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TODAY
Asheville Living Treasures
Recognition Ceremony
Sunday, May 22, 1:30 p.m.
Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
Family, friends, and the greater community are invited to join us as Asheville Living Treasures (ALT) honors the Spring 2016 Treasures. including popular College for Seniors instructor Tom Sanders. 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.
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Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting
Meditation
Monday, May 23, 4:15 p.m.
Reuter Center Room 120
 At this meeting of the Meditation SIG, we will listen to Myrna Farbiash's CD Healing Lake Meditation.
This guided meditation will take you to the sacred healing waters of an enchanted lake. As you journey into the depth of your being, you will release tension and stress, balance your emotions and create harmony and inner peace.
All OLLI members are welcome. No previous meditation experience is necessary to benefit from this program.
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Blue Ridge Ringers Handbell Concert
Tuesday, May 24, 7 p.m.
Grace Lutheran Church in Hendersonville, NC
 September 1995. They love to ring!
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Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting
The Forum
Topic: "What Are Our Priorities for Government?"
Friday, May 27, 2016, 1 pm
Reuter Center
 The Forum offers dialogue to challenge our thinking, designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on topics ranging from changing demographics of retirees to nuclear disarmament.
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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 kirk.borland@gmail.com to learn more.
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Volunteers Needed
Personal Development
Curriculum Committee
 The Personal Development is a working committee that meets 8+ times per year to interview new College for Seniors instructors and to make recommendations for each term. Individual duties include: recruiting new instructors, reviewing proposals and making comments using Google Docs, and being a liaison for 1-4 instructors per term.
If you would like to talk about the committee member role, please contact Bonnie Snyder
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Elisha Mitchell
Audubon Society Meeting
"If You Want to
Feed the Birds,
First Feed the Bugs"
Dr. James Costa
Tuesday, June 21, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
Dr. James Costa, Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station and professor of biology at Western Carolina University |
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will present an ecological appreciation of insects in your garden to help you learn how you can help birds by making your garden a place they want to visit.
Free and open to the public
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Literacy Council of Buncombe County
Needs Volunteers
 The Literacy Council of Buncombe County is looking for volunteer tutors for the Adult Education, ESOL, and Augustine Project programs and will be hosting two orientations in May so you can learn more about becoming a volunteer tutor:
Wednesday, May 25, 9 a.m. & Thursday, May 26, 5:30 p.m.
Please email Mary Elizabeth at volunteers@litcouncil.com or call 828.254.3442 ext. 204.
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Sock Donations Needed
 Having a pair of clean, fresh socks is a luxury that we often take for granted. However, for many homeless people, socks are crucial to daily survival. Not only do they help keep feet warm and dry, socks also provide much-needed protection to feet that walk all day long, helping the wearer avoid injury and infection. From May 14-29, St. Eugene's Catholic Church will be sponsoring a sock drive on behalf of The Joy of Sox, an organization that distributes socks to the homeless nationwide. All socks that we collect will be distributed to the homeless in the Asheville community. If you would like to help, you can donate new socks at drop off points at OLLI and at St. Eugene's. Please contact Karen Bradley 828-645-2332 if you have questions.
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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.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) WNC Section
Presents:
Understanding Lasers in Our Lives Today, Especially Medical!
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Dear OLLI Members,
We are all excited to open online registration tomorrow, Monday, May 23, 10 a.m. You should receive your username and password around 9 a.m. on Monday and can take time to read instructions. Remember that we are using a priority allocation system; you may register any time before noon on Friday, May 27 to ensure your course requests will be included in the initial allocation. There is no need to hover over your computer at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Remember that Asheville Living Treasures (ALT) will hold its Spring 2016 Recognition Ceremony today. ALT honors people over 70 who have made a positive contribution to Buncombe County. We are particularly proud that popular College for Seniors instructor Tom Sanders will be honored this afternoon.
With gratitude for the many people who contribute to OLLI's success,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events: 
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 Thursday, May 26, 9 a.m. - Noon Please register by Monday, May 23
College for Seniors will hold its quarterly TechTalks on Thursday, May 26 from 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. The workshop day is open to anyone planning to teach during 2016-17 or anyone just contemplating volunteering to teach who might want training on the audio-visual equipment at the Reuter Center.
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 "Envisioning Community" World Premiere of a Documentary Celebrating the Work of Julian Price and Live Performances of The Asheville Symphony Sessions
Thursday, May 26, 6:30 p.m. The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Avenue Tickets $25
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Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman
 The Magnetic Theatre in the River Arts District is performing Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman,Thursdays -
Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., through Saturday,
May 28
$15 tickets for groups of 6 or more* (that's six dollars off the regular online price)
For comps and group tickets or if you have any questions, please contact Lisa Yoffee at ly@themagnetictheatre.org or 828-348-4387.
