Brrr…now that it’s cold outside join LLL for some stimulating times
January’s cool mornings are perfect for enjoying the warmth and thought-provoking sessions. Pull out your calendar, compare it to the events below and plan on joining LLL for some lively events.
Pre-registration is required for the events that are starred; go online or come by the LLL Center Tuesday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and noon. If you have registered but cannot make it, please let us know so someone else can take your place. Email [email protected].
Details about these events can be found at www.lifelonglearningatpc.org.
Classes
January 3: Artisan Bread I
January 7: Writing Workshop
January 10: Artisan Bread II
January 11: Opera — An Introduction
January 14: Retirement, What’s Next?
January 17: Learn to Make Pasta I
January 18: Opera — Introduction to Madame Butterfly
January 19: Social Security
January 23: Great Decisions I and II
January 24: Learn to Make Pasta II
January 24: Great Decisions III and IV
January 26: Food Art I
January 27: Great Decisions V
Monday Morning Lectures: 10:00 a.m.; $4 per person
January 9: Arizona and the Drought
January 23: Phoenix High School Dreamers Beat MIT
January 30: Stem Cells; Where Ethics and Science Collide
Premier Lectures: 7:00 p.m.; $15 per person
January 13: Life in North Korea
January 28: Walking Around the World to Raise Breast Cancer Awareness
Trips
January 12: A Day in Tucson
January 20: Phoenix Symphony
Special Events
January 5: TED Talk
January 15: Sunday Series, Café Flutes
January 26: Cinema Society
Special Events
January 5: TED Talk
January 15: Sunday Series, Café Flutes
January 26: Cinema Society
January’s Lectures
Climate change to walking around the world for breast cancer
Interested in combating breast cancer, helping kids escape poverty, learning about North Korea or worried about the future of water in Arizona? Mark your calendar for these LifeLong Learning lectures.
Unless noted, lectures are in the Renaissance Theater. Monday lectures are $4 per person at the door and begin at 10:00 a.m. Premier Lectures are at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased online, at the LLL Center, or at the door.
Tom Buschatzke
Monday, January 9: Will Arizona run out of water?
The climate is changing and these changes are at the heart of the long drought affecting Arizona’s ground water reservoirs and levels in the Colorado River and will likely cause rationing in Arizona in the near future.
Learn what Arizona is doing to prepare when Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, talks about the steps the state has taken to minimize the drought’s impact.
Friday, January 13: Life in North Korea
Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings us inside the most repressive totalitarian regime today, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded and an offhand remark can send a person to prison for life. The author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Demick was the first L.A. Times bureau chief to cover the Koreas from Seoul.
Monday, January 16: Just Folks remembers Martin Luther King
Monday, January 23: Phoenix kids realize their dreams
Some children of undocumented immigrants are beating the odds and excelling in science, engineering, math and technology, the fields most in demand in today’s world.
They owe their success to Faridodin “Fredi” Lajvardi, a teacher at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, where he leads the Falcon Robotics Team, an extracurricular program receiving national and worldwide recognition. The team beat MIT in 2004 and has been winning awards ever since.
Saturday, January 28: Raising money for breast cancer awareness
Education about breast cancer is extensive in the United States, but very different in other places in the world. That’s why Polly Letofsky decided to spend five years walking around the world.
In 1999 she sold all her possessions and left the beauty and peace of Vail, Colorado for the walk that ultimately covered four continents, 22 countries and more than 14,000 miles.
Along the way, she learned of the tremendous impact a single person can make and how to find the inner strength to overcome incredible obstacles and threats.
Ben Hurlbut, Ph.D.
Monday, January 30: Science and ethics collide
Tuscany Falls Ballroom
Stem cell research is finding answers to cancer, heart disease and many other catastrophic illnesses; however, the field of embryonic stem cell research has been embroiled in scientific, political and ethical controversy since its beginning.
Ben Hurlbut, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the A.S.U. School of Life Sciences, will review the history and controversy surrounding stem cell research and the problems that arise when science and ethics conflict.
Polly Letofsky
Raising awareness for breast cancer, one step at a time
While education about breast cancer is extensive in the United States, it is very different in other countries. That’s why Polly Letofsky decided to spend five years walking around the world.
In 1999, she sold all her possessions and left the beauty and peace of Vail, Colorado for the walk that would ultimately cover four continents, 22 countries and more than 14,000 miles.
Along the way, she learned the tremendous impact a single person can make and how to find the inner strength to overcome incredible obstacles and threats.
To raise awareness of the disease here in PebbleCreek, breast cancer survivors, patients and their loved ones are urged to wear pink or other symbols of the disease to the lecture at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, January 28.
Letofsky, the Premier Lecture speaker on Saturday, January 28, says she wanted to walk around the world ever since she was a child and heard that a man had done it; however, it wasn’t until August 1999, after several friends developed breast cancer, that she set off on a breast-cancer awareness campaign. Survivors and well-wishers around the world joined her on the walk, bringing into the open a disease that is all too often hidden in other parts of the globe.
Letofsky is a motivational speaker who keeps audiences on the edge of their seats as she richly details her journey with humor and honest reflection, talking about both the good times and the hardships. Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always inspirational, her program personifies the spirit of commitment and perseverance that will compel you to conquer life’s challenges — one step at a time.
Tickets to the lecture are $15 per person and may be purchased online at www.lifelonglearningatpc.org, at the LLL Center weekday mornings from 9:00 a.m. to noon (except Mondays when there is a lecture) or in the theater lobby before any lecture.