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WINTER 2020 On Our Cover The Art Object: Unidentified artist, American, 19th century Musicians in the Snow, 1876(?) Oil on canvas 76.52 x 101.92 cm (30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 47.1219 Photograph © December 2019, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Snow Man LCE Online One must have a mind of winter Table of Contents Complete course descriptions, class To regard the frost and the boughs status, and registration information Around Our Town...... 9 Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; can be found online at Body / Mind...... 31 www.lexingtoncommunityed.org And have been cold a long time Business, Career & Finance...... 34 To behold the junipers shagged with ice, Lexington Public Schools The spruces rough in the distant glitter Classes for Children ...... 24 Superintendent of Schools: Of the January sun; and not to think Computers...... 22 Dr. Julie Hackett Of any misery in the sound of the wind, Cooking...... 28 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development: In the sound of a few leaves, Creating Community...... 8 Christine Lyons, M.Ed., PhD Which is the sound of the land Daytime Classes...... 31 Full of the same wind LEXINGTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELL/Languages...... 18 That is blowing in the same bare place Chair: Eileen Jay Exercise and Dance...... 35 Kate Colburn For the listener, who listens in the snow, Scott Bokun Fine Arts, Fabric & And, nothing himself, beholds Kathleen Lenihan Graphic Arts...... Nothing that is not there and the nothing 15 Deepak Sawhney that is. Home, Hobbies and Travel...... 29 Lexington Community Education —Wallace Stevens Humanities...... 10 Director: Craig Hall LCE Presents...... 3 From the collection, Harmonium, Manager of Programming: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923. The Music Appreciation...... 11 Andrea Paquette poem was published in the collection Music Performance/ Registrar: Amy Sullivan before 1923 and hence is in the U.S. Theater Arts...... 11 Accounts Payable: Deniele Pozz public domain. Parenting Perspectives...... 28 146 Maple Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 About Lexington Test Preparation/ (Access office via 328 Lowell Street) Community Education College Planning...... 26 Telephone 781.862.8043 LCE is a self-sustaining, integral part of Writing...... 13 Fax 781.863.5829 [email protected] the Lexington Public School system that is Instructor Biographies...... 37 committed to promoting lifelong learning. www.lexingtoncommunityed.org Our programs are open to all regardless Registration Information...... 42 facebook.com/lexingtoncommunityed of residency and are appropriate for Directions...... 42 Catalog Design: Pehlke Design participants 16 years of age and over. Registration Form...... 43 Our Classes for Children are for specific ages. LCE provides an extensive summer Exercise Release...... 43 children’s program called Lexplorations Cancellation and which offers classes for creative and Refund Policy...... 42 academic enrichment.

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A Lexington Writer's Life Constitution in Crisis: with Brian David Burrell HOW THE POWER OF PEOPLE CAN SAVE OUR REPUBLIC WITH CAROL ROSE AUTHOR OF POSTCARDS FROM THE BRAIN MUSEUM, Thursday, January 30, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm REACHING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE AND HOW THE Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SPOW BRAIN LOST ITS MIND Monday, January 13, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington, $10 • HBLM perfect Union, establish Justice, Brian David Burrell, lecturer in insure domestic Tranquility, provide mathematics at UMass Amherst for the common defence, promote and the author of seven books on the general Welfare, and secure the subjects ranging from genius to Blessings of Liberty to ourselves madness to mathematics, from and our Posterity, do ordain and famous brains to mental illness to establish this Constitution for the the words we live by, will describe United States of America.” how the unique experience of The United States Constitution, growing up in Lexington at a signed in Philadelphia on special time in its history spurred September 17, 1787, created a his interest in writing, and how a government that put power in the hands of the people, created sequence of serendipitous events a Separation of Powers between three equal branches of led him from mathematics into the government and laid out a system of checks and balances to study of the human brain. In his three most recent books, two of ensure that no one branch has too much power. This evening, them with co-author Allan Ropper of Harvard Medical School, ACLU of Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose will discuss Mr. Burrell has focused on how brain morphology and pathology this still very relevant historic document. have shaped our received wisdom about human attributes, eccentricities, and aberrations. Specifically, he has delved into Carol Rose is the Executive Director of the ACLU of historical and current theories about the biological correlates of Massachusetts (www.aclum.org), a nonpartisan membership creativity, criminality, neurosis, and psychosis. organization that uses litigation, legislation, communications, and people power to promote civil rights and defend civil The first book of the three(Postcards from the Brain Museum) liberties, including voting rights, racial justice, freedom of focuses on attempts to preserve and study the brains of famous speech, privacy, and equal protection for all. A lawyer and and infamous men and women—Einstein, Lenin, Byron, and Stalin, journalist, Rose started her career as a reporter for United Press to name a few. The second book (Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole) International, The New York Times, and the Des Moines Register, deals with the everyday practice of clinical neurology at Brigham with reporting stints in Washington, D.C., Japan, the Middle and Women's Hospital. The third (How the Brain Lost Its Mind), East, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. She later became a First recently published, dwells on a single insidious brain disease Amendment and civil rights lawyer before taking the helm at with a surprisingly rich history—neurosyphilis.This talk will explain the ACLU of Massachusetts. Under her leadership, the ACLU of how for this author one thing led to another—from the Lexington Massachusetts’ has won historic legal and legislative victories school system to other great institutions of learning and research, in the areas of free speech, equal marriage, gender equality, and eventually to the written page. criminal law reform, immigrant’s rights, voting rights, privacy, and Brian David Burrell has appeared on the Today Show, Booknotes, reproductive justice. She is a graduate of Stanford University and NPR's Morning Edition. He divides his time between writing (BSc), the London School of Economics (MSc), and Harvard Law and statistical research with neuroscientific applications. School (JD), and a proud resident of Lexington, MA.

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Freedom of Speech and THE FIVEASH LEGACY LECTURE Dissenting Opinions The Happiness Capacity: MODERN HAPPINESS THROUGH AN ANCIENT LENS WITH ZACHARY R. WOOD WITH HAILEY-HART THOMPSON Tuesday, February 4, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SWHY A FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Zachary R. Wood is known for Wednesday, February 12, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm his dynamic perspective on free Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • STHC speech, race, and dissenting What makes us happy? opinions. Wood entered the This question is commonly national spotlight while a senior posed across relationships, at Williams College, where he with family, with friends, acted as president of the student with communities, and with group Uncomfortable Learning. ourself. In a world that Wood strengthened the groups seems to be falling apart, commitment to inviting speakers the pursuit for long lasting with controversial perspectives happiness seems more to speak freely on the college’s distant than ever. In her campus. Wood is an activist for free documentary filmThe Happiness Capacity; Modern Happiness speech and a firm believer that civil debate is a crucial part of through an Ancient Lens, Boston University researcher and one’s education. He recently testified before the United States Lexington High School Graduate Hailey Hart-Thompson explores Senate on the necessity of ensuring that college campuses allow how ancient ideas of happiness intersect with modern narratives for a variety of viewpoints.Through his work with Uncomfortable in Nepal, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Canada through fieldwork Learning, Wood found himself at the center of numerous campus and cross cultural analysis. The talk will begin with her short controversies, many of which have turned into national news documentary titled, The Happiness Capacity, where she begins stories. When he invited former National Review columnist to explain how ancient philosophy can be adapted to modern life John Derbyshire to speak, Wood found himself accused of and how many people around the world are philosophizing every racism by his fellow classmates and the event was canceled by day to create unique, equitable, and long lasting happiness. the administration. In the aftermath, there was extensive press Hailey Hart-Thompson is a junior at Boston coverage of Wood and his work with Uncomfortable Learning, University pursuing an Independent Major including features in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington (Anthropology, Classics, and English) with a Post, Time, and The Huffington Post. This brought widespread Dual Degree in Film & TV. Her freshman year, attention to the issue of campus censorship and cemented she received the Humanities Scholars Award Wood’s conviction that engaging with an opposing perspective is to analyze ancient texts and conduct field on a catalyst for truly meaningful education.Now, Wood is taking his Aristotle’s eudaimonic happiness in modern message beyond his college campus, and is sharing the details capacities. Her sophomore year research of his own personal story and how his own experiences inspired focuses on the family structure of a home for displaced children him to be a crusader for open dialogue and free speech. His in Rishikesh, India and her most recent research is on displaced memoir, Uncensored, tells the story of his troubled upbringing, families in Beirut, Lebanon. She is currently the program from a difficult early childhood filled with pain, uncertainty, and manager for Innovate@BU’s First Year Innovation Fellowship and conflict to the struggles of code-switching between his home in is developing a media and leadership collective for BU’s Initiative a rough neighborhood and his elite private school. Arguing for for Interdisciplinary Approaches on Forced Displacement. She a new way of interacting with each other in this deeply polarized just received the Provost Scholars Award for innovative research society, Wood has cemented his position as a deeply necessary and plans to spend the next year working with students across voice—not just at Williams College, but for his generation. Wood various disciplines to address issues of forced displacement. was a former Robert L. Bentley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal, and graduated from Williams in the spring of 2018 as a Herbert H. Lehman Scholar with a degree in political science. He currently works as an Assistant Opinion Editor of The Guardian.

4 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 The Great Necks Guitar Trio Don’t Touch My Phone: WITH SCOTT BORG, ADAM LEVIN, MATTHEW ROHDE BALANCING SCREEN TIME FOR Saturday, February 15, 2020 • 7:30-9:00 pm 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL KIDS Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library WITH DR. SHARON SALINE 33 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA • $30 • SGNG Wednesday, February 26, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm The Great Necks Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $15 • SADHD Guitar Trio has Overwhelmed by technology? enchanted Struggling to help your family, your audiences across students or your clients set limits the US with that actually work? In this talk, its whimsical, Dr. Sharon Saline, veteran interactive, psychologist and author of “What and daring your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: performances. Working Together to Empower Founded by Kids for Success in School and guitarists Scott Borg, Adam Levin, and Matthew Rohde, the Life,” talks about raising children trio, through its original madcap arrangements, stretches at the and teens who are out-of-the-box conventions—and at times, the physical limits—of the guitar. thinkers in today’s digital world with “These guys aren’t afraid to shake things up and take chances,” less arguing and more cooperation. writes Classical Guitar Magazine. The trio’s debut album, Original She shares the latest research about the effect of social media Arrangements for Three Guitars, released in November 2018 on and screens on kids’ developing brains, peer relationships the Frameworks/Sony label, reached the top 10 in the Traditional and risky behaviors--especially those with ADHD and LD. Classical Billboard charts. Praised as “supremely satisfying and Incorporating the voices of kids themselves and their habits and original” (Classical Guitar Magazine), the album is an exuberant use of screens, Dr. Saline shows you how to create consistent romp through several centuries of orchestral and keyboard screen policies using meaningful incentives that promote safety, repertoire. In Borg’s “audacious” (Boston Music Intelligencer) communication and cooperation. You will learn how to set up arrangement of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Rohde’s “engrossing” balanced relationships to electronic devices and social media (The Whole Note) arrangement of Márquez’ Danzón no. 2, and help people reconnect with each other. the trio telescopes the panoply of timbres, colors, and sounds Sharon Saline, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist with more heard in the orchestra through the keyhole of the guitar — that than 30 years’ experience, is a top expert on ADHD, anxiety, instrument once famously described by the late Andrés Segovia learning differences and mental health challenges and their as “an orchestra in miniature.” In Scriabin’s Preludes, op. 11; impact on school and family dynamics. Her unique perspective, a Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy, Toccata “Dorian,” and Nun Komm, sibling of a child who wrestled with untreated ADHD, combined Der Heiden Heiland, and Villa-Lobos’ Alma Brasileira, the trio with decades of academic excellence and clinical experience, splashes new colors and carves new contours into works until assists her in guiding families as they navigate from the confusing now typically only known on the keyboard. In Albéniz’ Asturias, maze of diagnosis and conflict to successful interventions and trio pays homage to—and “exploits every guitar trick” (BMI) connections. Dr. Saline is a member of ADDitude Magazine’s to reinvent—one of the most familiar mainstays of the classical ADHD Specialist Panel. Dr. Saline is a graduate of Brown guitar repertoire. University, she received her master’s degree in psychology from As soloists, educators, and composers, Scott Borg, Adam Levin, New College of California and her doctorate in psychology from and Matthew Rohde have distinguished careers of their own, the California School of Professional Psychology. She lives with marked by regular festival and concert appearances across her family in Northampton, MA. five continents and a growing solo discography on the Naxos and Odradek labels. Adam Levin has been praised by the Washington Post for his “visceral and imaginative performances.” Of Scott Borg’s Carnegie Hall debut, New York Concert Review wrote: “each note was purposeful and focused.” A composer, Matthew Rohde recently completed the score to the “beautifully executed” (L.A. Times) 2018 HBO documentary It Will Be Chaos. Together, Borg, Levin, and Rohde also co-founded Kithara Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote widespread and equitable access to the classical guitar worldwide, particularly in the US and Latin America. The organization actively oversees classical guitar programs for at-risk youth in Boston, Albuquerque, and Mexico City.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 5 A Performance of Scandinavian Toxic Inequality: How America's and Northern European Song Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, WITH NORTHBOUND Deepens the Racial Divide, and Sunday, March 1, 2020 • 4:00-5:30 pm Follen Church Society, 755 Mass Ave, Lexington • $15 • SNBD Threatens Our Future Join us for a delightful WITH THOMAS M. SHAPIRO afternoon of music with Thursday, March 5, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm a Scandinavian-American Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • STOX twist! Northbound serves Since the Great Recession, most up an enlivening and Americans’ standard of living has playful mix of folk tunes, stagnated or declined. Economic insight into traditional inequality is at historic highs. But and contemporary inequality’s impact differs by race; African Scandinavian styles, and Americans’ net wealth is just a tenth that a dash of innovation with new arrangements and a colorful blend of white Americans, and over recent of languages and harmonies. decades, white families have accumulated Northbound is group of five singers (Megina Baker, Maria wealth at three times the rate of black Ericsson, Karin Holst, Annette Kövamees and Sonja Schmidt) families. In our increasingly diverse nation, and two instrumentalists (Earl Gingras and Ken Lundberg) sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, from the Boston area with Scandinavian roots. Their music and wealth disparities must be understood performances are defined by a love of Nordic vocal music, long in tandem with racial inequities—a dangerous combination time friendship, humor, and many years of performing traditional he terms “toxic inequality.” In his book Toxic Inequality, and contemporary vocal music together. Shapiro reveals how these forces combine to trap families in place. Following nearly two hundred families of different races and income levels over a period of twelve years, Shapiro’s research vividly documents the recession’s toll on parents and GIVE THE GIFT OF LEARNING! children, the ways families use assets to manage crises and Whether it be for a specific class or event, or a general create opportunities, and the real reasons some families build certificate for a program of the recipient’s choice, the wealth while others struggle in poverty. The structure of our experience of learning is always a smart gift. LCE Gift neighborhoods, workplaces, and tax code-much more than certificates do not expire and can be applied to any and individual choices-push some forward and hold others back. A all of our offerings, year round. Call 781-862-8043, or lack of assets, far more common in families of color, can often email [email protected] for more information. ruin parents’ careful plans for themselves and their children. Toxic inequality may seem inexorable, but it is not inevitable. America’s growing wealth gap and its yawning racial divide have been forged by history and preserved by policy, and only bold, race- conscious reforms can move us toward a more just society. Thomas M. Shapiro is the Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University, where he directs the Institute on Assets and Social Policy. The author of four books, including The Hidden Cost of Being African American and, with Melvin Oliver, Black Wealth/White Wealth, he lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

6 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Zen on the Trail: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS PRESENTS: HIKING AS PILGRIMAGE Making Connections: WITH CHRISTOPHER IVES Public Art and Community Thursday, March 19, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm WITH ANN HIRSCH Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SZEN Monday, March 16, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm Zen on the Trail draws on the Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SANN Christopher Ives’s expertise in Zen, Cambridge/Somerville-based global pilgrimage traditions, and artist Ann Hirsch has completed backpacking to offer an approach commissions in bronze and stone to hiking—and, more generally, all across the U.S. She is recognized forms of walking in nature—as a form for her Bill Russell Legacy Project of pilgrimage, as a spiritual practice at Boston City Hall Plaza, a public that can deepen one’s connection to artwork that is part sculpture nature, both in the woods and back at and part interactive playground. home. The book is organized around The artwork embodies a unique a two-day backpacking trip in the approach to sculpture in bronze White Mountains, and it draws from by going beyond the traditional anthropologist Victor Turner’s theory statue with interactive site design of pilgrimage as consisting of three stages: separation from and the incorporation of community ordinary social life, liminality, and return to society. In addition to engagement into design and fabrication. Other commissions describing Buddhist contemplative practices on the trail and an include large wall sculptures for the east entry to Patriot array of pilgrimage traditions around the world, Zen on the Trail Plaza at Sarasota National Cemetery and many site-specific highlights lessons that can be brought home from the trail and monuments in bronze including a sculpture of the first female offers reflections on pilgrimage in a broad sense. In particular, it CEO in the US, Anna Bissell. In 2018, Ann was shortlisted for describes how one can wake up in nature as nature. The book the first monument to real women in New York’s Central Park. has attracted the attention of not only those who venture out into In addition to permanent public work, Ann is engaged in social nature but those who are interested in meditation, pilgrimage, practice initiatives with local communities. As a 2016-2017 Boston sacred mountains, Asian approaches to nature, and simpler, Artist-in-Residence, she worked on a 10-month project with the more mindful ways of living. In his talk Ives will discuss how he Vine Street Community Center in Roxbury. As partner in the came to write the book, connections between backpacking multidisciplinary collaborative A+J Art+Design, she co-created and pilgrimage, a way of hiking that is colored by Zen, bringing the floating installationSOS (Safety Orange Swimmers) which lessons from the trail back home, and living life itself as a was awarded 2017 Outstanding Project of the Year by Americans pilgrimage. for the Arts. The kinetic sculpture group was commissioned as Christopher Ives is Professor a Featured Project for ArtPrize9 in Grand Rapids, MI in 2017 of Religious Studies at Stonehill and by Waterfront Toronto in 2019. With A+J Art+Design, Ann College. In his scholarship he completed a permanent public artwork in bronze for Boston’s focuses on ethics in Zen Buddhism, oldest public square, North Square, in September 2019. North and currently he is working on Square Stories is the pilot project for Boston’s new Percent for Buddhist approaches to nature Art program. This addition to Boston’s landscape of public art in and environmental issues. His bronze is exceptional for the extraordinary degree of community publications include Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage; involvement it has entailed. Ann teaches at Rhode Island School “Resources for Buddhist Environmental Ethics” (Journal of of Design and is a graduate of Barnard College, New York Buddhist Ethics); Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique University G.S.A.S. and the New York Academy of Art. and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics; Zen Awakening and Society; a translation of philosopher Nishida Kitaro’s An Inquiry into the Good (co-translated with Abe Masao, 1990); a translation About COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS of Hisamatsu Shin’ichi’s Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition; Lexington Community Education is partnering with the Lexington The Emptying God (co-edited with John B. Cobb, Jr.); and Divine School Committee, the Lexington School Administration, and Emptiness and Historical Fullness (edited volume). He has also the Lexington High School Staff and Students to present a published numerous book chapters and articles in the Journal speaker/teaching series called Community Connections. The series welcomes leading figures across disciplines to spend a of Buddhist Ethics, the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, class period during the school day speaking with Lexington the Eastern Buddhist, and elsewhere. He is also on the editorial Public School students, and then presenting a public talk to the board of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and on the steering larger Lexington community during the evening. The series aims to directly involve and further inspire high school students to take committee of the Religion and Ecology Group of the American initiative, inquire, and widen their perspective about positive Academy of Religion. change making possibilities.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 7 Creating Community

