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• The 2022 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture: Congressman Jamie Raskin

  • When
    Saturday, May 28, 2022
  •  
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington MA 01230
  • Spaces left
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  You are cordially invited to the

  2022 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture
  featuring
  

  Congressman Jamie Raskin
  author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy 

  Saturday, May 28th, 5pm Eastern 

  In-person at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

  14 Castle Street, Great Barrington MA 01230

  Free, but reservations are required.

  TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!

  Live Stream will be available from Community Television of the Southern Berkshires and through Facebook Live.  No registration required for live stream access.
  

  Priority registration opened for OLLI at BCC members only from April 13 to April 28. Registration opened to Mahaiwe members starting on Friday, April 29 at noon. Remaining tickets were then available to the public, starting on Friday, May 6th. All tickets are general admission. There are no  more tickets available.

  OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, is honored to present Congressman Jamie Raskin as our 2022 Mona Sherman Memorial lecturer. Congressman Raskin is that author of the New York Times bestseller, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy. 

  Congressman Jamie Raskin has represented Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland and the Senate Majority Whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.

  In Unthinkable, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. 

  Join us at the Mahaiwe as Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy’s convictions fueled the Congressman’s work in the aftermath of modern democracy’s darkest day.

  

  Help Support the Mona Sherman Lecture series!

  For every donation of $50 or more to the Mona Sherman Endowment, we will send you a complimentary copy of Unthinkable. Click here to donate online or for instructions on sending in your donation.

  Your generous donation will ensure the Mona Sherman Lecture series continues to bring nationally known speakers to the Berkshires to inspire our community.

  Congressman Raskin will be signing copies of his book after his talk at the Mahaiwe.

  About Mona Sherman

  
  

  The annual Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture was established to honor the memory of the late Mona Sherman, a dynamic businesswoman and volunteer leader who played a transformative role in the growth and expansion of OLLI at BCC. The lecture series, established through the generosity of her family and friends, honors both her love of the Berkshires community and of lifelong learning.

  For over a decade, the Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture series has featured extraordinary nationally known writers and commentators: past speakers have included Cokie Roberts, Jim Acosta, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Klein, Katy Tur and others. The lectures have always been free and open to the public.

  OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, provides over 120 diverse educational, social, and volunteer opportunities a year designed especially by and for people fifty years old and better. OLLI’s 1,400+ members organize courses, lectures, trips and special events online, throughout the Berkshires and beyond.  For more information visit www.berkshireolli.org.

  Free, but reservations are required.

  Priority registration opens for OLLI at BCC members only on Wednesday, April 13th at 9am Eastern online. Registration opens to Mahaiwe members Friday, April 29 at noon, and to the public, if any seats remain, on Friday, May 6th. General admission.

  Please note that at this time masks and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test along with ID are required to attend. Read more about the Mahaiwe's policies to keep audience members and speakers safe here.

  We are grateful to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center for being our co-presenter, to Berkshire Gas for being our lead sponsor, and to the many friends and family of Mona Sherman for their continuing support.

  
  

  

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• Summer One 2022 OLLI Semester

  • Start
    Tuesday, May 31, 2022
  • End
    Tuesday, June 28, 2022
  • Location
    Online and In-Person

  Register

  
  

  OLLI's Summer One Semester of Courses
  May 31 - June 24, 2022

  Expand your mind with OLLI at BCC's fascinating courses offered online via Zoom and/or in-person in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts this spring.  No tests, no grades, no prerequisites (except OLLI at BCC membership), just learning for the love of learning. 

  Register safely and securely online here or call 413.236.2190 (Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm Eastern) to register by phone with a credit card, or with any questions you may have. To sign up for OLLI courses, you need to be an OLLI at BCC member. (Not a member yet? Join here. )

  OLLI Summer One Semester-at-a-Glance 

  
  

  Tuesdays
  

  11:30 am – 1:00 pm  Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie | John Trainor | In-person at Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield MA   Limited Registration: 20

  1:30 – 3:00 pm  Science, Sex, and the Secrets of the Universe: Three Prize-Winning Plays | Philip Pechukas and Barbara Waldinger | Hybrid - both Online and In-person at Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield MA  

  3:30 – 5:00 pm  The Poetry of Animals: What They Teach Us and How They Help Us Heal | Jerri Chaplin | In-person at Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield MA   Limited Registration: 30
  

  Wednesdays

  9:30 - 11:00 am  William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing | Ann Berman | Online 

  11:30 am – 1:00 pm  Today’s Headlines | Len Tabs | Online  

  2:00 – 3:30 pm  Recreational Mathematics | Andy Pauker | Online 

  Thursdays

  9:30 – 11:00 am  In the Steps of Melville: Hiking in the Berkshires | John Dickson | In-person at various locations in Berkshire County, MA  CLOSED- AT CAPACITY!

