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TODAY
The Autumn Players
Readers Theatre
Sunday, May 29, 2:30 p.m.
Reuter Center's
Manheimer Room
Good People
written by
David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by RoseLynn Katz
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.
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Closed for Memorial Day
 OLLI and the Reuter Center will be closed Monday, May 30, in observation of Memorial Day.
We will reopen on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at 8 a.m.
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CREW Workshop
June 3-5, 2016
Reuter Center Closed
for all other activities
The Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend (CREW) workshop is an educational workshop that helps participants gain an understanding of relocation in retirement.
During this annual event, all other activities at the Reuter Center are suspended.
Click here to learn more.
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Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society (EMAS) Meeting
Reuter Center's
Manheimer Room
"If You Want to Feed the Birds, First Feed the Bugs!"
Dr. James Costa
Dr.. Costa is executive director of the Highlands Biological Station and professor of biology at Western Carolina University
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He 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.
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Opera Talk
Friday, June 24, 3 p.m.
Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
Young Artist Program Performance and
"Talk Back"
 The Summer Young Artists of Asheville Lyric Opera will perform a collection of opera highlights, art songs and classical pieces they have developed and perfected during their program. These up and coming singers hark from around the country and come to this program to jump start their professional opera career. They participate in an in intensive program for six weeks to develop all aspects of their craft from voice technique to character development to body movement and more. Come listen and learn about these young and aspiring singers first-hand!
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OLLI Workshop Committee
Volunteer Opportunity
The Workshop Committee at OLLI is exploring new horizons. We are seeking new members to host and market existing workshops
scheduled through the Fall of 2016 and find unique ways to serve as we develop new ways of working together.
"The mission of the OLLI Workshop Committee is to serve as a gateway to OLLI for a diverse cross-section of people by facilitating
short-term,
hands-on, unique and intensive learning experiences that appeal to members of OLLI and the greater community."
If you wish to learn more, Laurel Jernigan (staff liaison) and Ian Rudick, (committee chair) would love to meet with you!
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Dear OLLI Members,
First some housekeeping. Please remember that the OLLI office and the Reuter Center will be closed this Monday, May 30, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. The Reuter Center will be closed on Friday, June 3, to all activities (including SIGs and committee meetings) as we hold the Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend, a program that brings people from around the country to plan their retirement relocation.
Almost 650 OLLI members submitted online registrations for the Summer 2016 term. That represents a record number of registrations for the initial sign up during a summer term. We estimate that over 500 of our members completed the process without any assistance and that about 150 sought help either on the phone or in person at the Reuter Center.
Many thanks to Joe Baum, Lenore Baum, Marge Campbell, Jacob Cohen, Bob Davis, Nancy Gordon, Binna Green, Linda Korte, Sherry Lubic, Cal Oppenheim, Susan Poole, Elizabeth Pou, Gary Schenk, Anita Shields, and Rosemary Walton for walking people through the process and maintaining our spirit of community through a time of change. Everyone on staff has helped to make this system possible, but special thanks to Ann Cadle for making us better every step of the way as we made decisions and implemented the system and to Lynn Spaight and Caitlin Han for their intelligence, kindness and patience as we continue to learn more about the system and about one another. Thanks also to Leanna Preston for her work on our website throughout the process (and indeed throughout the year).
We learned a great deal as the result of talking both to people who found the system easy to navigate and those who point out spots that it was not intuitive. Remember that we will send out schedules on Friday, June 3 and our add/drop process will begin on Monday, June 6. At that time the system will be "real time." We will send detailed instructions for the process in next week's newsletter.
Celebrating resilience and kindness through change,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Sierra Club Meeting
Wednesday, June 1, 7 p.m.
"Celebrating 100 Years of the
National Park Service in the Southeast"
Danny Bernstein
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Corner of Edwin Place and Charlotte Street
 Danny Bernstein is a hiker of over 40 years. She 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. Contact: judymattox@sbcglobal.net, 828-683-2176
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Astronomy Club of Asheville Meeting
Thursday, June 2, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
"Using Camera Lenses to Observe Everything, All the Time: the Evryscope Global Network"
by Nicholas Law, UNC Chapel Hill
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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.
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Carolinas' Nature Photographers
Association Meeting
"Understanding and Photographing
the Black Bear"
Bill Lea
Sunday, June 12, 5:30 p.m.
Reuter Center's Manheimer Room
 Carolinas' Nature Photograpers Association Asheville Region is pleased to feature Bill Lea, well known for his photography of the Smokies and Cades Cove, as our featured speaker for our 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". Click here for access to a copy of the form.This workshop is free and open to the public. We welcome 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
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Three Afternoons in Appalachia
Appalachian Summer Theater Series
A joint project of OLLI and The Autumn Players
Sunday, June 19, 2 p.m.
Ivy Rowe
A monodrama by Barbara Bates Smith
Adapted from Lee Smith's novel
Fair and Tender Ladies
by Mark Hunter and Barbara Bates Smith.
Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m.
Outlander
A play written by Gary Carden with music by Joe Penland and performed by The Autumn Players. Based on the story of Horace Kephart's troubled and complex relationship with his Southern Highland neighbors and with his own demons.
Sunday, August 7, 2 p.m.
Patchwork Perspectives
Written and acted by Barbara Bates Smith.
Based on characters from Lee Smith's stories,
Devil's Dream and Saving Grace
This will be the premiere of Barbara's
newest monodrama.
All shows 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. each evening
AB Tech's Ferguson Auditorium
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.
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The Autumn Players
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, 2016 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! |
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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