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Sponsored by Dear Oasis Friends, Our Mission Thanks to all of you who have stuck with Offering challenging programs in the arts, Oasis through thick and thin during this humanities, science, wellness, and volunteer unprecedented time. As I write this, we are service, Oasis creates opportunities for older hopeful we will be able to welcome you back adults to continue their personal growth and to the center in the near future. You will meaningful service to the community. notice that all summer classes continue to be Oasis Affiliation scheduled for online only through the Zoom Oasis Albuquerque is a non-profit organization platform. Opening up depends on public affiliated with the Oasis Institute in St. Louis, health guidelines, and we follow those very Missouri, which was founded in 1982. closely. If we are able to add some type of in- Nationally,Oasis programs reach more than person classroom experience this summer, 52,000 individuals and engage more than 6,100 we will do it! volunteers annually. Keep reading our weekly updates and check Join Oasis the Oasis website regularly (www.oasisabq. Oasis is open to all adults regardless of gender, org). race, creed, ethnicity, national origin or religion.
From the Director From I also want to extend a warm welcome to our To join, complete the New Participant Form newest staff member, Tracy Zerkle. Tracy available at the Oasis office or on the inside joins Albuquerque Oasis remotely from back cover of this catalog. Or join Oasis online Stockton, MO. She has a wealth of Oasis at www.oasisabq.org. experience, having served as the Health & The Oasis Center Wellness Coordinator and Associate Director for the San Antonio Oasis center for many Hours: 9:00am - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday years, until she moved to Missouri several 9:00am - 4:00pm Friday years ago. Tracy is helping us with catalog American Square Shopping Center production and our health and wellness 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE, Suite 18, Albuquerque programming. Mail: PO Box 35518 Albuquerque NM 87176 Finally, Oasis wouldn’t be where it is without Phone: (505) 884-4529 Fax: (505) 884-4942 an exceptionally dedicated staff - thanks to Email: [email protected] Cynthia, Vicki, Becky, Sylvia, Lisa, and National Website: www.oasisnet.org Tracy for all they do for Oasis. Albuquerque Info: www.oasisabq.org
Kathleen Raskob Executive Director
Oasis staff members Top row: Becky Kenny, Kathleen Raskob, Lisa Lerner Second row: Vicki DeVigne, Sylvia Giomi, Cynthia LaCoe-Maniaci Bottom: Tracy Zerkle
2 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque A Message from Lisa Lerner, Table of Contents Oasis Office Manager Hello everyone! How to Zoom ...... 4 Classes I miss seeing all of your smiling faces coming Consumer Information & Finance 5 through the door, but thanks for becoming Current Events ...... 5 “Zoomers” over the last months! Food & Nutrition ...... 8 Oasis made a switch to a new online Health & Fitness registration system a few months ago. If Health Lectures 10 you haven’t tried logging into your account Movement & Exercise ...... 13 since the end of February, give it a try. If History & Culture ...... 16 you get a message saying you don’t have an Literature ...... 20 account, or it doesn’t recognize your username Music ...... 21 or password, just call the office and we can Performing Arts - Lecture ...... 24 send you your username and password and Personal Enrichment 25 reactivate your account. Please don’t make Philosophy, Religion, & Spirituality 26 a new account or you will have two! You Science, Math, & Nature 29 will also need to use a credit card specific Southwest ...... 30 to your name and address to complete your Technology ...... 36 registration. Armchair Travel/Travelogue 38 If you have any problems, we’re just a phone Walks & Hikes ...... 39 call away and happy to help. La Vida Llena-Sponsored Classes 40 Neighborhood in RR-Sponsored Classes . . 41 I am still emailing Zoom links one day prior Oasis National News 42 to class. You may also find your Zoom link in Off-Site Class Locations Directory 43 your Oasis account. After signing into your Oasis/Collette Trip ...... 43 account, click on Dashboard, click the button Thank You to Our Contributors ...... 44 “View/Print Class Term Receipt” and the Intergenerational Tutoring Program . . . . 46 receipt will have your Zoom links. Thank You to Our Supporters ...... 51 I hope we can be together again in person Class Calendars 52 before year end. In the meantime, stay well Oasis Policies ...... 56 and I’ll look for you on Zoom! [ Registration Info ...... 57 ] A big THANK YOU to all of our volunteers Online Registration Info 58 who have continued through the pandemic Class Registration Forms ...... 59 either on Zoom or behind the scenes. They Oasis New Participant Form 63 have helped deliver classes, assist with Zooming, learned how to tutor online, kept See pages 56-58 for important policy the tutor library updated, proofed catalogs & registration information. and learned a new database registration system. We couldn’t do it all without dedicated volunteers. On the cover: Left: Summer in NM brings dramatic weather. Learn more in class #79. Floods in a Desert. Photo by Amy Howard Right: Oasis classes offer many ways to improve and maintain your health and well-being. Photo: Adobe Stock.
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4 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Consumer Information / Current Events Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. and extreme political polarization amid Consumer assaults on our democracy. This lecture focuses on what progress has been made on all Information & fronts since Biden took office, as well as the prospects now for further progress. Finance A former US senator and national chair of Resources for Independence the Democratic Party, Fred Harris is a widely in Aging 1zm published author and professor emeritus of political science at the University of New Kris Winterowd Mexico, where he continues to teach in The NM Aging and Long-Term Services the Fred Harris Congressional Internship Department offers one-stop access to a Program. He has produced 20 nonfiction books, variety of federal, state, local, public, and including, as co-editor, Healing Our Divided private resources to support New Mexicans Society, a fiftieth-anniversary update of the in maintaining their independence as they 1968 Report of the Kerner Commission, of age. This class offers an opportunity to learn which he is the lone surviving member. about how to access resources including caregiver support, health and wellness, benefits Tuesday May 18 12:30 - 2:00 counselling, transportation resources and Fee: $10 Zoom more, through your local Aging and Disability Resource Center. Just How Polarized Are We? 3zm Kris Winterowd is the NE Regional Michael Rocca Coordinator for the State of New Mexico’s Michael Rocca highlights one of the defining State Health Insurance Assistance Program characteristics of today’s American politics: (SHIP). SHIP is part of the New Mexico Aging polarization. While experts agree that and Long Term Services Department, and polarization exists at the elite level (e.g. offers free, unbiased, expert information and the U.S. Congress and media), there is assistance to New Mexico residents. considerably less agreement over the level of polarization among the American public. Rocca Thursday Aug 12 10:00 - 11:30 answers the questions: just how polarized Fee: $5 Zoom are the American public and our elected officials; what has caused these varying levels Current Events of polarization; how much does polarization Four Months with President Biden: How is He Doing? How Are We Doing? 2zm Fred Harris In his earliest days in office, President Joe Biden signed numerous executive orders and made detailed legislative proposals to deal with our country’s unprecedented and simultaneous crises: the COVID-19 pandemic; an economic recession with crippling unemployment and Class #3 Political activists confront each other worsening inequality of wealth and income; at a rally. continued systemic racial and ethnic inequity; Photo by Fibonacci Blue
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 5 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. matter to our political outcomes; and what can demystifies those pronouns (he/him,she/ we do to counter this phenomenon? her/they/them), and how to use them. Michael Rocca is an associate professor of Adrien Lawyer introduces you to the lives political science at UNM. He received his and issues of transgender people. He PhD in political science from UC Davis personalizes transgender folks, increasing and has published academic papers on the awareness while decreasing discrimination, US Congress. He also teaches courses on fear, hostility, and violence that is routinely the American presidency and American directed towards members of this population. government and often provides political You are encouraged to examine your own analysis to local and national media. gender identity and the cultural norms and expectations you hold surrounding gender Friday May 21 10:00 - 11:30 and sexuality. Fee: $10 Zoom Adrien Lawyer is the co-director of the
Current Events Cannabis in New Mexico 4zm Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. TGRCNM is the only organization Duke Rodriguez that provides a wide array of services for the The 2021 New Mexico legislature spent transgender community in our state. He has time and effort considering the legalization presented programs on transgender issues of cannabis and the cannabis industry in more than 950 times all over New Mexico our state. Duke Rodriguez discusses the and has been instrumental in advocacy at the cannabis landscape in New Mexico, including individual and policy levels. He is transgender, the state’s Medical Cannabis Program and a father, and an advocate for equality and the legalization of cannabis for adult use. accessible resources for all. Rodriguez also covers the possible impacts to our economy and workforce. Wednesday Jun 23 10:00 - 11:30 Duke Rodriguez, CEO and President of Fee: $10 Zoom Ultra Health, founded Ultra Health, in 2010. Grassroots Solutions Ultra Health is the nation’s largest vertically from New Mexico 6zm integrated medical cannabis provider, operating a state-of-the-art cultivation facility Dede Feldman and 20 dispensaries in New Mexico, which Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico is a all feature pharmaceutical cannabis products tour through innovative organizations and developed through proprietary technology with inspiring local leaders who are changing the Israeli pharmaceutical group Panaxia. Before world from the bottom up, one classroom, one founding Ultra Health, Duke served as COO clinic, one neighborhood at a time. Together at Lovelace and as a cabinet secretary for the they point to an alternative form of community State of New Mexico. and economic development and present alternatives in a challenging time. Hear about Tuesday Jun 8 10:00 - 11:30 asparagus farmers, EMTs, neighborhood Fee: $10 Zoom hell raisers, radical teachers and health care reformers. This class is based on Feldman’s Demystifying Pronouns and book, Another Way Forward: Grassroots Understanding Transgender 5zm Solutions from New Mexico. Adrien Lawyer Dede Feldman was a state senator from This course covers the basics of gender, Albuquerque from 1997-2012, serving as the biological sex and gender expression, and
6 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque chair of the Senate Public Affairs Committee she completes as well as the Health and Human Services her first term. Committee. She is the sponsor of landmark Andrew Schultz legislation in the areas of health care, reviews Justice campaign finance and ethics reform, and Barrett’s brief consumer protection. She is the author of tenure on the Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, Court and and Citizens. discusses her role Events Current Wednesday Jul 7 10:00 - 11:30 in a number of Fee: $10 Zoom the Court’s most recent decisions, How a Bill Really Becomes a Law! 7zm including cases dealing with Rodger Beimer the Affordable Ever wonder about lobbyists? What they do? Care Act, How they work? Are they good or bad? Join discrimination, veteran journalist (and one-time lobbyist) Andrew Schultz reviews religious liberty, Rodger Beimer for an intriguing discussion Amy Coney Barrett’s role robocalls, and with three of New Mexico’s most prominent on the Supreme Court in free speech. and experienced lobbyists. Ed Mahr, Joe class #8. Photo by Rachel Malehorn. Menapace, and Tom Horan have oftentimes Andrew Schultz been on opposite sides of an issue. On behalf is a director at of their clients, they keep track of issues the Rodey Law and trends with a keen eye on political and Firm where he practices in the litigation legislative happenings. They represent some department. He is the only graduate of the of New Mexico’s largest employers and many UNM Law School to serve as a law clerk at the national companies and corporations. US Supreme Court, serving as clerk to Byron R. White. Schultz has been a visiting professor Rodger Beimer was born and raised in Taos at UNM’s School of Law and continues to and went on to a New Mexico television serve as an adjunct professor. In 2018, he was and broadcasting career both on-air and selected as the Albuquerque Bar Association’s administratively at KOAT-TV, KOB-TV, Lawyer of the Year. KZIA and KOB Radio. Monday Aug 2 12:30 - 2:00 Wednesday Jul 28 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Zoom Fee: $10 Zoom
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s “And That’s the Way It Is”: A Look First Term on the Supreme Court 8zm Back at 70 Years of TV News 9zm Brian Rose Andrew Schultz Television news has undergone a remarkable Justice Amy Coney Barrett was appointed transformation since its inception in the 1940s. to the Supreme Court following the death From John Cameron Swayze’s Camel News of Justice Ginsburg. Her potential impact Caravan to Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening on the Court is just beginning to be felt as News, evening newscasts drew millions of viewers. With the founding of CNN in 1980, TV news expanded to 24 hours/day, seven
days/week. Then, in 1996, MSNBC and
Fox News came along with a more partisan
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 7 approach to news. Brian Rose looks at these lectures moves from the first use of fire, to the sweeping changes and examines the impact, domestication of plants and animals, to the both good and bad, on television journalism rise of civilizations, to colonialization, right up over the last 70+ years. to the industrial revolution and the present. Brian Rose is a professor emeritus at Fordham Population growth and migration, the quest University, where he taught for 38 years in for flavor and sweetness, and labor saving the Department of Communication and Media devices are recurring themes. Eating is at the Studies. He has written several books on heart of the human experience. television history and cultural programming Gregory Gould, MPA, LADAC, is a world and conducted more than a hundred Q&As traveler with twenty years of food research with leading directors, actors, and writers under his belt. Gould hosted a two-year-long for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & series of television programs under the title Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Foodology. Gould has taught cooking classes Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the for pregnant women in the Milagros Program Directors Guild of America. of UNMH and conducted a multi-year organic Thursday May 20 12:30 - 1:45 garden project with men under the auspices of Food & Nutrition Food Fee: $10 Zoom Albuquerque HealthCare for the Homeless. Tuesday Jun 1 10:00 - 11:30 How Netflix Is Disrupting the Fee: $10 Zoom Entertainment Industry 10zm Brian Rose New Mexico Food Trails 12zm From its start as a DVD-by-mail rental Carolyn Graham service, Netflix has systematically changed the This class explores New Mexico’s food history rules of the media business. Its introduction as well as the state’s classic and popular of streaming in 2007 led to the decline of the ingredients and dishes. We travel virtually video rental store and dramatically increased to the author’s favorite places in the state to the use of broadband internet. Starting in enjoy our top crop – green chile in all its forms 2013, the introduction of its own programming – as well as sweets, burgers, craft beer, and challenged the traditional ways viewers other beverages. watched TV. Now its original movies are Carolyn Graham is a food and travel upending the operations of the Hollywood journalist, producer, and author who lives in studios. We examine how Netflix is poised to Santa Fe. She has served as chief executive become the dominant source of leisure time officer atNew Mexico Magazine and editor entertainment throughout the world. in chief at New Mexico Journey (the AAA See bio #9. member publication) and has written about Wednesday Jun 16 12:30 - 1:45 everything from pinto beans to Dolly Parton. Fee: $10 Zoom She was born in Las Cruces and has green chile in her blood - her dad was raised in nearby Hatch, the green chile capital of Food & Nutrition the world. The History of Food 11zm Thursday Jun 24 12:30 - 2:00 Gregory Gould Fee: $10 Zoom Using the co-evolution of homo sapiens and diet as the organizing principle, this lecture spans seven million years of food history. The
8 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. Plant-Based Eating: as he journeys into the Fungal Frontier and
