Fall Registration Opens Tomorrow!

Registration begins August 6 at 9:00 am. Join us this fall for your choice of 82 outstanding classes presented by our excellent, caring, and talented instructors. Many of them have created 39 brand new topics especially for you. We will also offer 13 additional new classes from Osher Online with Northwestern University. Engage your mind and enrich your life with Osher!

Test Drive Vivo Fitness for Free!

Fall term Vivo classes will begin September 16. But free trial classes are held weekly at Vivo Fitness. With the added daylight and numerous opportunities to be active, summer is the perfect time to start an exercise routine. Vivo offers free trial classes to make the first step that much easier. You can join a class and meet one of their expert trainers to see if Vivo might be right for you. Visit their website to learn more or reach out with any questions by emailing care@teamvivo.com. 

Meet Vivo CEO Eric Levitan:

Summertime Special Event

Trolley Square Excitement

Have you Ever climbed a water tower, or visited a trolley car museum? Well come with Osher and you can do both as well as have a tour of the Trolley Square property. From the top of the water tower you will have amazing views of the city. On the museum tour, you will learn all about the history of the cars and the barns they lived in. We will learn the history of Trolley Square as well as the present. You can also visit, at your leisure and pleasure, one of the restaurants of your choosing. Please note: There will be walking around the property and museum as well as climbing the stairs in the tower.

Tuesday, August 6 at 4:00 pm - TOMORROW!

Our Osher Community

Patricia Pignanelli Contributes 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. In this week’s highlighted episode, Osher member Patricia Pignanelli interviews fellow Osher members Carolyn Carey and Julie Myers. Listen in as they discuss their own perspectives on Osher’s very valuable current and future role in the community. Duration: 30:22

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

FREE Osher Community Events

Get the most out of your Osher membership this summer by attending some of our fun and engaging FREE offerings!



Discussion Series with Osher Instructor Dr. David Derezotes

Join Osher Instructor and U of U Emeritus Professor Dr. David Derezotes from the College of Social Work for a series of FREE discussions at the Millcreek Library. Learn how to practice civil conversation listen for understanding, and speak respectively—even about controversial topics.

Wednesday, August 21 at 6:00 pm 

Burning Issues – Monitoring Fires Remotely from South Dakota

Presented by Research Biologist Joshua Picotte, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center

The Osher Institute at the University of South Dakota would like to share a single-session FREE Zoom class with all OLLIs this fall. USGS Earth Resources and Observation Science Center (EROS) operates the Landsat satellite program with NASA, and maintains the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence, including tens of millions of satellite images. They use satellites to monitor fires across the United States, all from a tiny place in eastern South Dakota. Joshua Picotte, who has been involved in fire science for the past 20 years, will explain the techniques that EROS uses to map those fires and how the data is used. Limit: 300 attendees.

Please email OLLI@usd.edu for the Zoom link if you would like to attend.

Friday, September 6, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. CENTRAL 

Campus Events

Natural History Museum of Utah Seeks Volunteers

Volunteers play a vital role at the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU), working in every department to help us achieve our mission of illuminating the natural world and the place of humans within it. Whether you want to work behind the scenes in the collections, share your passion for natural history with guests, facilitate field trips for school kids, or offer your organizational skills to the Registrar, we've got a volunteer position that will spark your interest and utilize your talents! 

Community Events

Abravanel Hall



Renowned composer John Williams pens letter to Salt Lake City in effort to save Abravanel Hall. Read more here!