Spring 2009 OLLI Berkeleyuniversity of california Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
March 30–May 15 Mondays–Fridays Classes olli.berkeley.edu Lecture Series An educational program for older adults Learning Community who are learning for the joy of it. Director’s Greeting
Who We Are During economic crises and other difficult events, it is not OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program uncommon for us to fall prey to worry. We often eliminate for lifelong learners age 50 and up who are what brings us joy, thinking, “I’ll get back to that when life eager to explore traditional and new areas settles down.” Yet it’s during times like today that we need of knowledge — without exams or grades. these things most. I hope OLLI @Berkeley brings you joy. Distinguished Berkeley faculty members and other Bay Area teachers enjoy sharing Socrates said that the unexplored life is not worth living. With 21 courses their expertise with members whose life covering assorted topics, the spring 2009 term invites us to slow down and take experience and intelligence enrich the a deeper look at what captivates us and brings meaning to our lives. To get a exchange of ideas. taste of the offerings: Membership in OLLI @Berkeley is required • Theoretical physicist Michael Goldhaber will consider how the swift growth to participate in the full range of offerings. Joining OLLI @Berkeley means discovering of the Internet is transforming who we are as human beings; new friends, new knowledge, and new ways • Berkeley Professor William Drummond will help us understand National to bring meaning and enjoyment to our lives. Public Radio’s recent cutbacks through live interviews with NPR staff OLLI @Berkeley is one of more than 120 members; Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. It is supported by the University of California, • Berkeley Professor Beverly Crawford will examine the wars in Iraq and Berkeley, OLLI members, and donors who Afghanistan and why the United States invades smaller countries; and match the Bernard Osher Foundation’s contribution to OLLI. • As always, you may choose from several courses in art, film, poetry, writing, dance, and theater, including one taught by Robert Hurwitt, the San Francisco Chronicle’s renowned theater critic.
To hear distinguished faculty members introduce their courses, please come to the open house on March 17 at the Berkeley City Club (details below). If you can’t attend, the presentations will be posted on youtube.com/OLLIBerkeley within a few days of the open house.
Our membership continues to grow, and many of you are taking multiple courses each term. Thank you for making OLLI @Berkeley a part of your life and for helping us create a lasting community of learners.
Susan Hoffman Director, OLLI @Berkeley Contact Us: Office/Library: 1925 Walnut St. #1570 Open House University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Phone: 510.642.9934 Fax: 510.642.2202 10 a.m.–noon E-mail: [email protected] Doors open at 9:30 a.m., program at 10 a.m. Web site: olli.berkeley.edu Meet the faculty and other OLLI members
Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Ave. (at Ellsworth St.) Contributing Photographers: Jennifer Graham, Keegan Houser, and David Schmitz Reservations: 510.642.5254 or [email protected] Directions: olli.berkeley.edu Starts March 30 COURSES/Mondays Courses held in University Hall, 2199 Addison St., except where noted. Location subject to change.
Photo: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Eagle Nebula
Revolutions in Astronomy: Joy of Singing From Galileo to Dark Energy Lauren Carley Bethany Cobb Noon–1:30 p.m., Room 41B 10 a.m.–noon, Room 150 Whether you have always longed to When Galileo first turned his telescope sing in a chorus or have sung in one for toward the heavens, he unseated Earth years, this course is open to you. We will from the center of the cosmos. Thanks to learn the basics of sight-singing, as well Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Edwin as rounds, chants, and arranged music by Hubble, and many others, astronomy has such composers as Bobby McFerrin, who undergone additional paradigm shifts in uses his voice to create sound effects and the past 400 years — the most recent percussion, and Ysaye Barnwell, a member revelation being “dark energy,” which of the African American a cappella group accounts for 74 percent of the Universe Sweet Honey in the Rock. Learn to sing but remains mysterious. In this course, one piece in the first session and up to five we will consider historical and scientific songs by session four. Join us to strengthen perspectives on who was behind these your voice and confidence and make a radical discoveries, what evidence joyful noise! supports each revolution, and how Lauren Carley teaches the Joy of astronomers and society have responded Singing choral ensembles for OLLI at to each advance. San Francisco State University and is Bethany Cobb is a National Science the artistic director for the community Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics choruses Variety Pack and Rhythm Society. Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She also teaches individuals and groups She received her Ph.D. at Yale University and leads women’s retreats in finding one’s for research on massive stellar explosions authentic voice through circle singing for called gamma-ray bursts. She is dedicated joy, healing, and ritual. to public outreach in order to share her love of astronomy with others. She is also the astronomer for The Old Farmer’s Almanac. OLLI @Berkeley Photo: Mr. Wright
The Art of the Documentary of the Dark Ages, the era of European Alex Saragoza is a professor of history at Michael Fox exploration, 19th-century industrialization, UC Berkeley. He has served as director 1:30–3:30 p.m., Room 150 and the birth of modern science all took of the UC Study Center in Mexico, chair place simultaneously in one-tenth of the of the Center for Latin American Studies, Documentary films are generally touted time. The Internet is transforming who we and director of International Educational for their informational, emotional, and, are as human beings, how we think, how Programs. He is currently researching occasionally, experiential value. Rarely are we relate to one another, what drives and tourism in Mexico and Cuba and has they appreciated for their artistic qualities. motivates us, how we form communities, led study tours for the California Alumni We will focus on nonfiction films that our economic and political involvements Association and UC Berkeley Extension. His aspire to be works of art, stretching the — and much more. This course will look at newest work will be published this year in conventional bounds of documentary in how this is happening. the essay collection Holiday Encounters. the process. Each session will feature a Michael Goldhaber is a theoretical one-hour film, followed by a discussion Experiencing Theater of its aims, themes, and techniques. physicist who has been thinking, teaching, Showcasing a mix of U.S. and foreign films and writing about science, technology, and Robert Hurwitt that range from personal essays to poetic society for many years, with a 30-year 6–8 p.m., Room 41B documentaries, this course promises to be focus on the social effects of personal a real eye-opener. computers and the Internet. He is the Led by a critic who’s been reviewing Bay author of Reinventing Technology and many Area theater for four decades, this course Film critic and journalist Michael Fox articles and blog entries on the Internet will provide perspectives and encourage has contributed to dozens of local and and its effects. discussion about how live theater relates national publications since 1987, including to our lives and how it can challenge or Latinos in Contemporary SF Weekly, SF360.org, and KQED.org. expand our ideas. We will explore historical America Fox curates and hosts the CinemaLit and current contexts for the broad array series at the Mechanics’ Institute, and of theater practiced in the Bay Area Alex Saragoza teaches documentary classes for OLLI — from the Gold Rush to today — and 1:30–3:30 p.m., Room 41C at San Francisco State University, the San meet theater artists who are currently Francisco Art Institute, and UC Berkeley. This course will examine the implications writing, directing, acting, and/or designing He is a member of the San Francisco Film of the largest and growing minority productions in the area. Critics Circle. group in America, Latinos. The increase in immigrants from Latin America and Robert Hurwitt is the theater critic for Homo interneticus: The Social, the growth of Latinos born in the United the San Francisco Chronicle. A former actor Political, and Psychological States have led to several issues and and director, he was the theater critic and Effects of the Internet questions around the political, economic, arts editor for the East Bay Express for Michael Goldhaber social, and cultural repercussions for 12 years and the theater critic for the San 1:30–3:30 p.m., Room 41B American society. Taking a broad Francisco Examiner from 1992 to 2000. He perspective, this course will address many is a recipient of the George Jean Nathan The birth and growth of the Internet of the most controversial aspects of this Award for theater criticism. marks a major turning point in human minority group and its expanding presence history. It has few parallels in terms of in American life, with particular attention depth, intensity, and speed — as if the end given to California.
Starts March 31 COURSES/Tuesdays Courses held in University Hall, 2199 Addison St., except where noted. Location subject to change.
