Iowa City Senior Center March-April 2025 Program Guide

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Stay connected with your community, tap into resources and partnerships

100 Grannies Lecture Series Wednesdays, Mar 5-26, 3-4 pm Location: Room 302 Register online or call 319-356-5220

Device Advice Thursdays through Apr 24, 2-3 pm Location: 1st Floor Lobby

Device Advice is a UI student volunteer group that works to help shrink the digital divide between generations! Volunteers will be at the Senior Center to offer guidance on all things technology, so bring your devices and your questions. No session on Mar 20.

The 2025 Barbara Schlachter and Ann Christenson Memorial Lecture Series is a partnership between the Iowa City Senior Center and 100 Grannies for a Livable Future. For over 10 years, this team of women has been working to inform and activate communities by drawing attention to risks to our environment. Meet some of the leaders who help move us to action, discuss priorities you care about and what you can do to support these efforts. Mar 5: David Cwiertny - Clean Water in Iowa Mar 12: Kristin Shevis - Reducing Plastic Pollution Mar 19: Glen Merzer - Food is Climate Mar 26: Dr. Jerald Schnoor - Climate Change, Wildfires, and Hurricanes: Where are we heading? Facilitator: Skylar Hoffman, Senior Center intern Join us each week as we gather to discuss Heather McGhee’s book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together . Prior to each meeting, book club members will read a portion of the book (around 50-60 pages) to prepare to engage in brave conversations surrounding how public and private policies and practices uphold racism and economic inequality in the United States. Using the book as a guide, we will ask ourselves how the sum of us, including people of all backgrounds, races, and identities, have been negatively affected by racism and what we all have to gain through its dismantling. This group will be facilitated by Skylar Hoffman, a Senior Center intern and social work student at the University of Iowa who is currently working toward a certificate in Critical Cultural Competence. Fee: $10 to cover the book cost; pay ICSC at registration (fee waived for participants in ICSC's low-income membership program). No meeting on Mar 20. “The Sum of Us” Book Club Thursdays, Mar 6 - May 1, 3-4 pm Location: Room 302 Register online or call 319-356-5220

Spring Gallery Walk: Hani Elkadi "Retrospective" Friday, Mar 7, 5-8 pm Location: Assembly Room

Artist Hani Elkadi was described by Iowa’s leading poet, the late Paul Engle, as “a true Renaissance man of the world.” An accomplished painter, author, poet, translator, journalist, and surgeon. He spent several years in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe before choosing Iowa City as his home in which to live, educate, and start a family with Ewa Barbach and their daughter Nina. About his art, Hani writes, “My art is my way of representing my thoughts and passions. I travel freely through various means of expression and a plethora of methods and materials. I deeply believe in the unlimited ways of looking at nature and the surroundings, people, and their emotions, imaginations, and dreams. I never tried to deny myself the right to choose the fittest style for each theme and subject matter. I hold the strong belief that, for every situation, there is a unique artistic approach that meets its particular needs. I was lucky enough to have a career that provided me with adequate means of survival and protected my art from compromises that the art market might dictate.” Hani’s art will be on display until the end of May. Learn More About Dealing with Conflict Monday, Mar 10, 2-3:30 pm Location: Room 308 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Presenter: Annie Tucker Learn more about dealing with conflict through some interactive group exercises and find out about an upcoming mediation training and opportunity to become a trained volunteer small claims mediator.

Online at icgov.org/senior/registration By phone, call 319-356-5220 In-person at the Senior Center, 7 days/week during open hours

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