 
Winter 2009 Special
Events
Celebrating Culture and Cuisine – Japan
With Eileen Prose
In
January, large-scale coming-of-age ceremonies (Seijin-no-hi) take
place in all parts of Japan.
Join us for a wonderful opportunity to learn about this
interesting Japanese holiday and to enjoy Japanese food prepared
“hibachi-style” on a teppanyaki.
Date/Time: Monday, January 12, 2009, from 1 - 3 PM
Cost:
$20.00
Place: Tokyo Cuisine Hibachi Grill & Sushi Bar, 920 S. 3rd
Street, Terre Haute
Maximum Attendance: 20
people
Deadline for Registration is January 5, 2009
Inland Aquatics Tour
With
Benjamin Beard, Education Director of Inland Aquatics
Inland Aquatics' 13,000 square foot facility houses over 35,000
gallons of saltwater ecosystems.
Featured here is the internationally patented "Algae Turf
Scrubber" which is the cornerstone of their success in housing and
propagating a wide variety of hard and soft corals as well as marine
fish and invertebrates.
You will get an up close look at some of the exotic
wildlife the ocean has to offer, as well as a tour of their
warehouse focusing on
the "real life" environments they have created.
We hope you will leave with a new found respect and
admiration of what the ocean has to offer, as well as
what can be done with a little hard work and creativity right
here in the heartland.
Date/Time: Thursday, January 15, 2009 from 10:30 AM - 12 PM
Place: Inland Aquatics, 10 Ohio Street Terre Haute
Cost: $5
Deadline for Registration is January 7, 2009
Prison Lecture and Tour
With Robert Huckabee, ISU Assistant Professor of
Criminology/Criminal Justice
Dr. Huckabee will give a
broad overview of prisons, beginning with the emergence of
imprisonment as a common form of punishment in the late 18th century
and ending with contemporary times. He will cover the following:
· prison
as an expression of various justifications for punishment
· changes
in prison philosophy over the years
· prison
structure and organization in
contemporary America
· state
versus federal prisons, and the role of jails
· attempts
to understand the prison subculture
· the
rehabilitation question
· the
prison selection process
· prisons
and the law
· the
inmate population today
This lecture will be followed by a tour of the Federal Prison here
in Terre Haute. The date for the tour of the prison has not been set
but information will be sent out to registrants. If you are
interested in the lecture and not the tour please let Michelle
Bennett know at 812-237-2336.
Date: Monday, January 19, 2009 from 1-3 P.M.
Place: ISU College of Business, Room 209
Cost: FREE
Deadline for Registration is December 19, 2008
Current Events Discussion Group
This group will meet once-a-month to discuss current events. The
first three sessions of
will focus on political issues--namely, the first 100 days of
President Barack Obama’s term.
The group moderator will be Dr. Robert Puckett, ISU Professor
Emeritus in Political Science.
You can attend one or all of the sessions, but you must register for
this special event to ensure enough seating.
Date: Mondays, January 26, 2009
February 23, 2009
March 30, 2009
Time: 3 - 5 PM
Place: Vigo County Public Library Main Branch, Lower Level Meeting
Room
Cost: FREE
Maximum Attendance: 25 people.
Deadline for Registration is January 19, 2009
Celebrating Culture and Cuisine – China
With Eileen Prose
The second new moon after the Winter Solstice heralds the Lunar New
Year. Again this year, we will gather to enjoy typical Chinese
cuisine and to learn a few of the New Year traditions of this
country. The year 2009
is the Year of the Ox.
Please join us for an interesting afternoon.
Date/Time: Friday, February 6, 2009, from 1- 3 PM
Cost: $20.00
Place: Jade Garden, 3375 S. 3rd
Street, West of Honey Creek Square
Maximum Attendance: 20 people
Deadline for Registration is January 27, 2009
Supper and Symphony
· 5:00
pm - Cash bar for those who may enjoy a glass of wine before their
meal (Heritage Lounge)
·
5:30 pm - Serving begins for the dinner.
This is a buffet meal with drink and dessert included.
Price is $15.00 per person. Menu will be available at a later
date. (Heritage Ballroom)
· 6:45
pm - Concert Conversations with David Bowden - Meet Music Director
David Bowden and Guest Artist Susie Park.
You'll hear about the music that will be performed, and
Susie's musical career. There will be an opportunity to ask
questions. (Heritage Ballroom)
You may join us for Concert Conversations even though you have not
participated in the meal.
There will be open seating at the back of the room.
· 7:30
pm - Auditorium doors are closed and performance begins. (Tilson
Music Hall)
Access is available at the back (North) of the building for those
who don't want to climb stairs and wish to use the elevator.
Date/Time: Saturday, February 14, 2009
Place: ISU Tilson Music Hall
Cost: Dinner $15
Performance Ticket $15
Deadline for Registration is February 4, 2009
Fun & Games Night
Join other OLLI members for a night of fun, games and snacks at our
third game night. We
will be able to enjoy each other’s company and test our
gamesmanship. There will be
game master on hand to help us get started and to answer
questions throughout the afternoon.
