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SGI Canada Newsletter, No. 44 - January 21, 2022

SGI Canada Newsletter, No. 43 - January 5, 2022

Exploring the Role of Music in Peacebuilding

Dr. Olivier Urbain, Director of the Min-On Music Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan, recently visited the University of Guelph-Humber to deliver a lecture on the role of music in peacebuilding.

CBC GEM Featuring Canada's Leading Artists: Beverly Glenn-Copeland

SGI Canada member, Beverly Glenn-Copeland travels to Japan to meet the man who introduced his music to a new generation

University of Manitoba Displays Nuclear Abolition Exhibition

Robson Hall is hosting the exhibition “Everything You Treasure – For a World Free From Nuclear Weapons” beginning Thursday, March 28 until Friday, April 5, 2019, located on the Main Floor. Additionally, Dr. Jonathan Black-Branch, Dean of Law, will give a talk related to the display on Tuesday, April 2nd at 12 noon in Robson Hall’s Moot Courtroom B. Read More

Guitarist Chet Breau is ready to play after hitting rock bottom

CBC News Canada ‘‘Now or Never” program featured SGI Canada practitioner Lenny Chet Breau, who found himself in the hospital two years ago. He was then weighing 602 pounds and his body was shutting down from congestive heart failure.

We’re All Different: Musician Glenn Copeland on his journey as a Black, Buddhist, transgender artist

“The message of my Buddhist practice is, ‘Be courageous. You are exactly what is wanted. We’re all different,'” says Glenn Copeland musician and composer Glenn Copeland. John Harvey Negru talks to Copeland about his life as a pioneer in music, his fourty-four years of Buddhist practice in the Soka Gakkai tradition, and his mission for the future.

University of Guelph-Humber launches research initiative to focus on Soka Education and global citizenship

TORONTO, ON – Nov. 17, 2017 – Today, University of Guelph-Humber (UofGH) announced the launch of a new five-year research initiative that will focus on studying the philosophy and practices of Soka education, with an emphasis on global citizenship.