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  • OLLI's Icelandic Adventure: Info Session

  • An island of dramatic contrasts, uncover Iceland’s natural beauty through a land forged by ice and fire. Travel the “Golden Circle” – an epicenter of natural scenic wonders. Explore Skógar Museum and see traditional turf-built homes. Walk on a black volcanic sand beach. See Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon filled with floating icebergs. Discover otherworldly wonders and captivating cultures on a fascinating Icelandic journey. Learn more about this 10 day itinerary, highlights include a cultural experience where you savor Viking sushi aboard a Breiðafjördur cruise and Glide past icebergs on a cruise of the ice strewn Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon. Come join us on Iceland’s Midnight Sun: Glaciers, Geysers and the Golden Circle to experience this amazing geothermal country.

     

  • Fee: $0.00

    Capacity Remaining: 19

    Dates: 6/2/2025 - 6/2/2025

    Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Instructor: Lindsey Hickman

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • Opportunities and Resources at Athens Technical College

  • Join us for an informative session on the diverse opportunities and resources available at Athens Technical College (ATC). Since 1958, ATC has been dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs across an 11-county service area. With over 130 program specializations in business, health, technical, and manufacturing fields, ATC caters to a wide range of interests and career goals. This session will cover: 1) An overview of the program offerings across three campuses: Athens-Clarke, Elbert, and Walton; 2) Information on career academies, adult learning centers, and continuing education opportunities.

     

  • Fee: $12.00

    Capacity Remaining: 31

    Dates: 5/20/2025 - 5/20/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: Tu

  • Instructor: Kristen Douglas

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • Our Contemporary Thoreau, Wendell Berry: The Informed Conscience, the Higher Law, and Environmental Regeneration

  • Arguably our most important environmental writer, Berry epitomizes the best from conservative and radical traditions. Berry has written with uncommon wisdom and grace on a wide range of issues that should matter to all citizens. His principled, prophetic witness challenges us to address the unacknowledged and interconnected forms of violence against our land and ecology, our fellow citizens and communities, our nation, and our increasingly beleaguered planet. Berry suggests the kinds of changes in our thinking, lives, and polity required to begin atoning for these offenses and what we can all do to heal our self-inflicted and often lethal wounds.

     

  • Fee: $57.00

    Capacity Remaining: 34

    Dates: 3/31/2025 - 5/5/2025

    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 6

    Days: M

  • Instructor: Dan Zins

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • Our Contemporary Thoreau, Wendell Berry: The Informed Conscience, the Higher Law, and Environmental Regeneration

  • Arguably our most important environmental writer, Berry epitomizes the best from conservative and radical traditions. Berry has written with uncommon wisdom and grace on a wide range of issues that should matter to all citizens. His principled, prophetic witness challenges us to address the unacknowledged and interconnected forms of violence against our land and ecology, our fellow citizens and communities, our nation, and our increasingly beleaguered planet. Berry suggests the kinds of changes in our thinking, lives, and polity required to begin atoning for these offenses and what we can all do to heal our self-inflicted and often lethal wounds.

     

  • Fee: $57.00

    Capacity Remaining: 100

    Dates: 3/31/2025 - 5/5/2025

    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 6

    Days: M

  • Instructor: Dan Zins

    Building: Online via Zoom

 

  • The Origin of U.S. National Parks

  • National parks seem like such an obvious idea as to have little or no history, but in fact, public parks of any kind in the United States were rare until well into the 19th century, and wilderness parks were unheard of until Yosemite was set aside in 1864. This class will explain where the idea came from and how it evolved in its first half-century by focusing on five major contributors: the painter George Catlin, the politician John Conness, the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the newsman Samuel Bowles, and the geologist Ferdinand Hayden.

     

  • Fee: $12.00

    Capacity Remaining: 22

    Dates: 4/22/2025 - 4/22/2025

    Times: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: Tu

  • Instructor: Dennis Drabelle

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • OLLI Artisans Unique Talents: A Hands-On Workshop

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • The first session will be discussing, viewing, and making beaded jewelry and accessories using simple techniques that can be easily made in 30-60 minutes! The guest artist will be another OLLI Member who is always adorned with beautiful jewelry she has made herself. Members can bring beads from their own selections or some they may have bought in hobby shops to create an OLLI lanyard. The instructor will provide the necessary tools. Members can bring a piece(s) of jewelry that needs to be repaired (not soldered) to learn how to re-string or re-purpose it into another piece of jewelry. During the second session, members will learn simple sewing, knitting, and crocheting from an OLLI Member with over 40 years of experience making bulldog stuffed animals, clothes, furniture coverings, and many other things. Members will also learn simple repair methods to save a favorite jacket, pants or quilt and are encouraged to bring a damaged clothing item in need of repair to use as an example or repair themselves during class. The third class will feature a surprise guest artist as well as allow time to finish up any projects from the first 2 sessions. 

     

  • Fee: $45.00

    Capacity Remaining: 0

    Dates: 2/7/2025 - 4/4/2025

    Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 3

    Days: F

  • Instructor: Michelle Horton Caricofe

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • OLLI Artisans Unique Talents: A Hands-On Workshop

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • The first session will be discussing, viewing, and making beaded jewelry and accessories using simple techniques that can be easily made in 30-60 minutes! The guest artist will be another OLLI Member who is always adorned with beautiful jewelry she has made herself. Members can bring beads from their own selections or some they may have bought in hobby shops to create an OLLI lanyard. The instructor will provide the necessary tools. Members can bring a piece(s) of jewelry that needs to be repaired (not soldered) to learn how to re-string or re-purpose it into another piece of jewelry. During the second session, members will learn simple sewing, knitting, and crocheting from an OLLI Member with over 40 years of experience making bulldog stuffed animals, clothes, furniture coverings, and many other things. Members will also learn simple repair methods to save a favorite jacket, pants or quilt and are encouraged to bring a damaged clothing item in need of repair to use as an example or repair themselves during class. The third class will feature a surprise guest artist as well as allow time to finish up any projects from the first 2 sessions. 

     

  • Fee: $31.00

    Capacity Remaining: 18

    Dates: 2/21/2025 - 3/21/2025

    Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

    Sessions: 2

    Days: F

  • Instructor: Michelle Horton Caricofe

    Building: UGA Campus at Gwinnett

 

  • Our Delight in Being Right; the Value of Being Wrong

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • A discussion course on critical and empathic thinking based on the best-selling book by Kathryn Schultz, Being Wrong. Schultz writes: “Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction and courage... Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.” Please obtain a copy of Being Wrong and begin reading. You will really like this book (I hope I’m right about that). More information on Schultz at https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong?subtitle=en.

     

  • Fee: $57.00

    Capacity Remaining: 29

    Dates: 2/12/2025 - 3/19/2025

    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 6

    Days: W

  • Instructor: Dan Zins

    Building: River's Crossing

  • Required reading: Being Wrong by Kathryn Schultz

    ISBN-10: 0061176052

 

  • Our Delight in Being Right; the Value of Being Wrong

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • A discussion course on critical and empathic thinking based on the best-selling book by Kathryn Schultz, Being Wrong. Schultz writes: “Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction and courage... Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.” Please obtain a copy of Being Wrong and begin reading. You will really like this book (I hope I’m right about that). More information on Schultz at https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong?subtitle=en.

     

  • Fee: $57.00

    Capacity Remaining: 99

    Dates: 2/12/2025 - 3/19/2025

    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 6

    Days: W

  • Instructor: Dan Zins

    Building: Online via Zoom

  • Required reading: Being Wrong by Kathryn Schultz

    ISBN-10: 0061176052

 

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