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Autumn Players Readers Theatre
Good People
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by RoseLynn Katz
Sunday, May 29, 2:30 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month's paycheck covers last month's bills, and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who's made it out of Southie might be her ticket to a fresh new start. But is this apparently self-made man secure enough to face his humble beginnings? Margie is about to risk what little she has left to find out. With his signature humorous glow, Lindsay-Abaire explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America.
Tickets are $6 at the door.
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Sierra Club Meeting
"Celebrating 100 Years of the National Park Service in the Southeast"
Danny Bernstein
Wednesday, June 1, 7 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Corner of Charlotte Street and Edwin Place
 Danny Bernstein has been a hiker for over 40 years and will describe the 71 national park units in the SE from the Great Smoky National Park to the 1 square block of Tupelo National Battlefield. Free & open to the public.
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Astronomy Club of Asheville
"Using Camera Lenses to Observe Everything, All the TIme: The Evryscope Global Network"
by Nicholas Law, UNC Chapel Hill
Thursday, June 2, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
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Current wide-field sky surveys generally operate with few-degree-sized fields and take many individual images to cover large sky areas each night. Dr. Law will discuss the Evryscope ("wide-seer"), which takes a different approach: using an array of small telescopes to form a single image covering every part of the accessible sky simultaneously and continuously.
The Astronomy Club of Asheville has been exploring and sharing the wonders of astronomy in the Asheville, NC region since 1981. To learn more, click here.
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Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association Meeting
Sunday, June 12, 5:30 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
 Bill Lea, well known for his photography of the Smokies and Cades Cove, will be the featured speaker for the June 12th meeting. Beyond landscape photography, Bill's passion is using photography as an avenue for education, primarily concerning the area's black bear population. Bill co-founded a sanctuary for black bears in Northern Minnesota in 1995 and does most of his bear photography there and in the Smokies. Bill sees himself as a black bear advocate to let people see what bears are really like and to counteract all the of the untruths about black bears.
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Advanced Care Planning Workshop
Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
This workshop will feature a panel whose members are experienced in addressing end-of-life issues. Discussion will include communicating your treatment wishes to loved ones and to medical personnel, ethical and legal issues, and the uses of advance directives. Ample time will be reserved for questions. Assistance will be provided for anyone wishing to complete a legally valid advance directive, including the notarization required in North Carolina, using the NC ACP "Short Form".
This workshop is free and open to the public, adults of all ages. For more information, email the workshop coordinators, David Mouw MD,PhD and Mary Campbell BSN, COHN-S at: olli.acp@gmail.com or call OLLI at 828-251-6140 or email olli@unca.edu.
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Three Sundays in Appalachia
Appalachian Summer Theater Series
A joint project of OLLI and The Autumn Players
Ivy Rowe
Sunday, June 19, 2 p.m.
This monodrama by Barbara Bates Smith is adapted from Lee Smith's novel Fair and Tender Ladies by Mark Hunter and Barbara Bates Smith.
Outlander
Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m.
Outlander is a play written by Gary Carden with music by Joe Penland, to be performed by The Autumn Players. The play tells the story of Horace Kephart's troubled and complex relationship with his Southern Highland neighbors and with his own demons. Tickets at the door: $6
Patchwork Perspectives
Sunday, August 7, 2 p.m.
Patchwork Perspectives is written and acted by Barbara Bates Smith and based on characters from Lee Smith's stories "Devil's Dream" and "Saving Grace."
All shows are scheduled in the Reuter Center's Manheimer Room.
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Buncombe County Chatauqua 2016
"American Adventures" 
Monday through Thursday,
June 20-23, 7 p.m. Nightly
A-B Tech - Ferguson Auditorium American Adventures will be held June 20-23 in Ferguson Auditorium at A-B Tech in Asheville. This year's Buncombe County Chautauqua will present some wildly courageous and adventurous characters. The Save Our Buncombe Chautauqua Committee presents Chautauqua 2016 with support from several friends of the library groups, community organizations and local businesses in Buncombe County and many interested individuals. Click here to learn more.
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Auditions
Tuesday, June 28, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
The Autumn Players are holding auditions for a Reader's Theatre production of Gary Carden's
Outlander,
a play about Horace Kephart and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Performance:
Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
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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!
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The Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
Calling WRITERS and ARTISTS!
 The Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine wants your
photography, art, fiction , non-fiction , memoir, and poetry, for issue number 5.
Smoky Blue is the magazine of photography, literature, and art begun by OLLI members in 2013. To see past issues and to enter your submission, go to SBLAAM.com.
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