  11:00 am – 12:30 pm  Berkshire Galleries | Chelly Sterman | In-person at various locations in Berkshire County, MA   CLOSED- AT CAPACITY!
  

  2:00 pm – 3:30 pm  Science Conversations | Peter Bluhm and Tony Segal | Online 
  

  Fridays

  10:00 – 11:30 am  Music in Art at the Clark | Laura Dankner | Online only or Online & In-person     Limited Registration for In-person 6/24: 40

  
  

  2:30 – 4:00 pm   Honoring Our Indigenous Heritage: Native People, Plants, Pollinators | Vivian Orlowski | Online 

  
  

  Not sure which classes you want to take? Sign up for one or more Flexpasses, which allow you to attend six individual class sessions of your choice within a semester, as long as the class is not full. Click here to learn more about Flexpasses.

  Course fees are $50 for one course, $95 for two or three, and $125 for four or more courses within a semester. Each Flexpass counts as one course.

  Register safely and securely online here or call 413.236.2190 (Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm Eastern) to register by phone with a credit card, or with any questions you may have. To sign up for OLLI courses, you must be an OLLI at BCC member. Not a member yet? Join here. Needs-based partial scholarships are also available. For more information on scholarships, email olli@berkshirecc.edu.

  Note that our online courses are recorded, unless otherwise noted.  If you cannot attend live, or if you miss a session or two, you can request a link to the recording and watch it at your convenience.

  Questions? Contact us at olli@berkshirecc.edu or 413.236.2190. We look forward to hearing from you!

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• Update on Ukraine with James Brooke

  • When
    Wednesday, June 01, 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Register

  
  

  Update on Ukraine

  An online discussion with former Ukraine resident and New York Times journalist James Brooke

  Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 7pm EDT

  Online via Zoom
  Free & open to all. Click here to register.
  

  While Vladimir Putin seeks to drag Ukraine back into the Russian empire, Ukrainians have moved on. Turning their back on Russia, they overwhelmingly vacation, study and work in the EU, helped in part by visa-free travel. Thanks to eight years of Russian military attacks on Ukraine, Ukrainian national identity is at record highs. Ukraine has Europe's second largest army. Ukrainian is the language for all kindergarten to university instruction. For the first time since 1685, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is no longer controlled by Moscow. As Putin approaches his 70th birthday this October, he is tormented by the fear that his legacy will be: the first Czar in three centuries to lose Ukraine.

  
  

  JAMES BROOKE, a Lenox native, is a lifelong foreign correspondent. For 24 years he reported for The New York Times -- from West Africa, Brazil, Canada, and Japan/Korea. After the Times, he was the Moscow bureau chief for Bloomberg and then the Moscow-based correspondent for Voice of America. After eight years in Russia, he moved to Ukraine. For six years in Kyiv, he founded and edited internet-based newsletters on Ukraine's business and investment opportunities and conditions. Last fall, after reporting from 80 countries, he moved from Kyiv to Lenox with his family.

  Online via Zoom
  Free & open to all. Click here to register.

  This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel: OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College - YouTube

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• Paper Crafting Shared Interest Group

  • Start
    Thursday, June 02, 2022
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  • End
    Thursday, June 23, 2022
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's

  Paper Crafting

  Shared Interest Group

  Free and open exclusively to OLLI at BCC members

  Meeting on Thursdays at 10:00 am and 4:15 pm Eastern

  Online via Zoom

  Have you always wanted to create beautiful cards like the ones shown above?  Are you interested in card making, decorating scrapbook pages, and creating gift bags/boxes?  If so, this group is for you!

  Members of this group share expertise and ideas so that you can create cards or scrapbooking layouts using stamps and ink. We discuss projects we could work on together and what supplies would be needed. 

  Please contact Linda Goff for further information and to get the Zoom link.

