How to Register and Apply Discount Codes
As a current OLLI member, you can register for Lunch and Learns and Special Events for free or at a discounted rate. Discount codes are available on the Member Resources page of the Membership Program webpage. The password to access the Member Resources page was included in your OLLI at Vanderbilt member welcome email. Not an OLLI member yet? Many events are available to non-members for a fee. Or, become an OLLI member and enjoy free or discounted registration for these events.
October Events
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October 21, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., Nashville
Coffee & Connections with OLLI at Vanderbilt
Join us for Coffee & Connections with OLLI at Vanderbilt —a casual opportunity to connect, catch up, and meet someone new!
Whether you’ve just joined OLLI at Vanderbilt or have been part of our community for years, we’d love to see you. Enjoy coffee and conversation while getting to know fellow OLLI members in a relaxed and welcoming setting.
Know someone who might enjoy OLLI? Bring a friend! This is a great opportunity to introduce a friend to our community and let them experience what makes OLLI at Vanderbilt so special.
Come for the coffee, stay for the conversation and connection. We look forward to seeing you! This event is free and open to OLLI members and the public. Come as you are; no need to register. We will be in the cafe space at Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., Nashville. Church Map
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October 24 and 25
Check schedule for times 3rd and Lindsley
Nashville Jazz Festival
OLLI members receive 20% off single-day tickets and weekend passes. Use the discount code located on the Members Resource page.
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October, 26, 2026
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Haunted Vanderbilt Tour
Free for OLLI at Vanderbilt members; $15 for non-members
Join Brandon Hulette for an extended 60-minute tour exploring the legends, hauntings, landmarks, and lingering mysteries of Vanderbilt’s campus. This special tour will take you to several historic (and maybe haunted) locations, including the Vaughn Home, Medical Center North, VUMA, 1101 (home of the beloved Princess the Cat), Central Library, and the historic graves at Bishops Common. Along the way, you’ll hear the stories behind the final resting places of McTyeire, McKendree, and Soule, uncover fascinating moments from Vanderbilt’s past, and learn why the Vaughn Home is widely considered the university’s most haunted building. Don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity to experience Vanderbilt’s history, legends, and ghost stories just in time for Halloween!
This event is weather-dependent and will be canceled in the event of rain or inclement weather.
November Events
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November 6, 2026
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 816 Old Salem Road, Murfreesboro
Earth Experience Museum Tour
Free for OLLI at Vanderbilt members; $15 for nonmembers
Earth Experience is filled with thousands of relics, fossils, gems, rocks, dinosaur bones, models, and exhibits that help bring our world’s early days to life. There are exciting and interesting exhibits to explore and touch, with staff-led tours along with a mobile app to enhance what you see. Tours last approximately 80 minutes. Guests will be able to watch fossils being prepped for display by our expert team that is happy to answer any and all questions about the process and challenges of paleontology. -
November 7, 2026
11:00 a.m. - noon 1801 Edgehill Ave., Nashville
Curb Center at Vanderbilt Art Exhibit: Land Shapes
Free for OLLI at Vanderbilt members; $15 for nonmembers
Landscape is never neutral or purely natural; rather, it is shaped by historical, social, and economic forces. Challenging conventional assumptions about what constitutes a landscape, “Land Shapes” investigates how environments are constructed, mediated, and interpreted by contemporary artists. The multi-media selection explores both the depiction of landscape and the viewpoints that inform its representation — drawing upon both dominant and suppressed voices.“Land Shapes” highlights the work of Vincent Pomilio, Roxanne Bartel, Lanecia Rouse, Jana Harper, and Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons, whose treatments of landscape represent their diverse backgrounds, locations, and media.
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November 10, 2026
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Online via Zoom
Grandfamilies: Rising to the Challenge of Raising Another Generation with Hope and Heart
Free OLLI member-exclusive event.
