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- CRISPR is Changing Our Food
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Instructor: Bryan McKersie
Dates: 10/24/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may have heard of CRISPR (a gene-editing technique) being used to treat inherited genetic disorders and to make designer babies. But did you know it's also used to improve both the sustainability of food production and the nutritional value of our fruits and vegetables? The first products have been approved for sale in the US this year. Will you eagerly adopt or shun these modified foods? Through lectures, videos, and discussion, learn about CRISPR technology and alternative ways being used to change our food.
Note: This is an OLLI at University of Arizona class. Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings Time. After November 5, 2023, this class will begin at noon Pacific time.
This class will be recorded.
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- Seasonal Crafting at Board & Brush: Section 1
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Instructor: Laura Nasca
Dates: 10/24/2023 - 10/24/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: Board & Brush Chico
Room: Studio
Fee for À La Carte Members: $0.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Do you love to create and connect with friends? This inspiring DIY workshop offers materials and instruction for the creation of a unique piece for your home – or a gift for a friend! The team at Board & Brush Creative Studio is partnering with OLLI to provide a fun craft activity to be enjoyed with others. No experience necessary! Each participant will leave with their own work of art: a vintage style wood tray or a sign.
Make a seasonal project celebrating the fall or winter seasons or holidays!
There is an additional $40 materials fee, payable at the time you choose your project. You will receive a separate email with a link to choose your project and pay the materials fee. Registration deadline: October 20
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- Seasonal Crafting at Board & Brush: Section 2
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Instructor: Laura Nasca
Dates: 11/7/2023 - 11/7/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: Board & Brush Chico
Room: Studio
Fee for À La Carte Members: $0.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Do you love to create and connect with friends? This inspiring DIY workshop offers materials and instruction for the creation of a unique piece for your home – or a gift for a friend! The team at Board & Brush Creative Studio is partnering with OLLI to provide a fun craft activity to be enjoyed with others. No experience necessary! Each participant will leave with their own work of art: a vintage style wood tray or a sign.
Join us on November 7 to make a seasonal project celebrating the fall or winter seasons or holidays!
There is an additional $40 materials fee, payable at the time you choose your project. You will receive a separate email with a link to choose your project and pay the materials fee. Registration deadline: November 3.
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- The Science of Ecology
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Instructor: Tim McDonnell
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 12/5/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Sessions: 12
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
The planet we live on is facing many crises. To understand them better, we need to look at the basic principles of ecology, the study of our home, the Earth. In this course we will discuss the theories that ecology is based on and apply this knowledge to the problems our living environment faces in the 21st century.
This class will be recorded.
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- Hardwiring Your Brain for Happiness
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Instructor: Joni Samples
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 10/17/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
It's so easy to live in a world of negativity, survival, and habit. It really does take practice to make it different, but we can do that – at any age! So let's see how and what it takes to make our lives better, happier, and more enjoyable. This class shows you both the joy of doing so and the underlying science that can make it happen.
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- 108-Form Tai Chi: Beginning
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Instructor: Lenora Wong
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/17/2023
Days: Tu F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 19
Location: Center for Spiritual Living
Room:
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
There is no fee to be added to the waitlist. Waitlisted members will be added to the class in the order they were added to the waitlist. We ask that you not attend the class until you have been officially registered. À La Carte Members on the waitlist will be contacted for payment before being registered in the class.
This is the longest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about 25 minutes to complete. Tai chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class you will learn the first third of the forms, or about 36 moves, in a workshop environment.
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- Being Grateful
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Instructor: Rosie Potestio
Dates: 10/17/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
There is no fee to be added to the waitlist. Waitlisted members will be added to the class in the order they were added to the waitlist. We ask that you not attend the class until you have been officially registered. À La Carte Members on the waitlist will be contacted for payment before being registered in the class.
