Getting your strata to understand about accessibility and to cooperate can be challenging to say the least. Here is how one SCI BC peer successfully lobbied their strata council for accessibility [...]
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These days while we're practising social distancing, connection and friendships are more important than ever. For a person with a disability, the bonds that are being built in peer groups and [...]
A look into six SCI BC Peers from across the province who are breaking barriers in unusual sports or passions.
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We acknowledge that our provincial work takes place on the territories of Indigenous peoples who have lived on and cared for the land for time immemorial. SCI BC’s head office, GF Strong resource centre, and shared Victoria office are located on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, and Lekwungen Nations. Our Prince George regional office is on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation.
Reconnect with old friends and meet new ones at our Peer Picnics! Join your Northern BC Peers for some great food and conversations at the park. This event is free
Reconnect with old friends and meet new ones at our Peer Picnics! Join your Northern BC Peers for some great food and conversations at the park. This event is free but registration is required. RSVP by August 10 to Lori at lslater@sci-bc.ca or 250-262-8599.
(Sunday) 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mathews Park
92A Street and 87 Avenue, Fort St. John
Lori Slaterlslater@sci-bc.ca | 250-262-8599
15aug2:00 pm4:00 pmVictoria Women's Online Coffee Group2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Victoria Women’s Online Coffee Group meets the third Monday of every month online. The meetups are full of questions, deep discussions, light-hearted banter, (sometimes) tough love, but they are
The Victoria Women’s Online Coffee Group meets the third Monday of every month online. The meetups are full of questions, deep discussions, light-hearted banter, (sometimes) tough love, but they are always full, meaningful, and supportive.
How to Connect to Zoom:
If you have any questions please contact our InfoLine at 1-800-689-2477 or info@sci-bc.ca.
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(Monday) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Scott Heronsheron@sci-bc.ca | 250-812-0773
15aug3:30 pm4:30 pmGet Wild Online Dance Class3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Groove with us and get wild! This is a fun, easy-going class for folks looking to learn some easy dance moves and have a great cardio workout. All abilities
Groove with us and get wild! This is a fun, easy-going class for folks looking to learn some easy dance moves and have a great cardio workout. All abilities are welcome and encouraged to attend.
How to Connect to Zoom:
If you have any questions please contact our InfoLine at 1-800-689-2477 or info@sci-bc.ca.
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(Monday) 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
15aug6:00 pm7:00 pmBook Club with Lisa6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Zoom connection info is below. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the books you’re reading, join SCI BC peer Lisa Hislop and the book club readers as we work
Zoom connection info is below.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the books you’re reading, join SCI BC peer Lisa Hislop and the book club readers as we work our way through books we’ve always wanted to read (the books are available as audiobooks, digital and hard copy versions). Each week, we read about an hour of the book (or three chapters), then meet to discuss it. We go over what happened and dip our toes into literary analysis, discussing the plot, themes, characters, the author, the time period, and other influences. It usually takes us between 8 and 20 weeks to read the longer texts and 2 to 4 weeks for shorter stories and plays. Once we’re nearing the end of a book, we submit books we’d like to try and choose the group favourite for our next read. Feel free to pop in and check us out!
The next read will run from July 18 to November 7: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with “woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the “girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.
How to Connect to Zoom:
– From your browser: https://zoom.us/j/91890201610
– From your mobile phone or tablet: download the Zoom app from your app store, then use the meeting ID to get in to the meeting. Meeting ID: 918 9020 1610
– Dial-in on a landline (telephone): call +1 778 907 2071 Canada (the local number for BC), and enter the Meeting ID when prompted: 918 9020 1610
– If not in BC, find your local number here: https://zoom.us/u/acMz0fXoVA
If you have any questions please contact our InfoLine at 1-800-689-2477 or info@sci-bc.ca.
Have ideas for other ReachOut! Online sessions? Contact Jenna at jwright@sci-bc.ca to share your feedback.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
What’s a better summer treat than ice cream?? Come cool off with us and enjoy some tasty ice cream and good conversations with your peers. RSVP to Rod at rbitz@sci-bc.ca to
What’s a better summer treat than ice cream?? Come cool off with us and enjoy some tasty ice cream and good conversations with your peers.
RSVP to Rod at rbitz@sci-bc.ca to attend.
(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ice Cream Parlour in Burnaby Village Museum
6501 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby BC
Rod Bitz
