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Date Day Program Title Description Start Fee Inst. First Ins. Last In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists the likes of Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Inventing Abstraction, How a Radical Picabia and Robert Delaunay presented 5/27/2020 Wednesday 12:30 PM $20.00 Armando Droulers Idea Changed Modern Art the first abstract paintings to the public. The development of abstraction introduced a new concept that would sweep across nations. Politics is new – all the time. Groucho Marx once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it 5/27/2020 Wednesday All Politics, All the Time (5/27) exists or not, Dr. Kurt Stone will take us 3:00 PM $15.00 Kurt Stone on an insider’s probe of the week’s stories, with an eye toward proving Marx wrong. 5/28/2020 Thursday Andy Warhol Andy Warhol 10:30 AM $20.00 Batia Cohen This thought-provoking book review lecture will explore a book in an entertaining and educational way. This week's book will be: Ronelle's Books: Civilized to Death 5/29/2020 Friday 10:30 AM $20.00 Ronelle Delmont by Christopher Ryan (sociology) Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan (sociology)
This lecture will be conducted virtually via Zoom.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU | 305.919.5900 Date Day Program Title Description Start Fee Inst. First Ins. Last "iPhone - Editing Photos (Cropping & Enhance)"
iPhone - Editing Photos (Cropping & Description: Learn how to edit iPhone 5/29/2020 Friday 2:00 PM $5.00 Eduardo Rios Enhance) photos that you have taken of that you have on your iPhone. You will find ways to improve photos by cropping them and also making basic adjustments.
The Ancient and Modern Kingdom of Morocco
Learn about the diversity of this ancient and increasingly modern kingdom. The Ancient and Modern Kingdom of 6/1/2020 Monday Morocco, a storied country, 10:30 AM $10.00 Helene Herman Morocco distinguished by Berber, Arabian and European cultural influences has ties to Sub-Saharan Africa as well. It has a history beyond tolerance, celebrating its multi- cultural history that continues today.
"Let's discover WhatsApp"
Description: A detailed review of the Let's discover WhatsApp - Taught in WhatsApp application will be covered. 6/1/2020 Monday 2:00 PM $5.00 Eduardo Rios English Whether you are new to Whatsapp or an experienced user, you will find interesting features that you can start using right after you leave the class. Virtual: Foreign and Domestic 6/2/2020 Tuesday Events Shaping the International Foreign & Domestic Events (6/2) 10:30 AM $20.00 Mitra Raheb Community
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Maurice Chevalier sang that Paris was his mistress. Indeed, the beauty of Paris and its romantic appeal has always linked the 6/3/2020 Wednesday Paris, Artists & Lovers city of light to love. This mixture of 12:30 PM $20.00 Armando Droulers passion, art, sensuality and beauty has led not only to countless affairs but to the masterpieces inspired by its passions.
The Wali Jones Untold Story: Scenes from behind an influencer
This live discussion will feature Wali Jones, former NBA athlete, motivational speaker, and mentor as he goes behind- the-scenes with Craig Skilling to share real- life experiences. As an African-American from Philly, he grew up during the Civil The Wali Jones Untold Story: Scenes 6/3/2020 Wednesday Rights Movement. One of his few regrets 3:00 PM $5.00 Craig Skilling from behind an influencer was playing in a game the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
For nearly 20 years Jones has been a part of the South Florida Community, giving back to nearly one million children through one of his community programs, motivational speeches, or clinics. Real experiences. Real issues. Real talk.
6/4/2020 Thursday Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat 10:30 AM $20.00 Batia Cohen
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George Washington Slept Here: Barbados and How His Brief Stay in Barbados Had Major Implications A Quarter Of A Century Later For Fledgling America.
A young George Washington’s visit to Barbados influenced the American Revolution. Instead of a pleasant winter George Washington Slept Here: trip to an idyllic tropical paradise, George Barbados and How His Brief Stay in becomes seriously ill and while 6/4/2020 Thursday Barbados Had Major Implications A recuperating educates himself on the 1:00 PM $5.00 Evan Weiner Quarter Of A Century Later For island’s military defenses. Fledgling America. Join us to learn how this “working vacation” played an important role in General Washington’s career. Meanwhile, the Declaration of Independence may have had roots in Barbados and the Treaty of Oistins. Did Thomas Jefferson lift a major chunk of that treaty as basis for the document?
This thought-provoking book review lecture will explore a book in an entertaining and educational way. This week's book will be: Ronelle's Books: Outwitting History 6/5/2020 Friday 10:30 AM $20.00 Ronelle Delmont by Aaron Lansky (memoir) Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky (memoir)
This lecture will be conducted virtually via Zoom.
