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Nature Photographers Association
Sunday, April 10, 5:30 p.m.
 The Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association-Asheville Region's goal is to develop a group that will more fully experience the beauty of Western North Carolina through photography. Activities in the Asheville region include monthly meetings, photo outings, seminars, workshops, exhibits, photo contests, and image critiques.Monthly meetings are held at the Reuter Center on the second Sunday of each month, with a 5:30 p.m. meet and greet and a meeting beginning at 6 p.m. Meetings are scheduled for the second Sunday of the month
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Fab Friday
Lunch and Learn Lecture
Brother Wolf Animal
Rescue and Sanctuary
Friday, April 15, 11:30 a.m.
Reuter Center's
Manheimer Room
Denise Bitz, founder and president of Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, will describe how the animal rescue organization started in 2007. Brother Wolf's animal rescue mission has been expanded to include community outreach in an effort to implement the dream of a No-Kill Asheville.
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.
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Inside the Music
Friday, April 15, 1:15 p.m.
Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
Melodie Galloway chair of UNC Asheville's music department and director of the Asheville Choral Society will lead this conversation about the upcoming ACS concert titled "The Music of the Living: A Celebration of the Human Spirit" to be held Saturday, May 7, 7:30 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church, 27 Church Street, Asheville, NC.
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OLLI members needed to volunteer during United Way's Days of Impact!
Tuesday, April 26, 8:30 - 11 a.m.
Asheville Middle School
Join your fellow OLLI members for a rewarding volunteer opportunity and help support an important program at Asheville Middle School, the financial education simulation called "Reality Store." This program teaches all 250 sixth grade students about budgeting skills by participating in fun real world scenarios. OLLI members will be given unique roles and trained on role-play before the event begins. No other training or preparation is necessary. Click here for more information and a video of the event. To sign up, contact Laurel Jernigan at 828.250.3871 or ljerniga@unca.edu, or register directly through the Hands-On Asheville Buncombe website. This is a fun and easy way to engage with kids, your fellow OLLI members, and help Asheville Middle School! |
Hearing Loss Association MeetingSaturday, April 16, 10:30 a.m. Seymour Auditorium Care Partners Campus 68 Sweeten Creek Road Asheville
 Cassie Costolow, audiologist at Asheville Head, Neck and Ear, will speak on "Cochlear Implants and More Right Here in Our Town!"
Please note that the Asheville chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America meets most months (except October) on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Seymour Auditorium. Click here for the event flier
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Education Effects Us All:
North Carolina and You
Thursday, April 28,
4:30- 5:45 p.m. Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
 Mark your calendar to attend this presentation to learn more about the current state of public education from Dr. Gordon Grant, Principal of Hall Fletcher Elementary School; Dr. Dale Carpenter, Dean of Western Carolina University's College of Education and Allied Professions; and Kate Pett, Executive Director of Asheville City Schools Foundation.
North Carolina has a proud history of leadership in public school education. Come join us to learn more about the current state of education, proposed state legislation and the future needs of our state. We encourage you to invest your time in ensuring North Carolina's public schools continue being great!
This event is sponsored by Mountain Allies for Public School
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 Join Pan Harmonia for a fabulous 16th season final concert "Baroque Vibes" Sunday, May 22, 3 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church,
40 Church Street,
downtown Asheville
Baroque Vibes creates a unique, heart-felt, and swinging mosaic through the music of the Baroque masters and beyond. Harpsichord, vibraphone, flute and bassoon create sound combinations that are beautiful and exciting and take the music in a sweet and creative direction that is sure to delight. Works by G.P. Telemann, J.S. Bach, Corette, Rammeau, and dances from 17th century England will be featured.
Tickets are $15 in advance,
$20 day of, $5 students,
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VOLUNTEER TREASURER NEEDED (A LOT!) 
The Lord's Acre (TLA) , WNC's leading hunger garden, needs a new treasurer. It's a very part-time job for a nonprofit that's doing wonderful, beautiful and fun work. TLA (which is not a faith-based organization, by the way) grows and gives away fresh organic food (12 tons last year) to those in need, gives hundreds of people the chance to volunteer in a garden, teaches gardening and teaches groups all over the country how to start their own hunger garden. Learn more about us at www.thelordsacre.org or contact
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Dear OLLI Members,
We will be happy to have our courses back in session on Monday after the break on April 7 and 8 to accommodate the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which brought over 4000 students to the UNC Asheville campus. The UNC Asheville Board of Trustees held their meetings at the Reuter Center, and everyone commented on what a wonderful space we have and on their gratitude for our making it available during this very busy time on campus.
While we celebrate being part of a great university system and a beautiful community, we recognize that this is a very challenging time for North Carolinians as we struggle to understand the implications of House Bill 2. This controversial bill in part bans people from using bathrooms and changing facilities that don't correspond with their biological gender, but more importantly seems to take away important anti-discrimination protection and to shift the ability to make local ordinances from municipalities to our state government. Chancellor Mary Grant wrote to the UNC Asheville community to say that she shares the concerns of many about the implications of this bill and to assure us that as a university we "fully support our LGBTQ community, and we will continue to do everything in our power to ensure that our campus is a safe place for people of all faiths, races, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities and that all students, faculty, staff, and visitors to our campus are treated with dignity and equity." We want to assure you that we uphold the same values at OLLI.
