The BOLLI Bulletin - May 21, 2021
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The performance by BOLLI's CAST will take place via Zoom today at 1pm. To register and receive the link, click here.
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BOLLI Calendars and Schedules
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Invite a Friend Program: Summer Membership Options
Do you have a friend who would like to join us for the summer? Let your friends know about our expanded membership options! BOLLI is offering a week-long Trial Membership allowing new members to attend one of Gil Harel’s or Billy Flesch’s five-day lecture series and check us out. You’ll also want to let friends know about a brand new BOLLI opportunity -- we now invite prospective members to consider purchasing a summer/fall membership, affording them lecture courses in June, July, and August and the pleasure of study group opportunities in the Fall term. Prospective members are also invited to attend a BOLLI Information Session.
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Summer Program: Save the Dates
The months of June, July, and August will be full of excitement at BOLLI. Although we won’t be back together at Turner Street, there are learning and social opportunities for you via BOLLI Online almost every day. All times are Eastern Time.
BOLLI Lecture Series
Complimentary for BOLLI members. For detailed information and to RSVP, click here.
Hamlet: The Beginning of Modern Literature with Billy Flesch
June 7-11, 10:30am-12:00pm
The Language of Western Music: A Listener’s Guide with Gil Harel
June 28 - July 2, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Art History at the Museum: Five Virtual Tours for the BOLLI Community
with Ruth Ezra
Tuesdays, June 15, 22, 29 and July 6 and 13, 2021
3:00 - 4:30pm
China in the 21st Century: Problems and Prospects with Scott McKnight
Wednesdays, July 7, 14, 21, 28 and August 4
10:30am - 12:00pm
The Question of Fascism and the Perils of Historical Analogy with Jan Burzlaff
Thursdays: July 8, 15, 22 and 29
10:30am-12:15pm
Broadway and the Evolution of the American Musical with Gil Harel
August 2-6, 10:30am-12:00pm
Religion in a Secular Age: Cinematic Perspectives with Jacob Meskin
Wednesdays: August 4, 11, 18, 25, and September 1
3:00-4:30pm
Faculty Seminars
Payment required. Discounted for BOLLI seasonal and annual members. For detailed information, click here.
Registration is now open. Current members have received an email with a personalized registration link. All others can register by clicking here. (If a section is sold out, you may contact [email protected] to be put on a wait list.)
Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague with Billy Flesch
Section One: June 14-18, 9:30am - 12:15pm (sold out)
Section Two: June 21-25, 9:30am-12:15pm (sold out)
Mozart: Man, Myth, Legacy with Gil Harel
Section One: July 12-16, 9:30am - 12:15pm
Section Two: July 19-23, 9:30am-12:15pm
A Night at the Opera for All Comers with Gil Harel
Section One: August 9-13, 9:30am - 12:15pm
Section Two: August 16-20, 9:30am-12:15pm
Special Interest Groups
These groups will continue to meet throughout the summer. Click here for more information. Individual meeting times will be published weekly in the Bulletin.
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Zoom Best Practices and Help
We encourage you to look at the Zoom best practices that we have collected by clicking here before attending BOLLI virtual events and classes.
If you ever need help with Zoom, please don't hesitate to reach out to Nicole Grant, Program Coordinator at 781-736-2992 and/or [email protected]. Please give her as much information as possible about the issue you are experiencing. Either Nicole or another staff person or volunteer will be back in touch with you promptly.
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Please note that the spring Distinguished Speaker series has ended.
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BOLLI Virtual Meetings in Upcoming Weeks
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Writers Guild
Friday, May 21 from 9:30 to noon
May 21 prompt: Write a children’s story in 1st person from the child’s perspective
May 28 prompt: Write about your best friend or favorite relative from your youth
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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Photography Group
Friday, May 21 from 10:30am to noon
Please note that on Friday, May 21st, the BPG meeting will meet via Zoom from 10:30 - 12:00 p.m. All future BPG meetings will once again be held on Fridays from 10:30 to Noon until further notice. Also, as a reminder, the ( 2) photo challenges are due on Tuesday, May 18th. Members are asked to upload their images to Brandeis Box by Tuesday, May 18th.
