The Senior Members Committee of Hart House presents an annual series of alumni-student dinners for an intimate group of Hart House members who are alumni, students, faculty, and staff.
Overview
Each dinner features a guest speaker who discuss a broad range of areas from business, politics, education and the arts. A question and answer session will follow the speaker's presentation.
The dinners include a meet the speaker reception with hors d’oeuvres, and a superb meal based around a theme inspired by the evening's topic accompanied by selected wines.
Tickets may be purchased in series of 3 or 6, or individually.
The 2019-2020 series features:
- October 16, 2019: Catherine Gildiner: author of "Too Close to the Falls" will discuss her new non-fiction book “Good Morning Monster”.
- November 6, 2019: Tim Stewart, teacher and army piper “Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919: A Prehistory of the Toronto Scottish Regiment”
- December 11, 2019: Professor Shauna Brail, Director, Urban Studies Program at Innis College “Ride-Hailing: Transforming Urban Mobility”
- January 22, 2020: Ann and Ross Stuart, Stratford Stage Manager “A Brief History of the Hart House Theatre”
- February 12, 2020: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Professor emeritus and Google fellow “What is a thought?”
- March 18, 2020: John Monahan, Hart House Warden since 2015 “100 years of Hart House at UofT”
Guest Speaker
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Catherine Gildiner
Author and Psychologist
Catherine Gildiner is a best-selling author and psychologist. Born and raised in New York, Catherine moved to Canada at age 22 and now lives in beautiful Creemore in Southern Ontario.
Catherine has written a successful and humorous series of memoirs that recount her life through self-mirroring character, Cathy McClure (Catherine’s maiden name). Catherine’s first memoir, Too Close to the Falls, which covers Catherine’s life up until age 14, remained #1 on the Canadian Best Seller’s List for 172 weeks.
Her wildly popular second memoir, After the Falls, is a continuation of her life story up until age 21. After writing two memoirs, Catherine wrote a Freudian thriller called Seduction—a fictional piece that also spent several weeks on the Best Seller's list.
Most recently, Catherine completed her third memoir, Coming Ashore, as a continuation of her life up until age 25.