Entertainment & Film   

If you’ve watched your parents or your college classmates play or if you’ve always wanted to learn but haven’t had the opportunity or time, or if you know some basics but don’t feel ready to play, join us. However, if you’ve been playing and want to practice, please join the OLLI Bridge SIG or take a more advanced class when it is offered. This class is for enthusiastic and possibly leery neophytes. After these eight weeks you will be playing bridge! Repeat in-person course. Format includes discussion and hands-on.

SUGGESTED MATERIALS: Bridge at a Glance, Audrey Grant, ISBN 9781944201401

Selected with a range of time periods and geographical settings in mind, this series of films e xplores diverse experiences of people during that liminal life-stage between childhood/adolescence and young adulthood, where old identities are shed and new ones not yet fully formed. We’ll discuss a broad sampling of “the American experience” in different cultures and eras, with one film addressing the immigrant experience: Carousel (Maine, 1888); The Man in the Moon (rural Louisiana, 1950s), Dead Poets Society (Vermont, 1959), Stand by Me (Oregon, 1959), The Namesake (Kolkata/N.Y., 1970s-90s), 8 Mile (Detroit, 1995), A Walk to Remember (Beaufort NC, 1990s-2000s). New in-person course. Format includes films and discussion. Two class meetings will be from 12:30–3:30 p.m., to accommodate longer-running films.