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- ZOOM: An Introduction to the Architecture of Timothy Pflueger
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/17/2025 - 3/17/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Robert Cherny
Seats Available: 62
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
Timothy Pflueger may have been the most creative architect to have ever worked in San Francisco. Though his formal training in architecture was limited to night classes, he produced some of the most distinctive architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1920s and 1930s. Entering a profession still dominated by Beaux-Arts classicism, Pflueger embraced modernism. In the course, I'll survey his life and present several of his major creations, including the Castro Theater, the Pacific Telephone Building, 450 Sutter, Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, El Rey Theater, the Paramount Theater in Oakland, and City College.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- ZOOM: Fortune to the Bold - The French Adventure in Gold Rush San Francisco
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/17/2025 - 3/17/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Claudine Chalmers
Seats Available: 61
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
In 1851, San Francisco mayor Charles Brenham referred to his numerous French constituents as "one of the two great elements (with Americans) that compose the population of California." This strong French presence so early in the history of our State, remains one of the little-known facets of that world-wide epic. With vivid pictures and original texts, we will explore with Claudine what triggered the rush of Frenchmen to California starting in September 1849. How they escaped from endless riots and the collapse of commerce and social order in their embattled nation, only to land, after a six-month voyage around Cape Horn, in a city that looked like a huge fairground, with no law, no infrastructure, no sanitation, no raison d'être except for gold! They survived, and prevailed, and with their distinct talents and skills, they helped shape the city so often called "Paris of the Pacific."
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- IN-PERSON: A Short Journey to Arcadia
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/18/2025 - 3/18/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 508
Instructor: Nicholas Jones
Seats Available: 32
**This class will be taught In-Person**
“Arcadia,” an imagined, beautiful land of shepherds, where work is easy and there is always time to lie under the trees and improvise songs of love—this myth became a part of the European imagination with the 1504 publication of an Italian book of that title by a young Neapolitan author, Jacopo Sannazaro. This course will take us to this land through a remarkable story of love, ambition, sorrow, and incipient social collapse. The instructor will summarize and read from his newly published English translation of Arcadia, explain its context in the Italy of its day, and explore the enduring concept of “Arcadia” in literature and culture.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- HYBRID (IN-PERSON): Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde: Giving Voice to the Richness of Black Women’s Lives
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/18/2025 - 3/18/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Sarita Cannon
Seats Available: 30
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught In-Person**
Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde were born three years apart on the same date: February 18th. Born in 1931 and 1934 respectively, Morrison and Lorde both highlighted the complexity of Black women’s stories in their writing. Although both wrote across multiple genres, Morrison was known best as a novelist, while Lorde was primarily a poet. In this mini-course, we will explore how these two writers grappled with the following three themes: (1) the importance of ancestors within the African Diaspora; (2) the joys and sorrows of Black motherhood; and (3) the relationship between language and freedom.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- HYBRID (ZOOM): Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde: Giving Voice to the Richness of Black Women’s Lives
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/18/2025 - 3/18/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Sarita Cannon
Seats Available: 72
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught on Zoom**
Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde were born three years apart on the same date: February 18th. Born in 1931 and 1934 respectively, Morrison and Lorde both highlighted the complexity of Black women’s stories in their writing. Although both wrote across multiple genres, Morrison was known best as a novelist, while Lorde was primarily a poet. In this mini-course, we will explore how these two writers grappled with the following three themes: (1) the importance of ancestors within the African Diaspora; (2) the joys and sorrows of Black motherhood; and (3) the relationship between language and freedom.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- IN-PERSON: The Golden Door - Passing through Ellis Island
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Fee: $75.00
Dates: 3/12/2025 - 3/26/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Douglas Kenning
Seats Available: 28
**This class will be taught In-Person**
The history of immigration to the United States can be graphed as an undulating landscape with twin peaks: the Ellis Island years at the turn of the 20C and the Hispanic-Asian immigration of today. The first shaped 20C America and the second is shaping the future. Our own OLLI demographic is dominated by descendants of those who came through Ellis Island, the greatest numbers of whom were Italians and Eastern European Jews. We will look at what drove them to emigrate, their voyage, the confusion of Ellis Island processing, and surviving by hanging onto their ethnicity an unwelcoming America.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- ZOOM: Josephine Baker and Paris: Celebrated Performer and Spy
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/20/2025 - 3/20/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Dave Radlauer
Seats Available: 66
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a flamboyant American-born French dancer and singer who galvanized European audiences in the 1920s and ‘30s. This course offers fresh video clips exploring her unique artistry, comedic brilliance, charisma and massive impact on Paris. During WWII she bravely aided the French resistance and Allies by spying on the Axis and entertaining the troops, emerging a transcendent avatar of freedom. We’ll also investigate the tiny enclave of African American entertainers in Paris between the wars who altered the course of European music and art.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- ZOOM: Joan of Arc and the Contradictions of Women’s Leadership
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/20/2025 - 3/20/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Oliva Espin
Seats Available: 70
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
Who was Joan of Arc? Was she a hero, a saint, a witch, a martyr, a patriot, a mentally ill person or a visionary? Although we do not know much about her, except for the information gathered during her trial, she is part of the Western imaginary as a woman who challenged traditions and stereotypes and changed the course of history during her short life. We will learn about her life and deeds and will discuss the meaning of her actions and her significance as a symbol of women’s heroism as well as the reactions to and interpretations of her and her behaviors through the centuries.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- HYBRID (IN-PERSON): Photography by Paul McCartney: Highlights from the de Young Exhibit of His 1963-1964 Beatles Pictures
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/21/2025 - 3/21/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Richie Unterberger
Seats Available: 29
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught In-Person**
As Beatlemania exploded in late 1963 and early 1964, Paul McCartney took behind-the-scenes photos of the phenomenon while the group toured in Britain, France, and the United States. More than 250 are in a special exhibit at the de Young museum from March 1-July 6. Rock music expert Richie Unterberger, author of The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film, will discuss many of the pictures in this two-hour mini-course. He’ll offer plenty of inside background information to enhance our appreciation of the images—most never seen before the exhibit began touring last year—and the Beatles’ early career.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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- HYBRID (ZOOM): Photography by Paul McCartney: Highlights from the de Young Exhibit of His 1963-1964 Beatles Pictures
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Fee: $29.00
Dates: 3/21/2025 - 3/21/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Richie Unterberger
Seats Available: 68
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught on Zoom**
As Beatlemania exploded in late 1963 and early 1964, Paul McCartney took behind-the-scenes photos of the phenomenon while the group toured in Britain, France, and the United States. More than 250 are in a special exhibit at the de Young museum from March 1-July 6. Rock music expert Richie Unterberger, author of The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film, will discuss many of the pictures in this two-hour mini-course. He’ll offer plenty of inside background information to enhance our appreciation of the images—most never seen before the exhibit began touring last year—and the Beatles’ early career.
Non-members are welcome to register.
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