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This is an educational class highlighting the importance of knowing when you can sign up for Medicare in order to get the most of your Medicare benefits. Learn how or why you can change your existing plan to better meet your specific needs.

The first class will cover the 4 parts of Medicare: Part A-Hospital Care, Part B-Medical Care, Part C-Medicare Advantage, and Part D-Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Plans.

The second session will cover HMO, PPO, and Supplemental/Medigap plans and how to decipher your medical bills.

Ever been curious about an app, but don’t know how to get started using it? Join this class and choose from popular free apps like; WhatsApp, LinkedIn, YouTube, Uber, Google Maps, Eventbrite, or AI apps like Canva, IoT, Invideo AI, Bluesky, Gemini, Llama, Copilot. Many are part of the social media environment. Or you could learn about gifs, memes, or how to navigate the huge selection on Amazon, the App Store, or Google Play Store. This hands-on class helps you practice using the apps you choose. Learn on all devices and platforms, including computers or mobile devices.

Bring a charged mobile device to class.

We hear a lot about potential downsides of AI for the present and the future. Global public opinion of AI is declining as AI grows. Yet there are potentially valuable upsides to AI technologies. In fact, a global organization (which includes the UN) is named “AI for Good.” Its goal is to “unlock AI’s potential to serve humanity through building skills, AI standards and advancing partnerships.” Pope Leo XIV is advocating for similar goals. And a recent book with the same title describes beneficial uses of AI.

This new class examines the issue of “AI for the Good,” covering both the current and potential benefits of AI, some of its unintended consequences, and, of course, touches on its potential harm. 

 Find out how easy it is to build your own website, blog, chat or webinar. Make your own site or watch how it is done. We will explore popular website builders, including use of AI tools with WIX. Learn strategies to reach your intended audience, attract visitors to your site, enhance communications through social media channels, build loyalty, and maintain your website, blog or chat. All devices are welcome, but know how to use your device well. Enjoy learning about the most important tools for Internet communications.

Want to film your life and the lives of your family and friends? You can use the camera on your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or an action camera like a GoPro. Learn how to shoot, edit, and enhance videos on each device, when it is best to use which one, filming techniques, smartphone video apps, useful accessories, plus creating scripts, background music, voice narration, editing tools, and AI as a tool to do and edit videos. Discover how to connect your work to other devices, achieve the best video quality, frame rates, and explore the differences between action cameras like GoPro and others. Bring your charged device to each class. Prerequisite: Experience using your Android, iOS, Action camera devices.

Unlock the mystique of an ancient oriental language! Vivid Chinese language learning materials and a focus on interaction, much in-class practice, helps students acquire basic conversational ability. Learn how to participate in daily conversations in Mandarin Chinese. Links to helpful online learning portals will supplement the course.

Class meets twice a week - Tues & Thurs.

This class will cover essential investing and opportunities in a rapidly changing economy. We will address the principals of selecting stocks, bonds, and other investments, with a focus on using investment income to fund retirement. We will explore public and private markets (private equity, private credit and hedge funds) and discuss if these investments are right for your goals. Learn how to read financial statements, to translate confusing financial jargon, and view the evolving world of crypto currency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).

Time will be allotted each session for questions and answers. No products or services are sold, endorsed, or marketed.

THIS CLASS IS CANCELLED FOR FALL SESSION

This course will focus on timeless fashion for women. We will look at color, first impression and how choosing the correct colors will make your skin and face glow with natural beauty. You will learn about your body type and what clothing styles best complement it. Do you know what fashion personality or face shape you have? Knowing this will assist you in selecting glasses, earrings and hair-styles. I will show you how to create a Core-Wardrobe in your fashion personality and how to use your accessories to create more looks with the clothes you already have.

SPECIAL EVENT - FREE FOR OLLI MEMBERS

This talk draws from first-person accounts of people and families who fled Hitler and ended up in a country they never knew existed. In Ecuador, a Jewish community of over 3,000 Jews blossomed for over 25 years and still exists today. The contributions of this small Jewish community in Ecuador cannot be ignored, and several examples of their current impact are summarized and celebrated.

It's an exciting time to have a smartphone. But every year there are more interesting features, and it can be hard to keep up with all the changes. Learn about a wide range of iPhone features and services ranging from phone care to the current Apple AI, how to manage your email, messages, and contacts, the different ways you can personalize your iPhone. We’ll discuss how to stay safe or private when you are using your phone, how to edit and organize all those photos you’ve taken, how to take advantage of the iPhone’s health features and much more.

This is a romp through Brooklyn, NY, from its beginnings to present day, with videos that epitomize Brooklyn life. The course will highlight many famous people that grew up in Brooklyn and their achievements. It will cover neighborhoods, landmarks and Brooklyn’s impact on the world as well as describing how life in Brooklyn today is different from how it was when many OLLI people grew up there. 

