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- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (In-Person)
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Speaker: Sean Taylor
Dates: 5/24/2023 - 6/14/2023
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Location: UW Seattle Campus Allen Library Auditorium
Fee: $50.00
In this course, we will undertake areading of Shakespeare's greatest Roman tragedy. Special attention will be paid to the socio-political issues raised by the play, especially the problems posed by just resistance to tyrannical rule. Students are requested to read through Act 2 for the first meeting. Any edition of the play will do, though it is recommended to find one with annotations, and with line numbers (the instructor prefers Signet Classic paperbacks, widely available).
**Please note that OLLI-UW does not require vaccine status or masks.
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- Shoot to Share Your Photography (Zoom and Photo Shoot)
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Speaker: Ray Pfortner
Dates: 6/1/2023 - 6/29/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $40.00
June 1 & 29 on Zoom, June 15 Photo Shoot at Trilogy
Practice makes progress. So does looking at lots of photographs, especially photographs made in the same location at the same time. Join us for this 3-part class over 4 weeks, meeting first on Zoom to explore composition principles plus camera handling and settings, then meet to make photographs together in person and on location at Trilogy, then meet again on Zoom to share selects of our results for feedback from the instructor and your fellow photographers, too. If you can't make it on location at Trilogy you can shoot anywhere. All you need is a love of photography and a desire to make your photographs even better. Any skill level and camera will do, including a phone.
Class recordings will be available for Zoom classes.
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- Painting the PNW in Watercolor (Zoom)
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Speaker: Claire Giordano
Dates: 3/30/2023 - 4/20/2023
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
Learn to paint the amazing landscapes of the Pacific Northwest in watercolor with local artist Claire Giordano. From snow capped peaks to mossy forests and sparkling ocean waves, each adventurous painting session will focus on a new landscape. Every week we will create a new painting as Claire guides us through the watercolor painting process from start to finish with step-by-step instruction.
Watercolor is often taught as a complex and slow process, but Claire developed a different way of painting inspired by creating outside on hikes for over ten years. Her lessons are fun, accessible, and embrace the unique magic of watercolor. This class is for painters of all skill levels. Suggested Materials List
Class recordings will be available.
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- Beer Styles of the World (Zoom)
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Speaker: Dean Priebe
Dates: 4/3/2023 - 4/24/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
April 24th - Brewery Tour
This course is designed to take students on an exploration through the world of beer. The program provides the core knowledge around the history, terminology and style characteristics of beers. Upon completion of this program participants will be able to:
- Exercise knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the world's diverse beer styles
- Understand the basic terminology and methods of brewing.
- Understand the standardized tools, methods, and processes for the structured evaluation, ranking and feedback of beer.
- Demonstrate the skills to communicate knowledge of beer styles and characteristics to others.
An optional field trip to a local brewery, Black Raven Brewing in Woodinville, is planned for April 24th at 3:00 PM. This visit will allow you to see how beer is made and give you a chance to try some of the styles discussed in the course (for purchase).
Class recordings will be available.
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- Drawing (Zoom)
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Speaker: Miha Sarani
Dates: 4/5/2023 - 4/26/2023
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
This drawing class will introduce the basic visual language, techniques and materials of drawing as a form of visual expression. There will be an emphasis on awareness of compositional relationships in conjunction with an improved ability to translate the observable world. Presentations and discussions will introduce varied historical and contemporary approaches to drawing. Critiques will give us a chance to practice analyzing our work in a constructive manner. Suggested Supply List
Class recordings will be available.
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- Wisdom (Zoom)
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Speaker: David Smith
Dates: 5/10/2023 - 5/31/2023
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
Wisdom is the ability to apply knowledge in the real world in a constructive way—to enrich our individual lives and to make the world a better place. It is often found at the intersection of theory and experience. How does modern expertise benefit all of us, and how can we convince the general population to value it? How does life experience create wisdom? In this series we explore the biological, philosophical, social scientific, and experiential aspects of wisdom and analyze what ancient and contemporary sources have to say about it.
Class recordings will be available.
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- Aspects of Contemporary Art (In-Person)
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Speaker: Kolya Rice
Dates: 4/24/2023 - 5/15/2023
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 4
Location: UW Seattle Campus Allen Library Auditorium
Fee: $50.00
This introductory art history course traces the key developments and themes explored by artists from around 1980 to the present by focusing tightly on some of the most prominent artists as representatives of the eras/movements. Emphasis will be placed on how these artists responded to their cultural and social contexts, including various visual strategies employed by artists to catalyze social change. Illustrated lectures anchor the course, but discussion is always encouraged.
Session 1: Multi-media Installations and Interactive Arts
This session will explore the use of multi-media installations and interactive arts from around 1980 to the present.
Sessions 2 &3: Avant-Garde Art and Praxis since 1980
This session will provide participants with a wide range of contemporary art practices concerned with social change from around the world.
Session 4: Contemporary Art in the Northwest
This session will examine the work of contemporary Northwest artists with some emphasis on those who have persistently sought to catalyze social change through their art.
**Please note that OLLI-UW does not require vaccine status or masks.
This course is being recorded. Our intent is to record the speaker but students’ image and/or voice may be recorded.
This course is being offered in-person and on Zoom. Please select the one that you prefer.
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- Aspects of Contemporary Art (Hybrid)
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Speaker: Kolya Rice
Dates: 4/24/2023 - 5/15/2023
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
This introductory art history course traces the key developments and themes explored by artists from around 1980 to the present by focusing tightly on some of the most prominent artists as representatives of the eras/movements. Emphasis will be placed on how these artists responded to their cultural and social contexts, including various visual strategies employed by artists to catalyze social change. Illustrated lectures anchor the course, but discussion is always encouraged.
