Opportunities To Ignite Your Mind
LECTURES
WINTER- 2026
A Life in Costume Design
Evolving Art from Craft
With Ingrid Hamster
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Sunday,
March 29, 2026
3-5 PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but Registration is Required
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Join us for an afternoon with Ingrid Hamster as she pulls back the curtain on a life spent dressing the world's stages. Imbued with her artistic passion she will guide you through the intricate process that transforms collaborative vision into breathtaking tangible reality. She will also lead a candid discussion on where the functional necessity of a costume ends and the expressive power of this theatrical art begins.
Futuring in an age of uncertainty:
Foresight as a tool to
create the future we want
How thinking about futures can help transform chaos into clarity, anxiety into agency, and imagination into impact
With Avalyne Diotte
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Wednesday
April 22, 2026
7-9 PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but Registration is Required
What if the future is not something that simply happens to us, but something we can actively shape? How do we navigate so much rapid change in the world—technological disruption, social upheaval, climate uncertainty—without feeling overwhelmed or stuck in reaction mode?
The field of foresight helps people and organizations systematically explore possible futures to help mitigate risk, harness opportunity, and make decisions today to shape a better tomorrow. We cannot predict the future; but we can understand a range of plausible futures. Foresight asks broad questions and expands thinking, perspectives, and mental models: What futures are possible? Which ones are desirable? And what choices can we make now to move toward the outcomes we want?
As a foresight expert, international public speaker, researcher, and senior analyst Avalyne will share insight, methods, and experience in the field of strategic foresight.
This interactive conversation will introduce futuring as a practical way of thinking that helps people make sense of uncertainty, expand imagination, and reconnect with a sense of agency. Through accessible examples and engaging reflections, this lecture encourages participants to imagine what it might mean to create the future we desire—and to see foresight as a tool for turning uncertainty into clarity, imagination into intention, and concern about tomorrow into meaningful action today.