Fall 2012 OLLI Berkeleyuniversity of california Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

October 1 – November 9

Courses olli.berkeley.edu Workshops Lectures An educational program for older adults who are learning for the joy of it. Community Spring 2012 Director’s Greeting Who We Are OLLI @Berkeley is an educational program As OLLI enters its sixth year, we proudly remain focused on our for lifelong learners age 50 and up who are core mission — to introduce new areas of knowledge to those eager to explore traditional and new areas who never want to stop learning. This year, OLLI welcomes seven of knowledge — without exams or grades. additional faculty members, further developing the scope of our Distinguished Berkeley faculty members offerings and helping us to reach our expanding community of and other Bay Area teachers enjoy sharing their expertise with members whose life lifelong learners. experience and intelligence enrich the We have generated exciting new content for two of our most popular exchange of ideas. courses: Michael Fox’s “Global Lens” and Harry Kreisler’s “Conversations With Membership in OLLI @Berkeley is required History.” Fox’s course will showcase six films featured at the recent INPUT 2012 to participate in the full range of offerings. public television conference in Australia, while Kreisler’s interviews offer unparalleled Joining OLLI @Berkeley means discovering insights into the minds of renowned international decision makers. new friends, new knowledge, and new ways to bring meaning and enjoyment to our lives. On a more intimate scale, OLLI’s creative writing courses aim to stir up the OLLI @Berkeley is one of more than 120 storyteller in you. Take advantage of many opportunities to flex your creative Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. muscles through classes on poetry, screenwriting, crafting a play, or just gathering your It is supported by the University of California, stories for your family. Berkeley, OLLI members, and donors who match the Bernard Osher Foundation’s What’s more, OLLI opens you up to the Bay Area’s cultural scene through courses contribution to OLLI. that give you in-depth insights into the visual and performing arts. Our partnerships with Cal Performances, UC Berkeley’s Art Studio, and the San Director: Susan Hoffman Francisco Opera, among others, provide our members with a front-row seat to the Program Coordinator: Aileen Kim Program Assistants: Gerard Alcantara, creative process. Satya Levine I look forward to seeing you at the open house on September 11. Thank you for Research Assistant: Sandra von Doetinchem your interest in OLLI — and for embracing the joys of lifelong learning.

Susan Hoffman Director, OLLI @Berkeley

OPEN HOUSE Contact Us: 1925 Walnut St. #1570 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 University of California, Berkeley Hear the faculty and meet OLLI Berkeley, CA 94720-1570 members Phone: 510.642.9934 Fax: 510.642.2202 9:30 a.m. doors open E-mail: [email protected] 10 a.m.–noon Program Web site: olli.berkeley.edu Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse

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Fall 2012 term: October 1 – November 9 Starts Oct. 1 Mondays See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

and groups and leads women’s retreats in finding one’s authentic voice through circle singing for joy, healing, and ritual.

The Cosmos from Aristotle to Newton

Richard Monson 1–3 p.m., UH Room 150

Take a journey through scientific astronomy to learn about Aristotle, who propounded the earth-centered universe; Copernicus, who boldly proposed the sun-centered system; Galileo, whose discoveries include the craters on the moon; and Sir Isaac Newton, famous for predicting the movement of celestial bodies with near-perfect mathematical rigor. We will also meet Ptolemy, Tycho Graffiti of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party Brahe, and Johannes Kepler. Find out how our understanding of the cosmos Landmark Trials of the from 1975–76 and wrote The Sky’s the has shifted from god-based concepts to 20th Century Limit: People v. Newton, The Real Trial of the physical principles. 20th Century?. Lise Pearlman Richard Monson, a chemistry professor 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 150 at Cal State East Bay from 1964 to 2000, has published numerous scientific Explore the polarizing issues brought Joy of Singing articles and two chemistry textbooks. to light by several epic trials — each Lauren Carley He has taught several courses for lifelong one championed by different historians 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B learners, including “Contemporary Issues and legal experts as the trial of the 20th in Science,” “Wine and Winemaking,” and century. By the end of the course, you can Whether you have always longed to sing “Science and Art Forgeries.” be the judge. Included in our review are in a chorus or have sung in one for years, the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers this course is open to you. Learn the who were wrongfully accused in 1931 basics of sight-singing, as well as rounds, of raping two white women in Alabama; chants, and arranged music by composers Huey Newton, the co-founder and long- such as Bobby McFerrin, who creates time leader of the Black Panther Party; and sound effects and percussion with his Title IX, the 1972 law that requires gender voice, and Ysaye Barnwell, a member of equity in every educational program that the African American a cappella group receives federal funding. Sweet Honey in the Rock. Join us to strengthen your voice and confidence Lise Pearlman is an author/arbitrator, and make a joyful noise! mediator, and retired judge who has taught in the law schools of Santa Clara Lauren Carley is the artistic director for University and UC Berkeley. She was a the community choruses Variety Pack and Rhythm Society. She teaches individuals teaching fellow at Stanford Law School Harmonia Macrocosmica Plate 7 by Tycho Brahe

