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Smile for the Camera!
We need you to be a part of the Big Picture....literally! On Thursday, June 26, about 10 am, we will have a photographer on-site to take OLLI's picture for use on our catalog, website, and more. We need a big crowd of folks to gather in the lower lobby and say "cheese"!
Please mark your calendar to stop by and be a part of this fun project!
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SIG The Forum
Meets Fridays, 1 pm
 The Forum is always open to new members for the interchange of ideas! The Forum engages in open discussion designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on topics ranging from global warming and its consequences to current events.
Topic for our June 27, 2014 meeting: "Analyzing the Media"
If you would like to join the lively discussions of The Forum, contact for more information.
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 MOTION Dance Creativity Workshop
Sunday, June 29, 2 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
Free and open to the public
MOTION Dance Theatre Artistic Director Nick Kepley, will lead a one and a half hour workshop detailing specific methods utilized by choreographers across the globe and explain how their concepts of creativity can be applied to nearly any job in any career field. How can we unleash more creative potential during corporate brainstorming sessions? How can restrictions and guidelines be used to enhance productivity rather than hinder it? The workshop will feature performances by MOTION dancers, culled from critically acclaimed companies around the country. Tickets will be raffled for MOTION's upcoming performances, July 11-12 at Diana Wortham Theatre. Warning: Although participants will not be asked to dance, they may leave feeling inspired to do so!
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OLLI Membership Social
Join your OLLI friends for our annual summer barbecue on Wednesday, July 16, 4:30 - 6:30 pm. Bandanas and cowboy hats are optional. Take this opportunity to socialize, enjoy great food, and sign up for your 2014-15 OLLI membership.
Yee haw! Hope to see you there!
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Stories on Asheville's Front Porch
Presents
August Storytelling Performance of
True Stories Told Live
at the Reuter Center's
Manheimer Room
Theme: A Twist of Fate
Thursday, August 21, 7:15 pm
$5 at the door  Enjoy stories from OLLI members and story tellers:
Ann Karson, Dave Castel, Fran Fedor, Chuck Fink, James Hilderbrandt, Sarah Larson, and Mike Sena,
and
Creator of the Jonesborough Storytelling Guild & Member of Asheville's Front Porch Board of Directors, David Joe Miller
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Free August
Groove Dancing!  Groove Dance is a vigorous form of exercise that's easy and fun...and relatively new to Asheville. Learn a few simple steps, which are set to music with an infectious beat.
Low on technique, and high on energy, this dance form is great for anyone who wants a good workout, but has had it with treadmills, step dance, and other rulebound exercise classes.
Fran Ross is offering four Tuesday morning sessions, August 5, 12, 19, and 26, 10-11 am for OLLI members and others to try out Groove. Take advantage of this no-cost, short-term commitment; anyone from the community can attend.
Contact Fran Ross, franijii@charter.net , 828-274-6709, to reserve your space.
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Interested in OLLI Talk?
OLLITalk is an email distribution list available to OLLI members who choose to participate. It is a place to exchange general information and to ask for and share recommendations or referrals for goods and services. If you are a current OLLI member and are interested in joining OLLITalk, just send your email request to be added to the distribution list to olli@unca.edu
And to view an archive of OLLITalk emails, click here. Enjoy!
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Dear OLLI Members,
In our College for Seniors, civic engagement, and life transitions courses and Workshops we offer a rich and varied curriculum taught by world-class instructors. In a vibrant community like Asheville, there are many opportunities for learning, but here at OLLI at UNC Asheville, we thrive because we are a community of teachers and learners. Courses are not monologues by an expert, but rich exchanges of information both inside and outside the classroom. Participants are not only "students" but contributors to an ongoing respectful dialogue. People come to learn and end up forming rich friendships and finding inspiration for new ways of looking at the world.
To help us celebrate our community, we hope that you will join us this Thursday, June 26, at 10 am for a group photo at the Reuter Center. We want to take a group photo, as full and representative of our membership as possible, that will be used on our our print and electronic publications throughout 2014-15. Your presence will help us capture the energy and joy of our membership; please consider making an effort to be at the Center this Thursday.
Our member socials also allow us to express and celebrate our community; we hope that you will join us Wednesday, July 16, 4:30-6:30 pm for our annual Membership Round-Up Social. This year we are going to try to use an RSVP system to help us better gauge the amount of food we will need. Please see the link in this newsletter.
