Lectures and concerts are now presented live in the ASA Great Room, and are open to the public and ASA members. ASA-sponsored concerts are also available to view on-line: Video Concerts; and the video lectures are available here.

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SEPTEMBER 2023

Wednesday, Lecture, September 27

“End-of-Life Series: Hospice”

Dennis Ondrejka

11:00am – 12:15pm, ASA Koffler Great Rm

Thursday, Lecture, September 28

“End-of-Life Series: Legislation about End of Life, Medical Aid in Dying”

Mary Ganopol

11:00am – 12:15pm, ASA Koffler Great Rm

FRIDAY CONCERT, SEPTEMBER 29, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., ASA Koffler Great Room

“What the World Needs Now – a Tribute to Burt Bacharach” comes to the ASA! Singer Chelsee Hicks is joined by Rob Boone, Adam Ackerman, Brian Hicks, Frank Filipo and Jack Wood to perform many of Bacharach’s Grammy and Academy Award-winning songs.

OCTOBER 2023

Wednesday, Lecture, October 4

“End of Life Series: Doulas”

Yvette Bredice

1:15pm – 2:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

Thursday, Lecture, October 5

End-of-Life Series: Panel Discussion

Diane Ashton, Char Tosi, Sharon Stentz

11:00am – 12:15pm, ASA Koffler Great Rm

THURSDAY CONCERT OCTOBER 5, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., ASA Koffler Great Room

Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and UA faculty artist, pianist Daniel Linder, perform a special recital of vocal music by the English composer Ivor Gurney.

FRIDAY CONCERT, OCTOBER 6, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., ASA Koffler Great Room

Argentinian guitarist Facundo Martinez, graduate teaching assistant for the Bolton Guitar Studies program at the University of Arizona, presents a solo classical guitar recital with music ranging from Baroque works to tango and Argentine popular music.

Monday, Lecture, October 9

“Guerrilla Filmmaking: Telling Stories with Pictures and Sound”

Dan Duncan

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Wednesday, Lecture, October 11

End-of-Life Series: “What to Say and How to Say It to Dying and Grieving People”

Susan English/Diane Ashton

11:00am – 12:15pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

FRIDAY CONCERT, OCTOBER 13, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., ASA Koffler Great Room

Pianist Sheryll McManus presents a program of “classical bon-bons” including music of Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Grieg.

Monday, Lecture, October 16

“Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War”

Bee Bloeser

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Wednesday, Lecture, October 18

“Inside Yemen: Religion and Politics in Southwest Arabia”

Scott C. Lucas

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY CONCERT, OCTOBER 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., ASA Koffler Great Room

Jazz pianist extraordinaire, Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Jr., returns to the ASA to add his improvisational wizardry to tunes from some of his favorite jazz piano greats.

Monday, Lecture, October 23

“Cardiovascular Prevention & Services ”

Osama Abdel-Hafez, M.D.

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Wednesday, Lecture, October 25

“A History of Arizona Mining from 1583 to the Present ”

Jim Turner

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY CONCERT OCTOBER 27, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., ASA Koffler Great Room

The Bad News Blues Band comes to the ASA! Not your traditional Chicago-style band, they play West Coast Jump Blues, with Mike Blommer (guitar, vocals), Hurricane Carla Brownlee (baritone & tenor sax, vocals), Alex Flores (tenor sax, vocals, Glenn Velardi (drums, vocals) and Steve Grams (bass, vocals).

Monday, Lecture, October 30

“What Makes Shakespeare, Shakespeare?”

Peter Medine

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom