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2018 Summer Catalog Final.Pdf PARTNERS IN EDUCATION WITH WILLIAMS COLLEGE BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON’S ROCK MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AT BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE www.BerkshireOLLI.org • 413.236.2190 Summer Membership $25 Summer Course Catalog 2018 Classes in Pittsfield, Lenox, Great Barrington, and Lee Register online at www.BerkshireOLLI.org Save these dates! Upcoming 2018 OLLI Special Events THURSDAY, MAY 10, 11am – 12:30pm u FREE theatre workshop with Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Boland Theater, located in the Koussevitsky Arts Center at Berkshire Community College, 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, Mass. All invited, no experience necessary. FRIDAY, MAY 25 u 4:30pm OLLI Annual Meeting & 6pm Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture featuring bestselling author & NBC journalist Katy Tur at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. FREE but reservations required. Call 413.528.0100. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 10:30am u Arts & culture in southern Vermont daytrip: the Laumeister Arts Center & the Bennington Museum. FRIDAY, JUNE 1 u Baseball at Pittsfield’s historic Wahconah Park with the Pittsfield Suns. MONDAYS, JUNE 11, 18 & 25, 9:30am – 12:30pm u OLLI Volunteer Leadership Academy. FREE to OLLI members, applications available online or by calling the OLLI office at 413.236.2190. MONDAY, JUNE 11 u Behind-the-scenes tour of historic Highlawn Farm, Lenox. Wahconah Park, Pittsfield TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 10:30am – 12:30pm u Behind-the-Scenes Tanglewood season preview & tour. Free & exclusively for OLLI members! Sign up online at www.BerkshireOLLI.org. THURSDAY, JUNE 21 u OLLI’s annual evening at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket featuring the Royal Danish Ballet, a lecture, and a picnic Highlawn Farm, Lenox supper. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 7pm u OLLI THEATRE PARTY Church & State at Berkshire Theatre Group plus talkback afterwards. OLLI member tickets are $44.80 for this performance. For tickets, call the Berkshire Theatre Group Box office at 413-997-4444 and mention OLLI. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 4:30 – 6:30pm u OLLI Faculty Appreciation Party honoring our volunteer instructors and speakers at the Lenox Club, Lenox. Royal Danish Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow, Otis Plus our 2018 DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES listed on the back cover! TUESDAY, JULY 10 u Luxury bus daytrip to historic Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Mystic Seaport, Conn. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 7pm u OLLI THEATRE PARTY A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Barrington Stage plus a conversation afterwards. For tickets, call the Barrington Stage Box Office at 413-236-8888 and ask for the OLLI member rate (for this performance only): $38.40. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 3 – 5pm u Behind-the-scenes talk with Berkshire Opera Festival at a private home in Stockbridge. Free and exclusively for OLLI members. THURSDAY, AuGust 2, 2pm u OLLI THEATRE PARTY Mary’s Wedding at Chester Theatre Company followed by a talkback. Please call the Chester Theatre Box Office at 413-354-7770 for the OLLI member ticket price of $36 for this performance only. MONDAY, AuGust 6 u Behind- the-scenes tour of the B & B Micro Manufacturing tiny house factory & lunch in North Adams. THURSDAY, AuGust 23 u Bustrip to Storm King Art Center, one of the world’s leading sculpture parks, featuring over 100 permanent installations on 500 acres plus over a dozen new public art installations on the theme of climate change. TUESDAY, AuGust 28, 7:30pm u OLLI THEATRE PARTY Alexander Calder’s Five Swords at Storm King Mothers and Sons at Shakespeare & Company plus a talkback afterwards. Call the Shakespeare & Company’s Box Office at 413-637-3353 and mention OLLI for a 40% discount on this performance. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 u Bus trip to the new Hudson River School gallery at the Albany Institute of History and Art, featuring almost 90 landscapes by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, & others. SEPTEMBER 20 – OCtoBER 31 u OLLI fall semester of classes. SUNDAY, OCtoBER 14 u OLLI’s annual theatre brunch featuring The Glass Menagerie at Barrington Stage & a pre-theatre talk. Like everything in life, dates and times are subject to change: please be sure to confirm them on our website, located at www.BerkshireOLLI.org or call 413.236.2190. OLLI • Osher Lifelong Learning Institute AT BERKSHIRE CommuNITY ColleGE u WHAT IS OLLI? OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, is a vibrant member-led program that provides exciting educational, social and volunteer opportunities designed especially by and for people 50 years old and up. We offer over 80 programs a year, including four semesters of classes throughout Berkshire County from Williamstown to Great