The What, Why, & How 13zm explores the possibilities from these ancient & Fitness:Health Lectures Tony Quintana allies. He discusses their use in medicine, Back by popular demand! Join Tony Quintana food, textiles, building materials, as well as for an introduction to plant-based eating. their historic impacts, remediation, farming Learn what it means to follow a plant-based applications, and local foraging. diet, why people choose to eat this way, David Augustyniak is the owner and operator and how to transition to a plant-based diet. of both The Art Farm and UnI (You and I) Discover the health benefits, as well as tips for Fungi. The Art Farm is a beyond organic, meal planning, shopping, recipes, and cooking. permaculture teaching farm, focused on This is a great opportunity for regenerative wholistic those interested in learning systems, the soil food web, more about plant-based eating and mycology. UnI Fungi or how to support a loved one is a commercial teaching who follows the diet. Limited mushroom farm focused on enrollment. sourcing all materials organic Tony Quintana holds a master’s and hyper local whenever degree in health education from possible. Augustyniak has UNM and is the Plant-Based served as Vice President Eating Program manager for and President of the NM Animal Protection of New Mycological Society. Mexico. He has worked in Monday Jul 12 12:30 - 2:00 health education and health Fee: $10 Zoom promotion for over nine years, managing nutrition, diabetes, The Global Roots of New obesity, and HIV programs. Mexican Cuisine 15zm He is also an experienced Elizabeth Stone fitness instructor with three Building on the exhibit, fitness certifications from the “Enchiladas: A Global American Council on Exercise. Learn more about mushrooms and Journey to New Mexico,” on He follows a plant-based diet fungi in class #14. Shown above - display at Gutierrez Hubbell and enjoys sharing information Amanita muscaria, commonly House May-August 2021, on the benefits of plant-based known as fly agaric. Dr. Stone examines the Photo by Jan Bandrofchak. eating. ways that migration, Thursday Jul 8 12:30 - 2:00 communication, and trade Fee: $12 Zoom have helped shape local food traditions. She explores some of the methods, ingredients, The Fungal Frontier 14zm and crops that have been adopted, cultivated, David Augustyniak changed, and embraced by farmers and chefs Mushrooms and fungi are gaining more in New Mexican kitchens and yards over attention in print media, social media, culinary time. Learn how food is an integral part of arts, pharmaceutical and medical industries, our network of cultural connection here in and in flower and farming communities New Mexico. around the globe. Join Davd Augustyniak
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 9 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. Elizabeth Stone is the Site Manager of the difficult personal decisions where stakes are Gutierrez Hubbell House. She has held similar high and values run deep. positions at Museo Larco, Crow Canyon Monday May 17 10:00 - 11:30 Archaeological Center, Branigan Cultural Fee: $10 Zoom Center, and the Spurlock Museum. Stone received her PhD in Anthropology from UNM. Oh! My Aching Knees! 17zm Stone has over a decade of museum experience Samuel Tabet focused on New Mexico cultural heritage, Osteoarthritis is the most common form of particularly indigenous history, archaeology, arthritis, affecting millions. It is caused by the and contemporary life. She has taught at breakdown of cartilage, a rubbery material universities and museums in the US, Mexico, that eases the friction in your joints. It can Spain, and Peru. happen in any joint but usually affects your Thursday Jul 15 10:00 - 11:30 fingers, thumbs, spine, hips, knees, or big Fee: $10 Zoom toes. Tabet shares the diagnosis, etiology, and treatment options that are available. Health & Fitness Surgical and non-surgical treatment options include noninvasive techniques, medications, Health & Fitness: Lectures Health & Fitness: Lectures injections (both biologic and non- biologic), and Loss and Grief in the lastly surgical remedies. Age of COVID-19 16zm Samuel Tabet, MD, a native New Mexican, Joan McIver Gibson specialized in sports medicine, trauma Isolation. Livelihoods upended. Elders dying and reconstructive surgery at New Mexico alone. Youth separated from peers and Orthopaedics, where he practiced for 34 years teachers. The list of losses is exhaustive and before retiring in 2020. In addition to serving exhausting. While loss is nothing new, this as a clinical associate professor at UNM, pandemic has overwhelmed us with a tragedy Tabet is the director of the New Mexico previously unimaginable. How do we grieve? Cartilage Restoration Center and the chief Gibson examines the role and rituals of grief of the New Mexico Sports and Arthroscopy throughout history and across cultures. Participants are invited to reflect on their personal losses. How do our attitudes toward grieving help or hinder healing? Joan McIver Gibson, PhD, is a philosopher and consultant in applied ethics, bioethics, and values-based decision-making. With over 30 years of ethics-related experience in a variety of settings, she has chaired a hospital ethics committee and founded and directed UNM’s Health Sciences Ethics Program. Her latest book, PAUSE: How to Turn Tough Choices Into Strong Decisions, offers advice on making Learn what you need to know about osteoarthritis in class #17. Photo by gm.esthermax is licensed with CC BY 2.0.
10 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Fellowship Program. Tabet attended UNM your peers. Please note, this is an interactive, Medical School and completed the remainder discussion-focused class. All participants must of his medical training at the University of have their device camera and microphone
Oregon. on throughout each session of the class, so & Fitness:Health Lectures Thursday May 20 10:00 - 11:30 we can see you and you can contribute to the Fee: $10 Zoom discussion. Limited enrollment. This class is offered at no cost with support from Communicating with Someone a Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant from Living with Dementia 18zm Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico. Kim O’Roark Wednesdays Jun 2 - Jul 28 1:00 - 3:00 Dementia is a broad term for the symptoms of Fee: $0 9 Sessions Zoom cognitive decline. It not only affects the person with dementia, but their family, friends, and Living in Harmony wider community as well. Review the forms with Ayurveda 20zm of dementia and the biological, emotional, Julie Dunlop and physical symptoms. Gain tools and Ayurveda, known as the sister-science of information—including tips, behavior do’s and yoga, is a system based upon these five don’ts, and self-care strategies—to successfully elements: ether, air, fire, water, and earth. interact with and/or care for a person suffering These five elements combine to form three from cognitive decline. Focus more on being a doshas (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha). We family/friend and less on the challenges that each have these three doshas in varying often accompany dementia. proportions at birth, and this original ratio Kim O’Roark, Cognitive Therapeutics tends to change due to stresses of modern Manager at Home Care Assistance of New living. Come explore how Ayurveda supports Mexico, became interested in dementia, the process of moving from a state of especially how to manage it, when her imbalance toward the harmony of balance. grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Julie Dunlop, author of Ocean of Yoga: disease. She became a Certified Alzheimer’s Meditations on Yoga and Ayurveda for Disease and Dementia Care Trainer and Balance, Awareness, and Well-Being, has been a Certified Dementia Practitioner, while an adjunct faculty member in the English maintaining Certified Therapeutic Recreation Department at CNM for 17 years. She is a Specialist status. certified yoga teacher RYT-500 through Yoga Wednesday Jun 2 10:00 - 11:30 Alliance and a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner Fee: $10 Zoom through the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Weaving together language, A Matter of Balance 19zm poetry, yoga, and Ayurveda, she enjoys sharing Does a fear of falling prevent you from doing pathways to well-being supporting the overall the activities that you love? If so, you are health of our community. not alone. This nine-week, evidence-based Wednesday Jun 9 10:00 - 11:30 program utilizes lively group discussion, Fee: $10 Zoom problem-solving strategies, videos, and 25 minutes per session (in classes #4 through 9) of gentle, seated physical activity education to help you manage concerns about falls, change your environment to reduce risk of falls, and increase your activity, all with the support of
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 11 Posture Power 21zm of New Mexico. He is board certified in Family Brookes McIntyre Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. Join Brookes McIntyre of American Bone Tuesday Jun 15 10:00 - 11:30 Health to learn how good posture and body Fee: $10 Zoom mechanics help prevent fractures. She provides instruction on how to assess yourself The State of Your Eyes 23zm for healthy posture, how to move more safely Gregory Ogawa in your everyday activities, and simple Don’t take your eyes for granted! It’s exercises to build into your daily routines to important to take good care of our eyes so they improve posture. This presentation includes will continue to work well for us as we age. handouts covering tips for safe movement, But the fact is, age-related vision problems exercises for bone health, and setting a goal are quite common. Learn about eye health for improvement. with Dr. Gregory Ogawa. Hear about signs, Brookes McIntyre is a certified speaker on symptoms and treatments for some of the bone health and osteoporosis for a national most common eye issues as we age, including nonprofit organization that teaches people how dry eye, cataracts, macular degeneration and to build and keep strong and healthy bones others. Learn how to best protect your eyes for for life with practical, up-to-date information a lifetime of healthy eyesight.
Health & Fitness: Lectures Health & Fitness: and resources to prevent bone loss and Gregory Ogawa, MD is an ophthalmologist at fractures. She also serves as a member of the Eye Associates of New Mexico, specializing in New Mexico Adult Falls Prevention Coalition problems involving intraocular lenses, irises, and the CNM Exercise Science and Wellness cataracts, and corneas. He received his medical advisory committee. degree from the University of Rochester Monday Jun 14 10:00 - 11:30 School of Medicine and Dentistry and finished Fee: $10 Zoom his ophthalmology residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Ogawa also Optimizing Your Environment and completed the prestigious Wilmer Cornea Inner Resources for Wellbeing 22zm Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He Nadia Marsh and Nitin Budhwar has designed multiple surgical instruments We are the result of our environment. In this with the goal of making eye surgery safer and talk, doctors Marsh and Budhwar review our more effective. current understanding of how our environment Friday Jun 25 10:00 - 11:30 shapes us and influences our health outcomes. Fee: $10 Zoom They also explore what it takes to optimize our “self” to build mental and physical resilience Resources and Strategies when facing an ever-changing landscape. for Caregivers 24zm Nadia Marsh, MD, is board certified in Adrienne Smith Internal Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Are you a caregiver to a family member? and Geriatric Medicine, as well as Palliative We know the challenges and rewards of Medicine. She grew up in New York and is a being a caregiver. Join us to learn about the recent transplant to New Mexico. customized training modules available to caregivers through New Mexico Caregivers Nitin Budhwar, MD and Fellow of the Coalition, a statewide training and advocacy American Academy of Family Physicians, is organization. We also discuss skills essential Chief of Geriatric Medicine at The University for caring for a loved one, as well important concepts and practices such as person-centered
12 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. Mona Ghattas, Duran’s president, owns and operates the pharmacy and restaurant. She & Fitness:Health Movement has been a pharmacist since 1984 and was the 2019 president of the New Mexico Pharmacists Association. She graduated from UNM with a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy. Tuesday Jul 27 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Zoom
Health Care Decision Making Don’t take your eyes for granted. Learn how to in 2021 26zm protect them in class #23. Joan McIver Gibson Photo by Roger Blackwell. Licensed with CC BY 2.0. COVID-19 has upended personal and public health care decision making. Joan McIver care, effective communication strategies, Gibson highlights health care decisions infection prevention, safe transfer, mobility, currently up for review: If you have an and self-care. Limited enrollment. advance directive, have your wishes changed Adrienne R. Smith is founder, president, and over this past year? How should we balance CEO of the New Mexico Caregivers Coalition, public safety and personal liberty? Should a statewide organization that advocates for we mandate vaccinations? If we must ration and advances the professional development access to care, who should decide? We will use and workforce issues of New Mexico’s direct a values-based decision-making process for caregivers. Her areas of expertise include prioritizing what matters most to you. youth development, youth employment, See bio #16. workforce development, resource development, Wednesday Aug 4 10:00 - 11:30 and advocacy. She has a Bachelor’s in biology Fee: $10 Zoom from Millsaps College and a MA in public policy and international administration from University of Texas at San Antonio. Health & Fitness Tuesday Jun 29 2:30 - 4:00 Movement & Exercise Fee: $0 Zoom N Even though regular physical activity is beneficial, O not every type of exercise is appropriate. Choosing Vitamins and Supplements T A to Zinc 25zm the best fitness program will depend on the needs E of the person. Oasis recommends you discuss this Mona Ghattas with your healthcare professional before you begin an The world of vitamins and supplements exercise program, especially if you’ve been sedentary. can be confusing and overwhelming. This presentation helps clarify where to start with Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better picking out the vitamins and supplements that Balance, Session A 27zm will benefit you. Ghattas discusses common Ilene Dunn uses, vitamin depletions from common Would you like to improve your balance and prescription drugs, what to look for when posture? Try Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better purchasing different vitamin and supplement Balance. Learn and practice eight balance- brands or generics, and much more. challenging forms adapted from Yang style tai
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 13 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. chi that we perform in a slow, flowing manner, into the class to leave you feeling calm, coordinated with natural breathing. Improve relaxed, and well. Limited enrollment. your coordination, body awareness, lower body See bio #27. strength, and range of motion in this evidence- based program. No class 5/31 and 7/5. Tuesdays & Thursdays May 25 - Jul 1 Limited enrollment. 11:00 - 12:00 Fee: $36 12 Sessions Zoom Ilene Dunn is a certified personal trainer, specializing in senior fitness and the Tai Chi for Health, Session B 30zm maintenance of strength, balance, and an Ilene Dunn active lifestyle. She holds certifications as a See class #29zm. Session A is not required yoga instructor at 500 hours, Athletics and to take Session B. Limited enrollment. Fitness Association of America personal trainer, and A Matter of Balance master Tuesdays & Thursdays Jul 6 - Aug 26 trainer. In addition, she is certified in Tai Chi 11:00 - 12:00 Quan, Tai Chi for Arthritis for Fall Prevention, Fee: $48 16 Sessions Zoom and Tai Chi for Heart Conditions; she is also a trained instructor in Tai Ji Quan: Moving for
Health & Fitness: Movement Health & Fitness: Better Balance. Mondays & Wednesdays May 24 - Jul 7 9:00 - 10:00 Fee: $36 12 Sessions Zoom
Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance, Session B 28zm Ilene Dunn See class #27zm. Session A is not required to take Session B. Limited enrollment. Mondays & Wednesdays Jul 12 - Sep 1 9:00 - 10:00 Fee: $48 16 Sessions Zoom
Tai Chi for Health, Session A 29zm Ilene Dunn Tai Chi for Health, Part 1. Are you interested in improving your balance and/or reducing joint pain through gentle movement? Recommended by the Arthritis Foundation and the National Council on Aging, this evidence-based class has been shown to ease joint pain and improve balance. The class was developed Oasis health classes help keep your body in better by Dr. Paul Lam and is based on Sun style tai condition. See classes #27-35. chi. Basic principles of tai chi are incorporated
14 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Yoga for the Summer Months 31zm She has taught qigong for the City of Gloria Drayer Albuquerque and the Chinese Culture Center. She is a certified Energy Arts instructor, and New Mexico summers get hot, but yoga can & Fitness:Health Movement help cool us. By staying attuned to body, she holds degrees in geology and engineering breath, and mind, yoga can naturally reduce with a specialty in environmental engineering. body temperature. When we are not mindful Tuesdays Jun 22 - Jul 6 1:00 - 2:00 of excessive heat or maintaining an adequate Fee: $24 3 Sessions Zoom intake of water, our bodies can heat up to uncomfortable levels. Learn how to use Yoga for Better Sleep 33zm specific yoga poses and breathing techniques Gloria Drayer to lower body temperature and how to use Do you have difficulty falling and staying meditation to help relax an overheated mind. asleep at night or feeling rested in the No prior yoga experience necessary. Limited morning? Yoga can help. Gentle yoga before enrollment. bed can ease your mind and reduce tension. Gloria Drayer holds a 500-hour Kripalu Learn some simple yoga and breathing yoga certification and has nearly 30 years of techniques to help you sleep better. We experience teaching yoga. Her sessions are will be lying down to practice several of given in a non-competitive environment where these techniques, but seated variations are participants are encouraged to engage at a available. Limited enrollment. healthful and enjoyable level. Her workshops, See bio #31. including those dealing with life-altering Tuesdays Jul 20 - Jul 27 1:00 - 2:15 topics such as grief, insomnia, osteoporosis, Fee: $16 2 Sessions Zoom and back care, are held around the country. She is co-author of the book Yoga and Grief: Stretch & Relax 34zm A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing. Cindy Russell Thursdays Jun 17 - Jun 24 1:00 - 2:15 Deep breathing and gentle stretching greatly Fee: $16 2 Sessions Zoom improve the body’s ability to relax. Join us for an end-of-the-week practice focused on Qigong: Taoist Water Method 32zm posture, strategic breathing techniques (e.g., Marcia Pincus abdomino-diaphragmatic or ‘belly’ breathing), The Qigong Taoist Water Method is a and a blend of stretching techniques, including 3000-year-old practice developed by Lao Tzu, modified yoga poses. We gently stretch from the Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao either a standing or seated position (no floor Te Ching. This qigong method emphasizes work). The final component of this practice softness and specific body movements to is a brief visual meditation and individual increase the qi flows within the body and to relaxation/meditation. Limited enrollment. age gracefully. Learn basic qigong movements Cindy Russell followed her love of physical to increase qi flow and the circulation of fluids activity to become a personal trainer after in the body, including around the joints. many years in business and finance. As a Limited enrollment. senior fitness and fall prevention specialist, Marcia Pincus has been practicing Chinese she has been able to follow her passion: martial arts for nearly 35 years. Her practices working with older adults and assisting them have included kung fu, tai chi, qigong, and towards their desires to live healthy lives. She bagua. For the last decade, she has practiced has a BA in human and community services and taught the Qigong Taoist Water Method. and is an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer,
