2026 Programs

The Greatest Comic Opera You’ve Never Heard Of with Mark Tiarks
Friday, September 25 at 10 am

New Mexico in 1776, with Rob Martinez
Wednesday, September 30 at 10 am

Tenor Madness in Jazz: From Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Rollins, with Mark Davis
Tuesday, October 6 and 13 at 10 am

The Fall Bird Migration: Birds Heading South, with Janie Chodosh
Wednesday, October 7 at 10 am

Rock Music of the 1960s: A Retrospective, with Dick Rosemont
Thursday, October 8 at 10 am

Russian Lit in Bite-Sized Pieces: Pushkin, a discussion with Randy Perazzini
Tuesday, October 13 at 2 pm
at St. John’s United Methodist Church

Tragic Vision: Antigone and King Lear, a discussion series with Bud Cox
Thursday, October 15, 22, and 29 at 2 pm
at St. John’s United Methodist Church

Robert Frost, the Natural World, and “Human Nature,” a discussion series with Ed Walkiewicz
Tuesday, October 20 and 27; November 3 and 10 at 2 pm
at St. John’s United Methodist Church

Pre-Code Classic Film: Mae West in I’m No Angel, with Mark Tiarks
Thursday, October 22 at 10 am

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World, with Allen Stone
Friday, October 23 and 30 at 10 am

The Current El Niño and What It Might Mean, with Steven Rudnick
Thursday, October 29 at 10 am

Ladies-in-Waiting: Ladies-at-Work, with Kristin Bundesen
Wednesday, November 4 at 10 am

Dorothea Lange and the Photography of Social Justice, with Gregory Jay
Thursday, November 5 at 10 am

Making Sense of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket, with Mark Davis
Tuesday, November 10 at 10 am

Moses and Jesus Go to the Movies: The Bible in Literature and Film, with Rev. Talitha Arnold
Thursday, November 12 and 19 at 10 am

Pre-Code Classic Film: Love Me Tonight, with Mark Tiarks
Friday, November 13 at 10 am

Russian Lit in Bite-Sized Pieces: Lermontov, a discussion with Randy Perazzini
Tuesday, November 17 at 2 pm at St. John’s United Methodist Church

Visions of Madness & Myth in Film: Caligari and Siegfried, with Donald Gluck
Tuesday, December 1 and 8 at 10 am

Pre-Code Classic Film: The Thin Man, a holiday special with Mark Tiarks
Thursday, December 10 at 10 am

Russian Lit in Bite-Sized Pieces: Gogol, a discussion with Randy Perazzini
Tuesday, December 15 at 2 pm at St. John’s Methodist United Church