Week of August 15
This Week at OLLI
CLASS SPOTLIGHTS….check them out! There’s still time to register for these SUMMER classes! 
Biomes Tour, Friday, August 19, 10AM
Special Tour for OLLI members and a unique opportunity to bring your grandchildren or a friend along to introduce them to OLLI! Wednesday, August 17, at 10AM. Space is limited to 30, so register early! Spend some time exploring and watching feeding demonstrations at Biomes Center, New England’s only private marine education facility and the most hands-on aquarium in the region. Biomes has been providing interactive marine biology programs for schools and families since 1989, and specializes in teaching children and adults about the marine animals of Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Biomes houses the largest collection of local marine life in the world, with over 120 species of animals calling it home. Boasting the original shark-petting tank in New England, providing more hands-on animal interactions than any other facility of its kind, and unique exhibits (such as our fiddler crab colony) found nowhere else, and all of their marine animals have been collected in Narragansett Bay by their staff and volunteers. No animals are purchased or imported.
Great Decisions-Industrial Policy- Friday, August 19, 11:00-12:30PM-
The current discussion of industrial policy in the Untied States is not simply about whether to support specific companies or industries, but about trust or mistrust of the government and its ability to manage the economy and deal with a rising China. The upheaval in supply chains during the pandemic exposed weaknesses in the international economy. What policies can the United States implement to deal with trade and the economy?
C.S. Lewis: The Four Loves, Monday, August 22, 1-3PM on Zoom
In this one-session class, prepare to celebrate the meaningful experience at the heart of our human relations with family, friends, partners, and the Divine, that is, to love and to be loved. Students will be introduced to an original teaching and interpretation of twentieth-century author Clive Staples Lewis’ The Four Loves while being guided to delve more deeply into the inspiration for the work which originates from classical and spiritual origin. To understand each love–familial or storge, friendship or philia, romantic or eros, and spiritual or agape–is to grasp the foundational aspects of what it means to live with humility and dignity in existence with something greater than oneself. The class objective will become both an intellectual pursuit as well as a personal promise to explore the nature of love in one’s own lived experience. To love!
Fall catalogs are in the mail! You can view the online catalog and log in to your OLLI account to view classes beginning Tuesday, August 16. Registration begins August 23.
Monday
- 10:00AM Mindfulness
- 3:00PM Purpose Driven Retirement
Tuesday
- 9:30AM The Evolution of Drug Discovery
- 10:00AM Kayak Wickford Harbor
- 1:00PM The Music of Young America
- 1:15PM Golf
- 2:00PM Early Rhode Island History
- 3:30PM Vietnam War/Short Stories (Zoom)
Wednesday
- 10:00AM Travel and Landscape Photo with your iPhone
- 10:00AM Smith’s Castle (Special Time-Meets at Smith’s Castle)
- 11:30AM Salon des Refuses
- 12:30PM Bowling
- 1:00PM Walking Group
Thursday
- 9:30AM Renewable Energy (Zoom)
- 1:00PM Mah Jonng
- 3:00PM History of Russia
Friday
- 10:00AM Biomes Tour
- 11:00AM Great Decisions
- 1:00PM Book Group, discussing The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Free Balance Program. Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance. This instructor-led program is a 24 week long evidence-based program created by Dr. Fuzhong Li Ph.D. Click here for all the details. Classes start September 12.
Senior Day 2022– A health, Wellness, and fall risk program. You can receive a free health assessment. Participants will be screened for general health and well-being. Completed by students from URI Physical Therapy, Pharmacy, Communicative Disorders, Nutrition and Food Sciences, and Human Development and Family Science Programs. Supervised by faculty. Click here for all the details.
SAVE THE DATE for the OLLI Annual Meeting on Tuesday, September 20, from 5:00-7:00pm at the URI Higgins Welcome Center. More details coming soon!
Women’s Equality Day Celebration, August 26. Click here for all the details: https://web.uri.edu/olli/files/2022/08/LWVSC-Movie-event.jpg