Please be aware that some members are allergic to a variety of scents and perfumes, including scents in lotions, detergents, and soaps. In the close quarters of our Reuter Center classrooms, we appreciate your avoiding strongly scented products.
|
|
Meditation
Special Interest Group Meeting
Monday, March 28, 4:15 p.m.
Reuter Center Room 102B
Speakers for this meeting will be Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand on the topic of "Devotional Chanting of the Sacred Feminine"We welcome you to enter the soft embracing space of the divine feminine as she has been celebrated in many spiritual traditions, including the East Indian Vedic, Mystical Gnostic Christian and indigenous cultures. The divine feminine invites us to go deeply within our own hearts and souls, and, in doing so, make contact with the universal field of consciousness. These sacred sound vibrations bring us into a state of peace, relaxation, well-being and expanded awareness.All OLLI members are invited to attend. For more information, contact Sally Ekaireb, beriake@yahoo.com
|
|
OLLI Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, March 31, 4:30 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
 This year we will focus on your questions rather than presentations, so please come ready to share your ideas and concerns with our staff and OLLI Steering Council members. The Nominating Committee will introduce the 2016-2017 slate of candidates for our executive committee and also for our three nominating committee positions. Light refreshments will be served.Call 828.251.6188 for more information.
|
|
Fab Friday
Lunch and Learn Lecture
Friday, April 1, 11:30 a.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
ASAP: Local Food, Strong Farms, Healthy Communities.
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) is a nonprofit serving communities in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. ASAP's mission is to help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food. Molly Nicolie, ASAP's local food campaign program director will outline ASAP's current projects and ways you can get involved in their work.
Fab Fridays Lunch and Learn Lectures offer an exciting line up of lectures, stimulating presentations and dynamic question-and-answer sessions from local experts, about everything from music to travel and medications to wellness. End your week and start your weekend with Fab Fridays!
Free and open to the public.
|
The Forum
Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting
Friday, April 1, 1 p.m.
The Forum offers a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on topics ranging from Changing Demographics of Retirees to Nuclear Disarmament.
At the April 1st meeting, the topic will be:
"ISIS and How It Affects the U.S. and Europe." All OLLI members are invited to attend. For more information, contact Eugene Jaroslaw, 828.255.9925, ejwestwood@gmail.com
|
Smart Driver Class
Friday, April 1, Noon-4 p.m.
Reuter Center, Room TBD
The four-hour Smart Driver class offers numerous tips for coping with inevitable changes in perception and reaction time, as well as increased hazards on the roads with faster cars and busier traffic. Participants can expect to review the rules of the road, tips on dealing with aggressive drivers, and general safety tips such as how to make left turns into heavy traffic. The course, offered nationwide, is designed to help participants avoid crashes and remain safely behind the wheel.
Scheduled at the Reuter Center, contact instructor Jan Stephanides, 828-443-1051 to register
|
Marketing Committee
Volunteers Needed!
Do you like to write stories? Do you have an interest in social media? Would you like to work with amateur videos? If so, the Marketing Committee at OLLI would like to talk with you. Please contact Kirk Borland at kirk.borland@gmail.com to learn more.
|
Audubon Society Meeting
Tuesday, April 5, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Room 206
"The Project Puffin:
Bringing Atlantic Puffins
Back to Egg Island"
Derrick Jackson
The National Audubon Society initiated the Puffin Project to learn how to restore the Atlantic Puffins to historic nesting Islands in the Gulf of Maine. Derrick Jackson, author The Puffin Project, will talk about the challenges and the outcomes. Join us for a special program on this adorable bird.
|
MANNA Volunteer Opportunities
(grab them while they last!)