Fall 2012 term: October 1 – November 9 OLLI @Berkeley 1 Continued Mondays

The Art of the Mind and Pinter’s acceptance of the Nobel Prize Mental States for Literature, The Dead by James Joyce, Richard Lichtman as well as works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B Henry James, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Eudora Welty, and Joyce Carol Oates. While therapists know the technical definitions of the various dysfunctions they Richard Lichtman taught political treat, the author Franz Kafka articulated philosophy and the philosophy of a form of anxiety that does not appear literature at UC Berkeley, where he in any psychiatric manual, just as Edvard received the Distinguished Teaching Munch painted a sense of angst and Award, and has been a professor at the dread in The Scream that had not been Wright Institute for 35 years. He wrote visually expressed before. To explore Essays in Critical Social Theory and The how the complexities of the mind are Production of Desire. presented in the arts, we will read Harold The Scream by Edvard Munch

Starts Oct. 2 Tuesdays See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

Global Lens: The University. He is a member of the San International Documentary Francisco Film Critics Circle. Michael Fox 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S Great Muses in Filmmakers in other countries have wider Their Own Right latitude to explore contemporary issues Kayleen Asbo and to reevaluate historical events. Watch 1–3 p.m., F&S a new or recent one-hour film in each class, Meet extraordinary women throughout then discuss various aspects of filmmaking history who are most often associated with such as the filmmaker’s point of view, the men they inspired. Among the women the effects of the camera’s presence, the we will encounter are philosopher Theano, balance between intellect and emotion, wife of Pythagoras; philosopher and abbess Clara Wieck lithograph by Andreas Staub and artistic aspirations. Gain a richer Heloise, wife of Peter Abelard; great understanding of how documentaries are Kayleen Asbo has taught at the San lyric pianist Clara Wieck, wife of Roberg constructed for maximum impact. Francisco Conservatory of Music and Schumann and muse of Johannes Brahms; Sonoma State University, as well as the Michael Fox has written about film for and psychoanalyst, novelist, poet, and OLLI program at Dominican University. She SF Weekly, SF360.org, and KQED.org, literary critic Lou Andreas-Salomé, student has long been interested in the intersection among other outlets. He curates and of Sigmund Freud, lover of Rainer Maria of art, music, history and psychology, ancient hosts the Friday night CinemaLit series Rilke, and muse of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Greece, and Medieval Europe. at the Mechanics’ Institute and teaches course will use lecture, music, and art to at the San Francisco Art Institute, OLLI convey these unrecognized heroines of art @Berkeley, and San Francisco State and philosophy.