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 15 an ACE Certified Group Instructor, a health meteoric. In this two-part program Richard coach, and a senior fitness specialist. Bell examines many of Franklin’s ideas to Fridays Aug 6 - Aug 20 9:00 - 10:00 make life simpler, cheaper, and easier for Fee: $24 3 Sessions Zoom himself and everyone else. It turns out that those ideas encompassed not only natural A Taste of Tai Chi Chih 35zm science and engineering, but also public works, civic improvements, political trail-blazing, and Ellen Tatge new business ideas. Have you wondered what tai chi chih is and why it is so widely recommended, particularly Richard Bell is a professor of history at the for better balance, mental focus, and its University of Maryland. He is the author of the calming effects? Tai chi chih is a modern form new book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped of tai chi that is easy to learn and practice. into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey In this one-session class, practice several Home. He is the recipient of more than a dozen movements and learn the principles behind teaching awards and the National Endowment the practice. Even a short taste of this moving for the Humanities Public Scholar Award. He meditation is a useful tool to enhance health is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. History & Culture and well-being. Limited enrollment. Mondays May 17 & May 24 12:30 - 2:00 Ellen Tatge is known for her kind and gentle Fee: $20 2 Sessions Zoom teaching of this life-enhancing practice. A former high school teacher and then a Rome in the Baroque Period 37zm corporate trainer, she is a certified instructor Charles Steen and has been practicing and teaching tai chi The seventeenth century was a brilliant period chih for more than 25 years, including many for Rome culturally. The extraordinary design courses for older adults. Tatge takes great joy of the city took shape with long avenues in sharing this effort that develops balance connecting piazzas with beautiful fountains in all aspects of our lives and maximizes our and elaborate churches. Music, painting most precious gift: good health. and theater thrived but under close church Thursday Aug 19 9:00 - 10:00 supervision, limiting intellectual life. Rome Fee: $10 Zoom became the center of the Grand Tour for the wealthy aristocrats of Europe and for students of art and music, who took the culture back History & Culture home at the end of their studies. Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin 36zm Charlie Steen’s classes place historical events Richard Bell in context with art, architecture, religion, Born the tenth son of a humble family of and other cultural aspects of a period. He puritan candle-makers, Franklin’s rise to teaches western civilization at UNM. He is the front ranks of science, engineering, the author of several books, including his and invention was as unexpected as it was recently published A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe. A graduate of UNM, he also holds a PhD in early modern European history from UCLA. LECTURE TIMES 10:00-11:30am with the Wednesday May 19 10:00 - 11:30 exception of Fee: $10 Zoom 12:30-2:00pm some 2-hour lecture ending 2:30-4:00pm times PLEASE CHECK CLASS TIMES CLOSELY
16 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. Fighting Irish: Ireland & The Lost 52: The American Revolution 38zm US Submarines Lost in WWII 40zm Richard Bell John M. Taylor Men of Irish heritage played crucial roles Submarine warfare was one of the winning History & Culture & History in fighting the American Revolution, siding components in World War II. Unfortunately, with the patriots against the British Army winning came at a significant cost. The in overwhelming numbers. In this program, United States lost 52 submarines during historian Richard Bell explores the Revolution the war, taking with them 374 officers and from the perspective of the Irish and their 3,131 men. This presentation recounts those descendants in America. Drawing on the latest losses and the importance of the submarine scholarship, Bell reconstructs the history of force. Taylor discusses the Lost 52 project, English and Irish antagonism, the role of which has discovered the wreckage of 11 subs. religious faith in decisions about loyalty and He looks at the USS Grunion, the USS Perch, liberty, and the political and economic impact and the USS Bullhead. of the American Revolution on Ireland itself. John Taylor retired in 2010 as the manager See bio #36. of the Integrated Technologies and Systems Wednesday Jun 9 12:30 - 2:00 Strategic Management Group Support Fee: $10 Zoom Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He has a master’s degree in nuclear Stalingrad: Death in the Snow 39zm engineering from Stanford University and Richard Field Germany invaded Russia in 1941, but failed to subdue the Red Colossus. After a long, hard, winter with many casualties and a failed bid to take Moscow, Hitler looked for a chance to renew his offensive in the summer. He set his eye on the oil fields of southern Russia. As the offensive opened, the focus was drawn to Stalingrad. This titanic struggle, which cost millions of lives, would be the turning point of WWII in Europe. Since middle school, Richard Field has been an avid student of history in general and military history in particular. He earned his BS and MS from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. He earned an MA from St. John’s College in Santa Fe and a PhD from UNM. Field has taught at Albuquerque Academy since 1992 where he began teaching world history and senior humanities in 1994. He is also a contributor to Ancient History Magazine. Learn more about “The Lost 52” in class #40. Thursday Jun 17 2:30 - 4:00 Pencil sketch by QMC(SS) Dan Moss, USN retired. Fee: $10 Zoom
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 17 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. was a member of Sandia’s technical and travel. In the New World, civilizations management staff for 35 years. He is the evolved isolated from the rest of the world, author or co-author of 50 technical reports and creating great cultures that rivaled the best 11 books on a variety of topics including the Old World had to offer. Learn about the New Mexico history, soccer science, and mysterious Olmecs, the Teotihuacan City naval history. State, the Mayan Empire, and the Aztecs Monday Jun 21 10:00 - 11:30 and the disastrous meeting with the Old World Fee: $10 Zoom in 1519. Creve Maples has a degree in Chemistry (MIT) Elephants & War 41zm and a PhD in Nuclear Science (UC Berkeley). Matthew Barbour He has worked in academia and the private Elephants have been utilized in war through- sector, designing advanced computers and out much of human history. Sometimes developing virtual reality systems. His interest referred to as “living tanks,” their strength, in history and archeology led to the formation History & Culture height, and intelligence make them ideal for a of companies active in these areas. These number of tasks, including destroying enemy classes result from a scientific curiosity, love of fortifications and serving as mobile platforms photography and travel, and desire to explore for sharpshooters. While most commonly used unusual, thought-provoking topics. in India and Southeast Asia, the animals were Thursdays Jul 15 - Jul 29 12:30 - 2:30 also employed along the Mediterranean and Fee: $30 3 Sessions Zoom in the Middle East. We explore the use of war elephants through time and across the globe. The Reverse Underground Railroad: Matthew Barbour holds BA and MA degrees Kidnapping and Slavery in in anthropology from UNM and works for the Early America 43zm NM Department of Cultural Affairs. He is Richard Bell the regional manager of Coronado and Jemez Join us for a talk with Richard Bell, the Historic Sites. Under Barbour’s management, author of STOLEN, a new book that tells the Coronado Historic Site received an Award of incredible story of five boys whose courage Merit from the American Association for State forever changed the fight against slavery and Local History and the Jemez Historic in America. Their ordeal shines a glaring Site received the Archaeology Heritage spotlight on the Reverse Underground Preservation Award. He has published more Railroad, a black market network of human than 200 nonfiction articles and monographs. traffickers who stole away thousands of legally Tuesday Jun 22 10:00 - 11:30 free African Americans to fuel slavery’s rapid Fee: $10 Zoom expansion in the decades before the Civil War. See bio #36. Hidden Civilizations: Tuesday Jul 20 12:30 - 2:00 Olmecs to Aztecs in 3000 Years Fee: $10 Zoom of Unique Evolution 42zm Creve Maples The Wisdom of Greek Mythology 44zm What would it be like to encounter alien Gregory Gould civilizations? Despite differences, Asian, Greek mythology permeates our language, European, and African cultures exchanged arts and culture, from the mundane daily use ideas and innovations through trade and of such terms as “to tantalize” and “to have
18 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque an Achilles’s heel,” to in crowded urban centers. psychological diagnosis, Yet, Jews were settled in such as narcissism and isolated farming communities the Oedipal Complex. throughout the US in the Our thinking is shaped 19th century, largely funded by these archetypes. and organized by well- Gould explores insights meaning Jewish charitable Culture & History the Greeks captured and organizations. Learn about communicated through the many varieties of Jewish their story-telling (and other Ethnic) agricultural traditions, with a focus on settlements and how the role models of masculinity pioneers adapted to their with an emphasis on newfound prairie and rural Herakles, the “strong man” existence in the US. and his 12 Labors. Naomi Sandweiss is executive See bio #11. director of Parents Reaching Friday Jul 23 - Out, author of numerous 10:00 - 11:30 articles and the book: Jewish Fee: $10 Zoom Albuquerque 1860-1960, and past president of the New Orleans and Mexico Jewish Historical Society. Tours 45zm Learn about Bible decoration and Charles Steen illustration in class #47. Monday Aug 16 12:30 - 2:00 The Loire River Valley Illuminated Manuscript, Bible Pictures Fee: $10 Zoom provided a meeting ground by William de Brailes, Pharaoh’s Wife for the different cultures Accuses Joseph, Walters Art Museum Ms. Illuminated Bibles found in northern and W.106, fol. 15r” by Walters Art Museum of the Middle Ages 47zm Illuminated Manuscripts is marked southern France and the under CC0 1.0. Timothy C. Graham results are clearly seen A remarkable aspect of the in Orleans and Tours as Christian tradition has been well as in the chateaux the production of richly in the countryside around them. Cultural life illustrated copies of the Scriptures. The most flourished as artists, architects and musicians beautiful Bibles were produced during the came to the cities, following the increasing European Middle Ages. Learn about the interest the monarchy had in residing in the major stages in the history of medieval Bible nearby chateaux, making the fifteenth and decoration and illustration, beginning with the sixteenth centuries extraordinary times. oldest surviving complete copy of the Vulgate See bio #37. and including the Bibles moralisées, the magnificent Bible picture-books made for royal Monday Aug 16 10:00 - 11:30 and aristocratic patrons between the 13th and Fee: $10 Zoom 15th centuries. Jewish and other Ethnic Agricultural Timothy Graham is a Distinguished Professor Settlements of the 19th Century 46zm of history and a Regents’ Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. He Naomi Sandweiss served as director of the Institute for Medieval One typically thinks of Eastern European Studies from 2002 until 2020, organizing the Jewish immigrants arriving in the US to live
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 19 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. acclaimed annual Medieval Spring Lecture 13 - The Guest List by Lucy Foley, Aug 10 - Series. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan. from Cambridge and an MPhil from the Enrollment limited to 8. Warburg Institute, University of London. He Coordinator Mary Bibeau, a retired UNM is the author of Introduction to Manuscript academic advisor and teacher, is an avid Studies and in 2016 received the Medieval reader of anything from encyclopedias to Academy of America’s Award for Excellence in cereal boxes. Teaching Medieval Studies. Tuesdays May 11 - Aug 10 1:30 - 3:00 Wednesday Aug 18 12:30 - 2:00 Fee: $10 4 Sessions Zoom Fee: $10 Zoom Summit Book Group 50zm 1619 and 1776: Contrasting Views
Literature Merrie Courtright of the American Past 48zm The Summit Book Group meets on the third George Ovitt Tuesday of every month. Book selections are: On January 19th, the day before he left office, May 18 - Born a Crime: Stories from a South Donald Trump issued a report on the teaching African Childhood by Trevor Noah, Jun 15 - of American history titled 1776. In many Hannah’s War by Jan Eliasberg, July 20 - The ways, this controversial view of the history Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom, of the United States was a response to the Aug 17 - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents New York Times’s issuance of a survey, titled by Isabel Wilkerson. Enrollment limited to 15. 1619, of the history of slavery and racism in America. In this talk, Ovitt summarizes and Coordinator Merrie Courtright is an Oasis compares the two documents and argues that tutor and tutor trainer. She is a retired basic they succinctly represent the two poles of education teacher at CNM. America’s “culture wars.” Tuesdays May 18 - Aug 17 11:00 - 12:30 George Ovitt has been teaching at Fee: $10 4 Sessions Zoom Albuquerque Academy since 2000. Before Holmes Book Group 51zm that he taught at Sidwell Friends School and Drexel University. He is the author of eight Lorna Kuyk and Mary Tabor books, the most recent a collection of short The Holmes Book Group meets on the third essays on literature and politics, Trotsky’s Tuesday of each month. Book selections Sink, written with his colleague, Peter Nash. are: May 18 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Jun 15 - The Overstory by Richard Thursday Aug 19 12:30 - 2:00 Powers, July 20 - The Thursday Murder Club Fee: $10 Zoom by Michael Osman, Aug 17 - Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Literature Hero by Christopher McDougall. Enrollment limited to 15. Austin Book Group 49zm Lorna Kuyk and Mary Tabor figure that two Mary Bibeau Minnesota transplants are better than one, so The Austin Book Group meets on the second they have teamed to share their love of reading Tuesday of each month and newcomers are and their willingness to serve the “Holmies.” always welcome. Book selections are: May 11 - They both find their reading is enhanced by Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg, June 8 - The the varied perspectives, wonderful intelligence, Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean, July
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and breadth of topics covered by this lively examine its stimulating material through a six- group of readers. week study and discussion group. Each week Tuesdays May 18 - Aug 17 1:00 - 2:30 a different class member prepares the class by Fee: $10 4 Sessions Zoom sending background and questions from the book which will be the discussion topics for the West Mesa Book Group 52zm following week. You must have the book for class. Limited enrollment. Linda Castagneri and Mary Herrmann Hughes John Horton, a graduate of The University of The West Mesa Book Group meets on the Texas Arlington, is a retired electrical engineer. third Wednesday of each month. Book He has conducted study and discussion groups selections are: May 19 - This Tender Land for Oasis with Barrie Segal. He facilitates by William Kent Krueger, June 16 - Braiding discussions based on the material and Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, July questions prepared by other people in the class. 21 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, Aug Lars Larson serves as the co-coordinator for 18 - Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. this class. Enrollment limited to 12. Thursdays Jun 24 - Jul 29 10:00 - 12:00 Linda Castagneri, a retired USPS senior Fee: $30 6 Sessions Zoom manager, values dynamic discussion and the timeless lessons of books. Mary Herrmann Music Hughes is a big reading advocate and has been a member of the West Mesa Book Group for Singing the Show Tunes Again! 54zm more than ten years. Irma Reeder & Scott Hooker Wednesdays May 19 - Aug 18 1:30 - 3:00 Do you enjoy singing? Come and sing along Fee: $10 4 Sessions Zoom with us! This special session of Singing the Show Tunes is to introduce you to the new Enlightenment Now: director and accompanist that will be leading Book Study & Discussion Group 53zm the class in the fall semester. We’ll be meeting John Horton and Lars Larson live via the Zoom video application in a sing- People are living longer, healthier, and happier along format. We’ll have a great time singing lives. While our problems are formidable, the hits! the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal Irma Reeder brings decades of choral directing, of using reason and science. Using the book vocal coaching and performance experience, as Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker, we well as a love for theater and movie musicals.
