More at Mathe r’s OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2019 Wonderful Wisconsin, p.4 Earn a free meal with our Real Meal Deal! See page 3. 3235 N. Central Avenue, Chicago, IL 60634 | (773) 205.3300 HEALTH & Check Out WELLNESS What’s Happening! Health & Wellness . 2 Music & Entertainment . 3 Check out some musical Mather’s Luncheon events! Lifelong Learning . 4 Choose from author presentations, travelogues, and more— like a history of Chicago’s haunted places! Medical Cannabis Q&A Technology . 6 Tuesday, October 15 Learn all sorts of handy technology skills, like how to get the 12:00 p.m. Harnessing the Power of Habits Cate O’Brien, Director, Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging most out of your iPhone! Learn how to harness the power of habits! Cate talks about the science of habits, including why they’re important, Trips . 7 how they get formed, and how they change. FREE Join us for a holiday visit to Macy’s! Tuesday, October 22 Arts & Creativity . 8 1:00 p.m. Arthritis: Alternative Approaches Dr. Rick Hunn, Total Life Chiropractic Get artsy in a class like Make a Holiday Candle Jar. Are you tired of your joints hurting? Join Dr. Hunn and learn more about what causes arthritis, how to treat it, Just for Fun . 8 and what you can do to keep it from getting worse. FREE Celebrate our renovation at a ribbon-cutting party! Wednesday, October 23 1:00 p.m. Medical Cannabis Q&A Culinary Delights . 9 Patient Representative, FloraMedex Find out why so many people use medical cannabis Free Resources . 10 to improve their sleep and mood, control pain, and Take advantage of free resources and programs—like an reduce their use of prescription medications. Learn how expert’s tips on estate planning. to access, dose, and choose available products. FREE Monday, November 4 Fitness . 11 12:30 p.m. “Forget-Me-Not”: Memory in Later Life Drop into a class like Brains & Balance, or try tai chi! Lisa Hollis-Sawyer, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Northeastern Illinois University Ongoing Events . 12 Lisa will discuss common issues in memory functioning and strategies to maintain and even potentially improve memory functioning. FREE October | November | December At-a-Glance . 13 Monday, December 16 12:00 p.m. Digestive Health Dr. Jan Kaminski, Colorectal Surgeon, Advocate Illinois MATHER’S—MORE THAN A CAFÉ HOURS Masonic Medical Center Monday–Friday: 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Learn why your digestive health is so important to your (menu available until 3:00 p.m.) overall health and ask questions of an expert. FREE 2 MUSIC & WE’ ENTERTAINMENT B RE YOB! Get a Real Meal Deal! REAL M Buy EA lunch L D eons o EA Purchase any 5 $9 and r dinn L C ers, ge ARD t the 1 th FRE A 2 E! pplies only t up meals as part of our o %$-% 3 ." m eals w 4 ith en tertain 5 ment at Por 3 tage P 235 ark loc N. C ation. entr No ref al Av unds, entertainment package enu and ne (77 e ver 3) 2 expire ! #K 05. s. C !" 3300 and get a 6th one FREE! Use your punch card. Don’t have one? Ask the receptionist! Wednesday, October 16 12:30–2:30 p.m. Mather’s Luncheon: Oktoberfest with the Die Musikmeisters Trio Get your lederhosen ready—we’re celebrating Oktoberfest with Die Musikmeisters German Trio and their rousing Oktoberfest with the Die Musikmeisters Trio traditional tunes. We’ll dine on lentil soup, pork schnitzel, German potato salad, green beans, and apple cake. Tuesday, December 3 Meal Cost $9; Entertainment Suggested Donation $5 9:30–11:30 a.m. Mather’s Music Ensemble Christmas Breakfast Tuesday, October 29 Our own Mather’s Music Ensemble performs classic holiday 1:00 p.m. Mather’s Music Ensemble Halloween Show tunes and more! Enjoy Christmas morning strata, fresh fruit, Enjoy a monster mash-up of Halloween and fall tunes. and hot chocolate. Meal Cost $8.50 Plus, Halloween cookies, candy, and prize drawings! FREE Wednesday, December 18 Wednesday, October 30 12:30–2:30 p.m. Mather’s Luncheon: Wayne Messmer 4:30–6:30 p.m. Wednesday Nights at Mather’s: Holiday Favorites The Wailin’ Mahalias Wayne, former announcer and Tap your toes to the Wailin’ Mahalias’ unstoppable rhythms singer for the Chicago Cubs, will and heartfelt folk and universal gospel favorites. We’ll dine entertain with holiday songs and on sloppy joes, soup, salad, tater tots, and banana splits. stories. Enjoy honey-glazed spiral ham, apple cranberry Meal Cost $9; Entertainment Suggested Donation $5 salad, twice-baked potato, and chocolate-peppermint cake. Meal Cost $9; Entertainment Suggested Donation $5 or a Wednesday, November 13 new, unwrapped toy 12:30–2:30 p.m. Mather’s Luncheon: Thanksgiving with Music by Kristin Lems Monday, December 30 Celebrate