Session 1: Multi-media Installations and Interactive Arts
This session will explore the use of multi-media installations and interactive arts from around 1980 to the present.
Sessions 2 &3: Avant-Garde Art and Praxis since 1980
This session will provide participants with a wide range of contemporary art practices concerned with social change from around the world.
Session 4: Contemporary Art in the Northwest
This session will examine the work of contemporary Northwest artists with some emphasis on those who have persistently sought to catalyze social change through their art.
This course is being offered in-person and on Zoom. Please select the one that you prefer.
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- Avian Engineers: How Birds Build Nests (Zoom)
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Speaker: Connie Sidles
Dates: 4/25/2023 - 5/16/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
Long before humans ever thought of building even simple shelters - let alone skyscrapers - birds were constructing elaborate nests made of everything from tree bark to sheep's wool. No doubt they learned the basic skills from their dinosaur ancestors, but in the millennia following the dinosaurs' demise, birds evolved nests that required needlework, weaving, bricklaying, excavating, and rafting skills - all with only their bills and feet. Come along with master birder Connie Sidles as she introduces you to these wondrous architects of nature.
Class recordings will be available.
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- Musicals! (Zoom)
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Speaker: Alan Jacobson
Dates: 5/1/2023 - 5/22/2023
Times: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
Musically Speaking...and singing! And dancing! Join Alan Jacobson as we sample some of our most spellbinding, and offbeat, musical films! We’ll listen to a short lecture, watch the film together in class and engage in a discussion.
May 1 - Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932, 89 min)
Maurice Chevalier’s Parisian tailor poses as a baron in order to collect a sizable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with Jeanette MacDonald’s aloof young princess. Richard Barrios: “magical, rapturous, unique, charming, audacious, unforgettable”
May 8 - 42nd St (Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkely, 1933, 89 min)
Tom Huddleston, BFI: “...single-handedly modernised the sound musical, all but inventing the puttin’-on-a-show backstage drama”
May 15 - Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986, 94 min)
Rick Moranis’ nebbishy florist seeks success and romance (Ellen Greene, direct from off-Broadway), with the help of a ravenous carnivorous plant (The Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs.) Also features John Candy, James Belushi, Christopher Guest, and Bill Murray as masochistic dental patient to Steve Martin! Slash Film “...a cult classic whose unique combination of horror, comedy, and catchy songs has proven it can stand the test of time.”
May 22 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, 95 min)
In this taboo-breaking contemporary classic, a gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs. BBC: “...a much-loved cult film with a fervent fandom of "Hedheads" that unwaveringly adore it.”
Class recordings will be available.
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Family Films – Hold the Saccharine!
Hold the saccharine? These films will not break your heart, but they will not sugar coat family life either. A common thread is that there is an absent parent in each film – which prompts discussion of disappearances, character flaws, and troubles in the mind.
These four films are richly sociological and I will mine that vein in mini-lectures, but in discussion the class will go where it will. There are interesting characters, beautiful scenery, deeply felt emotions, controversial decisions, and many signs of the times to engage us.
The films range from comedy to noir-ish, and one is in French with subtitles; all are available on Amazon or library providers; currently you should not spend more than $10 during the semester. A course guide will be provided so you can watch films ahead of each class.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
- Dates: Th, 5/4/2023 - 5/25/2023
- Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Instructor: Ellen Berg
- This class is livestream only. Class recordings will NOT be available.
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The Federalist Papers
In 1787 it was not clear that Americans would ratify the new Constitution. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote 85 essays, collectively known as the Federalist Papers to defend the Constitution and advocate for ratification. The essays provide insight into the political theories and principles of the men who wrote the Constitution.
This series will set the political context in which the Papers were written, the arguments the framers made to support ratification, as well as the arguments of the Anti-Federalists who opposed ratification.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
- Dates: Tu, 5/16/2023 - 6/6/2023
- Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Instructor: James Rigali
- **Please note that OLLI-UW does not require vaccine status or masks.
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- Shakespeare and the Opera Composers Who Loved Him (Zoom)
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Speaker: Erica Miner
Dates: 5/23/2023 - 5/30/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 2
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $30.00
The works of Shakespeare inspired numerous composers to write operas based on his plays. In many cases, multiple composers wrote operas based on the same Shakespeare play. Whether tragic or comic, operas such as Verdi’s Falstaff and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet reflect the brilliance of the Bard’s universal portrayals of the human condition. In this 2-part series, Erica Miner explores these operatic works and their corresponding plays in vivid detail, illustrating her presentation with fascinating videos.
Class recordings will be available.
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- Short Stories from Around the World (Zoom)
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Speaker: Beverly Olevin
Dates: 5/23/2023 - 6/13/2023
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $50.00
Join us as we discover inspiring short stories from around the globe. In this course, stories are brought to life with dramatic readings by professional actors. Each reading is followed by an in-depth exploration of the story’s origin, themes, characters, and impact. Selected works of fiction include powerful tales, rich with compelling characters, imaginative language, and exciting plots. This series features short fiction from India, China, Mexico, Botswana, Kenya, New Zealand, Columbia, Portugal, Great Britain, Russia, and more. This course is designed so that it is not necessary to read the stories in advance of the class.
Class 1: Humorous or Ironic Tales from France, Mexico, Botswana, Russia
Class 2: Short Stories from Around the World- Colonialism/Refugees Tales from India, Kenya, New Zealand
Class 3: Twists of Fate stories from Columbia, China, and Ireland,
Class 4: Magical stories from Portugal, Great Britain, and India
Class recordings will be available.
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