Talks & Docs: “KITCHEN MEDICINE FOR COLDS & FLUS”

Talks & Docs is a weekly series of documentary films and presentations at Baddeck Library.

Check out the October Line-up.

OCT 2 6:30 pm “KITCHEN MEDICINE FOR COLDS & FLUS”: ERICA FRASER Join us in learning with local herbalist Erica Fraser about how to work with everyday herbs and spices to stay well during cold & flu season. In this session we’ll sip some herbal tea and talk about how our immune systems work when fighting off colds & flus, how some of our most common culinary herbs act in the body, and how we can prepare some gentle-but powerful medicines in our own kitchens, putting to good use the old adage ‘let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food’. Participants will have a chance to taste some handy homemade remedies and receive a few recipes to try at home! 

OCT 9 6:30 pm “SCIENCE LITERACY WEEK”: CHANTELLE CORMIER In celebration of “Science Literacy Week”, Chantelle Cormier, a biology professor at CBU,  will be hosting an event featuring representatives from various fields of science who will  present their specialties, offer hands-on activities, and answer audience questions. 

OCT 16 6:30 pm CELTIC COLOURS WEEK <<<<<NO PROGRAM>>>>> 

OCT 23 6:30 pm “TWENTY SUMMERS IN NUNAVUT”: MARY JANE BENNETT Mary Jane Bennett, a retired high Arctic camp cook, will give a presentation on her experiences working in small fly-in geological exploration tent camps in the 1990s and 2000s in Nunavut. She will share slides and narratives of being on the land in the Kivalliq region and northern Baffin Island, highlighting her connection to the land and its peoples. 

OCT 30 6:30 pm DOC: “HORATIO’S DRIVE: THE FIRST ROAD TRIP” A recounting of the inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903, on a visionary whim and a 50-dollar bet, became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. From master storyteller Ken Burns.