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Poetry Writing Group
Friday, May 21 from 11:00 to 12:30
Are you a writer of poetry? Do you aspire to write poetry? If so, come to our monthly session, which is designed to give writers of poetry at all levels an opportunity to share their work with others, receive constructive feedback and become further inspired.
A Zoom link will be sent to those on the Poetry Writing Group mailing list prior to the meeting. If you are not already on the mailing list, please contact Peter Schmidt to be added to it. Questions? Contact Peter Schmidt, [email protected]
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Poetry Circle
Friday, May 21 at 2:30
This month we will revisit the poetry of former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Pinsky is one of our most musical poets, often performing his poetry with jazz musicians, even sitting and performing with Bruce Springsteen. As he writes in Samurai Song, "When I had no temple I made/ My voice my temple. I have/ No priest, my tongue is my choir.” You might enjoy watching Pinsky perform the poem by clicking here.
Click here for his biography from the Poetry Foundation and here for the poems.
For more information, or to be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom link, please contact Charlie Marz, [email protected] .
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New Yorker Fiction Salon
Wednesday, May 26 at 10:30
(Note the time change)
A Zoom link will be sent to those on the New Yorker mailing list prior to the meeting. If you are not already on the mailing list, please contact Aaron Goldberg to be added to it.
For details of story please scroll down to the NEW YORKER FICTION SALON section below.
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BOLLI Play Reading Group
Thursday, May 27 from 12:30 to 2:00
If you'd like to be added to our mailing list, please contact Sue Wurster at [email protected] in order to receive our weekly Zoom link.
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Conversations on Race in Our Daily Lives
Thursday, May 27 from 2:30 to 4:00
We will return to James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, as we continue to Access Black Voices Through Literature (see Our Next Meeting on the website here). We will discuss the novel’s themes and reflect on how Baldwin’s message resonates in his fiction in contrast to his essays.
If there is time, we will introduce Winfred Rembret (1945-2021), a less well-known Black voice who speaks to us personally through his art (here).
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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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BOLLI Matters: A Blog with new articles each week.
Click here to read BOLLI Matters, a blog devoted to BOLLI members and Special Interest Groups, showcasing their talents and activities.
Click here to subscribe. Or, you can look for the SUBSCRIBE button on the BOLLI Matters page itself.
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New Yorker Fiction Salon and BOLLI Book Group Selections
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New Yorker Fiction Salon
Wednesday, May 26 at 10:30
(Note the time change)
The story we will discuss on Wednesday, May 26 at 10:30am is “Balloons” by Thomas McGuane. It appears in the May 10 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
To read the story, please click here. To read a companion interview with the author, click here.
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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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A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet: A dozen unsupervised children, on vacation with their hedonistic parents, take matters into their own hands in the wake of a natural disaster. The New York Times named this darkly comic and apocalyptic novel one of the ten best books of 2020
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Monogamy by Sue Miller is an insightful, engrossing novel that explores the course and aftermath of a thirty-year marriage. Set in Cambridge, its characters navigate a painful road to self-knowledge and to an understanding of what marriage and monogamy really mean.
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Friday, August 6 at 1:00pm (NOTE TIME)
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A Burning by Megha Majumdar is a riveting debut novel about three people who seek to rise – to the middle class, to political power, to fame – and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
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Friday, September 10 at 9:30am
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This Is Happiness by Niall Williams is a tender, lyrical portrait of a community facing change in a forgotten corner of Ireland. Faha, a tiny parish in County Clare, is about to be hooked up to the electrical grid as a seventeen-year-old learns about life and love and a stranger comes to town seeking forgiveness.
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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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Virtual Brandeis Campus Events
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Enjoy Alumni College 2021 online!
Explore timely topics with Brandeis faculty and alumni speakers at Alumni College 2021 online! All alumni, parents, friends, Brandeis National Committee (BNC) and BOLLI members are invited to join the sessions. Programs will run throughout April, May, and June.
Click here for dates and details. Additional information also available here.
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Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454
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