Today, 2.5 million children live in grandfamilies, or families headed by grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings, or close family friends. A recent report by Generations United found that grandfamilies save taxpayers more than $10 billion each year by keeping children out of foster care. In her new book, Grandfamilies: Stories of Children and the Loving Relatives Who Raise Them, Donna Butts explores the unique challenges, resilience, and successes of grandfamilies through the stories of the caregivers and the children they raise. This session will use these stories to highlight how public policy and perceptions of grandfamilies and kinship care have changed over the past 30 years, and what more is needed to help these families thrive.
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November 11, 2026
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., Nashville
Coffee & Connections with OLLI at Vanderbilt
Join us for Coffee & Connections with OLLI at Vanderbilt —a casual opportunity to connect, catch up, and meet someone new!
Whether you’ve just joined OLLI at Vanderbilt or have been part of our community for years, we’d love to see you. Enjoy coffee and conversation while getting to know fellow OLLI members in a relaxed and welcoming setting.
Know someone who might enjoy OLLI? Bring a friend! This is a great opportunity to introduce a friend to our community and let them experience what makes OLLI at Vanderbilt so special.
Come for the coffee, stay for the conversation and connection. We look forward to seeing you! This event is free and open to OLLI members and the public. Come as you are; no need to register. We will be in the cafe space at Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd., Nashville. Church Map
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November 21, 2026
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. FiftyForward and Creative Girls Rock Creative Commons, 3315 John Mallette Dr, Nashville
DIY Ornament Wreath Workshop
OLLI member exclusive event
Add a little sparkle to your holiday season! Join us for a fun and festive DIY Ornament Wreath Workshop, where you’ll create a beautiful wreath to enjoy throughout the holidays. Bring your own ornaments and decorative accents to personalize your wreath and make it uniquely yours. Choose colors and decorations that complement your holiday style or home décor. This is also a wonderful activity to enjoy with the grandkids, so feel free to bring them along! Space is limited.
December Events
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December 2, 2026
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Bus Trip to Cornersville, Tennessee
Holly Dolly Holiday
$30 for OLLI members. $50 for non-members
Celebrate the season with a fun-filled bus trip to Dolly's Tennessean Travel Stop! Join us as we travel together to this unique destination and enjoy its one-of-a-kind charm. Following the tour, we'll gather for a buffet lunch at the truck stop before heading home. It's a festive day of sightseeing, good food, and great company—perfect for getting into the holiday spirit!
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December 5, 2026
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Vanderbilt Museum of Art, 1220 21st Avenue
Vanderbilt Museum of Art Exhibit: Instead Of
Free for OLLI at Vanderbilt members; $15 for nonmembers
Why do artists do what they do, instead of something else?
Instead Of displays major works from the VUMA collection for the first time: a 28-foot tapestry by the fiber artist Sheila Hicks; prints and drawings by the Chicago Imagist Barbara Rossi; drawings and an embroidery by the jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant; and a 10-foot fresco by the British duo Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings. Drawing on the title of a work by Salvant, Instead Of explores artistic decision-making through materiality, scope, and scale. Overlapping themes in the artworks and resonances between the practices that produced them invite viewers to find interconnections and ask, what else if not this?
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December 8, 2028
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd, Nashville
Zentangle
$10 for OLLI at Vanderbilt members; $17 for nonmembers
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns tangles and you create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs. These simple shapes are the "Elemental Strokes" in all Zentangle art.
Zentangle art is non-representational and unplanned so you can focus on each stroke and not worry about the result. There is no up or down to Zentangle art. In fact, you can most easily create Zentangle art by rotating your tile as you tangle -- always keeping your hand in a relaxed position. You don't need to know what a tangle is going to look like to draw it. You just need to know the steps.
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December 11
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. (optional lunch to follow) Two Rivers Mansion, 3130 McGavock Pk., Nashville
Holiday Tour of Two Rivers Mansion
$15 for OLLI at Vanderbilt members; $25 for nonmembers
Join us for a guided holiday tour at Two Rivers Mansion, where you can explore the beautifully decorated mansion and the 1802 House in all their festive glory. After the tour, participants are invited to lunch at TenFold in Donelson. Lunch is optional, and each participant will be responsible for the cost of their own meal. It’s a great opportunity to spend a little more time together after the tour.