Event Type : Speaker Series

Join the Friends of the Haliburton County Public Library for a conversation with Bernie Nicholls!

Admission by donation.

The lessons of Improvisation gave Robin Duke the tools not only to survive a forty year career writing and performing comedy on stage film and Television, but to have a baby at forty, teach comedy, full time, at College at fifty, survive breast cancer at fifty four, get a masters degree in Creative Non-fiction, write a memoir in her sixties and live in the COVID pandemic.

Robin’s presentation includes behind the scenes stories from Second City to SNL to Schitt’s Creek, personal anecdotes, and ‘take away’ games to practice at home to help you become a better communicator.

Paul Mills will be tracing his life’s journey in which he started out as a chemical engineer, but ended up as an award-winning musician and record producer. The process by which he made this significant transition and the resulting joy that it delivered to his life’s journey are covered through anecdotes, pictures and musical examples.

After the talk, Paul will entertain us with a short set of music featuring songs by some of the well-known artists he has produced as well as some of his own compositions.