Discover new ideas. Challenge your opinions. Explore current events. Come listen to experts in their respective fields speak about topics that relate to issues we are facing in our lives, our community, and our world.
The lectures are held at the John Elliott Theatre and run for one hour. Tickets are available through the John Elliott Theatre box office and are free of charge.
Recordings of select virtual lectures are also available on our HHPL YouTube channel.
The 2025-2026 Halton Hills Lecture Series schedule:
Please check back regularly. New lectures will be added as they are announced.
| Barbara Adhiya: Hope by Terry Fox |
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Featuring excerpts from Terry’s very own Marathon of Hope journal, Hope by Terry Fox shares the untold story of a well-known hero - the goofy, resilient, and courageous 21-year-old who rallied a nation behind his mission. After conducting over fifty interviews with people throughout Terry’s life, editor Barbara Adhiya discovers how Terry was able to run a marathon a day. Through their stories, passages from Terry’s marathon journal, and over 200 photos and documents, Hope by Terry Fox shows that with enough resilience, determination, humility, and support, ordinary people can do impossible things. Barbara Adhiya is an editor and author based in Toronto. She was an editor at CP/AP and Reuters. She was a contributing author for Making It in High Heels 3: Innovators and Trailblazers and was an editor for Expect Miracles by Dr. Joe Vitale. |
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R.H. Thomson: By the Ghost Light |
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R.H. THOMSON has appeared in film and theatre across Canada, as Matthew Cuthbert in Anne with an E, in the movie Chloe directed by Atom Egoyan, as Marshall McLuhan in The Message by Jason Sherman, and This Was the World by Ellie Moon. As well as being an advocate for the arts, R.H. has worked on many history and arts projects. For the First World War Centenary, he built The World Remembers-Le Monde Se Souvient, an international commemoration exhibit now installed at the Canadian War Museum and explorable online at theworldremembers.org. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. In By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families, R.H. Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments. |