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• Poetry Reading Shared Interest Group

  • When
    Thursday, June 02, 2022
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  
  

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's Shared Interest Group

  Poetry Reading Shared Interest Group

  for an online discussion

  The First Thursday of Every Month

  from 6:30 to 8:00 pm Eastern
  

  Free and open to all OLLI at BCC members 

  Do you love poetry or do you want to learn about poetry? If you do, consider joining our Poetry Reading SIG which meets monthly via Zoom.

  The format of our meetings is flexible, and what has worked well so far is that at each meeting we decide upon a topic and a leader for the next meeting. The topics might range from the oeuvre of a particular poet or poetess, a particular style of poetry, or a particular period of poetry. Each participant is encouraged to submit one or two examples of the topic that interest them, and the job of the leader is to organize the order in which these poems will be read and discussed.

  Please contact Steffi Fletcher for additional information and to receive the Zoom link. 

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• Creative Aging Exhibit

  • Start
    Friday, June 03, 2022
  • End
    Saturday, June 25, 2022
  • Location
    Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield MA 01201

  
  

  
  

  OLLI at BCC presents

  Creative Aging: 65 and Better in the Berkshires

  June 3rd - 25th, 2022

  at

  The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

  28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield MA 01201

  
  

  Opening Reception on Friday, June 3rd

  from 5 to 8pm

  The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 28 Renne Avenue, will present “Creative Aging: 65 and Better in the Berkshires” for the month of June. The exhibit will be on view from June 1 through June 30, and there will be a reception during First Fridays Artswalk on June 3 from 5 to 8 pm.

  On view will be twenty-five profiles of active, engaged community members who are 65 and better in the Berkshires which were created by volunteer writers and photographers who are members of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College. They represent thousands more older adults in our Berkshires community who give back in many different ways and help transform our stereotypes of older adults.

  No registration necessary!

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• Play Reading Shared Interest Group

  • Start
    Friday, June 03, 2022
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  • End
    Friday, June 24, 2022
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  
  

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's Shared Interest Group

  Play Reading Shared Interest Group

  Meets Once or Twice a Month

  from 3:00 to 5:00 pm Eastern
  

  Free and open to all OLLI at BCC members 

  Do you love reading plays?  Our SIG gives participants a chance to read aloud and analyze scenes and characters from prize-winning plays.  We meet once or twice per month for two hours, usually on a Friday afternoon, so as not to conflict with other OLLI courses.  During the year we are open to suggestions as to which plays to read, while in the summer, when hopefully theatres will resume performances, we choose plays that we can both read and view.  We encourage our members to prepare and lead discussions on plays that interest them.  Thriving on group participation, we allow two sessions to cover each one.  Particular editions are selected that can be ordered online or from the Lenox Bookstore. In the past our meetings have been in-person, but this year our group has been very successful on Zoom.  We hope to see you there! Please Barbara Waldinger, Karel Fisher, or Alice Roth for additional information and to receive the Zoom link.  Schedule of Forthcoming Play Reading Events Our upcoming meetings are: Friday, March 11  The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard - led by Alice Roth  Friday, April 1  The Critic (a modern adaptation of the Sheridan comedy by Jeffrey Hatcher) - led by Don Roth Friday, April 22  Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard - led by Peter Podol Friday, May 13  Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard (continuation) - led by Peter Podol Friday, June 3  A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill - led by Karel Fisher Friday, June 24  A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill (continuation) - led by Karel Fisher   The editions we will be using for the upcoming plays are as follows: Sam Shepard Seven Plays (contains True West, Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage/Love). Available at The Bookstore in Lenox (413) 637-3390 for $17.00. Also available through online booksellers (Amazon, for example, has numerous used copies from $1.25). The Critic by Jefferey Hatcher is available at Dramatists Play Service for $11.00.  The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard (Grove Press, 1998) is available as a paperback from Amazon for $10.25.  Amazon has less expensive new and used copies from its vendors. Master Harold and the Boys — A Play by Athol Fugard (Vintage International, 2009) is available as a paperback from Amazon for $12.49.  Amazon has less expensive new and used copies from its vendors. A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill (Yale University Press, 2006) is available as a paperback from Amazon for $12.95 (and less expensive new and used copies are also available).  The paperback includes an introduction by Stephen A. Black.  The cover is black with a small two-toned gray moon on the right side. Eugene O'Neill's name is in all lowercase letters in yellow.  Also, check your local libraries for availability of the plays. If possible, try to read the entire play prior to the first session for each play.

