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- 3-Course Package - Spring
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Fee: $200.00
This 3-course package allows you to select 3 spring courses for $200. This applies to 3-, 4- and 5-week courses. Add this package to your cart and sign up for courses in the same transaction or later. Sign up one at a time or all 3 at once. Package cannot be applied retroactively. Limit 1 package per person per quarter.
*Osher Online courses and field trips are not eligible with this package.
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- 6-Course Package - Spring
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Fee: $400.00
This 6-course package allows you to select 6 spring courses for $400. This applies to 3-, 4- and 5-week courses. Add this package to your cart and sign up for courses in the same transaction or later. Sign up one at a time or all 6 at once. Package cannot be applied retroactively. Limit 1 package per person pre quarter.
*Osher Online courses and field trips are not eligible with this package.
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- Contemporary Art at SAM (Zoom)
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Speaker: Rebecca Albiani
Dates: 5/2/2025 - 5/9/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: F
Sessions: 2
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $45.00
This spring¸ Seattle Art Museum offers two must-see exhibitions, which Rebecca will introduce us to. In the first week we will explore the work of African-American sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (born 1926). Now in his late 90s, Mosley continues to produce highly regarded sculptures of wood and bronze that are inspired by jazz, folk carving, and modernist sculptors such as Brancusi and Noguchi. Mosley’s work is being shown at SAM until June 1 in the exhibition Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley and Alexander Calder.
In week two, Rebecca will present Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei, which will take place at all three of SAM’s venues from March 12-September 7. This will be the largest American retrospective to date of groundbreaking sculptor, photographer, architect and activist Ai Weiwei (born 1957). A brilliant conceptual artist, Ai explores issues of culture, history, and freedom of expression relevant to his native China and to the world as a whole.
Class recordings will be available.
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- Earthquakes! (Zoom)
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Speaker: Dale Lehman
Dates: 5/7/2025 - 5/28/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $75.00
Join us for course six of our OLLI geology series! Earthquakes! will introduce you to the science of earthquakes. We will take a look at the different types of faults that cause earthquakes and the distribution of earthquakes in the Northwest, across the United States, and around the world. This course will build on the basic geologic knowledge students have accrued during the first five courses of the geology series, but will be taught in such a way that students new to geology won’t get lost or left behind. There will be plenty of review as we go through the course. Join us as we take a deeper look at seismicity and the risks, implications, and probabilities of earthquakes at seismically active zones around the world.
Class recordings will be available.
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- William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Zoom)
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Speaker: Leah Adcock-Starr
Dates: 5/15/2025 - 6/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 5
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $80.00
Participants in this course will have the opportunity to delve into the text and contexts of William Shakespeare’s tale of ambition, violence, and mayhem; The Tragedy of MACBETH. Through a close reading of the play, instructor lecture, and group discussion of Shakespeare’s fearsome and flawed power couple; The Macbeth’s will be revisited and revealed and language and major themes of Shakespeare’s final tragedy examined and explored. Class participants will spend 5 weeks in a deep dive study and illumination of the of the language, dynamics, story, and characters of Shakespeare’s MACBETH.
Class recordings will be available.
This course is being offered on Zoom and in Seattle. Please be sure you're signing up for the right location/course.
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- Four More Pesty Birds in Seattle: It's still not their fault! (Zoom)
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Speaker: Connie Sidles
Dates: 6/3/2025 - 6/24/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Location: Zoom Online
Fee: $75.00
Connie continues to share her love of birds and bird knowledge in this coures. The last course discussed Canada Geese, Rock Pigeons, European Starlings and Barred Owls. This course will discuss Brown-headed Cowbirds, Seagulls, and American Crows. Anyone who has ever inadvertently spread a beach towel over goose poop knows we have a bird problem in our area. Canada geese, pigeons, seagulls, starlings - they and their pesty cohorts can make our lives miserable when they raid our garbage cans, defecate on our lawns, invade our attics, or otherwise disturb the evenness of our lives. But each of the bird species we love to hate has its own wonders, its own beauty - and its own lessons to teach us about the interactions between wildlife and humans. Come along with master birder Connie Sidles as she explores these themes. You might find yourself actually coming to like our pesty birds.
Class recordings will be available.
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Photography at the Seattle Chinese Garden
We have photographed at Kubota Gardens and the Seattle Japanese Garden as part of this ongoing series. Now we turn to another gem with glorious structures - pavilions, leak windows, hallways, courtyard, wood working and stone work, plus plantings: the Seattle Chinese Garden in West Seattle. We will meet to photograph together at a glorious time of year, then share selects for feed-back to hone our skills and make our future work even better.
Session 1: photograph as a group on location at the Garden
Session 2: a Zoom share for feedback session
For all skill levels using any camera - including one that happens to make phone calls, whether you joined us for one or both of the past workshops in the series or not.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
- Dates: Tu, 4/22/2025 - 4/29/2025
- Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Instructor: Ray Pfortner
- Zoom class will be recorded.
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