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May 8, 2016
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Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association  
Sunday, May 8, 5:30 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room

Weather in the mountains
The Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association (CNPA) was founded in 1992 to promote nature photography in the Carolinas, to help conserve and preserve the diverse natural ecosystems in the Carolinas and to educate others interested in nature and wildlife photography.
The group's 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 formal meeting beginning at 6 p.m.    Click here for more information.
 
Health Presentations
Friday, May 13, 10:30 am
Reuter Center Atrium 

Are you interested in the effects of loneliness? Personalized Parkinson's treatments?
Two teams from UNC Asheville's undergraduate neurobiology program will present their posters on Friday, May 13 and give OLLI members an opportunity to learn from then and ask questions.

The students will be just outside the Manheimer Room to discuss with you their assessment of current research findings, which they will present in two posters: "The Effects of Loneliness on Brain Chemistry" and "The Future of Personalized Treatments for Parkinson's Disease."

After you explore these two subjects, stick around to enjoy at 11:30 a.m., Scott McGregor's program, "Living in the Moment: Mindfulness in Health and Well-Being."

Free and open to the public.

Fab Friday Lecture
Friday, May 13, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room

  Living in the Moment: Mindfulness in Health and Wellbeing
by Scott MacGregor

Scott MacGregor
We all share an innate human capacity to live in the present moment with clarity and kindness. However, we so often get distracted and miss the wonder of life right now and the opportunity to connect with loved ones, watch a beautiful sunset or savor a meal.  This presentation will explore what mindfulness is and how cultivating it serves to reduce stress and improve resilience and quality of life. Attendees will participate in mindfulness practices and learn how mindfulness might be beneficial.

Scott MacGregor, MS, LPCA, CFLE, is a licensed clinical therapist and stress reduction educator with over twelve years of meditation practice including retreats for mindfulness, meditation in medicine and research, insight meditation and spiritual reflection.

Free and open to the public, this lecture is part of the Health Education Series.
Stand up Comedy Performance
Friday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.
The Grotto, 
Highsmith Student Union
UNC Asheville campus
Funny guy
Members of the 
College For Seniors course
Stand-Up Comedy 102
will give a one-night-only show

Admission is free, and the performance is open to the public.  Parking is free and ample.  This performance will be hosted by instructor Randy Robins. 
 Previous shows have been SRO performances.
Doors open at 7 p.m..
Chamber Music Chat 
  Friday, May 20, 3 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room

Barbara Weiss












Barbara Weiss discusses Baroque music from the perspective of the harpsichordist for this season's final Chamber Music Chat. Come to get a perspective on the inner workings of baroque music; dissonance, continuo playing, and more!


Thursday, May 26, 
9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Reuter Center
This quarterly College for Seniors workshop day is open to anyone planning to teach during 2016, or anyone just contemplating volunteering to teach who might want training on the audio-visual equipment at the Reuter Center. 


Marketing Committee
Volunteers Needed!


Do you like to write stories?   Do you have an interest in social media?  Would you like to work with videos?   If so, the Marketing Committee at OLLI would like to talk with you.  Please contact Kirk Borland at [email protected] to learn more. 
GreenWorks 
Needs Volunteers

Do you love gardens?  
Here is an opportunity for you to enjoy beautiful gardens  and help Greenworks continue their good works.

Asheville GreenWorks
 is putting on its
17th Annual Garden Tour
Saturday, June 25
 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. 
GreenWorks would love to have some OLLI members as docents in one of the gardens.  This year, there are nine gardens in Kenilworth within a three mile range.
A Word of Thanks!
I want to thank everyone at OLLI for being such a dynamic and caring group of people. Our nonprofit food-growing group, The Lord's Acre, was in pressing need of a new volunteer treasurer. You all saw our request in the OLLI newsletter and responded. Several of you contacted me, and we ended up with a terrific new treasurer. (Actually, we could have had more than one!). I am very grateful to your community for your vibrant sense of activity and service.
All best wishes,
Pat Stone, Chairman of the Board, The Lord's Acre 
Dear OLLI Members,

We are excited to announce that we will be able to hold online registration for our Summer 2016 College for Seniors and Workshops.  Please click here to read more details. You will be able to pick up print catalogs at the Reuter Center and to read the catalog online beginning this Wednesday, May 11, and we will continue to communicate more details about the process for online registration.  Please remember that the staff will be learning the system along with our members.  We appreciate your patience as we implement a process that we know will have great benefits for all of us but we also know will present all of us with a few challenges.