King Lear for Our Time Philippa Kelly 10 a.m. –noon, Room 41B
Regarded as one of Shakespeare’s supreme achievements, King Lear is well- known for its probing observations on the nature of human suffering and kinship. The course will consider a reading in light of feminism, Marxism, nihilism, and postmodernism, modern-day constructs Photo: Stace Darden that provide a new but resonating set of interpretations to Shakespeare and this Behind the Scenes at NPR Five Personal Pieces: particular tragedy. During the last two Experimenting With classes, we will hear about the summer William Drummond Autobiography productions of Romeo and Juliet and A 10 a.m.–noon, Room 41C Midsummer Night’s Dream at California Deborah Lichtman Shakespeare Theater. With 25 million listeners a week, 18 1:30–3:30 p.m., Room 41C domestic news bureaus, and 18 foreign Runs April 7 – May 12 Philippa Kelly has taught Shakespeare ones, National Public Radio (NPR) has Many writers get lost in the story of studies in Australia and the United been the singular news-media success their lives, but the best autobiographical States and has published extensively on story of the past 10 years. However, writing is sometimes the shortest. This Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Her the budgetary axe fell last December, course will give you the tools to depict most recent book is on individuality in forcing layoffs and program cancellations. a few memorable events from your life. Renaissance England. Her research has NPR is changing, along with most of the Characters and details will animate your been supported by fellowships from the media world. Through interviews with writing, and lessons in craft will show you Fulbright Foundation, the Rockefeller NPR producers and reporters, we will how to shape five short sketches, each Foundation, the Walter and Eliza Hall ask what went wrong and whether we with a different focus. In-class writing Foundation, and several others. can analyze these changes in terms of exercises will get you started, and excerpts structural problems or larger forces at of published works will inspire you with Sir Ian McKellen as King Lear work — financial, cultural, technological, examples. Constructive feedback will leave or demographic. These interviews will you with ideas for future writing projects. connect NPR staff with caring OLLI members who want to know the Deborah Lichtman, former associate prospects for changing the present model professor of writing at the University of and creating a new future for NPR. San Francisco, has taught courses in writing, literature, and teaching writing. For eight William Drummond, a former editor years she directed the Master of Fine Arts and correspondent for National Public in Writing Program at USF, where she Radio (NPR), teaches in the Graduate developed and taught a class in writing School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. autobiography. She holds a doctorate in He was the founding editor of NPR’s English from UC Berkeley, and has also “Morning Edition.” taught at UC Berkeley and Mills College.
OLLI @Berkeley Current Cases Before the U.S. outcomes, and vote on the most desirable Supreme Court decisions. You do not need to have a legal background in order to take the class, and Marshall Krause legal jargon will be explained. 1:30–3:30 p.m., Room 41C Marshall Krause was chief attorney for the The treatment of Guantanamo detainees, ACLU of Northern California, a reporter the death penalty, and protecting vulnerable for KQED, and a professor of political environments are among the key topics we science at San Francisco State University. will discuss as we examine 10 actual cases He practiced law in Marin County from pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The 1974 to 2000 and handled seven cases first class will introduce you to the Court decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and its methods, as well as keys to Internet six of which he won. He received his research. We will then explore the issues undergraduate degree from UCLA and his that each case presents, canvass possible law degree from UC Berkeley.
COURSES/Wednesdays Starts April 1 Courses held in University Hall, 2199 Addison St., except where noted. Location subject to change.
Challenges Facing the Obama Presidency Harry Kreisler 9–11 a.m., Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St.
Through lively, stimulating discussions, this course will enhance your understanding of strategic issues confronting the United States and the world in the 21st century. Using “Conversations with History,” an archive of unedited video interviews in which distinguished people from around the globe discuss their lives and work, we will explore such topics as the Bush legacy, the shifting balance of world power, and the ideas that might influence President Barack Obama as he shapes a new approach to the world.
Harry Kreisler is the executive director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies. He is also the creator, executive producer, and host of “Conversations with History,” which is broadcast on cable and satellite TV and online at globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations. Photo: Kate Eltham
Mountaintop removal mining. Photo: Kent Kessinger Photo: Zoriah
Kreisler teaches a unique course each spring, in Europe; and The Convergence of Civilizations: Issues in Foreign Policy after 9/11, that is Constructing a Mediterranean Region. open to Berkeley students for credit and to Wisdom and the Mind the general public for free. Michael Thaler America at War 3:30–5:30 p.m., Room 150 Beverly Crawford Why do most cultures associate wisdom 12:30–2:30 p.m., Room 41B with elders? Medical science shows Why has the United States, a large, rich, and that as we mature, the ever-increasing powerful country, invaded smaller, weaker complexity of our neuronal circuits tends to countries in the 20th and 21st centuries? compensate for declining memory functions Are the underlying causes the same, or with deeper understanding. We will examine is each intervention unique? Looking at perception, memory, cognitive processing, the Vietnam War and the current wars and emotional intelligence, and how to in Iraq and Afghanistan in the context maintain these faculties with age. For a of other interventions in Latin America holistic perspective, we will draw on insights — particularly after WWII — we will seek from Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Woody explanations, examine effects, and explore Allen, among others. questions of justice regarding the use of Michael Thaler trained in medicine, force by strong nations against weak ones. developmental biology, and the history Beverly Crawford teaches political economy of health sciences. He was a professor of and American foreign policy at UC Berkeley pediatrics at UCSF from 1967 to 1998, and is the associate director of the Institute and is currently a visiting professor of of European Studies. Her recent books contemporary history at UC Santa Cruz. include: Globalization Comes Home: How He has published extensively in bioscientific, Globalization is Changing America; Power and medical, and historical literature. German Foreign Policy: Embedded Hegemony
OLLI @Berkeley CALENDAR Courses held in University Hall, 2199 Addison St., except where noted. Location subject to change.
