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TODAY
Sundays with
Brevard Music Center
Sunday, October 4, 3 p.m.
The Brevard Music Center in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) presents Sundays with Brevard Music Center concert on Sunday, October 4, 2015, at 3 p.m. in the Reuter Center on the campus of UNC Asheville.
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Shuttle Information
If you want to avoid the hassle of circling or waiting for a parking space when you come to the Retuer Center, why not park your car at 118 W. T. Weaver Blvd. (the former MAHEC building), right across from campus, and take a UNC Asheville shuttle to the Reuter Center?
The university operates a red and a blue shuttle line (click here to view the Red and Blue shuttle routes); each shuttle takes about 12 minutes to make its entire circuit. You may park at the W. T. Weaver lot, board the shuttle, let the driver know you want to go to the Reuter Center, and enjoy the ride. When you are finished with your classes, stop in the OLLI office and ask a staff member to contact the UNC Asheville police. They will route a shuttle to take you back to your car.
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Fab Friday Lecture
Friday, October 9,
11:30 a.m.
"The Theatre Scene in Asheville"
by Charlie Flynn-McIver 
Asheville has a robust offering of cultural activities for the resident and visitor alike, and theatre is no exception. Artistic director and co-founder of North Carolina Stage Company Charlie Flynn-McIver will host a panel discussion with the different theatre groups in the area, ranging from larger more established companies like Asheville Community Theatre, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, and Flat Rock Playhouse, to the smaller, newer organizations like Different Strokes Theatre Collective and The Magnetic Theatre.
There's something for everyone when it comes to theatre in Asheville, so come join the conversation and see what's here!
Free and open to the public
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Special Thanks!
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 OLLI 2022
It's closer than you think!
OLLI's Planning Committee
needs new members to help us envision the future
Today OLLI is vibrant, thriving, eclectic, contagious
AND crowded and short on parking
How do we address the needs of current and future members?
From Silent Generation to
Boomers to Generation X?
Do you want to have a voice in helping shape OLLI's future?
Can you give three hours a month to help develop the roadmap to the future?
Consider joining the
OLLI Planning Committee
For more information, email Barbara von Hauzen at vonhauzen@gmail.com
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Are you ready to ramp up your intellectual pursuit?
Learn more about UNC Asheville's Master of Liberal Arts and Science (MLAS) Program
Wednesday, October 14,
4:15 pm
Reuter Center, Room 205
Leaders from UNC Asheville's (MLAS) program will meet with interested OLLI members to discuss opportunities to participate in this interdisciplinary graduate level liberal arts program.
The stimulating program of small evening seminars allows participants to create individualized study in cultural, social, and theoretical issues. Whether your interests lie in creative writing, astronomy, climate change, history or elsewhere, you can build-your-own program using the rich faculty resources of UNC Asheville.
Learn more with representatives from the MLAS program's administrators and faculty, as well as some OLLI members who are or have been active in this grad program of study.
For more information contact OLLI member Bill O'Connell wkoconnell@earthlink.net
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Dear OLLI Members,
We hope you will take some time to read the profile of OLLI's new College for Seniors program manager Herb Gunn. Thanks so much to Carol Gillen and members of the marketing committee for the many interesting portraits of OLLI members that help us capture the vitality of our organization.
Please note that the marketing and planning committees are looking for new members. We rely on you to contribute your time and talent to the work that makes our organization run. If you would like to explore further opportunities for service, please contact Laurel Jernigan or Jessika Bond in the OLLI office to find a good fit. We need people who do everything from creating our vision for the next five years to those who can help with planning the special events that make our community such a welcoming place.
We appreciate the passion each of you brings to your creative retirement,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events: 
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UNC ASHEVILLE CAMPUS
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Month of October, 2015
10/08 Politics: - "Issues in the National and International Immigration Debate," a talk by retired Ambassador Gwen Clare, board member of the publication, American Diplomacy. Part of UNC Asheville's Moral Challenges Lecture Series. Free and open to the public at 12:15 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: pgary@unca.edu or 828.251.6864.
10/8-16 Theater: UNC Asheville Drama Department presents Fefu and Her Friends by Cuban playwright Maria-Irene Fornes. This all-student production is staged at Homewood in Montford, with curtain at 7:30 p.m. and performances on October 8, 9, 14-16. Tickets and info: drama.unca.edu/theatre-unca
10/19 Lecture: "Ancient Oral Narratives," David Novak, storyteller. 11 a.m. in UNC Asheville's Humanities Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public. Info: humanities.unca.edu or 828.251.6808.