Jazz was born in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century, in a unique cultural environment shaped by African, Caribbean, French, and American influences. Introduced to France by American soldiers during World War I, jazz quickly found an enthusiastic audience and became a lasting part of French cultural life. Over the following decades, many legendary American musicians—including Sidney Bechet, Josephine Baker, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis—found in France a welcoming environment where they could perform, create, and often enjoy greater artistic freedom and recognition than at home. This course explores the rich and enduring relationship between jazz and French culture. It will be offered using music and video presentations both in person and via Zoom (HyFlex).

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

In this class, participants prepare memoirs that detail memorable life experiences. Each week, members have the opportunity to share the essays they have written in advance. Participants are asked to honor an 800-word/5-minute reading time limit in order to accommodate all class members. Each author will receive supportive feedback related to his/her submission. Discovering one’s personal writing style, voice, and effectiveness are part of the fun we enjoy in this class.

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

If you are curious and would like to experience your life in more uplifting ways, this course is for you. Author Mary Ruth Velicki shares practical tools and perspectives for living with more peace, awareness, and joy in everyday life. Through engaging presentations, personal stories, and reflective activities, participants will explore ways to open their body, mind, and heart.

Topics include:

• Opening the body /calming the body-mind • Appreciating the connection between body, mind, and spirit

• Opening the mental-emotional state

• Exploring energy and intuition

• Experiencing more presence, love, and connection

SPECIAL EVENT - FREE TO MEMBERS

This class will explain why heart disease, stroke, and cancer are the major causes of death in the U.S. with poor diet and lifestyle as primary factors. Understand which foods promote excellent health and how to develop a health-oriented diet so your risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes will drop dramatically.

It turns out the vast majority of headaches, security issues, tech expenditures, and e-waste are preventable. Through my books, podcast, and speaking tour, I de-mystify and explain the IT industry in plain English. Topics I explain:

- The core components of a computer

- Why Antivirus software is obsolete - WHY software becomes more complicated every day The Four New Threats:

-Legalized Spyware

-Cryptolocker/Ransom/Hostageware

-Update Attacks -Support Scams AND MORE…..

During retirement, many of us seek greater meaning in health, work, relationships, community, learning, creativity, or spirituality, yet the path forward often feels uncertain. This workshop offers an opportunity to reflect on what matters most, and intentionally shape your next chapter. Drawing on behavioral science research, we explore meaning, purpose, resilience, mindset, and habits, and apply these ideas to your life. Through guided reflection, creative exercises, peer collaboration, and a simple online interactive workbook that supports iterative reflection, you will gain new perspectives, clarify what gives your life meaning in retirement, and define achievable goals. You will leave with practical strategies to launch your next chapter, overcome barriers, and an accountability group to support continued progress momentum.

This session we will read short stories from those collected in A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker 1925-2025. These stories include “classic” stories by well-known authors, lesser-known stories by prominent authors, and just plain excellent stories. Each week we will discuss what makes the story unique: themes, techniques, characters, atmosphere, etc. All class members participate... Our source anthology is: A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker 1925-2025, Deborah Treisman, Ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2025)

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

This course will introduce participants to different pieces of children’s literature. Each selection will be used to engage class members in oral Spanish skills by focusing on vocabulary development, comprehension and speaking. The instructor believes in a natural approach to language acquisition, encouraging all participants to be fully involved in the activities in a positive learning environment that supports each learner regardless of current fluency levels.

THIS CLASS IS FULL.

This is a new format class by Watercolor Mastery instructor Anne Kupillas, who will lead you to paint intermediate to advanced paintings using three steps. Each week, we will explore approaches such as painting from Large to Small, Light to Dark, Thin to Thick paint consistencies, and Wet to Dry. Subjects will vary across genres (landscape, still life, portrait, etc.). This course is an instructor Demo/ student Paint- Along with Q&A, rather than a step-by-step format. Students will need to keep up! You will need basic supplies plus a hairdryer (a full list will be sent upon registration).

We'll begin with a basic inventory of our observable universe: earth, our solar system, stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. We will marvel at the appearance of these heavenly bodies and their features. As we examine the sky and the motion of the Earth, we will explore the causes of seasons, eclipses, and phases of the Moon. We will analyze the basic properties of light and the newest telescopes that are contributing to our understanding of the universe. All class sessions feature striking visual images taken with powerful telescopes.

Yoga is for Every Body! Chair Yoga provides the advantages of yoga’s amazing health benefits including relaxation and a feeling of well-being with adaptations for all levels of flexibility. This class uses yoga exercises, breathwork, energy work, basic meditation, and acupressure for a total yoga experience. Students report better balance, strength and flexibility as a result of Chair Yoga! This yoga experience is based on Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga (LVCY), Eden Energy Medicine, and Dr. Micheal Reed Gach Acupressure Yoga.