Exciting News!
Little Falls Village Members Gain FREE Access
to Online OLLI Classes this February and Spring
Registration Now Open:
MEMBERS ONLY
This February and Spring, members of Little Falls Village have FREE access to any, or all, select Zoom courses and study groups. This special no-cost opportunity is available because of a new pilot partnership between our Village and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at American University.
Village Members will have access to two sessions: “February Shorts” Courses and Spring Semester Study Groups. Registration for both sessions is now open. Continue reading for Zoom course descriptions and information on registering through Little Falls Village.
677: Classics of African American Art
(Primarily Literature and Music)
ELEANOR HEGINBOTHAM & GERALD COLEMAN
Eight Thursdays beginning March 10 (1:45 PM - 3:15 PM)
According to a recent book, we are called to Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. To that end, we will explore texts, music, and images, which have influenced the current plethora of African American art. Team-taught by a lifelong English professor and a lifelong composer and performer, the class will explore work by, among others, Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. This is the first of two multi-disciplinary semesters we hope to lead in which the vexing contradictions of justice and racism are addressed with—often—glorious provisional resolutions.
Class Format: Reading and Discussion
Reading: 2 hours / week.
Eleanor Heginbotham, PhD, author and professor on American authors for five decades around the world, and for the past 15 years at OLLI, is eager to return to these texts with Gerald Coleman, PhD, composer, conductor, organist, performer (Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center), and theologian, whose honors include the Yale’s Music Fox Award.