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 21 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. Scott Hooker is an amazing and energetic audiences. With a catalogue of more than 60 pianist with a background in all things jazz. published works and numerous choral and Together they take you on a fun-filled music chamber commissions, her music has been vacation sure to leave you humming the rest performed internationally. of the day! Monday Jul 19 10:00 - 12:00 Tuesday Jul 13 10:15 - 11:45 Fee: $10 Zoom Fee: $10 Zoom The Divine Sarah Vaughan 56zm Country Western Star: Jane Ellen Marty Robbins 55zm During the course of a career that spanned
Music Jane Ellen nearly fifty years, Sarah Vaughan (1924- Arizona native Marty Robbins (1925-1982) 90) was acclaimed as the singer’s singer, had his first #1 hit in 1956 with “Singing influencing everyone from Mel Tormé to Anita the Blues” and hits such as “El Paso” and Baker. Leonard Feather called her “the most “Devil Woman” just kept on coming. A shy, important singer to emerge from the bop self taught guitarist, Robbins’ story is the era” while Ella Fitzgerald proclaimed her oft-told tale of rags to riches. Even though he the world’s “greatest singing talent”; but it eventually made his mark as an entertainer, was music critic Scott Yanow who accurately songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, described her as having “one of the most and NASCAR driver, Robbins has often been wondrous voices of the 20th century.” characterized as a 20th century drifter, a See bio #55. troubled man searching for inner peace. Thursday Jul 22 10:00 - 12:00 Jane Ellen is the consummate storyteller Fee: $10 Zoom with eclectic interests, specializing in music and entertainment history. She is an award- Fire and Rain: winning composer and recording artist who The James Taylor Story 57zm shares her Jane Ellen passion for Five-time Grammy Award winner James music and Taylor (1948-present) came on the scene as history with an American singer-songwriter in the late Albuquerque 1960s. Staying true to his own unique stylings across the decades, he has become one of the best-selling artists of all time. Despite career slumps and personal struggles, he has given us a great part of the soundtrack of our lives, including his recordings of “Fire and Rain,” Marty Robbins, “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Handy Man,” and class #55. “Mockingbird,” with Carly Simon. Photo by NBC See bio #55. Television - Public Domain. Tuesday Jul 27 2:30 - 4:30 Fee: $10 Zoom
22 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Godmother of Soul: Patti LaBelle 58zm other indie artists; today she is often critical of Jane Ellen today’s popular music industry. Patti LaBelle (1944- ) truly knows the See bio #55. entertainment business inside and out. In a Tuesday Aug 3 2:30 -04:30 career now spanning 60 years, she has worked Fee: $10 Zoom as a singer; a songwriter; an actress on stage, screen, and television; an author; and an Movie Magic: entrepreneur with her own line of foods. Often The Score of John Williams 60zm referred to as the Godmother of Soul, she is Jane Ellen best known for such hits as “Lady Marmalade”; Composer John Williams (1932 - present) has Music “You Are My Friend”; and “On My Own,” which crafted some of the most iconic film scores of she recorded with Michael McDonald. all time. With a portfolio of more than 100 See bio #55. films during his distinguished career, his work Friday Jul 30 10:00 - 12:00 can be heard in movies as diverse as Jaws Fee: $10 Zoom (1975), E.T. (1982), Schindler’s List (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and the franchises A Chelsea Morning with for Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Indiana Joni Mitchell 59zm Jones. Williams has also composed numerous Jane Ellen classical works, in addition to conducting the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell Boston Pops for 13 years. (1943 - present) is one of the most highly See bio #55. respected songwriters of the 20th century. Friday Aug 6 10:00 - 12:00 After making her mark in folk music, she Fee: $10 Zoom explored jazz stylings. She is also known for her paintings, many of which grace her album Igor Stravinsky: covers. Her continual struggle for artistic Musical Revolutionary 61zm independence has made her a role model for Jane Ellen Russian pianist, composer, and conductor Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) is widely considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. After working in Switzerland and France, he eventually made his home in the United States where he led a long and distinguished career, successfully continuing his work in neo-classicism and serial composition. By the end of his life, he had written over 100 works including ballets, symphonies, operas, and chamber music. Joni Mitchell in 1974. Class #59. See bio #55. Photo by Paul C. Wednesday Aug 11 10:00 - 12:00 Babin - Public Fee: $10 Zoom Domain.
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Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 23 Putting It Together: that the stage “picture” formed by the Stephen Sondheim 62zm arrangement of singers, and how they move Jane Ellen and interact is the responsibility of the stage Although Stephen Sondheim (1930- ) has director. We explore the dynamic of opera a reputation for penning songs that people production when the decisions are shared cannot sing along with, few would deny his among a small group making up the creative unique place in American theater history. team. Beginning with early collaborations with David Bartholomew’s career as artistic director Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story and and/or stage director for opera companies Jule Styne on Gypsy, Sondheim’s passion to from coast to coast spans fifty years. His first control both words and music have culminated opera for Opera Southwest was in 1978, and in works such as Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the he directed many subsequent productions Park with George, and Into the Woods; and a there. He became well-known for his artistry new theatrical format: the concept musical. and style, which led to his appointment as See bio #55. artistic adminstrator/principal stage director in 2006. Currently he is at work on Peleas and Thursday Aug 19 10:00 - 12:00 Melisande by Debussy for the company. Fee: $10 Zoom Dahl Delu is an Emmy award winning art Performing Arts: LecturePerforming director and production designer, who worked Performing Arts: in opera at the Met in New York. He has extensive experience in American theater, Lecture film and prime time television - designing sets, costumes and lighting for Broadway, Julius Kaplan introduces and facilitates this opera Off-Broadway, the New York City Opera and series. Julius Kaplan is a lifelong opera enthusiast and a board member for Opera Southwest. He Ballet, and many regional theaters including offers frequent classes on opera for the community. Albuquerque’s Landmark Productions. Since He received his PhD in art history from Columbia moving to the city in 2009 he has designed University and spent his career teaching at UCLA sets for Opera Southwest. and California State University, San Bernardino. Tuesday Jun 8 12:30 - 2:00 How to Make an Opera: Artistic & Fee: $10 Zoom Stage Direction (1 of 3 series) 63zm David Bartholomew & Dahl Delu The artistic administrator/stage director decides on everything you see when the curtain rises on an opera production, from the selection singers, to the “look” and the “dramatic expression” of the performance. This means
How to Make an Opera, classes #63, #64, and #65, takes you behind the scenes of opera productions. Credit Dahl Delu, Opera Southwest
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How to Make an Opera: with anecdotes of her challenges and triumphs Set Design (2 of 3 series) 64zm at OSW.
Dahl Delu & David Bartholomew See bio #63. Personal Enrichment Set designers play a major role in creating Tuesday Jun 22 12:30 - 2:00 the world in which the magic of an opera Fee: $10 Zoom production takes place. To be successful the designer must have artistic, practical, and negotiating skills. Learn how sets are constructed, who is in charge, what is involved. Personal Whether the opera company is large or small the set designer works closely with other Enrichment technical and artistic leaders, and the creative What Matters in the End 66zm situations are often complex and challenging. Charles Eaton See bio #63zm. In this class, you are asked to reflect upon Tuesday Jun 15 12:30 - 2:00 what has made your life truly worth living in Fee: $10 Zoom the past, in the present, and what is essential to you as you approach the completion of How to Make an Opera: your life. We utilize the Conversation Starter Costuming (3 of 3 series) 65zm Guide found at www.theconversationproject. Anna Constantz & Julius Kaplan org. The Conversation Project, founded by Audiences love the costumes in opera Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Goodman, has performances but have no idea how complex a simple and transformative goal: to ensure they have to be. The wealthiest opera houses every person’s end-of-life care wishes are have major costume production facilities, but expressed and respected. smaller organizations rent costumes from Charles Eaton earned his PhD in Psychology specialized costume companies. All costumes studying under Viktor Frankl. He wrote his must be designed to meet the demands of any dissertation on “The Diagnosis and Therapy opera production, including different sized of Persons Suffering Loss of Meaning and singers, and very quick costume changes. Purpose in Life.” He has most recently served Major and minor repairs may be required, as psychologist and chaplain for a palliative- and after the final performance everything care/hospice team. has to be cleaned and then packed for return Wednesday May 19 12:30 - 2:00 to the owner. Fee: $10 Zoom Anna Constantz, a consummate costume professional, recently retired after forty-odd Memoir Writing Workshop: years at Opera Southwest (OSW). She also How to Tell Your Story 67zm worked in opera productions at the Spoleto Norma Libman Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Expert Everyone has a story to tell, and now is the in the special demands of opera costuming, time to tell yours. In this workshop, Norma she proved herself adaptable when facing the Libman shows you how to retrieve memories constraints of the small budgets characteristic you thought were forgotten, how to get them of regional theater. A master of improvisation written down, and how to organize them with a “can-do” attitude, she entertains you into your own life story. Have paper and pen
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 25 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. available for writing exercises and you will have composed a start to your memoir when Philosophy, the workshop is over. Limited enrollment. Norma Libman specializes in topics such as Religion, & T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Shakespeare’s sonnets, and Jewish history. She taught Spirituality writing, literature, and humanities in Judaism and Jews: A Religion? Chicago and now leads workshops and trips A Culture? An Ethnicity? 69zm throughout New Mexico. A freelance journalist Harry Rosenfeld with degrees in education and literature What is Judaism? Throughout the centuries, from Northeastern Illinois University, she scholars have looked at and debated the has had more than 500 articles published in question. How has the answer changed newspapers nationwide and is the author of over time? In ancient times, Judaism was the award-winning Lonely River Village: A considered a nationality with religious rites. Novel of Secret Stories. In Christian and Muslim worlds, Judaism was Thursday Jun 3 10:00 - 12:00 seen as a religion. The Nazis defined Judaism Fee: $15 Zoom as a race. Twentieth century American Jews and non-Jews alike understood Judaism to be Reading & Writing Poetry a religion and an ethnicity. Just how different Philosophy, Religion, & Religion, SpiritualityPhilosophy, for Healing 68zm is the definition of Judaism in the 21st Scott Wiggerman Century than in centuries past? Both reading poetry and writing poetry have Harry Rosenfeld is the rabbi of Congregation healing powers – and who doesn’t need more Albert and holds a master’s degree in Hebrew healing? In this class, we use a series of poems letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish by such writers as Mary Oliver, Joy Harjo, and Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. He was an Li-Young Lee as springboards to brief writing adjunct professor at SUNY Buffalo, Canisius exercises, all of which are focused to bring out College, and Alaska Pacific University. the poetic medicine of words with a renewed focus and reflection on the world at large and Wednesday May 26 12:30 - 2:00 our part in it. All levels of writers welcome. Fee: $10 Zoom Scott Wiggerman, author of three books of Love, Laments, Libations and poetry and editor of a dozen others, is the Longing: Jewish Poetry from Albuquerque Chair of the New Mexico State Medieval Spain 70zm Poetry Society, co-organizer of the Poets’ Paul J. Citrin Picnic at the Open Space Visitor Center, and Jews lived in Spain for nearly one thousand co-founder of Dos Gatos Press, which runs years under Visigothic, Moslem and Catholic a monthly poetry workshop in conjunction rulers. Under Arab Moslem rulers, Jewish with Bookworks Albuquerque. In a former culture especially flourished. Influenced life, he was a high school librarian in Austin, by Arab poets, Jews began to write verse. Texas. Wiggerman is a 2021 inductee into the Jewish Spanish poetry, written in Hebrew, prestigious Texas Institute of Letters. addresses both spiritual and secular realms Fridays Jun 4 - Jun 18 10:00 - 12:00 of life including love, loss, joy, friendship, and Fee: $30 3 Sessions Zoom redemption from exile. This poetry may be the
26 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque most elegant since the songs of the Psalmist who wrote two millennia earlier. This material Philosophy, Spirituality Religion, & touches hearts and make you smile. Rabbi Paul Citrin received his BA in history from UCLA and an MA in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College. He has served numerous congregations since he was ordained by the Hebrew Union College in 1973. Citrin has authored a children’s novel and children’s prayer books and edited an anthology of scholarly essays on the Hebrew language. He is active in issues of social justice and interfaith relations. Wednesday Jun 2 2:30 - 4:00 Fee: $10 Zoom
Jesus in the Gospels Learn about Dark Godesses in class #72. and the Koran 71zm “PELEHONUAMEA by Herb Kane” by Prayitno licensed Frank Yates with CC BY 2.0. This lecture provides a comparative religions approach to the presentation of Jesus in the New Testament Gospels and the Islamic The Dark Goddess Koran. We note the similarities and the Around the World 72zm differences in the presentations, with special attention paid to the role of Mary in the Koran. Maya Sutton Our main texts are Islam’s Jesus by Zeki Who is the Dark Goddess? How might she Saritoprak and Christianity and the World manifest in your life? The Dark Goddess Religions by Hans Kung. This lecture is offered awakens the very old parts of us called to further interfaith understanding. intuition, gut feelings, shadow, dreams, instinct, introspection, and the unconscious. Reverend Dr. Frank Yates is parish associate Examples of the Dark Goddess are La Llorona at First Presbyterian Church. He also teaches in Spanish culture, The Morrígan in Celtic New Testament in the religious studies culture, Kali the fierce Indian battle goddess, program at UNM, and philosophy and ethics Egyptian Isis who helps us to remember lost at Lewis University, as well as at St. Norbert parts, and Hawaiian Pele, who demands University in Wisconsin. He is a graduate respect for her volcanic fire. of Abilene Christian University and UT Austin and has graduate degrees from Austin Maya Magee Sutton graduated from Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She received her PhD from UNM Monday Jul 12 10:00 - 11:30 where she taught for 35 years, including Fee: $10 Zoom teaching Celtic Mythology for ten of those years. Sutton has traveled extensively and spent much time at sacred sites. She lived in England for seven summers. Tuesday Jul 13 12:30 - 2:00 Fee: $10 Zoom