1.) The Civic Engagement Committee is looking for volunteers who are interested in joining the team of MANNA volunteer drivers. MANNA Volunteer Drivers perform pickups and deliveries within MANNA's 16 county region. Volunteers work in pairs, driving a small MANNA box truck (the truck is similar to a small Uhaul truck and does not require a CDL). Interested volunteers must pass a driving background check, and have a flexible schedule (truck trips usually last from the morning into the early afternoon). Volunteer drivers receive periodic emails with needed dates for volunteer coverage. The volunteers only respond to the opportunities that work for their schedule.
2.) Our second opportunity is to serve as a Facility Care Volunteer. MANNA is in the process of having its warehouse certified by the American Institute of Bakers (AIB). AIB certification requires a high level of cleanliness, sanitation and organization within the facility. MANNA seeks a small corps of volunteers to help the organization achieve and maintain AIB certification. This is a cleaning crew volunteer job
consisting of several types of cleaning but no heavy lifting.
|
|
|
|
|
Dear OLLI Members,
We had a successful first week of classes and look forward to seeing you at our Town Hall meeting, Thursday, March 31, 4:30 p.m. in the Manheimer Room, to celebrate success, answer questions, and look forward to future developments.
We hope that you will take time to read Lynn Sellers' story about Gene Lambirth and his travels on the Camino de Santiago.
Finally, we know that our newsletter is often very long, because we want you to know about the many learning opportunities in our organization, on the UNC Asheville campus, and in our community. Please be aware that many browsers will cut the document short. There is always a link at the top of the newsletter allowing you to view it on a website, and when you do, you will always see the whole newsletter.
With gratitude for the many people who contribute to OLLI's success, Catherine Frank Executive Director |
Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events: 
|
 UNC Asheville - Campus Event Highlights:
For the Month of April 2016
4/4 Film Pride Month Event - Film Screening: Paris is Burning - this documentary directed by Jennie Livingston chronicles the 1980s drag ball culture of New York City and the diverse communities involved in it. 7:30 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Union Grotto. Free and open to the public. Info: msp.unca.edu
4/9 Sports Bulldog Men's Baseball Doubleheader: UNC Asheville vs NC Central,. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Greenwood Field. Tickets and info: uncabulldogs.com or 828.258.7900.
4/11 Dance Contemporary African Dance, with Souleymane 'Solo' Badolo, world-reknown choreographer and dancer born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 11 a.m. in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Info: humanities.unca.edu or 828.251.6808.
4/14 Theater TheatreUNCA: The Bacchae Transformed - This performance features a new translation of Euripides'famous drama by UNC Asheville students and NEH Distinguished Professor Sophie Mills. 7:30 p.m. curtain on April 14-16 and a 2 p.m. matinee on April 17 at UNC Asheville's Belk Theatre. $12 general admission; $10 seniors;$7 students. Tickets and info: drama.unca.edu.
4/22 Art Spring Student Art Sale, featuring beautiful, affordable works in many media. 4-7p.m. on Friday, April 22 and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, April 23 in S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, in UNC Asheville's Owen Hall. Info: art.unca.edu or 828.251.6559.
|
Gene Lambirth: One Man's Journey on the Camino de Santiago
By Lynn Sellers 
It's been called a quest, adventure and pilgrimage. Each traveler has his or her own motivation to walk the Camino. For Gene Lambirth, it answered a question many retirees ask: What do I want to do now?
Gene took early retirement from a major oil company in 2005 but returned as a consultant until 2008. Having lived in major cities like Houston, San Francisco and New Orleans, Gene and his wife Gay were clear on one thing: they wanted to live downtown in a small city with a university and amenities. He and Gay visited Asheville in different seasons and concluded, "This would be a great place to live."
|
Please join in to help with this worthy cause! Bring your old jeans to OLLI, Room 213, and we will deliver to the UNC Asheville students cutting shoe patterns for the Sole Hope project. Click here to read more. Donations will be collected up to Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m.
|
|
STEM Lecture
Tuesday, March 29, 4:30 p.m.
