MUSIC
Concerts
Enjoy various mini-concerts from visiting talented performers. Senior recreation doesn’t have to be physical. Be entertained by genres including pop standards, show tunes, country, jazz, folk, and Celtic music. Entertainers can keep you bopping with interactive sing-alongs and musical comedy, to expressive and contemplative works.
Happy Hour and Sing-Alongs
Our personable staff members get in on the fun too! Join the weekly staff-and-management-lead happy hours and sing-alongs for lots of laughs and community spirit! Singing is good for the soul! And if you’re worried about how you might sound, DON’T! We’re all in this together! Just come and have fun and blend your voice into the many and get your kicks! Plus, at happy hour, you can have a glass of wine or other refreshing beverage of your choice!
Sunday Hymn Sing
For those so inclined, you can get in touch with your celebratory spiritual side at the Sunday Hymn Sing!
EXERCISE, YOGA & WELL-BEING
Our senior recreation programs include gentle chair-based exercises and yoga stretches. You can enjoy conventional exercise twice weekly for strength building, or a very unique chair yoga; break the ice with funny joke-telling time, followed by a focus on breath capacity and joint flexibility, all ending in music and more sing-along!
You can also join the insightful staff in guided breathing meditations and visualizations for positive thinking, and attend mini-seminars related to physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
GAMES
Whatever your physical ability, there is a game day for you in our senior recreation program! You can get moving and keep your coordination sharp with Wii Bowling (an easy to do, easy to learn virtual bowling video game based on arm movement), shuffle board, or pool. Or you can rest your body and test your mind with regular Bingo nights (there are prizes!), card games, and the ever-in-progress jigsaw puzzle table.
SEW/KNIT/CROCHET/CRAFT SOCIAL
Feel like gabbing? Have a project on the go? Want to learn a new skill? Want to show off something you’ve made or share and get ideas? Want to just sit and have a cup of tea and a chat while being entertained watching your friends complete and share their little works of art? Then come to the Craft Social!
OUTINGS
‘Get on out the house’ once a month with a bus trip! Sign up and you and your friends will get picked up by our friendly Earl Haig bus driver and taken to a fun venue, usually preceded or followed by lunch in a swell restaurant or pub! Venues can be anything from museums to a senior recreation center, craft fairs to interesting sightseeing locations or entertainment.
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Whether your journey takes you to residing at our wonderful Earl Haig community, or elsewhere, always remember, if you keep yourself young on the inside, it will show on the outside, so have fun and be safe! We’re certainly happy to help!
Recreation keeps you MOVING!
Recreation keeps you GROOVING!
Recreation keeps you FUN!
Recreation keeps you CLOSER TO EVERYONE!
Here’s to your health and happiness! HAVE A HAPPY SPRING!
For more information or to book a tour, please call us at 604 937 3790.
Author – Jennifer, Administrator/Earl Haig Retirement Residence
