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Your Lifelong Learning Institute membership gives you access to all of LLI classes and programs, most without any additional costs. There are some classes or programs, however, which require additional fees. Where there are additional fees, those fees must be paid to be registered. Fees can be paid by check or cash, or online. If paying by check, please clearly indicate the classes or programs being covered.
Midlothian, VA. 804.378.2527
Literature and Poetry- Spring 2012
Lifelong Learning Institute
of Chesterfield
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Course: EL121001
Bag Lunch and Reading for Fun
Wednesday Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 14, Apr 18, May 9
12:00‐1:00
Instructor(s): Annebel Lewis
Bring a bag lunch and drink to enjoy during a one-hour book discussion class. The spring session reading list includes: January - THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain February - NIGHTWOODS by Charles Frazier March - THE DOVE KEEPERS by Alice Hoffman April - UNBROKEN: A WWII STORY O SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION by Laura Hillenbrand.
Course: EL121009
Writing Your Memoir
Wednesday Feb 8, 15, 22, 29 Mar 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr 18, 25, May 2
2:30‐3:30
Instructor(s): Ellen Woodruff
Webster’s defines memoir as “a narrative composed from personal experience.” This course will explore various styles of memoir writing – published and unpublished. Class members will be challenged to explore in depth various settings, people of influence, choices with consequences, narrow escapes, and frivolous but insightful vignettes. It is expected that at the end of the course each participant/author will have a written record of their life history. The finished memoir will chronicle each decade of life; will showcase the author’s unique personality; and will be worthy to be passed down to grandchildren or nieces and nephews. The writing process will be discussed and modeled in detail. The course will utilize small supportive reading/writing groups. The class will offer encouragement to all aspiring authors with a heavy dash of humor and good will.
Course: EL121005
Keeping the Muse Alive
Tuesday/Thursday Apr. 17, 19, 24, 26
12:30‐2:30
Instructor(s): Sara Kay Rupnik
Whether you are ready to begin new work, or you want to jump start the writing you began six months ago, this workshop will help you begin, move forward and focus on the completion of your poem, short story or memoir. ALL writers are welcome.
Course: EL121014
Great Books $8
Tuesday Jan 31, Feb 14, 28, Mar 13, 27, Apr 24, May 9
1:30‐3:00
Instructor(s): Wade Curry, Sara Unetic and Lorraine Nichol
A discussion of selections from GREAT CONVERSATIONS 1, an anthology for reading and discussion selected by the Great Books foundation. Each volume in the Great Conversations series includes fifteen selections, bringing together voices from the past and present that provoke meaningful dialogue. Titles this session will include: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Of Friendship and Of Solitude (Michel de Montaigne), Pensées* (Blaise Pascal), Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman), Democracy in America* (Alexis de Tocqueville), An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen), The Value of Science* (Henri Poincaré), Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (Sigmund Freud), The Secret Sharer (Joseph Conrad), The Theory of the Leisure Class* (Thorstein Veblen), The Stages of Life (Carl Jung), Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen), Boys and Girls (Alice Munro). (You can choose to obtain the book on your own or they can be ordered through the office at the time of registration. If you purchase your own, you do not need to pay the course materials fee.)
Course: EL121015
Aspiring Writers Critique
Friday Feb 10, 24, Mar 9, 23, Apr 6, 20, May 4, 18
1:00‐3:00
Instructor(s): Dorothy Moses
For aspiring writers who want gentle feedback on what they are writing. Working on memoirs, a short story, your first novel, or screenplay? Bring in a few pages each month and get feedback from the group while giving your own comments on others' work. Learn to be a better writer through giving and receiving constructive criticism!
Course: EL121016
True Stories, Novels, or Plays Adapted to Film
Wednesday Feb 8, 15
10:15‐12:15
Instructor(s): Helene Wagner
This course is not only fun and educational but is geared to the cinema buff who loves to analyze and to discuss great American movies, or to the aspiring screenwriter, novelist, or playwright who wants to convert their material into film and must face the difficult task of having to choose what will, or will not work. If a movie, or TV show says it is based on, or inspired by true events, what exactly does that mean? Movie clips viewed and discussed during class include, "Titanic", "We Are Marshall", "The Untouchables", "I Walk the Line", "The Queen and Seabiscuit". Students will learn how the nature of film is intrinsically different from the nature of all other literature and how film structure must come first in order to sculpt
out everything from the source material that doesn't belong, so only the nature of film remains in order to bring compelling true life story, novel, or play adaptation to life on the big screen.