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• Happy Needlers & Hookers: A Needlework Shared Interest Group

  • Start
    Monday, June 06, 2022
  • End
    Monday, December 19, 2022
  • Schedule
    14 sessions
  • Location
    Lenox Community Center

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's

  Happy Needlers & Hookers: A Needlework Shared Interest Group
  

  Meets In-person on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month

  at the Lenox Community Center
  

  65 Walker Street, Lenox, MA 01240

  from 12:30 to 2:00 pm Eastern 

  
  

  No meeting on April 18, Patriot's Day

  
  

  Free and open exclusively to OLLI at BCC members

  The Happy Needlers & Hookers Needlework Group is a Shared Interest Group for people that like to knit, needlepoint, cross-stitch, crochet  or enjoy any other "needle-based" craft.

  The Lenox Community Center has again graciously given us a time slot to use their living room.  The difference this year is that all the furniture has been moved out because of children's activities that go on in that room.  We will have use of their folding chairs and a table if we wish. We will need to follow Lenox Community Center policies for wearing masks and social distancing.

  You can work on any project you wish. The camaraderie and time we spend together is what we find so enjoyable. 

  One project idea we could work on is from an OLLI member in Reno Nevada. She has set up a project where her knitters and crocheters make hats, scarves and mittens for local homeless shelters.  I will be contacting shelters to see if this is something they would need.  We can provide patterns if you don’t have one.    

  All levels are welcome, from beginner to advanced.

  Let Carolyn know if you will be joining us so we have an idea of how many will be attending. 

  We also invite you to check out our Photo Gallery on Flickr to see some of the projects we have been working on in the last few months.  Let us know if you have any photos you would like us to add to this album.

  Please contact Carolyn Vandervort or Carol Sabot for more information and to let them know that you would like to attend.

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• Mindfulness & Meditation SIG

  • Start
    Monday, June 06, 2022
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  • End
    Monday, July 25, 2022
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Online

  Register

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's

  Mindfulness & Meditation SIG 

  Mondays online from 12:00 to 1:00 pm Eastern 

  No sessions on holidays.

  Free and open exclusively to OLLI at BCC members

  Click here to RSVP to receive the Zoom link weekly.

  You only need to register once.
  

  Mindfulness has many applications but is most associated with/as a meditation practice. The term mindfulness can be defined as a moment-to-moment awareness of one’s experience without judgment.

  In a variety of ways, this practice can provide one with skills that allow greater equanimity, while being with both the struggles and the joys that arise in life. There is a lot of flexibility within the practice, making it compatible and adaptable within different lifestyles.

  Please contact Roberta Vogel for additional information.

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• Listening to Chamber Music SIG

  • Start
    Monday, June 06, 2022
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  • End
    Monday, August 01, 2022
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's

  Listening to Chamber Music SIG 

  Meets Monthly

  from 1:00 to 2:30 pm Eastern 

  Free and open exclusively to OLLI at BCC members

  Currently meeting on Zoom.

  Attention chamber music lovers! 

  The Listening to Chamber Music SIG is for people who are interested in chamber music and who would enjoy learning about and listening to chamber music repertoire with other chamber music aficionados.  The proposed format will be that the leader of each meeting will provide program notes about a piece, the group will listen together and then discuss what they think about the piece.  This is the proposed format, it is expected that the group will tweak it and decide together what works best and which chamber works will please our collective ear. 

  Please contact Harriet Wetstone if you are interested in this Listening to Chamber Music SIG and she will supply additional information and the Zoom link.

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• The Promise of Jazz with Professor John Myers

  • When
    Thursday, June 09, 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Register

    
  

  The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents
  Professor John Myers on

  The Promise of Jazz
  

  Thursday, June 9 at 7:00 pm Eastern

  Online via Zoom 
  

  Click here to register safely and securely online.
  

  Now in its second century of existence, the musical world of jazz is still a vital part of culture for many.Having begun in the multicultural environments of American cities, it has functioned as a vehicle for celebration, expression, and communication. It is also recognized as a metaphor for democracy itself.

  We will take a look at some of the highlights of jazz’ first century, including major players and stylistic developments. We will also consider current trends and musicians, and the music’s bright future.

  
  

  John Myers is a professional musician and educator. He plays jazz, Western classical, and other styles of music, and has composed many pieces, primarily in the jazz idiom.  John has also composed music for multimedia and theater productions.  He directs the jazz program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.  For more information on Professor Myers, click here.

