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Three Reasons to Get an LLI Account

Introduction

You should get yourself an lli.bard.edu account because:

  1. It makes you look smart to friends and business associates.
  2. It saves you money.
  3. It helps build the LLI community.

An lli.bard.edu address is a major benefit to being an LLI member.

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A Fresh Perspective from New Members

Introduction

Many of our 61 newcomers provided their opinions about their introduction to LLI and their courses in the Council’s recent new member survey. The good news is that most of the comments were positive. The negative feedback is valuable, however, since the survey was undertaken with a genuine desire to learn how our organization can improve.

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Spring Registration Upgrade

Introduction

On Saturday, February 8, registration for LLI classes will enter the 21st century. No longer will the registration committee spend hours adjusting enrollments while never being sure their decisions were optimal for LLI members.

Since LLI has grown in members and in class offerings, the time has come to automate.

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Celebrate LLI Spring Course Offerings

A Semester of Firsts

We celebrate a semester of firsts. We can welcome a record number of Bard faculty teaching individual courses at LLI this spring as well as a record number of LLI member presenters. Curriculum is also testing the popularity of a new scheduling option by offering the same course in the first and fifth periods to better accommodate members’ varying schedules.

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Meet Lou Trapani

Introduction

Lou Trapani has been teaching at LLI for 15 years. His classes on dramatic literature and history of the theater are among the most popular ever presented –many of us have taken every single one.

He became interested in the theater world as a child growing up in Brooklyn at the time when New York television presented live drama.

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Take a Break From Winter at Intersession

Theater, Culture and Music

Lou Trapani is back on January 8 to discuss theater and culture, followed by Donald Fraser, the educator at the Mills Mansion presenting stories of the Titanic sinking from a unique point of view.

On January 15, journalist Anthony Musso will share his personal stories of some of the top 100 recording artists of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Google Meet is for Video Conferencing

Introduction

One recent snowy day, the Communications Team had a monthly scheduled meeting. The weather outside was frightful and driving was not delightful. What to do? Google Meet to the rescue!

Google Meet is video conferencing software that allows up to 30 high-definition video users to meet and share screens over the Internet.

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Thank a Participating Member

Introduction

How were your classes this fall? Most people gave high ratings to our program. And that is thanks to our many participating members.

As we prepare for Intersession and then for Spring, think about joining in. Look how many of us helped make it happen this fall!

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Bard Winter Songfest

Join the Bard College Community for Winter Songfest
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Sunday Afternoon on December 15, 2019

Every December in the Hudson Valley ushers in a variety of performances, holiday markets and other activities to launch the community into a festive mood. Bard’s “Winter Songfest” is a delightful part of this joyous season.

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Sidewalk Art

Introduction

A zig-zag of letters pave the way into the Hessel Museum at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies. These letters present a poem, an art installation, or, as CCS director Tom Eccles suggests, a metaphor for the art of curating.

The poem is composed of a stainless steel alphabet embedded in the broad concrete sidewalk leading up to and entering the building,

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