PLATO Weekly Update

February 7, 2023

CURRICULUM

SPRING COURSES
Spring Registration is underway! Find the Spring Course Schedule posted on the Courses page and contact the course coordinator to register.

Choose from 34 courses – 17 in-person & 17 virtual (3 of which are hybrid).

Most courses will begin the week of February 20.

If your course meets in person, please review the COVID-19 Protocols posted in the Curriculum Showcase.

COURSE COORDINATOR COFFEE KLATCH
NEXT WEEK! Course Coordinators are invited to attend a Course Coordinator Coffee Klatch on Friday, February 17 at 11am. This casual, one-hour Zoom gathering is intended as an opportunity to share news and ideas and to socialize. More details and the Zoom link will follow in an email later this week. 

SPECIAL EVENTS

LECTURES
TOMORROW! On Wednesday, February 8 at 2pm at Capital Lakes, author Donald P. Sanford shares fascinating stories from his book, On Fourth Lake: A Social History of Lake Mendota. Learn more about this event, parking validation, and the author.

NEXT MONTH! Wednesday, March 29 at 2pm at Capital Lakes, author Scott Spoolman will share highlights from his new book Wisconsin Waters: The Ancient History of Lakes, Rivers and Waterfalls. Learn more about this event, parking validation, and the author.

Take in an archived PLATO Lecture from the convenient comfort of home. 

BREAKFAST GATHERING
THIS WEEK! Second Friday, February 10th at 9:30am, join fellow PLATO members and guests for breakfast and conversation at Lakeside Street Coffee House in Madison's Bay Creek neighborhood. RSVP and learn more.

THEATER TRIPS
SAVE THE DATES! Theater trips will resume this Spring with two events at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater – more details coming soon!

Sunday, April 23: Tony award-winner for best play – God of Carnage.

Saturday, May 6: The Greatest Love for Whitney: A Whitney Houston Tribute.

THE AGORA
The Agora, PLATO’s literary and arts journal, 
celebrates members’ creativity and diversity of thought.

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for The Agora, Volume 8
PLATO members are invited to submit original works for the 2023 edition of The Agora in the following categories: Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction (including essays) and Visual Arts (painting, sculpture, drawing and photography). 

This is a blind juried review and the deadline for submissions is Tuesday, February 28, 2023. Click here to learn more and submit your work.

To view highlights from this past season, click on The Agora Features button below.

SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & READINGS

Select from a range of topics and formats 

for your 2023 reading, viewing, or listening, 

curated by PLATO's Diversity Awareness Committee.

DID YOU KNOW? for February 7 – 20, 2023

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was an African-American anti-slavery activist, an advocate for women's rights, a teacher, and a lawyer. A pioneering journalist, Cary became the first black, female newspaper editor in North America as a publisher of Canada’s first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman. As a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), Cary spoke at the NWSA's 1878 convention. She also served as an advocate for the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Visit the Social Justice page for more about Mary Ann Shadd Cary 
or 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).