Arnold Arboretum in May - Photo by Peter Schmidt | |
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Save the Dates: Summer Lecture Series and Faculty Seminars (to be offered on Zoom only)
Lecture Series
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The Art of the Nign (Jewish Spiritual Melody) with Hankus Netsky
Tuesdays May 23, May 30, June 6, June 13, and June 20: 10am to noon
The Green Energy Revolution: Leaders, Laggards and Those Left Behind in the Energy Transition with Scott McKnight
Wednesdays June 28, July 5, July 12, July 19, and July 26: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
American History on Broadway with Gil Harel
Monday, July 10 through Friday, July 14: 10:30 to noon
Shakespeare’s King Lear with Billy Flesch
Monday, August 14 through Friday, August 18: 10:30 to noon
Faculty Seminars
Seminar registration will open on May 15 at 9am ET. Members will receive a personalized registration link in their inbox.
Pricing for Faculty Seminars is as follows:
Spring/Summer Seasonal Members or Summer/Fall Seasonal Members: $215
Annual Members: $145
General Public: $285
Spring 2023 or Summer 2023 Trial Members: $285
The Art of the Art Song with Gil Harel
Monday, July 17- Friday July 21, from 9:30am - 12:15pm ET
A Thousand Acres with Billy Flesch
Monday, August 21 - Friday, August 25 from 9:30am - 12:15pm ET
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BOLLI Virtual Meetings in Upcoming Weeks | |
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Writers Guild
Friday, June 2 at 9:30am
June 2 prompt: Write a “Who done It” story
June 9 prompt: : A story or memoir about granting or being granted a wish
Due to time constraints, writing should be limited to 500 words max. If you're not a writer but want to share a photograph with a lighthearted caption, please do so.
A Zoom link will be sent to those on the Writers Guild mailing list prior to the meeting. If you are not already on the mailing list, please contact Larry Schwirian to be added to it.
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BOLLI Book Group
Friday, June 2 from 9:30 to 11:00
This Other Eden by Paul Harding was inspired by the true story of an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast only to be threatened with destruction a century later. Paul Harding, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for the luminous Tinkers, writes powerfully of resistance and survival in the face of injustice.
For more information contact Charlie Marz. ([email protected]) or Abby Pinard ([email protected]). If you haven't previously attended a BOLLI Book Group meeting and would like to receive the Zoom link, contact Abby Pinard and she will add you to the mailing list.
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The Art of the Nign (Jewish Spiritual Melody) with Hankus Netsky
Tuesday June 6, 10am to noon
This is the third of five lectures in this series, continuing on Tuesdays June 13, and 20.
BOLLI membership is required to participate. If you would like to register for membership, please click here or contact Program Coordinator Dom Restivo at [email protected].
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New Yorker Fiction Salon
Wednesday, June 7, at 10:30
This is an in person only meeting at 60 Turner Street, Waltham with masks optional, and the discussion will not be recorded. There will also be refreshments and a social hour beginning at 9:30 am.
For details of the story please scroll down to the NEW YORKER FICTION SALON section below.
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Aging with Resilience and Enthusiasm SIG
Friday, June 9 at 10am
We will be discussing “Surprises that Come with Aging.” It will be an open discussion for us. Use these questions to enable us to talk with each other:
1. What surprised you about aging?
2. Have you experienced a string of surprises or have you only encountered a couple?
3. What was the most pleasant surprise?
4. What was the most unpleasant?
5. Was there a surprise that ended up making life better or easier?
6. Was there a surprise that knocked your life off track?
Looking forward to hearing how aging has surprised us over the years! Watch for a Zoom link on Monday or Tuesday on the fifth or sixth!
Join us on June 9th! Sandy Miller-Jacobs, Bonnie Seider, and Linda Wolfson
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BOLLI Play Reading Group
Friday, June 9 from 3:00pm to 4:30
Last month, we read Act 1 of “The Matchmaker,” a comic farce by none other than Thornton Wilder, who is well-known for having written the play “Our Town.” This Friday we’ll finish the play by reading Act 2.
Be prepared for a series of mistaken identities, secret rendezvous behind well-placed screens, separated lovers, and a trip to night court, as a wealthy Yonkers merchant hires a widowed matchmaker to find him a wife.
"The Matchmaker" opened on Broadway in 1955, and later became the basis for the musical “Hello Dolly.”
We’re a group of people who love reading plays out loud. We meet via Zoom on the second Friday of the month at 3:00 p.m. The play's script is displayed on the screen, and we take turns reading the various parts. No auditions or previous play reading experience is necessary! All are welcome. To receive the Zoom link, please contact Bonnie Alpert at [email protected]
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Make a Difference
Tuesday, June 13 from 4:00 to 5:00
On May 16 we touched on the specific Third Act project of “Senior-to-Senior," a project whereby Seniors (like BOLLI members) might engage high school “Seniors” to encourage voter registration among them, with an aim to push for further progress on the climate/environmental political front. We can expect to return to “Senior-to-Senior” at our next MaD meeting on June 13 (Tuesday, 4:00-5:00) — sounds like a very promising activity in which we could encourage one another to push forward on climate and related issues!
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Arts & Culture Excursions
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The Cultural Excursions SIG meets monthly to discuss ideas and logistics for trips. The group is looking for people who would be willing to help arrange tours and serve as the point person. Please contact Jennifer Coplon [email protected]or Marsha Semuels [email protected] if you would like to participate. | |
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DeCordova Museum Sculpture Park Tour, June 3 at 11:00
While the DeCordova Museum is being renovated inside, the Sculpture Park remains available for viewing. Come and see the amazing DeCordova sculptures in a 1-hour tour of the museum grounds, a great place for enjoying and photographing the art work. The tour is $10 per person, and space is limited. Reservations are accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis. Following the tour, we will gather at the museum’s Twisted Tree Café for lunch. Send a check or Zelle payment to Jennifer Coplon at 735 Harrison Ave. #501, Boston, MA 02118 (more details available on the website for Arts & Cultural Excursions .