Gratitude helps us become healthier, strengthens our emotional and physical well-being, and helps us become more optimistic and resilient. Gratitude is an underused tool for improving our life and can actually rewire our brain. We will work together as a class to explore ever-deepening levels of gratitude as we integrate more of it into our daily lives. Whether you are new to the gratitude path or have been traveling it for a while, you are welcome.
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- Creating Connections and Community
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Instructor: Peggy Jennings-Severe
Dates: 10/24/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Learn simple, effective, and sustainable tools for having more meaningful and satisfying conversations with your spouse, children, grandchildren, friends, and acquaintances. Participants will also learn how to build traditions that allow for and create an environment that supports connections and a sense of community. This workshop is highly interactive and fun!
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- Intro to Prismacolor Pencils
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Instructor: Cris Guenter
Dates: 10/24/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class will introduce participants to Prismacolor pencil use. These pencils have a wax base so it is good to know how to use and take care of them. The class will address what types of paper to use, basic procedures for color swatching, color blending strategies, layering colors, sharpening techniques, and preparing and working on a complete colored pencil drawing. Completed Prismacolor pencil drawings can look like paintings with a thoughtful approach, proper blending, and some patience.
Materials List:
These materials are available online at Amazon, Blick.com, Jerry's Artarama, or Cheap Joe's Art Stuff. Locally in Chico you may be able to find these items at Michael's, Ellis Art Supply, and Hobby Lobby.
- A set of 12 or more Prismacolor Pencils
- Prismacolor Colorless Blender Pencil
- 9" x 12" Strathmore Bristol Vellum Series 400 tablet (15 sheets/brown cover)
- Vinyl eraser such as one of these: Pentel Hi-Polyner Block Eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Eraser, or Staedtler Mars Plastic Vinyl Eraser
Optional:
Sakura Cordless Sumo Grip Electric Eraser
Dusting Brush (for drafting/drawing)
This class will be recorded.
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- Slow Reading Your Inner Fish: An Adventure In Evolutionary Discovery
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Instructor: Charles Copeland
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
In 2004 Neil Shubin helped discover the previously missing but now-found link between fish (animals living in water) and amphibians (animals living on land). Now known as Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," it lived approximately 375 million years ago. Using our inner fish as a case study, our true goal is to better understand how scientists establish scientific claims. In this learning through conversation seminar, participants must read one short chapter of the book before each class.
The required book, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin, is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers.
Class Syllabus
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- Weekly Creations
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Instructor: Cris Guenter
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 10/17/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 6
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Grab your sketchbook and assorted art materials! The goal of this class is to complete a piece of art each week during class time. For each session we will look at a photo, video clip, or artwork, briefly discuss it, and then create our own piece. Prior to each session, specific art materials that will be used by the instructor for that week will be shared. Participants are welcome to follow along with the instructor or take off in a direction of their own.
Materials: a sketchbook and/or drawing paper, and any other assorted art media that you have and like to use.
This class will be recorded.
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- Where Are My Keys?
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Instructor: Cliff Keene (he/him/his)
Dates: 10/17/2023 - 10/17/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Are you finding yourself more forgetful as you age? In this seminar class, we will discuss the normal and abnormal changes of the brain as we age. You'll learn what is common and what isn't part of the normal decline of memory as we get older. We will also discuss activities and nutrition ideas that will help keep our brains in optimum health.
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- Tuesday Tunes
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Instructor: Bitz Haley
Dates: 9/26/2023 - 11/7/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: Haley's Martial Arts Center
Room:
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
Start your Tuesday with music and songs. Join us in a fun, informal weekly sing-along. Bring your voices and/or musical instruments. The operative word is "fun." If you like music, you will like this class. All levels welcome!
This class meets September 26, October 10, 24, and November 7.
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- Slow Reading Shakespeare: Kingship
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Instructor: Jack Ayer
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class will consider kingship in Shakespeare, drawing on scenes and passages from several different plays. You will be able to find materials in published sources or free online. Email Jack (jdayer@ucdavis.edu) for more specifics for guidance in making your decision or for doing any advance preparation you would like to do. If you want study just one play in full, it would be Henry IV, Part 1.