   

  Admission is $10 for OLLI at BCC and Berkshire Museum members, and $15 for the general public.  Admission is free for Berkshire Community College students, youth 17 and under, and those holding WIC, EBT/SNAP, or ConnectorCare cards.
  

  Pre-registration is required. Click here to register safely and securely online or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card.
  

  In Partnership with the Berkshire Museum

  
  

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• Genealogy Shared Interest Group

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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  • End
    Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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  • Schedule
    7 sessions
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's

  Genealogy Shared Interest Group

  Wednesday, December 15th

  from 10:00 to 11:30 am Eastern 

  Free and open exclusively to OLLI at BCC members

  Interested in Genealogy?  Want to learn more about how to research your family's history?  This group meets monthly to exchange ideas on how to do this.  This collaborative group meets to discuss best practices in genealogical research and help each other find new approaches.

  Please contact Lisa Swigart for additional information and the Zoom link.

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• Gotta Reads: New York Times Best Seller Book Club

  • Start
    Thursday, June 16, 2022
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  • End
    Thursday, July 21, 2022
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  
  

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's  Shared Interest Group

  Gotta Reads: New York Times Best Sellers Book Club
  

  for an online discussion 

  The Third Thursday of Every Month

  from 4:00 to 5:00 pm Eastern
  

  Free and open to all OLLI at BCC members 

  OLLI's Gotta Reads: New York Times Best Sellers Book Club reads books from the New York Times Best Seller list of the last few years.  We look for books that are discussion worthy and thought provoking.  
  

  Club members will participate in the selection of future books.

  Please contact Sheila McKenna for additional information and to receive the Zoom link.
  

  
  

  April's Pick is:

  
  

  
  

  
  

  The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

  
  

  Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
  
  When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
  

  
  

  May - Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

  
  

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• Highlights of Tanglewood 2022

  • When
    Saturday, June 18, 2022
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Berkshire Museum, 39 South St, Pittsfield, MA 01201
  • Spaces left
    196

  Register

   

  The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents
  Professor Jeremy Yudkin on

  Highlights of Tanglewood 2022
  

  Saturday, June 18 at 11:00 am EDT

  Live at the Berkshire Museum

  39 South Street, Pittsfield, Mass. 01201  

  Click here to register safely and securely online.
  

  On June 18 at 11:00am, at the Berkshire Museum, JEREMY YUDKIN, Professor of Music at Boston University, pre-concert lecturer for the Tanglewood concerts for the last 40 years, and a long-standing and beloved OLLI lecturer, will present a talk entitled “HIGHLIGHTS OF TANGLEWOOD 2022.”  He will discuss the great works featured this summer at Tanglewood, including Mozart’s greatest opera DON GIOVANNI, with its unprecedented and psychologically intense depictions of human beings and human emotions,  and Stravinsky’s earth-shattering, totally innovative THE RITE OF SPRING, a work that changed music forever.  Don’t miss this compelling lecturer’s only-once-a-year OLLI talk: Saturday, June 18, at 11:00am, at the Berkshire Museum.

  Jeremy Yudkin is a much-lauded professor at Boston University, one of the few selected professors across the country to present talks at One-Day University, prize-winning scholar and author (he has written ten books), and much admired and beloved speaker for the Tanglewood pre-concert lectures.  He combines profound scholarship and musical insight with accessibility, clarity, and charm.  He is one of the Distinguished Speakers for OLLI, where he has been a lecturer for over twenty-five years.

  “He makes me hear music in a way I never have before.’

  “He’s the best teacher – in any subject – I’ve ever had!”

  “There’s nobody like Jeremy to enlighten people about music, no matter what their background.”

  Admission is $10 for OLLI at BCC and Berkshire Museum members, and $15 for the general public.  Admission is free for Berkshire Community College students, youth 17 and under, and those holding WIC, EBT/SNAP, or ConnectorCare cards.
  

  Pre-registration is required. Click here to register safely and securely online or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card.
  

  In Partnership with the Berkshire Museum

  
  

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• AMERICA(NA) TO ME at Jacob's Pillow

  • When
    Saturday, June 25, 2022
  •  
    11:30 AM
  • Location
    Jacob's Pillow, 358 George Carter Road, Becket MA, 01223
  • Spaces left
    51

  Register

  The OLLI Special Events Committee presents 
  

  
  

  AMERICA(NA) TO ME    

  at the Ted Shawn Theatre, Jacob's Pillow    

  Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 11:30 am

  Click here to register

  Registration Limited to 60 participants

  Featuring an expansive array of artists including Warwick Gombey Troupe, Mythili Prakash, Jasmine Hearn, Nelida Tirado, Sara Mearns & Joshua Bergasse, Alexandra Tatarsky, and Dormeshia & Guests, this presentation offers an ever-timely reflection on how dance engages questions of heritage, tradition, and belonging.

