's Events (71)

May 4, 2024
Saturday
  • Free Fun Saturday

  • May 4, 2024 from 11:00 to 16:00
  • Location: The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum
  • Description:

    From 10 am to 4 pm on the first Saturday of each month, The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum (SBRHM) offers a fun, informative, and often craft-based activity for youngsters at 2 pm—and the regular admission is waived for all visitors.

  • Created by: Jessica Coates
  • Tags: boca history museum
 
  • Chuchito Valdés

  • May 4, 2024 from 20:00 to 22:00
  • Location: Arts Garage
  • Description:

    Chuchito Valdés, following in the footsteps of his famed father Chucho Valdés and grandfather Bebo Valdés, continues the legacy of great piano players from Cuba. With influences of Caribbean rhythms and jazz, Chuchito creates an exciting and energeti

  • Created by: Arts Garage
May 5, 2024
Sunday
  • The Legal Roots featuring Yvad

  • May 5, 2024 from 19:00 to 20:30
  • Location: Arts Garage
  • Description:

    This fantastic tribute to Bob Marley features Yvad, former lead singer of The Wailers band and solo artist. Yvad & The Legal Roots perform the hits and songs of this legendary Reggae artist, plus original reggae music. You’ll hear hits like No Woman

  • Created by: Arts Garage
May 10, 2024
Friday
  • The Miami Big Sound Orchestra with Lourdes Valentin

  • May 10, 2024 from 20:00 to 22:00
  • Location: Arts Garage
  • Description:

    An evening of Miami-style big band instrumental and vocal music with our featured vocalist Lourdes Valentin, as well as the music of our 2023 Latin Grammy Award-winning arranger, Rafael Valencia!

    The Miami Big Sound Orchestra is downtown Miami’s resid

  • Created by: Arts Garage
May 12, 2024
Sunday
  • Livin’ In the USA – A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt

  • May 12, 2024 from 19:00 to 20:30
  • Location: Arts Garage
  • Description:

    Livin’ In the USA features the 20 top 40 hits from Linda as well as many album cuts that Ronstadt fans know and love. We keep the energy fun and fans involved, asking them to join us on tunes they definitely know.

    PERFORMER BIO:
    Donna Lamoureaux has tr

  • Created by: Arts Garage
May 19, 2024
Sunday
  • These Dreams – The Ultimate Heart Tribute Show

  • May 19, 2024 from 19:00 to 20:30
  • Location: Arts Garage
  • Description:

    These Dreams, a standout Heart tribute band from Florida, captivates with performances that echo the original’s spirit, led by the stunning vocal and guitar duo of Judi Drabek and Ruby Skye. Their live shows, a tribute to Heart’s legacy, feature hits

  • Created by: Arts Garage
May 24, 2024
Friday
  • Trying

  • May 24, 2024 at 20:00 to Jun 9, 2024 at 22:00
  • Location: 201 Clematis St
  • Description:

    In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US Attorney General. The brilliant Biddle is now frail, sometimes befuddled, and always irascible. Inspired

  • Created by: Kenzie Frysztak
June 4, 2024
Tuesday
  • Explore the Healthy Benefits of Tai Chi

  • Jun 4, 2024 at 12:00 to Jul 2, 2024 at 13:00
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    Tai Chi, short for T'ai Chuan, or Tai ji quan, is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training and its health benefits. The term Taiji refers to a philosophy of the forces of yin and yang, related to the moves. If you're lo

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: tai chi
 
  • The Cinema of Resistance

  • Jun 4, 2024 at 14:00 to Jun 25, 2024 at 16:30
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    Four films that depict acts of defiance, highlighting the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought back against their occupiers in WWII.

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: films, cinema
June 5, 2024
Wednesday
 
  • Jewish Identity in the Music of Leonard Bernstein

  • Jun 5, 2024 from 10:00 to 11:30
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    Leonard Bernstein is one of the most important conductors in American history. As a conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian, Bernstein maintained a lifelong involvement with Judaism, composing several works with religio

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: bernstein, music, judaism
 
  • From the OLLI Archives:  Art: Seeing It with Fresh Eyes

  • Jun 5, 2024 from 12:30 to 14:00
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    OLLI breaks into their Archives to bring you one of their most popular video documentaries! Karen B. Roberts, Ph.D., art historian and adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, gives us a historical perspective of how art's content and form w

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: art
June 6, 2024
Thursday
  • The Great American Short Story Club I 1905-1956

  • Jun 6, 2024 at 10:00 to Jun 27, 2024 at 11:30
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Do you love book groups but don’t always have the opportunity to read the book? Here’s a chance to enjoy the camaraderie, education, and fun of a book group every week without having to dedicate much time to reading the select

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: short stories, literature
 
  • Ripped from the Headlines

  • Jun 6, 2024 at 12:30 to Jun 27, 2024 at 14:00
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    This very interactive seminar will explore the day's hot topics that have immediate and relevant impact. Each session will begin with the lecturer's take on the subject, followed by an opportunity for attendees to add their own opinions. The object i

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: news
 
  • Music, Media, and the Counterculture 1950-80

  • Jun 6, 2024 at 15:00 to Jun 27, 2024 at 16:30
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    This class is derived from a memoir about coming of age during the post-War years. It's an impressionistic history, experiential rather than academic, in the form of a personal narrative. We look at the forces that shaped a generation of Americans an

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: counterculture
June 11, 2024
Tuesday
  • By Experience: Titanic: The Musical

  • Jun 11, 2024 from 10:00 to 12:30
  • Location: OLLI at FAU, 777 Glades Rd. Bldg. CEH 31D, Boca Raton, Fl 33431 561-297-3185 olliboca.fau.edu
  • Description:

    In the final hours of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and ‘the unsinkable ship’ slowly sank. It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th Century. Fifteen hundred sev

  • Created by: OLLI at FAU
  • Tags: titanic, musical