OLLI Schedule, September 2018 Start End Event Location Sunday, September 02, 2018 2:30 PM 4:30 PM The Autumn Players Readers Theater Tuesday, September 04, 2018 LAS Planning 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Buddies 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #6 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #7 4:15 PM 5:15 PM Astronomy Club Board 4:30 PM 6:30 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #12 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Audubon Society Board Meeting Wednesday, September 05, 2018 1:00 PM 5:00 PM SET UP FOR LAS Orientation 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Tile Clickers 4:15 PM 6:00 PM SIG Conversing in Spanish 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #12 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #2 Thursday, September 06, 2018 8:00 AM 5:00 PM LAS Orientation 9:30 AM 11:00 AM OLLI Executive Council 2:00 PM 4:00 PM OLLI Hospitality Committee 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Grads 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Astronomy Club of Asheville Friday, September 07, 2018 9:00 AM 10:30 AM Mentor Planning 10:00 AM 12:00 PM Health & Fitness Curriculum Committee 10:30 AM 12:30 PM Visual Arts Committee 12:00 PM 1:00 PM Hiking Leadership Group 1:00 PM 3:00 PM SIG The Forum 1:00 PM 4:00 PM Art SIG 1:15 PM 4:00 PM SIG Friday Bridge 1:30 PM 3:00 PM Midday Music with Pan Harmonia 1:30 PM 3:00 PM SIG Financial Strategies in Retirement 1:30 PM 3:00 PM CFS Committee Meeting 3:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Thriving in Community A 3:15 PM 5:00 PM SIG Whole Foods/Plant Based Living
4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #8 9:00 PM 11:30 PM Public Stargazes at Lookout Observatory Upper lobby Saturday, September 08, 2018 9:00 PM 11:30 PM Public Stargazes at Lookout Observatory Upper lobby Sunday, September 09, 2018 5:30 PM 8:00 PM Carolinas' Nature Photographers Assoc A Monday, September 10, 2018 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Art Bazaar Exhibitor Meeting 2:00 PM 4:00 PM SIG Texas Hold 'Em 4:15 PM 6:00 PM SIG Meditation 4:30 PM 6:00 PM STEM Lecture-Britt Lundgren 4:30 PM 6:30 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #1 Tuesday, September 11, 2018 8:00 AM 5:00 PM LAS Program 9:30 AM 12:30 PM CCRC Program 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Buddies 4:00 PM 6:00 PM Dulcimer SIG 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #11 4:15 PM 6:00 PM Gardening SIG 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #8 7:30 PM World Affairs Council: "Crisis in Venezuela" by 9:30 PM Professor Russell Crandall, Davidson College Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:00 AM 12:00 PM Faculty Orientation 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Tile Clickers 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #9 Thursday, September 13, 2018 Visual Arts Curriculum Committee 9:30 AM 11:30 AM Ideas in Action Presentation 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Grads 4:15 PM 6:15 PM Civic Engagement Committee 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #4 Friday, September 14, 2018 9:00 AM 12:00 PM New Member Welcome 9:30 AM 12:30 PM CCRC Program 12:30 PM 2:00 PM NC Stage Behind the Scenes A 1:00 PM 3:00 PM SIG The Forum
1:00 PM 3:00 PM OLLI Finance Committee 1:00 PM 4:00 PM Art SIG 1:15 PM 4:00 PM SIG Friday Bridge 1:30 PM 3:30 PM Apple SIG 3:00 PM 5:00 PM Symphony Talk Monday, September 17, 2018 8:45 AM 11:15 AM Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction So It Goes: The Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Section 1 Architectural History of Asheville Embellish With Embroidery Stitches Paper Buffet Part 1: Appetizers Emergence of Japan as a World Power A Giuseppe Verdi: His Life, Times, and Operas Compassionate Communication Beginning Genealogy 11:45 AM 1:30 PM Emotional Intelligence: How Emotions Affect Financial Decisions 12:00 PM 1:30 PM Classical Yoga B 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Stage to Screen: Film Adaptations of the Plays of Tennessee Williams A 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Sanskrit Effect-Sanskrit for Brain Health 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Beginning French 1B 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Color Knitting Techniques 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #10 4:15 PM 6:00 PM Fab Friday General Topic Committee 4:15 PM 6:00 PM OLLI Communications Committee 4:15 PM 6:00 PM SIG Texas Hold 'Em 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Reuter Center Singers A Tuesday, September 18, 2018 Big History and the Meaning of Life Search for the Historical Paul Ecology of Southern Appalachia Drawing Animals Joy of Watercolor Docent's Journey: American Artists' Masterpieces