"Statistics and the Environment:
Using Flexible Statistical Models
to Model a Variety of Scientific Data"
Steve Patch
UNC Asheville Department of Mathematics
The theme of the STEM lecture series for this academic year (2015-2016) is multidisciplinary programs. Each lecture will highlight how different STEM disciplines are used in a unified program, where the success of each program depends on the interaction of more than one discipline.Click here to view an event flier
Free and open to the public.
|
The Tribal Spirit:
American Indian Identity in the 21st Century
Dr. Perry Horse
Thursday, March 31, Noon
UNC Asheville Intercultural Center
located in Highsmith Student Union
Dr. Perry Horse
 |
| |
Perry Horse
|
will focus on research around post-colonial consciousness which is moving indigenous people from a state of dependency back to a state of independence and self-reliance. This new consciousness is guided by the touchstone of Indian identity, tribal sovereignty. Reasserting political sovereignty provides the basis for strengthening tribal governments which in turn helps strengthen economic recovery. Tribes now control their own educational systems which provide a new impetus for native language retention and cultural preservation.
Dr. Horse is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and a contributing author in both editions of
New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development, NYU Press, 2001 & 2012.
Currently, he serves as a leadership coach in the community college national reform movement known as Achieving the Dream. For more information contact Deborah Miles at dmiles@unca.edu or 828.232.5024. |
FINANCIAL STRATEGIES
IN RETIREMENT
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Meeting
Friday, April 1, 1:30 p.m.
Reuter Center, Room TBD
Join a discussion with our member Investment Roundtable on the topic:
"Investments to Consider or Avoid in 2016."
Feel free to bring your recommendations and questions to the group! This meeting is open to all Reuter Center members. Contact Kate Beatty for further information at kkbmom@yahoo.com or 828.231.7710.
|
Opera Talk
Friday, April 1, 3 p.m.,
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
 Asheville Lyric Opera will present a lecture and special highlights from it upcoming spring opera production of Carmen. This event will feature appearances and performances from the opera's director, conductor and cast. Come experience an intimate look into the opera and hear some of its iconic music.
This event is free and open to the public.
|
Sundays with Brevard Music Center
Dilshad Posnock, flute
Craig Nies, piano
Sunday, April 3, 3 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
 Posnock and Nies will perform music by C.P.E. Bach, Jack Coen, J.S. Bach, and Pierre Sancan. Sundays with Brevard Music Center featuring performances by artist faculty members from the world-renowned Brevard Music Center.
This event is free and open to the public.
|
|
World Affairs Council (WAC)
Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
How Germany Sees The World
by Thomas Wülfing
Since the "end of the Cold War" a reunited Germany has emerged as a dynamic economic power in the world's financial and trade system. It has also become the diplomatic anchor of the European Union. Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was chosen as Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2015. How Germany views the world and how Germans see themselves are critical elements in understanding alliance politics (particularly in the West) and strategic and military influences throughout other regions of the world. Recent events (the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels and the recent German election) have made Mr. Wülfing's topic even more significant and timely.
|
| | |
Thomas Wülfing
| |
Thomas Wülfing holds economic degrees from the Universities of Hamburg and Bonn. In 1991 he joined the German Foreign Service after completing graduate work in the Diplomatic Academy. He has served his country with postings in many cities, ranging from assignments in Bonn, London and New York, to varied roles in Baghdad, Iraq, Pyongyang, North Korea, Recife, Brazil, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has occupied his current office in the Atlanta Consulate since the summer of 2013
This program is offered by the World Affairs Council of WNC, and co-sponsored by UNC Asheville's Department of Political Science, in cooperation with the Osher Life Long Learning Institute. WAC members and UNC Asheville students are admitted without charge.
Single admissions: $10
OLLI members receive a discount on WAC annual membership.
|
|
Special Thanks!
 Biltmore Farms Hotels:
Five Hotels. One Choice
CREW helps those considering relocation in retirement examine all their options carefully and make an informed decision about this major life transition.
|
Stay Connected
 Click the icon to like OLLI on Facebook
|
|
|
|
|