NEW Making a Difference for Those with Dementia Instructor: Carla Koehl Do you have a loved one who is living with dementia–or who is providing care for someone with dementia? If you’ve wanted to learn more about what dementia is, and how to have successful interactions with those you encounter who live with dementia, this one-hour informational session will provide helpful information. You will leave with a new understanding of how to help reduce the stigma of dementia, and how to better engage with those living with the condition. PDEM, 1 Tuesday, 10:00-11:00 am. Meets February 11, LCE, Large Conference Room, 146 Maple St, Access via 328 Lowell St. Free, but pre-registration is required. Lex Eat Together, this page. Lex Eat Together Lex Eat Together is a nonprofit, volunteer- NEW The Suburban Drug Problem is an attractive target for residential burglaries. Come join Detective Aidan led organization serving a free, nutritious Instructor: Officers from the Lexington Evelyn, Community Resource Officer dinner every Wednesday in the heart of Police Department Lexington for anyone in need of food or from the Lexington Police Department Drugs continue to be a problem that companionship. Begun in October 2015 for a discussion addressing this type of transcends race, economic class and and modeled on successful programs in crime prevention. The course will focus on community boundaries. Drugs are not nearby towns, Lex Eat Together provides home security systems, target hardening only limited to urban centers but are also a healthy, well-balanced meal to all who through environmental design and other readily available in the suburbs. Affluent come to join us. To learn more, sign up methods to make your home a hardened communities such as Lexington are to volunteer, or make a donation, please target for would be criminals. not immune to this problem. Detective visit our website at lexeattogether.org, James Rettman of the Lexington Police FCRIME, 1 Thursday, 6:30-8:00 pm. Meets “Like” their page at Facebook.com/ Department and the Suburban Middlesex March 12, Lexington High School, Room LexEatTogether or email lexeattogether@ County Drug Task Force will discuss drugs 226. Free, but pre-registration is required. gmail.com. that are most commonly used by youth in OWLL (Older, Wiser, Lifelong Home Alone the area. The course will also discuss early warning signs for parents to watch for if Learners) Instructor: Officers of the Lexington Police they suspect their child is using illicit drugs. The OWLL program presents courses and Fire Departments FNAR, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. Meets at the LR&CP (39 Marrett Rd.) on a wide Help your child feel safer and more February 11, Lexington High School, variety of subjects throughout the year. secure when home alone or with siblings, Room 226. Free, but pre-registration is Winter registration begins on December and teach them smart telephone and required. 2, with classes starting in January. Three doorbell answering strategies. This class courses will be offered in the winter: one is designed for children ages 9 and Simple Ways to on Chopin, one on Ornithology, and one older. Younger children may attend with Protect Your Home on Abilities and Disabilities in the Digital an accompanying adult. Instructors are Age. Online registration also begins officers from the Lexington Police and Instructor: Officers of the Lexington December 2. Lexington residents fee is Fire Departments. Class size is limited so Police Department $25 per course, and nonresidents pay $50 please register early. The Town of Lexington has a current per course. population of approximately 33,000 K009, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 pm. Meets For more information, go to OWLL’s people living in about 11,000 residences. March 3, Lexington High School, Room website: https://friendsofthecoa.org/ Due to its affluent status and location 221. Free, but space is limited and pre- owll.asp. Or email owll.fcoa@gmail. within the Greater Boston Area with registration is required. com, or call 781-698-4800. easy access to Routes 2 and 128, it

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Voices on the Green at First Parish in Lexington Winter Classes at LexMedia All classes at LexMedia are free and available to people who live, work or attend A program of speakers and live music school in Lexington. For more information contact: [email protected]. To sign up with themes that vary with each show. for a class go to www.lexmedia.org and click the “Classes” button. Voices on the Green is an ongoing series of programs on topics of wide community interest, created by First Parish in Lexington. Each event includes a 15-minute talk by an expert on the topic; 4 - 6 storytellers with MOTH-style personal stories about the impact of the IN THE LEXMEDIA topic in their personal lives; and live music STUDIO SPACE. performances related to the theme. Doors open at 6:30 pm for refreshments and conversation. Friday, February 7, 2020, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. First Parish in Lexington, 7 Harrington Road. All are welcome. Suggested donation: $10 LexMedia Orientation Intro to Editing Part 1 with Final (Sponsor: $20; Student: $5). For further This is the prerequisite to all other Cut Pro X or Premiere Pro CC information, contact David Rose at classes. New members are introduced Ever wanted to edit a movie, a [email protected]. Tickets in advance at to everything they need to know to get documentary, a road race or soccer VoicesOnTheGreen.BrownPaperTickets.com started. game? It’s not as hard as you think. This intro class covers how to get started, 7:00 pm on Jan 7, Feb 4, March 3. THE CARY LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS This class will be held on other dates with tips on avoiding the common problems that derail the newcomer. “Can’t Help Myself: Lessons as needed. & Confessions from a Modern 7:00 pm on Jan 16, 22, Feb 5, Field Production 1 March 4, 19. Advice Columnist” with This class gives members a solid Meredith Goldstein understanding of how to set up and Intro to Editing Part 2 with Final Meredith Goldstein has written The operate our tripods and Sony PXW-X70 Cut Pro X or Premiere Pro CC Boston Globe's advice column, Love camcorders. With an emphasis on Moving past the basics we get into Letters, for over a decade and also esthetics and framing and capturing working with sound, graphics and hosts the Love Letters podcast. She's the best video signal possible. This is a advanced tools. encountered thousands of people's hands-on class. love problems. What has she learned 7:00 pm on Jan 23, Feb 12, 7:20 pm on Jan 7, Feb 4, March 3. about relationships? How do modern March 11, 26. letters compare to the ones Ann Field Production 2 Landers received years ago? How Intro to Podcasting Participants continue to learn the basic does one become an advice columnist Podcasting is a rising form of technical skills of field production with to begin with? Meredith will talk about entertainment and communications. the focus now on lighting and capturing her work and explain why advice It can be fun and light or deep and great sound. At the completion of this columns will forever be popular. She's heavy and everything in-between. class members can sign out our portable written a memoir, Can't Help Myself: This one hour class will give you an gear and start producing programming Lessons & Confessions from a Modern understanding of the possibilities of immediately. Advice Columnist, and two novels: podcasting at LexMedia. We have a fully Chemistry Lessons, for young adults, 7:00 pm on Jan 14, Feb 11, March 10. equipped studio that can accommodate and The Singles, about a group of up to four people. Come prepared to dateless guests at a wedding. Studio Production talk about your ideas. Saturday, March 21, 2020, 8:00 Learn to run studio cameras and to Jan 9, 21, Feb 6, 13, March 5, 18. pm. Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts direct a multi-camera TV show. These Avenue, Lexington. Cary Lectures classes are held when we have studio Edit Your Podcast are free to all and tickets are not productions scheduled. Call LexMedia Learn our powerful yet easy to use required. Arrive early for the best at 781-862-5388 for Studio Production software “Hindenburg Journalist Pro” seat! For more info visit: http:// class updates. and take your podcast to the next level. carylectureseries.org/ 7:00 pm on Jan 27, 29, Feb 25, 26, March 25.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 9 Humanities

Each term our humanities section NEW George Eliot’s Middlemarch offers classes that aim to heighten our Instructor: Tracy Marks understanding of the human experience Following the 200th anniversary of George and honor the idea and ideals of a liberal Eliot’s birth, we will read and discuss arts education. her most famous novel, Middlemarch, admired by Virginia Woolf as “one of the Fashions of a Fledgling Nation few English novels written for grown-up Instructor: Nancy McCarthy people.” An engaging character study This is fashion history 101 for the and exploration of 19th century society, American context. Early American history Middlemarch will introduce us to the is omnipresent in our state and region - idealistic Dorothea Brooke, the narrow- historic houses, monuments, and markers minded scholar/clergyman Casaubon, and are set off by annual reenactments and the reformist doctor/artist Will Ladislaw, the steady flow of tourists. Fashion history who gain or fail to gain self-knowledge is another piece of that puzzle. Learn through conflict. Class sessions will involve about women’s fashion from the founding mini-lectures, discussion and film clips of the nation up to the end of the civil war. from the BBC mini-series. Students should Discover the changing shapes of fashion, expect to read about 90 pages a week. and the undergarments that supported Please read the first eight chapters before them. This basic knowledge can enrich the first class. our understanding of the lives of the early HMAC, 8 Fridays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins Americans. Clothing can say a surprising January 17, LCE Large Conference Room, amount about its wearers and their time. Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter It affects how the wearer moves and through the blue side door of the Old Srinivas Reddy teaches The Bhagavad Gita: Karma, lives. Clothes might not be the key to all Harrington school. $155 /Seniors $120. Dharma, Bhakti & Moksha, see below. understanding, but they’re a great place to start! Introduction to Buddhism NEW The Bhagavad Gita: Karma, AFASH, 1 Friday, 6:30-8:30 pm. Meets Instructor: Srinivas Reddy Dharma, Bhakti & Moksha January 24, Lexington High School, Room Introduction to Buddhism explores the Instructor: Srinivas Reddy 220, $25/Seniors $20. origin, philosophy and broader cultural The Bhagavad Gita or Song of God milieu of early Buddhism as it developed is a spiritual classic of ancient Indian in India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. AN INTRO TO philosophy. The Sanskrit text consisting ZEN MEDITATION Specific attention will be given to the life of eighteen chapters ranges over a wide p. 35 of the Buddha and the embodiment of array of religious doctrines, metaphysical core Buddhist principles such as non- concepts and devotional practices. Part self, mindfulness, and nirvana. Concepts 1 of the course begins by providing Queer Victorians including the Four Noble Truths, the historical/cultural context for the text and Instructor: Nancy McCarthy Eight-fold Path, karma and dharma will be its production. In particular we will explore discussed in a comparative manner. Our The Victorian era was the heyday of the central concepts of karma (action), second class will examine the expansive gender roles and social conformity, right? dharma (duty) and ātma (soul/self). Part 2 spread of Buddhism into Tibet, East Perhaps, perhaps not - but in either of the course builds on Part 1 and delves Asia and the West. Attention will be case, the social order is not complete into the development of bhakti traditions given to the development of Mahayana without rule breakers! Come get to know (devotion). We will also focus on the thought, particularly the Bodhisattva a sample of LGBT Victorians who bent seminal concept of moksha (liberation) ideal and its diverse cultural expressions. the rules of their society, and discuss the as it is understood in Indian religious Concepts such as impermanence and difficulties (and rewards) of searching for traditions. By reading and analyzing co-dependent origination will be covered queer history. important verses in English translation, by reading masters like Nagarjuna and HVIC, 1 Friday, 6:30-8:30 pm. Meets the course will proceed in an interactive, Shantideva. Contemporary practices discussion-based modality. By reading January 17, Lexington High School, Room and Buddhism’s spread to America will 220, $25/Seniors $20. and analyzing important verses in English also be discussed. Textual excerpts from translation, the course will proceed in an Buddhist sutra literature in Pali as well interactive, discussion-based modality. All as various Mahayana Buddhist texts will are welcome. contextualize interactive class discussions. BEETHOVEN AT THE PIANO HGTA, 2 Mondays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins with Richard Knisely, facing page HITB, 2 Mondays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins February 3, Lexington High School, Room March 9, Lexington High School, Room 226, $40/Seniors $30. 232, $40/Seniors $30.

10 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Music Music Performance/ Appreciation Theatre Arts

NEW Beethoven at the Piano created his Opera Buffa masterpiece. The Private Music Instrument Lessons typical ploy of the older man desiring Instructor: Richard Knisely for Every Age and Level the younger woman is full of bubbling Beethoven’s piano sonatas were his LCE provides excellent, music and comic episodes along with laboratory. In them he developed daring convenient, and reasonably a moment of sentimentality when the new forms and ideas that shaped his priced individual music comedy has gone too far. “Agrippina” is later work in symphonies and chamber lessons with highly qualified Handel’s first great operatic masterpiece. music. He created new forms and sounds professional musician it is an “anti-heroic satirical comedy” that startled his audiences and have kept teachers for all interested students and involving Agrippina’s attempts to get listeners mesmerized ever since. This class adults. The following instruments are her son Nerone to succeed Claudius will survey these visionary works and how available for individual study: Baritone as Roman Emperor. The arias are as they map the development of his unique Horn (Euphonium), Bass, Bassoon, beautiful as ever. Wagner’s first important genius. An elementary ability to read Cello, Clarinet, Electric and Acoustic opera, “The Flying Dutchman” is based music will be helpful. Guitar, Flute, French Horn, Guitar, on the legend of the ghost ship and the HBAP, 9 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Oboe, Percussion (Drums/xylophone), captain who swore an oath that he would Saxophone, Sitar, Trombone, Trumpet, Begins January 22, Lexington High round the Cape of Good Hope in the School, Room 240, $135/Seniors $115. Tuba, Ukulele, Upright Bass, Violin or face of a violent storm. With music truly Viola, and Voice. Lessons are held in suggestive of stormy waters, Wagner NEW Winter Opera Preview the afternoon and evening at Lexington equates this with the turbulent passions High School. Each semester contains Instructor: David Collins of the main characters, creating a riveting approximately 16 lessons. Students must What a variety of opera there is for us psychological drama. We close the class arrange convenient weekly lesson times this Winter! From Handel to Gershwin, with Rossini’s first opera for Naples, with the instructor. The length of lessons with Rossini, Donizetti and Wagner, our “Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra”. Using per week can be: 30 minute, 45 minute, or class, using audio and video selections, the form of Opera Seria (serious opera) 60 minutes. To register: Call the LCE office will be able to prepare for and enjoy including the use of a trouser role (female and we will put you in touch with our great opera thanks to the Metropolitan taking the part of a male), Rossini expands music teaching staff. Saturday morning Opera’s HD showings and live stagings in the musical palette with a fuller orchestra lessons are also available. Boston. Gershwin’s great American Opera and the use of 2 lead tenors. Of course, For info about LCE Music teaching “Porgy and Bess” begins our class. With historical accuracy is not to be expected. staff, please visit: https:// his classical background and Broadway Class will meet January 28, February 4, lexingtoncommunityed.org/music- expertise, Gershwin created the most February 25, March 3 and March 10. instrument-lessons/ popular American Opera for which the HOPE, 5 Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Begins MET is mounting a brand new production. January 28, Lexington High School, Room Instrumental Camerata for Adults With “Don Pasquale”, Gaetano Donizetti 240, $140/Seniors/$110. Instructor: James Alers This class is designed for adults with a wide range of skills who are interested in playing chamber music together. We will explore different pieces from the classical repertoire, and address both the technical and musical components of ensemble playing. Whether you are a beginner or someone who has taken an extended break from playing but would like to resume (and need a motivational program to help!), this is sure to be a rewarding experience. The class is open to violinists, violists, cellists, bassists, oboist, flutists, and bassoonists who are comfortable with basic note-reading, and are playing at a “late beginner” level or higher. Please contact instructor with any questions or concerns regarding playing ability. Depending on the interest of the group, the last class can end with a performance for family and friends. MSTE, 8 Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. Begins January 13, Lexington High School, Room 240, $209/Seniors $159. Great Necks Guitar Trio, p. 5

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 11 Beginning Cello for Adults NEW Beginning Guitar Guitar Rock Band Sessions Instructor: Robert Rivera Instructor: Staff from Go Go Allegro Instructor: Robert Butler If you’ve never picked up a cello before Music School Trained at Berklee College of Music, and you wished to, or if you had picked This exciting beginners guitar course teacher performer Robert Butler has it up and wanted a refresher, Beginning will introduce students to fundamental developed this six week guitar workshop Cello for Adults is for you. We’ll be technique and knowledge of the focusing on the iconic melodies, riffs working out of Suzuki Book 1 for cello. instrument, general musicianship and and driving rhythms that have been the We’ll be going through material the same introductory level pieces of music. These foundation of Rock music from the 1950’s way an orchestral section goes through classes will expose students to different to the present. Students of all levels a musical part. A fun and enjoyable way styles of music and the cultures that have will be guided in a relaxed yet efficient to play the cello with others! No audition influenced multiple musical genres. Please approach to the wide variety of guitar required. You just have to have a cello, a bring a guitar with you to class, other techniques so essential in playing Rock music stand, and Suzuki Book 1 at each materials will be provided. chord progressions, bassline riffs and class. On a rotating schedule, each class MBGU, 6 Mondays, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. exciting improvised lead guitar solos member should plan to bring a little snack Begins January 27, LCE Large Conference that shape this powerful and historic to share during the break. Nothing fancy Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and music style. Each session begins with a - cookies, fruit, cake, or any kind of non enter through the blue side door of the 30 minute live classroom demonstration. alcoholic beverage. Old Harrington school. $160. All will receive individual instruction MCLO, 6 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. with Mr. Butler addressing your specific Begins January 22, Lexington High Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop questions and musical goals. Everyone, School, Room 143, $100/Seniors $85. for Intermediate & Advanced regardless of proficiency, is welcome Students to participate in class ensemble/ jams Beginning Hand Drumming playing a part that matches your ability Instructor: Staff from Go Go Allegro Instructor: Alan Tauber and skill level. Students are encouraged Music School to bring to class recordings of their For thousands of years the drum has Study and learn the approach to fingerstyle favorite Rock artists which will be used provided people with a powerful basic guitar! Folk, Jazz, Blues and even Classical to demonstrate and explain technique, tool to communicate, express themselves, players use this right hand technique to composition and practical applied theory. form community and profoundly integrate make a single guitar sound like a full band You need not be able to read classical the senses. This course will give you all the or orchestra. We will study how to apply notation to benefit from this series of tools you'll need to really enjoy yourself this wonderful style of playing guitar to informative sessions. Whether you are a playing your drum. Our introduction to many different musical situations. Please beginner or an experienced player, you the rhythms of Brazil, Cuba, Guinea, Haiti, bring guitar with you to class. will achieve success as a guitarist with Mr. Mali, Senegal and Trinidad will allow us MGUI, 6 Mondays, 10:30 am - 11:30 am. Butler’s Guitar Rock Band Sessions. Also to experience the healing power of the Begins January 27, LCE Large Conference included: How to choose and set up your drum and express our own voice. As you Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and instrument , amplification and electronic unleash your natural musical ability, you enter through the blue side door of the effects devices to achieve the sounds can experience joyous, ecstatic states of Old Harrington school. $160. heard on recordings by The Ventures, mind. Plan on having a fun time learning Hendrix, Santana, Dire Straits, Van Halen the traditional rhythm for the djembe, and many more. Each student should conga and ashiko drums. You can learn have an acoustic or electric guitar or bass, to play simply for your own enjoyment, portable amp and a notebook. Optional or to play with other musicians. You are but recommended, a phone or other welcome to bring your own drum or rent device for recording class instruction. Mr. from the instructor by calling 781-316- Butler will supply all music charts, lead 8068. A $5 materials fee, payable to sheets and texts. the instructor, will cover the cost of the workbook and all written materials. MRGW, 6 Thursdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Begins January 16, Lexington High School, Room DRUM, 6 Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins 247, $155/Seniors $130. February 11, Lexington High School, Room 173, $100/Seniors $85.

