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May 15, 2025

Next Brown Bag event on Aug. 15th: SIG Brown Bag and a Movie!

Eating and watching movies together is a great social and learning experience. Our Brown Bag movie group meets the third Friday of each month at 11:30 to share lunch, and, at 12:15, we adjourn Classroom A to watch a movie.  

It’s great fun, and every member is welcome to join us. Members can bring a friend who may want to join our Osher program.

Where: Osher Learning Center, Cyert Hall
When: 3rd Friday of each month
Lunch Time 11:30, Movie 12:15

*NEW COURSE ID* Register for ID: 5584 to be notified of the upcoming movies!

Summer/Fall 2025 Schedule

August 15: Wall E – 2008

An animated romantic science fiction film that follows a solitary robot named WALL-E on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth in 2805, left to clean up garbage. He is visited by a robot called EVE sent from the starship Axiom, with whom he falls in love, and pursues across the galaxy.

September 19: Inside Out – 2015

A coming-of-age film that follows the inner workings of the mind of Riley, a young girl who has trouble adapting to her family's relocation as five personified emotions administer her thoughts and actions.

October 17: Ratatouille – 2007   

The title refers to the French dish ratatouille, and also references the species of the main character, a rat. Set mostly in Paris, the plot follows a young rat Remy who dreams of becoming a chef at Auguste Gusteau's restaurant, and tries to achieve his goal by forming an unlikely alliance with the restaurant's garbage boy, Alfredo Linguini.

November 21: Coco – 2017

The film follows a 12-year-old boy, named Miguel, who is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead, where he seeks the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather to return him to his family and reverse their ban on his playing music.