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays March 30–May 4 March 31–May 5 April 1–May 6
10 a.m.– noon 10 a.m.– noon 9–11 a.m. Revolutions in Astronomy King Lear for Our Time Obama Presidency
Bethany Cobb Philippa Kelly Harry Kreisler Room 150 Room 41B Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center Street Noon–1:30 p.m. 10 a.m.– noon Joy of Singing Behind the Scenes at NPR 12:30–2:30 p.m. Lauren Carley William Drummond America at War Room 41B Room 41C Beverly Crawford Room 41B 1:30–3:30 p.m. 1:30–3:30 p.m. The Art of the Documentary Supreme Court 3:30–5:30 p.m. Michael Fox Marshall Krause Wisdom and the Mind Room 150 Room 41C Michael Thaler Room 150 1:30–3:30 p.m. 1:30–3:30 p.m. Effects of the Internet Runs April 7 – May 12 Michael Goldhaber Five Personal Pieces Room 41B Deborah Lichtman Room 41C 1:30–3:30 p.m. Latinos in Contemporary America Alex Saragoza Room 41C
6–8 p.m. Experiencing Theater Robert Hurwitt Room 41B
CALENDAR
Thursdays Fridays April 2–May 7 April 10–May 15
9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 10 a.m.– noon American History Six Poets Through Art Zack Rogow Susanna Lombardi Room 41C Room 41C
10 a.m.– noon 9:30–11:30 a.m. Looking at Dance Proust and His World Kathryn Roszak Larry Bensky Room 41B Room 41B
1:30–3:30 p.m. 12:45–2:45 p.m. Poetry Writing Workshop Postwar Paris Ron Loewinsohn Clark Poling Room 41C Room 150
3–5 p.m. April 3 only The Political Thriller 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Peter Gessner and Radical Theater Workshop Sandra Sutherland Dan Chumley Room 150 Location to be announced
Academic Calendar for 2009–10
Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Open House: March 17 Open House: Sept. 15 Fee assistance deadline: March 20 Fee assistance deadline: Sept. 18 Term dates: March 30–May 15 Term dates: Sept. 30–Nov. 10 No holidays No holidays
Summer 2009 Winter 2010
Organizing meeting: April 27 Open House: Jan. 12 Term dates: June 1–July 31 Fee assistance deadline: Jan. 15 No holidays Term dates: Jan. 25 –March 9 Holiday: Feb. 15
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Starts April 2 COURSES/Thursdays Courses held in University Hall, 2199 Addison St., except where noted. Location subject to change.