To register for this event, contact Jennifer at [email protected]
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Tour of the new Boston University Center for Computing and Data Science on Thursday, June 8 at 12 PM.
The new 345,724-square-foot building at 655 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston is completely fossil-fuel free, making it one of the most energy-sustainable buildings in all of Massachusetts. This free tour, followed by a nearby lunch TBD, can only accommodate 18 people, so be sure to sign up quickly with Susan Theran at [email protected]. For directions by the T or for parking information, please check the Arts & Cultural Excursions website.
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Worcester Art Museum - Tour of Watercolors Unboxed
Wednesday, June 14
This excursion is already full. To be added to the waitlist, please contact Nancy Alimansky at [email protected].
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Huntington Theater - The Lehman Trilogy
Saturday, June 24 at 1 pm
This award winning play is performed entirely by three actors over nearly 3 hours (2 intermissions). The totally renovated historic Huntington Theatre considers BOLLI members to be "students" and so the tickets will be only $20.00. The performance will be followed by an early dinner at Lucie, the new restaurant at the Colonnade Hotel and a short walk from the theatre. Diners, seated together, can order off the menu and commit to coming several weeks before the performance.
To buy tickets, please send checks by June 2, payable to Glenda Fishman, 29 Fairmont Avenue, Newton, MA 02458 for one or two tickets (a BOLLI member and 1 guest) at $20.00 per ticket. Please contact Glenda at [email protected] if you prefer to pay via PayPal or Venmo or have questions.
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The BOLLI BANNER:
Click here to read the BOLLI Banner, the source for news about BOLLI and Brandeis people and activities, as well as places and events in the surrounding communities that are likely to be of interest to members.
To subscribe, look for the SUBSCRIBE box on the BOLLI Banner page.
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New Yorker Fiction Salon and BOLLI Book Group Selections | |
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New Yorker Fiction Salon
Wednesday, June 7, at 10:30
This is an in person only meeting at 60 Turner Street, Waltham with masks optional, and the discussion will not be recorded. There will also be refreshments and a social hour beginning at 9:30 am.
The story we will discuss on Wednesday, June 7 at 10:30 is “The Plaza” by Rebecca Makkai. It appears in the May 8, 2023 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
To read the story, please click here, and to read a companion interview with the author, click here.
For further information, please contact Aaron Goldberg at [email protected].
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BOLLI Book Group
We love to read! And we love to talk about the books that entertain, inspire, and inform us!
We meet once a month for a lively discussion of a work of contemporary literary fiction. We are a “drop-in” group: All BOLLI members are invited to join us every month or once in a while, no registration required.
All meetings are via Zoom.
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This Other Eden by Paul Harding was inspired by the true story of an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast only to be threatened with destruction a century later. Paul Harding, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for the luminous Tinkers, writes powerfully of resistance and survival in the face of injustice. | | |
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Trust by Hernan Diaz: The rise of the country’s richest man in the early 20th century is told first in a novella within the novel then by multiple narrators who each provide new detail and perspective in revealing what is true. The novel was one of the New York Times ten best books of 2022 and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. | | |
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Friday, August 4 at 9:30am | Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton: An activist group of guerilla gardeners sees opportunity in an apparently abandoned farm ripe for cultivation. With a ruthless billionaire eyeing the same land for mysterious purposes, deceit and suspense keep the pages turning toward a potential catastrophe with global implications. | | |
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Friday, September 1 at 9:30am | The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li explores an all-consuming friendship between two young girls in rural post-war France as they hatch a plot that launches one of them into a world she could never have imagined. This acclaimed novel is a haunting story of friendship, art, and memory. | |
For more information contact Charlie Marz. ([email protected]) or Abby Pinard ([email protected]). If you haven't previously attended a BOLLI Book Group meeting and would like to receive the Zoom link, contact Abby Pinard and she will add you to the mailing list.
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Rose Art Museum: Click here for a preview of events at the Rose.
Brandeis Arts Engagement: Click here for offerings. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. All scheduled events are listed in Eastern Time.
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BOLLI Members in the Arts | |
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"A Besere Velt" - Yiddish Chorus Concert
Saturday, June 10 at 7:30 at MIT's Kresge Auditorium
BOLLI member Steve Ostrow ([email protected]) writes: Here’s word of the upcoming (June 10!) concert of my Yiddish Chorus concert. We’re “A Besere Velt” — “A Better World,” and I’ve been a member for 23 years. We are in fact one of the most recognized Yiddish choruses in the world — and the largest in the universe! I’ve been able to mention this already to a handful of you, but I’m guessing that for most of you this may be the first word you’re hearing about it. It promises to be an exciting and moving evening, and alongside the chorus it stars the renowned Yiddish songster Dan Kahn.
If you can attend in person or by streaming I think you’ll be in for a real treat: We’re talking songs of struggle, songs of workers, songs of victory and social progress, alongside songs of lullaby, nostalgia, yearning. You get the idea, all by way of “building a better world”!
It’s Saturday June 10, 7:30, at MIT’s (comfy!) Kresge Auditorium
For tickets and more information: circleboston.org/arts
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The Zamir Chorale of Boston presents Viva L'Italia, celebrating four centuries of music by Italian Jews
Thursday, June 8, 7:30 pm
Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA
Rachel Seliber writes: BOLLI members Jill Sandberg, Sally Weiner, and I are performing with the Zamir Chorale of Boston on Thursday, June 8th, at 730pm at Temple Emanuel in Newton. For more information and to order tickets, please click here.
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