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 27 Julian of Norwich 73zm The Mystical Teachings of Christopher Zugger Joel Goldsmith 75zm The first book in English by a woman is from George Leone a 15th-century hermit attached to a church Joel Goldsmith (1892-1964) studied the in Norwich. It covers the visions she was ancient philosophical, religious, and mystical given of Christ and His Passion, and her texts of all the major religions. From these years of pondering God’s awesome love. As studies he formed an understanding of the an anchoress, she gave spiritual advice to truth that runs through all these texts. countless souls, while worshipping God from From this understanding, Joel presented his her chamber. We will encounter Julian, her mysticism to the world in a variety of writings. world, and the powerful “Revelations of Divine We look at his teachings from the standpoint Love” given to us through her. of his writings, especially his first few books Father Christopher Zugger was born outlining what he called The Infinite Way. in Buffalo, New York. A graduate of St. George was raised in a home in which his Bonaventure University and The Washington father was a student of Joel Goldsmith. Theological Union, he was ordained a priest Leone’s father became involved in Joel’s in the Byzantine Catholic Church in 1981. group, The Infinite Way. He came to direct the He was pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Infinite Way Study Center in St. Petersburg, until medical retirement directed him into FL for 20 years. Since George had degrees in new pastoral work. He has been presenting philosophy, he and his father had frequent for Oasis for many years on a wide variety discussions about the mystical philosophy of Philosophy, Religion, & Religion, SpiritualityPhilosophy, of topics. Joel. From these discussions, George formed a Wednesday Jul 14 10:00 - 11:30 high regard for the teachings of Goldsmith. Fee: $10 Zoom Thursday Aug 12 02:30 - 4:00 Fee: $10 Zoom Introduction to the Talmud 74zm Shlomo Karni Two Great English Mystics: The Talmud is a post-Biblical encyclopedic Richard Rolle and The Cloud body of Jewish civil and religious laws. It of Unknowing 76zm constitutes the greatest contributions to Christopher Zugger rabbinical literature in the history of Judaism. The mystical Shlomo Karni examines its historical evolution tradition of Europe and its contents and structure. The class reads flourished in and discusses a few short selections. medieval England. Shlomo Karni, PhD is professor emeritus Rolle’s books at UNM where he taught in both the and The Cloud departments of electrical engineering of Unknowing and religious studies. He received his undergraduate degree from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology and his graduate degrees from Yale University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Learn more about The Cloud of Tuesday Jul 20 10:00 - 11:30 Unknowing in Fee: $10 Zoom class #76.
28 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. (author unknown) still influence western challenges, including on the Rio Grande; forest Christian spiritual life. After learning about fires; communities; and public health. We also their world and Church, we will discover the discuss why New Mexicans shouldn’t lose hope Science, & Nature Math, deep, passionate love for God that these works in the face of these challenges. can teach us and help lead us closer to Him. Laura Paskus is a longtime environment These works were designed to lead souls into reporter based in Albuquerque. Currently, a deeper connection with the Lord, so that we she is the environment reporter for New will experience ongoing conversion of heart so Mexico PBS, and produces the monthly series, as to constantly draw nearer to Jesus Christ, “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental and into the life of the Holy Trinity, so as to Past, Present and Future.” Her book At the be truly pierced by His love. Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate, See bio #73. was published in September 2020 by the Wednesday Aug 25 10:00 - 11:30 University of New Mexico Press. Fee: $10 Zoom Tuesday May 18 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Zoom
Science, Math, The Weathering of Rocks & Nature in the Desert: The Sun’s Essential Role 78zm At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Leslie McFadden Changing Climate 77zm Physical weathering of pre-existing rock Laura Paskus ultimately leads to the formation of Climate change is here. What are its impacts sedimentary rocks, as well as development of on New Mexico’s waters, landscapes, wildlife, many desert landforms. In the 19th century and communities? What do we need to do to geologists proposed that periodic daily solar mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, while also heating and cooling could cause the breakdown adapting to a warmer, drier future? This class of exposed rocks, however, laboratory studies provides an overview of the impacts of climate in the 1930s cast doubt on “diurnal solar change on New Mexico, with a focus on water insolation” as a cause of physical weathering. Recent research has restored the key role the sun plays in physical weathering. Les McFadden is a professor emeritus in the UNM Earth & Planetary Sciences
Learn about desert flooding in class #79. Photo by Amy Howard
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 29 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. (E&PS) Department. He received an MS & missing portion of Neanderthal life history. PhD in geosciences from the University of At last, we see Neanderthal women become Arizona after earning a BA in anthropology more than a passing aside as a fuller picture of from Stanford University. He served as chair Neanderthal life develops. of the E&PS Department (1999-2007) and is Dave Weaver received his doctorate in physical a fellow of the Geological Society of America anthropology from UNM. After 25 years at (GSA). In 2017 he received the Kirk Bryan Wake Forest University, he returned to New Award for Excellence from the Council of Mexico. He has worked in North and Central the GSA. America, Europe, and Africa on human Thursday Jun 3 2:30 - 4:00 skeletal analysis, forensic anthropology, Fee: $10 Zoom bone microstructure, human evolution, and osteoporosis. In retirement, he volunteers for Southwest Floods in a Desert? the US Forest Service, the Sandia Mountain When Precipitation is Too Much Natural History Center, and Animal Humane of a Good Thing 79zm New Mexico, and travels as much as possible. Deirdre Kann Monday Jun 7 12:30 - 2:00 New Mexico’s climate is considered semi-arid to Fee: $10 Zoom arid, so it can be surprising to hear that floods and flash floods are common and the leading cause of weather-related fatalities in the state. Southwest Floods have been reported in all months of the Share Space with Wildlife!: year and no county is spared, though some ABQ Backyard Refuge Program 81zm areas are favored. Kann discusses the various Laurel Ladwig weather regimes that produce flooding, the Our backyards can be a window into favored locations, and how to anticipate and our wondrously complex natural world, stay safe during flood events. filled with extraordinary interactions and Deirdre Kann worked for various offices of the interdependencies. Learn about the ABQ National Weather Service for 30 years before Backyard Refuge Program and how you can retiring in 2016, including 23 years at the build a certified backyard refuge. You can Albuquerque NWS office. During this time, build a refuge for wildlife even with a patio she provided operational support, completed or balcony, or just by being a lazy gardener! damage surveys, and prepared local studies Explore the ways you can support our wild during and after major flood events. neighbors by sharing resources and being Monday Jun 7 10:00 - 11:30 responsive to their needs. Fee: $10 Zoom Laurel Ladwig is a geographer and lifelong birder who has been teaching about birds and Neanderthal Women - At Last! 80zm stars in informal science education settings Dave Weaver for more than three decades. She is on the Obviously, there must have been Neanderthal advisory board for Bernalillo County Master women. For many reasons, they barely have Naturalists, co-coordinates Albuquerque’s been noticed in most evolutionary accounts. participation in the City Nature Challenge, Recent analyses and perspectives have and is the Partnership Coordinator for the brought more attention to this situation, and Friends of Valle de Oro National Wildlife the findings are helping to fill out their largely Refuge’s Backyard Refuge Program. Laurel
30 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque recently contributed to Now We Heal - An the botanic garden for the BioPark docents. Anthology of Hope. In 1991, he received the Martin Luther King Friday Jun 11 10:00 - 11:30 Human Rights Award for establishing the first Fee: $10 Zoom Eye Clinic at Healthcare for the Homeless, where he volunteered for 26 years. Designing a Wildlife Garden: Saturday Jun 12 9:30 - 11:00 ABQ Backyard Refuge Program 82zm Fee: $12 UNM Tree Tour Ani Jamgyal Southwest In this brief introduction, Jamgyal considers Trees of UNM Campus what is involved in designing a garden area Guided Tour 84 that supports wildlife throughout the year. Ron Friederich Explore the three basic needs of wildlife (food, See class #83. shelter and water), and consider which native Saturday Jun 19 9:30 - 11:00 and adapted plants best support those needs. Fee: $12 UNM Tree Tour Look at several different kinds of landscape design, and how they function to support the Trees of UNM Campus health of both wildlife and humans. Guided Tour 85 Ani Jamygal moved to New Mexico 30 years Ron Friederich ago after receiving a PhD in plant physiology See class #83. from Penn State University. Ani is currently Saturday Jun 26 9:30 - 11:00 employed by Friends of Valle de Oro National Fee: $12 UNM Tree Tour Wildlife Refuge to work with the ABQ Backyard Refuge Program. Their favorite activities involve working outside year-round with native plants, doing anything from installing habitat gardens to teaching biology and medicinal plant biochemistry. as well as selling native plants at local retail nurseries. Friday Jul 16 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Zoom
Trees of UNM Campus Guided Tour 83 Ron Friederich Stroll through the University of New Mexico with Ron Friederich as he identifies and discusses some of the campus trees and other plants. An oasis in the high desert, the campus was designated an arboretum in 1994. A broad-brimmed hat and sunglasses are advised. Plenty of on-campus parking is available on Saturdays. No restrooms available during tour. Limited enrollment. Walk the UNM campus while learning about the Ron Friederich, a retired physician, has given trees and plants in classes #83, #84, and #85. various tours for Oasis at the Albuquerque Photo by Robert Reck BioPark. He authored a photo guidebook of
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 31 Making Solar Energy transatlantic cable. He lectured for many More Affordable in the US 86zm years on technical subjects for the Institute Charles Fleddermann for LifeLong Learning for New Mexicans. In their 2008 report, the National Academy of Thursday Jun 24 10:00 - 11:30 Engineering identified developing affordable Fee: $10 Zoom solar energy as one of the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century. Today, Geology and Geologic History solar energy provides a small fraction of the of New Mexico 88zm electricity used in the US, but is poised to John Geissman make increasing contributions to electrical John Geissman presents a general overview energy consumption nationwide. Fleddermann of the geology of New Mexico, with a brief but looks at the current situation and describes important introduction to the general concepts the innovations that will help make solar of deep geologic time and the overall geologic energy affordable. setting of the western United States. Geissman Southwest Charles (Chuck) Fleddermann is a professor includes a summary of the history of geologic of electrical engineering and associate dean of changes that have affected New Mexico and engineering at UNM. He has taught courses briefly touches on the origin of these changes. on professionalism and ethics in engineering John Geissman is a professor emeritus of at UNM as well as to the larger engineering geoscience at the University of Texas at Dallas community. His book, Engineering Ethics, and the University of New Mexico. He received is now in its fourth edition. Fleddermann a BS, MS, and PhD in Geology (now Earth and received his PhD in electrical engineering Environmental Sciences) from the University from the University of Illinois at Urbana- of Michigan. He is a Past President of the Champaign. Geological Society of America as well as the Monday Jun 14 12:30 - 2:00 editor for the GSA Bulletin. He has over 300 Fee: $10 Zoom peer-reviewed science journal contributions. Tuesday Jul 6 10:00 - 11:30 History of Recording Technology 87zm Fee: $10 Zoom Lawrence Anderson For over one hundred and fifty years the The Worst SOB’s concept of recording musical sounds so that That Ever Did Science 89zm they could be played back at a later time David A Crossley has captivated scientists and engineers. We Scientists are usually pictured as thoughtful, trace this history, starting from the first cultured representatives of mankind’s finest experiments with a pen tracing a wave on a intellectual pursuit. Perhaps humbly accepting smokey drum to the modern world where all a Nobel Prize, or magnanimously crediting of our music resides ephemerally in the cloud another scientist’s work when receiving as a collection of ones and zeros. accolades. The truth is less honorable. Many Lawrence Anderson earned a PhD in scientists, including famous household electrical engineering from Stanford names, were… well, scoundrels. There are University and spent most of his career at plagiarists, liars, and credit-grabbers, as what was then AT&T Bell Laboratories, well as adulterers, racists, bigots and bullies. where he was involved in some of the David Crossley introduces a few of the most first experimental applications of lasers. despicable and reveals things about iconic He headed the group that designed heroes that have been swept under the rug. optical components for the first fiber optic
32 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. David Crossley has degrees in both electrical The Psychology of and mechanical engineering; he retired from Polarization 91zm a 40-year career in the aerospace arena. He Thomas Dhanens taught electromagnetics at New Mexico State The limitations of human nature that cause University, performed electronic warfare personal arguments also contribute to political operations in five war zones with the Air and social polarization. We have innate Force out of Kirtland Air Force Base, and tendencies to perceive threats, place blame, Southwest is now playing oboe with the Albuquerque and look for simple answers. Social media Philharmonic. and news coverage capture our attention, Thursday Jul 8 10:00 - 11:30 reinforce our existing biases, and feed an us- Fee: $10 Zoom versus-them mentality. Stereotyping and de- humanization render us unable to empathize The Psychology of Arguments 90zm with outsiders or understand their thinking Thomas Dhanens and behavior. Learn the psychological basis Why do discussions turn into arguments? We for some of these important issues. don’t consciously choose to start arguments. See bio #90. We usually don’t feel we are to blame for them. They don’t reflect our better self and, Thursday Aug 5 10:00 - 11:30 afterward, we usually regret some of our Fee: $10 Zoom behavior. So what goes wrong? Why do we Fascinating Artifact Finds at unintentionally slip into such a destructive the Palace of the Governors 92zm mental and emotional state? Winning or losing, right or wrong, fair or unfair, victim or Matthew Barbour instigator – how can we make sense of it all? Between 2002 and 2004, the Office of Archaeological Studies performed excavations Tom Dhanens, PhD is a clinical psychologist behind Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors. who practiced in the Midwest for 45 years. This project recovered over 700,000 artifacts, He had an office practice and did hospital and community agency consultations. He was the sole staff neuropsychologist at Trinity Medical Center in Illinois for 30 years, evaluating dementia and CVA patients. Earlier, he was Director of a Community Mental Health Center in Wisconsin. Since retiring to New Mexico, he published, Why Argue? The Psychology of Arguments. Wednesday Jul 21 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Zoom
Discover fascinating artifacts (virtually) at the Palace of the Governors in class #92.