  Registration is $87 for OLLI at BCC members and $93 for non-members. If you are already a Pillow subscriber and would like to join OLLI for the dessert only, registration is $9.  We are not able to offer refunds unless space is filled from a waiting list. 

  Please note this event will be in person at Jacob's Pillow

  358 George Carter Road, Becket MA, 01223

  
  

  Masks are encouraged indoors.  Click here for their current Covid protocols. 

  Click here to register

  or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card.  
  

   Norton Owens, Preservation Director talk at 11:45

  at Blake's Barn

  lunch at 12:30, dessert at 1 pm, and show at 2 pm.

  BRING A BAG LUNCH – OUR CHEFS WILL PROVIDE DESSERTS & ICED TEA
  

  Thank you to OLLI's Special Events Committee for organizing this and so many other great OLLI events!

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• Murder, Mystery & Mayhem: A Book Group

  • Start
    Monday, June 27, 2022
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  • End
    Monday, November 28, 2022
  •  
  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  
  

  OLLI at BCC members are invited to join OLLI's Shared Interest Group

  Murder, Mystery & Mayhem: A Book Group

  for an online discussion 

  The Fourth Monday of Every Month

  from 1:30 to 3:00 pm Eastern
  

  Free and open to all OLLI at BCC members 

  OLLI's Murder, Mystery & Mayhem: A Book Group meets once a month, typically on the 4^th Monday at 1:30 pm. Everyone is welcome. We typically meet for no more than 1.5 hours. Historically, the meetings were at someone’s house. In this past year, however, the gatherings have been Zoom-based.
  

  Books are selected one year in advance… and are not your typically hot present-day offerings. At the meetings, we discuss the chosen book, of course, but often we talk about other books we are reading, movies we have seen, serials we’ve watched/are watching on TV, etc.

  Please contact Bruce Cohen for additional information and to receive the Zoom link. 

  Books on the 2022 List:
  

  January - Paper Son by S. J. Rozan*

  February - Briarpatch by Ross Thomas

  March - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

  April - Cover Her Face by P. D. James

  May - Death Benefits by Thomas Perry

  June - Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannelec

  July - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

  August - Murder at La Fenice by Donna Leon

  September - Night Soldiers by Alan Furst

  October - Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan

  November - Sculptress by Minette Walters

  December - What The Dead Know by Laura Lippman

  * Author will join us

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• A Chester Duet: "To the Moon and Back"

  • When
    Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Chester Railway Station & Museum, 10 Prospect St, Chester, MA 01011
  • Spaces left
    32

  Register

  
  

  The OLLI Special Events Committee presents

  A Delicious Lunch and a Great Afternoon of Theatre

  
  

  A CHESTER DUET
  In-person at Chester Railway Station & Museum and the Chester Theatre Company  
  

  Wednesday, August 17, 2022, starting at 12:00 pm

  First, join us for a delicious lunch created by OLLI Chefs at the Chester Railway Station & Museum, a National Historic Landmark.

  10 Prospect Street, Chester, MA 01011
  

  Then enjoy a matinee performance by Chester Theatre Company, at Town Hall Theatre, 15 Middlefield Rd, Chester, MA

  of Darcy Parker Bruce's

  To the Moon and Back

  Followed by an exclusive talkback for OLLI participants!

  Click here to register safely and securely online.

  Limited Registration: 40

  Starring Tara Franklin (Tiny Beautiful Things, On the Exhale) and Raye Birk (Curve of Departure) as a daughter and father with history as murky as the dark side of the moon. Ace alternately maps craters searching for…something, and flips burgers at her day job as she tries to outrun the shadows of the past she shares with her dad, who spends his days watching gameshows from his lawn chair—on the moon.

  Click here to register, or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm).

  Registration is $70 for OLLI at BCC members, $80 for non-members or $20 for members who already hold a subscription to the Chester Theatre.  We are not able to offer refunds unless space is filled from a waiting list.  Your payment includes lunch & the matinee.

  Please note the event will be in-person in Chester, MA. 

  Registration Deadline is August 10.

  Thank you to OLLI's Special Events Committee for organizing this and so many other great OLLI events!

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