OLLI at CSU East Bay -Concord

🍦🎉 Sweet treats and even sweeter company! OLLI members escaped the Concord heat for a delightful Ice Cream Social filled with laughter, conversation, and plenty of delicious scoops!

Everyone enjoyed a chance to cool off, catch up with friends, and make new connections. Events like these remind us that lifelong learning is even better when shared with a wonderful community.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the afternoon such a sweet success! 🍨💙

OLLI at Cal State East Bay is shining the spotlight on the presidency today with the OLLI Spotlight Lecture and speaker Professor Steve Woolpert…

Join us today for Movie Monday! 🎬To celebrate the end of the school year, OLLI will showcase the 1967 movie The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman. Grab a drink, settle in, and enjoy one of cinema’s most iconic films in the perfect setting. Join us for this sharp, funny, stylish, and unforgettable movie. Members may bring guests to this event. Snacks are provided! Date and Location: June 8th, 2:00 p.m. in the Library Building, Room 153 (Oak Room)

Join our important course about how humanity can confront four major existential risks. Each risk has the potential to extinguish our species, or leave survivors to struggle in an increasingly brutal competition for increasingly scarce resources: a deadly pandemic, nuclear war, global warming, and tyrannically regulated AI. The course Existential Risk will examine how likely these risks are, and what must be done to protect ourselves! Instructor: Robert Enteen. Format: In person. Date and Time: June 4th, 10 a.m.

We want to shine a spotlight on one of our great OLLI instructors, Dr. Talia Moore! Her course series Understanding Modern Drug Culture: Substance Use Today runs from June 17th through July 15th. It offers an exploration of modern substance use, examining how substance use culture has evolved in recent years, and introduces current approaches to treatment and recovery. The course encourages thoughtful discussion and reflection.
Dr. Moore is a criminologist, associate professor, forensic researcher, and educational content creator specializing in graduate curriculum development, trauma-informed practice, and community engagement. She works within the Department of Criminal Justice and the Addictions Studies Certificate Program at CSUEB. Dr. Moore brings over a decade of experience in law enforcement and community corrections, and hosts the podcast Want Moore with Dr. Moore: The Criminologist of the Bay, exploring the complexities of the justice system. She earned her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University’s American School of Professional Psychology.

Are you interested in current events? Our current president’s expansive claims of executive authority have revived enduring questions about presidential power and judicial review. Our spotlight lecture How Strong Should a President Be?: Executive Power and Judicial Review will connect debates to current controversies, asking how effectively the Constitution’s checks and balances function today and how the Supreme Court is shaping those limits! Format: In person. Instructor: Steve Woolpert. Date and Time: June 10th, 2 pm - 3:30 pm.

Are you a fan of music from the 1960s and 1970s? Our course series Celtic Soul: The Belfast Cowboy, Van Morrison will dive into Morrison’s influences, listen to songs, and decipher some of his wonderfully strange and emotionally evocative lyrics. Sign up today! Instructor: Jannie Dresser. Format: Online. Date and Time: June 9th, 10 am - 12 pm.

Join our course Women Artists: Impressionism & Abstract Expressionism to learn about the women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of painting--not as muses but as artists! While male contemporary artists like Monet, Manet, Po***ck and de Kooning are household names, fewer are familiar with Morisot, Bracquemond, or Krasner! Instructor: Diane Levinson. Format: In person. Date and Time: July 29th, 10 am - 12 noon.

We want to shine a spotlight on one of our great OLLI instructors, Richie Unterberger! His course, San Francisco History in Photographs, 1850-2025, will take place Monday mornings June 15-July 27. Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous rock music history books, including volumes on The Who, Bob Marley, and 1960s folk-rock. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. His coffee table book San Francisco: Portrait of a City, published by Taschen in 2022, presents and describes 500 pages of photos of the city from 1850 to 2020. His latest book, Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground, was published by Omnibus Press in spring 2026. He’s taught rock and soul music courses at OLLI CSUEB for a half dozen years.