Special Interest Groups Best Sellers (Book Club) | Movie Goers Group | Walking Group |  How to Form Groups Sometimes a group of Omnilore members decides it would like to dedicate some time to a specific interest on an ongoing manner, outside the structure of a study/discussion group, so they form a "Special Interest Group" (SIG). Currently, Omnilore has three official SIGs:  The long-standing Hiking/Walking Group, Movie Goers formed in 2017, and the Best Sellers SIG formed in May of 2012 to read and discuss current best sellers.  Scroll down to read about all three below, or just click on their names in this paragraph to jump straight to one SIG's description. ,  Walking Group Upcoming Outing April 12 (Friday), 2023, 10am Terranea Discovery Trail Rancho Palos Verdes Bring your own lunch or food to share. RSVPs requested:  Walking-Group@omnilore.org In 2015 the Omnilore hiking group, started by John Taber over a decade earlier to explore the trails and walkways in PV, morphed into a walking group.  We will have a minimum of six walks a year with as many as six more if volunteer leaders step up to identify an itinerary.  The six scheduled walks will start at 10 a.m. on the 2nd Friday of even-numbered months and typically last about an hour and a half.  These walks may be chosen from a list of standard walks that will be posted on the Omnilore website, allowing those participating to become familiar with the walking course and permitting them to head out on their own if the walking group co-coordinators are not available to lead the walk. Dennis Bosch and Deborah Hawkins are the current Walking Group co-coordinators, and can be reached by emailing Walking-Group@Omnilore.org. If you enjoy walking and hiking consider joining other Omniloreans in our 2nd-Friday outings sponsored by our Special Interest Group dedicated to outdoor perambulation.  Most trips are not difficult and our announcements emailed to the entire membership will advise about those that involve moderate climbing.  Come Walk with Us! For information about the Walking/Hiking Group, please contact the Walking Group Coordinators at Walking-Group@Omnilore.org to be put on the distribution list for specific plans about each month's outing. For the Walking Group's set of standard walks (documented by previous co-coordinator Dennis Eggert in 2014-2016): Click Here for PDF format; Click Here for PPT format. The picture above was taken on the Group's April 2017 walk along the LA Waterfront in San Pedro, and the photo on the walk in the Malaga Cove vicinity in August, 2019. Click on either photo for a larger version. Go to the Movies with Us! To volunteer to help restart the Movie Goers SIG, please send email to Movie-Goers@Omnilore.org Movie Goers Special Interest Group THE MOVIE GOERS SIG HAS BEEN ON HIATUS DURING THE PANDEMIC, AND NOW FOUNDING ORGANIZER DALE KORMAN IS READY TO PASS THE TORCH. IF WILLING TO VOLUNTEER AS MOVIE GOERS ORGANIZER OR TO HELP REVIVE THIS SIG, SEND EMAIL TO Movie-Goers@Omnilore.org. The Movie Goers SIG gives Omniloreans the opportunity to go together once a month to view a current movie at a local theater and then adjourn to a nearby coffee shop or restaurant to discuss the likes and dislikes of the movie just seen.  This Omnilore SIG debuted with a successful group viewing and discussion of "Murder On The Orient Express" in 2017 with over 20 Omniloreans and guests participating.  Our monthly event default schedule is the 4th Sunday afternoon, with food and discussion afterward at a location near the chosen theater.    To make it a more meaningful experience, information about the film – e.g., the director, the cast, the critics reviews, the back stories – would be included in the discussions.   The coordinator of this SIG, with occasional assistance from other volunteers, does the research and schedules the dates as to what movie will be selected, when and where the Movie Goers Group will be going.  Pre-pandemic, over 50 Omniloreans and spouses had participated in the group.  Discussions are generic, so no one needs to feel obligated to do any research prior to the movie selected. (Unless you want to, of course.)   There will be plenty to talk about. See you at the movies! Come Join Us in Reading Best Sellers! To volunteer to help restart the Best Sellers SIG, please send email to Best-Sellers@Omnilore.org Best Sellers Special Interest Group THE BEST SELLERS SIG IS ON HIATUS AS OF 2023, WITH THE "RETIREMENT" OF ORGANIZERS PATRICIA EDIE AND CINDY EGGERT AFTER MORE THAN 10 SUCCESSFUL YEARS OF  MONTHLY BOOK-DISCUSSION MEETINGS. IF WILLING TO VOLUNTEER AS BEST SELLERS ORGANIZERS OR TO HELP REVIVE THIS SIG, SEND EMAIL TO Best-Sellers@Omnilore.org.    The Omnilore Best Sellers Book Discussion SIG was formed in May, 2012.  It regularly met on the second Monday of each month from noon to 1:00 P.M., to discuss the “book of the month” in a free-form format using open-ended discussion questions.  This SIG was open to all Omniloreans interested in reading and discussing current best sellers, both fiction and nonfiction.  Everyone was welcome to attend whether you had finished the book, were in the process of reading it, or are just curious about the topic.  [From the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 until going on hiatus in 2023 while seeking new organizers/leadership (volunteer to Best-Sellers@Omnilore.org), the Best Sellers SIG met via Zoom.]   The Best Sellers' past book selections (generally alternating fiction and non-fiction selections) covered a wide variety of topics and are linked here to lend the flavor of the SIG: CLICK HERE to see titles of the approximately 100 great books read by Best Sellers (and Amazon links for purchasing in the various available formats)! Forming a New Interest Group The first step in proposing the formation of a new Omnilore Special Interest Group is to discuss the matter with the Omnilore Board of Directors.  If they approve of the idea, then you can create an advertisement for the Group for publication in the next Omnilore Newsletter.  Subsequently, if enough members show interest in joining you, then your Group is formed!  All you need to do after that is to get together with all those members who showed an interest, discuss what you all want to do with your group, and arrange when and how often to meet. Formerly, there was a Computers and Technology Special Interest Group, but they became so successful that they morphed into the current Computer Working Group, a standing Omnilore working group that coordinates our monthly Computer Talks presentations on all things computer-related.  In the past, we've also had a Travel Special Interest Group and a Science Special Interest Group.  Be creative.  From time to time, we hear members say that they wished there would be an Omnilore Special Interest Group on gardening or contemporary foreign policy.  Unfortunately, nobody has taken the initiative, stepped forward, and organized such groups.  Are you the organizer that everyone has been looking for?

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