Join us for a virtual tour around the Adriatic as we move from the Italian cities of Ravenna, Venice, and Trieste, east into Slovenia and war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina, then south along Croatia's breathtaking Dalmatian Coast. Along the way we'll visit such natural wonders as Lake Bled and Plitvice National Park, the Roman ruins of ancient Split and the Istrian Peninsula, medieval structures on Isle of Kor?ula, and the 800-year-old walled city of Dubrovnik.

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Thursday 5/02, Synchronous Online

Writer and director Billy Wilder told his cinematic stories for over 50 years. A Jewish émigré from Germany, he brought his considerable talents, creativity, and insight into the human condition to fruition in a prolific career in Hollywood. His films run the gamut - from hard-edged noir thrillers, to intimate exploration of the human psyche, to the fraught nature of personal relationships, to the divine silliness of screwball comedy. His stories are told with verve and a keen sense of history, place, and American culture. He was a proponent of good fiction well told and an adversary of "fancy schmancy" camera work. We will meet Billy Wilder by exploring a variety of his films against the backdrop of the social and cultural movements which informed his body of work, seeking a perspective from a selection of Billy Wilder's corpus of films as they are risen from and relate to American culture and an appreciation of good cinematic storytelling told by a master. Additional information: Except for the documentary Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood, all films on the syllabus are available to stream from Amazon Prime Video. Some of the films may also be found on other streaming sites. Also, the DVDs may be available to borrow from your local libraries, including the documentary above-mentioned. Films should be viewed prior to the class meeting in which each film will be discussed, if possible. Even if you have seen a film before, please try to watch it again closer to the class session in which it will be discussed.

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Everyone has a story to tell and one way to tell it is through writing a memoir. Memoir is a subgenre of creative nonfiction that can be book or essay-length; it captures a slice of the writer's life, is written from the personal and reflective perspective of the writer, and uses the techniques of creative writing, such as voice, sensory detail, scene, dialogue, and more. This course will guide you in the discovery of the story you want to tell, help you develop your story-telling skills, and provide strategies, tips, and tools to get you started on your story. Through reading excerpts of published memoirs as examples of craft, completing a series of targeted writing exercises, and sharing your writing output with your fellow writers, you will locate your story and begin your memoir.

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Join this deep dive into the music of Richmond Symphony's 2023-24 Symphony Series concert season. Each monthly session will focus on the repertoire of the Symphony's next concert performance and features a special guest with a critical role in the performance. Guests will include conductors, composers, soloists, and more! Through recordings, images, scholarship, biographies, backstage stories, and discussion we will listen and engage more deeply with the music and the artists who bring it to life.

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Mondays; 1/8, 2/12, 2/25, 4/22, 5/20, Synchronous Online

Throughout much of our history, artists have been embedded on the battlefield to capture soldiers in action. Join us as we analyze and discuss how wartime artists serving on the frontlines applied their artistic talents to express what they experienced in real-time from their own unique perspectives. In this program, we will look at the Army War Artist Program focusing on the Vietnam War, providing an historical context for the art.

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Monday 4/29, Synchronous Online