11:30 AM Dancing On a Razor's Edge: How True Intimacy 1:30 PM Works Appreciating Asheville's Appalachian Music Best American Short Stories of the Twentieth Century: Part 1 Navigating Windows 10 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Robin Williams: Comic Prodigy 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Small Changes for Healthful Living 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunters Album 2:00 PM 5:00 PM The Met at the Movies 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Making Knitted Felted Items 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Design and Make Pop-ups 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Buddies 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #6 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #7 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Audubon Society A Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Geology of North Carolina A To Be Younger Next Year: The Total Workout B Virginia Woolf in a Course of Her Own Changing Times, Changing Music: Recordings as History 1945-1975 Mapping the West: The Pacific Railroad Surveys Advanced Intermediate French 3B 11:30 AM Trains and the Transformation of Western North 1:30 PM A Carolina iphone Photography, Section A Becoming an Informed Advocate Book of Genesis Exploring Homer's Odyssey: A Soldier's Journey Home 2:00 PM 4:30 PM Rediscovered Silent Films From Europe and Asia A 2:00 PM 4:30 PM Business of Art & Craft B 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Media Influence in U. S. History: A Seminar 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Art of Solving Crosswords - Level 1 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Mystical Zen of Dainin Katagiri 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Intermediate French 2B 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Tile Clickers
4:15 PM 6:00 PM SIG Conversing in Spanish 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #12 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #2 Thursday, September 20, 2018 Astronomy: The Planets So It Goes: The Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Section 2 Versions of the Socratic Beginning Bridge Appalachian Sampler 2018: Appreciating Appalachian Culture Great Short Stories Politics and Government: Is This What The Founders Had in Mind? Advertising An Illustrated History of Spectacular Successes and Dismal Failures An Encounter: Making Art into Poetry Best Travel Apps 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Master of Suspense: Hitchcock in his Golden Years 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Global Arms Trade, Defense Spending, and the Challenge of Restraint, The 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Milestones and Challenges of Later Life 2:00 PM 4:00 PM French 4: 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Masking It! 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Grads 4:15 PM 5:30 PM OLLI Steering Council 5:30 PM 7:00 PM Human Relations Commission Friday, September 21, 2018 Tap Dancing for Fun A To Be Younger Next Year: The Total Workout B Taking Control of Your Retirement Planning History of Lighthouses: Bonfires to Satellites Walt Whitman: Civil War Chaplain and Freethinker Drome: The Other Provence 9:00 AM 11:30 AM Creating Art Inspired by Poetry in Triptych Format 11:30 AM 1:15 PM Fab Friday Lecture Series A 1:00 PM 3:00 PM SIG The Forum 1:00 PM 3:00 PM SIG History Book Lovers 1:00 PM 4:00 PM Art SIG
1:15 PM 4:00 PM SIG Friday Bridge 1:30 PM 3:30 PM OLLI Inclusion Committee 1:30 PM 3:30 PM Poetry SIG 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Travel SIG A 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #8 5:00 PM 7:00 PM Death Cafe' Monday, September 24, 2018 8:45 AM 11:15 AM Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Practical Chess B So It Goes: The Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Section 1 Architectural History of Asheville Embellish With Embroidery Stitches Paper Buffet Part 1: Appetizers Emergence of Japan as a World Power A The Sonnet Compassionate Communication Beginning Genealogy 11:45 AM 1:30 PM Emotional Intelligence: How Emotions Affect Financial Decisions 12:00 PM 1:30 PM Classical Yoga B 2:00 PM Stage to Screen: Film Adaptations of the Plays of 5:00 PM A Tennessee