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Speak the Speech: Whether it originates from memory or How to Give Your Own Ted Talk fantasy, takes shape as poetry or prose, Instructor: Poornima Kirby our expert writing staff will help you get Do you have exciting and important things your word out. to say, but aren’t sure how to say them? NEW Are you a little rusty at speaking in public? Introduction to Fiction Taught by a professional actress and writer, Writing this relaxed and welcoming course will Instructor: Karen Day provide a laboratory in which to dust off In this workshop we will focus on the art your inspired notions and give them voice. Poornima Kirby teaches Poetry Out Loud, see below. of fiction writing – how to begin, how to We’ll explore the structure of famous structure your work and what makes a speeches by everyone from Shakespeare Poetry Out Loud good story. Each week we will focus on to Martin Luther King, as well as a variety a different craft element such as finding Instructor: Poornima Kirby of TED Talks. We’ll talk about what makes your voice, developing characters and a good topic, how to present it with your Do poems and song-lyrics rattle around in drafting a plot. Students can expect in- unique perspective and personal brand of your head? Do you lose your keys and think class writing, sharing work, as well as peer humor, and we’ll learn simple memorization “the art of losing is not hard to master,” and teacher feedback. This workshop will and performance tools that can help your (Elizabeth Bishop) or face a hard day by also feature weekly writing assignments words and ideas shine. telling yourself to “screw your courage to to be completed outside of class. By the the sticking place?” (Shakespeare) Poetry HTDT, 1 Thursday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets end of the workshop, students will have can be a talisman, a war-cry, an invitation Thursday, March 5th, Lexington High a greater knowledge of what makes a to beauty, jokes, or justice. But learning a School, Room 229, $40/Seniors $30. strong piece of fiction and leave with the poem by heart, and saying it out loud— beginnings of their own stories. This class NEW Public Speaking with that’s ownership that we often don’t take. is open to all levels. This class is your chance! Whether you’re Confidence WFWW, 6 Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00 pm. a literary nerd or a poetry-phobe, you’ll Begins January 29, Lexington High Instructor: Lau Lapides be welcomed into an exploration of some School, Room 226, $180. Are you making the impression you really great poems, and learn powerful, want to be making? Need to polish your active techniques for committing them to speaking skills for work? Want to eliminate memory. We’ll watch and discuss video fears and anxieties of speaking? From clips of poetry delivered out loud; we’ll GEORGE ELIOT'S MIDDLEMARCH the moment you enter a room in literally read and discuss poems of different eras, with Tracy Marks, p. 10 seconds you make your impression...your and different structures and cadences. smile, your voice, your first few words, Each student will also get to pick out a your style, your energy, your initial eye favorite poem or excerpt, work on it, and NEW Phrasing and Grammar contact--all of these ingredients create deliver it to the group. This class is a great for Writers the successful chemistry to "command way to sharpen memorization techniques Instructor: John Chamberlain presence!" In this dynamic, fast-paced and public-speaking skills—but most of all Learn about how the English language exciting workshop you will strengthen it’s a chance to explore language in a fun has a marvelous capacity for phrasing as and polish your speaking style by and informal setting! we see examples and express ourselves. utilizing tools and techniques to help HPOI, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets We will study seven phrase patterns you engage your audience and polish March 11, LHS, Room 229, $40/Seniors $30. (preposition, verb, past and present your presentation. Build self-confidence participle, gerund, infinitive, appositive, while learning how to organize and Make A Joyful Noise absolute or "zoom," and several deliver interesting and relevant content Chorus for Adults important sentence patterns involving to your audience. Polish your articulation Instructor: GoGo Allegro School of clauses. Sentence combining will be used neutralize local accent/dialect, and Music Staff to show how writers dynamically arrange work on breathing techniques. Develop ideas in greater complexity on the fly. storytelling techniques that work and Learn to hold your own in a choral We will also get to know the "questions engage your audience! Come dressed in setting! We will help develop your ears answered" approach to grammar, which comfortable clothing, bring a notebook for music so you can confidently sing your reveals how modifiers answer a number of and water. No prior speaking experience part whether it is harmony or melody. basic questions as writers elaborate basic necessary! Experience is helpful but not required. We will explore beginner to intermediate statements. You will gain confidence in HPSC, 1 Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets choral repertoire together. Come make a staring down any sentence grammatically. February 6, Lexington High School, Room joyful noise! WP&G, 4 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. 225, $25/Seniors $20. MSING, 6 Mondays, 7:15 - 8:45 pm. Begins January 15, LHS, Room 224, $65/ Begins January 13, Lexington High Seniors $50. School, Room 173, $135. Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 13 NEW Mistakes to Avoid in workshop and brought for a critique by and precisely. Class examples will be from Self-Publishing other participants and the instructor, during poetry and fiction, but nonfiction writers which time techniques for better writing will also will benefit. Instructors: Mindy Pollack Fusi and Erin be explored. Bring (nine on Wednesdays/ McCormack WCRE, 4 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:45 pm. Begins seven on Fridays) copies of something you January 14, Lexington High School, Room Self-publishing is a classic Do It Yourself have written of a memoir nature—a journal 224, $85/Seniors $70. project. As with Tim the Tool Man on entry, a paragraph describing a relationship, “Tool Time,” accidents are bound to a letter recounting some memorable NEW Writing From Personal happen, especially on the first try. Like incident in your life—to the first meeting Experience Tim, the author who self publishes has of the workshop. The piece should be 750 Instructor: Tracy Marks fancy tools available, if needed, at a words or less. price: editing, formatting, cover design, Have you experienced memorable WMEM, 7 Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm. marketing. But if the goal is to have moments which you want to express in a Begins January 29, Lexington High control over your book, and to save poem or short work of creative nonfiction? School, Room 148, $170/Seniors $130. money, an author can go it alone, knowing In each class we will read and discuss that getting a book self-published can be W2MEM, 7 Fridays,12:15-1:45 pm. Begins exceptional examples from literature and done—no excuses, and no depending on January 31, LCE Conference Room, use writing prompts for in-class writing other’s acceptance or approval. Much of Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter exercises in whatever form you choose. the process of self-publishing has been through the blue side door of the Old Those who wish to share their writing may streamlined and made self-evident to Harrington school. $145/Seniors $110. do so, with constructive feedback. All anyone who uses computers on a regular levels of writers are welcome! Poetry Writing Workshop basis. But beware—there are any number WESS, 4 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:45 pm. Begins of black holes to disappear into, losing Instructor: Tom Daley February 25, Lexington High School, precious time and momentum. Knowing Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is Room 224, $85/Seniors $70. ahead of time some of the wrong steps the skeleton architecture of our lives. It can lead to a happy dance—and higher lays the foundation for a future of change, quality of product. Erin and Mindy will a bridge across our fears of what has WRITING CLASSES FOR KIDS AND TEENS share their happy stories, and horror never been before. – Audre Lourde p. 25 stories. This is not a how-to self publish Poetry writing, largely, is a solitary class; it is for those who know the basics endeavor. This workshop will provide the of self-publishing and want to learn a opportunity for poets, both beginning NEW The Way of Haiku notebook full of advanced tips. Class will and practiced, to share their work with Instructor: Brad Bennett be co-taught by Mindy Pollack Fusi and other poets in a collegial and supportive Erin McCormack. environment. We will concentrate on Haiku are short poems about WPUB, 2 Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 pm. Begins sharpening the impact of your poems small moments, originating February 6, Lexington High School, Room through careful consideration of their in Japan but now popular 221, $50. strengths and their limitations. Optional all over the globe. Haiku take-home writing exercises will give you connect us more deeply to the opportunity to explore the myriad the natural world and help us celebrate forms poetry can take. Bring 10 copies of the extraordinary in the ordinary. At this A LEXINGTON WRITER'S LIFE a recent poem (no more than two pages fun three-part workshop, you will learn with Brian David Burrell, p. 3 long) to the first session. about the history, form, and structure of haiku. We will read some winter haiku WPWW, 7 Wednesdays, 6:15-8:15 pm. by Japanese masters and contemporary Begins January 29, Lexington High Memoir Writing English-language poets and discuss what School, Room 148, $170/Seniors $130. Instructor: Tom Daley makes them effective. With the help of Memory is not an instrument for exploring NEW Descriptive Writing: writing prompts and exercises, you will write your own haiku. We’ll also save the past but its theatre. Writing from the Five Senses —Walter Benjamin time to share our poems in a supportive Instructor: Tracy Marks Whether you intend to share your written atmosphere. Haiku are so much more than remembrances with family and friends Do you want your writing to sparkle with counting syllables! or a broader audience, you will find this vivid sensory detail and imagery? To HHAI, 3 Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins a collegial and supportive workshop in generate metaphors and similes revealing January 30, Lexington High School, Room which optional weekly exercises will help multiple layers of meaning and construct 225, $45/Seniors $35. you to transform the rich material of your lyrical lines with rich alliteration evoking life into unique works of art, including sound as well as sight? Through mini- memoir pieces, personal essays and even lectures, discussion, in-class exercises, FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND DISSENTING OPINIONS the beginning of a book-length memoir. and workshopping of students’ writing with Zachary R. Wood, p. 4 All work will be written outside of the you will learn to write more descriptively

14 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Fine Arts, Fabric & Graphic Arts

In his book “The Art Spirit” American Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, Returning students are welcome. Painting painter Robert Henri writes, “To $165/Seniors $125. supplies for new students: approximately apprehend beauty is to work for it.” LCE $57, payable to the instructor at the first invites you to work, apprehend, enjoy and Basic Drawing class. ultimately add to the beauty of the world Instructor: Elena Belkova ACBP, 4 Mondays, 1:00-3:00 pm. Begins through our many art offerings. We will start with a discussion of the February 24, Lexington Community elements of design including line, shape, Education Large Conference Room, 146 Fundamentals of Drawing form, color, texture, value and proportion. Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, Instructor: Susan Dahl We will focus on perspective and how to $125/Seniors $95. It’s not necessary to travel to exotic places create the illusion of space and objects on or pick an unusual subject to create art paper. Each lesson starts with a quick 10 that is fresh and new. Through overcoming to 15 minutes of sketching the objects we INTRO TO FELT MAKING the visual prejudices we have developed see around us. We will work on skills to with Elizabeth Stubbs, p. 16 that make every day things seem invisible, have you drawing with more confidence exciting art can be created almost and will continue to investigate different anywhere, and inspired by almost any drawing techniques and topics. You Watercolor will practice in class and receive ideas subject. In this drawing class for beginning Instructor: Ivan Orlinsky and intermediate students, we will for continued practice between classes. This class is for both beginners and emphasize observation and description of Please bring the following materials to artists who have some experience with items that are present in our own homes class: an 18” x 24” Drawing Pad of White watercolor. We will begin with an overview and our neighborhood. We will consider paper (not newsprint), Pencil HB, Willow of the history of watercolor as a medium, issues including form and line, shading Charcoal sticks, and a kneaded eraser. successful watercolor painters from the and shadows, shape and proportion, A Materials fee of $10 is payable to the past and present and getting acquainted and composition and perspective. instructor at the first class. with the materials and supplies we will Students will receive individual attention ADRAW, 6 Mondays, 5:00-8:00 pm. be using. Our first exercise will be laying in a relaxed and friendly setting. A $7 Begins February 3, Lexington High a flat wash. In subsequent classes we setup fee payable to the instructor at the School, Room 166, $185/Seniors $140. will work on different techniques such first class. Supply list: 1 tablet drawing as wet on wet, value studies, layering, paper, about 8.5 inch x 11 inch; pencils of NEW A Late Winter Scene of mixing colors, what colors to include assorted hardness (between hb and 6b); 1 Hope: Chinese Brush Painting on your palate, and a brief overview of pencil sharpener, and an eraser. Instructor: Son-Mey Chiu the qualities of water color paint such AFOD, 8 Thursdays, 12:15-2:15 pm. There is so much beauty in late winter as transparent, semi -transparent and Begins January 30, Lexington Community even though we still have to brave its opaque. There will be a 20 minute warm Education Large Conference Room, 146 snow and ice. In this course, the instructor up exercise at the beginning of each class. will guide the Please bring the following materials to students to the first class: Paints: Cadmium yellow complete a late deep; Lemon yellow; Cobalt blue; French winter landscape Ultramarine blue; Cerulean blue; Prussian focusing on the blue; Cadmium red; Vermillion; Burnt crane, a Chinese Sienna; Yellow Ochre and Payne’s grey. symbol of hope Brushes: Bring what brushes you have; I and good recommend #8 #10 round and a one inch fortune. In these flat. Paper: Good quality watercolor pad; four lessons, 12” x16”. Palette: White china plate or students will also a butchers tray. Other supplies: Two or learn how to use three jars for holding water, Rags, paper Chinese brush towel, an HB pencil, kneaded eraser. methods to paint Please bring a photo of your choice as a rocks, hills, and reference to paint. early blooming AWATE, 4 Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins trees which form January 13, Lexington High School, Room the setting of 212, $90/Seniors $70. the painting.

Introduction to Acrylic Painting – Daytime with Donna Calleja, p. 16.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 15 Charcoal and Pastel Studio NEW Acrylic Landscape Painting – learn basic wet and needle techniques Instructor: Alma Bella Solis Daytime through weekly projects. Some work may occasionally need to be prepared or Using a combination of charcoal pencils Instructor: Donna Calleja completed at home. Additionally, we will and chalks, or dry pastel pencils and In four classes students will learn the look at the work of a few contemporary chalks, you will produce your own basics of working with acrylic paints felt artists. A materials fee of $30 is compositions interpreting subjects while creating an original landscape payable to the instructor at the first class. ranging from still life to human figures. painting. Class one will review color AFELT, 6 Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 pm. You’ll learn drawing methods including mixing, composition, underpainting and a Begins January 22, Lexington Lexington outline, contour, shading, blending, variety of styles used by landscape artists Community Education Large Conference detailing and connectedness and explore and students will begin their painting. Room, 146 Maple Street, Access by 328 perspective, proportion, and more. Class Class two will introduce a variety of paint Lowell Street, $135/Seniors $105. size limited to 7 students. Please see the application techniques and students will LCE website for a list of supplies to be begin to add detail and texture to their How to Make a Sculpture purchased prior to the first class. paintings. Students will complete their ACHR, 6 Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm. Begins paintings in class three and four. How Instructor: Paul Angiolillo January 14, Lexington High School, Room to prepare canvas and paper for future In this one-session class, you’ll learn 167, $135/Seniors $105. painting projects will be covered. Please how to create engaging and resilient visit the LCE website for class supply list. sculptures: how to settle on a design, ADLS, 4 Tuesdays, 9:30 - 11:30 am. Begins assemble objects and materials, and finish TEA: THE ELIXIR February 25, Lexington Community and display them–so they’re attractive OF THE EAST and long-lasting. You can bring in any p. 29 Education Large Conference Room, 146 Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, materials: an interesting piece of pottery, $88/Seniors $65. weathered wood, or other found objects, or engaging natural materials, such as Introduction to Acrylic Painting – NEW Art & Mindfulness seed pods or pieces of natural wood. Daytime Free-standing, wall hanging, mobile, and Instructor: Sue Dahl Instructor: Donna Calleja garden sculptures are all possible. We’ll Learn the basics of working with acrylic “Mindfulness”—to pay attention, on discuss your ideas, reveal many “tricks of paints while creating original artwork. purpose, in a particular way. It can both the trade,” and demonstrate basic tools For our first project we will learn basic enhance focus and promote relaxation. and equipment for working with 3-D techniques such as color mixing, Art-making is inherently mindful! Using art–so you’ll be able to create attractive composition, under painting and paint drawing, painting, and collage, students sculptures at your own pace and in your application techniques while creating a will review a new aspect of mindfulness own space. practice each week. This course offers landscape painting from a photograph. ASCU, 1 Saturday, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm. artists a unique opportunity to develop How to work in different painting styles and Meets February 8, Lexington High School, goals and increase motivation for their subjects will be explored while students Room 210, $40/Seniors $35. follow their personal interests in their artistic efforts. Beginning artists will be able to explore a variety of art techniques second painting project. The class will NEW Graphic Design and add to their portfolios; more combine teacher demonstration with work Instructor: Damian Barneschi time devoted to individual instruction. How experienced artists will discover new ways Graphic Design provides an introduction to prepare canvas and paper for painting to activate their creativity. All materials are to the fundamental principles of and using acrylic in mixed media work provided. A materials fee of $10 is payable typography, color theory, and layout as will also be covered. Supply List for class to the instructor at the first class. well as the theories behind effective visual - canvas or canvas board (size range from AMMA, 8 Mondays, 10:00 am-12:00 noon. messaging. Through the use of design 8 by 10 to 12 by 16 inches), Acrylic paint Begins January 27, Lexington Community software including Adobe Photoshop and in tubes (Basic colors – Titanium White, Education Conference Room, 146 Maple Illustrator, students will demonstrate an Yellow Hansa, Naphthol Red, Ultramarine Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, $155/ understanding of industry standards, while Blue, Burnt Sienna) or any set of yellow, Seniors $115. producing personal work that expresses blue, red, white and brown acrylic paints, their individual and creative voice. To see disposable palette paper, and acrylic artist NEW Introduction to Felt Making Damian Barneschi’s work, please visit his brushes (small round size 2 and 3 flats Instructor: Elizabeth Stubbs Instagram feed @dbarneschi in size range of 2, 4, 6), 5 by 7 inches (or Felt-making is an ancient art found in AGRA, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. larger) color photos of landscapes. many cultures. Although its origins were Begins January 15, Lexington High ADAC, 8 Thursdays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. more practical than artistic, the old School, Room 215, $175/Seniors $135. Begins January 23, Lexington Community techniques have evolved and new ones Education Large Conference Room, 146 have been invented, often straddling the Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, line between art and craft. Students will $175/Seniors $130.

16 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Quilting and Beyond Instructor: Cathy Berry Is there a quilt you would like to make? Do you have a project that you would like to finish? Have you ever seen a quilt that just strikes your fancy but you think it would be too difficult? Come join our class and learn the basics and beyond with all the company of fellow quilting and appliqué enthusiasts which will keep you going through the time consuming but creative and rewarding process of starting, making and finishing your own special quilt. Optional field trips to quilt and fabric shops will be discussed in class. Please see updated supply list on the LCE website. AQ&M, 6 Mondays, 6:30-9:00 pm. How to Make a Sculpture with Paul Angiolillo, facing page. Begins January 27 and meets February 3, February 10, March 2, March 9 and March Daytime Advanced Knitting AITM, 3 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins 16. Lexington High School, Room 143, Instructor: Kerry Keohane January 14, Karenna Maraj Jewelry $140/Seniors $100. Collection, 95 Trapelo Road, Belmont, Bring a new or working project for $125. NEW Weave A Set of “Mug Rugs” guidance and hand holding. Learn to knit (Coasters) on a Cricket Loom a gauge, a new technique, or to seam and Stone Carving Saturdays block your project. The instructor, who has Instructor: Beth Guertin been teaching knitting for fifteen years, is Instructor: Scott Cahaly Weave a set of six coasters/mug rugs familiar with knitting in the round, magic In this popular one-day workshop, (finished size 5” x 5”) using cotton yarn in loop, cabling without a cable needle, you’ll have the opportunity to carve the warp and heavy linen in the weft in this color work and lace. Bring your patterns, your own stone, an art form that is not three session, 9 hour class. The first class yarn, needles, unfinished projects and typically accessible. For beginners and will consist of choosing colors, designing questions for a morning of knitting. Class experienced sculptors alike, you’ll be your stripe warp and warping the loom size is limited to 8. guided through the process of looking using a direct warping method in which ADKNIT, 9 Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 into the rock for imagery, carving students walk back and forth (72 times) am. Begins January 15, Meets at LCE into material, planning and forming a between the loom and a peg positioned Conference Room, (Access by 328 Lowell sculpture, and using tools. Hand-carving the length of the warp (90 inches). The Street/Enter through blue side door of techniques will be demonstrated, and second week we’ll begin weaving and learn building), $175/Seniors $135. stone carving lore will be discussed. We’ll how to measure so each coaster comes also touch upon safety in studio,and stone out the same size. Students will take the An Introduction to Metalsmithing and tool sourcing. You will leave with your loom home (on loan) to weave the coasters stone sculpture in hand. Please bring Instructor: Karenna Maraj between classes. The third class will consist a bag lunch to class. All materials will of taking the coasters off the loom, sewing Come and learn how to make beautiful be provided. Classes are held at Scott’s the hems and learning how to wash them. jewelry with an introduction to Stone Carving, 80 Loomis Street (Bike Schacht Cricket Looms will be provided metalsmithing techniques! You will be Path) Bedford, MA 01730. For additional for student use (and can be purchased guided the first day on basic techniques; class information please visit: www. from the instructor). These looms are small how to solder, saw, file, hammer, make stonecarvingdust.blogspot.com and lightweight enough to be carried in a jump rings and findings. The next two ASTN, 1 Saturday, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm. canvas tote bag provided by the instructor. sessions will be spent using your new Meets January 25, Scott’s Stone Carving, A materials fee of $20.00, for the yarn, will skills to make bracelets, rings, earrings, 80 Loomis Street, Bedford, $140. be paid to the instructor. Students may and pendants. We will use stamps, set come to the instructors studio in Waltham stones and learn wire wrapping, just to A2STN, 1 Saturday, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm. to choose their colors prior to the first night name a few examples of skills. Silver is Meets February 22, Scott’s Stone Carving, of class. Please note the class meeting available for a small additional fee. While 80 Loomis Street, Bedford, $140. dates below. this class is geared toward beginners, A3ST, 1 Saturday, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm. AWVE, 3 Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm. students with some previous experience Meets March 21, Scott’s Stone Carving, 80 Begins January 22 and meets January 29 will work on perfecting skills and learning Loomis Street, Bedford, $140. and February 12, Lexington High School, new techniques. Class is limited to six Room 214, $135/Seniors $105. students. Please bring your reading glasses if you wear them.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 17 ESL/Languages

