PROBUS Club of Port Perry
Learning & Entertainment
Since we can't meet in person right now, and all of our activities at the club are temporarily suspended due to the coronavirus (Covid 19), we have put together information and links to lots of different sources for your educational and entertainment enjoyment. As with any internet activity, please be extremely cautious in providing personal or financial information when accessing these sites.
Please don't hesitate to let us know of you have more interesting sites to add by contacting portperryprobus@gmail.com
Museums and Galleries
Enjoy these on line tours of local and international art galleries and museums. Click on the links below.
New! Art for Seniors - Art Gallery of Ontario has a virtual Seniors Social Program - Free
Van Gogh is Back - The Van Gogh immersive exhibit in Toronto
Art as Fun - Daily Art Magazine's podcasts, slides, webinars - expand your knowledge of art.
British National Trust - Writing an historical novel? Check this out.
Scotland Treasures - Dig It - A Scottish Archaeology Hub
Museum Adventures - Natural History Museum - Museum of South Kensington (near London, UK)
Modern Day Paint by Numbers - Have fun painting your own famous painting!
On Line Courses
New! Acrylic Wildflowers and Honey Bee Workshop - An on-line course offered by Trent University - Fee required
New! How to Paint Outdoors in Watercolor Workshop - On-line course offered by Trent University - Fee required
New! Acrylic Jack Pine Painting Workshop - One-line course offered by Trent University - Fee required
New! Watercolour Bouquet in a Vase Workshop - On line course offered by Trent University - Fee required
The Khan Academy provides courses from algebra to computer science, physics to grammar, history to calculus, filmmaking, and more for all age groups.
CS50 course at Harvard - free introductory course to Computer Science
MOOCs (Massive Open On Line Courses) are free on line courses on a wide variety of subjects offered by major universities and colleges locally and throughout the world.
The Beginner's Guide to MOOCs offers a good introduction to MOOCs.
Other MOOC providers not listed in the above site are:
Movies & TV Shows
Listed below are some of the websites that list free movies and TV shows for streaming to your device or TV.
Free Movies on Kanopy - e - membership is free through your local Durham public library
My Octopus Teacher - A Netflix documentary capturing a year spent with an octopus
Online Streaming Options in Canada
To learn how to stream movies and other shows to your TV, click here.
Interesting Historical Sites
New! Historical Background on Niagara-on-the-Lake - The Niagara on the Lake Museum has a number of You-Tube videos available which detail the history of that area.
The Museum of Ontario Archaeology has several online exhibits that may be of interest
Triskele Heritage - focused primarily on the archaeology aspect of Britain
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library houses the rare and special collections of the University of Toronto
Anne of Green Gables - The Pickering Museum has a series of 3 podcasts about author Lucy Maud Montgomery
History Extra - Great site for history buffs
History of Port Perry - Scugog Townshhip Heritage Gallery
Parkwood Estates in Oshawa - Online events at the Parkwood National Historic Site
The Pickering Museum Village has a series of YouTube presentations on historic fashion
Canadian Archives - a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
Culture in Oshawa - The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Canadian Astronomy Website - Discussions on the stars for all levels of expertise
Quarantine Concerts in Canada - Listing a number of online musical concerts from one end of Canada to the other and over the next few months.
Recipes / Food / Gardening
New! A listing of Farmers Markets in Durham Region
New! Commune with Nature - High Park Nature Centre in Toronto offers the following Online Adult Naturalist Courses - Fee required
Chicken Tikka Masala - from our Foodies Group
Homemade Naan for your Chicken Tikka Masala
Cooking with the Best - Website of renowned French chef Daniel Boulud
The Keukenhof gardens of Holland
North Durham Nature - Useful information and access to speakers on a variety of nature subjects that impact Durham Region and beyond
Wildlife Friendly Gardens - Free online
course
Guinness Chocolate Cake - Enjoy on St. Patrick's Day or anytime
Fun Video of French restaurant - augmented reality
Making Goodies for Two - Try this site for recipes for two (no need to subscribe to newsletter)
Start the Day Off Right - With a healthy breakfast
Recipes from our very own Foodies Group -
Fun Websites and Videos
You Tube and other Fun videos
New! What's that Fungi? An app to identify wildlife, plants and fungi you come across
New! What's that Bird? A cell phone app that can help you easily identify a bird by snapping a photo of it or recording its voice on the phone
Fly with the Eagles - This is an interesting website about an eagle family over time
The Ultimate Screen Saver - Very calming screen saver from Ripley’s Aquarium Canada
Walk on the Wild Side - Free Access to Safaris
Penguin saves himself from Killer Whale - from the The Science Times
Video of Lambs by the Irish Tourist Board
Time Can Be Deceiving - Interesting tidbits about the time we live in
Understanding the Gravity of the Situation
Discover the World with Google Maps
Parking Fines - British humour
San Diego Zoo website - including a zoo live cam
The Onion - Satirical news site
Think You Can Park a Car Well? - On line simulator used by NASA
TED Talks and Other Interesting Courses and Lectures
There are thousands of TED talks, so visit the site at:
https://www.ted.com/talks Take a look at their library and try one – maybe daily.