2 Starts Oct. 3 Wednesdays See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

The Full Spectrum: 2012 Election Countdown Radiation in Today’s World Larry Bensky Fred Schlachter 2–4 p.m., F&S 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B Without exaggeration, we can say that We live in a world that is bathed in our lives, the lives of millions around the radiation from both natural and human- world, and the future of our planet are at made sources. We also live with new stake in the November election. Explore technologies that can improve lives. While the election’s historical context, analyze the some radiation is beneficial, not all radiation strengths and vulnerabilities of our electoral is benign. Understand radiation so that system, and get to know the candidates. you, as an individual and as a member of Hear from guest speakers who will provide society, can make informed decisions about insight into campaign financing and the The Campaign in Virginia — “On To Richmond!” by Thomas Nast technology involving radiation. You do not Supreme Court’s 2010 decision allowing need a physics background to enjoy this corporations to spend unlimited money on America in Crisis from the class. Explanations will be technical but elections. We will also plan a gathering on Civil War to 2012 visual and intuitive. election night for OLLI members. Leon Litwack Fred Schlachter is a retired physicist Larry Bensky has been a political journalist 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S in atomic and molecular physics from and teacher for more than 50 years. He Each class will be devoted to an Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. covered electoral politics for KPFA/Pacifica American crisis that still resonates in our He has authored several hundred from 1972 to 1997, was the political writer political landscape today. We will explore publications, including an article in Scientific for the East Bay Express for 15 years, and, the Civil War, the legacy of Jim Crow, the American, and is a member of the Berkeley since 1992, has taught political science the Spanish American War and Manifest Community Environmental Advisory courses at Cal State East Bay. Destiny, the labor upheavals of the early Commission and the Energy Commission. 20th century, the 1960s, the civil rights movement, and “post-racial America.” Each crisis tested the limits of dissent and racial justice, economic equality, America’s mission abroad, the security of the social order, and the ability of Americans to reexamine old values and respond to new challenges.

Leon Litwack, who taught at Berkeley from 1964 to 2007, has written many books, including Trouble in Mind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, and his most recent, How Free is Free? He collaborated in producing Jailhouse Blues: Women’s A Cappella Songs from the Parchman Penitentiary and consulted on the film Berkeley in the Sixties.

OLLI @Berkeley 3 Continued Wednesdays See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

Fall 2012 speaker Series

Wednesdays, 12:15–1:30 p.m. Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse (2020 Addison St., Berkeley) Free to OLLI members; $10 general admission

October 10 Inside the Music of Paul Dresher Composer Paul Dresher in conversation with dramaturg Philippa Kelly

October 17 The Roberts Supreme Court Civil liberties attorney Marshall Krause in conversation with labor attorney Bill Sokol

October 24 Shifting Geographies in Moby Dick at the Dallas Opera, photo by Karen Almond Contemporary Art Curator and author Apsara Great Voices of the Season Moby Dick will be offered. Visit sfopera.com DiQuinzio (coincides with Jason Victor Serinus and sfperformances.org for info on each SFMOMA exhibit) 2–4 p.m., UH Room 41B venue’s lineup. Recommended reading: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. October 31 Enrich your appreciation of the music being To be announced presented this fall at the San Francisco Jason Victor Serinus has written for Opera Opera and San Francisco Performances. Now, American Record Guide, Carnegie Explore a gold mine of audio and video Hall, Stanford Live, Gramophone, California recordings that reveal the myriad ways Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, Bay in which the human voice can touch the Area Reporter, and numerous other outlets. heart, inspire, and help make us whole. He whistled Puccini as “The Voice of Discounts to specific opera performances Woodstock” in an Emmy-nominated and the opportunity to attend a preview of Peanuts cartoon.

4 Starts Oct. 4 WednesdaysThursdays See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

from the British Arts Council. His plays and adaptations have been produced at the Magic Theatre, ACT, Ashland Shakespeare Festival, the Marin Theatre Company, and Stagebridge. His writings include The Traveller: A Magical Journey and a collection TK of poems, Presence of Absence.

Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse de Segur

The Transformation of and body are vastly interconnected. Learn Fairy Tales easy, effective daily practices to redirect Mary Winegarden your emotional energy toward greater 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B flexibility in responding to all of life’s joys and challenges, while gaining wisdom and Explore the magic of fairy tales across compassion toward yourself and others. cultures and time, comparing narrative devices and central themes such as Amelia Barili has been teaching about coming of age and finding one’s identity the connections between the body and at different life stages. Deepen your mind since 1972. A faculty member at understanding of the significance of fairy UC Berkeley and the Institute of World Close Encounters of tales through the historic-geographic Religions, she brings meditative and energy a Cross-Cultural Kind practices into the academic environment to method, structural analysis, feminist Joe Lurie help students tap into their full mental and theory, and the psychological/Freudian 1–3 p.m., UH Room 150 approach. Delight in the surprising emotional potential. ways that contemporary writers have Examine the often hidden but powerful re-imagined and transformed classic tales. impact of culture on our perceptions, Charles Dickens’s values, and behavior. Study different Great Expectations Mary Winegarden has taught comparative approaches to time, emotion, politesse, world literature and English at San James Keller power, childrearing, and verbal and non- Francisco State University for 21 years. 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B verbal communication. See how the Her translations of Russian poets were meaning of “late,” “love,” “yes,” “no,” Discover the significance of youth and published in Crossing Centuries: The New “sorry,” “silence,” a touch, a smile, and children in the entire body of Charles Generation in Russian Poetry, and her poems an insult vary dramatically across cultures. Dickens’s work, beginning with his own have appeared in the journal 26. Her Analyze case studies and see how these boyhood love of The Arabian Nights. recent book is The Translator’s Sister. differences play out in diplomacy, business, Explore his masterpiece, Great Expectations, travel, and medicine. to see how his view grew from his Science and Spirituality: traumatic childhood and influenced the Joe Lurie, former executive director of Secrets and Daily Practices powerful melodrama of Oliver Twist, as well UC Berkeley’s International House, is now Amelia Barili as the comedy and social satire of Nicholas an intercultural trainer, executive coach, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 150 Nickleby and David Copperfield. We will and career counselor. Co-author of Close read chapters of Great Expectations for Encounters of a Cross-Cultural Kind, he has Recent scientific findings on how the way each class. written about xenophobia for Harper’s we think, feel, and act shapes our brain Magazine and US News & World Report. and nervous system confirm what the James Keller has taught at Birkbeck empirical sciences of India and China have College, the International Film School, and said for thousands of years: that our mind London University and received awards

OLLI @Berkeley 5 CALENDAR

Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Oct. 1 – Nov. 5 Oct. 2 – Nov. 6 Oct. 3 – Nov. 7

10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 150 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S Landmark Trials Global Lens America in Crisis Lise Pearlman Michael Fox Leon Litwack

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m., 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B UH Room 41B Contemporary Poetry Radiation Joy of Singing (workshop) Fred Schlachter Lauren Carley Richard Silberg 2–4 p.m., F&S 1–3 p.m., UH Room 150 1–3 p.m., F&S 2012 Election Countdown The Cosmos Great Muses Larry Bensky Richard Monson Kayleen Asbo 2–4 p.m., UH Room 41B 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B 5–7 p.m., UH Room 28 Great Voices The Art of the Mind Tech 2.0 (workshop) Jason Victor Serinus Richard Lichtman David Casuto

5–7:30 p.m., UH Room 41C Write That Screenplay! Fall 2012 Speaker Series (workshop) Wednesdays, Oct. 10–31

Megan Siler 12:15–1:30 p.m., F&S Free to OLLI members; $10 general admission See p. 4 for info.

Photo by Jennifer Graham

6 CALENDAR Visit olli.berkeley.edu for reading lists and more class info.

Thursdays Fridays Oct. 4 – Nov. 8 Oct. 5 – Nov. 9

10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S Fairy Tales U.S. Presidency Mary Winegarden Harry Kreisler

10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 150 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B 10/5–11/16 (no class 11/9) Science and Spirituality Amelia Barili Dance, Theater, and Music Kathryn Roszak 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41C 10/4–11/15 (no class 11/8) 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UC Berkeley Art Studio 10-Minute Play (workshop) Lynne Kaufman Landscape Painting (workshop) Michelle Sakhai 2012–13 Academic Calendar 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41B Great Expectations 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41C Fall 2012 James Keller Open house: Sept. 11 Five Personal Pieces Term dates: Oct. 1 – Nov. 9 (workshop) 1–3 p.m., UH Room 150 Winter 2013 Close Encounters Deborah Lichtman Open house: Jan. 8 Term dates: Jan. 28 – March 11 Joe Lurie Holiday: Feb. 18

1:15–3:15 p.m., Spring 2013 Lafayette Library Open house: March 12 Community Hall Term dates: April 1 – May 10 Afghanistan Summer 2013 Term dates: June 4–27 Tamim Ansary

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Lafayette Library Community Hall 150 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette (not on map)