Portrait Photography No matter where you travel in the world, Advanced Beginning English Instructor: Scott Metzger communication is the key to success. Our Instructor: Rosemary Previte Anyone can shoot a photo, but shooting courses are taught by instructors who This course is for those who have studied a portrait is something altogether both speak well and teach well in multiple some basic English and who want to different. Portrait photography is the art languages. improve their grammar, vocabulary, of capturing not only the likeness, but also pronunciation, and conversation skills. the spirit of an individual or a small group, Beginning English – Daytime Grammar topics will include parts of speech, by focusing primarily on facial expression. Instructor: Julie Leger-Fullerton simple present, present progressive, While there are many different styles of The goal of this class is to help you get and past tenses, and subject and object portraiture, the most common techniques started understanding and speaking pronouns. We will use a textbook focus on the eyes and face, while keeping English. Along with the basics of grammar and worksheets, and we will practice other elements in soft focus. Other styles and pronunciation, we will focus on talking pronunciation, listening, and conversation are contextual, which shoot the subject to other people in your neighborhood, at skills in class. This class will improve your in a particular environment, such as the work, at school, at restaurants and at the understanding of American English, as workplace, candid portraits, which capture doctor’s office. We will use textbooks and well as your speaking and writing skills. the subject without their knowledge, videos and we will share stories from our (Purchasing the textbook is optional.) or creative, in which the photograph is own experiences. We will laugh and have LINE, 8 Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. Begins digitally manipulated for artistic effect. fun while we work hard to build English January 23, Lexington High School, Room By the end of the class, students will feel language skills. 222, $120/Seniors $105. more comfortable with their ability to LBEE, 8 Mondays, 10:00-12:00 pm. Begins make a stronger, more engaging portrait. January 27, LCE Conference Room, Please bring your camera to class. Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter A CULINARY TOUR OF H MART APPH, 4 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm. Begins through the blue side door of the Old with Debra Samuels, page 29 January 13, Lexington High School, Room Harrington school, $140/Seniors $120. 220, $88/Seniors $66. English Conversation – Daytime Photography: The Basics and Beyond Instructor: Ric Calleja Have you studied English and perhaps Instructor: Scott Metzger traveled or lived in an English-speaking Great photographs are created through country, yet feel uncomfortable when the right mixture of angle, light, subject, Americans use informal English? In this story, and spirit. To capture all of these class you will learn to understand and make ingredients in the snap of a shutter, yourself understood dealing with schools, a photographer needs the skill set to landlords, neighbors and government potentially assess, frame, and shoot in officials. Your confidence will grow as we a fraction of a second. In this class, we converse about daily life, family, children, will stock our photographic “tool box” friends, shopping, travel and what to see through studying the essential elements and do in the Boston area. of taking a great picture. We will explore LCOE, 8 Tuesdays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins documentary, lighting, the rule of thirds, Luci Mandl teaches Intermediate German, p. 21 January 21, LCE Large Conference Room, camera and computer processing Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter equipment, and composition. We will through the blue side door of the Old also examine ways to manage workflow Intermediate English – Daytime Harrington school, $135/Seniors $110. and the particulars of portrait, landscape Instructor: Julie Leger-Fullerton and commercial photography. By the In this class we will continue to develop Beginning Spanish end of the class, students will feel more our written and spoken English skills by comfortable with their ability to make a Instructor: Marielle Racicot focusing on grammar and applying it in our stronger, more engaging photograph. ¡Hola! This beginner course is for daily lives. This class assumes that you have Please bring your camera to class. adults with little or no prior knowledge some basic English skills and are interested of Spanish. In this dynamic classroom APBB, 4 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm. Begins in applying what you already know and to environment, students will learn basic March 2, Lexington High School, Room continue developing your skills. 220, $88/Seniors $66. vocabulary, pronunciation and present LENG, 8 Mondays, 12:30-2:30 am. Begins tense verbs. Fun activities will include: January 27, LCE Conference Room, dialogues, reading and writing exercises. Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter SMART PLANNING FOR LBGS, 8 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. EUROPEAN VACATIONS through the blue side door of the Old Begins January 22, Lexington High p. 30 Harrington school, $140/Seniors $120. School, Room 222, $165/Seniors $125.

18 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 basic knowledge of the language, learning useful communication skills, building vocabulary, and deepening your grammar understanding. You will have the opportunity to practice your pronunciation, communication, listening, reading and writing skills with active exercises, readings and discussions. “Nuovo Espresso 1, Libro dello studente e esercizi”, L. Ziglio, G. Ric Calleja teaches Español Intermedio & Avanzado a Través / Spanish Intermediate & Advancd, this page. Rizzo, Alma Edizioni, is the book we will use in class along with handouts provided Conversational Spanish temas de actualidad y por lo menos by the instructor. Please note there is no for Beginners una película, este curso lo ayudará a class on January 23. Instructor: Magnolia Rios desarrollar su vocabulario y su capacidad LIAB, 8 Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 pm. Begins This class (for those who have a basic de hablar, escribir y entender el idioma January 16, LHS, Room 222, $135/Seniors knowledge of Spanish) will focus on español. This course is for students $110. developing conversational skills through who have reached the intermediate or oral and written exercises on a variety advanced level in Spanish. Using poetry, Intermediate Italian of topics, working on pronunciation, stories, current news articles, and at Instructor: Francesca Bellini least one movie, this course will help role-play, and practicing everyday In the Intermediate Italian class, you will you develop your vocabulary, and your activities. Students will learn about learn to communicate in Italian in many capacity to speak, write and understand culture, how to construct phrases, ask different settings. You will learn how to the Spanish language. and answer questions, write short, weekly express yourself in more complex real-life compositions, to acquire confidence LDII, 8 Thursdays, 10:00 am-12:00 pm. situations, express your opinions, talk making the language alive for them. Begins January 23, LCE Conference about yourself, and communicate your LSBC, 8 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm. Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and needs in an effective manner. This class is Begins January 22, Lexington High enter through the blue side door of the for students that are comfortable in a full School, Room 221, $100/Seniors $75. Old Harrington school, $135/Seniors $110. immersion environment and have a good knowledge of the basics of the Italian NEW Conversational Spanish for Beginning Italian – Daytime language or have taken our beginner Intermediates Instructor: Francesca Bellini and advanced beginner Italian classes. Instructor: Magnolia Rios Learn the basics of the Italian language in “Nuovo Espresso 2, Libro dello studente e a fun welcoming environment! Our main esercizi”, M Bali’ ,G.Rizzo, Alma Edizioni, , ¡Bienvenidos! Join this lively Spanish goal in this class will be the acquisition is the textbook we will use in class. Please conversation class, led by an enthusiastic of a basic knowledge of the language, note there is no class on January 23. native speaker , and move to the next with special attention to the development level on your language fluency. This class LIIT, 8 Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 pm.Begins of the four linguistic abilities: listening, is for students who wish to learn, practice January 16, Lexington High School, Room speaking, reading, and writing. We will and increase their fluency and proficiency 222, $105/Seniors $85. use active class discussions, videos, of spoken Spanish. Each class will have music, readings, and games to build solid a topic of conversation that will provide Italian Conversation – Daytime foundations for a lasting knowledge of the a framework for students to review and Instructor: Francesca Bellini language. “Nuovo Espresso 1, libro dello strengthen grammatical structures, as well This class is for students with intermediate studente e esercizi”, L. Ziglio, G. Rizzo, as learning more about the culture of to advanced knowledge of the Italian Alma Edizioni, is the book we will use Spanish-speaking countries. language. Here you will speak Italian and in class. Please note there is no class on only Italian! We will explore different LSPAI, 8 Wednesdays, 7:45-8:45 pm. January 22. Begins January 22, Lexington High topics picking from the current news, LDBI, 8 Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 am. School, Room 221, $70/Seniors $55 the Italian way of life, traditions, history Begins January 15, LCE Large Conference and Italian culture. In this class you will Español Intermedio & Avanzado Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and have the chance to immerse yourself in enter through the blue side door of the a Través /Spanish Intermediate & the modern Italian language in a fun and Old Harrington school, $135/Seniors $110. Advanced engaging setting. Please note there is no class on January 22. Instructor: Ric Calleja Advanced Beginning Italian LICO, 8 Wednesdays, 11:45 am - 1:15 pm. Este curso está orientado hacia Instructor: Francesca Bellini Begins January 15, LCE Large Conference estudiantes que han llegado al nivel This class is the ideal follow up to our Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and intermedio o avanzado en español. Beginning Italian class, or equivalent. enter through the blue side door of the Usando poemas, cuentos, artículos sobre With each lesson you will sharpen your Old Harrington school, $105/Seniors $85.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 19 Total Beginner French Beginner French II and grammatical structures. Vocabulary Instructor: Maurice Bombrun Instructor: Maurice Bombrun is enhanced further through simple dialogues, readings, and translations. Total Beginner French is for students If you have some or long-since-forgotten Verbs tenses are reviewed and more with no or “forgotten” French knowledge of French, this class is for are presented. Students learn how to knowledge. The course introduces you. In the Beginner II level course, communicate with simple sentences basic pronunciation, grammar, and we will assume all basic concepts of in applicable situations. The college- vocabulary to build the foundation of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary level Contacts, Valette/Valette, may be the language in a fun environment, have been studied and acquired. We purchased online or from a bookstore. taking into consideration each student’s will introduce new vocabulary, grammar requirements and questions. Students will rules, verbs, and expressions through LDIF, 9 Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm. Begins learn to communicate simple concepts exercises to expand your oral and written January 16, Lexington High School, Room in French though numerous exercises. knowledge and improve your ability to 233, $180. Pronunciation, reading, listening and understand and communicate with French Intermediate French II speaking are the focus of the class for people, both orally and in writing. Our Instructor: Maurice Bombrun a progressive learning experience. The focus is shared among reading, listening, Intermediate French II is for students who college-level Contacts, Valette/Valette, and oral exercises for a well-rounded, have attended Intermediate French 1 Version 8, may be purchased online or dynamic learning experience of everyday or are familiar with all basic concepts of from a bookstore. French. Please purchase the textbook pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. LOBR, 9 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins prior to the first class: Contacts (ISBN 978- Students further learn to communicate January 14, Lexington High School, Room 0618-395-781), Valette/Valette, 8th Edition. with more complex sentences in 233, $180. LBFR, 9 Tuesdays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins applicable French culture situations LDBF, 9 Fridays, 9:30-11:30 am. Begins January 14, Lexington Community and conversations. The textbook will be January 17, Lexington Community Education Conference Room, 146 Maple discussed at the first class. Education Large Conference Room, 146 Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, $180. LINF, 9 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, January 16, Lexington High School, Room $180. 233, $180.

NEW Beginner French I French Conversational Workshop Instructor: Maurice Bombrun Instructor: Maurice Bombrun If you have some or long-since-forgotten In the Conversational French class, basic knowledge of French, this class is students learn how to maintain and for you. In the Beginner French I level practice French to stay fluent and course, we will assume that some basic improve conversational skills. The lessons concepts of pronunciation, grammar, includes conversation, pronunciation, and vocabulary have been studied. understanding, role/play, grammar and Students will get familiar with new translation to reinforce the learning vocabulary, grammar rules, verbs, and process. We focus on giving you the expressions through exercises to review opportunity to speak in French. We use and build on the foundation with focus articles from the news, literature, and on pronunciation, simple vocabulary student-submitted documents to expose and basic grammar. Students will learn you to a variety of real-life topics and masculine/feminine, singular/plural, everyday French language topics. No adjectives, articles, possession, questions, textbook required. demonstrative adjectives, present tenses LFRE, 9 Tuesdays, 9:30 - 11:30 am. Begins of -ir and -re regular verbs, comparatives/ January 14, Lexington Community superlatives. Our focus is shared among Education Conference Room, 146 Maple reading, listening, and oral exercises Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, $180. for a well-rounded, dynamic learning Beginning, Intermediate or Conversational French with Maurice Bombrun, this page. LFFIL, 9 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm. experience of everyday French. Please Begins January 15, Lexington High purchase the textbook prior to the first School, Room 233, $180. class: Contacts (ISBN 978-0618-395-781), Intermediate French Valette/Valette, 8th Edition. Instructor: Maurice Bombrun LFCW, 9 Thursdays, 9:30 - 11:30 am. Begins January 16, Lexington Community LBFI, 9 Thursdays, 12:30 - 2:30 pm. Intermediate French is for students with Education Small Conference Room, 146 Begins January 16, Lexington Community all basic concepts of pronunciation, Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street. Education Conference Room, 146 Maple grammar and vocabulary. The course Please note class size is limited to six Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, $180. quickly reviews the foundation to build upon and expand the language patterns students, $180.

20 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Standard Arabic for Beginning historical sites, and other topics of interest and Beyond Beginning Students to students. Instructor: Janet Atiyyat HJLC, 8 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins Originating in the 6th century, the January 23, Lexington High School, Room Arabic language has become one of the 226, $165/Seniors $148. most widely spoken and recognizable languages in the world today. Taught by STONE CARVING a native speaker, the Beginning class SATURDAYS will introduce modern conversational with Scott Cahaly, p. 17 Arabic using an interactive and practical instructional method. Emphasis will be on listening comprehension, vocabulary, and Russian for Beginners speaking skills. The Beyond Beginning Instructor: Elena Neva class is for those who have taken the The course is open to all students with

PHOTO: KATHRYN COSTELLO Beginning level class or its equivalent. a general interest in Russian. No prior LBAR, (Beginning), 8 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 knowledge of Russian is required as the pm. Begins January 21, Lexington High course is for complete beginners. The School, Room 231, $165/Seniors $148. class has been designed to promote LBBA, (Beyond Beginning), 8 Thursdays, interaction among the students and with 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins January 23, the instructor. It requires preparation, Sumeit (and Sanjay) Aggarawal teach Taking Lexington High School, Room 231, $165/ active participation and attendance. Control of your Financial Health, p. 31 Seniors $148. Language learning is an interesting and fascinating experience in which students Beginning German: For New and NEW Beginning Mandarin will be exposed to new and different Continuing Students Instructor: Hongxing Zhang ways of relating to people, places and Instructor: Luci Mandl This course is designed for adults who the world. You need to set aside time to While German has the reputation of have no prior knowledge of the Chinese review and prepare class and assignments. being a difficult language, this course is language. It provides students with the LRUS, 8 Fridays, 3:30-5:30 pm. Begins meant to show you otherwise. Using real opportunity to work toward proficiency in January 24, LHS, Room 231, $135/Seniors life situations like shopping or a doctor’s both spoken and written Mandarin at a $110. visit you will learn useful phrases to get basic, everyday level. This course focuses around and express yourself. Expect to on building a working vocabulary and NEW Russian for Advanced listen to recordings, to watch video clips, developing a student’s conversational Beginners and to engage in dialogue with your language skills of speaking and listening, Instructor: Elena Neva fellow students. Basic grammar will be while also familiarizing students with the Continue to build upon the basic introduced through reading and writing tools to read and write the language. This foundation provided in Level I. Topics exercises. Handouts will be provided. course will be taught in a mix of English include accusative and genitive cases, Willkommen—welcome! and Mandarin, utilizing the ‘pinyin” motion verbs, verbs of position, LBGE, 8 Wednesdays, 5:00-6:30 pm. phonetic system as well as Chinese conjunctions as well as the days of Begins January 22, Lexington High characters. the week and times of the day. Upon School, Room 235, $148/Seniors $128. LMAN, 8 Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. Begins completion, students can expect to January 23, Lexington High School, Room express absence, possession and Intermediate German 225, $148/Seniors $128. attribution, specific quantity. During the Instructor: Luci Mandl oral practice students will talk about Intermediate German is a course for Japanese for Beginners daily activities and schedules, academic students with previous knowledge Instructor: Amy C. Franks world, homes, rooms and furnishings, (levels A1 / A2), focusing on reading and This course introduces students with no family members. Prerequisite: Elementary speaking in common situations. Some previous Japanese language experience Russian 1, one year of high school Russian. grammar cannot be avoided though. In to basic conversation, grammar, and the L2RUS, 8 Mondays, 3:30-5:30 pm. Begins this interactive class, we will use videos, writing system. Through our study of January 13, LHS, Room 231, $135/Seniors games, and handouts to prepare you for these three subjects, we will also explore $110. communication in and travel to a German cultural issues such as polite language speaking country. and Japan’s integration of foreign words AN AFTERNOON OF LREG, 8 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm. and ideas. Basic conversation and cultural SCANDI­NAVIAN & Begins January 22, Lexington High topics include self-introductions, getting NORTHERN EUROPEAN School, Room 235, $168 /Seniors $148. around on public transportation, food SONG, p. 6 and drink, shopping, famous cultural and

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 21 Computers

From editing digital photos, to creating Managing Your Photos – Daytime iPhone Capabilities your own web page, you are sure to find Instructor: Kristen Butler Instructor: Kristen Butler something to match your ability and Photos, Photos, Everywhere! Photos on Unlock the mysteries and wonderment interest. Mac Computers are provided your phone, photos on your iPad, photos of the iPhone. Learn how to create an for all computer classes. However, if in your email, photos in your texts, photos Apple ID and how it is used. Never lose preferred, students may bring their on your wall, photos on slides or photos your phone again by setting up Find My laptops for any of Kristen Butler’s classes. in a box. Your photos are everywhere. iPhone. Learn about the built-in Apps and Come learn how to organize them on your how to install new ones. How to make Siri The Lexington Community Education computer so that you can find them and understand you. Keep your iPhone safe Conference Rooms are located at 146 even put them into albums to share. from prying eyes. And more… Maple Street, access via 328 Lowell St. The LCE Conference Rooms are in the CDPIC, 1 Friday, 9:00 am - 12:00 CIPH, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets Old Harrington/Lexington Public Schools pm. Meets February 14, LCE Office January 15, Lexington High School, Room Central Office building. Enter through Conference Room, $39/Seniors $35. 155, $39/Seniors $35. the blue door on the parking lot side of the building. Look for the blue Intro to Google Suite – Daytime Intro to Google Suite awning listing “Lexington Community Instructor: Kristen Butler Instructor: Kristen Butler Education.” Learn how to use Google Docs, Sheets Learn how to use Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Learn to share documents with and Slides. Learn to share documents with iPhone Capabilities – Daytime others and manage your Google Drive. others and manage your Google Drive. Instructor: Kristen Butler CDGSL, 1 Friday, 9:00am-12:00pm. Meets CGSL, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets Unlock the mysteries and wonderment February 28, LCE Office Conference January 22, Lexington High School, Room of the iPhone. Learn how to create an Room, $42. 155, $42. Apple ID and how it is used. Never lose your phone again by setting up Find My NEW Intermediate Google Suite – NEW Intermediate Google Suite iPhone. Learn about the built-in Apps and Daytime Instructor: Kristen Butler how to install new ones. How to make Siri Instructor: Kristen Butler Learn how to use Google Forms, Google understand you. Keep your iPhone safe Learn how to use Google Forms, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google translate from prying eyes. And more... Calendar, Google Maps, Google translate and more... CDPH, 1 Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. Meets and more... CGDO, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. January 24, LCE Conference Room, $39/ CDGD, 1 Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. Meets Meets January 29, Lexington High School, Seniors $35. March 6, LCE Office Conference Room, $42. Room 155, $42. iPhone Capabilities – Part 2 – Organizing Your Computer – Introduction to LinkedIn Daytime Daytime Instructor: Kristen Butler Instructor: Kristen Butler Instructor: Kristen Butler The key to your success on LinkedIn Still feel like you are a beginner user of Learn how to organize your files and begins with a powerful and professional your iPhone? Learn how to change the folders, manage the “My Documents” presence. You must strategically write settings, backup your phone, sync your folder, and backup your information. your profile with your ideal client in mind photos and music, never go over on data Students must be familiar with the basics before you start connecting to maximize usage again, shop on the Internet, learn of how to use a computer. the impact of your first impression online. about fabulous apps that can make your CDORG, 1 Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. CLINK, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. life easier. Meets March 20, LCE Office Conference Meets February 5, Lexington High School, CD2PH, 1 Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. Room, $42. Room 155, $39/Seniors $35. Meets January 31, LCE Conference Room, $39/Seniors $35. Introduction to Microsoft Excel – Introduction to Excel Daytime Instructor: Kristen Butler

PHOTOGRAPHY: THE BASICS Instructor: Kristen Butler Learn how to use a spreadsheet AND BEYOND Learn how to use a spreadsheet application and create graphs using the p. 18 application and create graphs using the data in your spreadsheets. Learn how to data in your spreadsheets. Learn how to use multiple worksheets and share the use multiple worksheets and share the data between worksheets. MS Excel is a MAC COMPUTERS ARE PROVIDED FOR data between worksheets. MS Excel is a great tool for tracking numbers. ALL COMPUTER CLASSES great tool for tracking numbers. CINX, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets However, if preferred, students may bring their February 12, Lexington High School Room laptops for any of Kristen Butler's classes. CDEX, 1 Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. Meets March 27, LCE Office Conference Room, $42. 155, $42.