With gratitude for the many people who contribute to OLLI's success and commitment to the preservation of dignity, equity, and inclusion,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Let us know where you volunteer
April 10 -16, 2016. OLLI's Civic Engagement Committee will have flip charts on the upper level and lower levels of the Reuter Center until Friday, April 15 so that members can let us know where they volunteer. These lists will be anonymous, but we will use them to highlight the many ways that OLLI members give back to the broader community. In the past members have listed over 200 organizations. Let's see how many organizations we can list!
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SIG Women's Group Seeks Members
Women's Group #6, which meets at OLLI on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 4:15 p.m., is seeking two  new members. Members participate in non-judgmental sharing and discussion on personal issues and topics of interest with emphasis on self-knowledge and personal growth. If interested, contact Susan Canale at susan3742@yahoo.com
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Men's Wisdom Works SIG
Seeks New Members
 Men of OLLI, would you like to join a group for meaningful friendship and bonding? If so, the answer is as easy as sending an email. Men's Wisdom Works (MWW), an OLLI special interest group (SIG) since 2009, has 11 groups of men, one of which needs new members.
The premise of MWW is simple. We're retired, we're aging, and we're men. We meet twice a month to discuss issues of importance to our members. But we do more than talk and listen. We play. Groups meet for breakfasts, lunches or happy hour, and we hold two annual events for all groups.
If you're interested just send an email to Bob Tomasulo, our membership chair, at robmtom@aol.com. You'll be so glad you did.
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Meditation SIG Meeting
Monday, April 11, 4:15 pm, Reuter Center Room 120
Meditation as a Stepping Stone
to Self-awareness
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At the next meeting of the Meditation SIG, Su-shen Huang, an OLLI instructor, will share her inner journey and the tools she has used to expand her inner life. Following our discussion and sharing, Su-shen will lead us in a meditation.
All OLLI members are welcome and no previous meditation experience is required.
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Symphony Talk
with Daniel Meyer
Friday, April 15, 3 p.m.
Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
Come early to get a seat to hear music aficionado and College for Seniors instructor Chip Kaufman discuss Verdi's Requiem and Martinu's Memorial to Lidice. Asheville Symphony's conductor and music director Daniel Meyer will discuss preparations for the performance for the concert to be held on Saturday, April 16 at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
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Reuter Center Singers Spring Concerts
Friday, April 29, & Saturday, April 30, 2016, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
A Legacy of Song:
The Carpenters and John Denver
It's Yesterday Once More, celebrating the song legacy of The Carpenters and John Denver! Come experience with us the nostalgic musical memories that are a soundtrack of our lives. Performances will include musical renditions of
We've Only Just Begun, For All We Know, Rainy Days and Mondays, Top of the World, Annie's Song, Rocky Mountain High, Take Me Home, Country Roads, Leaving on a Jet Plane, and more. 
Director Chuck Taft Accompanist Nora Vetro
Free Admission Donations Welcome
Limited Seating Reception Following
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Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society ProgramTuesday, April 19, 2016, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
"The Nature Conservancy
in Western North Carolina"At this program, staff from the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Asheville office will talk about local land protection goals, forest restoration and conservation of species like the golden-winged warbler. They will also share their global conservation strategies and the investment the organization is making to protect the last great places.
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Megan Sutton, director TNC Southern Blue Ridge Program in North Carolina,
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oversees all of the conservation work in Western NC and specializes in forest and bog restoration and management.
Mike Horak is Senior Associate Director of Philanthropy, TNC North Carolina Chapter.
Free and open to the public.
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Spoken Word OPEN MIC!
Wednesday April 20, 6:30 p.m. sign-up
Show begins at 7 p.m.
Sign-up begins 6:30 p.m.; show begins 7 p.m.
No cover charge.
Poets, storytellers writers and comedians are welcome to bring their work to our stage. Names will be drawn randomly, and performers will have up to ten minutes on our stage in front of a welcoming audience. Only two rules, hold your stage time to ten minutes or less
and keep your clothes on.
Dinner reservations are recommended by calling 828-575-2844. Come early to enjoy drinks and dinner.
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This months OPEN MIC! will be co-hosted by Professional Storyteller, David Joe Miller and former corporate trainer, Chuck Fink from the OLLI storytelling program.
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Volunteers Needed for Two Food Events!
Appalachia Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) needs  volunteers for its signature Farm Tour, to be held this year Saturday and Sunday, June 25 and 26, noon to 5 p.m. each day The ASAP Farm Tour is the organization's single biggest event for connecting community with local food and farmers. Volunteers get to help one farm out for the day by signing in visitors as they arrive, and then those volunteers can take the tour for free on the day they aren't working (and take a whole group with them!) It's a really fun and inspiring day. For more information about the tour and volunteering, click here.
Sunday, April 24. People can sign up here. The event benefits the Western North Carolina Cheese Trail supporting cheesemakers and dairy farmers across the region. For more information, contact Katie Moore, katie@csasheville.com, 828.484.1586
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"Wilderness and the Anthropocene"
A Panel Discussion
Sponsored by The Wilderness Society, Southern Appalachian Office
Friday, April 15, 7 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
1 Edwin Place
What does it mean to have wilderness "where man himself is a visitor who does not remain" during the Anthropocene, a geologic period currently defined by humans? A guest panel features writers and scientists who understand that a healthy environment is a human right, and that environmental degradation is a social injustice.
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