WEBINARS to hear from experts in many disciplines.
CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES to broaden horizons and meet new friends.
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ARTS: painting, photography, music & more. See art galleries for samples.
Almost any subject can come up at LLC’s WEBINARS and CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES.
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Lifelong Learning Collaborative (LLC) is a group of more than 500 members who enjoy learning new things, acquiring new skills, and making new friends. Hover over each box above to learn more.
Collaborative Learning
At LLC we all learn from one another, selecting from a wide variety of courses in history, literature, the arts, current affairs, sciences, and more – all designed and led by our classmates. Learn more.
A Love of Learning
LLC members come from all walks of life, career paths, and educational levels. The one thing we all have in common is a desire to continue learning in the company of congenial people.
Cultural Opportunities
From the North Shore of Massachusetts to the center of Manhattan, LLC offers Webinars, lectures, museum tours, walking tours, and other special learning events with expert guides throughout the year. Learn more.
Latest News
Join us for our Spring Webinar Lecture Series! Free & open to the public.
Next up: Menopause Mama written, acted, and sung by the incredible Rose Weaver (Mon, Mar 31 @ 4 PM)
- Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator for Rhode Island (Apr 2)
- Ed Iannuccilli, MD, Author: The First Italians to Come to Rhode Island (Apr 16)
- William J. Kole, Journalist and Author: Living to 100 Whether You Want To Or Not (Apr 28)
- Wendy Nilsson, Superintendent, PPD: Roger Williams Park: History and Renewal (May 7)
Learn more and register.
Announcing the Open Studio Art virtual gallery (Wintersession 2025)
LLC offers two Open Studio Art classes: One on Zoom (led by Kathy Webster) and one in-person at Temple Beth-El (led by Susan Van Horne). The following artwork was created by LLC members this winter in our ongoing Open Studio Art courses. Open Studio Art is a casual meeting of artists (and budding artists) who pursue the medium of their choice using acrylics, oils, watercolor, pastel or drawing independently. There is no instruction, just camaraderie and informal sharing by all.
Click to see the entire gallery of Open Studio Art In-person at Temple Beth-El and on Zoom.
"We Live Here" (17x14, acrylic on paper) by LLC member Katherine Quinn
What do you know about King Philip's War? Watch a full LLC course.
In 1675 and 1676, the indigenous people of southeastern New England, led by Pokanoket chief and Wampanoag sachem Metacom (who had adopted the English name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Plymouth Colony) engaged in a war against the area's English colonists. This devastating conflict was the subject of a five-session LLC course this winter led by Sowams Project historian David Weed, which you can see at this link: https://sowamsearlyhistory.org/king-philips-war-covered-in-a-lifelong-learning-collaborative-course/.
Inside the latest issue of The Lark
Photo by JSB Co. / Unsplash
Click the links to jump to the article or click to read the entire issue.
- A GOOD NAME by William Shakespeare
- MILLIE THE KITTY by Bill Hudson
- LLC'S GREAT DECISIONS VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY WITH SENATOR WHITEHOUSE
- MORE POETRY FROM LISTEN, BE INSPIRED, WRITE: DARKNESS by Karen Lee, OCTOBER by Eleanor McCarthy, AFTER READING MARY OLIVER by Hilary Orbach
- THE RHODE ISLAND WIND ENSEMBLE (Mar 16)
- MY PEOPLE by Langston Hughes
Few spaces left! LLC Bus Trip to Boston's MFA or Gardner Museum
Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 8:30 AM – 5 PM
$50 per member bus only*
*Registration fee does NOT include museum admission or lunch. Non-refundable. LLC members can register one guest.
Let us drive! You can choose to visit the MFA or Gardner, and we will drop you off at the door. The day is yours to browse the exhibits, have lunch, shop in the museum shops. LINKS TO PLAN YOUR VISIT.