OLLI Office, 1925 Walnut St. Photo by David Schmitz

8 Starts Oct. 5 Fridays See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

photo by Pete Souza Swan Lake, photo courtesy of Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra

and the host and executive producer Orchestra’s production of Swan Lake, and Issues for the of Conversations with History at UC Shotgun Players’ production of Stephen U.S. Presidency Berkeley (conversations.berkeley.edu). Sondheim’s musical Assassins. Discounted Harry Kreisler tickets for the Mariinsky Ballet, Berkeley 10 a.m.–12 p.m., F&S Symphony, and Russell Maliphant Dance, Theater, and Music: Company are confirmed. Rehearsals and Dive into the current events that define From Classical to Cutting Edge the strategic issues facing our president, discussions with artists and directors will Kathryn Roszak such as humanitarian intervention, be arranged based on availabilities. 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B technology and war, Afghanistan and Oct. 5 – Nov. 16 (no class on Nov. 9) Kathryn Roszak danced for San Francisco Pakistan, healthcare reform, Europe, and Opera Ballet and choreographed for Iran. We will watch and discuss interviews Enrich your understanding of some of the American Conservatory Theatre. She taped for the course or from the Bay Area’s best dance, theater, and music. writes for Theatre Bay Area and is a dance Conversations with History archive. The Hear from leading artists, read reviews, specialist with Cal Performances. As course will have a blog that links to articles attend performances, and develop your director of Danse Lumiere, one of 2011’s highlighting the issues of the campaign, the own interpretations. Among the offerings top 10 performances according to the nation, and the U.S. presidency. we will study are the contemporary San Francisco Bay Guardian, she is creating music of Paul Dresher at Berkeley Harry Kreisler is the executive director a new work with the poetry of Nobel Symphony, the Mariinsky Ballet and of the Institute of International Studies Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer.

OLLI @Berkeley 9 Workshops / $195 each See the centerfold for a calendar and map.

Writing and Appreciating computer terms and don’t know where to Contemporary Poetry turn for answers. Each week will begin with Richard Silberg a general tech-related lecture, then leave Tuesdays, Oct. 2 – Nov. 6 plenty of time for your questions. This class 10 a.m.–12 p.m., UH Room 41B is for both Mac and PC users. You may bring your laptop or use a PC in the lab. The writing of poetry is nourished by reading and hearing poetry. Study a David Casuto is the founder of Senior Surf spectrum of poets in a class reader and (senior-surf.org), a Bay Area non-profit learn to use the Poetry Flash calendar to that empowers older adults to become find the best Bay Area readings. We’ll savvy at e-mail, Internet navigation, digital walk all the roads to poetry and capitalize photography, graphic design, and other on that energy in the workshop to help tricks of the trade. He also teaches at each other make our work stronger. This OLLI at San Francisco State University, Write That Screenplay! workshop will discuss the work of six Bay AcademyX, and Synergy School, and runs Megan Siler Area poets: Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, his own training consulting firm. Mondays, Oct. 1 – Nov. 5 Kim Addonizio, Rusty Morrison, Matthew 5–7:30 p.m., UH Room 41C Zapruder, and Robert Pinsky. Writers and Writing the 10-Minute Play appreciators are welcome to this course. Do you have a movie flickering in your Lynne Kaufman mind? Whether it’s a big Hollywood film, Richard Silberg is associate editor of Poetry Thursdays, Oct. 4 – Nov. 15 low-budget indie, or true-story adaption, Flash and co-coordinator of its reading (no class on Nov. 8) writing for visual media requires learning series. His poetry collection Deconstruction 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41C to conceptualize and shape a story that of the Blues received the PEN Oakland A 10-minute play is like a streak of can be told with images. In this six- Josephine Miles Literary Award and was theatrical lightning. Extremely popular, week workshop, you will dive into the nominated for the Northern California it’s an excellent way for beginning fundamentals of narrative screenwriting Book Award in Poetry. — creating compelling characters, building playwrights to learn the craft or for plot, scene work, dialogue, and theme writers in any medium to sharpen their — while developing a short or full-length structure and dialogue skills. We’ll study film script. Through a combination of engaging examples with vivid characters, workshop, film analysis, writing, and then devise and write our own plays, cinematic exercises, you will develop a enact them in class, and participate in compelling story premise, detailed story constructive critiques. Recommended outline, and begin writing the first act of reading: Perfect 10: Writing and Producing your screenplay. the 10-Minute Play by Gary Garrison, and Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays by Eric Megan Siler is an award-winning Lane and Nina Shengold. independent filmmaker who writes, Photo by Keegan Houser directs, and produces documentary and Lynne Kaufman is an award-winning fiction films. Her films have screened at Tech 2.0 for playwright and novelist whose plays festivals internationally and have also been Lifelong Learners have been produced at the Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, Actors Theatre broadcast on public and cable television. David Casuto of Louisville, Florida Studio Theatre, Siler has an M.F.A. from UCLA’s film Tuesdays, Oct. 2 – Nov. 6 and the Abingdon Theatre. Her play program and has been teaching film, video, 5–7 p.m., UH Room 28 and screenwriting classes throughout the Acid Test: The many incarnations of Ram Bay Area for 15 years. Antivirus software, malware, streaming Dass is currently running at The Marsh videos, cloud computing, embedding Berkeley. She teaches creative writing for videos — many people are afraid of these