Barrington, a thought-provoking Distinguished Speakers Series, special events, lively shared interest groups, and more. OLLI classes have no tests, no grades, and no prerequisites: just learning for the love of learning! u WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF JOINING OLLI? Becoming an OLLI member allows you to: • register for OLLI classes • take part in OLLI shared interest groups • receive discounted admission to OLLI special events and talks • get invited to exclusive behind-the-scenes tours free to OLLI members • receive discounts and occasional free or discounted ticket offers from our cultural partners (see page 12 for a list of OLLI partners) and more. The annual membership fee is $50 per person and is good for 12 months. A summer membership is also available for $25 and is good June through August. Needs-based scholarships are available; for more information call the OLLI Office at 413.236.2190. u WHAT ARE THE COSTS FOR COURSES AND OTHER EVENTS? Course fees per semester are $50 for one course, $95 for two or three courses, and $125 for unlimited courses. Distinguished Speakers lectures are $10 per lecture for members. The cost for Special Events varies according to the event. u WHAT IS A FLEX PASS? For those members who take extended trips or live away from the Berkshires part of the year, OLLI offers a convenient FLEX PASS. Pay $50 to access up to four class sessions in the Summer semester or six classes in the Fall, Winter, and Spring semesters. Lottery and limited registration classes, as well as any course that reaches maximum capacity, are not open to Flex Pass holders. u HOW DO I REGISTER? OLLI offers secure online registration on its website at www.BerkshireOLLI.org. You can also register by mailing in the registration form found in this catalog, or by calling 413-236-2190 to register over the phone with a credit card (we accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover). You are also welcome to drop off your registration form at the OLLI office, located in Room 233 of the Field Administration Building at Berkshire Community College, 1350 West St., Pittsfield. CLASS LOCATIONS BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (BCC) • 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, Mass. 01201 BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SOUTH COUNTY CENTER (SCC) 343 Main Street, Great Barrington, Mass. 01230 LAUREL LAKE (LL) Lee, Mass. 01238 SPIRITED (SP) 444 Pittsfield Road, Lenox, Mass. 01240 KIMBALL FARMS (KF) 235 Walker Street, Lenox, Mass. 01240 Cover photo by Dan Dougherty 4 Register for classes, join, or renew online at www.BerkshireOLLI.org or call 413-236-2190 SUMMER 2018 Class Schedule CLASSES Monday June 4 – Friday June 29 ( ) = Number of sessions LR = Limited Registration MONDAY Laurel Lake, Lee (LL) 2:00 – 4:00pm M101 Introduction to Kayaking LOTTERY (4) Laurel Lake, Lee June 4 - June 25 TUESDAY BCC South County Center (SCC), Great Barrington; Spirited (SP), Lenox 10:30am – 12:00pm T101 The Navajos: Culture, Spirituality (4) SCC June 5 – June 26 & Creativity LR 1:30 – 3:00pm T102 Today’s Headlines (4) SCC June 5 – June 26 4:00 – 5:30pm T103 Lift Your Spirits! LOTTERY (4) SP June 5 – June 26 WEDNESDAY Berkshire Community College (BCC), Pittsfield; Various Hiking Locations 9:30 – 11:30am W101 The Basics of Hiking LR (4) Various locations June 6 – June 27 10:30am – 12:00pm W102 Dancing at Lughnasa: A Dramatic (4) BCC G-12 June 6 – June 27 View of the Commonplace LR 1:00 – 4:00pm W103 Shakespeare on Film: Past, (4) BCC H-402 June 6 – June 27 Present, and Outer Space THURSDAY Berkshire Community College (BCC), Pittsfield 10:00 – 11:30am TH101 Digital Media, Democracy and (4) BCC K-111 June 7 – June 28 the Networked Public Sphere 12:30 – 2:00pm TH102 Science Conversations (4) BCC G-12 June 7 – June 28 FRIDAY Kimball Farms (KF), Lenox 10:00 – 11:30am F101 Stress & Disease from Retirement, (4) KF June 8 – June 29 Being Different, or a Caregiver 1:00 – 2:30pm F102 Logophilomania! (4) KF June 8 – June 29 1:30 – 3:30pm F103 Creative Visions LOTTERY (4) Various locations June 8 – June 29 2:45 – 4:15pm F104 Distant Neighbors: Latin America (4) KF June 8 – June 29 in the Age of Trump 2018 Register for classes, join, or renew online at www.BerkshireOLLI.org or call 413-236-2190 5 Course Description MONDAY SUMMER 2018 INTRODUCTION TO KAYAKING LOTTERY M101 Mondays This course is designed for lovers of the water and being part of a natural environment 2:00 – 4:00pm at Laurel Lake in Lee/Lenox. Participants will learn how to get into and out of a kayak Laurel Lake, Lee without getting wet as well as safety procedures of using a kayak. They will experience 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25 the beauty and serenity of being on a lake and will kayak during all four sessions after Four sessions brief instructional periods. Water safety will be emphasized. Kayaks, paddles and life jackets will be provided. LOTTERY. LIMITED REGISTRATION – 12. See page 12 for lottery directions. Ray Grogan has spent over 40 years in education as a teacher, principal and superintendent of schools.
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