Week of January 24
Reminder: MASKS ARE REQUIRED IN THE CLASSROOM FOR BOTH INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS.
Monday
- 1PM Guns and Gun Control
Tuesday
- 9:30AM Oceanography (Zoom)
- 11:00AM Swing! Swing! Swing!
- 3:30PM Ancient Ethics
Wednesday
- 9:30AM Brewed Awakenings: A RI Success Story
- 1PM-Qatar, UAE and Bahrain
- 1PM Walking Group
- 3:30PM Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- 4PM Renaissance Italy
- 4PM Advisory Committee
Thursday
- 9:00AM Let’s Skate (Boss Arena)
- 10AM Ocean State Women and WWII
- 11:30AM Con Artist Playbook (Zoom) FREE
- 3:00PM SIGS Committee Meeting
- 3:30PM American Protest Songs
Friday
- 9:30AM- Strong Women, Strong Roles
- 1PM Viewing of the Maid (2 episodes)
CLASS MOVED 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.
NEW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: Bowling
Join OLLI at Old Mountain Lanes in Wakefield on Tuesdays, at 12:30PM. Cost is $3 per game/$3.75 shoe rental Register online.
THERE’S STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR THESE CLASSES HAPPENING THIS WEEK! Register online for 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 Wednesday, January 26, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM $15.00
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.
OCEAN STATE WOMEN AND WWII with Brian Wallin
Thursday, January 27, at 10:00AM $15
World War II brought dramatic changes to the roles of women. This class includes richly illustrated personal recollections by women who joined the workforce and contributed toward America’s victory. At the Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard, the state’s largest civilian employer, at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, at factories across the state, women worked in jobs they thought they never could attain. At the end of the war, many women returned to traditional roles in the home. But the genie was out of the bottle, and women would go on to play ever growing and important workforce roles in the postwar decades.
CON ARTIST PLAYBOOK: A Look Inside the Mind of a Criminal FREE on Zoom.
Thursday, January 27, at 11:30AM
Join us for the January Let’s Talk Technology conversation as AARP RI & CT are collaborating to bring their program the Con Artist Playbook: A Look Inside the Mind of a Crimina,l providing you with the tips and tools to protect yourself and others from predatory practices of scammers. This session offers the learner an opportunity to hear and see footage from actual criminals sharing their tactics in obtaining your private information and ultimately your money. Come away with materials, handouts and resources that you can share with others to help them STOP IT. Education is key to getting out ahead of these scams.
REGISTER NOW for MAID: A conversation with Molly Smith Metzler and Colin Mckenna.
Friday, February 11, 1pm-2:30pm on Zoom $15
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. Click to register.
Center for the Humanities 2022 Lecture Series
Join the Center for Humanities for a three-part lecture series, Memorials and Commemoration in the United States, exploring the people and events that we, as a nation or as part of our local community, choose to commemorate and the factors that shape those decisions. These events—on Feb. 3, March 3, and April 14—represent the second half of a yearlong series of virtual and in-person lectures that are free and open to the public.
Click here for more information.
The URI Department of Music presents weekly concerts featuring faculty, students, and special guests, with discussions. Programs subject to change, please check with the office (401) 874-2431 or email music@uri.edu for current information. FREE
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