22 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Managing Your Photos CBAY, 3 Mondays, 12:30 - 3:00 pm. Instructor: Kristen Butler Begins January 13, Lexington Community Education Large Conference Room, 146 Photos, Photos, Everywhere! Photos on Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, your phone, photos on your iPad, photos $75/Seniors $60. in your email, photos in your texts, photos on your wall, photos on slides or photos Build a WordPress Website or in a box. Your photos are everywhere Blog from Scratch come learn how to organize them on your computer so that you can find them and Instructor: Fan Stanbrough even put them into albums to share. Do you want to create an easy-to-build CPHO, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets a website or personal blog? If you have Kristen Butler teaches Intro to Google Suite, March 18, Lexington High School, Room purchased a domain name or are ready facing page. 155, $39/Seniors $35. to buy a hosting package, this class is for you. WordPress is a powerful and Intermediate Excel II Computer Consulting “A la Carte” easy-to-use tool for building virtually any Instructor: Kristen Butler Instructor: Kristen Butler kind of site. We will guide you through Learn how to set up databases to use mail the hosting domain process and will help Computer consultant Kristen Butler merge, create pivot tables and define you install WordPress on your own server. is available to meet and assist up to macros. Students must be familiar with the You will review the steps to configure two people in personalized computer basics of how to use Excel. settings, pick a theme, add pages and a consulting. Want to fully understand CEXX, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets blog; learn how to add photos, gallery, the iCloud and backup? Want to make February 26, Lexington High School Room video or a map, or sell advertising, set up certain your devices are synced? Want 155, $42. PayPal on your site. You will learn to build to know if you have the proper updates online forms, back up your database and and software on your computer? Want Understanding iPhone update the site. There is no need to bring to create a photographic presentation your own computer, just the credentials Capabilities – Part 2 or video for a special occasion? These of hosting and website are needed. If Instructor: Kristen Butler are just a few items that Kristen can help you need to purchase a hosting package, Still feel like you are a beginner user of you with. Meetings will be held in the WpZipHost is recommended. your iPhone? Learn how to change the Lexington Community Education office settings, backup your phone, sync your and the charge is $120 per hour for up CWDP, 1 Saturday, 12:30-4:30 pm. Meets photos and music, never go over on data to two people. There is a minimum of a February 29, Lexington High School, usage again, shop on the Internet, learn two hour meeting. To arrange a time with Room 155, $135/Seniors $120. about fabulous apps that can make your Kristen please contact the LCE office at NEW How to Increase Website life easier and more... 781 862 8043. Traffic with the Help of SEO and C2PH, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets March 4, Lexington High School, Room Buying and Selling on eBay (and Social Media Marketing 155, $39/Seniors $35. Amazon) – Daytime Instructor: Fan Stanbrough Instructor: Tracy Marks Ever wonder how successful businesses Do you want to learn how to safely and manage to draw heavy traffic onto their INTRODUCTION TO effectively sell items on eBay and/or websites? In this course you will learn GRAPHIC DESIGN how to: optimize your website; get it fully with Damian Barneschi, p. 16 Amazon? In this workshop, taught by an active Amazon seller and previously indexed by the search engines; assess certified eBay trainer/powerseller, we’ll your website’s search engine performance; Organizing Your Computer first cover how to safely buy and sell on spidering your site to assess indexability and SEO status, select keywords. You will Instructor: Kristen Butler eBay. After focusing on how to search for items, research prices, bid, and leave learn how to use several tools, including Learn how to organize your files and feedback, we’ll spend most of the class Google Analytics (GA) and Webmaster folders, manage the “My Documents” learning to create and submit listings, Tools (WMT). Reach your goals with the folder, and backup your information. prepare photos, determine auction timing, help of SEO, and own your space in the Students must be familiar with the basics manage auctions, handle payment and market! We will talk about the differences of how to use a computer. shipping, and deal with security issues and between each social media platform CORG, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. non-responsive buyers. For the last class, (Facebook, linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, Meets March 11, Lexington High School, students will create eBay listings which Google, etc), and learn how to use social Room 155, $42. together we will constructively critique media force to make your site traffic burst. and help improve. We will also cover the CHOW, 1 Thursday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets quick and easy process of becoming an March 5, Lexington High School, Room Amazon Marketplace seller. 155, $110/Seniors $100.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 23 Classes for Children

Each summer LCE’s Lexplorations NEW Creative Art for Kids the skills learned in class. Please see the program offers wonderful creative (Grades K-2) LCE website for a list of supplies to be purchased prior to the first class. experiences that are anticipated and Instructor: Laura McLaine warmly remembered throughout the KCAL, 8 Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30 pm. Begins Come join us for 8 weeks of Art! We will regular school year. Our Courses for January 14, Lexington High School, Room be coloring, painting, using clay and much Children section aims to offer that 167, $220. more. We will make seasonal decorations. same no-stress environment filled with Children will be able to work at their own opportunities for enrichment and fun. Drawing & Architecture for pace and enjoy an afternoon of Art! Laura Grades 2 – 5 Home Alone is an Instructional Assistant at Diamond Instructor: Elena Belkova Instructor: Officers of the Lexington Middle School and teaches Show Business Each class will start with time to sketch Police Department at Lexplorations. KISB, 8 Tuesdays, 3:30-5:00 pm. Begins everyday objects, helping students Help your child feel safer and more develop the skill “to draw what you secure when home alone or with siblings, January 21, Lexington High School, Room 166, $160. see, not what you know”. We will move and teach them smart telephone and on to basic drawing of 2-D and 3-D doorbell answering strategies. This class geometrical shapes to learn foundational is designed for children ages 9 and Art Studio: Pastel and Charcoal (Grades 2-6) techniques and to practice different older. Younger children may attend with aspects of drawing. We will also explore Instructor: Alma Bella Solis an accompanying adult. Instructors are drawing architecture - from a study officers from the Lexington Police and Using a combination of charcoal pencils of simple architectural elements, to Fire Departments. Class size is limited so and chalks, or dry pastel pencils and designing buildings using graph paper please register early. chalks, you will produce your own as a guide for proportion. Students will K009, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 pm. Meets compositions, interpreting subjects have the opportunity to design and March 3, Lexington High School, Room ranging from still life to human figures. work independently as well as with the 221. Free, but space is limited and pre- You’ll learn drawing methods including instructor. Please bring the following registration is required. outline, contour, shading, blending, supplies to class: a Drawing Pad (11” x detailing and explore perspective, 14”) , Pencil HB, Colored Pencils (12), an Babysitter Training (ages 11–15) proportion, and more. Class size limited Eraser and an 8 1/2” x 11” pad of Graph Instructor: Windy Winters-Harrington, to 7 students. Please check the Lexington paper. A Materials fee of $10 is payable to Safety Savvy Community Education website for a the instructor at the first class. supply list for the class. American Red Cross Babysitting Basics KARCH, 6 Wednesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 class covers a wide range of information KPAC, 8 Mondays, 3:30-5:30 pm. Begins pm. Begins February 5, Lexington High that can help new babysitters gain the January 13, Lexington High School, Room School, Room 166, $125. skills and confidence needed to care 167, $220. for infants and children. The course Drawing for Grades 6–9 includes information on: how to care Instructor: Elena Belkova for infants and children; what to do in DRAWING FOR GRADES 6–9 The focus of this course is to develop an emergency and how to stay safe; with Elena Belkova, this page and improve student’s drawing ability. choosing age appropriate activities; Students will learn the essential basic recognizing, understanding and handling skills of drawing, starting with exercises certain behaviors; basic first aid, epi pen Calligraphy (for ages 10+) sketching objects from life. As skills training, hands-only CPR; and how to start Instructor: Alma Bella Solis develop students practice drawing more a babysitting business. Upon successful Learn the timeless art of beautiful writing complex forms such as plaster casts of completion students will receive a in seven weeks using Uncial-Foundational fragments from the face of Michelangelo’s printable certificate from the American script. After a brief overview of the history David beginning with the study of the Red Cross. All equipment and materials of calligraphy and the original scripts of variety of facial planes. We will cover provided. Class limited to 12. Please note Western Calligraphy we will experiment and discuss many instructional topics sections are identical. with spacing between letters, words, with the main focus of learning to draw KBTR, 2 Meetings, 4:00-7:15 pm. Meets and between sentences/verses and in an accurate way. Materials fee of $12 Tuesday January 28th and Thursday, paragraphs; and the proper angle in nib is payable to the instructor at the first January 30th, Lexington High School, usage. Students will write their favorite class. Please bring an 18 x 24 Drawing Pad Room 166, $130. poem, quotation, or any text of their (not newsprint), a Pencil HB, Eraser and K2BTR, 2 Meetings, 4:00-7:15 pm. Meets own choosing in Uncial-Foundational Pencil sharpener. A Materials fee of $12 is Tuesday, March 10th and Thursday, March script toward the end of this session. payable to the instructor at the first class. 12th, Lexington High School, Room 166, Mastery can be achieved by a focus on KDRAW, 6 Fridays, 5:00-8:00 pm. Begins $130. penmanship skills in both print and long February 7, Lexington High School, Room hand, as well as practicing and using 166, $185.

24 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 NEW 7Cs Workshop for High such as voice and plot. In addition to NEW February Vacation Geo-Art Schoolers: Building Social, written comments from the teacher, they for Middle Schoolers can also expect to leave the class with the Emotional and Leadership Instructor: Gerry Goolkasian Competencies beginnings of a story of their own. This is an instructional course that leaves plenty of If you enjoy art and computer games, join Instructors: Madeline Wang and time for in-class writing and participation. us for an action-packed week solving visual Caroline Yang puzzles and creating original 2-D and 3-D K2FIC, 3 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm. designs. Draw and build beautiful, full-color Do you wonder how to approach college Begins March 4, Lexington High School, geometric creations, including fantasy applications with a positive mindset? Room 226, $90. Or how to discover your natural talents architecture, graphic design featuring really and become an authentic leader while Fiction Writing for cool lettering, and learn how to use color pastels to create the illusion of 3-d forms cultivating competencies for long-term Middle Schoolers success? The 7Cs Workshop, created like robotic city dwellers. You will also enjoy Instructor: Karen Day by a team of leaders in business and figuring out all the angles as you play in education, helps high school students This three-session fiction writing workshop our daily miniature golf tournament on the address these and other similarly important will focus on some of the most important computer. Class size is limited to eight topics. Caroline Yang and Madeline components of writing a story: voice, students. Wang have developed a framework setting and plot. We will brainstorm for KGEO, 4 Sessions, 9:00am-12:00pm. of 7 core competencies—Critical- ideas, begin writing a story and explore Meets February 18, 19, 20, and 21, thinking, Creativity, Communication, what it means to revise. Students will Lexington Community Education Collaboration, Confidence, Compassion receive written comments from the Conference Room, 146 Maple Street, and Consciousness—and focus on teacher. We will also work on being our Access by 328 Lowell Street, $105. cultivating participants’ social, emotional, own editors as well as critiquing others. and leadership skills. They use a self- Each class will build on the next and at the NEW After School Guitar Rock assessment tool, CliftonStrengths, to help end, students can expect to have a solid Band Sessions for Grades 9–12 start to their own novel or story. participants identify their strengths, select Instructor: Robert Butler student activities, and find their paths to KFIC, 3 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm. Learn how to play Rock music in a guitar leadership during high school, college, Begins January 29, Lexington High band. Master Guitarist and teacher Robert and beyond. We offer an encouraging School, Room 226, $90. Butler brings his exciting Guitar Rock and open-minded environment for Band Sessions series to LHS. Beginners discussions. This Workshop is structured Dungeons & Dragons for through advanced players are welcome to with guided small-group discussions and Middle Schoolers join our friendly group. Trained at Berklee activities accommodates 16 participants. Instructor: Gerry Goolkasian College of Music, Mr. Butler is known for his Participants’ parents have an opportunity This ever popular game of logic and relaxed classroom style and for his success to attend an optional (but recommended) imagination begins with the creation in developing outstanding guitar skills separate session developed just for them. of characters with the rolling of dice. in his students. Included: live classroom Caroline Yang and Madeline Wang aim You and your collaborators guide your demonstrations of the powerful rhythms to leverage this Parent Workshop and characters through an imaginary journey and exciting lead guitar solos heard on help strengthen the communication and encountering exciting adventures along recordings by the famous icons of Rock collaboration between participants and the way. Your journey is referred to as a guitar, individual instruction addressing their parents. Detailed information on the “campaign” which is creatively structured your specific questions and musical goals, parents’ session will be provided at the end like the plot of a good book by one how to choose and set up an electric guitar, of the student Workshop. player known as the Dungeon Master. amplifier and the electronics necessary to K7CS, (Student Workshop) 5 Saturdays, This player is usually a more experienced recreate the classic Rock guitar sounds used 1:00 - 2:30 pm. Begins February 29, player. In Week 1, we will begin taking by professionals. Everyone is encouraged Lexington High School, Room 220, $395. requests to write and run campaigns, to participate in class jam sessions where K7PW, (Parent Workshop) 1 Saturday, and then create characters. After that our students are given a part that matches 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Meets April 4, Lexington imaginations will guide us onward. Both their ability level. Mr. Butler will supply all High School, Room 220, $95. experienced players and beginners are music charts. Students should have an welcome. Students will have an option to electric guitar, small amplifier and notebook. Fiction Writing for 4th and play a game of Crack-About in the gym Optional: a phone to record class instruction 5th Graders each week. Please note this class meets for reference when playing at home. Please Instructor: Karen Day on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons: contact Robert Butler at (978) 283-7186 with January 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30 and February In this three-session fiction workshop, any questions that you might have. 4, 6, 11, 13. students will be introduced to the nuts and KASG, 6 Thursdays, 3:30-5:00 pm. Begins bolts of what makes a good story. They will KCDD, 10 sessions, 3:00-6:00 pm. Begins January 16, Lexington High School, Room brainstorm for ideas and begin writing a January 14, Clarke Middle School, Room 247, $150. story that focuses on key fictional elements 227, $210.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 25 Test Prep/ College Planning

Beginning Japanese for In Control: program. Please see the LCE website Young People (for Ages 10+) Crash Prevention Training at www.lexingtoncommunityed.org for Instructor: Amy Franks This course offers students from details and dates. The cost for the course is $740. This course introduces students with no Lexington High School and their families previous Japanese language experience an opportunity to learn the skills that To register for upcoming Lexington to basic conversation, grammar, and can not safely be taught on public Community Education Driver Education the hiragana writing system. Through roadways. Learn how to handle panic classes: our study of these three subjects, we stops, turning into the skid, tailgating, Go to: http://csdriving.com/locations.html will also explore cultural issues such as and emergency lane changes, as well as Select “Lexington High School” polite language and Japan’s integration the latest techniques for maintaining safe Click “Enroll” habits. This 4.5 hour class will teach you of foreign words and ideas. Basic Complete the registration process conversation and cultural topics include how to handle mistakes made not only Submit your payment of $740 greetings, self-introductions, food and by you, but also by others. Car crashes account for almost 50% of teen deaths drink, shopping, popular culture, manga ACT Prep for the December Exam and anime, and other topics of interest to and training has been shown to be the students. answer. Visit www.driveincontrol.com/ Instructor: David Bell KATA, 6 Thursdays, 4:00-5:30 pm. Begins lexingtonhighschool to learn about the The ACT is one of the two major college Thursday January 23, Lexington High discount on the class, available insurance admissions tests used by colleges and School, Room 173, $95. discounts for graduates, and how much universities in the US. There are four fun learning to handle Massachusetts required components of the ACT – roads can be in a closed course English, Math, Reading, and Science. environment. There is also an optional Writing test. In SAT TEST PREP this class we will review all components of facing page Driver Education: Registration the ACT exam. A materials fee of $40 is for Driver Education programs is payable to the instructor at the first class. now Online. Required text for class: The Official ACT Jazz in the MIddle Instructor: CS Driving School Prep Guide. Class will meet: January 22; Instructors: Toby Forman and Gregory Tracy February 12 and 26; March 4, 11, 18, 25; A complete driver’s education program and April 1. Do you love Jazz? Joining the Jazz In The (classroom and behind-the-wheel lessons) Middle band will get you playing cool Jazz is available through LCE. Students must PCOL, 8 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. every week! Young musicians will get a be at least 15.9 years old to begin the Begins January 22, Lexington High solid grounding in jazz styles, music theory, School, Room 231, $270. and improvisation skills. This town-wide big band is just for middle school students, and will prepare you for playing at the high school level and beyond. Playing regularly with other musicians is one of the best ways to improve your own instrumental skills. The Jazz in the Middle band is not appropriate for beginners. Students must have some level of proficiency on their instrument. Please indicate your instrument on registration form. Auditions are not required. Class is co-taught by Toby Forman and Gregory Tracy. The last class is a concert on May 23. KLHS, 18 Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00 pm. Begins January 15, Lexington High School, Room 131, $305.

FIXING OUR BROKEN SLEEP with Rick Clerici, p. 35

Private music instrument lessons for every age and level, p. 11.

