Today!
The Autumn Players
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
by Alfred Uhry,
Directed by Wendy Strauss
Sunday, November 24, 2:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
Join us for this performance of the Tony Award for Best Play by the author of Driving Miss Daisy. In the play, Nazis have just started rounding up Jews in Europe, while the elitist German Jews in 1939 Atlanta are busily focused on the social event of the season, affording marriageable daughters a golden opportunity to find proper husbands for themselves. When a decent young man of Eastern European background enters the picture, romantic plans get humorously tangled up, and personal beliefs are put to the test.
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OLLI VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
MANNA Food Bank
Working to end hunger and food insecurity in WNC
Veterans Restoration Quarters
Help Restore the Lives of Homeless Vets
Asheville Terrace Apartments Food Pantry
Provide On-Site Food Pantry Support
VOLUNTEER NOW...
Make A Difference!
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Stitch in Time SIG
Monday, December 2, 2 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center,
Atrium
This is a fellowship group for stitchers of all types (knitting, crochet, quilting, needlepoint, embroidery, cross stitch, sewing, etc) to help encourage, inspire, and support each other. OLLI members of all skill levels are welcome!
SIG contact: Gay Lambirth, 281.433.1060
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The Forum
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Friday, December 6, 1 - 3 p.m.
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The Reuter Center will be closed on Friday, November 29)
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center,
Room 205
Topic: Pros & Cons of Universal Health Care
Upcoming Topics:
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Dec. 13 - Pros & Cons of the Wealth Tax
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Dec. 20 - What Can Be Done to Reestablish the Balance of Power Among the Three
Branches of Government?
The weekly Forum encourages a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants' thinking on a wide variety of topics; the group frequently focuses on current events. All OLLI members are welcome to attend.
SIG Contact: Beth Johnson johnson1ea@earthlink.net
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Financial Strategies in Retirement SIG
Friday, December 6, 1:30 - 3 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center,
Room 207
TOPIC:
"Back to Basics: Methods and Metrics in Investing in Individual Stocks and Bonds."
GUEST SPEAKER:
Rick Manske, Chief Executive Officer, Parsec Financial, Asheville NC.
Rick is a Certified Financial Planner, Behavioral Financial Advisor and a Registered Financial Advisor of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.
Don't miss this opportunity to update your knowledge on this important topic!
The meeting is open to all OLLI members. Email/call Kate Beatty for further information at
kkbmom@yahoo.com or
828-231-7710.
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Kirk Borland, Communications Committee Co-Chair
 What I Love Most About OLLI is the ENERGY that permeates every corner of the Reuter Center. People are alive and engaged and stimulated by ideas and projects and each other.
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R2S Reading Tutor Training
The Read2Succeed Winter Training schedule for 2020 is here! Read To Succeed Asheville/ Buncombe is a local non-profit and our mission is
"to inspire and teach children to read."
They need caring individuals who are interested in supporting the children in our community. They train volunteers to become reading tutors for K-3rd grade students. Tutors spend one hour, one to two days a week, throughout the school year.
julie.claywell@r2sasheville.org
828-767-0943
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Meditation Special I
nterest Group (SIG)
Monday, November 25, 1 - 3 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center,
Room 120
Presenter will be Bill Walz who will focus on waking up to our true selves. All OLLI members are welcome at our gatherings.
Walz writes,"Buddhism and Buddhist meditation is about waking up into who we are, what is real and possible, and how to live in a deeper and clearer manner psychologically, spiritually, and socially. While Buddhism is considered a religion, I approach Buddhist teaching and meditation as fundamentally a profound transpersonal psychology that includes a powerfully effective system of ethical teachings necessary to living a balanced and stable life. The meditation practice has the capacity to clear away old chaotic and ineffective patterns of deeply ingrained behavior, thought, and emotion, while opening us into profound levels of insight into our true nature, place and purpose within the greater scope of Life.
Bill Walz has evolved from a career as a clinical psychologist into teaching meditation and evolving consciousness as a path to personal healing and growth. He has taught meditation and consciousness at UNC Asheville, in public forums and with a private clientele, and has taught at OLLI for over ten years. He also writes a monthly consciousness column in Asheville's
Rapid River Magazine.