American History Through Art: Larry Bensky was a nationally recognized Colonial Period–Civil War radio journalist and talk show host for KPFA/Pacifica Radio from 1969 to 2008. Susanna Lombardi He has taught at Stanford, Cal State 9:30–11:30 a.m., Room 41C University East Bay, and Berkeley City In this course, we will examine artistic College since 1988. His interest in Proust contributions as they relate to American dates to his days as an editor for The Paris history, including the colonial period and Review (1964–66) and The New York Times its portraiture, the Revolutionary War and Book Review (1967–68). He is currently its historical themes, the Federalist period, developing a web site and radio series geographic expansion, and the interest in called “Radio Proust.” landscape painting. The last class will explore Postwar Paris: Art and Anxiety how art reflected the events leading up to the Civil War, including the depiction of Clark Poling everyday life. 12:45–2:45 p.m., Room 150
Susanna Lombardi, an art historian and Anxiety, irony, humor, and lyricism all professor, has worked in the field for appear in French art as a reaction to more than 25 years. She helped establish World War II and its aftermath. Beginning and served as the associate director of with Pablo Picasso and other modern the graduate program in humanities at masters, this course will study new Dominican University. She is currently abstract art and its claim to “start from working on a book about the Annunciation. zero” (Jean Fautrier), the discovery of children’s and outsider art (Jean Dubuffet), Proust and His World inner and outer journeys to “other Larry Bensky shores” of art (Antonin Artaud and Henri 9:30–11:30 a.m., Room 41B Michaux), existentialist meaning in the work of Alberto Giacometti, and surrealist Marcel Proust is often considered to and psychological aspects of French art in be one of the greatest novelists of the the 1940s and 1950s. 20th century. Geared to different levels of interest, this class will offer a unique Clark Poling is professor emeritus of opportunity to explore his writings, as art history at Emory University, where well as the politics, art, and music of his he served as chair of the Art History time, a turbulent era in history. Students Department and director of the Michael may read In Search of Lost Time, his C. Carlos Museum. He has taught summer quasi-autobiographic masterpiece, in its courses on modern art in France and has entirety, in English or French, or will be written books and exhibition catalogues given excerpts to study. Exploring Proust’s on the Bauhaus and surrealism. His book, themes of time, space, and memory will André Masson and the Surrealist Self, help us understand how he has become appeared this summer. one of the world’s most enduring creative spirits. Jean Dubuffet/L’ Affairement (Detail)
OLLI @Berkeley Peter Gessner has been an independent filmmaker for 20 years and has worked as an editor and cameraman on numerous films. Since 1989, he has been a private investigator in San Francisco. The Political Thriller From and Three Days of the Condor. We will He published his first novel, a detective World War II to Iraq conclude with a critical look at how story, in 2007. Peter Gessner and Sandra Sutherland the War on Terror appears in the TV 3–5 p.m., Room 150 shows “MI-5” and “24.” Increase your Sandra Sutherland, a private investigator, understanding of how the political thriller has worked on several prominent Sampling 55 years of superior genre films, reflects and shapes public consciousness political cases, including the notorious this course will begin with a screening of of world events. Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and a rare film, Roberto Rossellini’s General Black Panther cases of the 1970s, and The first class on April 2 will meet for della Rovere. We will discuss early anti-Nazi the 1992 campaign of former President three hours to view General della Rovere. spy films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Bill Clinton. She has also cowritten and Participants are encouraged to watch the Steps, and view excerpts from such Cold coproduced genre dramas for American other films outside of class. War films as The Manchurian Candidate and Australian TV.
COURSES/Fridays Starts April 10 Courses held in University Hall, 2199 Addison St., except where noted. Location subject to change.
Around the World Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or With Six Poets translator of 18 books and plays. He teaches at the California College of Zack Rogow the Arts and the University of Alaska, 10 a.m.–noon, Room 41C Anchorage. He cofounded Lunch Poems Featuring six of the world’s greatest poets at UC Berkeley. For his translations of from the last hundred years, this class will George Sand, Colette, and André Breton, explore their culture and history and the he has won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month major artistic currents that they shaped. The Club Translation Prize and the Northern poets are: Chilean bard Pablo Neruda; the California Book Award in Translation. great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova; Spanish Looking at Dance poet and playwright Federico García Lorca; the Turkish writer and activist Nazim Hikmet; Kathryn Roszak African writer and political leader Léopold 10 a.m.–noon, Room 41B Sédar Senghor; and Japanese writer Yosano Discover who makes dances and how Akiko. Each class will include biographical they do it. In this course, cutting-edge and writing highlights and a slideshow that artists from Montreal-based Compagnie places the poet in the context of her or Marie Chouinard and New York’s Paul his era. Taylor Dance Company (PTDC) will visit our class to share personal insights on if not for women their latest creations. We will also delve writhing like vengeful demons into spectacular works being shown this screaming like wild boars spring, including at San Francisco Ballet no child of man and San Francisco Performances. The would ever be born OLLI class is invited to a special rehearsal — Yosano Akiko, 1878–1942 with PTDC.
