Friday, Sep. 04, 2026
Attention, Learners
There's an old idea, easy to forget: attention is a resource. Not infinite, not free, and — like most resources worth having — increasingly the object of…
Friday, Sep. 04, 2026
We are delighted to announce that Pierluigi Serraino is this year’s recipient of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute's Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award. Please join us in honoring this extraordinary educator, architect and scholar on Wednesday, September 30, from 12:10–12:40 PM, at The Freight (2020 Addison St, Berkeley.)
Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026
Bloody Sunday occurred in March 1965 when Alabama State Troopers attacked peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Injuring many young and old, some requiring hospitalization.
Tuesday, Jul. 28, 2026
Lowry Yankwich is an award-winning podcaster, pianist, and lawyer. His podcasts, “30 Bach” and “The Tonic,” probe music’s place in history, society, and others’ lives. He has taught music and podcasting at Harvard, Stanford, and Temple University. He is teaching “Bach’s Muse: The Goldberg Variations” with us this fall.
Monday, Jun. 29, 2026
Our fall brochure lands in mailboxes this week (fingers crossed) and we couldn't be more excited about what you'll find inside — dozens of courses designed to provide clarity, context and depth, along with healthy doses of wonder and joy. Politics, history, law, music, film (and filmmakers!), literature, and more are all on the roster.
Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026
New mural celebrating Wong Kim Ark and the legacy of birthright citizenship
Last year, longtime OLLI member Linda Wing wrote a moving (and infuriating) OLLI blog post titled “The…
Monday, Jun. 08, 2026
With summer here (almost), we asked OLLI faculty to recommend books they've recently read and loved. Feel free to steal their page-turning picks as we dive into beach-reading season.
Monday, Jun. 08, 2026
Christine Schoefer, a popular OLLI writing instructor, authored the following essay for KQED Perspectives. It is reprinted here with her permission. We're delighted to relay that Schoefer will be teaching with us again this fall.
Thursday, Jun. 04, 2026
Tom Lederer had his fair share of adventures before becoming an OLLI @Berkeley member around 2007 with a single Shakespeare class.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Tom started…
Wednesday, May. 27, 2026
Susan Hoffman, OLLI Director and Assistant Dean of Lifelong Learning, was recently interviewed by a Mercury News reporter exploring what it means to learn later in life. Following…
Tuesday, May. 19, 2026
The end of May and beginning of June are marked by war-related commemorations, notably Memorial Day, on the last Monday in May, and D-Day, the anniversary of the 1944 Allied landings in Normandy that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Monday, Apr. 27, 2026
Gerard Koskovich is a San Francisco–based public historian, curator and book dealer who has published and presented internationally on LGBTQ+ history, archives and cultural heritage.