Week of Sept 14
There’s still time to register for some of the classes coming up this week! Don’t miss out! Click here to register or call the office and we’ll be happy to help you!
PARKING-If you’re coming to classes on campus this week, you need to register your car for parking. Visit uri.aimsparking.com. You will need your OLLI learner ID, which can be found by logging in to your OLLI member account (https://uriolli.augusoft.net/) or you can call the office at 401-874-4197. We will have volunteers in the lobby this week to assist you! Stop by on Monday morning between 9 and 10AM, or on Wednesday, from 9 to 9:30AM, and from 12 to 1pm.
Monday
- 9:30AM Italian I
- 10AM Digital Photography, from Vision to Frame
- 12PM A Curious Look at the 1948 World Series
- 5PM The Card Game of Bridge
- 5:30 PM The Vietnam War
Tuesday
- 9:30AM The Poetry of Mary Oliver
- 11AM- Introduction to Horseback Riding
- 12:30PM What Exactly is Laughter? (Zoom)
- 1PM- Ingmar Bergman: Existential Filmmaker
- 1:45PM Golf
- 5:30PM The Right to Vote
Wednesday
- 9:30AM- The Civil War in the West –
- 10AM The Golden Age of Mobile Photography
- 12:30PM Feisty Foremothers from the 17th and 18th Centuries
- 1PM American Art Before 1900
- 1PM Walking Group
- 3PM The Universality of The Portrait of a Lady
- 3PM Introduction to Zentangle
Thursday
No Classes-Yom Kippur
- 1PM Mahjong
- 3PM Finance Committee
Friday
- 9:30AM The World of Odors from the Canine Perspective
- 1PM Book Club
- 2PM US Policy in Afghanistan
CANCELLED CLASSES
- Edith Wharton Revisited (instructor cancelled)
- Slavery the Scourge of Civilization (instructor cancelled)
- More Navajo Mysteries -Low Enrollment
- Civil War in the West (instructor cancelled)
CLOSED CLASSES-FULL
- Horseback Riding
- Audubon Society
- Ice Skating
- US Policy in Afghanistan
- The Poetry of Mary Oliver
- Flexible & Versatile Chenin Blanc – Oct 19
- Rhode Island Fresh (Sept class)
CLASS SPOTLIGHT: Click to register or call the office at 401-874-4197.
More Winning Novels of 2020
with Marylen McKenna Sept 21, Oct 26, Nov 30, 11:30 AM – 1 PM $40
Explore, discuss, and enjoy current award winning novels in class where everyone will participate in the discussion. We will begin with EEG by Dasa Drndie, winner of the 2020 Best Translated Book Award. In the second class, we will read Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and women’s prize for fiction. And we will conclude with Luster by Raven Leilani, winner of the John Leonard Prize and the Pen/Hemingway for a debut novel. We will explore the criteria for the awards, our agreement or disagreement with the selection, and delve into the character, plot, sense of place, and arc of the book.
Required texts:
Dasa Drndie: EEG, Maggie O’Farrell: Hamnet , Leilani Luster: Raven,
Environmental Policy in New Zealand with Bill Brownell
Sept 21, 28 Oct 5, 3 – 4:30 PM $40
Click here to watch the Video Preview
The objective will be to study and discuss the evolution and application of New Zealand’s progressive environmental policies and how they are driven by an all-encompassing “Clean and Green New Zealand” brand. An early history of extreme environmental exploitation and degradation has given way to a modern philosophy of achieving maximum social and economic benefit for the entire country through protection and enhancement of natural landscapes, soil, water and endemic ecosystems. This approach has resulted in high levels of international approval for New Zealand’s tourism opportunities and its extremely successful natural resource based industries (dairying, horticulture, beef and sheep meats, wool, fisheries/aquaculture and forestry). The class will analyze the roles of a multiparty political structure, a strong sense of national identity, an influential indigenous culture, inspired leadership, and a relatively enlightened business community in achieving a high level of environmental sustainability for the country and its people. For the first class: read excerpts from the Chapman book and the Huntington and O’Brien article (to be emailed to those who register).
Check out this welcome message from URI’s new president In a video message, URI’s new president extends a warm welcome to the entire URI community, at the start of the 2021–2022 academic year.
https://vimeo.com/596585885/a746e8ceb9
Gardening with the Masters Tour
Sept 25-26, 10AM-4PM
The 10th annual Gardening with the Masters Tour will feature 15 private gardens located throughout Rhode Island and surrounding areas owned and cared for by URI Master Gardener volunteers.
For more info and to purchase tickets, please click here.