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UPCOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 
August 16, 2015
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David Starkey & Friends
Recital: 
Opera Talk
Friday, August 21, 3 pm

This recital will feature a performance by the general director of the Asheville Lyric Opera (ALO), David Craig Starkey. Starkey graduated from Indiana University with a masters in opera performance and performed in
 the professional opera world before settling in Asheville to direct the ALO.
ALO brings great stories and music to life on Asheville's premiere theatrical stage, the Diana Wortham Theatre and provides a monthly "behind the scenes" look at the world of opera through Opera Talks at the Reuter Center. 
This performance is free and open to the public. 
Day of Caring

What:  OLLI volunteers will give back to their communities during the 24th Day of Caring.  This year, OLLI Day of Caring volunteers will visit the campus of Buncombe County Early College on the AB Tech campus to meet with students and talk about the path they took to get to where they are today- both personally and professionally. 
 Eighty percent of the students in the Early College are under-represented in college due to minority affiliation, first-in-family-to-graduate, and low socio-economic status. Your participation can help make a difference!
http://www.buncombe.k12.nc.us/bcec

When: Thursday, September 10, 
12- 2 pm
Where: Buncombe Country Early College, 340 Victoria Road,Asheville NC 28801 (AB-Tech Campus)

How: Contact Jessika Bond,  [email protected] by Sept. 1st.


Sierra Club Meeting

Wednesday, September 2,  7 pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
of Asheville
1 Edwin Place
(corner of Charlotte and Edwin)

"A French Broad River Odyssey"
with Dr. Chris Lechner
Dr. Lechner is an Asheville physician and  the first person to stand-up paddle the entire length of the French Broad paddle trail. Dr. Lechner will share his pictures, videos, and adventures along the river.

Sierra Club meetings are held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, (corner of Charlotte & Edwin) 
For more information, contact: [email protected]
828-683-2176

Talk
OLLITalk and OLLIMeet are email distribution lists available to OLLI members who choose to participate. 

OLLITalk  is a place to exchange general information, ask for and send recommendations or referrals about goods and services.
OLLIMeet is the place to contact other OLLI members about "meet ups" for cultural events, outdoor activities, and the like.  Begin your email conversation here and then email person to person for follow-up. 

 If you are a current OLLI member and are interested in joining OLLITalk or OLLIMeet, just send your email request to be added to the distribution list to [email protected],
STEM Lecture  
Thursday, September 3,  4:30 pm
Reuter Center

New Developments in Health & Wellness - Different Perspectives
Ameena Batada and Ellen Garrison, UNC Asheville's Department of Health and Wellness  

Despite the significant benefits of regular physical activity and its importance for disease prevention and lifelong health and wellness, less than half of American adults get the recommended amount of physical activity. Join Ellen Garrison, MEd, for an exploration of the science and technology of the perils of sitting, including expert perspectives, apps, programs, smart cushions, standing desks, and walking work stations, and realistic recommendations for getting active. 

And lest you think getting active is all personal, Ameena Batada, doctor of public health, will present innovative public health policies and programs created to make physical activity easier, from piano key staircases to the U.S. government's Let's Move campaign. This may be the first presentation that makes you want to run!
STEM lectures are free and open to the public.
Organic Growers Conference 
September 11 and 12
AB Tech Campus
 
This conference is for backyard and urban growers, homesteaders, and all types of gardeners and features sessions on fall and winter growing, home cooking, fermentation, preservation, homestead skills, and self-reliance. 
The fee for the conference is $45 by 8/7, $50 after. For more information, visit the Organic Growers website  organicgrowersschool.org

And click here to view an event flier.
Dear OLLI Members,
We are looking forward to seeing all of you again when we hold registration on Tuesday, August 18.  We will send an email a little later today with all of the details. Please remember that we did not mail Fall 2015 catalogs to our members in Buncombe County this term. You may come to the Reuter Center any time to pick up a catalog or you may click here to read the catalog online.

We encourage you to have a look at the many volunteer opportunities described in this newsletter.  If you want to be out in the broader community, consider volunteering to be part of the OLLI team for the Annual Day of Caring.  This year we will be part of the Buncombe County Early College program to inspire young people to pursue higher education.  You might want to join members of OLLI's Inclusion and Civic Engagement committees who support the Americans Who Tell the Truth exhibition, to be held at the YMI Cultural Center from September 19 to November 7.  Closer to home, you could contribute to the success of the College for Seniors by being a class rep, or you might want to take on the responsibility of working with staff to coordinate the activities of the Workshops committee.

Remember that OLLI runs on the contributions of our volunteers and that there are many ways to be involved in our success. If you don't see an opportunity here that meets your needs, please talk to Jessika Bond ([email protected]) or Laurel Jernigan ([email protected]) for more information.