26 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 SAT Test Prep

Writing and Language/Essay Math SAT Prep for the May/June Exam SAT Prep PLEASE NOTE: Sections are identical. Instructor: Christen Walters P2SAM, 5 Mondays, 6:15 - 8:45 pm. Develop the grammar, structural, Begins March 16, Lexington High School, infographic, and comprehension skills Room 232, $200. necessary for the writing test. For the new P2MST, 6 Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm. Begins essay, learn the specific strategies needed. March, 12, Lexington High School, Room Students will have the opportunity to 230, $200. craft essays and receive feedback on their writing skills. Required Text for classes: Finding The Right Fit: The Official SAT Study Guide, published The College Admissions Process by the College Board. Instructor: Larry Dannenberg Prep for the March SAT Exam: Looking to find the right school for your PWST, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. child or obtain merit money? We will Begins January 15. Lexington High show you how to choose a school that is School, Room 220, $200 the right fit for your child as we walk you Prep for the May/June SAT Exam: through the admissions process. Learn PWTU, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. about how merit money works and what Begins March 11, Lexington High School, you can do to better your position even Room 220, $200. if you are not a top student. This class Caroline Yang (above) and Madeline Wang teach is particularly important if your student 7Cs Workshop for High Schoolers: Building Social, Reading SAT Prep is at the top of the class, has learning Emotional and Leadership Skills, page 25. Instructor: Christen Walters disabilities, is an athlete, or is average. 2015 was a year of significant change, All schools are not alike, so it is important Prepare for the Reading SAT by actively Standardized testing has shifted, timing to know your options and opportunities. reading passages, answering inferential for Financial Aid has accelerated, a A free financial aid analysis will be and line-referenced questions, and new application from the Consortium, available to all attendees. Tuition is $25 interpreting infographics. Practice tests and admissions have become more for two adults in the household. For more will be taken and analyzed. Required Text competitive. Learn why starting the information please visit our website at for class: The Official SAT Study Guide, process early can offer significant www.collegefundingadvisors.com. published by the College Board. advantages. College Solutions has over 30 PMFA, 1 Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 pm. Meets Prep for the March SAT Exam: years of experience in college placement February 5, Lexington High School, Room PRTH, 6 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins and financial aid. For adults only. The $25 229, $25. January 14, Lexington High School, Room tuition is for two adults in the household. 220, $200. Class will be co-taught with Aaron Ladd. The College Admissions Game Prep for the May/June SAT Exam PFIT, 1 Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets Instructor: Larry Dannenberg PSWR, 6 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins January 23, Lexington High School, Room Your GPA doesn’t tell the whole story— March 10, Lexington High School, Room 229, $25. all your unique attributes go into your 220, $200. college application. Resolve to start You Can Afford College If... preparing now for a bright future. Join Math SAT Prep Instructor: Donald Anderson Larry Dannenberg, founder of College Instructor: Chris Doucette If... you plan in advance; you understand Solutions, and a national expert in college In SAT Math, students will review the financial aid process; and you act application counseling and financial mathematical operations and learn test early enough to be successful. Financial aid planning, to learn how parents and strategies necessary for success on the aid goes to the families who plan in students can plan to succeed at the SAT. Required Text for class: The Official advance—ideally before December 31 of college admissions game. Learn how SAT Study Guide published by the the child’s sophomore year of high school. the most selective colleges think about College Board. This course will teach you the concepts choosing students vs less selective Math SAT Prep for the March Exam and strategies that will help you maximize colleges. This session is particularly PLEASE NOTE: Sections are identical. your financial aid by understanding the important for athletes, artists, top students PSAM, 6 Mondays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Begins process, and how implementing strategies and students with learning differences. January 13, Lexington High School, Room may increase a family’s eligibility even The $25 tuition is for an adult/student pair 232, $200. if you have a “high income” or own or two adults in the household. Class will be co-taught with Aaron Ladd. PMST, 6 Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30pm. Begins a business. The greatest amount of January 16, Lexington High School, Room financial aid goes to the families who act PADM, 1 Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets 235, $200. in the years before college. Remember: March 12, Lexington High School, Room procrastination equals less financial aid. 229, $25.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 27 Parenting Cooking Perspectives

Navigating the Student-Athletes’ Estate Planning 101 NEW A Scrumptious Indian Dinner College Search and Sports Instructor: Rebecca O’Brien Instructor: Shruti Mehta Recruiting Process Come learn the basics about wills and Come join Shruti Mehta for an evening Instructor: Nicholas Michael estate planning. We will discuss wills, of cooking and culture as we prepare a Assisting college bound student-athletes durable powers of attorney, health care simple meal together. We will fry, sauté, has become more complex in recent proxies, living wills, setting up trusts, how roll and stir a variety of ingredients and years. While getting into the best to appoint a guardian or conservator for come up with a scrumptious dinner. college remains the same objective for minor children if needed in the future, and Come prepared for hands on participation all students, the process and timetable basic strategies for saving on estate taxes. and get transported to another world. are quite different. Research shows that Bring your questions! Possible dishes may include Creamed being a student-athlete, regardless of BWIL, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets corn and vegetable fritters (deep-fried gender or sport, increases the chances of March 18, Lexington High School, Room pakoras), served with Date Chutney being accepted into college.† This course 229, $30/Seniors $25. (sweet and sour dipping sauce made will educate parents of 9th, 10th and 11th with dates and tamarind), Aloo-Gobhi grade student-athletes to manage this (A simple curry made with Cauliflower process and leverage their child’s athletic chunks and cubed potatoes cooked ability to increase a student’s choices and with ginger, chilies, tomato and spices), the likelihood of being accepted. The Masoor Dal (Lemony red lentils stew with underlying premise of our approach is ginger, garlic and chilies), Jira Rice (rice to identify and focus on the preferences laced with ghee and cumin seeds, and a of the individual student-athlete and touch of brown sugar), Cucumber Raita (a then matching these preferences with mixture of yogurt and grated cucumber colleges which share the same attributes. with mustard, providing a cool contrast to The coaches and admissions offices of other spicy dishes). These dishes will be these selected colleges become the served with a quick Garlic Naan (popular target of an outreach email campaign store bought bread embellished with written to make each school aware of your garlic and butter), and sweet Phirni (a child’s interest and abilities. Maintaining North Indian dessert with cream of wheat, saffron, cardamom and nuts). this communication plan increases the Rebecca O'Brien teaches Estate Planning 101, likelihood of your child being recruited see above. NAID, 1 Thursday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets and, ultimately, accepted. This course will February 27, LexMedia Studio Kitchen, prepare parents and students to make NEW Preventing Teen Dating 1001 Main Campus Drive, Lexington, $60. objective, fact-based decisions using Violence case studies to demonstrate successful NEW A Southern Indian Affair Instructor: Officers of the Lexington outcomes and will identify action items Instructor: Shruti Mehta required to successfully navigate the Police Department Southern Region of India is known to the academic and athletic aspect of the sports Teen dating violence and abuse does not world for its coastal beauty, IT industries, recruiting process. Please note that tuition discriminate. It affects young people of all and Classical Indian music and Dance. is for an adult/student pair. races, religions, ages, sexual orientations, The food of South India, however, though † genders and cultures. It can affect teens New York Times, 9 January 2011 quite popular in India, remains a secret to regardless of how much money they have PNSA, 1 Wednesday, 6:30-9:00pm. Meets the world. Unlike the cuisine of the North, or what neighborhood they live in. This March 4, Lexington High School, Room South Indian cuisine is distinguished by evening the Lexington Police Department 167, $40 per adult/student pair. a greater emphasis on rice as the staple will offer an informational night for parents grain, the liberal use of coconut and curry and other concerned adults to learn the leaves and particularly coconut oil. South warning signs of dating violence and how Indian cooking is even more vegetarian- to get involved in preventing abuse, and friendly than north Indian cooking and to learn about the resources available to incorporates fewer spices and simpler support victims and families. ingredients. Come, explore this cuisine FDATE, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets and learn to make Uttapam (rice and March 10, Lexington High School, Room lentil crepes with onions and chilies), 226, Free, but pre-registration is required. accompanied by onion and potato bhaji (stew) and a spicy lentil and radishes soup called Sambar. Other dishes include BALANCING SCREEN TIME FOR Pongal which is the ultimate southern 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL KIDS with Sharon Saline, p. 5 comfort food (a risotto of rice and dal Debra Samuels teaches A Culinary Tour of H Mart, cooked with cashews and ghee), and a facing page.

28 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Home, Hobbies, and Travel popular dessert of vermicelli cooked with Debra will provide handouts with recipes Home Downsizing 101 milk, almonds and cardamom. A $20 food and how to stock your own “starter” Instructor: David Lenoir fee is payable to the instructor at class. Asian pantry. Class meets at HMart, 3 Old Are you an empty nester? Do you need This class will be filmed for broadcast on Concord Road., Burlington at the entrance to help aging parents with their housing LexMedia. of the Food Court. options? Or do you just need a smaller NSIA, 1 Thursday, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meets NHMT, 2 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. home? The prospect of downsizing raises March 26, LexMedia Studio Kitchen, 1001 Begins March 4, meeting at HMart, 3 Old many questions, and this session will Main Campus Drive, Lexington, $60. Concord Rd, Burlington, $75. address the pros and cons of different strategies. For example, what to do with A Culinary Tour of H Mart Tea: The Elixir of the East years of belongings; buying vs. renting Instructor: Debra Samuels Instructor: Paul Angiolillo your next home; selling your current The Asian supermarket H Mart is just “Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, home or renting it out; understanding around the corner from Lexington. Its relax the studious, and dilute the full home values locally as well as in different aisles are chock full of treasures: sauces, meals of those who cannot exercise,” towns/states. We will also explore housing noodles, dumplings, seaweed, rice, tofu, said English writer and lexicographer options such as: single family homes, fresh banchan (Korean side dishes), an Samuel Johnson, who reputedly drank 25 condos, adult communities, full-service ocean of fish, teas, condiments galore cups of tea each day. Indeed, no other amenity buildings and more. A local and so much more. But for some of us, plant has influenced human history as realtor will lead the discussions. the unfamiliar ingredients, unrecognizable much as camellia sinensis, the tea plant. FDOW, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets labels and the football-field-size of the From China, India, and Russia, to the February 11, Lexington High School, store is just too daunting for an enjoyable Middle East, England, and the Americas, Room 226, $25/Seniors $20. shopping experience. Join Debra tea has played a key role in politics (the Samuels, Boston Globe food writer and Opium War), trade (the Russian caravan), author of two cookbooks (The Korean technology (clipper ships, porcelain), Table and My Japanese Table) for a tour and craftsmanship (furniture, teapots.). POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP as she guides you around the market to Join us to sample a half-dozen fine teas with Tom Daley, p. 14 acquaint you with this wonderful resource. from around the world, as we enjoy a “Shop with a recipe; that helps to focus visual history of tea, from fierce Tibetans your task” says Samuels. Because the guarding the “Tea Route” and vast Simple Ways to Protect market is so large and there is so much to English tea gardens, to rare Chinese Your Home see, this year we are offering the tour in teapots. Snacks will accompany the Instructor: Officers of the Lexington Police 2 sessions so there will be more time for tastings and you’ll take home plenty of Department questions, shopping and snacking. After samples. Bring a favorite mug or two to The Town of Lexington has a current each guided tour we will head over to class. population of approximately 33,000 the food court and sample some of the NTEA, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets people living in about 11,000 residences. delicious offerings, pre-selected by Debra, February 4, Lexington High School, Room Due to its affluent status and location from the bakery and restaurant stalls. 143, $25. within the Greater Boston Area with easy access to Routes 2 and 128, it is an attractive target for residential burglaries. Come join Detective Aidan Evelyn, Community Resource Officer from the Lexington Police Department for a discussion addressing this type of crime prevention. The course will focus on home security systems, target hardening through environmental design and other methods to make your home a hardened target for would be criminals. FCRIME, 1 Thursday, 6:30-8:00 pm. Meets March 12, LexingtonHigh School, Room 226. Free, but pre-registration is required.

PLANNING FOR FINANCIAL SUCCESS AFTER DIVORCE with Chris Chen, p 32

Shruti Mehta teaches An Indian Dinner and A Southern Indian Affair, facing page.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 29 the 3 imperatives to staying organized. You will also leave with a more complete understanding about why organization is the tie that binds together all wellness possibilities, and how to use it daily to find peace in your day-to-day. If you struggle with clutter, have tried unsuccessfully to organize various areas of your life and home, and are looking to create calm and efficiency in your life, this class is for you. FORGA, 1 Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. Meets March 10, Lexington High School, Room 221, $40.

NEW Preventing Teen Dating Violence Instructor: Officers of the Lexington Police Department Teen dating violence and abuse does not discriminate. It affects young people of all races, religions, ages, sexual orientations, genders and cultures. It can affect teens regardless of how much money they have or what neighborhood they live in. This evening the Lexington Police Department Test Prep Classes for Students & College Planning Classes for Parents, page 27. will offer an informational night for parents and other concerned adults to learn the warning signs of dating violence and how Smart Planning for NEW Say Yes to the Perfect to get involved in preventing abuse, and European Vacations Wedding Dress to learn about the resources available to Instructor: Wim Nijenberg Instructor: Randi Siu support victims and families. Learn to book the best possible Are you engaged or the mother-of-the- FDATE, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets products and services—air, hotel, ground bride and planning to be shopping for a March 10, Lexington High School, Room transportation and sightseeing—from wedding dress in the near future? With so 226, Free, but pre-registration is required. an expert with decades of experience. many wedding dress styles and options Whether traveling individually or with a to choose from, it can be overwhelming NEW The Suburban Drug Problem tour or cruise, become aware of the many and confusing to find that perfect dress. Instructor: Officers from the Lexington discounts in Europe and avoid missed In this class you will learn what your figure Police Department opportunities. Even if you’ve already type is and which style(s) of dresses will Drugs continue to be a problem that made your arrangements, you can still flatter your unique figure, to take the transcends race, economic class and benefit from this information-packed pressure out of shopping and help you community boundaries. Drugs are not evening. Participants receive access to navigate through all the choices out there. only limited to urban centers but are also Travel to Europe two proprietary websites The result is that you will feel confident readily available in the suburbs. Affluent - the Simplify Planning your European when you say yes to the dress-and you’ll communities such as Lexington are Vacation tutorial, and the Europe Vacation look stunning on your special day! not immune to this problem. Detective Resource Center for 19 countries. You FYES, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets James Rettman of the Lexington Police also receive your family’s personal Europe January 21, Lexington High School, Room Department and the Suburban Middlesex Vacation Discount Pass. 229, $30. County Drug Task Force will discuss drugs FEUR, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets that are most commonly used by youth in March 3, Lexington High School, Room Organization 101: Steps to Get the area. The course will also discuss early 225, $25/Seniors $20. and Stay Organized warning signs for parents to watch for if Instructor: Francesca Verri they suspect their child is using illicit drugs. BUILDING THE BEST CAPSULE Join Francesca Verri in this lively class as Free, but pre-registration is required. WARDROBE FOR YOU she teaches about the basic tenets of FNAR, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. Meets with Randi Siu, p 32 organization and how they are integral February 11, Lexington High School, to living a healthy life. You will learn the 4 Room 226, Free, but pre-registration is steps in the process to get organized, and required.

30 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Business and Career

Daytime Classes Our Financial Courses are not intended fixed income and equities according to Northbound: Scandinavian and to substitute for individual financial your risk tolerance and how rebalancing Northern European Song...... 6 counseling or advice. Neither LCE or your portfolio may help maintain your established risk tolerance. He will review Making a Difference for the Lexington Public Schools may give the impact of traditional and Roth 401K Those with Dementia...... 8 specific advice on personal investments. in your retirement plan and when it is George Eliot’s Middlemarch...... 10 Taking Control of appropriate to select one or the other. Beginning Guitar...... 12 Your Financial Health Finally he will introduce you to a planning Fingerstyle Guitar for Intermediate method that will help you calibrate how Instructor: Sumeit Aggarwal and & Advanced Students...... 12 much you spend from your retirement Sanjay Aggarwal Memoir Writing...... 14 assets and not run out of money, and the Even with the abundance of advice on Fundamentals of Drawing...... 15 best way to spend down these assets. individual personal finance topics, how BSIR, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets Chinese Brush Painting...... 15 do you know if your finances are healthy? January 16, Lexington High School, Room Introduction to Acrylic Painting...... 16 Even with thoughtful decision-making, 225, $25/Seniors $20. Acrylic Landscape Painting...... 16 does managing personal finance feel like a game of whack-a-mole? This 2-part Art & Mindfulness...... 16 Break the Habits Holding Your workshop will provide tools and strategies Introduction to Felt Making...... 16 Career Back How to Make a Sculpture...... 16 to help you get fiscally fit in the new year. We will walk through a financial health Instructor: Miki Feldman Simon Advanced Knitting...... 17 questionnaire that will help participants What behaviors and habits are keeping Stone Carving Saturdays...... 17 determine their financial well-being and you stuck? These behaviors may have Beginning English...... 18 open channels of communication within worked for you earlier in your career, Intermediate English...... 18 the family. Participants will use a set of which is why you may be tempted to English Conversation...... 18 mock financial transactions and have a cling to them, but they are preventing Spanish Intermediate & Advanced...... 19 hands-on opportunity to build a personal you from moving your career forward. In balance sheet. This holistic view of this workshop, Miki will share the most Italian...... 19 managing personal finances will enable common habits that hold people back. French...... 20 you to monitor your financial health Participants will then each identify the Russian...... 21 throughout the year. This class will be habits that are holding them back and Daytime Computer Classes co-taught by Sumeit and Sanjay Aggarwal. choose the one habit they will focus on with Kristen Butler...... 22 They have written this course with a changing. The most powerful thing you Buying and Selling on eBay practical focus explicitly in mind. can do for your career is to change what's (and Amazon)...... 23 BTCF, 2 Fridays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins in your control, your behavior. Miki will Babysitter Training (ages 11–15)...... 24 January 17, Lexington High School, Room share five steps you can take to clear your Creative Art for Kids (Grades K-2)...... 24 221, $35/Seniors $30. path of self-imposed obstacles, so that you can become more successful and take Art Studio: Pastel and Charcoal greater satisfaction in your work. (Grades 2-6)...... 24 BFBP, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets Calligraphy (for ages 10+)...... 24 LEARN CPR March 18, Lexington High School, Room Drawing & Architecture for p 34 224, $40. Grades 2 – 5...... 24 Dungeons & Dragons for NEW Acting Skills for Business Middle Schoolers...... 25 NEW Retirement Planning: Instructor: Lau Lapides February Vacation Geo-Art for The Before Stage Business professionals want to learn Middle Schoolers...... 25 Instructor: James Wood the trade secrets that stage actors and In this presentation, Jim Wood, a After School Guitar Rock Band industry pros know in the media and Fiduciary Financial Planner, will cover how Sessions for Grades 9–12...... 25 broadcasting industry! Come learn the Financial planners can help you establish Beginning Japanese for actors bag of tricks geared specifically for goals for your post-retirement needs. Jim Young People I (for Ages 10+)...... 26 corporate presenters, sales professionals, will address how the differences between SAT Prep...... 27 customer service personnel. Learn how mutual funds and exchange traded funds, Barre3...... 36 to get a leg up on the competition and including how expenses can affect your get that promotion. As analytical thinkers Beginning & Advanced returns. Jim will review the differences working in quantitative ways our goal is Beginning Yoga...... 37 between Index Funds and Actively to train you to develop the highest level Joyful Yoga...... 37 managed funds and returns of each of soft skills available, and apply these Yoga for Osteoporosis...... 37 type of investment. He will address the skills to your work. Discover tools and importance of allocating assets between techniques to build confidence while

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 31 strengthening physical and vocal presence NEW Building the Best Capsule Women and Investing 101 whether you are presenting live, online, Wardrobe for You Instructor: Sumeit and Sanjay Aggarwal or by phone. Engage and ignite your Instructor: Randi Siu This workshop is designed for women who audience with storytelling techniques that want to play a more active role in their work and build rapport while commanding Wouldn’t it be great to open up your Investment strategy. If investing scares presence! Learn how to think fast on closet and find that all of your clothes you, or you want to make sure you have a your feet through improvisation and mix and match perfectly together for clear understanding of risks and rewards, role-playing, manage your physical who you are and what you wear on a or if you are simply looking for where to and vocal message by incorporating daily basis? In this class you will learn begin, this is the class for you. In this 2-part breathing and speech technique and what clothing items are needed for your workshop, we will go over the basics of have fun discovering new approaches personal lifestyle capsule wardrobe; how Investing, discuss step by step approach to communicating in your work. Come to organize your wardrobe to best use to investing and cover different types of dressed in comfortable clothing, bring a what you have; how to create new outfit investments and retirement plans. You notebook and water. No prior experience combinations and how to fill in the gaps will also learn how to gain confidence in necessary! of what is missing. The result will be you’ll have many more new outfit combinations, your research, evaluate alternatives and HASB, 1 Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets that you’ll actually enjoy and wear. design a portfolio. No prior knowledge February 13, Lexington High School, of investing is required. Beginners are Room 221, $25/Seniors $20. BCWC, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets January 28, Lexington High School, Room especially encouraged to attend. This class 226, $30. will be co-taught by Sumeit and Sanjay Introduction to LinkedIn Aggarwal. They have written this course Instructor: Kristen Butler NEW Planning for Financial with a practical focus explicitly in mind. The key to your success on LinkedIn Success After Divorce BW&I, 2 Fridays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins begins with a powerful and professional January 31, Lexington High School, Room Instructor: Chris Chen presence. You must strategically write 221, $35/Seniors $30. your profile with your ideal client in mind Many people start their post-divorce before you start connecting to maximize lives not fully understanding the financial NEW Women and Investing 201 impact of their settlement. It can be the impact of your first impression online. Instructor: Sumeit and Sanjay Aggarwal challenging to adapt to a new life, but CLINK, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm. even harder to adjust to a new standard of This workshop is designed for women who Meets February 5, Lexington High living, new asset level, and new financial want to take their investing skills to the School, Room 155, $39/Seniors $35. goals. It is usually more effective to start next level. In this 2-part workshop, we will go over advanced concepts of Investing NEW Interview Skills the planning process as soon as possible, ideally before the agreement is final. You such as Asset Allocation, Diversification Instructor: Miki Feldman Simon will begin developing the architecture of Strategies, Understanding Fees and Whether you have been interviewing for your financial plan for the rest of your life. Monitoring your own investments. Come a while, are just out of college, or you are This includes managing your spending join us as we walk through building starting your journey of entering back to plan, your debt (including your mortgage) portfolios for different timelines and risk the workforce, you can learn from Miki and your assets (including QDRO). You tolerance. Beginner level knowledge Feldman Simon’s extensive experience as will leave class more confident with a clear of investing is required. Beginners are a recruiter and career coach working with roadmap of what you need to do to get encouraged to attend the Women and both job seekers and hiring managers. back on track for your future. Investing 101 class as a prerequisite. Post- In this workshop Miki will cover the class, attendees will have the opportunity BDIM, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets key components for interview success to participate (at no extra charge) in February 26, Lexington High School, including: what research to do before a regular ‘Book-Club style’ investing Room 229, $25/Seniors $20. the interview; matching your experience group where we will discuss additional to the job requirements; how to answer topics and issues that come up as you key interview questions; how to prepare are constructing your personal investing questions to ask at the interview; how roadmap. This class will be co-taught by to tell your story (your elevator pitch); Sumeit and Sanjay Aggarwal. They have what to wear to the interview; and how written this course with a practical focus to address an employment gap and job explicitly in mind. transitions. BWI2, 2 Fridays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins BINT, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets February 28, Lexington High School, January 14, Lexington High School, Room Room 221, $35/Seniors $30. 225, $40.