We are also excited to be able to offer next Sunday, June 29, 2 pm, the MOTION Dance Creativity Workshop; you don't have to be a dancer to learn the lessons of creativity this group has perfected. Thanks to OLLI member Susan Coyle for bringing this opportunity our way.
With gratitude for the many ways we learn together,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events: 
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Wild Words Writing Workshop
Date: July 12, 2014 Times: 10 am - 3 pm
Instructor: Victoria Rose
Fee: $55/person 
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - OLLI MEMBERSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED TO REGISTER A safe space is established so writing can be explored and critiqued. All writers are welcome, since we all have valuable stories to share. The flow of the day will include prompts, writing, and group feedback. Guidelines for feedback will provide structure for the workshop. Writing prompts are active and thought provoking, guiding us to reveal our stories. Victoria Rose (wild.words.artist@gmail.com) has a master of education degree, has published in The Urban News, the Asheville Citizen-Times, Fresh, Hudson River Sampler, and Hudson Valley Literary Magazine. Victoria has facilitated workshops for over twelve years.
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Volunteer Opportunity
The OLLI members who work behind the scenes to create our Member Socials, need helpers for the upcoming event Wednesday, July 16, 4:30 pm at the Reuter Center. Please contact Jeanne Smolkin if you are interested in helping with this event. Her contact info is 828-254-4789 or jsmolkin@gmail.com
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Reading of Three One-Act Plays
Please join us to celebrate the publication of The MemoryCare Plays
Date: Thursday,
June 26, 2014
Time: 5-6:30 pm
includes reception followed by a staged reading and discussion of the one-act play Steering Into the Skid
Registration: This presentation is free, but registration is required due to limited space. To register please call 828-274-4801. When you hear the "Cisco" message enter extension 2249.
Signed copies of The MemoryCare Plays will be for sale at the event, with proceeds benefitting families affected by Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
Click here to learn more.
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Bobby Norfolk Telling Tales
 Emmy Award winning, nationally touring storyteller Bobby Norfolk will perform Saturday, June 28, 7:30 pm at Ferguson Auditorium on the AB Tech Asheville Campus on Victoria Road. Tickets are $10.
In a program titled
"A Feast of Stories: Delectable Tales for the Adult Palate" this energetic and popular entertainer will present stories from his numerous CDs and television appearances.
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Tutor One Child. Change Two Lives.
 From June 23--July 4 (July 4 is an optional review day), the Literacy Council is holding its annual Augustine Project tutor training. The Augustine Project is a tutoring program that works with children from low-income families who are reading, writing, or spelling below grade level. Since its inaugural year in 2005, this program has had a 100% success rate.
During the two-week training, volunteers will learn how to provide research-based reading instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, spelling & written expression. They will also learn about dyslexia and other learning differences.
After training, all tutors are matched with an elementary school or middle school student. They meet with their student at least twice per week for 50 minutes each session, for a total of at least 40 hours of instruction.
For information, contact Lily Contorer, Augustine Project Director, 828-254-3442 x202 lily@litcouncil.com
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40th Anniversary Season
Catch the excitement of the fortieth anniversary season of Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater featuring three world premiere plays, and two winners of past Scriptfest competitions.
Single seat ticket prices cost just $25. Single seat season subscription rates cost just $85. That's almost seeing one show free! Buy your tickets today.
Box office hours run 12-5 pm weekdays, Sunday 1-5 pm,
12-8 pm on performance days, and closed on Mondays. Order your tickets now.
Patrons requiring handicapped seating and/or wheelchair accessible seating please call the SART Box Office 828-689-1239. Join us at historic Owen Theater on the campus of Mars Hill University.
Enjoy the music of Hoagy Charmichael with The Stardust Supper Club, June 25-July 13. (Buy your tickets by June 25 for any performance of Stardust Supper Club and save 25%. That's paying $18 for $25 seats.)
Empathize with a man returning to his Appalachian roots when his mother dies in Promises, July 16-August 3.
Share family time after WW II in the new sequel Smoke on the Mountains-Homecoming, August 6-10.
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OLLI Art Bazaar
 November 14-15, 2014Mark your calendar for this year's art bazaar. And if you are artistic and creative, please join the fun by becoming an exhibitor. Contact Leanna Preston, 828-232-5181, lpreston@unca.edu for more information. Click here for a registration form
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