OLLI at SOU NEWSFLASH
July 27, 2020
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Fall Course Request Period Opens
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Fall course requests may be submitted Monday, July 27, through Friday, August 7.
Please note: There's no rush to submit your requests.
All course requests received by Friday, August 7, will be entered into the lottery at the same time. There is no advantage to submitting your requests earlier than someone else.
The fall catalog is now available online (
click here
), and catalogs were mailed to members' homes last week (one per household). If you would like another catalog, please email or call the OLLI office.
Click here
to submit your course requests or submit them through the office by emailing
[email protected]
or calling 541-552-6048. If you have not yet renewed or joined for the year, you'll need to take care of that when you submit your lottery form.
Are you new to OLLI and want more information about how to register? Or maybe you are a returning member who needs a refresher?
Click here
to visit our How to Register webpage for more information.
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OLLI Council Announcement for Winter Term
After consultation with SOU administration and careful consideration of all factors, OLLI Council has concluded that our best course is to continue with OLLI2U online curriculum through Winter term. Given the increasing cases of the virus in Jackson County and Oregon, the unavailability of a vaccine, the logistics to hold in person classes given state restrictions and requirements, and our commitment to the health and well being of our members, instructors, and staff, we will continue with online only classes until the COVID-19 situation improves.
As the offerings in the Fall 2020 Course Catalog show, there has been no diminishment in the quality of our curriculum. We are taking steps to ensure that rewarding connections are built into the Zoom delivery method through class discussions, pre/post class chat time, shared interest groups and other activities.
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OLLI Office Support Available
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Office Support Available by Phone and Email
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency, the OLLI offices (Ashland and Medford) remain closed. Like nearly all SOU employees and faculty, all OLLI staff are working from home until further notice. But the good news is that help is still readily available by phone and email. OLLI staff are standing by to provide remote assistance. Email
[email protected]
or call 541-552-6048 for help with all of your OLLI needs.
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Zoom Help for OLLI Members
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To help OLLI members get ready for Fall term's online courses, OLLI has created a new webpage with lots of useful information about Zoom, the videoconferencing program that many instructors will be using to teach their Fall term classes.
Special thanks to OLLI volunteer and instructor Barb Barasa, a retired webmaster (among many other skills and talents she has), for creating this webpage for OLLI members.
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Winter Course Proposals Welcomed August 1–31
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Do you have a skill or passion to share? Have you considered teaching at OLLI? Instructors say OLLI members make the best students because they are so interested and engaged in learning. Topics are as varied as OLLI members' backgrounds and interests, and Curriculum Committee volunteers are available to meet with potential instructors who would like to discuss a concept or get help with a proposal.
Click here
to learn more or submit a proposal for winter term.
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Lifelong Learning Resources
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SOU's Schneider Museum of Art
is celebrating its reopening with a new exhibit,
Migrating Bodies: For(Saking) Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit of Happiness on view at the Schneider Museum of Art from August 6 to October 10. Museum hours will be Tuesday and Wednesday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., admission is free, but a $5 donation is suggested.
Click here
for more information.
Charlotte Nuessle
, a former OLLI instructor and a current instructor at the Ashland Senior Center, is sharing two free online offerings that sound like a good tonic for our challenging times in the world right now:
Yoga Therapy to Melt our Heart’s Burdens, a free Facebook Event, on Monday, August 10, 12:00 pm PDT
and
Self-Care for Caregivers, a free online workshop, on
Friday, August 14, 9:00-10:00 am, PDT
For more information about these events or to contact Charlotte, please visit Charlotte's website at
charlottenuessle.com
Harvard Book Store
is holding online author events. Many are free (a donation is suggested but not required), while others have a fee, sometimes including the author's book. They are happening almost daily on a broad range of topics. Note that event times are EDT, so they start 3 hours earlier on the west coast.
Click here
to see what's coming up.
The National Theater of Scotland
invites you to view Scenes for Survival, a new season of digital short artworks which will launch pieces of theatre from Scottish creative talents across a series on online platforms and channels over the coming months. Created in response to the current COVID-19 outbreak, the project is being delivered in association with BBC Scotland, and BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine project.
Click here
for "Scenes for Survival."
549: Scots of the Spanish Civil Wa
r.
This recording of
a live production revisits the true story of four miners fro
m East Lothian who volunteered for the Spanish civil war’s International Brigades in 1936.
Here's the link to watch it
free
on YouTube
until July 31st
:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3C-FjnnnQM
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