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 33 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. each with a story to tell. Yet, some of these The Life and Times of items are more fascinating than others. Navajo Visionary Artist Objects, such as an Aztec bowl with the David Chethlahe Paladin 94zm power to cure acne and the slag-lined cupel John D. Kennedy from Battersea Works in England, have the Learn about the incredible life of Navajo artist potential to shed light on lesser known aspects David Chethlahe Paladin, from his Navajo of New Mexico’s often sordid and colorful past. roots, his WWII Dachau experience, and his Hear about seven of the most bizarre artifacts emergence to become what Newsweek called found during the archaeological excavations. the most significant American Indian artist of See bio #41. our time. John Kennedy will share information Tuesday May 25 10:00 - 11:30 and photos from his book, Coyote: The Life Fee: $10 Zoom and Times of Visionary Navajo Artist David Southwest Chethlahe Paladin. Learn how kiva spiritual Downtown Albuquerque training sustained the man through the Walking Tour: For Those Who concentration camp, until he was found in Prefer to Sit 93zm a pile of bodies and recovered using Navajo ways. Roland Penttila In this class, we “tour” Central Avenue from John Kennedy is a trader raised in Gallup. His the railroad tracks near 1st Street, traveling grandfather built the Navajo trading post in west eight blocks to Robinson Park. Penttila Salina Springs in 1912. At the age of nine, he explains how these seven blocks came to be began traveling and trading with his father. and the differences between this “New Town” For 28 years, he was the major supplier of and what we now refer to as Old Town, where Native American crafts in the national park Albuquerque was originally founded. Penttila system. Kennedy founded the Indian Arts has a treasure trove of current and old photos and Crafts Association in 1974. He is also the showcasing Albuquerque’s history from author of four books dealing with trading and the arrival of the railroad in 1880 to the Native American culture. present day. Thursday Jun 10 10:00 - 11:30 Roland Penttila is a retired civil engineer Fee: $10 Zoom who added amateur historian to his photography hobby and is now fully engaged in learning more and more about the city and state he adopted in 1998. He approaches his historical research like an engineering project, and is interested in all aspects of the city’s history from its founding in 1706 through the present. Thursday May 27 10:00 - 11:30 Fee: $10 Zoom
John Kennedy discusses the incredible life of David Chethlahe Paladin in class #94.
34 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque The Enduring Women of Pajarito 95zm articles, he lectures frequently and does Flora Sanchez Chautauqua performances of historical figures. The Gutierrez Hubbell House, located deep in Thursday Jun 17 10:00 - 11:30 Albuquerque’s South Valley, has been home to Fee: $10 Zoom many strong women. Three generations of this family, Josefa Baca, Barbara Duran y Chavez History Lover’s Guide and Juliana Gutierrez y Chavez Hubbell, to Albuquerque 97zm whose lives span over 200 years, are land Roger Max Zimmerman Southwest grantees, heiresses, merchants, and mothers A History Lover’s Guide to Albuquerque is a with legacies that intrigue and inspire. The new book (2019) from The History Press. The talk includes a brief photo tour of the historical book goes beyond the traditional guidebook to home and property as well as exploring the offer a historical journal through an area rich lives of the home’s beloved matriarchs. with diverse cultures and their fascinating Flora Sánchez is a descendant of the family past. The journey through time starts with who owned the home. She is a retired the settlement of Native Americans in pueblos educator, teacher, school counselor, and along the Rio Grande through to the 1970s. administrator for Albuquerque Public Schools. The photo-packed presentation provides Upon retirement, she served as an elected insights to many of the historical events that member and three-term president of the occurred in Albuquerque. NM State Board of Education. She serves on Roger Zimmerman received his BS, MS, and the board of directors for the Hubbell House PhD degrees from the University of Colorado. Alliance where she also volunteers as a docent He taught civil engineering at the University and presents lessons for field trips. of Colorado and New Mexico State University Wednesday Jun 16 10:00 - 11:30 from 1959-1979. He was employed at Sandia Fee: $10 Zoom National Laboratories from 1980 until his retirement in 2000 and then as a consultant Albuquerque Retailing: The Cook until 2011. He is a past president of the & Gardenswartz Families 96zm Albuquerque Historical Society. Noel Pugach Monday Jun 28 2:30 - 4:00 Explore the history, role, and impact of Fee: $10 Zoom the Cook and Gardenswartz families on the creation and development of the sports Whatever Happened retailing business in Albuquerque and to Cabooses? 98zm the region. H. Cook opened for business in Fred Friedman 1939 and quickly prospered. Subsequently, The caboose was once the office and rolling members of the families expanded into other home of freight train crews. Today you’ll find lines of commercial activity. What contributed more cabooses at chambers of commerce and to their success? How did they affect the fast food restaurants than on the rails. Their commercial and general culture? What disappearance is a fascinating story of safety, insights does such a study provide on the technology, management, and labor union history and economy of New Mexico? issues. New Mexico had an important role in Dr. Noel Pugach, professor emeritus of history the discussion of whether to keep or eliminate at UNM, specializes in US foreign relations. this important element of the country’s The author of numerous monographs and railroading heritage. Recently, hundreds of cabooses are finding new acceptance in locations throughout the country.
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 35 Cultural Center Museum Cultural Educator in Albuquerque. Matt Schmader, PhD, has more than 40 years of field experience in southwestern archaeology. He has worked on sites of virtually every cultural time period, ranging from Paleo-Indian to Archaic campsites, from Spanish contact/colonial sites to the historic Red Light district in downtown Albuquerque. Thursday Aug 5 12:30 - 2:00 Fee: $10 Zoom
Find out what happened to cabooses in class #98. Col. John Slough, Gilpin’s Pet Lambs & the Union Victory Technology at Glorieta Pass 100zm Fred Friedman is a retired New Mexico Richard Miller Transportation Department Railroad Bureau Col. John Slough struggled to command the chief, with an extensive background in New hard-drinking and free-spirited 1st Colorado Mexico territorial and state railroad history. Volunteer Infantry, derisively nicknamed He has written and lectured throughout “Gilpin’s Pet Lambs.” Miraculously, the troops New Mexico on the subject. defeated 1,200 Texans at the battle of Glorieta Pass in northern New Mexico Territory in Tuesday Aug 3 10:00 - 11:30 March 1862. Miller tells the story of Slough’s Fee: $10 Zoom disastrous relationship with the 1st Colorado, Persistence of Resistance: their surprising victory at Glorieta Pass, Resiliency in the Pueblo World and Slough’s abrupt resignation after being 1539-1696 99zm threatened with assassination. Jon Ghahate and Matt Schmader Richard Miller, author of John P. Slough: Indigenous peoples of what was to become The Forgotten Civil War General, earned his New Mexico were profoundly affected by first MA in history from Princeton University. contact with Spanish explorers and other After a career in healthcare management and outsiders in the 1530s. The first colony was consulting, he turned to writing and lecturing established in 1598, and the 1600s were upon his retirement in 2014. He is the past especially difficult for indigenous populations president of the Puget Sound Civil War and newly arrived colonists. Famine, drought, Roundtable and a frequent speaker to Civil disease, displacements, massive population War roundtables and history groups. He lives loss, social oppression, and religious in Seattle with his wife Karin. persecution culminated with the Pueblo Tuesday Aug 10 12:30 - 2:00 Revolt of 1680-1696. In spite of these events, Fee: $10 Zoom Pueblo peoples endured and sustained strong societies that are the foundation of our multicultural heritage. Technology Jon Ghahate is from the Pueblos of Laguna iPhone Beginning Basics 101zm and Zuni, of the Turkey and Badger Clans. Lee Maddenkrall He currently serves as the Indian Pueblo Back by popular demand! In this class learn the basics of your iPhone as we explore
36 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. available apps. Find out how these apps can help keep you organized, productive, and entertained. This class covers all the basic information every iPhone user should know and understand. Class fee includes a 128- page course book. Bring your fully Technology charged iPhone to class. This course is a beginners class and is not applicable for Android phones. Limited enrollment. Lee Maddenkrall is owner of leehowardglobal, providing digital media, instruction, and management Learn how to master your digital life in tools for businesses. He is the AARP Technology classes #101-104. Community Programs Manager for the Photo by Pixabay. Albuquerque metro area, instructing members in technology and maximizing their use and you how to take pictures and videos, then knowledge of Smart Devices. Lee works as a shows you how to share and store them. He presenter, trainer and instructor in all areas also teaches you how to stay in touch utilizing of digital media. Facetime, how to use your phone safely, and how to use apps that help you order groceries Tuesday May 25 1:00 - 3:00 for pickup or delivery. Class fee includes a 128- Fee: $25 Zoom page course book. Bring your fully charged iPhone to class. This course is not applicable to Android Phone Beginning Basics 102zm Android phones. Limited enrollment. Lee Maddenkrall See bio #101. Back by popular demand! Learn the basic skills of using your Android-based device Tuesday Jul 6 1:00 - 3:00 including initial setup, gestures, organizing Fee: $25 Zoom apps and home screens, finding and installing useful apps, and using maps and camera Cybercrime Fighters: Phishing, functions. This class also covers using Gmail Browsers, and Passwords 104zm and Google calendar. Class fee includes a 58- Lee Maddenkrall page course book. Bring your fully charged Back by popular demand! As we use the Android smartphone to class. This course is internet more, learn helpful ways to stay safe not applicable for iPhones. Limited enrollment. while surfing the internet and posting on social See bio #101. media. Phishing can trick you into giving out personal confidential information to criminals. Tuesday Jun 8 1:00 - 3:00 Lee will guide you through choosing which Fee: $25 Zoom browser is best for you and tell you about best- in-class “Robocall Killer” apps. Hear about Intermediate iPhone Skills 103zm password manager apps and how to use them. Lee Maddenkrall Back by popular demand! Learn to take See bio #101. advantage of your iPhone features beyond Tuesday Jul 13 1:00 - 3:00 calling and texting. Lee Maddenkrall shows Fee: $18 Zoom
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 37 Please note: Most of the summer session Oasis classes are livestream via Zoom only. where the daily sunrise first touches the land Armchair Travel / of Mexico. Travelogue See bio #72. Thursday Jun 10 12:30 - 2:00 Are You Ready to Walk Fee: $10 Zoom the Camino? 105zm David Ryan Sales Presentation: Oasis/Collette With many movies and books about the Southern Charm Trip 107 Camino, you undoubtedly have heard of Collette Representative the Camino or “The Way.” In this session, Featuring Charleston, Savannah & David Ryan, an experienced Camino walker, Jekyll Island, shows you what it’s like to walk the Camino Trip is April 24 - April 30, 2022 and what you can see along the way. He 7 Days • 9 Meals shares with you different ways of doing a Camino, what a typical day is like, and Learn about this Oasis/Collette trip where what you need to know regarding language, you experience America’s southeast. This equipment, and preparation. tour includes stays in Charleston, Savannah,
Armchair Travel / Travelogue Armchair Travel and Jekyll Island. A city that has defied all David Ryan, who has given several odds, Charleston survived the Civil War, presentations at Oasis, is the coauthor of major fires, hurricanes and an earthquake, the 3rd edition of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: and still exudes elegance, charm, and grace. Albuquerque and the author of several other Travel to the exclusive Jekyll Island, once the walk books. In addition to hiking around beloved vacation spot for prominent families. Albuquerque, he has gone on several very See the stunning St. Simons Island 106-foot long walks including the Camino de Santiago tall lighthouse, and visit historic Savannah and the entire Appalachian Trail. You can find with a trolley tour highlighting the Historic many of the places he has explored on his blog District. Reserve trip by October 17, 2021 for at www.gentleartofwandering.com. best price and availability. See Oasis website Monday May 24 10:00 - 11:30 for more information. Fee: $10 Zoom Oasis has been working with Collette for more than five years, offering a variety of Memories of Mexico - Off the Beaten Path 106zm Maya Sutton Have you ever climbed to a village buried by a volcano? Have you spent all night in a cemetery with Indians for Dia de los Muertos? Getting off the beaten path in Mexico is adventurous, scenic, surprising, and rewarding. Visit the village of Turapato where the Catholic church has no image of Jesus, only Mary. Swim under a waterfall or in a cenote. And enjoy unspoiled Isla Mujeres, Learn more about Oasis and Collette’s April 2022 trip to Charleston, Savannah, and Jekyll Island.
