OLLI Cafe Proposal Form

OLLI Café is a venue for the exchange of ideas and experiences focusing on improving the quality of life. The goal of OLLI Café is to present a potpourri of presentations and activities that provide information and new knowledge to OLLI members. This program runs from 12:15 – 1:15 PM ON FRIDAYS ONLY. Our members begin to socialize and participate in a brown-bag lunch at 11:45 AM which is a prelude to the actual Café Presentation. We suggest a fifty-minute presentation, performance, demonstration, or activity followed by a ten-minute period of questions and answers when appropriate. Of course, you may arrange your presentation differently to fit your subject and style. If you require a different format please let us know in advance and on this form.

OLLI Cafe Proposal Form

OLLI Café lectures are presented by volunteers who want to share their passion for a topic ornspecial interest they have.

  • Speaker Information

  • Cafe Information - General

    Please provide us with some general information about your presentation.
  • Please see the OLLI website or brochure for exact session dates: https://olli.uconn.edu
  • Example: 2023
  • Please be creative and propose an eye-catching title.

  • Cafe Information - Technology

    The Multipurpose Room you will be presenting in accommodates an audience of well over one hundred people. The room is equipped with the latest information technology. The following devices and technology can be made available with advance request: microphone, a stationary computer, DVD/CD player, laptop port, Microsoft Office software (including PowerPoint), and internet access. Images and videos can be displayed on a large screen and on four additional flat screens throughout the room.
    *If you need to use the DVD/CD player that's in your classroom, then please make sure that you are playing from a DVD/CD that is copyrighted in the US. If you don't, then you risk the DVD/CD either not work or stop playing unexpectedly. **If you are connecting your own laptop to the teaching station, then you will need to provide your own adapter (HDMI or USB-C).

  • Parking Pass Information

    In order to ensure that we can register you for free parking on the day of your scheduled presentation we are asking for your vehicle information ahead of time. If the information provided changes, then please make sure that you reach back out to us at osher@uconn.edu with updated information as early as possible to ensure that you can get a parking permit for the right vehicle.
  • License PlateState Registered InMakeModelColorYear 
    OLLI at UConn purchases a parking permit from Parking Services for all Cafe presenters. Please make sure that the information entered is correct so you don't risk getting a ticket.

  • Agreement & CAPTCHA

    Please agree to the statement below and prove that you are not a robot.
    By signing this form, I understand that OLLI is a non-credit educational program of the University of Connecticut. OLLI does not support or represent any political, religious, or private business interests and therefore does not allow the promotion of such organizations during OLLI Café. Pictures may be taken during OLLI Café and may used to promote the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Connecticut.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Dates Available: To be determined after your proposal is approved.

Questions: please call OLLI @ UConn at 475-222-6232 or 475-222-6261