We will choose from the following games:
· Apples
to Apples
· Scattergories
· Scrabble
Hope to see everyone there!!
· Trivia
· Yahtzee
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 from 4 - 6 PM
Place: ISU Cunningham Memorial Library, Room 028
Cost: FREE
Matinee at St. Mary of the Woods - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie is in the business of putting old heads on young
shoulders, and all of her pupils are the crème de le crème. The
Brodie Set, as her students at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls
are famously known, hang on Miss Brodie's every word as she - with
reckless abandon - dismisses the standard curriculum in favor of
lessons in things that she most admires: subjects as wide-ranging as
Giotto to Hitler to her own romances. When Ms. Brodie begins an
affair with one teacher to distract from her affair with another,
and a false love letter falls into the wrong hands, the headmistress
puts Miss Brodie under review. Her considerable bombast is the only
thing that saves her job, until a fatal error in guidance and the
betrayal of her favorite student become more than Miss Jean Brodie
can overcome ... even in her prime.
Date/Time: Sunday, February 22, 2009 from 2-4 PM
Cost: $5
Place: St. Mary of the Woods, Cecilian Auditorium
Transportation will be available for 10 people. Contact Michelle
Bennett at 812-237-2336 to register for transportation.
Deadline for Registration is February 13, 2009
Take a Tour of the Indiana Theatre and Have Lunch with Robert
Osborne
With Jerry Burns
Join other OLLI members and our Special Guest Robert Osborne on
a tour of the historical Indiana Theatre followed by lunch at
M. Moggers.
The
Indiana Theatre,
designed and built by John Eberson in 1922, is Spanish Baroque in
style and seats approximately 1,600 people. The beautifully spacious
lobby, floored with original Terrazzo tiles, has a decorated ceiling
with 38 hand-carved sculptures.
The Indiana Theatre opened to the public on January 28, 1922. On
opening night--and some nights after--it was common to have peacocks
roaming around the lobby. The first film ever played in the Indiana
was "Cappy Ricks" and featured Thomas Meighen and Agnes Ayres.
Currently, the Indiana Theatre has the second largest screen in the
entire state, measuring 54 feet by 33 feet.
Robert Osborne
has been the primetime host and anchor of TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
television network since TCM made its on-air debut in April 1994.
Since 1977 he has also been a writer for the daily show business
trade publication THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and in 1982 he began
writing the paper's lead column "Rambling Reporter," which covers
all aspects of the movies, television and Broadway.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 from 10:30 AM - 1 PM
Place: Indiana Theatre, 683 Ohio St, Terre Haute
M. Moggers Restaurant, 908 Poplar St, Terre Haute
Cost: $15
Maximum Attendance: 20 people
Deadline for Registration is February 23, 2009
The Met Opera at the Movies:
Madama Butterfly with Drinks at the Jade Garden
Join other OLLI members for the Kerasotes Theater presentation of
Madama Butterfly
and then following the presentation at Jade Garden for a drink.
Madama Butterfly,
an opera about a young Japanese geisha who clings to her belief that
her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving
and permanent marriage,
is one of the defining roles in opera. The title character is as
convincing and tragic as any figure in drama.
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009
Time: Opera starts at 1:00 PM
Drinks at Jade Garden start at 4:15 PM
Place: Kerasotes Theater, Showplace 12, 3153 S 3rd Pl, Terre Haute
Jade Garden, 3375 S 3rd Pl, Terre Haute
Cost: $26 (This price includes admission to the opera at the
Kerasotes Theater and one drink, of your choice at Jade Garden.
Food. Additional drinks are at individuals own expense.)
Deadline for Registration is February 27, 2009
The Big Read -
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
With Gary Daily,
ISU Professor Emeritus
This great classic of American literature will be discussed through
an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, sponsored by
Vigo County Public Library.
Date/Time: Monday, March 9, 2009 from 1 - 2:30 PM
Place: Vigo County Public Library Main Branch, Lower Level Meeting
Room
Maximum Attendance: 15 people
Cost: FREE
Deadline for registration is March 2, 2009
The History of Lace Making
With Elena Brophy
Elena will not only provide a lecture on the history of lace making,
she will also showcase her collection of lace samples.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 from 1:30 - 3 PM
Place: Elena Brophy’s Home, 1219 Farrier, Terre Haute Indiana
Cost: FREE
Maximum Attendance: 15 people
Deadline for Registration is March 2, 2009
Artists Among Us - Wood Sculptor, Jack Gates
Jack will show us the various types of wood that are used for wood
sculpture and explore the many approaches to fine art creation.
His work includes unique furniture design and wall sculptures.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 12, 2009 from 10 AM - 12 PM
Place: ISU Art Annex
Cost: FREE
Deadline for Registration is March 4, 2009
Maximum Attendance: 20 people
To register for any
of these special events, call the Osher Lifelong Learning
registration office, 812-237-8707.
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