Bag Lunch and Reading for Fun
Wednesday Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 14, Apr 18, May 9
12:00‐1:00
Instructor(s): Annebel Lewis
Bring a bag lunch and drink to enjoy during a one-hour book discussion class. The spring session reading list includes: January - THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain February - NIGHTWOODS by Charles Frazier March - THE DOVE KEEPERS by Alice Hoffman April - UNBROKEN: A WWII STORY O SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION by Laura Hillenbrand.
Course: EL121009
Writing Your Memoir
Wednesday Feb 8, 15, 22, 29 Mar 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr 18, 25, May 2
2:30‐3:30
Instructor(s): Ellen Woodruff
Webster’s defines memoir as “a narrative composed from personal experience.” This course will explore various styles of memoir writing – published and unpublished. Class members will be challenged to explore in depth various settings, people of influence, choices with consequences, narrow escapes, and frivolous but insightful vignettes. It is expected that at the end of the course each participant/author will have a written record of their life history. The finished memoir will chronicle each decade of life; will showcase the author’s unique personality; and will be worthy to be passed down to grandchildren or nieces and nephews. The writing process will be discussed and modeled in detail. The course will utilize small supportive reading/writing groups. The class will offer encouragement to all aspiring authors with a heavy dash of humor and good will.
Course: EL121005
Keeping the Muse Alive
Tuesday/Thursday Apr. 17, 19, 24, 26
12:30‐2:30
Instructor(s): Sara Kay Rupnik
Whether you are ready to begin new work, or you want to jump start the writing you began six months ago, this workshop will help you begin, move forward and focus on the completion of your poem, short story or memoir. ALL writers are welcome.
Course: EL121014
Great Books $8
Tuesday Jan 31, Feb 14, 28, Mar 13, 27, Apr 24, May 9
1:30‐3:00
Instructor(s): Wade Curry, Sara Unetic and Lorraine Nichol
A discussion of selections from GREAT CONVERSATIONS 1, an anthology for reading and discussion selected by the Great Books foundation. Each volume in the Great Conversations series includes fifteen selections, bringing together voices from the past and present that provoke meaningful dialogue. Titles this session will include: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Of Friendship and Of Solitude (Michel de Montaigne), Pensées* (Blaise Pascal), Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman), Democracy in America* (Alexis de Tocqueville), An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen), The Value of Science* (Henri Poincaré), Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (Sigmund Freud), The Secret Sharer (Joseph Conrad), The Theory of the Leisure Class* (Thorstein Veblen), The Stages of Life (Carl Jung), Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen), Boys and Girls (Alice Munro). (You can choose to obtain the book on your own or they can be ordered through the office at the time of registration. If you purchase your own, you do not need to pay the course materials fee.)
Course: EL121015
Aspiring Writers Critique
Friday Feb 10, 24, Mar 9, 23, Apr 6, 20, May 4, 18
1:00‐3:00
Instructor(s): Dorothy Moses
For aspiring writers who want gentle feedback on what they are writing. Working on memoirs, a short story, your first novel, or screenplay? Bring in a few pages each month and get feedback from the group while giving your own comments on others' work. Learn to be a better writer through giving and receiving constructive criticism!
Course: EL121016
True Stories, Novels, or Plays Adapted to Film
Wednesday Feb 8, 15
10:15‐12:15
Instructor(s): Helene Wagner
This course is not only fun and educational but is geared to the cinema buff who loves to analyze and to discuss great American movies, or to the aspiring screenwriter, novelist, or playwright who wants to convert their material into film and must face the difficult task of having to choose what will, or will not work. If a movie, or TV show says it is based on, or inspired by true events, what exactly does that mean? Movie clips viewed and discussed during class include, "Titanic", "We Are Marshall", "The Untouchables", "I Walk the Line", "The Queen and Seabiscuit". Students will learn how the nature of film is intrinsically different from the nature of all other literature and how film structure must come first in order to sculpt
out everything from the source material that doesn't belong, so only the nature of film remains in order to bring compelling true life story, novel, or play adaptation to life on the big screen.
Lifelong Learning Institute Sessions
Spring: Feb thru May. Summer: June-July-August. Fall: Sept thru Dec.
You may enroll and register for classes at anytime.
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804-378-2527.
LLI now follows the Chesterfield County School winter weather closings.
If schools are cancelled due to inclement weather, LLI is also closed.
If the schools have a "delayed opening," LLI will open at 10 am.
If schools are cancelled due to inclement weather, LLI is also closed.
If the schools have a "delayed opening," LLI will open at 10 am.