NEWS

PREVIEW OF OUR EXCITING FALL COURSES

Our incredible Course Leaders have come up with a slate of fascinating courses for the semester beginning in September. Details including dates, times, and content will be on our website shortly. Meanwhile, click here to see what we can look forward to.

MEMBERSHIPS FOR THE COMING YEAR

(July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025)

·     New members: you’ll be able to sign up for membership from mid-June on;

·     Returning members: if you’re presently a member (ending June 30, 2024), you’ll need to wait until July 1 to sign up, otherwise you’ll get a confusing error message;

·     We recommend signing up for membership before course registration begins on Monday, July 22, at 10:00 AM. When you do, keep a record of your username and password to ensure smoother course registration.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Available to members at no additional charge

PLEASE JOIN LLAIC LOVES ART AS WE WELCOME BACK RENA TOBEY FROM THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH AT 1:30 PM

MARTA MINUJIN: ARTE! ARTE! ARTE!

The tour will reflect an Argentine conceptual and performance artist,  Marta Minujin's, bold experimentation from over six decades. The presentation will chart Minujin’s influential career in Buenos Aires as well as time spent in Paris, New York and Washington,DC, through a range of pioneering mattress-based soft sculptures, fluorescent large - scale paintings, psychedelic drawings and performances, and vintage film footage. The artist’s ephemeral works – happenings, participatory installations, and monumental public art – will be presented through rarely-seen photographs, video, and other documentation.

Rena Tobey, our docent, back by popular demand, is returning to LLAIC Loves Art to present aspects of this unique exhibit housed at the Jewish Museum in New York. Rena is an art historian whose greatest passion is making art accessible, invigorating, insightful, and fun. She has taught art history at NYU's School for Professional Studies and Southern Connecticut State University. Her research, writing, and teaching focus centers on American women artists working before 1945. In addition to tours of the Jewish Museum, Rena conducts lively, interactive talks for a variety of community organizations including the New York Public Library, New York Adventure Club, Shady Ladies Tours, and Classic Learning. Just for fun, she created Artventures!® Game--a cheeky party game on the adventures of art and art history.

Click here before noon on Tuesday, June 18, to request a Zoom invitation. You'll receive it that day.

GETTING TO KNOW US

MONDAY, JUNE 24 ON ZOOM

AND

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 IN PERSON

AT TEMPLE SHALOM,

175 TEMPLE STREET, WEST NEWTON

INTRODUCTION 10-11 (BRING A FRIEND!)

COURSE PREVIEWS 11:30-12

If you're new to LLAIC, if you want to introduce us to your friends, or if you just want to hear the latest about our affordable classes and enrichment programs, come to either session at 10:00. To hear about our exciting new fall courses, come at 11:30. Or come for both. Different courses will be previewed on each day.

Write to membership@llaic.org by Saturday, June 22. Specify whether you want a Zoom invite for Monday and/or a place reserved on Tuesday.

JOIN US AT THE LLAIC ANNUAL PICNIC!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 @ 11:30 A.M.

(RAIN DATE TUESDAY, JULY 2)

LYONS PARK, NEWTON

LLAIC’s annual picnic will be held starting on June 26 (rain date July 2) at Lyons Park ( GPS: 104 West Pine St., Newton). Bring lunch for yourself and something to share.

Directions: From Rte 95, take the Rte 30 East exit, and follow Commonwealth Ave. about ¾ mile. Turn left on Melrose Street, go about ¼ mile, then left on West Pine St. Go to the end and park near sign, “Auburndale Playground. The Cove.” Walk through the opening in the fence and follow the pathway to the left about 250 feet to the Ryan Picnic Area. There are about 30 picnic tables, mostly shaded.

THE FORBES HOUSE MUSEUM

215 ADAMS STREET, MILTON

FRIDAY, JUNE 28

GUIDED TOUR AT 11 A.M.

LUNCH FOLLOWING AT ABBY PARK RESTAURANT, MILTON

                                                                                                          The Forbes House Museum is a three-story 19^th century Greek Revival style mansion that reveals how the Forbes family and their domestic staff lived and worked. The house, a National Historic landmark, is located atop Milton Hill, overlooking Boston’s skyline, the Neponset River marshes, and Boston Harbor in the distance. The collection includes Asian export porcelain, silver, paintings, and furniture, Civil War and President Lincoln memorabilia, items from the first international humanitarian aid mission to Ireland and 19^th century maritime art and artifacts. 

