LifeLong Learning-San Marcos
A Proud Affiliate of the Aging Forward Alliance
LifeLong Learning-San Marcos and the San Marcos Public Library
Present a Community Presentation Series
Seven Unique Topics on Seven Consecutive Tuesdays
Tuesdays, Jan. 28 – Mar. 11, 10:00-11:30am
Free and Open to the Pubic
Registration is Required: Visit the San Marcos Public Library or call 512-393-8200
Minors must be accompanied by a participating adult
Feb. 18—Kickstart Your Health in the New Year
Tina Valdez, Certified Nutrition Instructor and Food for Life Licensed Instructor
Cooking to reduce diet-related chronic diseases and inflammation will support our resolutions to be healthier and happier in 2025. Tina will discuss how to reduce or eliminate unhealthy animal products in our everyday diets with healthy and tasty plant-based substitutes. Tina’s Healthy Cooking Simply Made website offers information, resources, and recipes.
Food for Life is an award-winning program developed through the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a network of doctors, nurses, and dieticians. Since 1985, the Physicians Committee has been advancing health care through preventive medicine—especially good nutrition—and implementation of ethical and effective clinical research. They are dedicated to saving and improving human and animal lives through plant-based diets and, with partner researchers and organizations like PETA, finding alternatives to animals in research and testing.
CLICK HERE to read the full list of sessions and descriptions
Hosted by Marianne Reese
2:00-3:00pm, First Thursday of Every Month
KZSM – San Marcos Community Radio
Streaming at KZSM.org
As we celebrate Black History Month, Marianne’s guest for February's show was the Rev. Dr. Oren Renick, author of Smoke Over Mississippi, which tells the inspirational story of the Rev. Dr. William Penn Davis, a white Baptist preacher in Mississippi who worked tirelessly to build bridges of understanding and friendship between black and white Americans during the Civil Rights Movement.
CLICK HERE to listen to this amazing conversation!
Human Interest hosts guests and shares conversations that may spark compassion, empathy, motivation, laughter, fear, love, and perhaps even anger… all part of the human condition and each of human interest. Local experts and community organizations will be featured to offer a broader context around topics relevant to our community.
Join Us for a Five Session Zoom Series Presented by the
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Fridays, Jan. 31-Mar. 7, 10:30-11:30am
(no session on Feb. 14)
CLICK HERE for the session descriptions
Registration and fee required
Email lifelonglearningsm@gmail.com to register
Feb. 21—Discovering the Regions of Texas
Where are the different geographic regions of Texas? How have people adapted to the landscapes, plants, and animals that define Texas? How have artists captured Texas’s diverse geography? Photographs, paintings, and virtual visits will reveal Texas’s natural history and inspiring beauty from the Gulf Coast to the Guadalupe Mountains.
The New Wittliff Book+ Club
Starts in March!
An extraordinary collection of rare and unique treasures is housed in The Wittliff Collections, a distinguished archival repository that collects and preserves the works of writers, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, and other artists. Included in the Collections are Sandra Cisneros and Cormac McCarthy, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide, Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker, and the Lonesome Dove Production Archive.
The new Wittliff Book+ Club will take advantage of this local treasure trove by reading and discussing books each month on Zoom and exploring related archived materials. The Club will be guided by archivist Susannah Broyles, who joined The Wittliff staff in 2019 to process the extensive Tejano music archive of Ramón Hernández, a San Antonio publicist, journalist, and photographer. Susannah has previously worked with museum collections focusing on New York history, where she lived for ten years.
The Wittliff Book+ Club will meet via Zoom every six weeks on Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:30pm. Specific dates and accompanying books will be available soon. To register for the Wittliff Book+ Club, please email lifelonglearningsm@gmail.com. A Zoom link will be emailed to participants fifteen minutes prior to the start of each session.
The Club’s first meeting is on Thursday, March 6, and our first book is Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan, which is available at The Wittliff or from your favorite bookseller. David Coleman, Director of The Wittliff Collections, will be our host for this first session.
Serving Our Community
LifeLong Learning, in partnership with the San Marcos Housing Authority, will provide four weekly sessions on healthy eating for residents of the Allen Woods Community. Tina Valdez, a Certified Nutrition Instructor and Food for Life Licensed Instructor, will focus on nutritional plant-based snacks and meals that are easy to prepare. At each session, healthy food will be available for sampling.
If you are interested in learning more about healthy eating, please attend Tina’s Feb. 18 session during our Winter Lecture Series. CLICK HERE for more information on her session.