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- 108-Form Tai Chi: Intermediate
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Instructor: Lenora Wong
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/17/2023
Days: Tu F
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 19
Location: Center for Spiritual Living
Room:
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is the longest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about 25 minutes to complete. Tai chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class we will review the first 36 forms in a workshop environment. Additional forms will be taught as the group is ready.
This class meets twice a week.
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- Making History: Covid and the Black Death Revisited
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In June 2020 we offered "Lessons from the Black Death" to examine how medieval societies responded to the plague and how the modern world was reacting to the pandemic, then only a few months old. Three years on, we're revisiting our assessments and noticing how, so far, modern America is recounting its history of the pandemic.
Class members will receive links to the June 2020 videos to watch prior to each class, during which we will discuss how today compares with June 2020.
This class will be recorded.
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- Opening Pandora's Box: Reading Poetry for Meditation and Reflection
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Instructor: Susan Bollinger , Kate Foley
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
There is no fee to be added to the waitlist. Waitlisted members will be added to the class in the order they were added to the waitlist. We ask that you not attend the class until you have been officially registered. À La Carte Members on the waitlist will be contacted for payment before being registered in the class.
Each week the class will read poems by an individual poet, a collection of poems on a specific subject, or a collection of poems in a specific style. A wide range of poets and poetry will be presented, from classic to contemporary, and we will discuss them from the perspective that the poet creates the work but the reader activates it.
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- Film, Movies, Cinema!
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Instructor: Aaron Bor
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
There is no fee to be added to the waitlist. Waitlisted members will be added to the class in the order they were added to the waitlist. We ask that you not attend the class until you have been officially registered. À La Carte Members on the waitlist will be contacted for payment before being registered in the class.
Want to watch some great and interesting movies? In this class we'll watch and discuss some of our favorites. Each meeting will feature a representative movie from a different genre.
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- Healthier You: Enloe Lecture Series
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Instructor: Baylee Martin (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/17/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This lecture series consists of distinct classes, each designed to address a unique area of health-related issues. Presented by highly-qualified physicians and other caregivers, these classes will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about staying healthy and active. Each class is a complete topic and participants are invited to attend any combination of the offerings during the series.
This class will be recorded.
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- Melodic Instrumental Clawhammer Banjo For Beginners
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Instructor: Bill Unger
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
I would love to share this beautiful style of banjo playing with you. We'll start by learning how to tune and hold the banjo. Then we'll learn three or four simple chord shapes and how to play the "bum ditty." With a few left hand techniques, we'll be playing some gorgeous music. If you don't have a banjo or want more details, email Bill (Stillstrumming@gmail.com).
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- Let's Keep Knitting
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Instructor: Gale Ulvang
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 11/14/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Knitting with others is a wonderful learning environment. This class is designed to give knitters who have mastered the basic stitches of knit and purl a chance to work on a project of their choosing while we chat and share ideas online with other knitters. All levels of ability are welcome! Gale contributes to the class by offering tips and suggestions for patterns, yarn, and tools based on her years of knitting experience.
This class will be recorded.
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- Master Gardener Lecture Series
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Instructor: Debra Barger , Felicity Brown
Dates: 9/12/2023 - 10/17/2023
Days: Tu
Times: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
There is no fee to be added to the waitlist. Waitlisted members will be added to the class in the order they were added to the waitlist. We ask that you not attend the class until you have been officially registered. À La Carte Members on the waitlist will be contacted for payment before being registered in the class.
California Master Gardeners provide educational outreach from University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) offices throughout the state. The mission of the Butte County Master Gardeners is to extend research-based education and technical assistance throughout the non-commercial gardening community and to foster successful gardening practices by helping individuals make informed decisions about plants, pests, and the environment, with an emphasis on sustainability. Join us as we address a wide range of fascinating subjects.
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