Thomas M. Shapiro teaches Toxic Inequality, p. 6

32 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 How Medicare Works: An Introduction for Boomers Instructor: Elaine Miler In this class we will demystify Medicare and teach “Boomers” what Medicare is and how it really works in Massachusetts. Many approaching 65 have no idea about all the parts of Medicare or what it may mean to them. They are not aware of actions they should take, responsibilities they have in the process or when, where and how they should enroll for different parts of Medicare. We will answer questions like: How can I get my Medicare John Deming teaches Power 8: Strength and Flexibility Exercises, p. 36. coverage? Do I need to do anything if I work beyond 65? What do I pay? What does Medicare cover? Can I have other Do it Yourself or Financial Social Security Planning for types of health coverage? Can I keep my Advisor? Capabilities, Fees, Couples “Massachusetts Health Connector Plan” Conflicts of Interest Instructor: Rick Fentin when I’m eligible for Medicare? When can Instructor: Glenn Frank The Social Security decisions spouses I make changes to my coverage? What Understand the industry Lexicon— make when they are in their 60s will does Medicare Part A, B, C or D mean ROBOs, brokers, IRAs, financial planners, determine the amount of total income for you? The first session will focus on an money managers, wealth managers, they will receive over their lifetime— overview of Medicare, while the second family office, fee-only, fee-based... all in especially the lifetime of the spouse who will review prescription drug coverage the context of successfully completing lives the longest (usually the wife!). This with an exploration of the Medicare.gov the 5 step investment process needed workshop will cover the NEW rules that website with an emphasis on Medicare’s to accomplish your goals. Planning, can help married couples get the most Plan Finder tool used to Find Health emotions and taxes are integral to the out of the Social Security system. We and Drug Plans. Ample time should be process. How best to do this yourself will cover: the optimal times to apply, available each night for general questions. or would one of these advisory models spousal coordination, minimizing taxes BMED, 2 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. be worth paying for? Understand that and effectively integrating Social Security Begins March 11, Lexington High School, advisors must navigate numerous conflicts with other assets. Plus, the most important Room 222, $25. of interest from the subtle (deviating thing all higher-earning spouses should from the S&P 500) to the not so subtle do and more. Why not make sure you are Time, Money, and Joy (commissions). Best resources if on your maximizing your income? The $40 tuition Instructor: Glenn Frank own. If not, how to ensure the advisor is a cost is per couple. Do you want to be happier? Do you “wise investment”! BCSS, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets want to make better decisions? Time BDIY, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets February 13, Lexington High School, and money are invariably in tension with January 30, Lexington High School, Room Room 226, $40. everyone’s desire to be happy. If the 229, $25/Seniors $20. goal is to maximize family happiness, NEW The Process of Purchasing how do you reconcile TM&J on a day- Estate Planning 101 A Home to-day basis and when life’s crossroads Instructor: Rebecca O’Brien Instructor: Jeremy Richman surface? This workshop is a step-by-step Come learn the basics about wills and Learn in detail the latest information process to answer these critical questions. estate planning. We will discuss wills, about buying a home so you can feel “Create” more time for what brings joy; durable powers of attorney, health care confident, informed, knowledgeable and alleviate financial stress, discover greater proxies, living wills, setting up trusts, how in control from the start to the finish of HPD (happiness per dollar) and greater to appoint a guardian or conservator for the largest purchase you may ever make. HPH (happiness per hour); avoid family minor children if needed in the future, and Learn about: determining your “real disasters that might look good on paper; basic strategies for saving on estate taxes. ideal” home; qualifying a home; assessed and understand the basis of informed Bring your questions! or appraised vs. Zillow valuations; decisions BWIL, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets making offers and negotiating to yes for BTMJ, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets March 18, Lexington High School, Room less; home inspections; protecting your January 28, Lexington High School Room 229, $30/Seniors $25. deposits; choosing an attorney, home 229, $25/Seniors $20. inspector and mortgage agent; buying short-sales and bank-owned properties;

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 33 Mind and Body

and how to choose, hire and work with LCE seeks to offer opportunities that NEW American Red Cross: Adult a real estate agent to represent you promote learning about holistic health and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED as your “buyer’s agent.” Included are and living well. In this section you’ll find Instructor: Windy Winters-Harrington, worksheets and forms and a copy of the everything from courses on meditation to Safety Savvy 40-page handbook, “The Homebuyer’s alternative understandings of nutrition. Companion,” written by the instructor. The Adult and Pediatric First Aid/ CPR/AED course incorporates the BHOM, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-9:30 pm. Meets NEW American Red Cross: latest science and teaches students to February 25, Lexington High School, Restaurant Emergency Training recognize and care for a variety of first aid Room 226, $30/Seniors $25. for Massachusetts/Choke Saver emergencies such as burns, cuts, scrapes, Instructor: Windy Winters-Harrington, sudden illnesses, head, neck, back NEW The Process of Selling a Safety Savvy injuries, heat and cold emergencies and Home This course covers an overview of how to respond to breathing and cardiac Instructor: Jeremy Richman knowledge and skills necessary to emergencies to help victims of any age Get tips on successfully selling your home recognize and provide basic care for - adults (about 12 years and older) and in today’s economic landscape and hear injuries (including choking) and sudden pediatric (infants and children up to 12 the latest intelligence on the local real illness until more advanced medical years of age). Students who successfully estate market. Learn how to prepare your help arrives. This class meets the complete this course will receive a home for sale, what turns buyers on and Massachusetts Department of Health certificate for Adult and Pediatric First off, and how to select a realtor versus requirement 105 CMK590.009, which Aid/CPR/AED valid for two years. selling the house yourself. states that food service establishments MFACP, 1 Tuesday, 4:00-7:30 pm. Meets BSHO, 1 Thursday, 6:30-9:30 pm. Meets with a seating capacity of 25 persons need March 24, Lexington High School, Room March 5, Lexington High School, Room to have on premises an employee trained 166, $136. 226, $30/Seniors $25. in removing food lodged in a person’s throat. MCPR, 1 Tuesday, 12:30-2:30 pm. Meets ADVANCED TAI CHI AND ZEN ON THE TRAIL: January 14, LCE Large Conference Room, PUSH HANDS II HIKING AS PILGRIMMAGE Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter with Virginia Payne, p. 36 with Christophr Ives, p. 7 through the blue side door of the Old Harrington school, $70. Stop Your Sugar Habit Tax Planning Strategies for the NEW Instructor: Sue McCombs Four Major Stages of Retirement Making a Difference for Those with Dementia What if you had no desire to eat anything Instructor: Rick Fentin with sugar? What if looking at a product Instructor: Carla Koehl The new tax law has introduced with sugar left you with the feeling of total some tough challenges and some Do you have a loved one who is living with indifference? No more longing for that new opportunities. Utilizing the best dementia–or who is providing care for chocolate bar or soft drink. What if all that tax strategies can make a significant someone with dementia? If you’ve wanted expertise, the thinking and obtaining and difference in your overall retirement to learn more about what dementia is, consuming of sweets, got transformed picture. The spending phase of retirement and how to have successful interactions into some positive habits, like exercise is more complicated than the savings with those you encounter who live with or another desired outlet? Focus can be phase of pre-retirement and tax planning dementia, this one-hour informational placed on eating moderate, well balanced is often overlooked. We will cover critical session will provide helpful information. meals featuring fresh fruits and vegetables tax questions to answer before retirement; You will leave with a new understanding and lean, quality protein. Watch your the Social Security “tax trap” and how of how to help reduce the stigma of energy increase as the sugar leaves your to avoid it; when to tap assets to avoid dementia, and how to better engage with system. No more highs and lows from higher Medicare premiums; challenges of those living with the condition. sugar rushes. It is possible, using hypnosis Traditional and Roth IRAs; estate planning PDEM, 1 Tuesday, 10:00-11:00 am. Meets techniques of guided imagery taught in and taxes and more. Come learn the February 11, LCE, Large Conference this class, to help you make this change four stages of retirement planning and Room, 146 Maple St, Access via 328 on a powerful subconscious level. Please important tax actions in each stage. Lowell St. Free, but pre-registration is do not consume alcohol prior to class. BTAX, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets required. An audio CD will be available for $30 for February 25, Lexington High School, those who wish to take the program home Room 226, $25. for reinforcement. MSUG, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets January 21, Lexington High School, Room 148, $40.

34 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 NEW Deep Relaxation for Better Sleep Instructor: Rick Clerici In this presentation we will focus on mind/body relaxation, one of the most important factors in falling asleep, staying asleep and getting restorative sleep. You will learn daytime relaxation exercises, instant momentary relaxation exercises and techniques for relaxing into sleep and back into sleep from night time awakenings. There is an emphasis on the Richard Geller teaches Stress Less: Learn to Meditate, this page. positive changes that can be made during the 16 hours of wake that will improve Stop Dieting Chogye order of Korean Buddhism, and sleep quality. A guided relaxation exercise Instructor: Sue McCombs founder of the Kwan Um School of Zen. teaches techniques for initiating sleep and MZEN, 4 Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins returning to sleep. Imagine not being tempted to overeat; to feel indifferent to sugar, bread, pasta, too January 23, Meets at Open Meadow MIND, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets much snacking, and grazing from dinner Zen, located at 212 Marrett Rd (Rt 2A) in January 15, Lexington High School, Room to bedtime. Using guided relaxation Lexington, $68. 225, $35. and imagery (techniques used in hypnosis), you will notice an improvement Stress Less: Learn to Meditate THE HAPPINESS CAPACITY: in your desire, determination, and Instructor: Richard Geller MODERN HAPPINESS resourcefulness, which will lead you Meditation is one of the best ways to THROUGH AN ANCIENT LENS p. 4 toward successfully instituting a healthier reduce stress and improve your health, pattern of eating. This program is as evidenced by many recent scientific designed to help you let go of unwanted studies. Participants will learn: how Fixing Our Broken Sleep pounds gently, easily, and permanently. meditation works, numerous different Instructor: Rick Clerici Please do not consume any alcohol prior meditation techniques, and strategies In this 90 minute presentation attendees to class. Audio CD’s will be available for integrating meditation into your will learn techniques for overcoming for $30 for those who wish to take the daily work and life. Upon completing common sleep problems like “trouble program home with them. this program, participants will be able to falling asleep,” “difficulty staying asleep,” MAPP, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets practice meditation anytime, anywhere “excessive thinking,” “waking too early,” January 14, Lexington High School, Room that stress occurs, and immediately feel “Sunday night insomnia,” “chronic 148, $40. the benefits. Throughout the four week insomnia,” “shift-work difficulties” and course, participants are taught and “daytime sleepiness.” This hands on NEW An Introduction to practice over 10 powerful meditation presentation has helped many people Zen Meditation techniques including: breath focus, body to begin getting better sleep almost Instructor: Open Meadow Zen scan relaxation, standing and walking immediately. A guided relaxation exercise Teaching Staff meditation, Tai-Chi and Chi-Kung beginning practice, sound and mantra teaches techniques for initiating sleep and The ancient practice of Zen meditation meditation, simple Yoga as a meditation, returning to sleep. Rick Clerici C.Ht., is a aims at deeply understanding oneself visualization practice, and mindfulness Certified Clinical Sleep Educator and has and being completely mindful, receptive, meditation. The entire program is highly helped thousands of people increase the and present in the moment. In this four interactive, hands-on, and easy to learn. quality and quantity of their sleep. week course, you will be introduced to The class is taught by Richard Geller MSLE, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets Zen meditation and the Zen teachings of of MedWorks Corporate Meditation March 18, Lexington High School, Room keeping a beginners “Don’t Know Mind.” Programs, who has been featured in the 225, $35. Through sitting and walking meditation, Boston Globe, Bloomberg News, Financial instructional in-class readings (or Dharma Times, Mass High Tech, and Boston CBS-4 talks), and Kong-an practice, you will learn TV news (see www.meditationprograms. to connect with the beginner’s mind of com). Participants sit in chairs and wear LCE IS ALWAYS LOOKING compassionate awareness. The Open normal attire. Sorry, no eating in the class. FOR EXCELLENT TEACHERS Meadow Zen Group was founded by Zen OF INTERESTING TOPICS Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton). Zen SLLM, 4 Tuesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm. Begins To propose a class, visit: January 14, Lexington High School, Room https://lexingtoncommunityed.org/ Master Bon Haeng is a Dharma heir to looking-for-excellent-teachers/ Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, the 78th 247, $66/Seniors $49. Patriarch in his line of transmission in the

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 35 Exercise and Dance

Our Exercise and Dance classes provide many low-impact, affordable, and fun ways to help you get in shape and stay that way.

Tai Chi II and Eight Pieces of Brocade Instructor: Virginia Payne Practicing Tai Chi regularly helps reduce stress, improve balance and coordination, strengthen immune systems, and develop body awareness and confidence. This class is a continuation of the “Tai Chi I” class. Students will continue to learn more moves in the Second Section of the long form while continuing to practice and improve the First Section along with deep Asha Ramesh teaches Hatha Yoga, p. 37. breathing exercises in each class. The Eight Pieces of Brocade Qigong will again provided by the studio! Wear comfortable be used as warm-up exercises before Advanced Tai Chi and clothing. We will work barefoot or with practicing the Tai Chi form. Wear loose, Push Hands II sticky socks (which can be purchased at comfortable clothes and soft-soled shoes, Instructor: Virginia Payne the studio). Please arrive 15 minutes early such as flat sneakers. Outdoor shoes are This class is a continuation of the to fill out a waiver and get all setup. We not permitted inside the studio. “Advanced Tai Chi & Push-Hands” class, can’t wait to see you! Classes held at and the students will continue to learn ETC2, 9 Thursdays, 5:30-6:40 pm. Begins Barre3 Bedford (158 Great Road, Bedford, Tai Chi double-hand Push-Hands, while January 16, Lexington High School, Room MA). 244, $140/Seniors $105. reviewing the single-hand Push-Hands. However, they will continue to practice EBAR, 8 Tuesdays, 8:30 - 9:30 am. Begins Tai Chi IV and improve the 108 moves of Tai Chi January 21, Barre3 Studio, 158 Great Road, Bedford, $110. Instructor: Virginia Payne basic form, along with deep breathing E2BR, 8 Wednesdays, 6:30 -7:30 pm. Practicing Tai Chi regularly helps reduce exercises in each class. Emphasis will be on practicing and doing the moves Begins January 22, Barre3 Studio,158 stress, improve balance and coordination, Great Road, Bedford, $110. strengthen immune systems, and develop correctly and with fluidity. The Eight E3BR, 8 Fridays, 9:45 - 10:45 am. Begins body awareness and confidence. This Pieces of Brocade Qigong will again January 24, Barre3 Studio,158 Great Road, class is a continuation of the “Tai Chi III” be used as warm-up exercises before Bedford, $110. class. Students will continue to learn the practicing the Tai Chi form. Wear loose, 3rd Section of the form, and then review comfortable clothes and soft-soled shoes, Power 8: Strength and the 2nd Section. The 108-move Tai Chi such as flat sneakers. Outdoor shoes are form will be further refined along with not permitted inside the studio. Flexibility Exercises deep breathing exercises in each class. EITC, 9 Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00 pm. Begins Instructor: John Deming Emphasis will be on practicing and doing January 15, Lexington High School, Room Movement exercises done daily will the moves correctly and with fluidity. The 244, $185/Seniors $135. improve your posture, core strength, and Eight Pieces of Brocade Qigong will again flexibility and jogging/walking stamina. be used as warm-up exercises before Barre3 You will learn a set of eight sequential practicing the Tai Chi form. Wear loose, Instructor: Natasha Groblewski exercises covering the major muscle comfortable clothes and soft-soled shoes, Barre3 is a full-body workout designed groups and designed to be done in such as flat sneakers. Outdoor shoes are with our signature approach of sustained eight to sixteen minutes. The first five not permitted inside the studio. holds, micro-movements, and cardio mat exercises are performed on your ETC4, 9 Wednesdays, 5:30-6:40 pm. bursts that will leave you feeling balanced back. We will leave time to answer your Begins January 15, Lexington High in body and empowered from within. individual questions and suggest exercise School, Room 244, $140/Seniors $105. From the elite athlete to someone just modifications and adaptations when getting back in the game, barre3 workouts necessary. Please bring a mat and wear are designed to equally challenge comfortable clothes. people of all fitness levels and life stages, EPW8, 3 Mondays, 6:30-7:30 pm. Begins INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM connecting where they are with where February 24, Lexington High School, with Srinivas Reddy, p. 10 they want to be. All you will need is Room 140, $40/Seniors $35. a water bottle—all other supplies are

36 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Beginning Yoga equally, and aligning the body in a method is to yoga what classical ballet is Instructor: Helen Theodosiou therapeutic way that will keep you safe, to dance. It is a progressive offering of the and also offer you many challenges, if you yoga postures designed to provide a safe If you have never done yoga before or wish. Either way, the joy will come. Yoga and an ever-deepening practice which are a beginning student, join this small mat required. Wear comfortable, loose opens and strengthens the body while introductory hatha yoga class. We will fitting clothing, and bare feet. drawing the mind into a meditative state. move at a comfortable pace so students Props will be used to make the postures gain a sound understanding of the EYF2, 9 Fridays, 12:15-1:30 pm. Begins accessible. Please note there is no class poses and their own bodies in relation January 17, Hancock Church $180/Seniors on February 18. to poses. We will engage in standing, $149. seated, balancing and supine poses to EYEN, 8 Tuesdays, 9:15-10:45 am. Begins build strength and flexibility and expand Hatha Yoga January 21, Hancock Church, $160/Seniors our repertoire of movement. We will pay Instructor: Asha Ramesh $120. attention to breathing to focus our minds Stretch and strengthen without ® and bodies. This practice will invite you to competition or performance anxiety in this Zumba : Ditch the Workout, return to your day with renewed energy basic hatha yoga class. Class will include Join the Party! and an overall sense of harmony and well standing, sitting, and supine poses, with Instructor: Ami Stix being. We will practice with joy, patience a focus on the breath. Postures are basic, Zumba is a cardio fitness program and humor! Wear comfortable clothes without compromising on the wellness combining a variety of Latin and and bring a mat and towel. Please note they deliver. The format changes from one international music with dance moves. class is limited to 8 students. The class will week to another, allowing for variation and Using music from around the world with meet in the Corner Studio at the Munroe multiplicity in poses. The yoga you take dance, students will experience everything Center, 1403 Massachusetts Ave. home will allow customization to suit your from salsa to belly dance to Bollywood. EYOM, 6 Mondays, 12:00-1:00 pm. Begins mood and needs. Dress comfortably and Each class incorporates the concept of January 6, Munroe Center, $110/Seniors bring your own mat. interval training by alternating fast and $85. EHYO, 8 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm. slow rhythms for one hour of aerobic Begins January 15, Diamond Middle exercise. This is an all-levels class and Advanced Beginner Yoga School, Room 180, $130/Seniors $100. NO dance knowledge or experience Instructor: Helen Theodosiou is required. The only requirements are If you have been practicing in a Beginning Yoga for Osteoporosis sneakers, a smile and a bottle of water. Yoga class for a while, this is a class to Instructor: Mary Wixted (Although, a towel might be a good idea.) This class encourages students to build on those skills and refine poses. This gentle yoga class is designed to participate comfortably at their own pace The class will give you an opportunity introduce students to the ways that yoga and level--wherever they may be on their to deepen your practice. A full range of can help maintain bone health. Students fitness journey. According to the Mayo postures will allow you to continue to will be taught the 12-minute daily yoga Clinic: “aerobic exercise reduces health build strength, flexibility and stamina. sequence which was studied by Dr. Loren risks, strengthens your heart and boosts Breathing exercises will help to focus the Fishman and shown to build bone density, your mood”. It’s a simple formula: feel the body and mind and alleviate stress. Return as reported in The New York Times. Dr. music, have fun and dance. to your daily activities with renewed Fishman was a student of the yoga master vitality, creating an overall sense of BKS Iyengar and his work is partly based EZUM, 10 Mondays, 7:00-8:00pm. Begins balance, well being and ease, as well as on his teachings. As a nationally certified January 6, Lexington Public Schools Central a greater sense of body/mind awareness. Iyengar yoga teacher, Mary is qualified to Administration Building Gymnasium, 146 Wear comfortable clothes, bring a mat teach the alignment principles which keep Maple Street, access via 328 Lowell St. and towel. The class will meet in the students safe and maximize the benefits Please use the front entrance. Bell is on Corner Studio at the Munroe Center, 1403 of the poses. This class would also be an your left, $135/Seniors $105. Massachusetts Ave. excellent choice for those looking for a Drop-In Zumba® EABY, 6 Mondays, 10:45-11:45 am. gentle yoga class. Please note there is no Begins January 6, Munroe Center, $110/ class on February 20. Instructor: Ami Stix Seniors $85. EOST, 8 Thursdays, 11:00 am-12:30 pm. Students have the option to buy a five- Begins January 23, Hancock Church, $130. session drop-in card that allows you to Joyful Yoga participate in any five of the ten scheduled Instructor: Linda Del Monte Iyengar Yoga Zumba classes this winter. To receive your Beginners, and intermediate students Instructor: Mary Wixted card Lexington Community Education must receive your signed Exercise Release can enjoy this style of yoga, known as a Been curious about why so many people and payment. “celebration of the heart.” This is yoga are taking yoga in the United States? that combines a Kripalu (heart-centered) Come enjoy a yoga class taught in the EDZU, Mondays, 7:00-8:00 pm. $75 for and a detail–oriented style. We will work Iyengar method of yoga. The Iyengar Five Sessions of the Ten Week EZUM on finding balance, distributing weight course.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 37 Our Instructors