If you have questions contact
Meditation SIG coordinator
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NC Stage
Behind the Scenes
"Handle with Care"
Friday, December 6, 1:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
In this bilingual romantic comedy, circumstances both hilarious and tragic bring together a young Israeli woman, who has little command of English, and a young American man, who has little command of romance. Is their inevitable love an accident ... or is it destiny, generations in the making?
Go behind the scenes of professional theatre with NC Stage Artistic Director and co-founder Charlie Flynn-McIver. Explore the themes of this season's plays, talk with the actors, directors and designers about design concepts and the rehearsal process, and experience a scene or two performed live. Join us for an insider's view of how theatre happens!
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Men's Wisdom Works
Special Interest Group
Each of MWW's 16 groups is comprised of 8-12 men.
Groups meet at various times and places twice a month for 2 hours to discuss issues of personal importance.
Groups socialize over breakfast, lunch, happy hour, & other social activities.
Men on the waiting list will either be added to existing groups, or we will form a new group if numbers suffice.
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Dear OLLI Members,
Please remember that the registration system is closed for now. We will be sending schedules a little earlier than originally planned, on Monday, November 25,late in the afternoon. Our Add/Drop open registration begins as scheduled on Monday, December 2, 10 a.m. Please remember that the add/drop period is first-come, first-served and that we will have helpers on Monday, December 2, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Reuter Center to guide anyone who needs help. Many thanks to all of our dedicated registration volunteers and also to Frankie Keller for her leadership in the registration process.
We are participating in UNC Asheville's Giving Tuesday campaign, but you may designate your gifts to OLLI. This year undesignated contributions to our annual fund will be used for the purchase of equipment that will allow us to stream lectures from the Manheimer Room. We will begin with streaming select lectures and are exploring the potential for offering online courses. This will be a supplement to the wonderful courses we already offer. And remember, if you would like to designate funds for scholarships, to honor a favorite instructor or to fund special lectures, you may do any of those things.
Remember that the Reuter Center will be closed beginning Tuesday, November 26, 5 p.m. through Monday, December 2, 8 a.m. to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
We are clearing out our Lost and Found drawer. Please drop by before December 13 if you are missing something.
We are truly thankful for the wonderful community you create,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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 Important Dates for OLLI's Winter 2020
College for Senior Registration
- Click here for a link to the OLLI at UNC Asheville Winter 2020 catalog. Print copies of the catalog are available at the Reuter Center.
- Registration is closed until Monday, December 2, 10 a.m. as the staff works to make sure that we can enroll as many people as possible in as many classes as possible.
- Monday, November 25, late afternoon: Winter 2020 schedules mailed
- Wednesday, November 27-Monday, December 2, 8 a.m. Reuter Center and OLLI Office closed for Thanksgiving Holiday.
- Monday, December 2, 10 a.m.: Winter 2020 Add/Drop and Open Registration opens
- Friday, January 10, 2020, 3 p.m.: Last day to drop CFS courses for a full refund
- Monday, January 13, 9 a.m.: Winter 2020 CFS courses begin
- Monday, February 24: Last day of Winter 2020 CFS courses
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Lost & Found Clean Out!
Missing a coffee mug? Can't find that particular pair of glasses? Come check our lost and found before December 13th to claim missing items.
All unclaimed items will be donated to Goodwill after
December 13
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Today!
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How Does College for Seniors consider courses?
Through the eleven curriculum committees
Would you consider volunteering?
Let us know!
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The World Affairs Council
Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, Manheimer Room
India: Modi Begins
His Second Term
Dr. Keya Maitra
UNC Asheville Philosophy Department chair and associate professor Dr. Keya Maitra holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Connecticut and another from the University of Hyderabad in India. A Bengali native, she and her husband and son returned there this summer. She specializes in Indian philosophy and language. Dr. Maitra is a member of the Indian Philosophical Society, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, and the Association for Asian Studies.
