Classes starting next week:
Monday-Italian II (cancelled) due to low enrollment
Tuesday
- Soil Health and Compost for your Garden-9:30am
Wednesday
- Cuba and Colombia, 1-2:30pm
- The Golden Bowl, 3:30pm
- OLLI 101- 11:30am via Webex. No registration is necessary. Both current and new members are invited to log in and learn about all OLLI has to offer in this virtual presentation and discussion. We’ll discuss our history, our current programs, and our special interest groups while exploring and becoming more familiar with our OLLI website and software. Plenty of time for Q & A. Join us! Click here to join the meeting.
Friday
- Book Club 1-2pm
Reminder: The Iditarod usually meets on Fridays, but will meet on Wednesday, March 17, at 9:30am. Check your email for a new link to the class.
Class Date Changes: If you registered for the following classes, please note the date changes.
- RI and the Mosquito Fleet meets on Wednesday, March 24 at 9:30am
- Cuba and Colombia meets on Wednesdays, March 17 & 24.
If you registered for either of these classes and are not able to attend, please contact the office for a refund or credit to your account. Email olli@uri.edu or call 401-874-4197.
Special Interest Group Meetings (Click here to check the website for all the details including themes, books, prompts and more!)
- Book Group- Meets March Friday, March 19, at 1pm via Webex.
- Brown Bag Poetry -Meets Tuesday, March 30 at 11:30 via Zoom
- Photo Friday-Meets Friday, April 2, at 10am via Zoom
- Writer’s Group meets Friday, April 2, at 1pm via Webex
LOVE HISTORY? LOOKING FOR A VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY?
Volunteer greeters and docents at Smith’s Castle in North Kingstown provide a valuable service in welcoming guests and guiding tours for visitors and school groups. The 2021 Training Session will start Thursday April 15, 2021, 3-4:30 pm on-line and continue on three subsequent Thursdays. Anyone interested should contact the Castle at (401) 294-3521 to register for the training. For further information, visit the Smith’s Castle website at www.smithscastle.org and go to the Docents tab.
REDEFINING AGING, TRANSFORMING MEDICINE, REIMAGINING LIFE
An Online Talk by Dr. Louise Aronson, author of the New York Times bestseller Elderhood
Tuesday, March 23rd, 7pm Free and open to all; click here to RSVP
For decades, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet, at the very moment humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, disparaged, neglected, and denied. This presentation challenges not only the way we look at aging but also the way we think and feel about medicine and what it means to be a human being across the lifespan.
Noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy—a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and life itself.
The story of aging is the story of what it means to be human. It’s both a timeless tale and one that’s rapidly changing with advances in science, technology, and society. Aronson tackles this epic topic with the precision of a scientist, the compassion of a clinician, and the eloquence of a literary writer.