This Week at OLLI- Week of March 28

Welcome to the first week of Spring Semester!

PARKING: If you are coming to class this week and have not registered for parking, please call the office at 874-4197!

FULL CLASSES: The following classes are FULL with wait lists. If you are interested in any, please add your name to the Wait List. There are always cancellations and oftentimes we are able to offer an additional class and will contact you to register.

Newport Colonial Walk
Learn to Play Mah Jongg
Must See Museums and Attractions in Little Rhody
Saunderstown Weaving School
Walking Rhode Island
Watch Hill Photo Walk
Strolling Through History
Intro to Alexander Technique
Getting to Know Your iphone-
Sketching as a Means of Recording Life and Environment
Gilbert Stuart
Horseback riding
Great Decisions- Russia
The Lyrical Poetry of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell
Beginner Rug Hooking
Ukulele
Pysanky Eggs
Animal Rescue Rhode Island Tour
Fabulous Fibonacci

PET DRIVE: Don’t forget to bring a donation for our Pet Drive for Animal Rescue Rhode Island. There is a bin located in the lobby outside our office.

ANNUAL THEWLIS LECTURE: Remember to register here for the ANNUAL THEWLIS LECTURE- Ageism and You: Why it Matters. This is a VIRTUAL PRESENTATION.
Read more information here and register online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUukNgtuBz2ASTXXmwjGDIo2VUjrFEGR2bvnzyjlPU4SmQKg/viewform

FREE FOR MEMBERS– INTERGENERATIONAL ART PROGRAM

We continue to support the work of our URI students with various intergenerational and research projects. This semester we are reaching out to our OLLI members who enjoy the expressive arts.

The URI Child Development Center preschoolers want to have FUN with you! OLLI members will gather in our OLLI Classroom with a URI student guiding the artistic experience. The Preschoolers will be in their classroom doing the same project. Later in the semester OLLI and Preschool students will display their work in celebration. We also hope to conduct a ZOOM meeting with the preschoolers chatting about our experience. All supplies will be provided by URI.

There is no cost to you, but you must register for each session online. Limited enrollment of 20 per session. Click here to view the flyer and register online by clicking here.

Wednesday, March 30, 10AM-12PM WATERCOLOR
Wednesday April 6, 10AM-12PM, ROLLING PAINTING
Friday, April 22, 10AM-12PM, PHOTOGRAPHY

Any questions, please email olli@uri.edu or call 401-874-4197.

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

Conversational Italian with Dora Waters– Starts this Wednesday, March 30 from 9:30-11:00AM After a review of beginning concepts, vocabulary, present tense verbs, commands, and culture, we will progress to more expansive concepts with idioms, past, future, conditional tenses, and vocabulary utilizing real life situations for travel and culture. Students are expected to fully engage, individually or with partners in class, and in oral participation each week. For the first class: Continuing students: begin Capitolo 4 in the Danesi text. If you did not attend the fall 2021 session, review the first 3 capitoli (chapters). Required text: Marcel Danesi, PhD, Italian Conversation Premium Second Edition (McGraw Hill, 2018).
Antoni Gaudi: God’s Architect with Marilyn Harris- 4 Sessions starting March 30 from 1:30-3:00PM This class will take you to some of the best of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces at different points throughout the city.. The most visited attraction in Barcelona is the unfinished giant basilica, La Sagrada Familia. When Gaudí died in 1926, the basilica was between 15 and 25% complete; we’ll check in to see how it’s coming along now. We’ll also make stops at the Park Güell and Casa Milà (“La Pedrera”) to learn more about this unique architectural genius and add a stop at the fantastic Casa Batllo (The House of Bones).
Othello- with Lyn Primavera-6 Session starting Monday, April 4, 11:30-1:00PM- Shakespeare’s tragedy about masterful manipulation, racial prejudice, extreme envy, intricate vengeance, misogyny, and the devastating heartbreak of true love. In this class we will read, interpret, and discuss this fantastic Shakespeare play. Required text: William Shakespeare: Othello (Shakespearean English version. No parallel texts).
Gwendolyn Brooks and Adrienne Rich: Poetry in Black and White– 3 Sessions starting April 5, 10AM-11:30AM Click here to watch the Preview. An introduction to the lives and works of two of the most prolific and celebrated poets of the 20th century, in careers that spanned decades. We will consider representative poems from the different stages of their careers in appreciation of the artistry with which they address issues of race, class, gender, and the emotional complexity of human relationships
Do it Man! The Story of the Celebrity Club with Tom Shaker– 1 Session on April 5, from 2-4pm Click here to watch the Preview Do It, Man! tells the story of Providence’s legendary Celebrity Club, believed to be the first integrated nightclub in New England feature top national jazz and R&B acts as well as local talent throughout the 1950s. There will be time for discussion after the screening.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE You can still register for many of the classes coming up this week. Call the office at 401-874-4197 or log on to your account: URIOLLI.AUGUSOFT.NET

Monday

12PM Aging Fully
1:30PM Creative Writing
3:30 PM Bob Dylan/Folk Music

Tuesday

10AM Cyber Seniors-Max
10AM Angels of Mercy
12:30PM Bowling Group
3:30 House of Mirth
4PM Beginner Rug Hooking

Wednesday

9:30AM Conversational Italian
10AM Intergenerational Art- Watercolor-FREE for members- Click for more information.
11AM Cyber Seniors-Jada
1PM Walking Group
1:30PM Antoni Gaudi
2PM Family, Intimate Relations (Quinn)

Thursday

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

Friday

10AM Photo Friday
1PM Writer’s Group

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