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- Presenter: Claudia Hanna
- Dates: 1/18/2022 - 2/1/2022
- Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Days: Tu
Presentation Description: To keep us all safe, warm, and connected, let’s share a weekly book club that involves international intrigue, ethnic lines divided and the story of one man’s journey through it all. Laurence Durrell was a British expatriate, world traveler, poet and novelist. He is now famous for his PBS Masterpiece series The Durrell’s in Corfu. But before he landed in Greece, he was a Foreign Service officer for the British government and enjoyed living in the Eastern Mediterranean. He spent nearly a decade in another gorgeous Mediterranean island, Cyprus.
Join OLLI Eat Like a Greek! Instructor Claudia Veysel this winter to read and review Bitter Lemons, an autobiographical work by Durrell penned in his home village of Bellapais, less than a mile from Claudia’s own personal home. Nestled under the olive and pine trees, with the blue Mediterranean Sea stretching below. Durrell wrote steadily his vision of the unravelling of the British Colony of Cypris and how it became an independent country in its own right. Cyprus is a full member state of the European Union and enjoys a high quality of life, long life expectancy, low crime rates, sunny skies and is simply an awesome place to call home.
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- Instructor: Sharon Accardo
- Day of the week: Th, Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM.
- Dates: 5/5/2022 - 5/5/2022
- Sessions: 1
- Member Benefit
- Course Location:OLLI at UVA at Studio IX - Conference Room
- Mask policy for this location: Masks are required
- Location Address:969 2nd Street SE Charlottesville, VA 22902
Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 20
Course Description:
Medicare is such a maze. Find yourself quickly approaching the magic number, 65 years young? With that comes lots of information regarding Medicare and all its parts. You might find yourself searching for information on exactly what Medicare is and how it works. That’s where I come in. I will educate you on exactly what is Medicare, the different parts of Medicare along with other valuable information about timelines, penalties and “What if I don’t retire at 65?” Please come to one of my seminars or reach out to me with your questions. I am here, not only to help educate but to follow you along this new journey.
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Member Coffee Chat NEW!
- Host: OLLI at UVA
- Date: 2/10/2022
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Day of the week: Th
- Location: OLLI at UVA at Studio IX, 969 2nd Street SE Charlottesville, VA 22902. JBird Coffee
This semester, for the first time, we’re really excited to gather in-person for Coffee Chats. Held at JBIRD Coffee, located by our offices within Studio IX, or in other local coffee houses, OLLI provides the coffee or tea. New members will love this chance to meet other members and staff. Instructors and students will enjoy this casual time to catch up. Come as you are for an hour of relaxed, one-on-one conversation and social connection.
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- Date and Time: 3/1/2022 at 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
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- Member Benefit
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Cousins: Connected Through Slavery - What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? The answer is revealed as they tell the dramatic story of their meeting, sharing of family histories, and search for reconciliation - from Betty's experience desegregating her county's only high school to Phoebe's eventual question to Betty: "How do I begin to repair the harms?"
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Presenter Biographies:
Dr. Betty Kilby Fisher Baldwin grew up in rural Culpeper and Warren counties, Virginia. She was a pioneer in school desegregation. Thanks to her father’s determination, she entered and graduated from Warren County High School after suing the school board, based on the landmark Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. Betty started her employment as a factory worker and climbed the corporate ladder to achieve executive management employment. Betty holds a BA in Business Management from Shenandoah University, an MBA from Nova University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Shenandoah University. After she retired, she wrote and published her autobiography, Wit, Will & Walls. Betty speaks frequently with Phoebe about making connections across the racial divide to create a more just and peaceful world.
Phoebe Kilby grew up in Baltimore, MD. After obtaining a BS in Botany and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Duke University, she had a long career as an urban and environmental planner. With concerns about the morality and wisdom of war, Phoebe went back to school in 2003 to obtain a degree in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University. A descendant of enslavers, Phoebe was inspired by the Coming to the Table movement to connect with descendants of persons her family enslaved. She is dedicated to helping others, European Americans and African Americans together, to uncover and explore the truths of their experiences and move toward racial reconciliation.
