Instructor: Stephen Cummins Dates: 9/6/2022 - 9/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sessions: 1 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.
When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.
Americana Music 1930-1980 (Jim Lauderdale and Dustbowl Revival The Americana Tour)
Lecture: Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 1pm
Performance: Friday, September 9, 2022, 7:30pm
Proof of vaccination is required for all in-person meetups. Click here for instructions.
Instructor: Stephen Cummins Dates: 9/27/2022 - 9/27/2022 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sessions: 1 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.
When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.
Instructor: Stephen Cummins Dates: 11/8/2022 - 11/8/2022 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sessions: 1 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.
When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.
Día de los Muertos (Las Cafeteras presents Hasta La Muerte, A Day of the Dead Celebration)
Lecture: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 1pm
Performance: Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 7:30pm
Proof of vaccination is required for all in-person meetups. Click here for instructions.
Instructor: Stephen Cummins Dates: 1/24/2023 - 1/24/2023 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sessions: 1 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.
When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.
Vocal Jazz 1920-1950 (Jazz at Lincoln Center presents: Songs We Love)
Lecture: Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 1pm
Performance: Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 7:30pm
Proof of vaccination is required for all in-person meetups. Click here for instructions.
Instructor: Stephen Cummins Dates: 2/14/2023 - 2/14/2023 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sessions: 1 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.
When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.
Instructor: Stephen Cummins Dates: 2/28/2023 - 2/28/2023 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sessions: 1 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.
When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.
California Trees (Treelogy: A Musical Portrait of Redwood, Sequoia, and Joshua Trees Featuring Billy Childs, Steven Mackey, Gabriella Smith, and Delirium Musicum)
Lecture: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 1pm
Performance: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 7:30pm
Proof of vaccination is required for all in-person meetups. Click here for instructions.
Instructor: Richard Utter, Pamela Waldsmith Dates: 11/29/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sessions: 2 Location: Outdoor Meetups Room: Various Locations Fee: Included
Bidwell Park is to be enjoyed and protected. Experienced hikers will get a strenuous workout and learn about Bidwell Park and its flora, fauna, volunteerism, and history. We will hike up to six miles, with 1,000' elevation change on less familiar trails. Get your endorphins pumping and meet some new hiking friends in your own Bidwell backyard.
We will be moving almost continually, and at a good fitness pace, for three or more hours on uneven terrain. Mandatory items: two liters of water, first aid kit, ID and medical cards (or copies) inside your backpack. Sturdy hiking shoes and layered clothing necessary. Hiking poles highly recommended.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
Proof of vaccination is required for all in-person meetups. Click here for instructions.
Instructor: Eric Bartelink Dates: 8/30/2022 - 9/20/2022 Days: Tu Times: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Sessions: 4 Location: The Social Chico Room: Gordon 1 Fee: Included
This class will cover the science of forensic anthropology (the forensic study of human skeletal remains), including the investigation of crime scenes, forensic casework, and the development of forensic standards. Each session will cover a different aspect of forensic anthropology and time will be allotted for questions. We will first outline the practice of forensic anthropology, followed by the application of forensic anthropology to crime scenes and to human identification. Then we will focus on the development of forensic standards and why they are important for criminal trials.
Instructor: Gary Hendrickson Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Sessions: 10 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 2 Fee: Included
After America's entry into WWII, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) initiated a new concept to warfare: daylight strategic bombing. This class will explore the aircraft types used and the personalities of the people involved.
Instructor: Rosie Potestio Dates: 11/1/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Sessions: 5 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 1 Fee: Included
Forgiveness is the conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment toward someone or something that has harmed you, regardless of whether they deserve it. This is a personal decision to let go of negative emotions which then enables us to move forward and leave that past behind. Forgiveness is not forgetting nor does it deny the seriousness of an offense, but it brings us peace of mind and freedom to enjoy the today. Forgiving can lead to healthier relationships and greater spiritual and psychological well-being.
Instructor: Richard Utter Dates: 11/1/2022 - 11/29/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sessions: 4 Location: The Social Chico Room: Gordon 1 Fee: Included
Emergency situations can be painful and expensive in terms of human suffering, property loss, and emotional wear and tear. Some of these impacts can be lessened or avoided with careful preparation. This course is about reducing or avoiding the negative impacts of emergency events through planning and preparation. Participants will review their unique personal situations, then take steps to improve their resiliency and responsiveness to whatever comes their way.
