The office will be closed today in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Reminder: MASKS ARE REQUIRED IN THE CLASSROOM FOR BOTH INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS.
Tuesday
- 9:30AM Oceanography (Zoom)
- 11:00AM Swing! Swing! Swing!
- 3:30PM Ancient Ethics
Wednesday
- 1PM-Qatar, UAE and Bahrain
- 1PM Walking Group
- 3:30PM Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Thursday
- 9:00AM Let’s Skate (Boss Arena)
- 3:00PM Finance Comm Meeting
- 3:30PM American Protest Songs
Friday
- 9:30AM- Strong Women, Strong Roles
- 1PM Viewing of the Maid (2 episodes)
- 1PM Book Club
PET PORTRAITS are back up in the OLLI office. Send us a photo of your pet with their name and age and we’ll add it to our wall! Email olli@uri.edu.
REMINDER: We are switching over our email service to Google Groups. You may receive a notification that you have been added to our group. You do not need to do anything. Please be assured that the only people in the group that can access your email are the OLLI staff.
CLASS CHANGED TO ZOOM: The Winter Kitchen Pharmacy: Recipes for a Healthy Winter Season has been moved to Zoom. The class starts February 9, and so there’s still plenty of time to register! Click here to read the course description online. Register online or call the office at 401-874-4197.
CLASS SPOTLIGHT: Register online for all of these classes or call the office at 401-874-4197.
A RHODE ISLAND SUCCESS STORY: BREWED AWAKENINGS
Come hear from CEO David Levesque share his story on January 26, from 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM $15.00 Limit: 30
Brewed Awakenings is one of RI’s fastest growing local coffee shops. Providing excellent food and service since 1996, it has now expanded to five locations. David will talk about the obstacles and achievements of navigating his business through changing economic conditions, and even a pandemic, along with working with management and staff. He will talk about his dream of giving back to his community as Brewed Awakenings became a reality.
AMERICAN ART: NEW DIRECTIONS
Join Terry Duffy in the classroom for this 6 week session highlighting Robert Henri, Hans Hoffman, and Alfred Stieglitzd as pivotal in pointing American art in new directions. The Eight (group of American painters who exhibited together only once, in New York City in 1908), 291 (a small gallery in New York opened in 1905 by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen), the 1913 Armory Show, and abstract expressionism will be discussed as the major forces that propelled the United States to a pre-eminent leadership position. It is the story of America in painting.
The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30-3:00PM the week of 2/15, 2/22 and 3/1.
FINANCIAL WELLNESS
Join Joanne Daly in this course which presents overviews of three different areas of financial planning, beginning with the fundamentals of investing, from asset classes and the basic tenets to asset allocation and diversification. In the second week, learn about retirement income planning — determining how much you will need for the retirement you envision and how to develop a retirement income and distribution strategy that maximizes the likelihood of success in meeting your retirement goals and preserving your investments.The final presentation covers how trusts, gifting, insurance, and other wealth planning tools can be combined to help you secure your legacy.
The class meet son Wednesdays, February 16, 23, March 2, from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM $40.00 Limit: 30
THIS CLASS IS ON ZOOM
THE EPIC IN WORLD LITERATURE
3 sessions with Francesca Borrione and Xinqiang Cole Chang on February 7, 14, 21 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM $40.00 Limit: 30
Click here to watch the VIDEO PREVIEW
What makes a piece of literature an epic? The genre has been one of the most significant in the western literary canon. We will address questions related to the origin, evolution, and history of the epic. What are the commonly used tropes, motifs, and literary patterns in the epic? In what way is the epic still relevant and how? Most importantly, we will challenge the assumption that the epic is a western literary invention. We will engage with the epic produced in non-western cultures and examine its similarities and differences in the western canon. We will discuss these questions by exploring works such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, and Beowulf. A list of reading selections will be provided to those who register.
REGISTRATION COMING THIS WEEK for
MAID: A conversation with Molly Smith Metzler and Colin Mckenna.
Friday, February 11, 1pm-2:30pm on Zoom $15
There will be two Ways to Attend: Zoom on your own or Join us to Zoom together in the Classroom.
We hope you’ll join us as the show’s creator Molly Smith Metzler and one of the key writer’s, Colin McKenna (Colin and Molly are married playwrights/screenwriters/producers) share their filming experience in Vancouver during the pandemic, take us through the writing process, character development, and the extensive research needed to create a screenplay from a true story, Maid, written by Stephanie Land. Come with questions as we will allow ample time for Q&A..
URI NEWS–Click here to see what’s happening.
Special virtual course offering for all OLLI members!
Interpreting Satellite Imagery Through Art
Calling all scientists and artists! To celebrate 50 years of NASA-USGS Landsat Earth observations from space, OLLI-UH Manoa is offering Opening the Aperture: Interpreting Satellite Imagery Through Art as a virtual course open to all OLLI participants nationwide. Learn about sensing our landscape from space, how digital data obtained by satellite sensors is converted into color images, what we can learn from these images to promote sustainability of our planet, and see why many artists are inspired by these satellite images of the Earth in their art. Then, do your own remote sensing on the ground, using the GLOBE Observer citizen science app. Collect photo data of a place of personal meaning for you, and use the associated Landsat9 image as an inspiration piece in your home studio, guided online by scientist and studio artist facilitators in this special course offering.Tuesdays Jan 18 to Feb 22 1:00-2:30 pm HST (6 EST, 5 CST, 3 PST)
See more details and course description by clicking here. Email Ninia Barr at wbarr@hawaii.edu to be added to class list and receive the Zoom link.