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UPCOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 
January 25, 2015
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Ya Gotta Laugh!

stand up comedy
Original Stand-Up Comedy Show
Sunday, January 25, 3 pm

Scheduled in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Union's Grotto

This is an Alumni Show, featuring new as well as past performers, with some additional surprises!  All performers are graduates of the OLLI stand up comedy class taught by Randy Robins. Ample free parking, free admission and a money back guarantee...no kidding.
STEM Lecture
New Developments in
Medicine
Dr. David Mouw
Thursday, January 29,  4:30 pm
The STEM Lecture Series is interdisciplinary with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The upcoming lectures for winter term are designed around the theme of new developments in STEM disciplines.

David Mouw
Dr. Mouw, physician and OLLI member will briefly cover selected medical developments: (1) Medical care to fit or change your genes (genomics), (2) Disease improvement from better eating, (3) The role of gut bacteria in our health, (4) Big Pharma, (5) Antibiotic resistance, (6) Ebola, and others. 

This lecture is free and open to the public.
SIG The Forum Meeting
Friday, January 30, 1 pm
Reuter Center
The topic for this Forum meeting will be 'What is the Middle Class?'

The Special Interest Group "The Forum" meets at the Reuter Center most Fridays at 1 pm to engage in a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on a wide range of topics.  All OLLI members are invited to attend and join the discussion!  For more information, contact: Lou Millin, 828-298-3863, [email protected]
School starts We Need You!
Click here for a list of classes we'd like to offer.  The members of the College for Seniors curriculum committee want to find instructors for these classes and remains interested in hearing all ideas for classes!
Please stop by the OLLI office if you've  lost your gloves, hat, umbrella, jacket, coffee mug, water bottle.....your lost item may have landed in our LOST & FOUND drawer.  All items in our LOST & FOUND will be donated to charity if unclaimed at the end of the month.  Thank you!

Sundays with Brevard Music Center
Gwendolyn Dease
Sunday, February 1, 3 pm, 
February's Sundays with Brevard Music Center concert will feature Brevard Music Center artist and faculty member Gwendolyn Dease, with guest flutist Dilshad Posnock performing works by Bach, Piazzola, and more. This event is free and open to the public.
Ted Alexander Book Talk

Tuesday, February 3, 11:30 am 

Did you attend high school in the 1950s, 60s or 70s? The Fall of Summer, a novel by Ted M. Alexander, is a leap back in time, a coming-of-age thriller laced with a touch of tabloid sizzle. 

  

In a small town on Long Island, murder intrudes, but sex binds. This is a very impressive debut . . . No cardboard cutouts here.
"These are real people, and Alexander makes us care about them...One looks forward to Alexander's second novel, due out next year."~ Kirkus Reviews.

Join author and OLLI member Ted M. Alexander onTuesday, February 3, 11:30 am for a reading and book signing in the Manheimer Room This event is free and open to the public.
Sierra Club Meeting

Using Climate Data to Create Business Opportunities: 
"The Collider" 
by Robin Cape
Wednesday, February 4, 7 pm
Sierra Club, Mountain True (formerly WNC Alliance), and Green Drinks will present "Using Climate Data to Create Business Opportunities: The Collider" by Robin Cape on Wednesday, February 4 at 7 pm.  Free and open to the public. 
Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1 Edwin Pl on Charlotte in Asheville. Contact:  [email protected],  
828-683-2176
Black History Month
OLLI is proud to announce its February Black History Month program. The program includes a film and discussion about two important abolitionist crusaders, the reminiscences of one of UNC Asheville's first African-American faculty members, a lecture about slavery in Asheville and a discussion of policing and the African-American community.

Scheduled in the Reuter Center's Manheimer Room, all the events are free and open to the general public.

Friday, February 6,  9:30 am: Film screening and discussion,
"The Grimke Sisters: Abolitionist Activists" led by Catherine Frank, PhD, OLLI executive director, and Jim Lenburg, PhD, retired Mars Hill University faculty

Friday, February 6, 11:30 am
Fab Friday lecture, "An African-American Woman's Perspective on UNC Asheville" by Dee James, PhD, UNC Asheville faculty

Friday, February 13, 9:30 am
Lecture and discussion, "Policing and Minority Communities" by Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan and Wade Wood, Asheville Police Department Deputy Chief

Friday, February 20, 9:30 am
Presentation - "History of Slavery in Asheville" led by Deborah Miles, director, UNC Asheville's Center for Diversity Education, and Darin Waters, PhD, UNC Asheville history faculty

Inside the Music
Friday, May 1, 3 pm
M
Melodie Galloway
ark your calendar to attend this lecture by Melodie Galloway, UNC Asheville music department faculty and artistic director for Asheville Choral Society (ACS).  Dr. Galloway will give an inside look into the choral performance, a sneak peek at upcoming ACS season, and will introduce bring to the stage a feature vocalist for your enjoyment!  This event is free and open to the public. 

Dear OLLI Members,
We have had a successful first couple of weeks of College for Seniors classes and want to thank all of our curriculum committee members for their work shaping the curriculum, to our faculty support committee for working with instructors to create great experiences, to all of the volunteers who have helped direct members to their classes and helped at busy times in the office. Finally, thanks to the OLLI staff, Jessika Bond, Ann Cadle, Laurel Jernigan, Anne Mock, Susan Poole, and Leanna Preston, who pull together to keep everything working no matter how busy we get.

We wanted to give a brief reminder of our adverse weather policy as we enter the rest of the winter term. OLLI classes, events, meetings, and other activities will be canceled or delayed when UNC Asheville classes are canceled or delayed for adverse weather.  OLLI members should consult the UNC Asheville website at www.unca.edu to receive the latest university adverse weather and emergency bulletins.  By 8 am on bad weather days, the OLLI staff will post specific program information on our outgoing messages at 828-251-6140 or 828-251-6188.  We will also, if at all possible, send an email to active members of OLLI by 8 am regarding OLLI cancellations, closings, and delays.  If there is a delay, 9 am classes will begin at 10 am and run until 11 am.  All other classes would meet on a regular schedule.  Let's hope that we are able to hold classes safely this winter term so that no one has to miss any learning or fellowship.
 
Thank you for all that you do to model creative retirement
Catherine Frank
Executive Director

Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events:
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When you're on the OLLI calendar page, try clicking on the Daily Schedule link to see where your class will meet!

Fab Fridays Lunch & Learn Lectures

You are invited to enjoy stimulating presentations and dynamic question-and-answer sessions from local experts, about everything from music to travel and medications to wellness. Fridays, 11:30 am, Reuter Center Manheimer Room.  Free and open to the public.

January 30, 2015,  Protecting Yourself and Your Loved Ones From Elder Abuse by Julie Klipp-Nicholson and Parker Sloan.  Elder abuse is a significant health concern for our aging population. Elder abuse includes many forms of mistreatment by caretakers including physical abuse, emotional abuse, exploitation and withholding necessary care. Pisgah Legal Services Attorneys Julie Klipp-Nicholson and Parker Sloan will outline the risk  factors and warning signs of elder abuse, legal  protections for victims and their families and how to access services if you or someone you love is being abused. You will leave with a better understanding of the legal remedies and protections for individuals and  families facing physical and financial elder abuse.  This presentation is part of the Health Education Series.
  Spiritual
Newly Formed Meditation 
Special Interest Group
Monday, January 26, 4:15 pm
The Meditation SIG will meet twice a month from January through June on the second and fourth Mondays from 4:15 to 6 pm at the Reuter Center in room 120. Please mark your calendar. This Meditation group is modeled on Jackie Wollins Functional Meditation College for Seniors course, supplemented with guest speakers who will lead the group with other meditation styles. Please bring, blankets, pillows, yoga mats and name tags. See you all on MondayJanuary 26!
 
Eating Locally and Well in the Winter
Year-round Locavorism Kick Off Event
Tuesday, January 27, 11:30 am - 1 pm
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room.   
This event is free and open to the public.

