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Both Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon were careful revisers of their poems. We will look at a selection of their remarkable works and consider how and why some of them changed over time. The first class will introduce Heaney's work and the second, Mahon's.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 25
Dates: 10/12/2026 - 10/19/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 2
Days: M
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Instructor: Simon Gatrell
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This session will explore the remarkable advances made in Artificial Intelligence in the past decade, particularly Deep Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence. Deep Learning is a method to solve such complicated problems as the shape of medically-important protein molecules (2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). Generative A.I. creates new text, computer code, and images in response to user prompts (e.g., Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini). Both Deep Learning and Generative A.I. employ specialized computer architectures called Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). This session will explore how an ANN works and a range of successful applications. Additionally, very real practical and philosophical challenges posed by the continued development of Generative A.I. will be highlighted.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 9
Dates: 10/12/2026 - 10/12/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Jack Hansen, Aaron Simmons, Reid Becker
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This session introduces UGA’s Anne Barge Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection as both a teaching collection and an archive of fashion and regional history. We will approach garments as primary sources, inviting participants to consider what clothing can reveal about everyday life, social dynamics, labor, and cultural change. The session also introduces core curatorial and archival practices, including how objects enter a collection, how they are documented and stored, and how exhibitions and research shape their interpretation over time.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 7
Dates: 10/12/2026 - 10/12/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Sha'Mira Covington
Building: Off Site (opens in new tab)
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Please see receipt note for address/parking details.
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George and Ira Gershwin are cited as the songwriting team whose voice was synonymous with the sounds and style of the Jazz Age. This 90-minute class presents the life stories of the Gershwin brothers through spoken words plus live musical performance and recordings. You will hear about the childhood and family lives of the songwriters as well as their professional careers and relationships.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 16
Dates: 10/12/2026 - 10/12/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Susan Kraft
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Popular OLLI presenter Janice Simon will transport us back in time to a major art brouhaha—when Whistler (1834-1903) took British critic John Ruskin to trial for those damning words about his painting "Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket" of 1875; he won his libel suit but was only granted one farthing. What made Whistler's nocturnes, portraits like that of his mother Anna, which he titled “Arrangement in Grey and Black no.1” (1871), and his “Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room” (1876-77) so radical will be examined in this lecture. Whistler's art-for-art's sake aesthetic, incorporating musical references, established him as a sought-out portraitist and highly influential painter for contemporaries and future artists. The acclaimed retrospective of Whistler's art at Tate Modern in September will further inform this presentation.
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Fee: $40.00
Capacity Remaining: 21
Dates: 10/13/2026 - 10/13/2026
Times: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Janice Simon
Building: Trumps Catering (opens in new tab)
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The overwhelming majority of Baby Boomers never knew what their fathers did in WWII. The simple reason is because the men of the Greatest Generation simply didn't talk of their experiences, especially combat experiences. This observation is limited to the role that men played in the war; however, we will also look at the wartime contributions of women. Our mothers often worked dangerous yet vital jobs. This class is designed to help you find answers about your parents' WWII experience.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 27
Dates: 10/14/2026 - 10/14/2026
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Lawrence Saul
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Fritz Lang, having finished his epic silent film Metropolis, saw Peter Lorre on stage and signed him for his next film, Lang’s first with sound. Lorre plays a serial killer who eludes police but is caught and tried by a ragtag cadre of criminals and street people. The class will view excerpts of the film and discuss Lang's development of the "police procedural" and "film noir," which he continued in his Hollywood films Fury, Scarlet Street and The Big Heat. M has received widespread critical praise and has an approval rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 34
Dates: 10/14/2026 - 10/14/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Cliff Probst
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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In four 75-minute sessions, participants will practice drawing exercises using various art supplies in several ways: speed scribble sketches of the figure; carefully observed contour drawings; object drawings using black, white and several grays; and composing the rectangle and filling it with observed objects from still life setups. Participants will prep for these with mini quickie tonal tryouts or thumbnail sketches. Train your brain to see truthfully through exercises in the suggested text/workbook Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. CLASS SUPPLY LIST (To be purchased/provided by the member): Sketchbook with white drawing paper (wire-bound stays open well); Soft graphite pencil 4 or 6 B; Vine charcoal and charcoal pencil; Pencil sharpener big enough for the graphite & charcoal pencils; Pen; Kneaded eraser; Kleenex & Q tips
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Fee: $42.00
Capacity Remaining: 3
Dates: 10/14/2026 - 10/23/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 4
Days: W F
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Instructor: Margeret Agner
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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CLASS SUPPLY LIST (To be purchased/provided by the member): Sketchbook with white drawing paper (wire-bound stays open well); Soft graphite pencil 4 or 6 B; Vine charcoal and charcoal pencil; Pencil sharpener big enough for the graphite & charcoal pencils; Pen; Kneaded eraser; Kleenex & Q tips
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This class covers Georgia law governing grave/cemetery protection; who (descendants) has/may have access to cemeteries; locating/identifying a grave or cemetery; tools of the trade (probes, flags, flashlights, camera, GPS, notebook, D2); how one may probe to identify low to no marking graves; flagging; brush clearing; unique headstones/markings of 18th/19th Century graves; proper gravestone cleaning; inscription reading/recording/transcribing; GPS recording/reporting; and perhaps examples of how to protect a grave/cemetery from destruction by land developers/development.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 10/15/2026 - 10/15/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Steve Wang, Charity Wang, Vicki Bentley
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Members attending this class are invited to bring a brown bag lunch with them. After the class, anyone who wishes to stay can enjoy their lunch and socialize with other OLLI members from 11:30-12:30 in the River's Crossing sunroom, Room 114.
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During our time visiting the insect zoo, we'll meet species ranging from beetles to scorpions and tarantulas to roaches to leaf insects. Attendees can ask questions, handle insects, and explore the wonderful world of arthropods!
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 9
Dates: 10/15/2026 - 10/15/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Kelly Carruthers
Building: Off Site (opens in new tab)
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The success of the 2025 film Hamnet, nominated for eight Academy Awards, is proof—if further proof is needed—that Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane continues to fascinate and puzzle. Using video clips of several great modern Hamlets, this class explores some of the real and apparent mysteries of the play. It will show that the play isn’t fixed on a printed page but lives and breathes according to its productions and, of course, its Hamlets. (Remember Mel Gibson’s?) Please review the play before class.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 31
Dates: 10/16/2026 - 10/16/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Malcolm Richardson
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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