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| Hundreds of lectures. Knowledgeable instructors. Join us in-person at one of our 19 locations or participate online.  JANUARY – MAY 2024 PROGRAM REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE OR VIA PHONE Keep your mind active and engaged in the new year! Register for a lecture with FGCU Academy! Dear John, With this being a big election year Sandy Parker will be presenting her lecture – Getting Ready to Vote in the August Primaries – and would like to share her knowledge of how important your vote really is. She is passionate and informed. You won’t want to miss her. Nancy Maxwell will be presenting Mary Queen of Scots on the Florida Gulf Coast University campus, Wednesday May 8. Easy to find and free parking is readily available for you. The classroom is in the newly built Water School Building. Nancy will also be presenting The Creation of Italy to you on Monday May 13 at Naples Center or Online via Zoom. Listen to how she passionately tells you the story of how this country came to be. Kent Commons will entertain you with his lecture on How the Modern Bible Came to Be on Wednesday May 8 at Florida Gulf Coast University campus Water School Building. Kent has a delightful approach to his lectures and is quite entertaining while discussing some very important subjects. See below for more courses, details and to register for classes. Call our office for assistance with your registrations at 239.434.4737.  Week of May 6 – May 10 and more Click on any topic below to learn more.  Get Ready to Vote in the August Primaries May 6 | 1:30 – 3pm Monday Bentley Village Florida will hold its 2024 Primary Elections on August 20. Many races will be decided on that date; the winners in others will face off in the General Elections in November. In this presentation, we review the state and local offices and candidates that will be on the ballot for Collier County voters and give you a jump-start for being a more in- formed voter.  Mary Queen of Scots May 8 | 1:30 – 3pm Wednesday FGCU Main Campus – Building AB9 – Room 106 For love, power, intrigue and scandal you cannot beat the story of Mary Stuart! She was Queen of Scotland at six days old, Queen of France at sixteen, and had events gone as planned, Scotland would today be a part of France. Mary fully expected to become Queen of England as well. Instead in a tragic twist of fate, Mary lost her head. Her life was one of political ambition, intrigue, love, murder, plots and deception. Did Mary create her own fate or was she a victim of much stronger outside forces?  The Creation of Italy May 13 | 10 – 11:30am Monday Naples Center / Online via Zoom A visitor to Italy today travels freely through the magnificent cities of Florence, Naples, Rome and Venice; but it was not always so easy. Italy is a relatively new country, and the fabled cities may indeed be regarded as prizes, because they did not all join Italy willingly! It took a combination of the wily statesman Camillo Cavour, the political activism of the secret revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini, and the romantic nationalism of Giuseppe Garibaldi – none of whom wanted to work together – to draw disparate “Italians” together. And even that wasn’t quite enough. Napoleon III and Bismarck had something to add. This lecture looks at the remarkable personalities and events that led to the emergence of a unified Italy in 1871.  How the Modern Bible Came to Be May 13 | 1:30 – 3pm Monday FGCU Main Campus – Building AB9 – Room 106 In 2007, Time magazine asserted that the Bible “has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment and culture than any book ever written.” It’s a bold claim, but one that’s hard to refute. But if the Bible’s standing as a cultural behemoth is beyond doubt, its history is anything but. For centuries, some of the world’s greatest thinkers have puzzled over the origins and evolution of this remarkable document. Who wrote it? When? Why? These are the thorniest of questions, made even more tangled by the Bible’s great age. Join us as we explore the origins of the bible as we know it today. The Week Ahead Monday May 6 –For God and Treasure: The Adventures of Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus –The Invisibility of Social Issues in Southwest Florida Tuesday May 7 –iPhone/iPad: Tips, Tricks & Secrets of Apple’s Newest Operating System iOS 17 Thursday May 9 –CSI DNA Profiling to Genomes to Gene Editing and Therapies –Great Discussion of Current Events and More (2-part series) NEW SESSION Friday May 10 Finland, Norway and the Viking Discovery of the New World Next Week’s Previews Monday May 13 –Warren Buffett – The Oracle of Omaha Tuesday May 14 –The Vikings and Normans –Andrew Carnegie – Man of Steel Wednesday May 15 –Apollo 11 – We are Going Back! –King Ludwig II of Bavaria – The Fairytale King Thursday May 16 –Computer and Internet Security for Desktops, Laptops, Phones and Tablets –Media Perspectives: The Future is Cloudy –Apple Watch Tips, Tricks and Secrets of the New Watch OS 10 Friday May 17 –Napoleon III Sunday May 19 – Sunday Movie –Timbuktu (Mali, 2014, Drama, Rated PG, 96 min) TAKE A LECTURE AT ONE OF OUR 19 LOCATIONS The Arlington, Naples (AR) Aston Gardens, North Naples (AG) Bentley Village, North Naples (BV) Bonita Bay Community Assoc., Bonita (BB) Brooks Enrichment Center, Bonita (BR) The Collaboratory, Ft. Myers (CO) Cypress Cove, Ft. Myers (CC) FGCU Main Campus, Ft. Myers (FG) Grey Oaks Country Club, Naples (GR) Hideaway Beach Club, Marco island (HB) The Island Country Club, Marco island (IC) Moorings Park Grande Lake, Naples (GL) Moorings Park at Grey Oaks, Naples (GO) Moorings Park Original Campus, Naples (MP) Naples Center, Naples (NC) Siena Lakes, North Naples (SL) The Twin Eagles Club, North Naples (TE) United Church of Marco Island, Marco (UC) Wyndemere Country Club, Naples (WC) (see page 4 of the Winter-Spring 2024 Program Guide for location addresses) FGCU Academy  Click Below to View 2024 Travel Open House Presentation  Southern Italy & Sicily September 4-18, 2024 15 days for $6,674 View Brochure  Southeast Asia Odysseys October 31-November 18, 2024 19 days for $7,597 View Brochure  Sensations of Lyon & Provence 2024 River Cruise September 17 – 28, 2024 12 days from $5,469 View Brochure  Jewels of the Rhine 2024 River Cruise September 20 – 30, 2024 11 days from $4,925 View Brochure Travel Abroad with FGCU Academy Call our office 239.434.4737 for assistance with registration or Click to View our Website DONATE NOW     FGCU Academy FGCU ACADEMY NAPLES CENTER 704 Goodlette-Frank Rd N Suite 330 Naples, FL 34102 239.434.4737 [email protected] |