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Learning Before Lunch
A speaker series offering thought-provoking programs and a chance to meet new friends
Are you an active adult interested in lifelong learning... a retiree eager to expand your social network... a student of life looking to expand your horizons?
Learning Before Lunch is a monthly series of talks designed to spark meaningful conversations about the local community of New Orleans. Come together with friends and neighbors to hear entertaining and well-informed speakers discuss their passions: captivating explorations of the people and places that make New Orleans one of the world's most interesting cities.
Join us on the second Thursday of each month. Meetings are presented Live and via Zoom for an entertaining hour with our featured speaker.
Speakers begin at 10:00 Central Time; end at 11:00
November 13
New Orleans City Park
Casie Duplechain
President & CEO, City Park Conservancy
Learn how City Park Conservancy's City Park 2050 Plan is shaping the future of one of the nation's oldest urban parks. CEO Rebecca Dietz will share the community-driven vision guiding this transformative plan - balancing preservation, access, sustainability, and innovation to ensure City Park thrives for generations to come.
December 11
New Orleans Music
Jonathan Bloom
Outreach Director of the Louis Armstrong Music Academy
January 8
Title TBA
Jim Letten
Retired FBI Agent
Second
Thursday of
each month
UNO Alumni and Visitors Center
Doors open at 9:30
Lecture ends at 11:00
Come early to have coffee, pastry, and chat with other attendees.
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