Free Online Mindfulness Classes for Older Adults
Volcanoes - where we came from and why we don't want to return - The Earth 4 billion years ago
Beauty on Earth Now - Tulip Fields in the Netherlands
On line workshops for writing memoirs - with Anne Bokma - cost involved
Writing for Fun or Profit - Writers' Community of Durham Region
Ottawa History Online - January 20 lecture on Zoom
Historic Sites of England, Wales and Northern Ireland - The Royal Oak Historical Society
Gratitude by Louie Schwartzberg, an award winning photographer, who specializes in time lapse photography.
Scottish Story Telling - Interesting stories about Scotland
Get to Know your Cousins - a great lecture on anthropology
The Great Courses offers college-level courses on CD, DVD & digitally, most in the $30 - $60 range
For the History buff, try these great sites:
Time Travel - walk back time in segments of tens of millions of years to see where our home was in the world
EDTechTeacher - Best of History Websites
Arch 20 - free on-line virtual tours of historical sites
Mediation & Relaxation - a variety of scheduled virutal seminars - free and open to everyone - from the University of Virginia's Contemplative Sciences Center
Tree Companions - Learn about the largest and oldest living things
Games On Line
New! This website contains a list of free memory games that will test your recall ability.
Get Back at Google - Have some fun with a fake Google Homepage
Don't Connect the Dots - Brain / eye / hand coordination game
Another test for your Brain / hand coordination - Got Rhythm
Hardwood Games - Euchre, Hearts and Spades - play with the computer or your friends
Bridge Base Online - Practice with the computer at various levels or play on line with your own foursome
Words with Friends II - Free on line scrabble game - play with real people around the world
Jigsaw Planet - Fun, free jigsaw puzzles
Trickster - Euchre, Bridge, Hearts, Spades and more - free and fun. Has a video chat feature so you can see and hear each other!
Music & Theatre
New! Voces 8 has a Live From London England Summer program with a series of performances from July 4th through August 22nd. Fee required
Cirque du Soleil - a wonderful website full of YouTube videos of Cirque performances
U.K. Theatre - Here’s a way to see videos of productions from a variety of UK live theatres - subscription required
Symphony Nova Scotia is presenting online a series of The Fusion Sessions
Ontario Philharmonic is presenting a special virtual concert series Oshawa
Ottawa Grassroots Festival - Music and other activities
On Line Theatre Performances:
How to Get to Carnegie Hall - Practice! - Free concerts and activities
Relax with Soothing Background Sounds
Tina Turner is back in a ReMix of What's Love Got to Do With It
Sherry's Pick - Canadian Country Music - Marshall Dane
Andrew Lloyd Weber - Free on line streaming of many his musicals.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Weekly Musical Moments
Anna Mouskouri - In concert
Canadian Doctors - Singing Rise Again
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Spotify - Every genre, all the time
Apple Music - 60 million songs
Web Conferencing
Zoom - Good for up to 100 attendees.
FaceBook Messenger - You can create a group with your Facebook friends and then video call each other for free
WhatsApp - An encrypted chat feed with notifications - iPad and iPhones only
Skype - Communication tool for free calls and chat - owned by Microsoft
Google Hang Outs - Video calls for free
How to Look Good on camera when video conferencing
Travel
Here are some websites that have a host of virtual tours and photos of fascinating places in the province.
A video tour of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire
Jonathan van Bilsen - Amazing photos and stories from around world
Explore Hamilton Ontario - Virtual Tours online
Time Travel - walk back time in segments of tens of millions of years to see where our home was in the world
Or try Biking Without Training Wheels - A bike trek on the Isle of Skye in Scotland with Danny MacAskill
Experience the Wonder of U.S. Parks
The Broonfords - Informal travelogue of things to see in and around Edinburgh
Port Perry PROBUS Facebook Group
Join our Facebook group to see interesting and fun posts from our members.
1. Click on the following link or enter it into your browser:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProPP/
2. Sign in to Facebook account if prompted or if you’re not a member of Facebook, open n account.
3. Press ‘join group’
4. Answer the entry question
Once you have been verified as a member, you will receive a notification on Facebook of entry to the group. You are then free to participate as much or as little as you would like, whether it be just reading posts or contributing, the choice is yours. The only rules are that posts must not be political, religious, or offensive. No fundraising except as approved by the management committee.
Any issues feel free to email Judith.spring@outlook.com.