Learn More about Osher this Summer

and Take Time to Give Back!

Osher Ambassadors

Do you love Osher and want to give back to this wonderful program by serving as a volunteer? We would love to have you! We are currently seeking volunteers to serve as Osher Ambassadors to help greet and direct people at our annual open house at Red Butte Garden in August, annual member luncheon at Little America Hotel in December, and our Spring Fling held on campus in early March.

Osher Ambassadors will help staff with various tasks at these big events and also help host free special events throughout the year, attending as an Osher member who gathers the group at the designated meeting spot, takes roll, and communicates with staff afterwards. During our four terms, Osher Ambassadors can also help instructors by taking roll in classes and reading announcements each week before class begins, as well as directing members to our complimentary coffee and tea service and their classrooms during the "first week of school" when Osher members are trying to find the way to their new class.

This is a low effort but high impact and fun way to get involved. You can sign up to help at as many or as few events or classes as your schedule allows. Join us to learn more about this opportunity in a fun, free class session.

Thursday, August 1 at 11:30 am – FREE CLASS!

Summertime Special Events

Utah Museum of Fine Arts Tour - The 12 Principles of Design

Enjoy a tour of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts' global collection with a focus on principles of design. Practice your slow-looking skills and explore more deeply the reasons artists utilize principles like balance, repetition, and movement to create works of art that resonate with viewers. Your skillful guides will be UMFA docents Gerri Coombs and Kevin Doyle.

Friday, July 12 at 1:00 pm

Summertime and the Living is Easy!

Enjoy Listening to Our New Podcast

Osher Stories

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, we are collecting recorded interviews with Osher members, instructors, and volunteers as they share their experiences and describe what this wonderful program has meant to them in their lives. Our goal is to build our community by sharing 20 years of stories with our membership and with people "age 50 or better" in our area who may be looking for something new at this stage of life. Listen as members tell us about how they first found out about Osher, friendships they have formed here, what favorite classes and instructors have been, and unique perspectives about how learning and curiosity never retire!

Today’s feature is Episode 7: Jill E. Meyer, Pamela Holman, and Abdulnaser Kaadan

Osher director Jill E. Meyer introduces the Osher Stories podcast project and instructors Pamela Holman and Abdulnaser Kaadan share their perspectives about teaching in this wonderful program! Duration: 10:56

If you are interested in contributing to this very special Utah Osher 20th Anniversary project, please contact wonderful Osher volunteer Julie Myers via email jscott63@comcast.net or text or call her at 801-598-0595 to schedule your own recording.

Osher Community Events

Free Lecture - Courtesy of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology: Dancing and Romancing on Broadway

With Michael Lasser

Michael Lasser is the author of three books: America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley (co-written with Philip Furia), America’s Songs II: From the 1890s to the Post-War Years, and City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950. From 1980-2021, he was the host of the nationally syndicated public radio show, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, winner of a 1994 Peabody Award. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he is the former theater critic for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, and for 35 years has spoken at museums and universities around the country. In 2010, he was named a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Rollins College. He is currently at work on a fourth book about the Great American Songbook.

Tuesday, August 6 at 8:00 to 10:00 am MDT

Meeting ID: 971 1899 5074

Passcode: 676377

Free Virtual Lecture – Salt Lake County Library

D-Day: The Finest Hours of the US Military

Osher Instructor Colonel Stephen C. Hall will share compelling stories of the US Military on June 6, 1944 and why events unfolded the way they did.

Monday, July 08 at 7:00 pm

Campus Events

Department of Health and Kinesiology Study

The Sleep and Motor Memory Lab is in search of male participants between 18 -35 or 55-75 years old to participate in an experiment that examines the effect of exercise on brain function. Participants will enter a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner before and after an exercise or control (restful reading) intervention. If you would like to contribute to their research or if you know someone who would be interested, please contact them directly at ExerciseBrain@utah.edu.