Flower Power – Color Outside the Lines Art Workshop
Sometimes art is messy, so get ready to get your hands dirty, literally. Consider your pot of dirt the blank canvas for your next art project. Choose from a variety of this season’s annual flowers for the sun or shade. Arrange them to your liking and pack your pot with dirt. What a great way to welcome the spring season and add some beautiful blossoms to a porch, patio, or deck near you. April showers bring May flowers, so we are right on time with this next workshop. This will brighten up your space or make a thoughtful Mother’s Day gift.
Audiobook Club – The Braille Killer
Featured Book for October The Braille Killer: an Alice Bergman novel
by Daniel Kuhnley
BARD # DB124174
Blind at birth, Alice Bergman’s sight has been restored, but her childhood struggles and the assault she endured have never been forgotten. For the last 10 years, she’s been secretly receiving letters from her attacker, letters written in Braille. Now, a homicide detective, Alice is assigned to a murder case. The victim? A blind girl. The scene is too clean, far more than can be explained rationally. Alice is able to relive the girl’s last moments, but she can’t see the girl’s killer. That doesn’t matter, though; Alice knows the killer is the same person who attacked her as a teen.
Our audiobook club will feature books available on BARD. Books will be chosen by and discussions led by different book club members. Meetings will take place at various coffee shops in the Omaha metro area accessible by public transportation. We will share exact locations with registered participants. Meetings will take place every other month on a Saturday. Attending the meeting is free, but coffee is not included.
Family Beep Baseball (All Ages)
Batter up! Calling all our blind, low vision, and sighted friends and family up to the plate. It’s time for our annual beep baseball clinic and game. All athletes will cycle through batting practice with tees and live pitching, fielding balls, and running bases. It might sound like just a regular baseball clinic, but it’s not. This version is adapted for players with vision loss, including beeping baseballs and beeping bases. Friends and family are welcome to join, wearing sleep shades to level the playing field. The first half of the clinic focuses on skill-building, and the second half is an all-out beeping kickball game, followed by pizza for all! This event is open to individuals of all ages with vision loss, as well as their sighted friends and family. It is held at an indoor complex, so we’ll play ball, rain or shine.
Wildlife Encounters
Listening to shows about animals or hearing descriptions of them while at the zoo can get your imagination running wild! Outlook is bringing the zoo to you through our friends at Wildlife Encounters. From scales to feathers and fur, you’ll get a chance to feel it all. You can come face to face or be hands on and hold creatures you’re curious about. Wildlife Encounters will bring their most interactive animal ambassadors for a meet and greet you’ll never forget. We welcome youth and adults, along with their friends and family, to have fun and explore nature in a new, up close and personal way.
Sighted Volunteer Golfers Needed (Feb-May)
Do you love to golf? So do we, but we can’t do it without volunteers like you. We are holding practices at Outlook on our golf simulator from now until the end of May. Our participants are blind and low vision with varying levels of golf experience.
What you’ll do:
Relay information displayed on the golf simulator screen (ie, distance, direction, water, sand)
Help participants get lined up with the simulator screen if needed
Find golf balls and set up tees
Give pointers on techniques
Recommend which clubs to use
Coach putting
Practice schedule:
Fridays 1:30 – 3 p.m. (weekly through May, if possible)
Saturdays 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (weekly through May, if possible)
Please sign up today, and let’s get you on the schedule to have fun and help out with some of our practices!
Group Exercise Classes (now-April 30)
Don’t let your New Year’s resolution fade; we’re back with another round of CrossFit-style group exercise classes! Led by guest trainers from UNO’s Exercise Science program, these classes offer a mix of workout styles, personalized support, and a built-in cheering squad. Classes provide a full-body workout adapted to your fitness level and goals, using weights, exercise bands, kettlebells, and bodyweight.
Join us Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 2:00–2:45 p.m. Now through April 30. Available to participants ages 18+.