We hope that you will mark your calendars to attend the Asheville Living Treasures recognition ceremony on Sunday, May 22, 1:30 p.m. in the Manheimer Room.  Honorees will be Bob Burgin, Sophie Dixon, and popular and long-serving College for Seniors instructor Tom Sanders.  Click here to read more about all of the honorees.   Tom represents the many College for Seniors instructors who give selflessly of their time and talent to offer stimulating courses that are indeed a treasure to our community.  Many thanks to Carmen Ramos-Kennedy and her team who select the honorees, organize the ceremonies and record the Treasures' stories for future generations.

Finally, if you are thinking of teaching at College for Seniors or know someone who might offer a great course, please please click here to read more about Tech talks to be offered on Thursday, May 26 and to register.

With gratitude for the many people who contribute to OLLI's ongoing evolution and success,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director

The Big Picture

Thanks to so many of our vibrant and photogenic members who turned up last week to be part of the "Big Picture" that will grace the cover of our OLLI catalog. We won't reveal the cover shoot until the fall, but we think this image captures the welcoming spirit of our community.
Meditation SIG Meeting
Monday, May 9, 4:15-5:45 p.m.
 Room 102B of the Reuter Center

Valerie Fernando
Valerie Fernando, a Hatha Yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and instructor at College for Seniors will give a presentation on how you can use your breath to identify emotions, de-stress, and even fall asleep.  Then Ms. Fernando will lead us in a meditation.  We will use the breath as a focal anchor and circulate the breath through energy points in the body. All OLLI members are welcome.  No previous meditation experience is necessary to benefit from this program.
Special Interest Group Meeting
(SIG) 
Financial Strategies in Retirement
Tuesday, May 10, 4 p.m.
(NOTE CORRECTED TIME)
Reuter Center Room 206

 "All You Ever Wanted to Know About Finance 
But Were Afraid to Ask"

We will welcome a panel of special guest speakers, Jason Likens and Faith Doyle, financial advisors, Oppenheimer & Co. Lorin Page, estate attorney, Strauss & Associates. Marge Vollmerhausen, CPA, Johnson & Vollmerhausen. There will be a brief presentation, then the floor will be opened for questions.

The meeting is open to all OLLI members.  
Email/call Kate Beatty for further information at [email protected] or 828-231-7710.
Symphony Talk with Daniel Meyer  
Friday, May 13, 3 p.m. 
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room 
 
Daniel Meyer
The best way to enjoy the Asheville Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks concerts is to come to the Symphony Talk for the inside scoop on the music, composers, and soloists. Come early to get a seat; this popular series is very well attended. Asheville Symphony Orchestra's music director and conductor Daniel Meyer will speak about the performance for the next evening's concert and local music aficionado Chip Kaufmann will speak about the composers. 
For the last performance of the season the symphony will perform Weber's Der Freischutz
Overture and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" along with a world premiere of a new cello concerto, Michael Daugherty's
Tales of Hemingway,
composed for the soloist, Zuill Bailey. 

The Symphony Talk series is free
 and open to the public
Feldenkreis Presentation 
Friday, May 13, 1:30 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room

Lavinia Plonka
Body language expert and Feldenkreis and Alba Somatic educator Lavinia Plonka, will offer a free presentation on the Feldenkreis method and opportunities to learn more at the 2016 Feldenkrais Conference scheduled on UNC Asheville's campus 
July 7-12, 2016. 

Special Interest Group (SIG) 
The Forum
"Splintering of the Political Parties"
Friday, May 13, 1 p.m.
Reuter Center's Room 205

The Forum offers OLLI members discussion to challenge their thinking. through a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on topics ranging from changing demographics of retirees to nuclear disarmament. 


You must be an OLLI member to attend. 
 For more information, contact: Eugene Jaroslaw, 828.255.9925 [email protected]
Young Voices in Bloom
Friday, May 13,  7 p.m.
 First Baptist Church,  
5 Oak Street, Asheville

MusicWorks! Asheville, an El Sistema-Inspired  education program of the Asheville Symphony, is proud to offer its second annual benefit concert. An evening of youthful joy awaits concert goers on Friday, May 13, as the students of MusicWorks! Asheville are joined by the Savannah Children's Choir, the Asheville Youth Choir, and members of the Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra. Hosts for the event will be local artist and MusicWorks! Teaching Artist, Laura Blackley and Asheville Symphony Symphonette, Charlotte Bulkeley. 