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Join OLLI Members' Community Read with the Virginia Festival of the Book. NEW! ONLINE
We’ll be reading Andrew Kaufman (The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky), discussing the book via Zoom, and then attending the Book Festival's virtual event with the author. A great combination! The OLLI community Read is a free event for Spring 2022 members.
Facilitated by OLLI member Lin Hill, the OLLI discussion will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Andrew Kaufman (The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky) is available to order locally at New Dominion Books, 434-295-2552, or online.
The Virginia Festival of the Book event with Andrew Kaufman will be held at UVA Bookstore at 10:00 AM on Friday, March 18, 2022. A separate, free registration will be required through the Book Festival.
Join us on 3/10/2022 at 7:00 PM
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AUTHOR TALK
Book: Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust NEW!
- Author: Irving Lubliner
- Day of the week: Th
- Date: 2/24/2022
- Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Member Benefit
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Information: Before she passed away in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in Polish ghettos and two Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen. Her powerful stories have recently been published by her son, Irving Lubliner, an emeritus Southern Oregon University professor and OLLI instructor. He will share excerpts from “Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust,” shedding light on his mother’s experiences and indomitable spirit, as well as his experience as a child of Holocaust survivors and his process in bringing the book to fruition. The instructor will pause during and after his presentation to invite questions and discussion.
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AUTHOR TALK
Book: In Good Faith NEW!
- Author: Liza Taylor
- Day of the week: Tu
- Date: 3/29/2022
- Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Member Benefit
- Location: OLLI at UVA at Studio IX,Gallery
- Address: 969 2nd Street SE Charlottesville, VA 22902
Information: In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times. May Marshall Craig has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick, Virginia. As a young mother married to her childhood sweetheart, Byrd, she struggles to keep her family farm and market afloat through the economic downturn of the Great Depression. When necessity and loss force Byrd to take a job out of town, May finds herself juggling her marriage with a tempting opportunity to revamp the family business to adapt to changing times.
In a cold-water West End Boston tenement the fractured Sykes family scrapes by on an itinerant mechanic’s wages and home sewing. Having recently lost her mother, sixteen-year-old Dorrit Sykes questions the religious doctrine she was raised in. Dorrit is reclusive, held back by the anxiety attacks that have plagued her since childhood. Attempting to understand what limits her, she seeks inspiration in Nancy Drew mysteries and finds solace at the Boston Public Library, writing fairy stories for children. The library holds answers to both Dorrit’s exploration of faith and her quest to understand and manage her anxiety.
When Dorrit accompanies her father to Washington D.C. in the summer of 1932 to camp out and march with 20,000 veterans intending to petition President Hoover for early payment of war bonuses, she begins an odyssey that will both traumatize and strengthen her. Along the way she redefines her faith, learning both self-sufficiency and how to accept help.
Dorrit and May’s lives intersect, and their fates will intertwine in ways that neither could have imagined or expected. Set against a backdrop of true historical events, In All Good Faith, tells a story of two women’s unlikely success during the Great Depression.
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OLLI AT UVA IS INTRODUCING SHARED INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs) An OLLI Shared Interest Group is formed by a nucleus of OLLI members with a shared interest in the same subject, and who are willing to participate as active, rather than as passive, learners. SIGs provide ongoing learning, friendship and support around the shared interest. Each group is different depending on its focus, and all provide interesting lifelong learning opportunities as well as a fun social experience that is ongoing through semesters and class cycles.
If you would like to start a SIG, call 434-923-3600.
Proposals for SIGs are taken at any time.
As SIGs are created, OLLI members will be notified through the weekly Eblast and invited to join. When at least six
members have expressed interest, the first meeting can be scheduled.
To join an established SIG, members ask to have their names placed on the email distribution list for the SIG, and
start participating. It’s that simple.
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