CFI Okanagan

Name: Okanagan: No watershed is an island: understanding Okanagan water in a time of change
Start: 2015-05-26T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2015-05-26T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Okanagan Jewish Community Centre

March 2015
Okanagan – Kids for Inquiry: BC Wildlife Park

March 21, 2015 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

BC Wildlife Park 9077 Dallas Dr., Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Join the KFI kids for a visit to the BC Wildlife Park. Families will visit the park independently, meeting for lunch or a train ride, depending on what the attendees would like to do. http://www.bczoo.org/
Okanagan – What We Are Really and the NeoDarwinian Renaissance

March 24, 2015 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The Bunkhouse 2777 KLO Rd, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Dinner at 5:30pm. Presentation starts at 7pm. Local naturalist, Jorma Jykkanen (BSc Zoology, PDP), will be giving us a whirlwind tour from the science of the Big Bang, through the origins of life, and history of evolution to the present day. He recommends the following site for background on evolution: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ Jorma says he began...
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April 2015
Okanagan: Kids for Inquiry — Space Travel: What’s possible? What’s not?

April 18, 2015 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Parkinson Recreation Centre 1800 Parkinson Way, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Colleen O’Hare and Olaf Lutz from the Okanagan Centre chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society will be talking with the kids all about space travel! Held in the Gala Board Room at the Parkinson Recreation Centre.
Okanagan: The Honor Diaries documentary screening

April 30, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

UBC Okanagan 3333 University Way, Kelowna, Canada

Screening of the controversial documentary, The Honor Diaries. http://www.honordiaries.com/ The film will be introduced by a former resident of Iran. She will explain in her presentation why she is hesitant to use her name. UBCO Skeptics and CFI Okanagan are collaborating to host this event. Open to the university community and to the general public....
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May 2015
Okanagan: No watershed is an island: understanding Okanagan water in a time of change

May 26, 2015 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Okanagan Jewish Community Centre 102 Snowsell St., Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

What, me worry? Why should residents of the Okanagan be concerned about water supplies when they live next to a deep lake? Won’t climate change just mean nicer weather for Canadians? What does California’s drought mean for the Okanagan, and what can we learn from it? What does the Okanagan Basin Water Board do to...
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