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NEWS
Break Week
SPECIAL EVENTS
LLAIC LOVES ART: The Phoenix Art Museum - Wednesday, 4/8
LUNCH@LLAIC: Tuesdays, 4/14 until end of semester
Trivia Day: Tuesday, 4/21
Regis LLARC: Lunch, Listen and Learn Series - Thursdays thru 4/30
LET'S GO: The Icon Museum - Sunday, 4/26
AFFINITY GROUPS
LAIC Lit-Lovers: Friday, 4/10
French Conversation Group: Monday, 4/13
Current Events: Friday, 4/17
Movie Mavens: Friday, 4/17
Spanish Conversation Group (La Tertulia): Monday, 4/20
Not a member yet? Click here to join LLAIC.
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BREAK WEEK
There are no classes, and no LUNCH@LLAIC, the week of April 7, except for a few makeups and early starts (you know who you are). After that, though, there are new courses starting up, and some of them still have room. Browse our website to find them and maybe register for one.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Free to LLAIC Members
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LLAIC LOVES ART AND THE
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM PRESENT
A CONVERSATION ON AFRICAN ART
WITH MASTER DOCENT INGRID WOOD
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 @ 1:30
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Get insights into some of the many cultures and traditions that make up the vast and diverse continent of Africa, many of which are unfamiliar to the Western world. See how African art portrays their culture and traditions and creates a meaningful interpretation and explanation of Africa today, including its ongoing connection to the West.
Ingrid comes from South Africa. After three years of experiencing
the East Coast weather, she made the decision to move to
Arizona. She has a background in art and design, so is thrilled to
be involved in a museum environment and with the Phoenix Art
Museum Docents which she joined in 2010.
Click here before noon on Tuesday, April 7, to request a Zoom invitation. You'll receive it that day.
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LUNCH@LLAIC
TUESDAYS AT TEMPLE SHALOM
175 TEMPLE STREET, WEST NEWTON
4/14 UNTIL THE END OF THE SEMESTER
LUNCH STARTS AT 1, PROGRAM AT 1:30
Join us at Temple Shalom on all your Tuesday afternoons from April 14 through the end of the semester for lunch and a delightful program! Drop in before class, after class, or just for the program. Bring your own lunch (we provide designer water and hot beverages) or email Jennifer Young if you want to order pizza ($3 for one slice or $5 for two).
Alex Conn gave a clear and extremely informative presentation on how to effectively use Chatbots at the 3/31 LUNCH@LLAIC. Alex has generously offered to make his slides available. Anyone interesting in obtaining a pdf copy should email him.
LUNCH@LLAIC is open to guests and no RSVP is necessary, so bring a friend! The next two programs are as follows:
- 4/14 Rhoda Greenspan – The Extraordinary History and Legacy of the White House
This video lecture provides the background story of our famous presidential office and home. Given the current controversy about the President’s changes to the White House, it will give us a platform to discuss this very timely topic.
- 4/21 Don Bermont - Trivia Day (see next block)
- Future programs:
- 4/28 Alice Freedman – Reinventing English: The Troubled Future of Reading, Writing, and Thinking
- 5/5 Dave Rabinowitz – The History of the Bicycle
- 5/12 Joanne Fisher – Fashion Future: What’s Right and Wrong with the Industry
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CELEBRATE TRIVIA DAY AT LUNCH@LLAIC
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
TEMPLE SHALOM, 175 TEMPLE STREET, WEST NEWTON
HOSTED BY DON BERMONT
LUNCH STARTS AT 1, PROGRAM AT 1:30
On April 21, at Temple Shalom, the LLAIC Social and Entertainment Committee will be holding an afternoon of LLAIC Team Trivia Competition. Everyone is encouraged to come and bring whatever fragments of memory about useless people, places, and things you can gather.
We will form teams and compete by answering trivia questions generated by AI. The scoring system will be modified to realistically fit the abilities of people our age. You may get credit if it’s clear you know the answer, but can’t remember the exact name or place. Example: you can get credit for “She was married a lot and often to the same guy,” when you can’t immediately think of Elizabeth Taylor.
Prizes may or may not be given.
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REGIS LLARC:
LUNCH, LISTEN AND LEARN, SPRING 2026
REGIS COLLEGE FINE ARTS CENTER
THURSDAYS UNTIL APRIL 30
11 A.M. to 2 P.M.
LLARC's Lunch, Listen and Learn (LLL) series for spring 2026 will be held in-person at the Regis College Fine Arts Center, in its beautiful atrium, with a Zoom option. (For a Zoom link, send an email request to Bill Koehler.) LLAIC members are welcome. The first 30 minutes of the sessions will be for socializing, allowing time for meeting new people, catching up with friends, and general camaraderie. Please bring your brown bag lunch. Speakers begin promptly at 11:30 a.m. Click here for descriptions of the programs.
