UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesdays – August 4, 11, 18 and Wednesday -August 26-10;00-11:15 am-PCCF

Nina Corazzo will offer a new art history series entitled Art of Social Conscience.  The classes are open, free, and registration is not required.  

We will consider whether art can play a role in healing social ills and if so, how have artists in the past used their art to achieve this.  We will then look at contemporary artists who are engaged in this endeavor as well.  We will first focus on two themes:  depictions of war in art and representations of poverty.

Thursday- August 13 – 6:30 PM – ArtFlix via  Zoom only

Film:  Inside Out 2 

Discussion leader: Sandy Holt 

Animated:  2024 coming of age film which is the sequel to Inside Out from 2015. The highest grossing film of 2024, the film earned many award nominations.  Joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust have been running a successful operation by all accounts, but when anxiety shows up, they aren’t sure how to feel.

For information contact Diane Woolever

Thursday – August 20 –   1:00 PM – Spirituality Seekers

Spiritual Seekers will meet at the home of Alta Mae Frobish. Book selection and  Discussion will be lead by Ann Ruggaber. All members are welcome to join this bi-monthly group.

Contact person is Ann Ruggaber

Thursday – August 20 – 6:30 pm – PCCF and via Zoom – Great Decisions

Topic:  Ukraine and the Future of European Security  The article can be found in our Great Decisions Policy Book

Discussion leader is Diane Woolever

With reduced U.S. support for NATO and Ukraine, Europe faces strategic uncertainty. The Trump administration has signaled an intention to reduce its security role in Europe. What are America’s stakes in NATO and Europe’s strategic dilemmas, and how might Europe respond?
By Thomas Wright

Contact Person:  Renee Caprile

July 28 – 11:00 am – Spritual Seekers

Anu Garlapati invites members to her home to meet Swami Chidatmanandji, from Hyderabad, India.  Swami Chidatmanandji is a spiritual teacher whose core teaching emphasizes the oneness (non-duality) of all beings.  Anu will serve a light lunch after the talk.  Please RSVP to Anu by July 25 if you plan to attend.

Tuesday – August 25 – 4:00pm – PCCF and zoom – Book Group

Title: Raising Hare: a Memoir by Chloe Dalton

Discussion leader:  Wanda Rice

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality. 
Raising Hare chronicles their journey together while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness firsthand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them.

For more information, contact Clare Pokorny

Wednesday – August 26 – 5:30 pm (doors open at 5 pm)  PCCF – Welcome Fest 

Kickoff the 2026–27 club year with our annual Welcome Fest. A light dinner will be served.  Members are encouraged to bring a guest who  are interested in hearing of the AAUW mission and program. A raffle will take place for free annual national membership. Doors open at 5 o’clock

Contact: President Cindy Hesemann or Vice President(programs) Lisa Rommelmann with questions.

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