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Just after the Civil War in America, many free black men & ex-slave musicians took to a newer and cheaper instrument, the guitar, because the banjo, used in vaudeville and black-face shows, was too closely associated with slavery.
The Blues was born of this time, a way for a black man to express his pain and/or anger with a racist America, without 6/5/2020 Friday Blues & Bluegrass 2:00 PM $10.00 Michael Stock being too threatening to the white establishment.
The Blues today is considered the roots of American music, from it, has developed everything from Jazz to Rock & Roll.
In this class, we will examine the Blues and how one branch developed into a new musical genre, Bluegrass.
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Big Jack Zelig: The First Jewish Crime Boss in New York City
"Big Jack Zelig", so called because of height, was the first real Jewish gang lord in New York City.
Although the Eastman gang came before Big Jack Zelig: The First Jewish Crime 6/8/2020 Monday him, when Monk Eastman died and his 10:30 AM $10.00 Stephen Singer Boss in New York City funeral was conducted by a Protestant Minister, they first realized that he was not in fact Jewish, so that Jack Zelig deserves that title.
He began as a pickpocket and rose to the top, until he was assassinated on a street car.
Foreign and Domestic Events Foreign and Domestic Events Shaping the 6/9/2020 Tuesday Shaping the International 10:30 AM $20.00 Mitra Raheb International Community (6/9) Community (6/9) Synthesis of the Arts at the Central University of Venezuela / Part 1
Carlos Raul Villanueva designed a space where art and architecture cohabited in Synthesis of the Arts at the Central 6/10/2020 Wednesday harmony in a "Synthesis of Arts”. The 12:30 PM $20.00 Armando Droulers University of Venezuela / Part 1 university boasts an art collection with works by Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Wifredo Lam, Fernand Léger, Jean Arp and Henri Laurens. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU | 305.919.5900 Date Day Program Title Description Start Fee Inst. First Ins. Last Politics is new – all the time. Groucho Marx once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it 6/10/2020 Wednesday All Politics, All the Time (6/10) exists or not, Dr. Kurt Stone will take us 3:00 PM $15.00 Kurt Stone on an insider’s probe of the week’s stories, with an eye toward proving Marx wrong. 6/11/2020 Thursday Modigliani Modigliani 10:30 AM $20.00 Batia Cohen From Broadway To Hollywood: The History, Musicals and Movies
From Broadway To Hollywood: The An introduction to Broadway and the 6/11/2020 Thursday 1:00 PM $10.00 Sidney Soclof History, Musicals and Movies Broadway musicals. What is a musical, and the history of the musical theater through the ages. The earliest Broadway theaters.
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Cross-generation Discussion (English)
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU is working with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador (USFQ) on a cross-generational project.
USFQ will be running two university classes where students are studying various social realities as part of a service- 6/12/2020 Friday Cross-generation Discussion (English) learning course. 10:00 AM
We are looking for members who would have an interest in participating in an engaging discussion with the students. The goal is to help bring insights and wisdom to students who are looking to expand their civic awareness, tolerance, and leadership attitudes.
Friday, June 12 at 10:00 am (English) Friday, June 19 at 10:00 am (Spanish)
The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the Ronelle's Books: The Plots Against 6/12/2020 Friday American Right 1:00 PM $20.00 Ronelle Delmont the President (History) By Sally Denton (2019) [U.S. HISTORY] Cuban Immigration into South 6/15/2020 Monday Cuban Immigration into South Florida 10:30 AM $10.00 Sylvia Gurinsky Florida 6/15/2020 Monday Meditation Virtual meditation. 3:00 PM Linda Domenitz
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU | 305.919.5900 Date Day Program Title Description Start Fee Inst. First Ins. Last Foreign and Domestic Events Foreign and Domestic Events Shaping the 6/16/2020 Tuesday Shaping the International 10:30 AM $20.00 Mitra Raheb International Community (6/16) Community (6/16) Synthesis of the Arts at the Central University of Venezuela / Part 2
Carlos Raul Villanueva designed a space where art and architecture cohabited in Synthesis of the Arts at the Central 6/17/2020 Wednesday harmony in a "Synthesis of Arts”. The 12:30 PM $20.00 Armando Droulers University of Venezuela / Part 2 university boasts an art collection with works by Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Wifredo Lam, Fernand Léger, Jean Arp and Henri Laurens. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The First American Civil War; 1775-1783
After the formal break with England in July, 1776 focus is usually on military campaigns and diplomacy. Too often The First American Civil War; 1775- overlooked were the intense splits and 6/17/2020 Wednesday 3:00 PM $10.00 Vincent Toscano 1783 rivalries and fighting between the supporters or opponents of the independence movement. Their struggles constitute the first American Civil war which will be the focus of this presentation. 6/18/2020 Thursday Chagall Chagall 10:30 AM $20.00 Batia Cohen
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World of our Fathers: Jacob Riis and the Old Lower East Side
Multi-Media Lecture Presented By Ronelle Delmont
The Old Lower East Side of New York City has had a lasting impact on the whole of American society and no one had a more important role in the making of its history than crime reporter, Jacob Riis. World of our Fathers: Jacob Riis and 6/18/2020 Thursday 1:00 PM $10.00 Ronelle Delmont the Old Lower East Side Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt referred to Riis as “the most important citizen of New York City.” This entertaining history will be revived in a slide show lecture filled with Jacob Riis’ photographs from his ground- breaking book – How the Other Half Lives, published in 1894.
