Calendar
Week of Apr 22nd
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Meet the Author, Kirk Wallace Johnson (A Virtual ICL Reads Feather Fever Event)
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Meet the Author, Kirk Wallace Johnson (A Virtual ICL Reads Feather Fever Event)
We’re excited to have Kirk Wallace Johnson join us live, via Zoom. He will discuss his book and answer questions from ICL Readers.
Coordinator: Ruth Sellers
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Experiencing Art (On Campus)
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Experiencing Art (On Campus)
ICL Room 704This workshop offers an opportunity to explore different techniques and forms of art, such as brush painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and drawing. All levels of experience and expertise are welcome. Participants will bring their own supplies and materials and will work independently. While class facilitators and participants can offer encouragement, ideas and suggestions to each other, this will NOT be an instructional class.
Coordinators: Basilio King, Christopher Melby and Alfredo Rodriguez
Fun and Games (On Campus)–
Fun and Games (On Campus)
ICL Room 705Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt1400 N. Roosevelt BlvdSchaumburg, IL 60173-43771-224-523-6497Compete with your ICLRU friends in class. I will present some familiar games like Left, Right and Center, Ticket to Ride and Rummikub. There will be something for you. Join us for our Fun and Games’ class. Please bring any games that might be fun in class.
Coordinator: Nancy Mieszala
Variety - The Spice of Life: "Everything is Copy - Nora Ephron" (Virtual Class)–
Variety - The Spice of Life: "Everything is Copy - Nora Ephron" (Virtual Class)
Zoom ClassDescription:
This energy-packed documentary follows her career from mail girl at Newsweek to reporter for the New York Post to becoming a prestigious essayist at Esquire to successfully writing and directing Hollywood movies that revitalized the romantic comedy genre. The film captures Ephron’s razor-sharp wit while at the same time presenting her flaws through interviews with her closest friends like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, and the late Mike Nichols. This movie is a hoot!
Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass
A Flower in You: Advanced (On Campus)–
A Flower in You: Advanced (On Campus)
ICL Room 620Schaumburg, ILOne Stroke Acrylic painting technique, $5 supply fee for 5 classes.
NOTE: This study group is only available to those who have previously participated in 5 or more classes.
Coordinator: Judy Krakowiak
A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously)–
A Survey of World Religions (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously)
ICL Room 624 and on ZoomEvery group of humans ever discovered has had some kind of religious belief. Yet these beliefs and practices vary widely from one culture to another and even within the same religion. To understand people of other cultures and ethnicities, we need to understand their religions. In this study group, we will explore the earliest evidence of religious practices. As we then strive to gain a basic understanding of the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Dharmic (Hindu and Buddhist), and Taoic (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto) religions, we will also examine the similarities and differences among them.
Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow
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The American Civil War and Reconstruction (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously)
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The American Civil War and Reconstruction (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously)
ICL Room 624 and on ZoomThis is a continuation of a study group that is planned to continue through successive Spring and Fall sessions. We will be looking in depth at the Civil War and Reconstruction from a military, political, societal, and economic perspective. These continuing sessions will include many stand-alone topics covering people; political and moral viewpoints; foreign affairs; life on the home front; military life; tactics and many more aspects of this period in American history. The military events of the conflict will be covered in considerable detail. We will be using lecture, discussion and audio/visual throughout this study group. Participants are encouraged to suggest topics for discussion and make short presentations if so inclined.
Coordinator: Tom Gavigan
The First Americans (On Campus)–
The First Americans (On Campus)
ICL Room 627Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt1400 N. Roosevelt BlvdSchaumburg, IL 60173-4377USA1-224-523-6497Just who were the first migrants to the lands we now call the Americas? When did they come? Where did they originate? How did they get here? Current scholarship, sometimes controversial, sometimes conflicting, sometimes competitive, is pointing in directions other than what we may have believed or what we may have been taught. Did you know a current claim for the oldest human settlement in the Americas lies in South Carolina, dating back 15,000 years?
This study group will explore some of the new findings and paradigm shifts coming from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and genetics. We will also explore some of their descendants. The data is not “settled science” but it is thought provoking and provides interesting and disparate hypotheses about the ancient immigrants to the land.
Coordinator: Joan Reisen
The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Power at the Dawn of the Modern Age (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously)–
The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Power at the Dawn of the Modern Age (On Campus and Zoom Simultaneously)
ICL Room 624 and on ZoomThe Renaissance is commonly known for beautiful and impressive works of art. Less known, however, are the political and social foundations that made much of this Renaissance possible. This session will review the Italian city states during the Renaissance, the political giants of Florence, Milan, Venice, Naples and Rome, their politics, and the formation of the personal dynasties on the Italian peninsula. From the beginning of the Renaissance to the Peace of Lodi, we will review the thinkers and doers of the Renaissance who balanced the world and destiny for decades.
Coordinator: Jean Ciura
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Come Play Bridge (On Campus)
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Come Play Bridge (On Campus)
ICL Room 705Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt1400 N. Roosevelt BlvdSchaumburg, IL 60173-43771-224-523-6497This study group is for people who already know how to play bridge. Join us if you would like to meet other ICL members who play and want to have more opportunities to play the game. We welcome those who have recently learned the game as well as intermediate and advanced players. We will be playing for FUN, not cutthroat! Hopefully we can all learn from one another.
NOTE: This is an ongoing study group, but new participants are always welcome.
Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow
The Complete Thin Man Collection (On Campus)–
The Complete Thin Man Collection (On Campus)
ICL Room 627Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt1400 N. Roosevelt BlvdSchaumburg, IL 60173-4377USA1-224-523-6497The Thin Man was a series of six movies which were produced between 1934 and 1947. The movies starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The plot for these films centered around Nick and Nora's relationship as high society detectives. The films are full of laughs and mystery as Nick and Nora toast each other with champagne cocktails as they solve the latest "who done it"! The seventh class we will show two documentaries, one each on the lives of William Powell and Myrna Loy.
Coordinator: Bob Hartnett
Variety: The Spice of Life "Everything is Copy - Nora Ephron" (On Campus)–
Variety: The Spice of Life "Everything is Copy - Nora Ephron" (On Campus)
ICL Room 624Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt1400 N. Roosevelt BlvdSchaumburg, IL 60173-43771-224-523-6497This energy-packed documentary follows her career from mail girl at Newsweek to reporter for the New York Post to becoming a prestigious essayist at Esquire to successfully writing and directing Hollywood movies that revitalized the romantic comedy genre. The film captures Ephron’s razor-sharp wit while at the same time presenting her flaws through interviews with her closest friends like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, and the late Mike Nichols. This movie is a hoot!
Coordinators: Mike and Marilyn Glass
Book Discussion: 'Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings'–
Book Discussion: 'Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings'
ICL Room 704Institute for Continued Learning Roosevelt1400 N. Roosevelt BlvdSchaumburg, IL 60173-4377USA1-224-523-6497The third president and his enslaved mistress had a decades-long relationship. Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings is historical fiction that imagines what that relationship might have been like. But it goes beyond other historical fiction in its creative take, shifting between history and fantasy, imagining Jefferson and Hemings in other time periods and places. As good fiction does, it makes us ask questions we had not thought to ask and presents possibilities we had not considered. This is a book discussion about Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings which will be held over two sessions and will work most beautifully if those attending have read the book. Session #1 will consider the first half of the book, and Session #2 will focus on how its various themes resolve. Discussion will be led by American historian Joyce Haworth.
Coordinator: Joyce Haworth