Week of January 31
Reminder: MASKS ARE REQUIRED IN THE CLASSROOM FOR BOTH INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS.
Monday
10:00AM Suicide Prevention
1:00PM Shakespeare- Hamlet
Tuesday
9:30AM Oceanography (Zoom)
11:00AM Swing! Swing! Swing!
11:30AM Six Things You Should Know About Genetics
1:30PM Two Elders: James Baldwin & Toni Morrison
3:30PM Ancient Ethics
4:30PM Mark Twain: Americana Celebrated (Zoom)
Wednesday
1:00PM-Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden
1:00PM Walking Group
2:00PM Outreach Committee Meeting
3:30PM Judaism, Christianity and Islam
4:00PM Renaissance Italy-Florence
Thursday
9:00AM Let’s Skate (Boss Arena)
10:30AM Soul in Motion
3:30PM-American Protest Songs
Friday
9:30AM Strong Women, Strong Roles
10AM Photo Friday (Zoom)
1:00PM Writer’s Group (Zoom)
1:00PM Viewing of the Maid (last 3 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.
- Women’s Role in the Fight for Independence on Feb 9, 16, 23 Click here to read the course description.
New Special Interest Group: Bowling
Join OLLI at Old Mountain Lanes in Wakefield on Tuesdays, at 12:30PM.
$3 per game/$3.75 shoe rental Register online.
Canceled Classes:
- American Art: New Directions has been canceled due to low enrollment.
CLASS SPOTLIGHTS: Register online for these classes, or call the office at 401-874-4197.
The Epic in World Literature with Francesca Borrione and Cole Chang
3 Sessions on Zoom beginning Monday, February 7, 11:30Am-1:00PM $40
What makes a piece of literature an epic? The genre has been one of the most significant in the western literary canon. We will address questions related to the origin, evolution, and history of the epic. What are the commonly used tropes, motifs, and literary patterns in the epic? In what way is the epic still relevant and how? Most importantly, we will challenge the assumption that the epic is a western literary invention. We will engage with the epic produced in non-western cultures and examine its similarities and differences in the western canon. We will discuss these questions by exploring works such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, and Beowulf. A list of reading selections will be provided to those who register.
Partner Yoga with Linda Morse
1 Session on Wednesday, Feb 9, 9:30AM-11:30AM $15
Have you been interested in doing yoga but felt restricted or uneasy about joining a yoga class? Have you simply wanted to improve your flexibility and strength of movement? In this very relaxed workshop, you can gain some physical benefits, connection with another, and, more importantly, have FUN!!! Feel free to bring a partner along with you or come by yourself with an openness to participate with another. This program can be experienced in the chair or bring a yoga mat or blanket to use on the floor.
THERE’S STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR THESE CLASSES HAPPENING THIS WEEK!
Playing with Shakespeare: Hamlet with Laurie Heineman
6 Sessions beginning Monday, January 31, at 1PM $55
We will explore Hamlet as a playshop/workshop, beginning with some readings from a shortened script. As the weeks progress, we will take closer readings and discuss thoughts on key scenes. No experience necessary! No stress! No need to have read it before, but no amount of experience is too much either. Everyone will end up with a greater understanding and love of this masterwork, the most performed play of the past 450 years.
Two Elders: James Baldwin and Toni Morrison with Vincent Colapietro, URI Adjunct Professor of Humanities
4 Sessions beginning Tuesday, February 1, at 1:30PM $45
This course focuses on two of the most important voices in American literature. We will read and discuss several essays by both, texts of immediate relevance to our historical moment. While reference will be made to their fiction, we will look at their nonfiction – their essays as lenses through which aspects of other history, including the historical present, come more sharply into focus or become visible for the first time. The contemporary relevance of these two elders cannot be exaggerated: with their aid, we can come to know ourselves as Americans. And that is, at bottom, the aim of this course. “It is a complex fate,” Henry James observes, “to be an American.” Let’s explore this complexity.
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.
The RI Nature Video Festival will return again in 2022 as a strictly online affair. RI Nature Video Festival ~ Sunday February 13, 2022 @ 3:00pm
Read more here: https://www.environmentcouncilri.org/content/ecri-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D156817798
Rhody Basketball
You can still get tickets for Rhody Basketball as they take on Dayton on Monday, February 14, at 9PM. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased by clicking here. Go Rhody!!
Cyber Seniors is back beginning Wednesday, February 9, from 11AM to 2PM. More details and other times coming soon!
Stroke Patients Needed for Research Study: Two URI MS students are studying the effect of low-level electrical brain stimulation in patients who have had a stroke. The study will combine the use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and virtual reality to assess functional changes in gait in patients who have had a stroke with partial lower extremity paralysis. Read more about the study and how you can get involved here: https://web.uri.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1247/2022/01/Brochure_Stroke_Study.pdf
URI News this week: http://uri.imodules.com/controls/email_marketing/view_in_browser.aspx?sid=1638&gid=4&sendId=3153831&ecatid=40&puid=4e51fe4a-7b9a-4dbd-9170-2377bf769e23
Center for the Humanities Brown Bag Series-Where Empires End: The Spanish-Portuguese Frontier and Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance
Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Ximena Sevilla, “Where Empires End: The Spanish-Portuguese Frontier and Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance.” This is the fourth presentation in the Center for the Humanities’ 2021-22 Brown Bag Series. All talks (which are free and open to the public) will be held in the Hardge Forum at the Multicultural Student Services Center and broadcast on Zoom. Click here for more information. Free.