10 “Esplanade,” Paul Taylor Dance Company. Photo: Lois Greenfield
Although not required, members are Ron Loewinsohn, professor emeritus of emotional and comic moments. Each encouraged to see performances on their English, received his undergraduate degree ensemble will perform its play at the own. Tickets are not included in the OLLI at UC Berkeley and his doctorate from end of the day. Wear comfortable shoes registration fee. Harvard University. He taught modern and clothing. American literature and creative writing at Kathryn Roszak trained at the School UC Berkeley from 1970 until his retirement Dan Chumley left Harvard University as of American Ballet, cofounded by George in 2005. He has published seven volumes a junior to join the Tony Award-winning Balanchine, and at San Francisco Ballet. of poetry, an edition of W.C. Williams’s San Francisco Mime Troupe, in which he She danced with the San Francisco prose, and two novels, including Magnetic acted and directed for the next 33 years. Opera Ballet and choreographed for the Field(s), which received the Bay Area Book Since 2003, he has been a resident artist American Conservatory Theater and Reviewers Award for Fiction in 1983. in Asia, creating new work for a variety San Francisco Opera. She directs Danse of theaters. His latest project is based on Lumiere and writes for Theatre Bay Area. Radical Theater Workshop the cultural and environmental impact of the rapid development of the Yellow River Poetry Writing Workshop Dan Chumley area in China. 10 a.m.–5 p.m., April 3 only Ron Loewinsohn Location to be announced 1:30–3:30 p.m., Room 41C This fun one-day experiential workshop Reacquaint yourself with the tools and will introduce you to social action theater. vocabulary used to analyze and critique We will start with theater games that build poems, including imagery, metaphor, skills and a history and demonstration of rhythm, tone, and word choice. popular techniques that draw upon the Participants will submit poems and read characters and archetypes from commedia them aloud in the class. The course will dell’arte, music hall, and vaudeville traditions. provide a setting for members to learn Then we will create teams of five. Each from each other and the instructor team will choose a burning issue from to understand what is working in their today’s headlines and develop a story that poetry and how to achieve each incorporates five frames of action and peak poem’s goals.
OLLI @Berkeley 11 INFORMATION
• Single Term (fall, winter, or spring) Refunds for members of California Members can receive course fee refunds Alumni Association (with proof of up to one week before classes begin. There membership) – $40 are no refunds for membership dues. • Single Term (summer) – $25 Identification Cards • Annual – $100. Available only in the fall. Valid for full academic year. OLLI identification cards will be distributed at the first class. • All-inclusive – $600. Includes up to three courses per term and priority Volunteer registration through each open house. Please call 510.642.9934 to volunteer for Available only in the fall. Valid for full OLLI Ambassadors or the Curriculum, academic year. Membership and Outreach, and Annual Fund Committees. Other Course Fees (per term) volunteer opportunities include class Membership • One course $125 assistant, newsletter writer or editor, or • Two courses $225 photographer. Membership in OLLI @Berkeley supports • Three courses $310 its programs and enables you to enjoy the OLLI Partnerships full range of offerings, including courses, Add $75 for each additional course. lectures, and special events. There are University: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive three levels of membership — single term, Registration annual, and all-inclusive. All levels include California Alumni Association the benefits listed below, with savings at Early registration is encouraged due to Cal Performances the annual and all-inclusive levels. limited space. Register by mail with the Educational Technology Services registration form or online at olli.berkeley. Lawrence Hall of Science Benefit Highlights edu. Checks or credit cards accepted. Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching You may print additional copies of the and Learning • Opportunity to register in more than 75 registration form from the Web site. UC Berkeley Extension courses and events annually UC Berkeley Retirement Center • Complimentary access to the Lecture Fee Assistance Program UC Botanical Garden Series (not offered every term) To be considered for fee assistance, University Relations write to OLLI @Berkeley, 1925 Walnut • Participation in interest circles formed by Community: St. #1570, Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 by OLLI members Anna’s Jazz Island March 20. Please describe your need and Aurora Theatre • Discounts to the Berkeley Art Museum/ list which courses you would like to take Berkeley City College Pacific Film Archive, Lawrence Hall of and why. Include your contact information. Berkeley Repertory Theatre Science, and UC Botanical Garden There will be a $25 processing fee if you Gaia Arts Center are selected. Notification will be March 25. KALW-91.7 FM Membership Dues Oakland Museum of California • Single Term (fall, winter, or spring) – $50 Enrollment Confirmation Enrollment confirmations will be sent by Contact Us: • Single Term (fall, winter, or spring) for e-mail, or by mail for those without e-mail. current/retired staff/faculty of UC 1925 Walnut St. #1570 Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley University of California, Berkeley Adding or Dropping Courses National Laboratory (with proof of Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 status) – $40 You must call 510.642.9934 to add or drop Phone: 510.642.9934 courses. Some classes may be waitlisted or Fax: 510.642.2202 cancelled. Members are not automatically E-mail: [email protected] dropped if they do not attend. Web site: olli.berkeley.edu
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