We Remember
Jennifer Kantonen
November 10, 2019
The service of thanksgiving and witness to the resurrection is on Friday, November 22nd, at 11 a.m. in the Sanctuary at First Presbyteriann Church
40 Church Street, Asheville, nC
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TODAY!
The Reuter Center Singers Present:
Broadway Now and Then!
Sunday, November 17, 3 p.m.
Biltmore United Methodist Church,
376 Hendersonville Road,
Asheville, NC 28803
It's a celebration of
Broadway Now & Then!
Come experience the past and present music of Broadway show tunes and hits.The performance will showcase musical selections from
Hamilton
,
Grease
,
Showboat, Oliver
,
Fiddler On The Roof
,
Opening Night!
and more.
Chuck Taft, who has directed the choir for its full 20-year history, will conduct, and Nora Vetro will accompany on the piano.
With 20 years as a singing organization, the Reuter Center Singers have fostered connections among members and the community at large from the beginning. The group is now based at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville. They rehearse on Monday evenings from 6:15-8:15 p.m. at the Reuter Center and welcome new members.
Free and open to everyone. Donations at the door are welcome.
**corrected date
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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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Leadership Asheville Forum (LAF)
November 20th Critical Issues Luncheon
Meet Buncombe County's
New Manager
Food service begins
at 11:45 a.m.
Program begins at 12:15 p.m.
The Country Club of Asheville
170 Windsor Road
She'll be just eight months into one of the most high-profile jobs in Buncombe County. And at LAF's November 20th Critical Issues luncheon event, Avril Pinder will tell us what it's like to take over as Buncombe County manager in the wake of the Wanda Greene scandal. After a six-month nationwide search, she was chosen by a unanimous vote of the county commissioners from a list of 40 candidates.
 Ms. Pinder has plenty of job experience, having been deputy manager of New Hanover County before coming to Asheville. She's also aware of the special situation which confronts her. As she put it in a recent interview, "After everything that has happened recently, I am committed to regaining the public's trust..."
We hope you can join us.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
or 828-250-2353
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The Forum
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Friday, November 22, 1 - 3 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center,
Room 205
Topic
Social Media:
A Force for Good or Evil
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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Poetry and Gender
Last spring, OLLI poets explored the topic of Poetry and Gender in a class led by Bill Petz and Karen Depew. The poems they wrote explored gender identity as it played out in various contexts.
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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. 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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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.
Awakening
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.
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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,
Even though things are little quieter without College for Seniors classes in session, there are many events and articles of interest in this week's newsletter.
Plan to attend the Reuter Center Singers performance
Broadway Now and Then
at Biltmore United Methodist Church this afternoon. This week you can also enjoy a lecture about John James Audubon, a performance by storytellers who either led or participated in Chuck Fink's recent storytelling courses, and a performance by The Autumn Players.
We also hope that you will read the insightful article by Leslie Rodriguez about our recent STEM lecture series on science and science denial. And many thanks to Howard Jaslow and Hermann Gucinski for their leadership both to offer exciting science lectures and to make connections to the rest of the UNC Asheville campus.
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, but 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 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.
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.
With gratitude for all that you do to make possible our community of teachers and learners,
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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OLLI Adverse Weather Policy
OLLI classes, events, meetings, and other activities will be canceled or delayed when UNC Asheville classes are canceled or delayed for adverse weather. We occasionally will cancel or delay classes when the university does not if conditions in the area or on campus may pose a danger to our members.
As soon as possible on bad weather days, the OLLI staff will post specific program information on our outgoing messages at 828.251.6140 and on our website at olliasheville.com. We will, if possible, send an email to OLLI members explaining how weather will affect events scheduled on bad weather days.
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UNC Asheville
Student Ceramics and Art Sale
Friday, November 22, 4-8 p.m.
Saturday, November 23, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
838 Riverside Drive
A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery, and other art works by UNC Asheville students will be on sale, with cash or checks accepted; no cards. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Department of Art and Art History. For more information, about Department of Art and Art History programs, visit
art.unca.edu.
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Thanks to OLLI Art Market Volunteers!
Sweet & Savory Café Volunteers
Linda Horton
Linda Bushar
Susan Coyle
Patti Oppenheim
Kathy Tempelaar-Lietz
Linda Cardina
Alexa Dann
Kim Speer
Kitty Curran
Flo Byron
Tom Bushar
Volunteers for Day's Events and Publicity
Ellen Boyd
Jill Breaux
Tom Bushar
Susanna Euston
Fran Fedor
Bruce Jones
Judy LaMee
Jacque Morgan
Dennis Murphy
Barbara Wilson
Organizers
Tom and Gayle Hofmann
Gay Lambirth
Sheila Murphy
Many thanks to OLLI Facilities and Communications Coordinator Jacqueline Lowe, the UNC Asheville Facilities crew led by Roger Penley, and our wonderful UNC Asheville student workers for making this event possible.
All proceeds from the sale of booths and treats will support College for Seniors scholarships.
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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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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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Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society
Audubon's Legacy: Artist, Scientist, Writer, and Conservationist
Tuesay, November 19, 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
 In partnership with the Asheville Art Museum, the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society is pleased to present a program celebrating John James Audubon and a new Asheville Art Museum exhibit. Naturalist and painter John James Audubon is best known for his seminal work,
Birds of America, which featured 435 life-sized prints based on Audubon's paintings. The volume remains an inspiration for artists in a variety of media today. Join author and collector Bill Steiner for a look at Audubon, his contributions to art and science, and his later work
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Steiner is joined by Cindy Buckner, associate curator, for a preview of
A Telling Instinct: Audubon and Contemporary Art, the Museum's upcoming exhibition examining Audubon's anthropomorphic and storytelling approach, and its resonance with contemporary artists.
Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society programs are free and open to the public.
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OLLI'S Own Storytellng Showcase:
Personal Stories from OLLI Members
Wednesday, November 20, 7 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
Join us for a special performance of graduates and guest coaches from two College for Seniors storytelling classes, Moth Personal Storytelling and In The Appalachian Tradition of the Spoken Word. Instructor Chuck Fink hosts the evening with performances by storytelling class coaches David Joe Miller, Dave Castel, and Mike Sena, and star class graduates: Tina Garret, Mark Threlkeld, Nancy Hammell, and David Fillpot. This is a free show. Come early to make sure you get a good seat. As Confucius
meant to stay
, "1000 words are worth more than one picture".
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Trekking in Nepal at 65! RU Crazy?
A Photographic Extravaganza by
Roger Helm and Mark Cobb
Thursday, November 21, 1 p.m.
UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
Manheimer Room
The observations, exertions, and photographs of three middle-60 baby boomers hiking the Annapurna Circuit Trek in Nepal
will be showcased. As Lonely Planet's
Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya book notes
, this trek "has long been considered one of the world's great treks." We look forward to sharing with you our experiences of two weeks trekking that involved: 40,000 feet plus in elevation changes, crossing a freezing pass at nearly 18,000
feet, huge boulders, amazing waterfalls, stunning mountains, welcoming and hardworking people, decent food and lodging, terrifying transportation, and interesting wildlife.
Free and Open to All OLLI Members. Please join us.
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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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The World Affairs Council
Inda:
Modi Begins
His Second Term
Dr. Keya Maitra
Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m.
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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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 our 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 with
traditional carols. Light refreshments follow. The performance is
free, but donations are welcome.
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