OLLI at UCLA

05/18/2024

Check out our In-person Summer Classes every Saturday Morning this July at UCLA's New South Bay Campus!.

Only $15 per class for OLLI Basic members and non-member and free for OLLI Plus members.

Click on the links below to find out more details about each class and to enroll:

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Understanding a Species Endangered, July 6, 10am-12pm

https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/taste-osher/course/whos-afraid-big-bad-wolf-understanding-species-endangered-genint

Yoga and The Expressive Arts, July 13, 10am-12pm

https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/taste-osher/course/yoga-and-expressive-arts-genint-711355

The Rise of an American Supercity: Los Angeles, Long Beach and the South Bay after World War II, July 20, 10am-12pm

https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/taste-osher/course/rise-american-supercity-los-angeles-long-beach-and-south-bay-after

An Introduction to Drones: Practical and Ethical Considerations, July 27, 10am-12pm

https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/taste-osher/course/introduction-drones-practical-and-ethical-considerations-genint

04/23/2024

Summer 2024 Registration Starts Monday, April 29!

Click here to view all summer courses: https://www.uclaextension.edu/olli-course-schedule

Register online or call our Registration Department on:
310-825-9971 ext. 601

02/02/2024

Spring 2024 Registration Starts Monday, February 5!

Click here to view all spring courses: https://www.uclaextension.edu/olli-course-schedule

Register online or call our Registration Department on:
310-825-9971 ext. 601

01/02/2024

12/19/2023

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM OSHER (OLLI) AT UCLA!

12/19/2023

Love Jazz? Check out this promo video for this course starting in January 2024!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qTfN9HQHI

"All that Jazz: Appreciating an American Art Form"
8 Wednesdays, January 10 - February 28, 1-3pm on Zoom

Enroll online: https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/lecture-courses/course/all-jazz-appreciating-american-art-form-genint-711317

or call: 310-825-9971 ext. 601

12/18/2023

The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel

Enroll here: https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/taste-osher/course/unimaginable-journey-peter-ertel-genint-731489

or call: 310-825-9971 ext. 610

Link to the film for viewing will be given to enrolled students on Monday, January 8

Question and Answer Session, Friday, January 12, 1-2pm, Zoom
Instructor and Director of Film: Joe Cahn

12/14/2023

There's still time to enroll in winter quarter courses starting in January 2024! Enroll online here:
https://www.uclaextension.edu/olli-course-schedule

or by calling: 310-825-9971 ext. 601

12/08/2023

Try something new! Have you ever wanted to learn how to play mah-jongg? We have a new Beginning Mah-jongg Course running for 6 Mondays, January 29 - March 11, 2024
9:30AM - 12:00PM PT

Enroll here:
https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/creativity-games-movement/course/beginning-mah-jongg-genint-711326

or by calling: 310-825-9971 ext. 601

Osher (50+). This course introduces the beginner to the basic rules and strategies of Mah-Jongg, a game of both skill and luck that originated in China many centuries ago.

11/21/2023

OLLI HOLLIDAY PARTY!

Join fellow members for a festive lunch, friendly conversation, and fun giveaways at the annual OLLI Holiday Party, Thursday, December 7, 12-2 pm in Room 121 of the Gayley Center.

Chat with instructors about their upcoming winter-quarter courses and enjoy entertainment by the fabulous “West Coast Singers”

Feel free to bring a friend (or friends) you want to introduce to OLLI!

Everyone (members and friends) should please RSVP by this Friday, November 24 by registering here:
https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/special-programs/course/olli-holiday-party-genint-741260

or by calling 310-825-9971 ext. 601.

ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT!

11/21/2023

Highlighting our fascinating and mouth watering Winter Course:

Food and Feasting in Art (with Recipes)

8 Thursdays, January 11 - February 29, 2024, 10am-12pm on Zoom.

$80 with Osher Basic membership and $40 with Osher Plus membership.

Enroll online here:
https://www.uclaextension.edu/osher-olli/discussion-groups/course/food-and-feasting-art-recipes-genint-731475

or call: 310-825-9971 ext. 601

The depiction of food in art spans across cultures and recorded time, stretching back to ancient Greece and Rome where banquets and bacchanals were celebrated in paintings and mosaics. This course is based on many of the world's masterpieces of art in various media and explores the bountiful relationship between the art we view and the food we eat. We read about, look at pictures of and even possibly smell and taste food (should you choose to prepare any of the recipes presented). For example, carefully viewing Michelangelo's The Last Supper, we discover which foods beyond bread and wine he chose for the menu (FYI: it contains a religious-dietary misstep). And in Vincent van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, we consider contemporaneous recipes which van Gogh's peasants may have used to prepare their repast. We study the often subtle, symbolic meaning of an edible in the work of art: legumes = poverty, oranges = energy, mollusks = virginity, etc. The instructor also shares his tour, "Food in Art," which he led at LACMA.