Month: January 2012

The second speaker in Shell Point’s 2012 Speaker Series will be Richard Picciotto, who survived the World Trade Center Collapse on September 11, 2001. This presentation will take place on Friday, February 3, at 7:00pm in The Village Church Auditorium on The Island at Shell Point. The theme for this year’s series is “In The Face of Courage”, and all presenters have overcome a range of adversities. All residents of Southwest Florida are invited to attend, but tickets are required.

“We are so happy to welcome all the speakers in the 2012 Speaker Series, and feel that all who attend the presentations will be inspired and moved by the emotion of each story,” said Dawn Boren, director of resident life for Shell Point. “The speakers lined up in this particular series have faced many different challenges and they have all been able to look at the positives of those experiences.”

FORT MYERS, Fla. ( January 16, 2012 )

The Academy at Shell Point welcomes back Award winning maritime author and lecturer Robert Macomber to present three informative sessions on The Forgotten War. These presentations are open to the public, and tickets are required for each session. The first session will take place on Monday, January 28, at 2:00 p.m. in the Grand Cypress Room of The Woodlands at Shell Point Retirement Community. Session two and three will take place on February 4 and 11, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the Grand Cypress Room of the Woodlands at Shell Point. Tickets are $10 each and to purchase tickets for these presentations, please call (239) 489-8472.

In the first session, Macomber will cover an overview of Germany’s Pacific Empire from the 1870’s to 1914, which stretched across a huge area from China to Saipan, New Guinea to Samoa, and greatly influenced the rest of the Pacific. The second session includes the story of the Imperial German Navy’s Asiatic Squadron and its naval campaign across the Pacific in the opening months of World War One. The final session in the series begins after the initial carnage in 1914, as World War One in the Pacific changed into a cat-and-mouse game between the German raiders and the Royal Navy. To purchase tickets please call (239) 489-8472.

“We are so happy to welcome Robert Macomber back to present in the Academy,” said Teri Kollath, Manager of Academy and Volunteer Services. “His presentations are always intriguing and informative.”

Lecturer Joanna Coke will take us through the redefinition of art from the 1890s to the present in this two session lunch and learn that shows us how the world’s cultural changes affected the artistic movements. In addition to the two sessions on how art is significant and how to understand it, attendees will enjoy a boxed lunch with the presenter.

 

 

“Art appreciation truly is ‘in the eye of the beholder’,” said Teri Kollath, Manager of Academy and Volunteer Services. “We are so happy to offer a class that places both modern and contemporary art into the historical perspective of cultural changes, especially with such an engaging presenter.”