ROOM WITHOUT A ROOF
Documentary Film Screening
Thursday, August 27, 7:30 pm
UNC Asheville
Humanities Lecture Hall
 MacArthur Fellow and poet Heather McHugh in collaboration with Asheville filmmaker Adam Larsen invite you to a one-hour rough cut of their documentary film Room Without a Roof followed by discussion. The event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Brian E. Butler (bbutler@unca.edu).
ROOM WITHOUT A ROOF is a love story unlike any you've seen. At a time when even the most well-intentioned lawmakers are slashing funds for the disabled, family caregivers who have put aside their own life dreams continue the daily, grinding work that keeps their family members out of institutions. Few of us consider the debt we owe these caregivers, and even fewer consider how to pay tribute to them. Let's listen to their stories.
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Day of CaringWhat: 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!
Day of Caring Details
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, jtcarney@unca.edu
by Sept. 1st.
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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!
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New Member Welcome!
Friday, September 18, 10 amAre you new to OLLI at UNC Asheville? Are you returning after being gone awhile? Come to the New Member Welcome on Friday, September 18, 10 am, to learn about all that OLLI has to offer and about ways to  get involved. Meet other members and get to know our community of teachers and learners.
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Sierra Club MeetingWednesday, 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: judymattox@sbcglobal.net ,
828-683-2176
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 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 olli@unca.edu , |
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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.
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Dear OLLI Members,
To open the beginning of UNC Asheville's academic year, our new chancellor, Mary Grant, hosted a breakfast for all faculty and staff to celebrate the university's many achievements and to inspire us all to work together for future success. Chancellor Grant focused time and again on the theme that we are "better together." It struck our staff that this is the appropriate slogan for OLLI at UNC Asheville. Volunteers and staff, committee chairs and committee members, instructors and participants all collaborate to produce a community of teachers and learners. Together, we do amazing things. We encourage all of you in the coming year to find ways to serve our mission, either in the broader community as an OLLI volunteer for the Day of Caring or to help with the Americans Who Tell the Truth exhibition or with tasks around the Reuter Center, like being a class rep.
Thanks to all of our volunteers and staff, we were able to process 1036 registrations over the course of the week for our fall term. OLLI succeeds as a community of teachers and learners because so many people offer their time and talent. Everyone who works so hard and well has our gratitude.
Thanks for your part in making us better together,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Around the Center
 Fall registration at OLLI was festive and fun and hundreds of members came to register for classes! Click here to see more photos
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 Special Thanks to our Registration Day Volunteers
Lorraine Asman Jacque Morgan
Lenore Baum Barbara Mueller
Sandra Brown Sheila Murphy
Bill Carpenter Brenda Painter
Jacob Cohen Martha Parry
Judy Creed Donna Schramek
Lynne Doebber Anita Shields
Tom Doebber Honey Solomon
Bob Evans Carol Taylor
Marilyn Evans Luis Uranga
Nancy Gordon Marilyn Uranga
Binna Green Rosemary Walton
Linda Korte Judith Young
Sherry Lubic
Martha Marshall
These are the friendly folks who helped our registration day go so smoothly. Special thanks to Ann Cadle for organizing the day and to Jessika Bond for her hard work managing so many logistics and ot all of the OLLI staff for playing a part in making this process work.
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Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events: 
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Keynote Speaker for 20th Anniversary of Center for Diversity Education
Kimmel Arena, November 5, 2015, 7 pm
 Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, will be the keynote speaker for the commemoration of the UNC Asheville Center for Diversity Education 20th anniversary which will pay tribute to the work of the Asheville Student Committee of Racial Equality from 1960-1965. This event is also part of the Real Events Series through the UNC Asheville Cultural and Special Academic Programs (CSAP). Seating will begin at 6 pm, and no back packs are permitted. This event is free and open to the public. Please check the CSAP website for admission and updates as they become available.
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 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.
We hope that you have checked the box on your registration form and that you will agree to be a call from our class reps committee, now headed by Martha Marshall and Mark Speer. |
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Special Interest Group (SIG): The Forum Meeting
Friday, August 28, 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. All OLLI members are invited, and OLLI membership is required to attend. For more information contact:
Eugene Jaroslaw,
828-255-9925, ejwestwood@gmail.com
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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
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The Autumn Players Readers Theatre
Sunday, August 30, 2:30 pm  TWO ONE ACT PLAYS,
directed by Jim Reid,
Tickets - $6 at the door,
(includes North Carolina sales tax)
THE BROWNING VERSION -is 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.
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Mushrooms of the Southern Appalachians Workshop
Course Dates: Wednesday and Friday, September 2 & 4
Times: Wednesday: 9 am-1 pm & Friday: 9 am - 4 pm
Instructor: Charlotte Caplan
Fee: $85/person
Materials fee: $6 for supplies, payable to the instructors at the first meeting.
Registration: Call Jessika Bond at 828-251-6140
OLLI membership is not required to enroll in a workshop.
Our mountains abound with mushrooms,  but these beautiful organisms are often overlooked and misunderstood. In this two-part workshop we search for fungi in their natural habitat, learn how to collect specimens, make a spore print, use a dichotomous key identification, and discuss the essential role of fungi in forest ecology. Participants must be able to walk (at a slow pace) on a trail for ½ to 1 mile. Mushroom availability is dependent on rain conditions during the summer.
Charlotte Caplan (ccaplan7@gmail.com) has been learning about fungi for nearly forty years and is a past-president of the Asheville Mushroom Club. She loves to introduce others to these fascinating and beautiful organisms; for several years she has taught a class on fungi for the NC Arboretum's Blue Ridge Naturalist program.
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World Affairs Council Meeting
Tuesday, September 1, 7:30 pmReconnecting with Cuba by 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 fir  st 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.
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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, dmn261034@mac.com) or
Gary Jay (828-654-9357, gmjay@sstelco.com).
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.
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Volunteer Opportunity - Become a Navigator!
The Council on Aging of Buncombe County is seeking volunteers to become Navigators and help the uninsured sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Join a great team and be a part of this historic program by helping those who want insurance get the coverage and health care they need. Volunteers must be willing to take 25 - 30 hours of on-line training. Mentoring and support is provided by seasoned Council on Aging volunteers.
Call the Council on Aging of Buncombe County at 828-277-8288 for more information and to schedule an interview. |
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Asheville History Center
The Crafty Historian:
International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
 Saturday, S eptember 1910:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Asheville History Center at Smith-McDowell House will continue the Crafty Historian series with a celebration of International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Participants are encouraged to dress like a pirate and learn pirate lingo, knots, songs, make "swords," follow a treasure map and find out the size of a pirate ship. Reservations may be made by September 17 online at : Crafty Historian Reservation Link . Fee is $7, payable the day of the event. |
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