May 12-18, 2025

We are thrilled to announce that we have been nominated for the Non-Profit Excellence Award by the Palm Desert Area Chamber of Commerce! The winners will be announced at the Palm Desert Area Business Awards & Board Recognition event on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at Palm Valley Country Club in Palm Desert.

To cast your vote for Joslyn Center, please click the link below. This will take you to a page where you can cast your vote in ten categories including Joslyn Center in the Non-Profit Excellence category, which is seventh from the top. Voting is open until May 16, and you can vote more than once. Vote Joslyn and vote often!

National Drawing Day is celebrated on May 17 and the best way to celebrate it is by expressing yourself through drawing just about anything you like. Did you know that drawing is an art closely tied to our history? Even cavemen who hadn’t yet learned to talk drew hunting scenes on cave walls. Today, we have so many modern tools to help us create extremely realistic and artistic drawings such as a plain sketchbook and pencil or a tablet and stylus.

Would you like to try your hand at drawing cartoons? Don is an established cartoonist and he will be sharing his skills with a Cartoon Drawing class starting Thursday, May 22. Please join in and learn the art or improve your skills. This is sure to be a fun class!

Please join us for a Twisted Tea Party with Ala von Auersperg fashions, frolics, and a fabulous high tea with a champagne reception and shopping at Willie's Modern Fare, Rancho Mirage, Sunday, May 18, 2025, 3-5pm.

Tickets are $75 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Joslyn Center. To RSVP and purchase tickets, please scan the QR Code. Seating is limited so act now! For further information inquiries, please click the email link below.

Ala von Auersperg is a designer, philanthropist, mother, grandmother, and founder of Ala von Auersperg, the clothing and accessories brand celebrating women of all ages and sizes with effortlessly elegant silhouettes. A longtime painter with a penchant for travel and deep love of nature, Ala launched the eponymous label in 2017 with the goal of dressing women in styles that exude confidence and comfort. For further information, please click below to visit their website.

Thank you to Carolyn Martin (with Greg Murphy) and the Martvest Foundation for a generous donation to our Outdoor Pickleball Courts Campaign. The courts are currently under construction with concrete having been poured on Friday, May 2nd. The anticipated completion date is mid-June with a ribbon-cutting ceremony planned. Stay tuned for updates!

Thank you also to the following donors, which includes Dave Pollock and Barbara Rogers who each funded one of the three courts.

James Bates

Guillermo Becerra

Tomm Belanich

Christine Bogosian

John Brende

James Brown

Cathy Casha

Marivic Erskine

Jeanne "Magic" Fields

Beverly & John Fitzgerald

Ed Forsyth

Nancy Foster

Michael Garai

Ed Giannini

Mary Gilstrap

Jan Gordon

Robert Grant

Wallace Hill

Janine Judy

Tanya Karn

Barry Kaufman

Colleen Kelly

Yangja Kim

Soraya Lavassani

Allison Linnell

Carolyn Martin

Barbara Mitchell

Greg Murphy

Jack Newby

Lynne Parker

Michael Plante

Dave Pollock

Larry Rasmusson

Barbara Rogers

Patricia Rogoff

Scott & Martha Schroeder

Linda Smith

Linda Weber

Henri Wilhelmi

Dr. Kimberley Wang

Ofelia Ybarra

Jesse Young

To join Barbara, Carolyn, Dave, and the others in supporting the fastest growing sport in the country, please click below to contribute to Joslyn's Outdoor Pickleball Courts Campaign. For questions regarding naming opportunties, please email Info@JoslynCenter.org.

Fatherhood

2021, 1h 49m

In this heartwarming, funny and emotional true story, Kevin Hart stars as a widower taking on one of the toughest jobs in the world: fatherhood as a single parent who struggles to raise his daughter after the sudden death of his wife. Directed by Paul Weitz from a screenplay by Weitz and Dana Stevens based on the 2011 memoir Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin, the cast includes Alfre Woodard, Frankie R. Faison, Lil Rel Howery, DeWanda Wise, Anthony Carrigan, Melody Hurd, and Paul Reiser.

Meet at Joslyn Center at 4:00pm for conversation,

then head over to

The Hideout Kitchen + Bar

73595 El Paseo, Suite 2208 (upstairs), Palm Desert

Click image for restaurant information.

Happy Hour / special pricing may be available.

Please call Francie at 760-310-1942 for reservations.

Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (2023) is a historical account of the Klan’s brief but meteoric resurrection in Indiana in the 1920s. Using meticulous research combined with the descriptive elements of narrative thrillers, Egan recreates in detail a particularly dark chapter in American history. Egan focuses on David C. Stephenson, a grifter and conman who exploited the fears and racism of middle America to build an empire with himself as king, as well as Madge Oberholtzer, the woman who ultimately stopped him. Egan, a reporter for The New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his reporting on race in America.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan

"Tender Is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of a psychiatrist, Tommy Burnham, who marries his patient, Nicole, a wealthy woman suffering from a nervous condition. The novel explores their complex relationship and how Nicole's illness and his professional dedication slowly drain his vitality, leaving him feeling unfulfilled. The story also delves into the glamorous but ultimately destructive lives of expatriates on the French Riviera during the 1920s and 30s.

Tender is the Night, by

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Business Partner program is one of the reasons Joslyn Center is able to keep membership dues and activities low fee or free. Our business partners also sponsor events and social programs, helping to defray costs. To learn more about Gold Business Partner services, please click their logos below. 

For a full list of Joslyn Center Business Partners, please click below.

For information on becoming a Business Partner,

please contact Alex at AlexG@JoslynCenter.org or 760-895-4652.

The Joslyn Center provides extensive programs and services for older adults in Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, and surrounding Coachella Valley communities.