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Lapham Community Center and Senior Center of New Canaan, Inc. |
Waveny Park New Canaan, CT Tel: 203-594-3620 Fax: 203-594-3628 |
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| Classes for Spring 2010 |
| PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE REGISTERING FOR CLASSES |
| PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE REGISTERING FOR CLASSES
Our classes are open to all adult New Canaan residents. People planning to take classes should sign up as soon as possible; lotteries for oversubscribed classes will be held at noon on Monday, February 22. Enrollment for all other courses will go on until classes are filled. Registrations can be brought in or mailed to P.O. Box 83, New Canaan. Please also register for classes that charge no fee. We can only take telephone registrations for free classes. Call Nancy or Lyn at 203-594-3620 if you have any questions. People over age 60 pay a lower fee [under 60 fee indicated in brackets] for some classes. Scholarships are available by contacting Lyn Bond at 594-3620. We understand that some people may not be available to sign up for three months. In those cases we will try to let participants enroll by the month. Our policy will be to take people who want the whole period and then accommodate as many "part-timers" as possible. As always, fees will be pro-rated. See Nancy for details. Classes fill quickly - avoid disappointment and register early! |
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Adult Education
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| Cooking | Driving | History | Finance | Language | Music | Writing |
| AARP Driver Safety Program |
| 2 Mons., April 19 & 26, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., $12/$14 |
| AARP Driving Instructor, Roger Colson, will lead a driving class that will give you valuable driving tips and a state-mandated reduction on your car insurance of at least 5% for two years. You must attend all of both sessions to earn the insurance reduction. To register send a check payable to AARP to the Senior Center, P.O. Box 83, New Canaan. If you are an AARP member, your cost is $12 (bring your card to class), if not, it will cost $14. |
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| The following programs are from The Teaching Company, an organization that films America's top professors. These very high quality lectures will be shown on a big screen. |
| America and the World: A Diplomatic History |
| Thursdays through April 8, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30, Free |
| We are about half way through these lectures about the US evolving from a handful of colonies into the most powerful nation in the world. The first March lecture will be about Wilson and the Peace Treaty of 1919. If you are a history buff, stop in and watch a lecture - they've been very good! Professor Mark A. Stoler of the U. of Vermont - a scholar acknowledged for his expertise in U.S. diplomatic and military history - is the lecturer. Ladd Seton, who earned a Masters in American Studies in retirement, leads a discussion after the lecture. |
| A History of European Art, Part 1 |
| Tuesdays through June 15, 1 p.m., Free |
| This series, which started in January, will begin with the Renaissance in March. Dr. William Kloss, art historian, lecturer, scholar, and author associated with the Smithsonian Institute, has a loyal following at Lapham. Come when you can - they are terrific lectures. |
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| Masterworks of American Art |
| 12 Thursdays, January 7 - March 25, 1:30 -2:30 p.m., Free |
| Great painters capture a culture's hopes, anxieties, and aspirations.
Dr. William Kloss, from the Smithsonian Institute will
examine some of America's greatest paintings within the larger context of our country's history.
This program is from the Teaching Company, an organization that films America's top professors. These very high quality lectures will be shown on a big screen. |
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| Finance |
| Lapham Center often invites area financial experts to speak on an assortment of financial subjects like retirement, identity theft, investments, protecting your assets for children and grandchildren, etc. Financial classes are posted here as they are scheduled. |
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| Music |
| Opera: Wagner |
| 5 Wednesdays, January 13 - February 10, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., $50. |
| Last winter Dr. Jerry Sehulster discussed the four operas of Wagner's mighty Ring Cycle. This winter he will focus on Wagner's other four mature operas, from "Lohengrin" through "Parsifal". Week 5 will either be a make up for a snow day (hopefully not) or "Wagner's Greatest Hits" |
| Great Masters: Brahms, His Life and Music |
| 8 Tuesdays, January 19 - March 9, 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Free |
| Johannes Brahms possessed a unique ability to create works of surpassing romantic expressiveness, melodic inventiveness, and harmonic sophistication.In this course Robert Greenberg, Ph.D links the complexities of the man with the electrifying music of the composer. |
| Great Masters:Tchaikovsky, His Life & Music |
| 8 Tuesdays, March 16 - May 4, 2:15 - 3:00 p.m., Free |
| The life of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky exhibits as close a link as you will find between an artist's inner world and his outward creative activity. As a man, Tchaikovsky was defined by and indivisible from his music, which became an outlet for all the shifting moods of his turbulent soul. As Professor Robert Greenberg says, "If Tchaikovsky felt it, it found a way into his music." This Teaching Company program will be shown on our big screen |
| NEW: From Page to Stage: Great Lovers from Literature in Opera |
| 6 Wednesdays, March 17 - April 21, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., $60 |
| Join talented lecturer, Dr. Jerry Sehulster, to listen and learn about tales of the great lovers from literature whose stories have also been told in opera. Romeo and Juliet, Faust and Marguerite, Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, and Aeneas and Dido and more. You will also hear guaranteed famous love duets by Gounod, Berlioz, Massenet, Puccini, and others. This is a great course for those who are new to opera although long-time opera lovers will enjoy it as well. |
| NEW: String Quartets of Beethoven |
| Thursdays, April 1 - June 17, 1:30 - 3 p.m., Free |
| In his 16 quartets for two violins, viola, and cello, Beethoven created some of the most sublime, unforgettable music ever written. Continuing to astound listeners after 200 years, these glorious quartets give voice to the innermost landscape of the human heart and spirit.
Professor Robert Greenberg, composer and music historian at San Francisco Performances, offers you the rare opportunity to grasp the musical riches and spiritual greatness of the quartets in a clear and accessible way. BONUS: People enrolled in this class will be able to buy discounted tickets to two Waveny Chamber Music Society concerts: the Borealis String Quartet on April 18 and the St. Petersburg Quarter on May 23. Tickets will be $20 rather than $30. More information in class. |
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| Memoir Writing I |
| 8 Wednesdays, January 6 - February 24, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., $50 8 Wednesdays, March 3 - April 21, 9:30-10:30 a.m., $50 - CANCELLED |
| A memoir is a piece of autobiographical writing, which tries to capture meaningful moments in one's past. Everyone has stories to tell and you will be amazed at how easy it can be to transfer your thoughts and images onto paper. Patti Jo Pflug, a former writing resource teacher in the NC Schools, will help you bring your memories, and the accompanying feelings about those events, into writing. Memoir I is for beginners; Memoir II will start again next fall as a combined class. Bring a writer's notebook, pen, your memories and an old photo to the first class. |
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