Channeling the heroes and gods of ancient Greece, children taking an upcoming March Break performing arts camp will use mime, dance and masks to create an authentic Greek theatre piece. Gods & Heroes is a new week-long drama course for children ages eight to 12 that concludes on Friday, March 18 with a half-hour public… Continue reading Gods & Heroes: New performing arts camp for kids
Fleming College presents 'A Man of His Time'; the life of Sir Sandford Fleming
Heritage Pavilion Stage, in partnership with Fleming College, will stage a costumed reading of their play A Man of His Time at Fleming College on Tuesday, Feb. 22 to honour the college’s namesake Sir Sandford Fleming. The play, written by Peterborough playwright Ryan Kerr, and staged for receptive school and public audiences in the fall… Continue reading Fleming College presents 'A Man of His Time'; the life of Sir Sandford Fleming
Fleming College presents ‘A Man of His Time’; the life of Sir Sandford Fleming
Heritage Pavilion Stage, in partnership with Fleming College, will stage a costumed reading of their play A Man of His Time at Fleming College on Tuesday, Feb. 22 to honour the college’s namesake Sir Sandford Fleming. The play, written by Peterborough playwright Ryan Kerr, and staged for receptive school and public audiences in the fall… Continue reading Fleming College presents ‘A Man of His Time’; the life of Sir Sandford Fleming
Fleming College’s Chris Magwood will host an upcoming workshop that explores the field of sustainable building. Magwood is the program coordinator for both the Sustainable Building Design and Construction and Sustainable Renovation programs at Fleming. The free workshop, Does this Sustainability Stuff Really Work? will take place on Thursday, Feb. 10 from 7 to 8:30… Continue reading Sustainable Building workshop with Chris Magwood
Call for Presentations: forum on building community in long term care
Fleming College’s Institute for Healthy Aging (IHA), in partnership with St. Joseph’s at Fleming, will host a one-day forum on Monday, April 4. Innovations in Aging Well: Building Community in Long Term Care will explore best practices and successes for moving long term care from an institutional model of care to a holistic one. The… Continue reading Call for Presentations: forum on building community in long term care
Muskellunge hatchery receives funding for digital imaging project
A Fleming College project to research the use of digital imaging to identify individual muskellunge, has received $10,000 in funding from the Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation (CONII). Fleming College’s Muskellunge Fish Hatchery, working in partnership with aquaculture firm C&M Aquatics, applied for the funding to find a way to mark and identify muskellunge… Continue reading Muskellunge hatchery receives funding for digital imaging project
Record growth at Fleming College continues with strong January enrolment
Fleming College is continuing to grow with a three per cent increase in new students starting their first semester at Fleming College this January. January enrolment has jumped to 942 first-semester students this year from 915 in 2010 and 854 in January 2009. Fleming’s School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, based at the Frost… Continue reading Record growth at Fleming College continues with strong January enrolment
Fleming College will celebrate Alumni Appreciation Week in both the City of Peterborough and the City of Kawartha Lakes February 14-18, 2011. Formal celebrations will kick off in the City of Kawartha Lakes on Monday, Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. in the Victoria Room of City of City Hall, 26 Francis St. in Lindsay. An… Continue reading Celebrating Alumni Appreciation Week
Fleming College will offer five new diploma and certificate programs to students in September 2011. With the continued growth in skilled trades enrolment at Fleming, the college will add two new programs to this area – Plumbing Techniques and Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technician (HRAC). Plumbing Techniques, an Ontario college certificate program, is offered… Continue reading New programs at Fleming College
Grandmothers to share HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts with students
Two local grandmothers will bring their message of fundraising and advocacy for HIV/AIDS projects in Africa to Fleming College on Monday, Feb. 7. The event, Tea with the Grannies, will feature Bernice Standen and Nancy Martin from the Peterborough Chapter of the Stephen Lewis Foundation “Grandmothers to Grandmothers” project. The women will share their latest… Continue reading Grandmothers to share HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts with students