Week of April 4
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– 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
Tech Talk SCAM SCARES– Free but please register online.
Thursday, April 28, at 11AM on Zoom.
The Tech Committee invites you to join this month’s Special Interest Group, Let’s Talk Technology conversation on Scam Scares. Increasingly clever and sophisticated phishing scams are showing up everywhere: in your email, through unsolicited phone calls, including robo calls, on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and even in your text messages. Don’t get caught up in it! We have heard presentations from the AARP crime fighters and the Digital Footprint protectors. Building on this foundation of information, let’s have an OLLI conversation with members of our Technology Committee about our most recent experiences and threats and how to detect and protect. Bring your questions and let’s discuss being safe on the internet.
FREE FOR MEMBERS- INTERGENERATIONAL ART PROGRAM
Join us on Wednesday April 6, 10AM-12PM, for ROLLING PAINTING or Friday, April 22, 10AM-12PM, or PHOTOGRAPHY
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. Any questions, please email olli@uri.edu or call 401-874-4197.
INTRODUCE A FRIEND TO OLLI- If you’re interested in bringing a guest to a 1-time lecture to introduce them to OLLI, stop by the office.
CLASS SPOTLIGHTS: Click here to register or call 401-874-4197
There’s still time to register for these classes starting this week!
Gwendolyn Brooks and Adrienne Rich: Poetry in Black and White with Jane Barstow
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.
Improve Your Global Literacy with Jim Buxton- 3 sessions starting Tuesday, April 5. From 1:30PM-3:00PM
This course will use all kinds of maps to assist in better understanding the world. We will focus on literacy, life expectancy, infant mortality, per capita GDP, ethnicity, religious beliefs, wars, military spending, refugees, human rights, malnutrition, energy use, and more. Besides analyzing what these maps tell us, we will spend considerable time discussing these topics
DO IT, MAN! THE STORY OF THE CELEBRITY CLUB with Tom Shaker on April 5, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 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 featuring top national jazz and R&B acts as well as local talent throughout the 1950s. There will be time for discussion after the screening.
This Week at OLLI
Monday
- 9:30AM Getting to Know Your iPhone
- 11:30AM Othello
- 12PM Aging Fully
- 1:30PM Creative Writing
- 3:30 PM Bob Dylan/Folk Music
Tuesday
- 10:00AM Cyber Seniors-Max
- 10:00AM Poetry in Black and White
- 12:30PM Bowling Group
- 1:30PM Improve Your Global Literacy
- 2:00PM Do It Man! The Story of the Celebrity Club
- 3:30PM House of Mirth
Wednesday
- 9:30AM Conversational Italian
- 10:00AM Intergenerational Art- Rolling Painting-FREE for members
- 11:00AM Cyber Seniors-Jada
- 1:00PM Walking Group
- 1:00PM The Films of Federico Fellini
- 1:30PM Antoni Gaudi
- 2:00PM Family, Intimate Relations (Quinn
- Thursday
- 9:00AM Skating @ Boss Arena
- 9:00AM Cyber Seniors-Max
- 9:30AM Sketching
- 12:00PM The Arab Spring
- 1:00PM Mah Jonng (lobby)
- 2:00PM Intro to Holocaust Studies
- 3:30PM The Short Story/American Identity (Zoom)
- 6:00PM Ukulele
Friday
- 9:30AM Poetry of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell
- 10:00AM A Swedish Utopia in the USA
OLLI at Southern Miss Two-Part Webinar
Free to OLLI members nationwide
Better Capitalism: Jesus, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and MLK Jr. on Moving from Plantation to Partnership Economics. Zoom joining details will be emailed to all registrants the day before each talk.
An Introduction to Better Capitalism: You Are Right! There is a Better Way! Two-Part Mini-Seminar
- Tuesday, April 5 | Zoom
- Tuesday, April 12 | Zoom 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CST
Led by Rev. Paul Knowlton and Aaron Hedges
At some point you’ve looked up from a business-related task, paused before your head explodes, and thought, “There’s got to be a better way!” Here it is. With this seminar, led by one of the authors of the new book Better Capitalism: Jesus, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand and MLK Jr. on Moving from Plantation to Partnership Economics (an Amazon No. 1 new release), you’ll see that capitalism reinvents itself and that a post-pandemic reinvention with the principles of Partnership Economics leads to a more profitable and ethical form of capitalism that is that better way. Join us to unleash mutually beneficial capitalism! Rev. Paul Knowlton is the co-author of the recently published book Better Capitalism: Jesus, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand and MLK Jr. on Moving from Plantation to Partnership Economics. An engineer turned attorney and ordained minister, Paul holds a bachelor’s in engineering, Juris Doctorate (JD) and Master of Divinity (MDiv) for a truly interdisciplinary approach to every question. He has taught primarily at the college and professional levels. Aaron Hedges, MBA, MDiv, is the co-author of the recently published book Better Capitalism: Jesus, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand and MLK Jr. on Moving from Plantation to Partnership Economics. He has lived the organizational life from first paid employee of an entrepreneurial start-up to CEO as the organization has grown to serve families from 48 states. Register here.