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- 1000 Miles to Run: An Extraordinary Escape Story
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Instructor: Robin Dizard (she/her/hers)
Dates: 9/11/2023 - 10/16/2023
Days: M
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
In 1848 William and Ellen Craft did the impossible: they escaped from Georgia disguised as a white master with his black slave. Pursued and in danger of being retaken and tortured, they went public, speaking and touring northern states before fleeing to England. This class will be a deep dive into their history and encourage developing your ideas out loud. At heart, this is an American love story between a man and a woman, a couple and a country.
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- Art Speaks: Writing to Art
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Instructor: Joan Goodreau , Jean Varda
Dates: 9/15/2023 - 10/6/2023
Days: F
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: Chico Art Center
Room:
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
OLLI students will have an opportunity to view an exhibit at Chico Art Center and write about the art. This class is for beginning writers as well as experienced ones. Jean Varda and Joan Goodreau, authors and OLLI members, will guide students through the art-to-writing process.
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- Chico State Faculty Lecture Series
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Instructor: Sandra Flake (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/11/2023 - 11/15/2023
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
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.
Chico State's tradition of academic excellence goes back more than 130 years. With over 900 faculty members and 13,000 students, the University's teaching and learning community is thriving. Discover the imagination, cutting-edge research, and expertise that flourishes in our own backyard!
Fall 2023 List of Presenters
This class will be recorded.
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- London: Flower of Cities All
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Instructor: Stephen Stillwell
Dates: 9/14/2023 - 11/30/2023
Days: Th
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Sessions: 11
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Explore London: Its literary past and present, its museums and churches large and small, and its connections with royalty
This class will not meet November 9.
This class will be recorded.
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- Looking at Shakespeare's Hamlet Through a Writer's Eyes
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Instructor: Lynn Elliott
Dates: 9/13/2023 - 11/15/2023
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Pam Tibbetts wrote for Rapture Theatre that "Hamlet is an enigma, a paradox, a multi-layered mystery. For centuries it has fascinated audiences, critics, and scholars alike." Can reading the play from a writer's perspective help you better understand it? Join OLLI instructor and stage and screenplay writer Lynn Elliott to examine this question and see how the techniques writers use to build what we see today on stage, in television, and in movies are the same techniques Shakespeare used in his writing.
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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- Poetry for Pleasure
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Instructor: Paul Belz
Dates: 9/22/2023 - 11/17/2023
Days: F
Times: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Reading poetry helps you to know things more fully; it commands your attention; and it can sustain good conversation. In this class, participants select poetry from favorite sources to read aloud with fellow enthusiasts.
This class meets September 22, October 6, 20, November 3, and 17.
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- Science Fiction Book Group
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Instructor: Sydney Wilde
Dates: 9/13/2023 - 11/15/2023
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 8
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $50.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class will discuss favorite science fiction authors, their books, and the human, political, and scientific issues they raise. The books and authors will be chosen by Sydney from suggestions by participants. This is a fun, free-flowing gathering of science fiction enthusiasts. Please join us and bring your ideas, insights, and suspension of disbelief.
The first book will be Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov and the second book will be Waldo and Magic, Inc. by Robert Heinlein. All other books will be chosen by the class members. The books will be available in e-books, audio, paperback, and hard-bound formats, new and used; ranging in cost from $0 (library) or $2.99 - $11 on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and/or other commercial outlets.
This class does not meet on the first Wednesday of each month.
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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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- Writer's Workshop
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Instructor: Paul Belz
Dates: 9/20/2023 - 11/15/2023
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 9
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.
The Writer's Workshop serves a community of writers interested in sharing their writing and responding to other writers' work. We will focus on fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, travel writing, stories for children, and other types of writing. Following a workshop format, this class will be an opportunity for students to receive feedback for their written work and provide meaningful support to fellow writers.
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- Writing Short Plays
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Instructor: Pam Loyd
Dates: 9/14/2023 - 11/16/2023
Days: Th
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
Learn to write a short 10- to 20-minute play. We will cover the basics of playwriting, including format, structure, character, conflict, and dialogue. This is a workshop-style class in which we discuss concepts and techniques, share what we have written, and write short exercises to develop skills. Prompts will be offered to stimulate your ideas. There will be an opportunity for some of the plays to be performed in the annual OLLI Play Festival.
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