The World Affairs Council presents lectures and discussions that aim to advance international awareness and foster Western North Carolina's global ties.
Admission to World Affairs Council presentations at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center is $10, but is free to members of the World Affairs Council and UNC Asheville undergraduate students. OLLI members are eligible for discounts on World Affairs Council membership.
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Thanksgiving is the time of year to express gratitude about  the things we are glad for. Family. Friends. OLLI. OLLI? Yes, you can show your gratitude by financial giving to the OLLI family through UNC Asheville and thus support the joy of sharing lifelong learning.
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Giving Tuesday is coming up on Tuesday, December 3
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving back.
It is a day to reflect on how others have made a difference in your life and an opportunity to pay it forward to the next generation.
This Giving Tuesday, we are asking you to lift up your fellow OLLI members by enabling those too sick or unable to travel to participate in OLLI at UNC Asheville lectures remotely.
Help us raise $25,000 for the purchase of equipment to broadcast lectures and events from the Manheimer Room.
Make your gift today and it will be counted toward UNC Asheville's Giving Tuesday goal.
Check back in on Tuesday, December 3 and you'll see your name and gift listed on the Giving Tuesday campaign website.
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Astronomy Club of Asheville
8th Annual Club
Holiday Social and Auction
Thursday, December 5, 6-9 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
The Astronomy Club of Asheville will celebrate its 8th Annual Club Holiday Social and Auction event! The club will have refreshments, door prizes, and a large selection of exciting items to bid on during our silent and live auctions. They will also welcome the return of a hilarious auctioneer whose previous stellar performances have often been a comedy highlight for many club members!
Auction items will be on display beginning at 6:30 p.m., with the live auction starting by 7:30 p.m. The evening is open to all, so bring family and friends, bid on an item or two, just try to suppress your laughter, and show your support for our club!
The Astronomy Club of Asheville meets the first Thursday of each month, from 7- 9 p.m.
, (except for January and July), with an interesting lineup of speakers and topics. OLLI members may attend club meetings and stargazes, with club members on hand to advise and assist them in the basics of astronomy and the techniques of observing celestial phenomena.
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Reuter Center Singers Holiday Concert
Monday, December 9, 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Manheimer Room
The Reuter Center Singers, OLLI's in-house choral group directed by Chuck Taft, will perform classical and popular holiday songs.
In this very special holiday concert, enjoy and sing along withtraditional carols. Light refreshments follow.
The performance is free, but donations are welcome.
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Please join OLLIChat, the replacement for OLLITalk.
It's free and easy to use.
OLLIChat is an online community where OLLI at UNC Asheville
members may share information of common interest with each other. It is designed to look and function like the old OLLITalk.
To get started, send an email to
OLLIChatAVL@gmail.com, and the OLLIChat volunteers will send you an invitation.
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The Asheville Art Museum and UNC Asheville Launch Student Membership Initiative and Educator Memberships as Part of Grand Re-Opening Celebration
Beginning January 1, 2020, UNC Asheville faculty and staff, as well as members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, are eligible for discounted Museum memberships for educators and seniors for $50 annually.
CLICK HERE to read more!
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History Book SIG
Friday, December 20, 1 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center Room 120
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queen Who Made England
by Dan Jones
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world.
We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights.
"This is the era of chivalry, of Robin Hood and the Knights Templar, the Black Death, the founding of Parliament, the Black Prince, and the Hundred Year's War. It will appeal as much to readers of Tudor history as to fans of 'Game of Thrones.'"
Goodreads Review
Come join the fun to share beloved books, engage in discussion, and connect with other OLLI members whose favorite subject is history!
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Howard Jaslow
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UNC Asheville's
Blue Banner
Highlights OLLI Presentations on Science and Science Denial
Howard Jaslow has been offering science and technology courses and lectures for years now and has also connected to campus through support of the Undergraduate Research presentations that happen every term on campus. This article highlights the ways that students on campus can participate in the unique exchange of ideas and opinions that happen in the OLLI classroom.
Thanks so much to Howard and to Hermann Gucinski for their ongoing work to make challenging science accessible.
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