Sumeit Aggarwal, MBA, MSIS is the managing Maurice Bombrun is a French native, David Collins has been lecturing on opera in partner and co-founder of Finhive LLC experienced teacher and bilingual dual citizen. the greater Boston area for over 25 years. He specializing in personal finance education. Sumeit He teaches and tutors privately with local private had been Opera Boston’s resident lecturer for 8 has a background in business and technology and public schools, and has worked for Alliance years. He has given opera courses at MIT, Regis with over 20 years of experience as a trusted Francaise. With undergraduate studies at the College, as well as lecturing at Northeastern adviser to leadership teams in consulting, Sorbonne and LSE London, he holds Master’s University. Dave is currently a trustee of The financial analysis and operations. degrees from Sciences Paris and the University of Boston Wagner Association. Dave received his Sanjay Aggarwal, CPA, MBA is dedicated to Grenoble. Bachelor degree from Boston University’s School helping individuals and families achieve personal Kristen Butler has been a computer teacher, of Music, his Master’s from Lesley University financial success. Sanjay has held corporate roles repair technician, network designer, and and did postgraduate work at the New England in accounting, tax and finance in his career, and computer consultant for over 21 years. Conservatory and the University of Connecticut – Hart School of Music. previously worked at a Big-four accounting firm. Robert Butler trained at Berklee College of James Alers received training at Longy Music majoring in Instrumental Performance of Susan Dahl studied art at a variety of places, Conservatory and Boston Conservatory and the Guitar and studied Music Theory at Boston including Amherst College, Parsons School is currently the assistant director of the string University. His students’ personal goals for their of Design, and The School of Visual Arts, and ensembles at Assumption College and Clark instruments and the style that they wish to play worked as a graphic designer for many years. University. is a key part of every lesson. Beginner through She began teaching in community art programs in Boston in 1996, and this led her to complete a Donald Anderson is employed with College advanced players are made welcome with Mr. degree in Art Therapy at Lesley University. Funding Advisors providing financial aid Butler’s patient mentoring approach to the art. information to Eastern Massachusetts. Scott Cahaly graduated from the University of Tom Daley a published poet, tutors poets, and has extensive poetry workshop experience. Paul Angiolillo strives to create works of art that Vermont with a degree in fine arts in the late are both timeless and contemporary, universal 90s. While working as a resident sculptor at the Larry Dannenberg is a professional college and unique. He often incorporates opposites into Vermont Marble Exhibit, he carved a 5000 pound placement consultant. his work: abstract/representational, rustic/refined, block of Vermont Marble. In 2000 Scott relocated Karen Day is a published fiction author for whimsical/contemplative. Paul has exhibited to the Boston area where he started exhibiting his middle grade and young adult readers. work in many galleries and universities. In 2010 he extensively in New England, including having Linda Del Monte has been teaching yoga for founded Scott’s Stone Carving Classes SSCC. his studio crafts currently in the deCordova and 20 years now. She is a Kripalu certified teacher, Fuller museum shops. He also discovered the Donna Calleja has worked as an artist and with an extensive background in Anusara yoga. contemplative pleasures and soothing benefits of teacher of visual arts for thirty-five years. Her Her style of teaching is about being in the best tea as an undergraduate at Yale U. in the 1970s. recent exhibits include MJ1 at ConcordArt, “space” of your body, by learning how to align Since then, he has expanded his interest in this Spring Awakening at Belmont Gallery of Art, and in the most healthful way possible. This ensures, world’s most-popular drink (after water), while Inspired Views at Montserrat College of Art. Her a deeper way of connection to body, mind and working as a journalist and an editor. To gain work can be viewed at www.donnacalleja.com spirit, the true meaning of yoga. She also offers more experience in fine teas, he has also worked Ricardo Calleja is a retired high school Spanish challenges in all her classes, and teaches you to at Upton Tea Imports (Holliston MA). and Literature teacher. practice from the heart. Janet Atiyyat is an Arabic native speaker and John Chamberlain is an eighth grade English John Deming has spent more than 20 years Arabic language teacher. She has been teaching teacher at the Clarke Middle School. refining mat exercises to improve his own Arabic for over five years. She has also been Chris Chen, CFP® CDFA is a fiduciary wealth posture, core strength, and flexibility. He’s taken interpreting for non English speakers in public strategist who helps individuals and families years of Yoga and Pilates classes and is an ACE schools for five years. plan difficult life transitions such as retirement certified personal trainer as well as a retired Damian Barneschi is an art teacher at Lexington and divorce. His cost-effective and tax-efficient Lexington Speech Pathologist. High School. strategies help clients achieve their long Chris Doucette is a veteran Lexington High Elena Belkova studied Fine Arts in Russia and the term financial goals with wealth preservation, School math teacher who has been teaching SAT University of Kentucky. retirement income planning, and legacy planning. math prep for over 5 years. David Bell is an experienced SAT and ACT tutor. Son-Mey Chiu (ED.D. Harvard University; Miki Feldman Simon is a career and an executive Francesca Bellini is a native Italian speaker Chinese Master Emerita, Boston Latin School) is coach who has held leading executive roles in from Perugia and is a certified Italian Language a professional Chinese painter. She has taught marketing, business development, recruiting and teacher in Massachusetts. Francesca has lived in at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, human resources management. Miki founded Massachusetts with her family for over five years. the Decordova Museum, the Harvard Graduate IamBackatWork to help women who have taken a School of Education and other New England career break to return to the workforce. Brad Bennett’s haiku have appeared in over institutions. ® thirty magazines and journals. He has published Rick Fentin, CFP , CLTC, Ed.M. is an two collections of haiku, a drop of pond (2016), Rick Clerici, C.Ht. is a certified clinical sleep independent Registered Investment Adviser and and a turn in the river (2019). a drop of pond won educator and hypnotherapist. Rick has studied Principal of Cambridge Financial Associates in a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from extensively in meditation, personal growth and Arlington. the Haiku Foundation. He has taught haiku to indigenous healing, and utilizes these meditative Toby Forman is a professional musician and a children and adults for over twenty years. techniques in helping clients to heal from trauma, music teacher in the Lexington Public Schools. panic attacks and insomnia. Cathy Berry has been quilting and teaching traditional quilt techniques for over 20 years. College Funding Advisors provides financial aid information to the Boston area.

38 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043 Glenn Frank (MST, CPA/PFS) was the Founding Richard Knisely spent 25 years on air as the Elaine Miller is a Regional SHINE Director, based Director of the Master of Personal Financial champion of local musicians at WGBH Radio, in Wilmington, MA. Planning program at Bentley University in Boston. His Classical Performances” program Elena Neva is a native Russian speaker and 1996 where he taught investment courses introduced people to music new and old from a faculty member at Bunker Hill Community until 2015. Worth Magazine recognized him the concert halls and summer festivals of the College in the Foreign Language Department. as one of the country’s top Wealth Advisors New England region. With a master’s degree in Wim Nijenberg, CTC, has been planning for 10 years. Glenn is currently the Director of piano and composition from Boston University, European travel for 35 years. Investment Tax Strategy at fee-only Lexington Richard is strongly committed to helping people Wealth Management. Over the years, Glenn appreciate the importance of great music in our Rebecca O’Brien, Esq is a partner and co- has counseled numerous students and clients at culture and our lives. founder of O’Brien Cavanagh Ivanova LLP, specializing in small business law and trusts various stages in their lives. Currently, his focus Carla Koehl is Director of Community Relations and estates. Rebecca worked in the corporate is community education, providing an insider’s for Artis Senior Living in Lexington. view of the financial services industry, and helping department of Ropes & Gray, a leading lau lapides company is a boutique-coaching charities with his expertise. international law firm, for five years before co- vocal studio designing fresh programs to founding O’Brien Cavanagh Ivanova LLP. Amy C. Franks earned her PhD in Japanese meet the need of professional voice over Ivan Orlinsky is an accomplished painter and art Language and Literature from Yale University, talent, actors, and business executives alike. teacher. and her BA in Japanese Studies and English from laulapidescompany.com Wellesley College. Virginia Payne has been practicing the Julie Leger-Fullerton attended Boston University, traditional Yang style Tai Chi long form since Mindy Pollack-Fusi is a college application essay Harvard University, and the Universite de 1990, along with its complete suite of Tai Chi coach, veteran journalist/essayist for The Boston Moncton, and teaches ESL and French locally. Globe, and author of the recently-released novel Push-Hands, Sanshou, Sword, and Saber. She has Sairey Leone Luterman, CT, a Lexington The Narcissist’s Daughter: A Meshugenah Love been teaching Tai Chi since 2001 at the Chinese resident, grief counselor and certified Story. Language School in Lexington on Sundays. She thanatologist, supports people as they grieve in has also taught Tai Chi in Boston for a research Richard Geller of MedWorks Corporate her Lexington-based private practice. project in MGH, and at various Health/Fitness Meditation Programs, has been featured in the Luci Mandl, was born in Austria and thus a Centers, including to the students at Jonas Clarke Boston Globe, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, native German speaker. She taught Elementary Middle School in Lexington for their 2011 musical Mass High Tech, and Boston CBS-4 TV news. school in Vienna and enjoys teaching the German play production “Mulan”. See www.meditationprograms.com for more language to adult learners. information. Mindy Pollack-Fusi is a college application essay David Lenoir, MBA, SRES, Real Estate Agent coach, veteran journalist/essayist for The Boston Go Go Allegro Music School’s general International Diamond Society, Coldwell Banker Globe, and author of the recently-released novel philosophy is to make lessons as enjoyable and Residential Brokerage. The Narcissist’s Daughter: A Meshugenah Love rewarding for the students as possible. https:// Story. gogoallegro.com/ Karenna Maraj is a professional jewelry artist who studied metalsmithing at RISD and has taught Rosemary Previte has a master’s degree in Gerry Goolkasian is a retired Lexington Public locally for many years. The Karenna Maraj Jewelry reading and language and several years of Schools math teacher. Collection is both a gallery showcasing local experience teaching English as a Second Natasha Groblewski was born and raised in artists and a classroom/studio space Language. She is also a published editor, with Lexington. She opened the doors to her first Tracy Marks, M.A. has taught continuing ed nearly 20 years experience as a writer, an editor, barre3 studio in Bedford, MA in January 2017. courses for 39 years, and specializes in literature, and a professor. She was drawn to barre3’s warmth, its welcoming poetry writing, personal growth, Photoshop and Marielle Racicot graduated from Providence community, and its adaptive and challenging eBay courses. College with a degree in languages. She has workout. She has since opened a second studio studied abroad in both Spain and France and in Sudbury in September 2017. Nancy McCarthy is a historian, costumer, and seamstress from Arlington. She has been taken students on cultural exchanges. Ms. Racicot Beth Cederberg Guertin has been a weaver researching and recreating textile culture and has taught language at the community college, for more than forty years, and has a strong local women’s daily life of early America since 2011. high school, and middle school levels. and regional reputation for her knowledge Asha Ramesh is a certified yoga teacher from The and support of weaving and the fiber arts. She Dr. Susan McCombs is a board-certified clinical Yoga Studio in Boston and a 200-hour registered has been involved with teaching weaving for hypnotherapist. Hatha yoga teacher. more than thirty years, first through her store in Erin McCormack has taught English and writing Arlington (The Batik and Weaving Supplier), and in the Boston area for many years. She has Srinivas Reddy is a disciple of Sri Partha now through her studio in Waltham (A Place to written and self-published three novels, Spanish Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the late sitar Weave). Soap Operas (Telenovelas) (2011); Blue Eyes in maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Srinivas is a professional concert sitarist and has given Poornima Kirby has taught acting and theater Black Wonderland (2015); and In Regalia (2019). numerous recitals in the US, India and Europe. He arts at the Nirmal Arts Academy in Canajoharie, Laura McLaine is an Instructional Assistant at has three albums to his credit: GITA (1999), Sitar NY, as well as coaching privately in acting Diamond Middle School and teaches Show & Tabla (2001) and Hemant & Jog (2008). In 2011 techniques, Shakespeare, and movement. She Business at Lexplorations during the summer. Srinivas graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD studied at Shakespeare and Co. and the London Shruti Mehta has been teaching Indian cooking in South and Southeast Asian Studies. Under the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and to aficionados for over 25 years. She also guidance of Professor George Hart he studied received her B.A. in Drama, with honors, from conducts private classes upon request. Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions. His Vassar College. Scott Metzger is an award-winning Lexington translation of the work entitled Giver of the Worn Kerry Keohane learned to knit as a child in based photographer. For more info visit, www. Garland was published by Penguin Books in 2010. Canada and has been knitting for over 35 years metzgerstudios.com. and teaching knitting for over fifteen. Nicholas Michael is the founder of Odyssey College Search.

Lexington Community Education | Winter 2020 39 Son-Mey Chiu teaches A Late Winter Scene of Hope: Chinese Brush Painting, p. 15.

Jeremy Richman has been in the real estate Ami Stix is a licensed Zumba instructor and has energy companies in recent years. Earlier in market for over 20 years, with combined danced since childhood. It remains her passion her career, she worked as a power and utility experience as a Realtor® , developer, mortgage and favorite vehicle for exercise and to pursue a investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Bank of consultant and even a foreclosure counselor. healthy lifestyle, connecting the mind, body and America Merrill Lynch, and a strategy consultant Jeremy grew up in Lexington, LHS class of ‘76, spirit. In her opinion, Zumba provides the perfect at McKinsey & Co. Madeline is passionate about and holds an Sc.B. from Brown University ‘83. format to experience the true joy of movement learning and about the transformative power of Magnolia Rios is a native Spanish speaker and and all its benefits. Her goal is to create a safe ideas and insights. the Spanish Language teacher at The Waldorf space where students can pursue their fitness James Wood is a Wealth Strategist focused School of Lexington. goals, build confidence and inspire each other. on developing the wealth management Ami has lived in Lexington with her husband and Robert Rivera holds a diploma from the Mannes strategies for business owners, executives, two boys since 1997. School of Music, a Bachelor of Music degree from and professionals at all stages of their life's the Manhattan School of Music, and a Certificate Elizabeth Stubbs has been an artist all her life, journey. Jim is a long term resident of Lexington, of Performance from Moscow Conservatory. working in a variety of mediums. For the past Massachusetts with interest in Town Governance Currently, Robert is a freelance cellist in the twenty years she has been exploring felt making (25 year Town Meeting member). Boston and New York areas, working in genres as an art form and sharing it with others through Mary Wixted is a nationally certified Iyengar such as classical and jazz. He is also the Music classes and workshops at several locations yoga instructor with over 12 years of teaching Director at the Langham Boston Hotel, a position including the Winsor School, Waldorf School experience (10 years with Lexington Community he has held for the past eight years. of Lexington, ArtSpan Lexington, Umbrella Education). Mary is an expert in helping Community Arts and private students. Debra Samuels is a cookbook author, food and beginners enjoy the practice while taking more travel writer and cooking teacher. Debra has lived Alan Tauber is a gifted percussionist, musician, experienced students to their maximum pose abroad for more than a decade in Japan and Italy, facilitator and educator who has spent over 40 protecting the body with the use of props when where she studied Italian, Korean and Japanese years sharing his passion for drumming and needed. cuisine. healing with the worldwide community. Caroline Yang is Co-Founder of 7Cs Workshop. Miki Feldman Simon is a career and an executive Helen Theodosiou has a Social Work and an She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea and coach who has held leading executive roles in Expressive Arts Therapies degree. She is a RYT- moved to the US in the middle of high school. marketing, business development, recruiting and 500 yoga teacher and is a certified yoga therapist Caroline received a BA in Economics from Smith human resources management. Miki founded (C-IAYT) with the International Association of College and spent her Junior year in Tokyo, IamBackatWork to help women who have taken a Yoga Therapists. She has been teaching yoga for Japan as an exchange student. After college, she career break to return to the workforce. 15 years and enjoys working with beginners of all worked for Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance Co. ages, seniors and those who come to yoga with in Tokyo for five and a half years. She earned an Randi Siu is a visual artist and image consultant. challenges. She also has a private yoga therapy MBA from MIT Sloan School, and joined United For over twenty years, she has empowered practice. Technologies Corporation in Connecticut for clients to express their unique personal style their Leadership Development program. She through the image they present to the world - Gregory Tracy is an instrumental music instructor has lived in Lexington with her husband and from the clothes and accessories they wear, to in the Lexington Public Schools. two daughters since 2008. She has held various the hairstyles and make=up they choose. The Francesca Verri has 17+ years experience as a volunteer positions in town including President result is that they become a unique masterpiece- Professional Organizer. She uses her certification of Community Nursery School, Chair of Trivia beautiful, balanced, harmonious and authentic. as a holistic health coach to help people see Bee and VP of Community Relations of Lexington where they are cluttered and unwell and make Alma Bella Solis is an artist, designer and Education Foundation. She is fluent in Korean, sustainable changes so they can live a healthy, calligrapher who has been teaching art to adults English and Japanese. and children for nearly 20 years. purposeful life. Hongxing Zhang graduated from Beijing Normal Christen Walters received her Bachelor’s Degree Fan Stanbrough is an experienced and highly rated University with a degree of Bachelor of Arts. in English and Secondary Education and her instructor of topics like WordPress and social media Taught middle school and high school students Master’s Degrees in Curriculum and Instruction marketing for community programs in Newton, in history classes in Beijing, China for six years. both from Boston College. She is currently Brookline, Framingham and Marlborough MA. Fan Came to the US and took college level classes an 11th and 12th Grade English Teacher at has trained countless people to use WordPress in social science and humanity. Taught Mandarin Lexington High School. She has been teaching at since 2012. Fan’s teaching style is hands-on and Language class at Middlesex Community College Lexington High School for seven years. practical. Fan also is the owner of BBDS Design, Lowell campus for two years. Have been teaching a web design company located in Metrowest Madeline Wang had a successful career Mandarin Language classes at our center and Boston. Fan is a professional web designer, expert in energy finance before co-founding 7Cs other Chinese Language Schools since 2011 at WordPress design, Magento eCommerce, Search Workshop. She served as structured finance and Engine Optimization and Google Analytics. capital markets executives at leading renewable

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