OLLI at SOU NEWSFLASH
October 19, 2020
A New Conversation Connection and Space Still Open This Week

  • Topic: Can Dramatizations (Movies, Plays, TV) Create Empathy and Understanding?
  • Description: Often our biases are rooted in a lack of understanding, and film can help take us on a journey in someone else's shoes. Films that portray the perspectives of marginalized people can often help other people empathize with and accept people whose lives are very different from our own. Have you had this experience? Has a film changed the way you view the world and people in it? Has a film helped you learn to empathize? If so, please bring the title, a little bit of plot, and your experiences to this discussion group. 
  • Date: Thursday, November 5
  • Time: 3:00–4:30 PM
  • Facilitator: Sue Sorem
  • RSVP: Reservations are required, and honored on a first response basis. The maximum number of participants for this event is 15, OLLI members only. RSVP by 3:30 on Wednesday, November 4. Click here to RSVP.
  • Other Questions? Contact Sue Sorem (susansorem@gmail.com).

And there are still openings in Conversation Connections on:
  • October 20, 3:00-4:30 PM: Only Hope: My Mother and the Holocaust Brought to Light. RSVP here.
  • October 22, 3:00-4:30 PM: Serendipity – Providential Discoveries by Accident. RSVP here.
  • and October 29, 3:00-4:30 PM: The Power of One. RSVP here.
Click here for more information (PDF) on all three events.
If you have another interesting topic in mind, facilitate your own Conversation Connection. It's easy and a great way to get to know other OLLI members. Contact Rob Joseph, Social Team Lead, at rolite@mind.net for facilitator guidelines and more information.
Member-to-Member Remote Tech Support
OLLI volunteers continue to offer member-to-member tech support. If you would like help getting up to speed online, click here to submit a request for tech support. and we will connect you with a Tech Support volunteer.
Lifelong Learning Opportunities
SOU's Oregon Center for the Arts invites you to a free special screening and Q&A of Universal Language, a short film created by artist Hollis Witherspoon in collaboration with SOU students and the Schneider Museum of Art in the Spring of 2020. The film premiered in September at FiveMyles gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The link of the film is available to watch at your convenience from now through Tuesday, October 20th. Then join in a Q&A with Witherspoon and the collaborators of the film on Tuesday, October 20th at 12:30 PM at this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2144141868?pwd=bWVpNTBFa2lJNjFsTDJEbGhGOUFEUT09
Meeting ID: 214 414 1868
Passcode: 5Zlxgq

The Ashland Senior Center is offering an online workshop: Fast Powerful Tools to Harness Worries - and Turn the Winter Holidays into Pure Joy! taught by OLLI volunteer instructor Victoria Leo. The class includes access to 100 free videos using the techniques.
Wednesday, October 21, 1:00-3:00 pm
Free and open to everyone with advance registration. Click here for more information. Register at ashland.or.us/register or by calling 541-488-5342.

The Southern Oregon Poverty Law Center is pioneering a podcast, Sounds Like Hate, an audio documentary series about the dangers and peril of everyday people who engage in extremism, and ways to disengage them from a life of hatred. Click here to listen in.
In addition to the podcasts, the makers of Sounds Like Hate are conducting an online panel discussion on Wednesday, October 21 at 1:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM Pacific. It's free, and advance registration is required. Register here.