Mornings With The Professors
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October 2, 9, 16, 30, November 6 (Fridays) (No Class October 23) 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Attend in person at ISU’s Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal
OR
Watch Online via Zoom
FEES:
$45 for Senior Professional members (includes all five sessions)
$55 for non-members (includes all five sessions)
For in-person participation, pricing is per person.
For Zoom participation, pricing is one registration per household.
Price includes:
Five 2-hour sessions
$15 single-session option available for in-person attendance (pay at door).
Register online at seniorprofessionals.illinoisstate.edu or call (309) 438-2160.
Zoom participants will receive a Zoom link a week prior to the start of the class(es) and again on the day of each session.
Class Descriptions
SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN
October 30
Discover how Shakespeare’s plays have been reimagined across film, television and interactive media, moving from classic film adaptations by directors like Orson Welles, Roman Polanski and Akira Kurosawa to more recent television and digital performances. How does Shakespeare’s language gets translated into images, and how does new media reshape—not always successfully—familiar themes of power, identity, and performance? This talk will also consider different ways audiences engage with these works, from watching to performing, and suggest that Shakespeare continues to work less as a fixed text than as a flexible source for new kinds of storytelling. No prior experience with Shakespeare is necessary; this talk is as much for the curious as for long-time fans.
John Ernst, Professor Emeritus, Depts of Communication and Film, Heartland Community College
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, ROUTE 66
November 6
From 1926 to 1985, Route 66 carried heavy traffic from Chicago to Santa Monica, California. That is, until it was completely decommissioned, a seeming death knell for the old road in favor of modern interstates. In the late 1980s there was a resurgence of interest in the once-grand highway that had been relegated to a frontage road in some areas. Today, thousands of people come from all over the world to traverse the 100-year-old road to see the “real America.” Terri will examine the heyday, demise and resurrection of the road that refused to die, as well as her own efforts to restore Sprague’s Super Service, the 1930s two-story gas station that sits along Route 66 at 305 Pine Street in Normal.
Terri Ryburn, Route 66 Enthusiast, Writer, Actor, Published Playwright, Small Business Owner and Stand-up Comedian
Senior Professionals
(309) 438-2818
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