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THE ICON MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER
230 UNION STREET, CLINTON
SUNDAY, APRIL 26 @ 10:30 A.M.
Please join us at 10:30AM on April 26 for a docent-led tour of the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton. The Museum holds a permanent collection of over a thousand Russian, Greek, and Ethiopian icons and Orthodox works of art. An icon is regarded by the faithful as a bridge between heaven and earth. Its visual language reflects the culture and traditions of the Eastern Christian world.
Following the 60-minute tour we will be walking for about 5-10 minutes to the Zaytoon restaurant on 72 High Street. This is a Middle Eastern restaurant. You will have the choice of a buffet or ordering from a menu.
The cost for the tour is $10. The tour is limited to 12 participants. The museum stretches over three floors but is handicap accessible.
There is ample street parking next to the museum.
To reserve a spot, please fill out this registration form. About a week before the event, you will receive a final email with carpool information.
For more information please contact:
Pat Cole (508) 314 1137 patdre@yahoo.com
Margalit Lai (508) 272 8447 margalit.lai@yahoo.com
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AFFINITY GROUP MEETINGS
Free to LLAIC Members
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LLAIC LIT-LOVERS:
THE IMPOSSIBLE THING
BY BELINDA BAUER
LED BY DANA KAPLAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 @ 10:30
A sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.
Click here before noon on Thursday, April 9, for a Zoom invitation. You'll receive it that day.
Coming up:
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May 8 – The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali – Phyllis Cohen
EXCITING NEWS! Marjan Kamali, the author, has accepted our invitation to join us on May 8 when we discuss the book. Hopefully, since Iran is so prominent in current news, she will share some of her insights on that as well.
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June 12 - Tables for Two by Amor Towles - Carole Levy
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FRENCH CONVERSATION GROUP
MONDAY, APRIL 13 @ 1:30-3:00 P.M.
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The French Conversation group is reading from FRENCH STORIES / CONTES FRANÇAIS, a DOVER DUAL LANGUAGE book edited by Wallace Fowlie. Be sure to buy the edition with “Ten Short Stories by Voltaire, Balzac, Gide, Camus …” et. al., available from Amazon for Kindle or in paperback.
We meet for an hour and a half by ZOOM every other Monday at 1:30 p.m. We are intermediate to advanced French readers who read the French text out loud and discuss the stories in French. Please email Betty Salzberg if you would like to join us.
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CURRENT EVENTS
LED BY JERRY JACOBS
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 @ 10:00 A.M.
Newcomers are always welcome to this erudite and opinionated group. And we know we'll have more than enough to talk about. Click here before noon on Thursday, April 16, to request a Zoom invitation. You'll receive it that day.
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MOVIE MAVENS
GIFTED
LED BY BOB TREMBLAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 @ 2 P.M. ON ZOOM
The Movie Mavens selection for April 17 is "Gifted," a 2017 film directed by Marc Webb and starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Jenny Slate, Lindsay Duncan and Octavia Spencer. The film tells the story of a child prodigy who gets caught in a custody battle between the kindhearted uncle who raised her and the grandmother who wants to cultivate her genius.
At the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards, Grace was nominated for best young actress. Now, 19, she's currently appearing in the film "Regretting You." The film has local ties as Evans hails from Sudbury and Slate from Milton.
The film received a 73% favorable review from critics and a 85% favorable review from the audience on Rotten Tomatoes. Said one critic, "'Gifted' isn't just a great family film, it offers insight and lessons for a lifetime and might actually make you and your children better people. That's far more than you can expect to take away from any movie."
The film is available on Amazon Prime Video, YouTubeTV, Fandango at Home, and Apple TV. We will watch it on our own and then gather at 2 p.m. on April 17 for a lively discussion. Click here by noon on Thursday, April 16, for your Zoom invitation, which will be sent that day.
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SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP
(LA TERTULIA)
MONDAY, APRIL 20 @ 1:00 P.M.
Our format consists of reading and discussing articles from various Spanish language media sources of general high interest. There is no homework although everyone is invited to submit articles they might find for our agendas.
The hosts for the group are Miriam Grodberg and Larry Krakauer. Contact Miriam to request an invitation or with any
questions.
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