THE OFFICE IS CLOSED Monday- VICTORY DAY!
Week of August 8
OLLI SHOWCASE: A special OLLI Showcase will be held on Thursday, August 11, between 9:30AM-12:30PM for non-members to sample 6 of our new Fall classes and learn about our Special Interest Programs. You can help us grow by introducing a friend to OLLI. Share your enthusiasm about your experience as a member of OLLI! Click here to view a flyer you can share with your friends!
OLLI SATISFACTION SURVEY
Don’t forget to fill out our 5-minute OLLI Satisfaction Survey! This helps us create a better experience for our members and help steer the direction of OLLI. The survey is open to current, former, and mailing list members and was sent out via email last week. Click here to complete the survey: https://uri.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82qnnaGPTAQAnZA
This Week at OLLI
Monday
- Office Closed-Victory Day
Tuesday
- 9:30AM The Evolution of Drug Discovery
- 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 Photography with your iPhone **Meets at South County Museum
- 11:30AM Salon des Refuses
- 12:30PM Bowling
- 1:00PM Walking Group
- 2:00PM Smith’s Castle: A RI Treasure
Thursday
- 9:30AM Renewable Energy
- 9:30AM OLLI Showcase
- 1:00PM Mah Jonng
- 2:00PM Curriculum Comm
- 3:00PM History of Russia
- 5:00PM Vegetable Research at URI
CLASS SPOTLIGHTS… .check them out!
BIOMES MARINE BIOLOGY CENTER– 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 now 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.
C.S. LEWIS: THE FOUR LOVES (ON ZOOM) Monday, August 22, at 1PM with Teresa Testa. 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!
Teresa M. Testa is a Ph.D. candidate at Salve Regina University, where her dissertation research explores 20th-century American cultural approaches to moral theory within the philosophy of technology and theology. Graduating from Brown University with a concentration in English and American literature, Teresa also earned the M.Sc. in organizational management from Salve Regina University with emphasis on modern business ethical standards. Her academic interests are extensive and often connect multiple disciplines within the humanities.
Senior Day: A health, wellness and fall risk program.
The University of Rhode Island would like to cordially invite you to participate in their annual Senior Day: A health, wellness and fall risk program. Registration is limited and open until August 15. For more information or questions please contact the Senior Day program committee at seniorday@etal.uri.edu or 401-874-2117. Click here for all the details.