Special Events
10531 Open House/Registration & Gallery Opening
Date: February 4
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Location: Global Campus Fayetteville, Lobby
Cost: Free
- Learn about benefits of membership
- Register for Spring courses
- Discuss volunteer opportunities
- Enjoy the Son’s Chapel Quilters exhibition and opening reception
Refreshments will be served.
10532 New Member Orientation
Date: February 12
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Global Campus, Fayetteville, Room 409
Cost: Free to New Members
The Osher Institute would like to invite all new members to an orientation. This orientation meeting will help new members to learn the many opportunities that are open to them as well as to understand how their involvement can enhance the OLLI program.
Special Lecture Series
10566 “Walking The Lost Boys Path from the Sudan to America”
Date: March 2
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Global Campus, Fayetteville, Room 107
Instructor/Author: Barbara Youree
Cost: $15, with book $25
Max. Enrollment: Unlimited
This narrative non-fiction book is set in the context of the civil war in Sudan, which ended in 2005. The story follows the evolution of Ayuel and Beny’s thinking from revenge to peaceful solutions as they spend 14 years in refugee camps. The Arab Islamic government of Sudan wished to impose their strict Sharia laws on the black Christian and Animist south and claim the newly discovered oil reserves.
News coverage has been sketchy of this conflict, which preceded the present Darfur crisis. During a 20 year period, the war took the lives of over two million southern Sudanese. Thousands more were tortured, displaced or sold into slavery. The two heroes of the story, Ayuel Leek and Beny Ngor, now enrolled in U.S. colleges, are working diligently to set up a non-profit organization to help improve conditions for the people still living in Sudan and to support the refugees, especially other Lost Boys and Girls, in the United States.
This human interest story coupled with the timeliness of many issues facing the world today — terrorism by radical groups, ethnic hatred, religious conflicts, control of limited oil reserves, immigration problems, and reference to the 9/11 attack on the United States — make this a fascinating read.
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10568 The Lost Boys’ Lecture
With: Ayuel Leek Deng, and Beny Ngor Chol
Date: March 7
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Global Campus, Fayetteville, Room 107
Cost: Free and open to the public
Ayuel and Beny tell their own experiences fleeing their burned villages and making their exodus along with thousands of other displaced children who had lost their families.
They walked for months across barren land, menaced by starvation, disease, wild animals, and shrapnel from helicopter fire.