the holiday with the music of Kristin Lems, a versa - 12:00–3:30 p.m. New Year’s Eve Party with “Jivan” Ivan! tile composer, songwriter, folk singer, and musician. Feast on Join us as we ring in the New Year a little early! Ivan will be roasted turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, spinning great music and the dance floor will be open. We’ll and pie. Meal Cost $9; Entertainment Suggested Donation $5 even have a toast at noon! FREE All meals on this page include coffee or tea. SAVE YOUR SPOT! REGISTER FOR PROGRAMS AT LEAST ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE. 3235 N. Central Avenue, Chicago, IL 60634 | (773) 205.3300 • mathersmorethanacafe.com 3 LIFELONG LEARNING Monday, October 14 1:00 p.m. The Haunted History of Chicago Amelia Cotter, Author/Storyteller AUTH OR PRESENTATION The author of several books about ghosts, Amelia will share some of Chicago’s haunted history and talk about some of its most haunted places. She’ll also discuss her experiences investigating haunted homes and cemeteries here. Suggested Donation $5 Tuesdays, October 15, November 19 & 26, and December 3 & 17 1:00–2:00 p.m. Chernobyl : A 5-Part Miniseries This acclaimed HBO miniseries dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the nuclear plant disaster The Haunted History of Chicago in Ukrainian SSR in 1986. FREE Friday, November 1 Tuesday, October 8 Thursday, October 10 1:00 p.m. Wonderful Wisconsin! 1:00 p.m. Getting Meaning 1:00 p.m. Magnificent Michigan! Jim Rowan, Presenter from Artworks Jim Rowan, Presenter Take a virtual tour of Wisconsin high - Bob Lichtenbert, Author This visual tour takes us from historic lighted by Jim’s beautiful photography. Bob will explain how to understand Greenfield Village to the waterfalls of We’ll visit Jim’s favorite places, such as and derive meaning from works of the Upper Peninsula. We’ll travel the Devil’s Lake; view fall color at Kettle art and offer his own interpretations shores of three of the five Great Lakes Moraine State Forest; and, of course, of major artworks, from contemporary viewing lighthouses, sand dunes, and more lighthouses on Lake Michigan. to traditional and beyond. FREE the sandstone cliffs of Pictured Rocks. Suggested Donation $5 Suggested Donation $5 Wednesday, October 9 Wednesday, November 6 12:00 p.m. We’re Off to See the Friday, October 11 12:00 p.m. Neuroplasticity: Wizard: The Wizard of Oz 1:00 p.m. Simple & Practical How to Change Your Brain John Boda, Presenter Self-Defense Dr. Yakov Weil, Renewal Rehab The classic film will be featured in Peter Honigmann, Attorney & Founder, Give your brain a workout with this pictures and clips, stories, and singing. Best Defense Concepts discussion of the capability of the brain Nearly every song from the film will be Peter will discuss the importance of and nervous system to change. Hear performed, including an outtake called being aware of your surroundings about true cases that reveal the ability “The Jitterbug.” An entertaining and and ways to de-escalate a potential of the brain to adapt after injury and informative hour for true Oz fans! conflict. He’ll explain legal aspects of learn exercises to strengthen your Suggested Donation $5 using self-defense and demonstrate cognitive and perceptive abilities. FREE simple moves. Suggested Donation $5 4 Mather’s—More Than a Café October | November | December 2019 Enjoy improved acoustics during programs, thanks to our remodel! Wednesday, November 6 Friday, November 15 2:00 p.m. Master of the Macabre: 1:00 p.m. Moving On… Vincent Price Ruth Wasiukiewicz, Real Estate Broker Victoria Price, Author Have you considered the pros and cons AUTH OR of moving versus staying and aging in PRESENTATION place? We’ll discuss housing options, Vincent Price made his mark including rentals, condos, 55+ active and as an actor in countless thrilling horror assisted-care facilities, and more! FREE movies. His daughter, Victoria, joins us by Skype to talk about her father’s life Wednesday, November 20 and his acting career. Enjoy a treat pre- 12:00 p.m. Chicago Treasure & THE GREAT COURSES: pared by our own Culinary Delighters Children’s Book Illustration Churchill from Vincent’s cookbook recipes. Rich Green, Illustrator Wednesdays, 1:00 p.m. Suggested Donation $5 Rich will take us behind the scenes of Winston Churchill is arguably children’s publishing with a look at his Thursday, November 7 exciting new book Chicago Treasure. the greatest leader of the twen - 12:00–4:00 p.m. AARP Safe Driving Suggested Donation $3 tieth century. He is proof that Course, Part 1 one individual can change the Friday, November 22 Certified AARP Driver course of history for the better, Safety Volunteer 1:00–2:30 p.m.