8:30 – 9:30                                COLLECTION OF CLOTHING
A truck will be parked in front of the Gale to receive your donations to From Me to You.

9:30 – 10:30                                MONDAY INTEREST GROUPS
NON-FICTION BOOK DISCUSSION                                 Founders Room
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Discussion Leader: Sheryl Sostarich

LITERATURE DISCUSSION Heritage Room
Hum if You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marias
Discussion Leader: Jan McLandsborough
This novel is set in apartheid-era South Africa. It is told in two voices: Robin, a white nine-year-old girl and Beauty, a black woman from a rural village. Please join us to discuss this compelling story.

GREAT DECISIONS                               Presidents’ Hall
Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Data
Leaders: Joyce Prudden and Barb Taft

HANDWORK/CRAFTS                                        Dining Room
Topic: Needlepoint
Leader: Sheila Lind
Sheila Lind will bring her own project(s) and share her needlepoint expertise. Bring your needlepoint projects and ideas to share.

KNOW YOUR DEVICE                                         Minnesota Room
Facilitator: Alice Heth
This users group will answer each other’s questions about smart phones, iPads, and technology mysteries.

10:45 – 11:45                          LITERATURE                                    Presidents’ Hall
Life Journey of Struggle, Survival, and Success
Speaker: Maria Nhambu, Author, Speaker, Dancer, and Educator

Nhambu was raised by German Catholic nuns at an orphanage for mixed race children in Tanzania, East Africa. The first book in her three-part memoir, Dancing Soul Trilogy, begins with Africa’s Child, which tells her dramatic story from birth to her departure from her homeland. America’s Daughter continues her story as she arrives in America with her adoptive mother. In Drum Beats, Heart Beats, the final volume of the trilogy, we join her as she traverses diverse cultures and continents and negotiates a complex and shifting web of mixed identities, both African immigrant and African American.

11:45 – Noon ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 – 1:15 LUNCHEON

1:15 – 2:15                              THE ARTS                                            Presidents’ Hall
Thursday Musical Student Program
Listen to some of Minnesota’s finest classical and award-winning young musicians skillfully performing music by composers from the past and present as they appear on our stage today. Let the music begin!