38 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque tours. Karen Barclay is Collette’s business walker accessible. Restrooms are available. development manager for our region. Limited enrollment. Monday Jul 26 2:30 - 3:30 Colston Chandler, an Albuquerque resident Fee: $0 Zoom for more than 50 years and UNM professor of physics for 36 of those years, is an outdoor Walks & Hikes enthusiast who has led many Oasis walks
(mostly in the bosque). Walks & Hikes For all walks, bring clothing layers, water, Friday May 21 10:00 - 11:30 sun protection, binoculars, camera, and Fee: $15 Cottonwood Spring anything you might want to be comfortable (e.g. sturdy shoes, trekking poles). Juan Tomas Open Space Hike 110 David Ryan David Canyon Hike 108 Back by popular demand! Juan Tomas Open David Ryan Space is a City of Albuquerque Open Space Back by popular demand! With wonderful property located in the Manzanita Mountains views of the Manzano Mountains and south of Tijeras. It has a wonderful, easy-to- the ponderosa parkland at the bottom of moderate 3.7 mile loop hike with very little David Canyon, this hike is reminiscent of change in elevation. Walk through ponderosa, the Flagstaff area and not to be missed. In meadows, and other vegetation. We might see addition to the spectacular scenery, this some local inhabitants, such as mule deer, wild area has plenty of birds to enjoy. Our hike is turkey, or elk along the way. No restrooms approximately 3.3 miles with a total elevation available. Limited enrollment. descent and gain of around 400 feet, and See bio #105. is rated as a moderate trail. No restrooms available. Limited enrollment. Wednesday May 26 8:00 - 11:30 Fee: $15 Juan Tomas Open Space See bio #105. Thursday May 20 8:00 - 11:30 Fee: $15 David Canyon-Mars Court Trail LVL-Sponsored Cottonwood Spring Trail: Classes Accessible Nature Walk 109 Oasis members must Colston Chandler pre-register and pay May is the best time for viewing wildflowers the $5 class fee. There is in the Sandia Foothills and one of the best NO charge for La Vida Llena residents, and accessible places to do this is along the you do not need to pre- Cottonwood Spring Trail in the Elena Gallegos register through Oasis Open Space. From the parking lot, the (even if you are also an concrete-paved trail winds past several shade Oasis member). Check with the Life Enrichment structures with benches and informational Services at LVL for livestream link. displays before reaching the turnaround All classes are scheduled from 3:00-4:30pm. point at an observation blind that overlooks a spring-fed pond. On a clear day, westward Secret Numbers & Shortwave Stations: views are stupendous. A wildflower enthusiast Spies on the Radio Waves 111zm accompanies us on an informative morning Mike Langner stroll. This slower-paced walk is approximately Shortwave radio bands are filled with 0.6 miles long and is also wheelchair and mysterious stations that do nothing except
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 39 read numbers. These are often coded messages and family, or collected on vacation. In this to spies. From the era of the Cold War up to presentation, Tucker shares a basic overview the present, listen in to them and learn how of postcard history and the different types of foreign governments communicate with spies, postcards, then helps you decide what to do even here in the US. Hear many recorded with the ones you have. excerpts and view pictures of clandestine radio A retired journalist, Nancy Tucker has played sites and captured spies. with postcards on and off since the early 1950s, Mike Langner is a lifelong radio enthusiast, when her father was stationed at Sandia Base. having started in ham radio in junior high Today, she has hundreds of Albuquerque school, and ending up owning and operating postcards from all eras, as well as thousands two Albuquerque radio stations. Now in active from elsewhere. She says that postcards scratch retirement, he is the technical consultant to an itch that lies somewhere between her the New Mexico Broadcasters Association, interests in history and in graphics. travelling around our state assisting Thursday Jul 8 3:00 - 4:30 broadcasters with technical and operational Fee: $5 Zoom issues and problems. Thursday May 13 3:00 - 4:30 Ella Fitzgerald:
LVL-Sponsored Classes LVL-Sponsored Fee: $5 Zoom First Lady of Song 114zm Jane Ellen Crop Circles: With a career spanning nearly six decades, Ella Who or What Makes Them? 112zm Fitzgerald (1917-96) was known not only as Maya Sutton the Queen of Jazz but as one of the definitive For the past 40 summers, strange and interpreters of the American songbook. beautiful formations have appeared in English Discovered as a teenager by bandleader Chick fields. These crop circles are cut into the grains Webb, she had a wide-ranging career that in layers, the stalks bent but not broken. Most embraced standards, jazz, scat, film, and designs are close to Stonehenge and Avebury, television. This fond tribute to an American an area sacred for 5,000 years. Recent jazz legend also explores Fitzgerald’s early patterns are exquisitely complex geometric years and the childhood secrets she fought to compositions. Maya Sutton has walked many suppress during her lifetime. crop circles, participated in two international See bio #55. conferences, and met the experts. She shares her opinions and observations regarding Thursday Aug 12 3:00 - 4:30 these enigmas. Fee: $5 Zoom See bio#106. Thursday Jun 10 3:00 - 4:30 NIRR-Sponsored Fee: $5 Zoom Classes Postcards: Not Just Vacation Souvenirs 113zm Nancy M. Tucker Postcard collecting is one of the three most popular American hobbies, after coins and stamps. Many households own at least some postcards, whether they are an inherited collection, cards sent over the years by friends
40 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Oasis members must pre-register and pay context and exploring the evidence for Spanish the $5 class fee. There is NO charge for The occupation at Los Luceros prior to the Pueblo Neighborhood in Rio Rancho residents, and you Revolt of 1680. do not need to pre-register through Oasis (even
if you are also an Oasis member). Check with the See bio #41. NIRR-Sponsored Classes Lifestyle Coordinator at NIRR for livestream link. Monday Jun 14 3:00 - 4:30 All classes are scheduled from 3:00-4:30pm. Fee: $5 Zoom
Making a Case Out of It: The Lamy Branch Rail Line 117zm An Overview of the Federal Fred Friedman Court System 115zm The 18-mile rail line, connecting the New Karen Molzen Mexico capital to the remainder of the world, The expression “to make a federal case out of is a microcosm of state and territorial history. something” can suggest that more important Built as an afterthought, the line was paid for cases land in federal court. In fact, our by the County of Santa Fe. It mirrors major Constitution and laws of Congress determine events, from territorial expansion and world just what makes a case subject to federal wars to the demise of the Harvey era of famous court jurisdiction. Karen Molzen, magistrate passenger trains and hotels. The line was judge, guides us through the federal court recently purchased by local entrepreneurs system and how it operates towards a in the hopes that the line will once again better understanding of our third branch of reinvent itself. government: the judicial. See bio #98. In 1999, Karen Molzen was appointed as Monday Jul 12 3:00 - 4:30 the first full-time female United States Fee: $5 Zoom magistrate judge in the District of New Mexico. After serving 12 years at her Las Kind of Blue: Miles Davis 118zm Cruces duty station, that station was changed Jane Ellen to Albuquerque when she became the District’s Miles Davis (1926-91) enjoyed an eclectic chief magistrate judge. Although she officially career as a jazz musician, trumpeter, retired in May 2019, she continues her work bandleader, arranger, and composer. A former as a magistrate judge in a part-time capacity child prodigy and recipient of a scholarship under the federal judiciary recall program. to The Juilliard School, Davis stood at the Monday May 10 3:00 - 4:30 forefront of major developments in 20th Fee: $5 Zoom century jazz including bebop, cool jazz, and hard bop, as well as modal jazz and jazz Los Luceros Historic Site: fusion. From “Kind of Blue” to “Bitches Brew” Prehistory & Early History 116zm and beyond, we explore the many faces of the Matthew J. Barbour award-winning Miles Davis. Los Luceros Historic Site is an amazing See bio #55. location to explore in northern New Mexico. For many, its history begins with the Martin Monday Aug 9 3:00 - 4:30 Serrano family in the 18th century, but this Fee: $5 Zoom fails to account for the archaeological record and oral tradition of the indigenous peoples. Matt Barbour expands upon the narrative by placing the site in a broader cultural
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 41 Off-Site Class Locations Directory For additional information, contact the Oasis office at (505) 884-4529. Cottonwood Spring Trailhead To reach the Cottonwood Springs trailhead parking lot of the Elena Gallegos Open Space, travel east from the corner of Tramway and Simms Park Road (just north of the traffic signal at Tramway and Academy) to the Open Space Information Center. After paying the $1/car entry fee, ignore the signs suggesting that you turn right. Instead turn left (north) around the back of the Information Center and follow the road to the parking lot. David Canyon - Mars Court Trailhead From Tijeras, exit off I-40 (Exit 175). Go 8.8 miles south on NM 337 (South 14) to Raven Road. Turn right on Raven Road and follow it 1.6 miles to Mars Court. Turn right on Mars Court and drive about 20 feet to the parking area. Mars Court is unpaved but very short. Consider carpooling as parking is limited. Juan Tomas Open Space From I40 take Exit 175 to Tijeras. Go 8.7 miles south on NM 337. Turn left on Oak Flat Road and go 2.7 miles east. Park in the area on the left, across from the junction with Anaya Road (not Anaya Place). UNM Tree Tour Meet in front of the Popejoy Hall located on the UNM campus at 203 Cornell Dr. Park in any of the spots that are not placarded (handicap, reserved, or at a parking meter.) Free spots are available on Saturdays.
Off-Site Locations / Collette Trip Locations / Collette Off-Site Oasis Albuquerque & Collette Travel present Southern Charm Visit Charleston, Jekyll Island, & Savannah April 24 - 30, 2022• 7 Days • 9 Meals Sales Presentation: Monday, July 26, 2:30 - 3:30pm (class #107zm) Experience warm Southern hospitality in America’s southeast. Learn about rich history and deep traditions on this tour with stays in Charleston, Savannah and, Jekyll Island. A city that has defied all odds, Charleston survived the Civil War, major fires, an earthquake, and hurricanes – and still exudes elegance, charm and grace. Travel to the exclusive Jekyll Island, once the beloved vacation spot for prominent families including the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and J.P. Morgan. See the stunning St. Simon’s Island 106- foot tall lighthouse before stepping into the past at the Museum of Coastal History. Visit historic Savannah with a trolley tour highlighting the Historic District. Allow the stately mansions, beautiful squares and romantic riverfront promenades to capture your heart. Reserve trip by October 17, 2021 for best price and availability. Prices start at $2,949pp (double) For more information: https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/982444 • Included in Price: Round Trip Air from Albuquerque Intl Airport, Air Taxes and Fees/Surcharges, Hotel Transfers • Not Included in Price: Cancellation Waiver and Insurance • All Rates are Per Person and are subject to change based on air inclusive package from ABQ
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Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 45 Oasis Albuquerque Intergenerational Tutoring Program Thank you, Oasis Volunteers! George Koinis Rich Piper Lillian Torres-Beatty Joyce Kolberg Debra Plake Susan Trumbo-Forrer Leslie Alperin Mary Dickson Cheryl Krahn Victoria Pratt Karin Urban Laurel Anderson Georgia Dray Victoria Lanzing Carole Price Cynthia Vaughan Johanna Ash Mary Eagle Joan Levine Anna Reluzco Linda Vik Lorraine Baca Carolyn Ehlert Angie Lucero Kathryn Rhoads Jan Villa Jan Bandrofchak Elizabeth Fitzgerald Ruth Maayan Davinia Rizzo Margaret Vining Edwin Beatty Barbara Frames Frank Malizzo Christine Robinson Susan Wallack Patricia Bartels Susan Frow Yvonne Mangrum- Karen Robinson Judith Weinstein Faye Belyeu Geraldine Garcia Spicer Linda Rogers John Willadsen Deborah Blank Frederick Grambort Joanne McEntire Pamela Rogers Katie Williams Shelley Carter Karen Griffin Brookes McIntyre Diane Ross Patricia Wilson Sheryl Cerveny Pamela Hanson Julianne McVay Lilia Ruiz Nancy Winger Carolyn Clark Nancy Harbert Rachel Mercer-Smith Kathleen Sallee Barbara Witemeyer Merrie Courtright Anne Hayes Jean Merritt Karen Schlue Sue Wolinsky Bryan Crawford John Hockert Kathleen Meyn Norman Segel Jerri Wunder Oasis National News Corrinne Crawford Joe Huebel Kathleen Miller Dawn Serrano Paula Wynnyckyj Valerie Dalton Donna Jernigan Cynthia Moody Hope Sikes Constance Wysocki Yolanda Day Jennifer Johns Ruth Nichols Roxanne Sikes Theresa Zebrowski Christine DeHerrera Carol Kain Celeste Nossiter Jeanne Silliman Nancy Zulick Stephanie Deutsch Deirdre Kann Beverly Ohline Karen Smoot Vicki DeVigne Jean Kelley Daphne Orner Mark Solomon Holly DeWees Iris Keltz Felisa Palfery Mayra Tena
Our program delivery was definitely different this to welcoming back all of our volunteers who stayed on last year, but you were determined to make it work the team - eager for a return to in-person mentoring. for our students. Since October 2020, our sessions Thank you to everyone! were held looking at our students through a computer screen instead of sitting right next to them. Thank Vicki you to our tutor trainers who happily created training Vicki DeVigne videos. Thank you to our initial Google team for Albuquerque Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring Program experimenting with the unknown and sharing their Tutoring Program Director technology knowledge. Thank you to our returning volunteers who boldly tried mentoring online and bravely worked through technology issues. Thank you and welcome to our new recruits for online mentoring - you had a double experience in learning our literacy approach as well as delivering your sessions online. Thank you to those who mentored family members, neighbors or provided handouts and letters. Join our team! Thank you to our library volunteers. Your work behind Contact Vicki DeVigne at 505-884-4529 or visit the scenes is truly appreciated. It actually took all of us our website at www.oasisabq.org/tutoring to make our mission a success this year. I look forward for more information.
