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¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Annual Lecture Series -- We organize and present annually eight free monthly public lectures (September to April). Our speakers -- academics, professionals, writers, poets, visual and material artists, present on a variety of contemporary and historical subjects. A lengthy question and answer period for the audience follows each lecture. Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award and Young Poet Award -- Awards of up to $200 are offered annually for originality combined with excellent command of language, in both short-story fiction and poetry, to winners and runner-ups in the HPL's Power of the Pen competition. da Vinci Science Fair Award -- Awards of up to $300 are offered annually to local students entered in the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair (BASEF). Our judges look for work that combines originality with sound, demonstrated understanding of the scientific method. We donate annually to the HPL to help defray the HPL's Power of the Pen expenses.

The CoastArts Association operates both the national professional touring company Two Planks and a Passion and the multidisciplinary arts education and creation centre, the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, in Nova Scotia. The association is dedicated to promoting new Canadian art of all disciplines and to creating the next generation of Canadian leaders through arts education. Donors can choose to contribute to the work of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts and/or the Capital project to finish construction of a major facility on the East Coast for cultural exchange and education.

The Children’s Safety Village of Brant is a place where children currently enrolled in elementary school can learn the fundamentals of safety and awareness. Programs such as fire prevention, smoke alarms, traffic safety, bicycle and helmet, internet safety, home alone safety and stranger awareness are taught. The Safety Village serves Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations. In the Fire Prevention training program, after the in-class training, children are encouraged to identify various fire hazards found in Sparky’s apartment. Children are encouraged to demonstrate the skills that they have learned in the police training class in a miniature town that is complete with sidewalks, roadways, street signs, traffic lights, and a working railway crossing. The children navigate their way through the village by foot, on bicycles or in small battery operated jeeps.