10 formulas. Open to painters of all levels, the writing is sometimes the shortest. Learn concepts will focus on acrylic paints but how to depict a few memorable events can be applied to any medium. NOTE: from your life and animate your writing This class requires some walking and with characters and details. Start with carrying of necessary painting equipment. in-class writing exercises and be inspired See the online syllabus for details on by excerpts from published works. By the materials. Bring a sketchpad and pencil to end of the term, you’ll have a portfolio of the first class. five personal sketches, each with a different focus. Constructive feedback will leave you Michelle Sakhai received a B.A. in with ideas for future writing projects. Berkeley Rose Garden, photo by Keegan Houser art history and fine arts from Hofstra University and an M.F.A. from the Deborah Lichtman has taught writing OLLI programs at San Francisco State Academy of Art University in San and literature for 20 years. She directed University and Dominican University. Francisco. She has studied at fine art the M.F.A. in Writing program at the schools in Italy, Spain, France, and University of San Francisco, where she Landscape Painting New York and held a residency at the developed and taught courses in creative en Plein Air Vermont Studio Center. Her work is nonfiction. She holds a doctorate in English informed by her cultural heritages from from UC Berkeley and is advisor to the Michelle Sakhai Japan and Persia. Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Fridays, Oct. 5 – Nov. 9 Writing at UC Extension in Berkeley. 10 a.m.–12 p.m., First class meets in the UC Berkeley Art Studio Five Personal Pieces: Experimenting with En plein air, a French expression that Autobiography (Part 1 of 2) means “in the open air,” describes the act of painting outdoors. Observe and paint Deborah Lichtman landscapes on campus and in Berkeley, Fridays, Oct. 5 – Nov. 9 including the Campanile, Rose Garden, and 1–3 p.m., UH Room 41C Botanical Garden. Capture nature’s beauty Many writers get lost in telling the stories and spontaneity, and learn to trust your of their lives, but the best autobiographical intuitive sight over measuring and using Lafayette Library

Afghanistan and the World Follow this story from its 18th-century Tamim Ansary origins to the current American Thursdays, Oct. 4 – Nov. 8, 1:15–3:15 p.m. intervention, and learn how the Afghan Lafayette Library Community Hall, 3491 Mt. and world-story intertwine, why power Diablo Blvd. interventions here so regularly fail, and what the (possible) American withdrawal Some 250 years ago, Afghanistan was a portends. vague territory inhabited by clans and tribes that recognized no political authority higher Tamim Ansary was born and raised in than the local. Ever since, this hodgepodge Afghanistan. His books include the award- of people has been on a zigzag journey winning Destiny Disrupted, A History of the toward becoming a country — one that’s World Through Islamic Eyes. His next book, often interrupted by great powers intent on Games Without Rules, recounts the often- dominating the spot for strategic reasons. interrupted story of Afghanistan.

OLLI @Berkeley 11 INFORMATION

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New friends New ideas New adventures

OPEN HOUSE Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Hear the faculty and meet OLLI members 9:30 a.m. doors open 10 a.m.–noon Program Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse 2020 Addison St. (at Shattuck Ave.)

Reservations: 510.642.9934 or [email protected] Web site: olli.berkeley.edu

Fall 2012 term: October 1 – November 9

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