Week of April 18

This Week is MEMBER APPRECIATION WEEK! Stop in the lobby before or after your class for coffee and enter our raffles!  We have some great prizes including:

• $40 Gift Certificate from Salon Sante for manicure
• $25 Gift Certificate to Coast Guard House
• Two $25 Gift Certificates from Brewed Awakenings
• Five $5 Gift Certificates from TLC Coffee
• Gift Bag from URI Alumni
• Two $10 Gift Certificates from Back 40
• One $30 Gift Certificate from Back 40
• Two $10 Gift Certificates from Wakefield Books
• OLLI Bucks 

Have you noticed the Loom in the OLLI lobby?

OLLI members, URI HDF students and faculty/staff, and URI CDC preschool children and their families are invited to get involved with our ongoing intergenerational art project by participating in a collaborative weaving experience. 

• Stop by anytime on your way to and from classes at OLLI during April and May.
• Weave one row or several and then add your name to our list of weaving participants. It is that simple!

Looms will be passed back and forth between OLLI and the Child Development Center so that we can create a few intergenerational weavings with help from adults and young children. The collaborative intergenerational weavings that we are creating may be displayed in our Intergenerational Art Show in the Kingston Free Library Entryway Gallery in May, in an online gallery, and/or at OLLI.

NEW SPRING CLASSES have been added! Click here to view the pdf and register online or call 401-874-4197.

• The Constitution: Is It good for Democracy? With Steve Berardo
• Roger Williams Park Botanical Tour
• The Ukraine Crisis with Jim Buxton
• Playing with Shakespeare: How Rude! With Laurie Heineman
• Kinney Azalea Gardens Tour

Tech Talk SCAM SCARES– Free but please register online.

Thursday, April 28, at 11:30AM on Zoom.

The Tech Committee invites you to join this month’s Special Interest Group, Let’s Talk Technology conversation on Scam Scares. Increasingly clever and sophisticated phishing scams are showing up everywhere: in your email, through unsolicited phone calls, including robo calls, on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and even in your text messages. Don’t get caught up in it! We have heard presentations from the AARP crime fighters and the Digital Footprint protectors. Building on this foundation of information, let’s have an OLLI conversation with members of our Technology Committee about our most recent experiences and threats and how to detect and protect. Bring your questions and let’s discuss being safe on the internet.  

FREE FOR MEMBERS- INTERGENERATIONAL ART PROGRAM
Join us on Friday, April 22, 10AM-12PM, or PHOTOGRAPHY

Click here for all the details.

INTRODUCE A FRIEND TO OLLI– If you’re interested in bringing a guest to a 1-time lecture to introduce them to OLLI, stop by the office or call 401-874-4197.

CLASS SPOTLIGHTS: Click here to register or call 401-874-4197 

Axemakers- Understanding the Rise of the Technological Imperative on Zoom – with Teresa Testa

This class is in danger of cancellation due to low enrollment. If you are interested in registering, please log on or call today!

5 Sessions starting Wednesday, April 20, from 4:30-6:00PM

Intended for both returning students from the spring 2020 semester and new students, this course asks us to consider if we are driving technology . . . or are we driven by it?  In order to examine this question, students will be introduced to key markers of technical progress and then learn how these important milestones are considered relative to major areas of consequence, i.e., historical, economic, social, political, and philosophical. The history of our technological culture ultimately gives us a sense of understanding. But is technology proving too powerful for humanity’s efforts to counter it? Questions and discussion will be welcomed and facilitated during the learning process. The class companion text inspires the title of the course, and students also will receive supplemental readings that pertain to our nation’s current complexities. An open invitation is offered to consider the place of technology in one’s personal life. 

Watercolor Portraits from Photos with Tom Martino

6 Sessions beginning Friday, April 22

Watercolor portraits project a vibrancy and liveliness to the human face that is difficult to achieve in mediums other than watercolor. Using photo references, the instructor will demonstrate how to achieve this likeness. The first few sessions introduce the student to the fundamentals of portraiture: basic drawing, the importance of values, and facial anatomy including the underlying structure of the human skull. Subsequent sessions include how to use watercolors in a way that is both accurate and fun. Photo references will be provided for exercise sessions, and students are encouraged to bring their own photos/sketch references to use in their own portrait projects.  Materials:  water container, brushes, and watercolor pigments. A palette for mixing watercolor—a small plate or saucer would do.

This Week at OLLI

Monday

• 11:30AM Othello
• 12:00PM Aging Fully
• 1:30PM Creative Writing
• 3:30PM Bob Dylan/Folk Music
• 5:30PM OLLI Spotlight @ WW Public Library – Click for details

Tuesday

• 9:30AM Editing with Photoshop
• 10AM Cyber Seniors-Max
• 10AM Poetry in Black and White 
• 11:00AM Horseback Riding
• 12:30PM Bowling Group
• 1:00PM New Member Orientation
• 1:30PM Improve Your Global Literacy
• 3:3PM House of Mirth
• 4:00PM Only Hope: Holocaust Zoom (Don’t miss this!)

Wednesday

• 10:00AM Photography Today
• 11:00AM Cyber Seniors-Jada
• 11:00AM Seabee Museum Tour
• 1:00PM Walking Group
• 1:00PM The Films of Federico Fellini
• 1:30PM Antoni Gaudi 
• 2:00PM Family, Intimate Relations (Quinn Hall)
• 4:30PM Axemakers (Zoom)

Thursday

• 9:00AM Cyber Seniors-Max
• 9:30AM Sketching
• 12:00PM The Arab Spring
• 1:00PM Mah Jonng (lobby)
• 2:00PM Intro to Holocaust Studies
• 2:00PM Finance Meeting
• 3:30PM The Short Story/American Identity (Zoom)
• 6:00PM Ukulele

Friday

• 9:30AM Poetry of Paul Simon/Joni Mitchell
• 10AM Intergenerational Art- Photography
• 1:00PM Book Club
• 1:00PM Watercolor Portraits from Photos