Ronelle will also present a digital “tour” of the most popular New York City attraction – the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 69 Orchard Street.
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Cross-generation Discussion (Spanish)
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU is working with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador (USFQ) on a cross-generational project.
USFQ will be running two university classes where students are studying various social realities as part of a service- Cross-generation Discussion 6/19/2020 Friday learning course. 10:00 AM (Spanish) We are looking for members who would have an interest in participating in an engaging discussion with the students. The goal is to help bring insights and wisdom to students who are looking to expand their civic awareness, tolerance, and leadership attitudes.
Friday, June 19 at 10:00 am (Spanish)
THE GUARDED GATE: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Ronelle's Books: The Guarded Gate Jews, Italians and Other European 6/19/2020 Friday 1:00 PM $20.00 Ronelle Delmont (Sociology) Immigrants Out of America
By Daniel Okrent (2019) [SOCIOLOGY]
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU | 305.919.5900 Date Day Program Title Description Start Fee Inst. First Ins. Last A Look at the Historical Region Around Strasbourg - Alsace
Live from France! Join Cathie-Anne Schneider for this historical lecture on Alsace, the region around Strasbourg. A Look at the Historical Region This region has changed nationalities five 6/22/2020 Monday 10:30 AM $5.00 Cathie-Anne Schneider Around Strasbourg - Alsace times in less than 100 years during three different wars. Schneider’s own family was directly affected by many of these changes. Strasbourg is now the capital of Europe, at the heart of a much friendlier German-French relationship since the 1950s. 6/22/2020 Monday Meditation Virtual meditation. 3:00 PM Linda Domenitz Foreign and Domestic Events Foreign and Domestic Events Shaping the 6/23/2020 Tuesday Shaping the International 10:30 AM $20.00 Mitra Raheb International Community (6/23) Community (6/23) Lines in the Air
A line is the most basic visual element. It can be used to define shapes and figures, 6/24/2020 Wednesday Lines in the Air but also to indicate motion, emotion, 12:30 PM $20.00 Armando Droulers movement and many other elements. This lecture explores the different ways modern artists have used the line as a mode for artistic expression.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU | 305.919.5900 Date Day Program Title Description Start Fee Inst. First Ins. Last Politics is new – all the time. Groucho Marx once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it 6/24/2020 Wednesday All Politics, All the Time (6/24) exists or not, Dr. Kurt Stone will take us 3:00 PM $15.00 Kurt Stone on an insider’s probe of the week’s stories, with an eye toward proving Marx wrong. 6/25/2020 Thursday Bonnard Bonnard 10:30 AM $20.00 Batia Cohen UNDER COVER: My Four Years in the Underworld of Nazi America Ronelle's Books: Under Cover (True 6/26/2020 Friday By John Roy Carlson (Avedis Boghos 10:30 AM $20.00 Ronelle Delmont war spy thriller) Derounian) (1943)
[TRUE WAR TIME SPY THRILLER]
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"The Black Plague" actually refers to the Bubonic Plague, which swept through Europe, Africa and Asia in the 14th Century, killing millions of people.
The Plague occurred again, several times in the same century and in each of the centuries that followed, including the 6/29/2020 Monday The Black Plague 20th Century. This is the story of where it 10:30 AM $10.00 Stephen Singer came from, how different countries dealt with it and how it affected the social, economic and health issues of that time.
Facinating facts, including the persecution of the Jews, blamed as scapegoats for the disease and protected by the Pope.
6/29/2020 Monday Meditation Virtual meditation. 3:00 PM Linda Domenitz Foreign and Domestic Events Foreign and Domestic Events Shaping the 6/30/2020 Tuesday Shaping the International 10:30 AM $20.00 Mitra Raheb International Community (6/30) Community (6/30)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU | 305.919.5900