Integral to the Hall Fletcher community, MusicWorks! hopes to strengthen its programming at the school and to expand its reach to include students from other schools in West Asheville. A donation of $15 per concert goer is suggested, however the event is open to all who wish to attend regardless of ability to donate at this time. Click here to RSVP and for more information.

Special Interest Group (SIG)
Stories for the Third Act
Tuesday, May 17, 4:30 p.m. 
Reuter Center's Room 206
Story telling  
Stories for the Third Act will meet to plan for next year's meetings and to tell and listen to stories. "A great story is neither a lesson or a motivational anecdote to prove a point only.  A great story is never a strategy. A great story is a shared experience.  The telling awakens the source of inspirations sharing and becomes the motivating force of empowerment and insight."
Laura Simms
"A story is the shortest distance between two people."
Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society
Tuesday, May 17, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room 
John Yow
John Yow, author of  the popular books,
The Armchair Birder
and
The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal, will be the guest speaker at Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society's special May Birdathon program. John's presentation will delve into the concepts behind his
highly entertaining books on birding for the casual "armchair" or the traveling birder.

While most EMAS programs are free, a $5 donation is requested to support our Birdathon fundraiser.
For more information, click here to view a flier
Opera Talk
"Auditions from Behind the Scenes"
Dr. Jon Truitt
Friday, May 20, 11:30 a.m. 
(note special time)
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room 

Asheville Lyric Opera (ALO) brings great stories and music to life on Asheville's premiere theatrical stage, the Diana Wortham Theatre. Come enjoy a behind the scenes journey as ALO General Director David Craig Starkey and a cast
Jon Truitt
of industry professionals guide you through their operatic world.

   At this Opera Talk, David Starkey hosts Dr. Jon Truitt from Ball State University on "Auditions from Behind the Scenes".  Mark your calendar to attend this lively and informative musical presentation.

Asheville Living Treasures logo Asheville Living Treasures Recognition Ceremony
Sunday, May 22,  1:30 p.m.
Asheville Living Treasures  (ALT) is an all-volunteer organization whose mission is to honor elders of Asheville and Buncombe County who are 70 years of age or older. Honorees have devoted much of their time and energy to making our community a better place to live. ALT honors those selected at a public ceremony to recognize their achievements and record their stories for future generations. For more information contact ALT at [email protected] (preferred) or call 828.423.6476. Family, friends and the greater community are invited to join us as ALT honors the Spring 2016 Treasures on Sunday, May 22, 1:30 pm.

Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman
Thursdays - Saturdays,
through May 28
7:30 p.m.
Magnetic 375, 375 Depot Street,
River Arts District

















$15 tickets for groups of 6 or more* (that's six dollars off the regular online price)
20% off for OLLI members on online sales (use code: OLLI at www.themagnetictheatre.org)

For comps and group tickets or if you have any questions, please contact Lisa Yoffee at [email protected] or 828-348-4387.
OLLI Art Bazaar Exhibitor Registration Open

Registration is now open for exhibitors for the OLLI Art Bazaar scheduled for November 11-12, 2016.  Click here to download an exhibitor registration form (also available at OLLI office) to complete and return with payment to secure your spot at the Bazaar.  Spaces are limited and go in a hurry, so act now!
Books for Children Needed


Congregations 4 Children, a NC United Methodist Church initiative, is collecting books to give to children during the federally funded free lunch program this summer.  Both picture and chapter books are needed for grades K-12.  Please consider donating any children's books you may have and are no longer using.  There will be a box in the OLLI office to collect the donated books. For additional information contact OLLI member, Jane Callis 828-215-2950.
 

Wednesday Wine SIG Seeks New Members
The Wednesday Wine SIG is seeking additional members to join our group of wine enthusiasts in a laid back social atmosphere. Our group is primarily interested in not only learning about new wines but also appreciating new wines with an intent of adding to their collection or serving at social gatherings.

We meet the second Wednesday of every month at 7p.m. at the home of a member host. Wine tasting and discussion is usually conducted during the first hour followed by time for hors d'oeuvres and socializing. Each member is expected to host at least once during the year.

If you are interested in joining our group, please contact Hooker Wood at [email protected] or by phone 713-515-9661." Looking forward to hearing from you.
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