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CLIR - Center for Learningin Retirement |
If you're 50+ and retired and interested in learning and cultural activities, CLIR may be for you. Hundreds of University of California Extension classes are offered each year by the University's Continuing Education branch: from architecture, computer science, conversational Spanish, and foreign affairs to writing workshops, marketing, economics, history and literature. Each CLIR member annually receives a generous tuition credit and discount toward Extension classes. Plus CLIR offers free classes taught by peers skilled in many fields including:
Tours and Walks Each week CLIR schedules up to five additional activities such as tours throughout Northern California and walks all over the Bay Area.
Recent tours have included the Beethoven Archival Library, the Steinbeck Library, a day of cheese and cider in Petaluma, the Phoebe Hearst Anthropological Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum. There have been walks down Telegraph Hill, up Corona Heights, through Yerba Buena Gardens and the Dahlia Gardens in Golden Gate Park, and a visit to the "famous underground residents of Colma" in Cypress Lawn Cemetery. More Activities and Social Events CLIR's program activities respond to member's interests. Vicarious Traveler takes us to far away places via a monthly slide show. CLIRsights offers a variety of prominent Bay Area speakers including Sonny Buxton, jazz impresario, Deborah Parker Wong of Beaulieu Vineyards, Scott Moran from the California Academy of Sciences and Rachel Gordon, veteran San Francisco Chronicle City Hall reporter. Members attend a monthly general meeting and enjoy a social hour with delicious refreshments afterward. CLIR hosts an annual luncheon in May, a picnic in September, and a holiday gala in December. In 2004 CLIR incorporated and became a 501©(3) not-for-profit organization. It is self-governed by a council elected from among its more than 250 members. Enrollment is open twice yearly in August and January, to Bay Area residents 50 and older. CLIR is located on the University of California at Berkeley Extension Center campus at: 425 Market St., 8th Floor The campus is located at the BART & Muni Embarcadero Station.
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