Lifelong Learning Institute
Weekly Announcements October 20 - October 24, 2025
Classes beginning this week
Merely Players: Reading and Watching Shakespeare
Starts Oct 20
1:30-3:30pm
Ice House 117
This Week's Events
Oct 21
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Join other LLI Members for this members-exclusive event.
Drifter's Cafe
Seats to Fill
Classes listed here are close to running or have plenty of room! If one catches your interest, sign up today to make sure the class happens!
- Introduction to Mussar, a Jewish Ethical Study
- Starts November 12
- 1:30 - 3:30 PM
- Instructor: Peter Barbour
- Sew Up Your Gift List
- Starts November 4
- 1:30 - 3:30 PM
- Instructor: Kathy Roletter
- Instructional Art - Resin
- 1 day event, November 13
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Instructor : Joyce Smith
Trips this week
Local Edventure:
History of Early Jewelry Design and Manufacturing
October 23
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Hugo Kohl's Fine Jewelry
217 S Liberty St #103
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
LLI Special Interest Group Meeting
Join the JMU LLI Striders for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s!Each year, members of the Special Interest Group - the LLI Striders - form a team for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This year's event is slated for November 1st, and they'd love to have the biggest team yet! To learn more about the event, you can visit the official website here: Walk to End Alzheimer's
To sign up for the JMU LLI team, click here: Sign up here to participate!
Volunteers Needed: Memory and Cognition Lab
The Memory and Cognition Lab is currently seeking adults aged between 60 to 80 years old to participate in an IRB approved study. The study examines learning and memory and takes approximately 50 minutes to complete. You will learn information about several pictured people and will be asked questions about what you learned. You will be compensated $15 for your time.
If you are interested in participating in this study, please contact Art Beqiraj of the Memory and Cognition Lab (under the supervision of Dr. Kethera Moore, Psychology Department) at beqiraax@dukes.jmu.edu. Please use ‘Memory Study’ in the subject line.
Skeleton Fest 2025!
We are Proud to Sponsor Harrisonburg Skelton Fest 2025! Enter the Age 55+ Costume Competition (judged by SPCE's own Dean Nick Swartz!) Put on your best costume, enter at the HDR website, and you could win the following:
1st – $50 Cash, $50 Downtown Dollars & $150 Ruff Bucks
2nd – $25 Downtown Dollars & $50 Downtown Dollars
3rd- $50 Downtown Dollars
Be sure to follow JMU Lifelong Learning on Facebook!
While we'll still use email as our primary communication tool, Facebook will also be a fun and interactive way to learn more about what is going at LLI! Announcements, events, throw back photos - you won't want to miss it! We just updated some of our photos so check it out.
To ensure you see our posts both "Like" and "Follow" LLI. The more you interact with our posts (likes, comments, shares) the more you'll see on your feed (instead of annoying ads!)
Excited to see you online!
DISCLAIMER: This Newsletter is meant to inform and update you about upcoming classes and events. We try to cover as much as we can each week, but it is not an exhaustive list of everything happening at LLI. We're a pretty busy place, and the Newsletter would turn into a novel if we listed everything!
So please note: Just because it isn't in the Newsletter doesn't mean it isn't happening! When in doubt about class times, event dates, or availability of social events, check out the LLI calendar on our website. That will always be the most up-to-date place so please check it regularly!
We hope to see you!
The LLI Team
Katie Overfield-Zook, Director
Lifelong Learning Institute
127 W. Bruce Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540-568-2923
lli@jmu.edu
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