10/22 Dance: CCB Dance Project: Kenbe, Amour Colere Folie: Improvisations for Love - Choreography and performance by Celia Weiss Bambara, UNC Asheville assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies and dance program d irector. 7 p.m. at UNC Asheville's Belk Theatre, free and open to the public.
10/30 Sports: -- Women's Volleyball: UNC Asheville Bulldogs vs. High Point 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Justice Center. $6 adults, $3 Youth. Tickets and info:uncabulldogs.com or 828.258.7900
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Meet College for Seniors program manager
Herb Gunn:
Someone who wants to 'get into the clay' at OLLI! 
By Carol Gillen
When I first sat down to talk with Herb Gunn, OLLI at UNC Asheville's new College for Seniors (CFS) Program Manager, I asked him what he wanted everyone at OLLI to know about him. He replied, "I first became enthralled with creating pottery at the age of ten when I observed my mother making clay objects, such as bowls and trays, in a hand-building pottery class during a summer at Montreat College. I seriously got into 'wheel throwing' during my graduate school days in the early '80s in Japan." I thought this was an interesting way to start our discussion!
Herb became a lay professional in the Episcopal Church in the early 1990s and worked for twenty years in the Diocese of Michigan in Detroit. He worked as a journalist and, along with writing stories, also created their website. In his articles for the diocesan newspaper, he always gravitated toward personal profiles of the people there to highlight the talents and energy that made that community so exciting.
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The OLLI Marketing Committee
seeks new members
The OLLI Marketing Committee is looking for a few good communicators interested in developing stories, drafting press releases and/or writing articles about OLLI members and programs.
We are particularly focused on promoting OLLI's rich array of service opportunities, marketing our life transitions programming, and improving the way we communicate with our growing membership.
If you would like to explore how you might get involved, contact Kirk Borland, chair of the Marketing Committee, at kirk.borland@gmail.com.
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World Affairs Council
"From Humanitarian Intervention to the
Responsibility to Protect:
The Evolving Discourse on Human Protection"
A lecture by George Andreopoulos
Tuesday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.
George Andreopolous is a professor of political science and a member of the doctoral faculty of the political science and criminal Justice programs at the City University of New York Graduate School and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also the founding director of the Center for International Human Rights.
Come to the Reuter Center for these fascinating lectures and discussions that aim to advance international awareness and foster Western North Carolina's global ties. OLLI members receive a discount on WAC annual membership fee. The World Affairs Council meetings offer a lively line up of topics an  d compelling presenters. OLLI members receive a discount on annual World Affairs Council membership.
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Pan Harmonia's 16th Season
Chamber Music Chat
Friday, October 9, 3 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Pan Harmonia is excited about their upcoming 16th season and invite you to come out and hear some of North Carolina's finest and most unique chamber music.
Come to the Reuter Center's Manheimer Room Friday, October 9, 3 p.m, for the first in a series of Chamber Music Chats. Pianist Ivan Seng and Pan Harmonia creator and flutist Kate Steinbeck will discuss modern American music.
Mark your calendars to join us on Friday, November 20, 1:30 p.m. when clarinetist Fred Lemmons and Kate Steinbeck will visit "Treble Land" or "The Trouble with Treble"
Today, Sunday, October 4, 3 p.m. at Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road, the Asheville Baroque Concert Series presents "Music for A While," a performance of the music of Purcell, Buxtehude, Krieger and Clerembault performed by Gesa Kordes on Baroque violin, Gail Ann Schroeder, viola da gamba, Barbara Weiss, harpsichord, and Margaret Carpenter, soprano.
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"Symbol and Stereotype:
The Civil War and the Image of the Southern Mountains and Mountaineers"
A lecture by Gordon McKinney
Tuesday, October 6, 7 pm
Broyhill Chapel, Mars Hill University
Dr. McKinney is a speaker, author, and former professor of history at Valdosta State University, Western Carolina University, the University of Maryland, and Berea College. He is former president of the Appalachian Studies Association and the Western North Carolina Historical Association. Dr. McKinney teaches popular courses for OLLI's College for Seniors.
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Sierra Club Meeting
"Greenways and Bikeways"
Wednesday, October 7, 7 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
1 Edwin Place (corner of Edwin and Charlotte Street)
The meeting will feature a panel moderated by Vice-Mayor Marc Hunt on Asheville-Buncombe's efforts to create a county wide network of greenways and bikeways.
For more information, contact OLLI member Judy Mattox,
828-683-2176, judymattox@sbcglobal.net
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