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.
Please click on date in blue to bring up a description of the lecture.
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
“End of Life Series: Doulas”
Yvette Bredice
1:15pm – 2:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room
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.
“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.
“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.
“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