 We appreciate the passion each of you brings to your creative retirement, 
 
Catherine Frank
Executive Director

mark your calendar 
OLLI Fall Registration
Tuesday, August 18, by 8 am  
Mark your calendar, set your alarm, and make a plan!  Fall registration is just around the corner. We will send out an email with full details about registration later this afternoon.
Check the box to be a class rep!
Class reps help welcome new members to College for Seniors classes, take attendance, and work with instructors to make sure that our classes operate smoothly and everyone feels part of our community.  This volunteer opportunity offers a way to be involved and contribute to the success of College for Seniors by helping staff and instructors with logistics.  Reps get to know their classmates and instructors well and have the satisfaction of making a contribution to the classes they attend.  If you have questions, please contact Jessika Bond at 828-251-6140.

You can volunteer to be a class rep by checking the box on the registration form for Fall 2015 courses. 

Storytelling Event
Thursday,  August 20, 7:15 pm 
The theme for the storytelling evening scheduled for Thursday, August 20 is Courage and Fortitude, and the sponsor is Stories on Asheville's Front Porch. Tellers include local tellers, members of the OLLI SIG Stories for the Third Act, and a few surprises. Recommended donation: $10. So find your resolve and join "Stories on Asheville's Front Porch" on Thursday, August 20, 7:15-8:45 pm
in the Manheimer Room.


Special Interest Group (SIG): The Forum Meeting
Friday, August 21, 1 pm
 
The Forum meetings offer a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on topics ranging from changing demographics of retirees to nuclear disarmament. At the meeting on August 21, the group will focus on the topic, "Reform of the Judicial Process and Prison System."

All OLLI members are invited, and OLLI membership is required to attend.  For more information contact: 
Eugene Jaroslaw, 
828-255-9925, [email protected]
Autumn Players Readers Theatre
Sunday, August 30, 2:30 pm
 
theatre
TWO ONE ACT PLAYS, 
directed by Jim Reid,
 Tickets - $6 at the door,
 (includes North Carolina sales tax)

THE BROWNING VERSION - A searching, sensitive portrait of Andrew Crocker-Harris, a professor at an English public school. Once a brilliant scholar, he now must face the fact that his career, due to his rigid insistence on rules and regulations, has been a failure. His realization leads to a farewell address before a school assembly which is one is students will never forget.

GOODBYE HOWARD - Three rich and wacky Southern sisters gather in the lobby of a small hotel to keep watch over their gravely ill brother. There they meet a well-meaning youth from the backwoods who is every bit as wacky as they are. When they mistakenly come to believe that their brother has died, pandemonium breaks out in this delightful comedy.

The OLLI Workshop Committee needs a new leader!
 
Workshops are a vibrant and dynamic part of OLLI's programming; here's your chance to make a contribution.  We have immediate need for an individual with leadership experience and good organizational and people skills to take over the helm of the committee, replacing our current leader who has had to step down.  This is a fun and agile committee, with plenty of existing resources and procedures to help a new leader get oriented.  In addition, the current leader has agreed to help with the transition, providing continuity, information, and support as desired.  Familiarity with Google Docs is required, and training is available.
 
If interested, contact Laurel Jernigan at 
[email protected] or 828-250-3871
Volunteer Opportunity

From September 19 to November 7, 2015, the Asheville YMI Cultural Center will host a traveling exhibition of 52 portraits highlighting Americans who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic justice. OLLI at UNC Asheville will sponsor portraits of Frederick Douglass and Denise Giardina. 

And, as OLLI members, you can become part of this historic exhibition.  Throughout the 43 days of the show, volunteers are needed to greet visitors, take tickets and act as docents to answer questions about this one-of-a-kind initiative from artist Robert Shetterly.
Click here for more information on volunteering

World Affairs Council Meeting
Tuesday, September 1, 7:30 pm
Reconnecting with Cuba 
by Jon Elliston
 
Jon Elliston
Jon Elliston is an Asheville-based journalist and historian and the former managing editor of the Mountain Xpress. He is currently the investigations and open-government editor at Carolina Public Press, a nonprofit news service that covers Western North Carolina, and senior editor at WNC Magazine. He received a bachelor's degree in peace, war and defense and a master's in journalism and mass communication, both from UNC-Chapel Hill. In the 1990s, he coordinated an exchange program between the journalism schools in Chapel Hill and Havana. In his first book, Psywar on Cuba (Ocean Press, 1999), he compiled forty years of declassified documents on anti-Castro propaganda operations. He's visited Cuba an average of once a year for the past 20 years, most recently in April.

The World Affairs Council aims to advance international awareness and foster western North Carolina's global ties and offers a lively line up of topics and compelling presenters throughout the year at the Reuter Center. OLLI members receive a discount on WAC annual membership.  
PROPOSED NEW 
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG)
Organizational Meeting
 Friday, September 11, 2 pm
Alliance of French-Speakers Special Interest Group (SIG)

  If you speak French fluently and have a solid French vocabulary, and if you are interested in meeting at the Reuter Center one or perhaps two times per month on Friday afternoon for discussions in French on specific subjects, please contact either
 David Nelson(828-505-1874, [email protected]) or 
Gary Jay (828-654-9357, [email protected]). 

Sorry, but this group will not be established to teach or improve beginners.  A basic knowledge of French grammar is required.  OLLI membership required to participate in SIGs.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute | 828-251-6140 | [email protected] | http://www.olliasheville.com
Reuter Center, CPO #5000
UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804