Instructor: Lenora Wong Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/9/2022 Days: Tu F Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sessions: 19 Location: Center for Spiritual Living Room: Fee: 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 you will learn the first third of the forms, or about 36 moves, in a workshop environment.
Instructor: Daniel Christian Dates: 9/13/2022 - 10/4/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sessions: 4 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
This class will introduce students to the power of Dante’s story for life right here, right now. The Divine Comedy is not an ancient, dead text but rather is alive and well, inviting readers to pursue the examined life with a spirit of serious joy. We will explore C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed as an exercise in preparation for joining Dante’s pilgrimage. The following three classes will introduce Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso respectively.
Instructor: Cris Guenter Dates: 9/13/2022 - 10/11/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sessions: 5 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
Get into the sketchbook habit! Keeping a sketchbook helps you generate creative thinking by capturing ideas, observations, and inspirations that may lead to more creations. What you keep in the sketchbook is for you. There is no pressure to share or show anything. Maintaining a sketchbook (daily, if you are up for it!) sharpens your skills with the media you choose to use. Join us for a fun course that will help you start (or revisit) keeping a sketchbook.
This course is a stand-alone course offered via Zoom.
Materials List:
A sketchbook that is approximately 6"x9" in size
A 2B drawing pencil
Favorite pens and fine tip markers
A kneaded eraser
Other assorted art media that you have and like to use such as colored pencils, markers, watercolors, watercolor and/or Inktense pencils, and graphite crayons.
Instructor: Gary Hedlind Dates: 9/13/2022 - 10/11/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sessions: 5 Location: The Social Chico Room: Bradley 1 Fee: Included
The class covers core concepts that every skeptic should know: Mechanisms of deception, memory fallibility, fallibility of perception, metacognition issues, science versus pseudoscience, and skepticism and the media. We will suggest tools useful for helping us recognize our own biases and cognitive barriers to rational assessment.
Instructor: Cris Guenter Dates: 11/1/2022 - 11/29/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sessions: 4 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
If you like to draw or wish you were more inspired to draw, join us for four sessions of drawing together online. Each class will feature one or more fun and inspiring drawing prompts that we will all work on at the same time. Our drawings may go in very different directions based on how we each interpret the prompts, and that is perfectly fine. Being able to draw together can help inspire us to continue drawing on our own.
Instructor: Bitz Haley Dates: 9/13/2022 - 11/8/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Sessions: 5 Location: Haley's Martial Arts Center Room: Fee: Included
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!
Instructor: Bitz Haley Dates: 9/13/2022 - 11/8/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Sessions: 5 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
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!
Instructor: Marcia Moore, Deborah Schweninger Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Sessions: 10 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
Over the past three years, OLLI has been exploring issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. These classes have provoked many questions, around which much stimulating conversation has followed. We agree that looking at unconscious racism is a self-examination that requires other voices. In this class we will read the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and use, at least in part, a study guide prepared for Oprah's Book Club. We plan to focus on how this book is and can be relevant to our daily lives.
Instructor: Jack Ayer Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Sessions: 10 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
Once again, we will try to take apart a Shakespeare play and figure out how and why it works. As You Like It is one of the most congenial of all Shakespeare offerings, with plenty of opportunities to explore its place in the culture of its time. I'll do some talking as necessary to sketch background and add context, but will try to let it function as a group discussion. No prior exposure to Shakespeare necessary.
Instructor: Lenora Wong Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/9/2022 Days: Tu F Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sessions: 19 Location: Center for Spiritual Living Room: Fee: 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.
Instructor: Susan Bollinger Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Sessions: 10 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: Included
Each week we will examine three or four poems, mostly from the Western tradition, some in translation from other languages. We will look at classic themes such as self-discovery, fear, compassion, insight, aging and mortality, and relationships. Our goal will be to see how the poem works and what it says to us as readers with divergent backgrounds. We will read each poem in depth and appreciation.
Instructor: Gale Ulvang Dates: 9/13/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Sessions: 10 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: 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 hang out 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.
Instructor: Jack Meyer Dates: 11/1/2022 - 12/6/2022 Days: Tu Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Sessions: 5 Location: Online Learning Room: Link to be Provided Fee: 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.