Liberty Village Toastmasters Toronto

By Julian H

The Executive Committee of Liberty Village Toastmasters Club is pleased to invite you to a very special Christmas season edition of our regular meeting, to be held on the upper floor of Bar Wellington Public House at 520 Wellington Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1E3 (see map bellow)

Part meeting, part Christmas party, we have an extended, two-themed Table Topics session planned, followed by revelry and good cheer.

The venue is booked from 6-9pm, with the formal part of the evening commencing at our regular time of 6:15pm.
Guests are, as always, welcome.
Ccome on out and bring the year to a close with an extra special, even more enthusiastic than normal Liberty Village Toastmasters round of applause.

By Rene M.

Our Speakers for today are Matt, Deniss and Kuntal. John K will be conducting a workshop.

The Toastmaster will be Lorenzo and the theme is food.

The Harbourfront Community Centre will be closed for holidays, therefore this will be our last meeting for the year unless we can find an alternative location. We will keep you posted on this regard.

As usual our meeting starts at 6:15pm Look forward to see you all at our regular location at Harbourfront Community Centre, @ 627 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5V 3G3 – Assembly Room C.

By Rene M

Our confirmed speakers for tonight are Tony, Raj and Alloma

Ted will be the Toastmaster and the meeting’s theme is “Motivation”

The role of grammarian will be taken by Rene and the word of the day is “Futile”

As usual our meeting starts at 6:15pm Look forward to see you all at our regular location at Harbourfront Community Centre, @ 627 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5V 3G3 – Assembly Room C.

 By Rose W

Paradigm Shift

Wednesday, November 28, 2012- Liberty Village Toastmasters

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

C. S. Lewis

First-time Toastmaster-of-the-Day, Craig W, started the meeting with a topic that affects us often – paradigm shifts. Paradigm shifts are a sudden change in perspective; these moments can make us live our lives a bit differently, for better or for worse. He shared with us two examples of where paradigm shifts have occurred in his life. From these experiences, he realizes how much technology has changed the world today.

New Toastmasters Anderson and Alloma were eager to get ahead on their Toastmaster journey, as they completed their second speeches from the Competent Communicators (CC) manual tonight. Both scheduled speeches were informative and educational, with hints of humour. Anderson, an art history teacher, spoke about “postmodernity,” and sticking with the theme, he relates how technology has changed art and our process of thought these days. With the excitement of the Grey Cup still amidst in our minds from Toronto’s victory this past weekend, Alloma took us through the history of the Grey Cup, and how it became and remains a Canadian tradition.

Evaluators John Kj and Rene M both gave insightful and constructive evaluations to the speeches tonight.

Accentuating the theme of paradigm shifts, Table Topics Master John Kr encouraged attendees to share with everyone their own examples of paradigm shifts. Many participated, and in result, we had varying topics – from strange/unexpected cell phone ring tones, to the evolution of science, to lifestyle-changing experiences. However, the story that took the prize (in this case, literally: a chocolate moustache from John Kj and a Table Topics ribbon) was Rene’s on winning a court battle for a bicycle traffic fine.

For those who are interested to see how a meeting runs (much laughter ensued, as usual), be sure to come on out! We meet every Wednesday at the Harbourfront Community Centre (627 Queens Quay West, Assembly room C) from 6-8 PM.

See you there!

– Rose

By Rene M.

As we head into winter, LVTM gets ready to host Anderson and Alloma to deliver their CC2’s.

Our Toastmaster will be Craig and the meeting’s theme is Paradigm Shift.

Table Topics will be conducted by Albert.

We will start at 6:15pm. Look forward to see you all at our regular location at Harbourfront Community Centre, @ 627 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5V 3G3 – Assembly Room C.