Come learn from local experts how (and why) to keep eating locally throughout the winter and early spring seasons. Share your ideas on eating locally in the wintertime. Consider joining a local foods study. Enjoy tasting locally grown and produced foods!  Event sponsored by the UNC Asheville Year-round Locavorism Team, funded through a grant from the North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness.
 
Margarita McGuire
    

'I'm thrilled that people want to venture into new and exciting territory like learning a foreign language and understanding a new culture.'
- Margarita McGuire 
Advance Care Planning Workshop  
Thursday, February 19,  3 pm
Manheimer Room, Reuter Center

Consider making this workshop one of your New Year's  resolutions and have the peace of mind that planning ahead brings!

OLLI will hold an advance care planning workshop Thursday,
February 19, 3 pm
 at the Reuter Center; free and open to the public.

The workshop will feature a panel whose members are experienced in addressing end-of-life issues. Discussion will include communicating your treatment wishes to loved ones and to medical personnel, ethical and legal issues, and the uses of advance directives.  Ample time will be reserved for questions. Assistance will be provided for anyone wishing to complete a legally valid advance directive, including the notarization required in North Carolina, using N.C. Short form.

Kelly McKibben promotes well-being by teaching yoga therapy classes for vitally retired baby boomers at OLLI and beyond!

By Carol Gillen 
Kelly McKibben

Kelly explains why she loves teaching yoga at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville (OLLI), "I love the vital baby boomers and retirees -- people ranging in age from their 40s into their 80s. I work with post-menopausal women, students with chronic fatigue and hip replacements and people who feel pudgy or out of shape, basically everyone who has 'issues in their tissues.' I enjoy finding ways for each person to find comfort and steadiness in his or her yoga practice. We all need to see ourselves as whole beings: psycho-emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical beings. I like taking that integrative approach."
FILM SCREENING 
The Most Important Issue of Our Time:
The Switch Energy Project.
Manheimer Room, Friday, February 6, 2 pm

Switch Energy Project Video: moderated by Dr. Scott Tinker, Chair of the Bureau of Economic Geology at University Of Texas at Austin, former president of American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Scott Tinker at work in the lab. 
This award-winning video represents the culmination of several years of research on energy with global visits to different energy sources, such as geothermal in Iceland, hydroelectric in Norway, and solar, biofuels and fossil fuels in US. The video explores the benefits and costs of different energy types, including environmental and economic impacts.

The video is 98 minutes and will be followed by a question and answer period, moderated by Dr. Richard Wiener, OLLI instructor, who is currently teaching a course on energy at OLLI's College for Seniors.

This event is free and open to the public. 
AN  OPPORTUNITY  TO  LEARN  MORE  ABOUT  HEARING  LOOPS! 
Monday, February 16, 7 pm
Juliette Sterkens 
Dr. Juliette Sterkens, Wisconsin audiologist and national speaker, representing the Hearing Loss Association of America's effort to promote the installation and use of hearing loops, will be paying Asheville a return visit on Monday,
February 16, 7 pm, Manheimer Room. This presentation and loop demonstration is free and open to the public.

Hearing loops enable access by people with hearing loss to amplified sound in all sorts of settings. There are two loops at the Reuter Center, in Room 102 and Room 206.  From the users' point of view they are the best and easiest of assistive listening devices. The Hearing Loss Association of America would like to see hearing loops installed in more Asheville venues.

If you wear hearing aids, in a looped setting you should be able to access amplified sound via the loop at the touch of a button or switch. That's because most hearing aids have a t-coil. If you aren't sure, you should check with your hearing aid provider. Some require activation.
 
Special Thanks!
 OLLI would like to thank its Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend (CREW) tour leader, Felicia Seaman!
Prudential Lifestyle Realty
[email protected] or [email protected]
828-5053904

Felicia Seaman 
Full time buyer and listing agent with Prudential, born and raised in South Africa, Felicia has lived in North Carolina for six years and settled in beautiful South Asheville. 
 
CREW helps those considering relocation in retirement examine all their options carefully and make an informed decision about this major life transition.
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