This week at OLLI -October 3

October 4, 2022

Week of October 3

Reminders: 

NEW OLLI CLASSES: Click here to view the new FALL classes including Voting in Rhode Island, How the General assembly Works and Animal Farm: A Warning.

CYBER SENIORS No appointments necessary! Stop by and meet Greeshma. She will be in the lobby to help with all your technology needs on the following days/times:

  • Tuesdays, 1:30PM-3:30PM

  • Thursdays 12:30PM-3:30PM 

This Week at OLLI

Monday 

  • 9:30AM Conversational Italian

  • 11:30AM Membership Welcome

  • 1:30PM Playing With Shakespeare

  • 2:00PM Film Appreciation

  • 2:30PM URI Medicinal Plants

Tuesday

  • 9:30AM Wolf Hall Trilogy

  • 10:00 AM Going Deep: Exploring the Blue Frontier

  • 11:30AM A Republic If You Can Keep It

  • 1:30-3:30PM Cyber Seniors (Lobby)

  • 2:00PM More American Short Stories (Zoom)

  • 3:00PM Edith Wharton

Wednesday

  • No Classes- Yom Kippur

  • 2:00PM Outreach Committee

Thursday-URI Day of Giving

  • 9:00AM Technology Committee

  • 10:00AM Museum of Work and Culture

  • 1:00PM Mah Jonng

  • 4:00PM Ukulele Jam

Friday

  • 10:00AM Photo Friday (Zoom)

  • 11:00AM Animal Farm

  • 1:00PM Avatar

  • 1:0PM0 Writers Group (Zoom)

  • 1:00PM Monty Python 

URI DAY OF GIVING- Show your OLLI pride by making a gift on October 6, URI Day of Giving! OLLI gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $2,000, thanks to the generosity of members of our OLLI Advisory Council. Your support will provide OLLI with essential resources to continue our great work.  Click here to make your gift to OLLI and have it matched! You may also drop by the OLLI office and make your gift by check payable to the URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement (URIFAE). All gifts go directly to support OLLI operations. Thanks for your continued support of OLLI!

SPRING COURSE PROPOSALS DUE THIS WEEK- The deadline for spring course proposals is approaching!  Please have your proposals submitted by Tuesday, October 4.  All proposals must be submitted online using our Course Proposal Form. Our spring semester begins March 28 and runs until May 26.

MONDAY MOVIE at Cross Mills Public Library- Where the Crawdads Sing (PG-13) Monday, October 3, at 4pm. A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was once involved with.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR LECTURE-The Harrington School of Communication and Media and College of Arts and Sciences invites you to attend the 2022 Christiane Amanpour Lecture on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at Edwards Hall Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.

This year’s Christiane Amanpour Lecture features Jane Ferguson, an award-winning international correspondent for PBS NewsHour and contributor to the New Yorker. The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Vladimir Duthiers, correspondent and anchor for CBS News. Register here!