Williams 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Sanskrit Effect-Sanskrit for Brain Health 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Beginning French 1B 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Color Knitting Techniques 4:15 PM 6:00 PM SIG Meditation 4:15 PM 6:00 PM Hiking SIG Meeting 4:15 PM 6:00 PM SIG Texas Hold 'Em 4:30 PM 6:30 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #1 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Reuter Center Singers A Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Big History and the Meaning of Life Search for the Historical Paul Ecology of Southern Appalachia Drawing Animals Joy of Watercolor 11:15 AM 12:45 PM OLLI Art Bazaar Committee
Docent's Journey: American Artists' Masterpieces Dancing On a Razor's Edge: How True Intimacy Works Appreciating Asheville's Appalachian Music Best American Short Stories of the Twentieth Century: Part 1 Navigating Windows 10 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Robin Williams: Comic Prodigy 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Small Changes for Healthful Living 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunters Album 2:00 PM 5:00 PM The Met at the Movies 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Making Knitted Felted Items 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Design and Make Pop-ups 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Buddies 4:00 PM 6:00 PM Dulcimer SIG 4:15 PM 6:00 PM Goodman Reception (By invitation) 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Women's Group #8 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Goodman Literary Event Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Geology of North Carolina A To Be Younger Next Year: The Total Workout B Virginia Woolf in a Course of Her Own Changing Times, Changing Music: Recordings as History 1945-1975 Mapping the West: The Pacific Railroad Surveys Advanced Intermediate French 3B Performing Stand-Up Comedy 101 9:30 AM 10:45 AM OLLI Art Bazaar Committee Trains and the Transformation of Western North Carolina A iphone Photography, Section A Becoming an Informed Advocate Book of Genesis Exploring Homer's Odyssey: A Soldier's Journey HOme 11:30 AM Keeping Your Mind Sharp With Logic Puzzles, 1:30 PM Section A 2:00 PM 4:30 PM Rediscovered Silent Films From Europe and Asia A
2:00 PM 4:00 PM Media Influence in U. S. History: A Seminar 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Art of Solving Crosswords - Level 1 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Mystical Zen of Dainin Katagiri 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Intermediate French 2B 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Tile Clickers 3:30 PM 5:00 PM Leanna's Soiree 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #9 4:15 PM 6:15 PM OLLI Planning Committee 4:30 PM 6:30 PM STEM Lecture-Kevin Sanft 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Science Book Club Thursday, September 27, 2018 Astronomy: The Planets So It Goes: The Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Section 2 Versions of the Socratic I Would Lie to You If I Could: A Poetry Writing Beginning Bridge Appalachian Sampler 2018: Appreciating Appalachian Culture Great Short Stories Politics and Government: Is This What The Founders Had in Mind? Advertising An Illustrated History of Spectacular Successes and Dismal Failures An Encounter: Making Art into Poetry Best Travel Apps 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Master of Suspense: Hitchcock in his Golden Years 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Global Arms Trade, Defense Spending, and the Challenge of Restraint, The 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Milestones and Challenges of Later Life 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Observing the Night Sky 2:00 PM 4:00 PM French 4 2:00 PM 4:00 PM Masking It! 2:00 PM 5:00 PM SIG Bridge Grads 4:15 PM 6:15 PM SIG Men's Wisdom Works #4 4:30 PM 6:00 PM Focus Group Friday, September 28, 2018 Tap Dancing for Fun A To Be Younger Next Year: The Total Workout B Taking Control of Your Retirement Planning
History of Lighthouses: Bonfires to Satellites Walt Whitman: Civil War Chaplain and Freethinker Drome: The Other Provence 9:00 AM 11:30 AM Creating Art Inspired by Poetry in Triptych Format 11:30 AM 1:15 PM Fab Friday Lecture A 1:15 PM 3:00 PM OLLI Distance Learning 1:30 PM 8:00 PM Black Mountain College Conference Saturday, September 29, 2018 Sunday, September 30, 2018 2:30 PM 4:30 PM The Autumn Players Readers Theater