The house was built in 1833 by architect Isaiah Rogers and was an engineering marvel for that era, boasting central heating and indoor plumbing. The Forbes family had great success in the China Trade and four generations of the family lived in the house until 1962. The family was also involved in the Opium trade that was forced on China.

The house has a spiral staircase to the second floor and another staircase to the lower level which houses the kitchen and other rooms for the staff. For those who are uncomfortable with the stairs, the guide can provide a slide show of the second floor in the comfortable first floor library. Please let us know if you would prefer to stay on the first floor.

We will have a guided tour at 11:00 AM and then lunch at 12:45 at the lovely Abbey Park Restaurant, a short drive away, where we will get separate checks. Restrooms at the restaurant are on the basement level but there are accessible restrooms at the Forbes House Museum.

To reserve your place for the tour and lunch, please print and complete the attached registration form, enclose a check made out to Margalit Lai for $10 per person and mail it to Margalit at the address on the form. Or Venmo Margalit.

Your check must be received by June 21. The trip is limited to 15 people.

THE OUTSIDER AT THE VOKES THEATRE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 @ 2:00

This summer the Vokes Theatre in Wayland is performing a play called The Outsider, a political farce, appropriate for the season! The play concerns a governor who exits office in disgrace, leaving his qualified but socially and politically inept lieutenant governor to do his best in his place. As expected, things begin to go downhill fast, but help arrives from an unexpected source. According to Broadway World: “The Outsider is an insightful, witty satire about modern American politics. Funny, timely and – dare we say – entirely possible.” 

We would like to reserve a block of tickets for a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday August 3. Tickets are $20.00 each. If you would like to join the group for the play, followed by an early dinner, please send the attached reservation form with your $20 check to Andrea Teacher at the address written on the form by June 15. Contact Andrea with any questions.

GROUP MEETINGS

Available to members at no additional charge

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP

¡Bienvenidos a La Tertulia!

MONDAY, JUNE 17 @ 1:00

Our format consists of reading and discussing articles from various Spanish language media sources of general high interest. There is no homework although everyone is invited to submit articles they might find for our agendas.

The hosts for the group are Miriam Grodberg and Larry Krakauer. Contact Miriam at mgrodberg@comcast.net with any questions.

CURRENT EVENTS

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 @ 10:00-11:15

LED BY JERRY JACOBS

Does anyone care about Hunter Biden? Do you agree with the Kansas Supreme Court that there's no inherent right to vote in that state, and maybe in others? Will the Celtics survive Kyrie Irving? Join Jerry and his erudite and ingenious group in answering these questions and any others that come up.

Click here before noon on Thursday, June 20, to request a Zoom invitation. You'll receive it that day. Newcomers are always welcome.

MOVIE MAVENS

LOCKE

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 @ 2 P.M.

Locke is a 2013 British film written and directed by Steven Knight, screenwriter of the films Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises and creator of the English gangster series Peaky Blinders.

Tom Hardy, a 2015 Academy Award nominee for The Revenant, stars as a man struggling to cope with a complicated present and an uncertain future. Using a uniquely creative narrative style of filming, Locke explores the power and influence of family history, the challenge of hard choices, and the weight of accepting personal responsibility.

On its release, Time Out London called Locke : “A master class in how the most local and hemmed-in stories can reverberate with the power of big, universal themes. Tense and troubling.” The film can be rented on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango.

Click here before noon on Thursday, June 20, to request a Zoom invitation. You'll receive it that day.

THERE ARE NO GENIUSES ON WALL STREET

MONDAY, JUNE 24 @ 10:30-12:00

Are you an experienced investor, or are you new to "the market" and want to know more? We are an easygoing discussion group that deals with all market-related topics. Bring your opinions, insights, and questions. Or just listen. We are now meeting as a joint venture between LLAIC and Tufts OLLI. The next meeting after this one is July 29.

Click here today to request a Zoom invitation. If you have any questions about the group, contact Richard Lewis: lewisdmd@yahoo.com or 617-448-4439.