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52 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque 9:30 - 11:00 9:30 - 11:00 9:30 - 11:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 FRIDAY of UNM Tour Trees of UNM Tour Trees of UNM Tour Trees Poetry ZM Poetry Share with Wildlife ZM ZM Poetry ZM Poetry State of Eyes ZM JUNE 2021 JUNE 4 11 18 25 SATURDAY JUNE 12 SATURDAY 83 JUNE 19 SATURDAY 84 JUNE 26 SATURDAY 85 68zm 81zm 68zm 68zm 23zm 3:00 - 4:30 1:00 - 2:15 2:30 - 4:00 1:00 - 2:15 2:30 - 4:00 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 THURSDAY Memoir Writing ZM Memoir Writing Chi Health A ZM Tai ZM of Rocks Weathering ZM Chethlahe Paladin Chi Health A ZM Tai Mexico Memories ZM Crop Circles ZM ZM ABQ Retailing Chi Health A ZM Tai for Summer ZM Yoga Stalingrad ZM Enlightenment Book ZM ZM Tech Recording Chi Health A ZM Tai ZM NM Food Trails for Summer ZM Yoga 3 10 17 24 67zm 29zm 78zm 94zm 29zm 106zm 112zm 96zm 29zm 31zm 39zm 53zm 87zm 29zm 12zm 31zm 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 1:30 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 2:30 - 4:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 1:45 10:00 - 11:30 WEDNESDAY Tai Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai Dementia ZM Matter of Balance ZM ZM Jewish Poetry Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai ZM Ayurveda Fighting Irish ZM Matter of Balance ZM Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai ZM of Pajarito Women Netflix Disrupting ZM Matter of Balance ZM Mesa Book ZM West Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai ZM People Transgender Matter of Balance ZM Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai Matter of Balance ZM 2 9 16 23 30 27zm 18zm 19zm 70zm 27zm 20zm 38zm 19zm 27zm 95zm 10zm 19zm 52zm 27zm 5zm 19zm 27zm 19zm 1:00 - 3:00 1:30 - 3:00 1:00 - 2:30 1:00 - 2:00 1:00 - 2:00 2:30 - 4:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:30 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 11:00 - 12:00 TUESDAY Tai Chi Health A ZM Tai Chi Health A ZM Tai Opera: Stage Dir ZM Android Phone Basic ZM Austin Book ZM Chi Health A ZM Tai Summit Book ZM Opera: Set Design ZM Holmes Book ZM Chi Health A ZM Tai Opera: Costuming ZM Qigong ZM Qigong ZM ZM Caregiver Resources History of Food ZM Cannabis in NM ZM ZM Wellbeing ZM Elephants & War Chi Health A ZM Tai 1 8 15 22 29 29zm 29zm 63zm 102zm 49zm 29zm 50zm 64zm 51zm 29zm 65zm 32zm 32zm 24zm 11zm 4zm 22zm 41zm 29zm 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 3:00 - 4:30 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 2:30 - 4:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 OFF-SITE CLASS. PLEASE SEE THE OFF-SITE LOCATION DIRECTIONS ON PAGE 42 DIRECTIONS ON PAGE LOCATION PLEASE SEE THE OFF-SITE CLASS. ZM = LIVESTREAM VIA ZOOM * OFF-SITE MONDAY Tai Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai Floods in Desert ZM ZM Neanderthal Women Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai ZM Power Posture Affordable Solar ZM Los Luceros ZM Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai Subs: Lost 52 ZM Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai History Guide to ABQ ZM 7 14 21 28 27zm 79zm 80zm 27zm 21zm 86zm 116zm 27zm 40zm 27zm 97zm
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 53 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 FRIDAY JULY 2021 Wildlife Garden ZM Greek Mythology ZM LaBelle ZM Patti 2 9 16 23 30 82zm 44zm 58zm 3:00 -4:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:30 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:30 10:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:30 11:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 THURSDAY Enlightenment Book ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Plant-Based Eating ZM ZM Postcards Enlightenment Book ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Hidden Civilizations ZM Enlightenment Book ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Hidden Civilizations ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Hidden Civilizations ZM Enlightenment Book ZM ZM Science SOB’s of NM Cuisine ZM Roots ZM Sarah Vaughan Enlightenment Book ZM Tai Chi Health A ZM Tai 1 8 15 22 29 53zm 30zm 13zm 113zm 53zm 30zm 42zm 53zm 30zm 42zm 30zm 42zm 53zm 89zm 15zm 56zm 53zm 29zm 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 1:30 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:00 - 3:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 WEDNESDAY Tai Ji Quan Bal A ZM Tai Grassroots Solutions ZM Matter of Balance ZM Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Julia of Norwich ZM Matter of Balance ZM Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai of Arguments ZM Psych Matter of Balance ZM Mesa Book ZM West Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Bill Becomes Law ZM Matter of Balance ZM 7 14 21 28 27zm 6zm 19zm 28zm 73zm 19zm 28zm 90zm 19zm 52zm 28zm 7zm 19zm 1:00 - 2:00 1:00 - 3:00 1:00 -3:00 1:30 - 3:00 1:00 - 2:15 1:00 - 2:30 2:30 - 4:30 1:00 - 2:15 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 10:15 - 11:45 11:00 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:30 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 TUESDAY Geology of NM ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Qigong ZM Intermed iPhone ZM ZM Singing Show Tunes Chi Health B ZM Tai Dark Goddess ZM Cybercrime ZM Austin Book ZM ZM Intro to Talmud Chi Health B ZM Tai Summit Book ZM Underground RR ZM for Better Sleep ZM Yoga Holmes Book ZM Vitamin/Supplement ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai for Better Sleep ZM Yoga ZM James Taylor 6 13 20 27 88zm 30 zm 32zm 103zm 54zm 30zm 72zm 104zm 49zm 74zm 30zm 50zm 43zm 33zm 51zm 25zm 30zm 33zm 57zm 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 3:00 - 4:30 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 2:30 - 3:30 OFF-SITE CLASS. PLEASE SEE THE OFF-SITE LOCATION DIRECTIONS ON PAGE 42 DIRECTIONS ON PAGE LOCATION PLEASE SEE THE OFF-SITE CLASS. ZM = LIVESTREAM VIA ZOOM * OFF-SITE 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 12:00 MONDAY Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Gospels & Koran ZM Gospels & Koran ZM Frontier Fungal Line ZM Lamy Rail ZM Marty Robbins Southern Charm Trip ZM Sales Presentation 5 12 19 26 Office Closed for Independence Day 28zm 28zm 28zm 71zm 14zm 117zm 55zm 107zm
54 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque 9:00- 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 12:00 FRIDAY Stretch & Relax ZM Stretch & Relax John Williams ZM ZM Stretch & Relax ZM Stretch & Relax 6 13 20 27 34zm 60zm 34zm 34zm AUGUST 2021 AUGUST 2:30 - 4:00 3:00 - 4:30 9:00 - 10:00 10:00- 12:00 11:00- 12:00 12:30- 2:00 11:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 THURSDAY Tai Chi Health B ZM Tai ZM World Pueblo Chi Health B ZM Tai Joel Goldsmith ZM Ella Fitzgerald ZM Psych of Polarization ZM of Polarization Psych Age Independently ZM Chi Chih ZM of Tai Taste Chi Health B ZM Tai Stephen Sondheim ZM Tai Chi Health B ZM Tai 1619 vs. 1776 ZM 5 12 19 26 30zm 99zm 30zm 75zm 114zm 91zm 1zm 35zm 30zm 62zm 30zm 48zm 9:00-10:00 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 1:30 - 3:00 9:00 - 10:00 12:30- 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 11:30 WEDNESDAY Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Health Care Decisions ZM Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Igor Stravinsky ZM Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Illuminated Bibles ZM Mesa Book ZM West Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai English Mystics ZM Two Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai 4 11 18 25 1 28zm 26zm 28zm 61zm 28zm 47zm 52zm 28zm 76zm 28zm 2:30 - 4:30 1:30 - 3:00 1:00 - 2:30 10:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 11:0 0 - 12:00 12:30 - 2:00 TUESDAY Tai Chi Health B ZM Tai Joni Mitchell ZM Colonel John Slough ZM Austin Book ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Holmes Book ZM Cabooses ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai Summit Book ZM Chi Health B ZM Tai 3 10 17 24 31 30zm 59zm 100zm 49zm 30zm 51zm 98zm 30zm 50zm 30zm 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 3:00 - 4:30 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 9:00 - 10:00 12:30 - 2:00 10:00 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 OFF-SITE CLASS. PLEASE SEE THE OFF-SITE LOCATION DIRECTIONS ON PAGE 42 DIRECTIONS ON PAGE LOCATION PLEASE SEE THE OFF-SITE CLASS. ZM = LIVESTREAM VIA ZOOM * OFF-SITE MONDAY Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Ji Quan Bal B ZM Tai Amy Coney Barrett ZM Miles Davis ZM ZM Orleans & Tours Ag Settlements ZM 2 9 16 23 30 28zm 28zm 28zm 28zm 28zm 8zm 118zm 45zm 46zm
Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 55 Oasis Policies (505) 884-4529 :: Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00am to 4:30pm, Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm American Square Shopping Center 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE, Suite 18 Albuquerque, NM 87107 Mailing Address: PO Box 35518 Albuquerque NM 87176 How do I become an Oasis member? I can’t come to class. Can I get a refund? You may join Oasis at any time by completing the Program fees are non-refundable unless Oasis cancels New Participant Form found on the inside back or reschedules the class. In the case of unforeseen cover of this catalog or go online to www.oasisabq. circumstances (i.e. jury duty or emergency medical org and click on the My Account link. reasons), credit may be applied to another class. If How do I register for classes? possible, we ask you to give us at least 24 hours notice You may register online, in person at the Oasis office, in advance of your absence so that, if applicable, we or by mail at any time during the summer session. can add someone from the waiting list. Payment is required at the time of registration and Can I give my seat to someone else if I holds your place in a class. Oasis will take phone registrations. Mailing in a paper registration form is am not able to come? highly recommended if you do not want to register Just like the airlines, your seat in class is not online. You may add classes anytime throughout the transferable to someone else. It is not fair to those summer term - either online or by phone. on our waiting list. If I want to drop my registration form Courtesy Confirmation Calls off at your office, when can I do so? & Zoom Links Typically, the Oasis office is open from 9:00am - Since most classes will only be offered online 4:30pm Monday through Thursday, and 9:00am via Zoom, you will NOT receive a courtesy call - 4:00pm Friday. However, because of the reminding you of your class. Your reminder will be uncertainty of COVID-19 restrictions, please an email sent one business day prior to the class call the office at 505-884-4529 to determine if we with the Zoom link, meeting ID, and password. are open. You may also mail your form to us. Please keep a calendar with your scheduled classes What types of payment do you accept? and check your email junk/spam folders for the We accept cash, check, or credit card (Visa, Zoom link. Your registration receipt contains MasterCard, or Discover). class dates and times. You can also log in to your MyOasis account, click on dashboard, and then What if the class I want is full and I’ve click on view/print class term receipt. We do not already paid for it? refund or credit class fees if you miss your class. Most Zoom classes have a maximum capacity of 300 so we do not anticipate a lecture filling up. Information about Oasis credits *There are a few exceptions. For technology classes Throughout 2020, Oasis canceled many of our and walks/hikes with very limited enrollment, you educational offerings due to the pandemic, and are welcome to join the waiting list so we can call there are a lot of you who now have credit on your you if space becomes available. Your name is NOT account. We would very much like you to use the added to the roster until you have been notified credit or consider donating it back to Oasis! and we have received your payment. If you do If you register online, the credit will appear when not get in and have paid by check or cash, we will you check out. If you register by writing a check, apply a credit to your Oasis account for any unused please call the office to inquire how much credit amount. If you pay by credit card, we will only you have. charge your card for the classes in which you are actually enrolled.
Because of current uncertain circumstances, please note that class dates, locations, and other details are subject to change. Please check your email for Oasis updates, visit our website, or call the Oasis office for up-to-date information. Check to see if Oasis office is open, as it may be better to mail your registration forms or register online.
56 Follow us at facebook.com/OasisAlbuquerque Registration Info: Oasis Policies Summer 2021 continued Registration opens Wednesday, May 5 at 10:00am.
I am experiencing a financial Summer 2021 classes begin Monday, May 10, 2021. Registration Info challenge. Do you offer financial assistance for classes? How early can I register for classes, and how If you are experiencing a financial challenge can I be sure I’ll get into the classes I want? and find yourself unable to take lectures Registration opens at 10:00am on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. If at Oasis, please make an appointment to you register online at that time, you have a very good chance of speak with the executive director so we getting into a popular (or limited enrollment) class. If you are not comfortable registering online, your best bet is to mail in your can find a way to support you. paper registration form as soon as possible. We start collecting registration forms the day the catalogs arrive; however, they are The opinions expressed by presenters not entered into our system until registration opens at 10:00am and volunteers are their own and do on May 5, 2021. not necessarily reflect the views of Oasis or its sponsoring organizations. You can mail your registration form at your earliest convenience after receiving your new catalog. Paper registration forms are Also, please remember that processed in the order they are received beginning at 10:00am on information received in Oasis classes the first day of registration (May 5, 2021). The first form received related to health, finance (including is the first one entered and so on. appraisal or investment), or legal matters is presented in an educational Important Registration Information context. You should seek professional Complete your forms and payments carefully. Include payment advice related to your specific for all of your classes and trips. situation before making decisions • Couples or two friends who attend classes together should in these areas. submit forms together IN ONE ENVELOPE. You must, however, submit separate forms and payment for each person. Each Online registration: www.oasisabq.org attendee must sign the waiver of liability form. It’s easy and convenient; pay with a credit • Email: If you have email, please include the address on your card. (See page 58) form, so we can email your receipt and confirmation. 1. Go to www.oasisabq.org • Payment methods • Credit Cards: We strongly encourage payment by credit 2. Log in to your MyOasis account by card. If you pay by credit card, we will charge only for the clicking on My Account (upper right classes in which you are enrolled. hand corner). If you do not already • Cash or check payments: We accept cash or checks. If have an account, please click on My you are paying by cash or check and a class is full when you Account, then on Register for register, we will apply the additional amount to your account MyOasis to create your Oasis profile. and create a credit to use on future classes. You may use that At that point, you will need to create a for future classes OR it will be applied to your wait-listed username and password to enroll in all class if space becomes available. Oasis classes.Online signups require credit card payment. • Oasis Credits: Before sending another check or cash, check your Oasis Credits by calling the Oasis office or looking at the bottom of your receipt for Credit Balance.
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Call 505-884-4529 • Visit oasisabq.org 57 HOW TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES
1. Go to www.oasisabq.org
2. Click My Account > Sign In (If you don’t have a MyOASIS account yet, click “Create Your Profile” to sign up.
3. Dashboard: Once logged in, you will see your dashboard. To view classes, go to menu at top and click Classes
Online Registration Info Registration Online 4. Classes are listed in numerical order. To search a class by name or number, use the Search field. Click Add to cart to register now or Add to wishlist to save for later.
5. To check out, go to the cart icon in the menu at top right of the page and click View 6. Review your order and click Cart Proceed to Checkout. Please Or note, you will not be fully registered until you finish the checkout process.
7. Once you have entered in your payment information and have agreed to the terms and conditions, click ! on Place Order
8. Once your order is complete, you 9. All done! Make sure to will receive a confirmation receipt check your SPAM or through email. If your class is “Promotions” folder in virtual, this is where your Zoom your email inbox in link will be. You can also find your case your receipt lands Zoom links under Dashboard > there. View/Print Class Term Receipt
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