PLATO Weekly Update

November 1, 2022

CURRICULUM

WINTER COURSES
Planning for Winter Courses is underway. If you are interested in offering a Winter Course, please contact Therese Stevens (thmstevens@gmail.com) or Kathie Burman (kburnam@burnamcoffee.com) for assistance. Note that Winter courses generally run 6 to 8 weeks and most begin the week of January 9th.

FALL COURSES
Fall Courses continue through November.

PLEASE NOTE
When you participate in a course at Capital Lakes, the coffee stand by the front desk is for residents only. Please bring your own coffee or you may buy it at the Café.

SPECIAL EVENTS

THEATER TRIPS
Last Chance to Purchase Tickets – registration closes at midnight tonight! Join us as we head to Spring Green for this fun matinee with a shorter bus ride that includes lunch with friends! There are only four tickets left for Stones in His Pockets on Thursday, November 17 at the renowned American Players Theater. An Irish village meets Hollywood in this hilarious and heartbreaking "timeless hit". Register and learn more.

WALKS OF DANE COUNTY
Next Week! Our last walk of the season – Tuesday, November 8 at 9:30am – enjoy the prairies and waterways of Pheasant Branch Conservatory. Register and learn more.

BREAKFAST GATHERING 
Next Week! Second Friday, November 11 at 9:30am, join fellow PLATO members and guests for breakfast and conversation at at Lakeside Street Coffee House in the Bay Creek neighborhood on Madison's near south side. Seating is on both the main floor and downstairs levels. You will need to climb nine steps in order to be seated on the downstairs level. RSVP and learn more here.

LECTURES
Next Week – November 9! The History of Television Soap Operas will take place virtually on Wednesday, November 9 from 1pm – 2:15pm. Dr. Elana Levine, a professor of media, cinema, and digital studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a longtime soap opera fan who looks at the genre through two connected lenses: the role soaps have played in shaping cultural understandings of gender, as well as the rise and fall of network television’s influence on pop culture. Register and learn more.

November 15! Clint Smith's Go Big Read Lecture on his new book: How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America on Tuesday, November 15 from 1pm – 3pm. PLATO is pleased to host a virtual presentation of this important talk. We will begin by watching Smith's November 1 talk and follow with an online discussion of the many issues raised in his talk and the book. Register and learn more.

Explore archived PLATO Lectures on many timely subjects.

PLATO SATISFACTION SURVEY
Please respond by Wednesday, November 9

On October 26 you received a brief satisfaction survey regarding your experiences with PLATO. If you have already completed the survey, thank you!

If you haven’t yet completed it we hope you will take a few minutes to do so today. Your feedback will enable the PLATO board and committee volunteers to better serve PLATO members. 

The survey was emailed to you by Russell Consulting, Inc. from this email address: noreply@alchemer.com with the subject line “Invitation to Complete the 2022 PLATO Members Satisfaction Survey”. The survey responses are due by November 9. Thank you for your involvement and support of PLATO!

THE AGORA
A juried literary magazine published by PLATO.

Visit The Agora Features webpage for highlights from this past season, created and curated by fellow PLATO members for your enjoyment. 

SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & READINGS

Select from a range of topics and formats 

for your Fall reading, viewing, or listening, 

curated by PLATO's Diversity Awareness Committee.

DID YOU KNOW? for October 25 – November 7, 2022

Did You Know… Kiel, WI was once known as the Wooden Shoes Capital of Wisconsin or that Pleasant Ridge, WI was founded by the formerly enslaved Shepard family? While we usually feature an individual here in Did You Know, we’re making a brief detour to highlight Recollection Wisconsin – an online cultural heritage resource providing free access to over half-a-million historical photos, maps, documents, and narratives telling the stories of Wisconsin’s people and places.

Visit the Social Justice webpage for more about connecting to 
Recollection Wisconsin & past DID YOU KNOW? features.

DID YOU KNOW? – spotlighting notable contributions made by non-mainstream individuals you might not have learned or read about. Suggestions for inclusions are welcome (send to Kathy at: ksmichaelis@gmail.com).