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September 17, 2026
Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first female astronaut, brings a view from space down to Earth
Dr. Roberta Bondar speaking at CMU about the connections between Science, Art, and the natural world during CMU’s Face2Face event on September 11.
Dr. Roberta Bondar addressed a full house at this Face2Face event, sharing how her experiences as an astronaut, scientist, physician, and photographer have shaped the way she sees the natural world.
Jen Zoratti
Winnipeg Free Press.com
September 15, 2026
Astronaut’s solo photo exhibition is for the birds!
Zoratti reports several features of the images appearing in Dr. Roberta Bondar’s exhibit, Patterns & Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive. This conversation manages to reveal tales and anchor experiences that the young to-be-neurologist-astronaut recalls watching birds, with flight, with capturing avian migration sagas and attending the universal fight of endangered species.
RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS
Roberta Bondar with photos included in her exhibition at MHC Gallery.
She encourages Dr. Bondar to share what it is she sees at the photograph’s moment of capture and to describe her own reaction to what she sees and how distance or height add their accents to reveal an idea, a visual question, for the viewer to pursue.
Nolan Kehler
Winnipeg’s Classic107 FM
September 14, 2026
Celebrated Canadian astronaut, neurologist shares photography at MHC Gallery
Nolan Kehler used his performer-broadcaster skills to engage Dr. Roberta Bondar in conversation at the CMU exhibit of her exhibition Patterns and Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive.
His Question?
His interview captures Dr. Bondar’s explanation of how Science meets Art and can combine in an eye-stopping and logical combination. Using photographic art to catch viewer’s attention to focus, to ‘enter’ the image then lead that viewer to wonder, to ask questions about the what and why and how of her subject’s appearance in the Time and Place of that moment.
Dr. Bondar says her approach is STEAM based – Science, Technology, Engineering, ART, and Math. All that and more, in this jam-packed interview!
CMU
Winnipeg AB
August 25, 2026
Beyond Boundaries: Science, Space, and the Art of Discovery
Drawing on her experiences in space, her research career, and her work behind the camera, Dr. Roberta Bondar will share reflections from her remarkable journey at the intersection of science, space exploration, and art to explore how curiosity, observation, and creativity shape the way we understand our world and the universe beyond.
The Opening Reception of Dr. Roberta Bondar’s exhibition, “Patterns & Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive” will follow in the MHC gallery.
Copies of Dr Bondar’s award-winning book, Space for Birds; Patterns & Parallels of Beauty and Flight will be available for purchase on this evening.
Space for Birds; Patterns & Parallels of Beauty and Flight is also available for purchase here.
ARTEMIS II
various
April 1 – April 10, 2026
ARTEMIS II
The NASA mission known as Artemis II, sends four astronauts around the moon before returning to Earth on April 10, 2026. The 10-day voyage runs from April 1 to April 10.
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FOSSA
Wilfrid Laurier University
March 24, 2026
CREATIVITY & CURIOSITY
FOSSA, the Faculty of Science Student Association at Wilfrid Laurier University hosts #FURC2026. This year’s FOSSA Undergraduate Research Conference runs from March 24th-26th.
Dr. Roberta Bondar is the Conference Keynote speaker. She is scheduled to talk at the Lazaridis Hall, March 29th 7:00 pm.
We are wondering how many of her Sciences Technologies Engineering Arts and Maths backgrounds she will work into this time frame!
Local Bites
Conestoga College Digital TV
Feb 20, 2026
SWEET!
Dr Roberta Bondar – in CHOCOLATE!
Congratulations to the Conestoga pastry chef team who created a 1 meter (4 ft) chocolate torso of Dr. Bondar in her launch suit, as the display signature of their multipiece entry in the Juniores Pastry World Cup.
In this video, Conestoga grad and pastry chef, Emilie Duffin, demonstrates the chocolate sculpture’s components and their construction, as her team readied for their Jan. 23-27 competition at Italy’s Rimini Expo Centre.
And the result?
The world’s first payload specialist/neurologist in space became the world’s first neuro-ophthalmologist in chocolate! And all in the 34th anniversary week of Dr. Bondar’s 1992 flight!
Luckily, these pastry chefs hadn’t asked their sculpture inspiration to model… From early age, Dr Bondar’s predilection for dark chocolate & its unfailing detection spring from earliest tales about her mother finding tooth marks in her Baker’s semi-sweet chocolate baking bars.
