Southwest China & Tibet
June 21 - July 7, 2009
Hong Kong Extension: July 6 - 8, 2009
Escorted by Arlette Poland:
Your escort for this program is Arlette Poland, Professor of World Religions, Science and Religion and Introduction to Judaism at the University of Redlands, is also a Palm Desert Osher professor in the areas of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Indigenous Spiritual Pathways. Her experience and training as a student and professor of various world religions gives her a broad range of information to draw from as we learn from her insightful and enthusiastic presentations how each of these three complicated spiritual pathways fit into the history, development and modern Chinese culture.
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GREECE: Yesterday and Today
September 10 - 21, 2009
Escorted by Robert Brasier:
Your escort, working artist, art historian and teacher Robert Brasier is Deputy Director of Education and Public Programs at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California. He received a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.A. in Art History from The University of Cincinnati. Brasier has held teaching positions at Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and continues his passion for teaching by giving lectures, training docents and teaching classes for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of California State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus. A guiding principle in his career has been that art making, art history and art appreciation are all ways of exploring and understanding ourselves through the mirrors of the outside world. The ancient civilizations of the Greek mainland and islands offer a terrific opportunity for this kind of exploration.
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