.6622 x72012.

Skills Ontario’s annual competition took place in Toronto this year – and Humber was a proud supporter.

Students participated in a variety of competitions, including culinary, cabinetmaking and mechatronics. Humber did extremely well this year, winning three gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Congratulations to all our winners:

• Derick Cheaney won gold in the Mechanical CAD competition.
• Spencer Brown won gold in the Cabinetmaking competition.
• Mateusz Cwalinski and Bogdan Malynovskyy won gold in the Mechatronics competition.
• David Anselmo and Zachary Goodman won silver in the Mechatronics competition.
• Divya Manivannan won bronze for the IT Software Solutions for Business competition.
• Andrew Vassallo won bronze for the Automation and Control competition.
• Brie Girdler won silver in the Landscape Design competition.

The Weather Network advises that areas of the watershed in Southern Ontario have the potential to receive up to 40 to 70mm of rainfall in some locales from Thursday to Friday.

Forecasted rainfall amounts mixed with high lake levels and high winds could result in increasing shoreline lake levels and watercourse water levels and flows. Ponding may occur in low-lying areas. The combination of slippery and unstable banks and cold water temperature could create hazardous conditions close to any river, stream or other water bodies. All shorelines, rivers and streams within the GTA should be considered hazardous.

Please exercise caution around all bodies of water including the banks of the Humber River. Please alert any children under your care of these dangers and supervise their activities. Please keep children and pets away from the slippery and unstable banks. Please do not drive in any ponded areas.

This Water Safety Watershed Conditions Statement will be in effect through to the evening of Saturday May 3, 2017.

For more information please see the TRCA Flood Risk Management website here or contact the on-call TRCA Flood Duty Officer: Rebecca Elliott 416.661.6514 or Dan Hipple 416.661.6600 x5697.

Alexandra Link, Director
Humber Arboretum and Centre for Urban Ecology