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SAT & Test Prep Spring Seasonal Strategies Spruce-Ups Walks & Tours brook BROOKLINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Adult & Community Education Brookline, Massachusetts line acting interim superintendent Joseph Connolly school committee Benjamin Chang, Helen Charlupski, WHAT IS BA&CE? WHO TEACHES AT BA&CE? Susan Wolf Ditkoff, Michael Glover, Lisa Brookline Adult and Community Education Our instructors are poets, computer Jackson, David Pollak, Barbara Scotto, (BA&CE) is one of the oldest non-credit,­ public programmers, teachers, chefs, therapists, Rebecca Stone, Beth Jackson Stram education programs in Massachusetts. Adult doctors, artists, and businesspeople who education has been a part of the Brookline come to share their knowledge and training ______community since 1832, beginning with the simply because they love what they do. formation of the Brookline Lyceum Society. It Faculty biographies, listed on our website, BROOKLINE ADULT & is now the largest public program in the state, will introduce you to their experience, talent, COMMUNITY EDUCATION with close to 1,000 courses and over 10,000 and training. advisory committee enrollments yearly. Today, BA&CE is the hub Marina Brodskaya, Arthur Conquest of an educational network serving residents (Chair), Laura Days, Thomas Hantakas, from more than 50 neighboring communities WHO TAKES OUR CLASSES? Jr., Chobee Hoy, Peter Meyer, David Pollak in the greater Boston area and beyond. A self ­ People like you. People who know that (School Committee Representative), supporting program of the public schools, learning does not stop with graduation, Steve von Lichtenberg BA&CE’s operating budget is funded entirely but is a life­long process. People who from course fees. seek personal and professional­ growth; administrative staff entertainment and education; new ideas and new experiences, and who enjoy the Director WHAT DOES COMMUNITY EDUCATION MEAN? company of others who seek the same. Claudia Dell’Anno Through its proud tradition of public schooling, Program Coordinators the “business” of Brookline has always been Monica von Huene education. The Brookline Public Schools has HOW DO YOU GET STARTED? Jane Rumrill built on this tradition, expanding the concept Give us a call at 617-730-2700. Monday- Michael Spicher of public education to serve the many different Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, please find us at Office Manager constituencies which make up Brookline and 24 Webster Place, Brookline Village. IIn the Donna Martinez its larger community. BA&CE fulfills its mission evening, Monday-Thursday, 4:00-10:00 pm, by providing service to the community and Evening Operations Manager and on Saturday, 8:30 am-2:00 pm, please Jennifer DeSutter enlisting­ its support for public education. visit us in Room 100, Brookline High School. Visit us online at www.brooklineadulted.org. Accounts Payable As partners with the schools in a common Susan E. Bonoff purpose, BA&CE is committed to offering Send us an email at [email protected]. lifelong educational opportunity to all: ma.us. Our staff will answer your questions Operations Support Assistant newcomers to the United States, working and help you choose from among our Trevette Campbell people and professionals,­ those in transition comprehensive course selections. But first, or career change, older citizens, persons with keep reading. We think you will be pleased Street Address: special needs, and especially those who by what you see. Brookline High School have not been able to participate fully in the 115 Greenough Street educational process. BA&CE is also dedicated Brookline, Massachusetts to supporting public education by creating OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY and providing opportunities for innovation and We strive to offer educational programs Mailing Address: flexibility in the school curriculum. By offering of the highest quality to our participants. P.O. Box 150 Brookline, MA 02446 617-730-2700 programs that bridge the generations, the Please let us know if you feel that the TTY 617-713-5097 Brookline Public Schools seeks to unite the quality of the instruction was unsatisfactory, www.brooklineadulted.org community in a common purpose—educating or if you feel the class did not meet your [email protected] for the improvement of the quality of life for all expectations. Please send us a letter its members. expressing your concerns, comments, or ______positive feedback, and we’ll personally respond. Catalog Design Sarah Georgakopoulos Design Distribution Volume 24/Issue 2/Spring 2016 Max’s Trucking Brookline Adult & Community Education • USPS #009-762 Printing Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. Published quarterly by Brookline Adult & Community Education, 115 Greenough Street, Brookline, MA 02445. Periodicals U.S. postage is paid at Boston, MA. Postmaster: Send address changes to Brookline Adult & Community Education 115 Greenough Street, Brookline, MA 02445 contents a welcome message special programs 3 Spring Highlights t’s been a long winter, but it looks like it’s finally spring and time to get ready for 4 Distinguished Lecture Series outdoor activities. Brookline Adult & Community Education is looking forward to warmer weather and brighter days, and to celebrate the season, we’ve planned 6 Thursday Evening Lecture Series I plenty of interesting walks and tours this spring. Discover an important part of the past in Brookline’s Hidden History of Slavery and Freedom or in Boston’s Old South End Jewish Tour. Explore space science and astronomy in Family Night Under the Stars. courses for adults Enjoy an afternoon of local samplings at The Fireplace: New England Whiskey or Micro 41 Arts Brew Beers. Ride safe and smooth with Basic Bike Maintenance and Urban Riding and Commuting Tips. Revel in the best view of Boston with Kayak Adventure: The Boston 24 Computers & Technology Skyline or take a trip down the Charles River in a Moonlight Canoe Trip. See the town in 44 Crafts & Skills a new light in Brookline’s Beacon Street Walk, Walking Tour of Fisher Hill, and Secret Stairways and Paths. Take a hike through Newton’s Hemlock Gorge, ramble for greens 37 Dance & Fitness in Urban Foraging for Wild Edibles, take in some art in South End Galleries, or go on 21 English as a Second a hive visit in Urban Beekeeping. Enjoy Tall and Blonde: Giraffes and Understanding Language Gorilla Behavior at the Franklin Park Zoo. Or explore the city sites of Boston in Changing 28 Finance, Career & Real Estate Times: A Walking Tour of Boston Society, Boston’s Historic Waterfront, and Parkside: Jamaica Plain’s “Little Concord.” 30 Food & Wine 35 Health & Yoga In addition to all of these exciting tours, we’ve also planned a selection of engaging lectures and classes that meet during the day, in the evening, or on Saturday. We hope 32 Hobbies, Walks & Tours you are able to take advantage of one of our many offerings this spring. Includes bridge, drones, and more

40 Home & Garden 8 Humanities & Music Includes literature, music and acting is like 17 Languages Learning rowing upstream: 23 Mind & Body not 14 Test Preparation to advance Includes HiSET, GRE, and driver’s is education to drop back. 15 Writing & Communication Skills Includes blogging and grant writing “ -Chinese Proverb courses for children ON OUR COVER 2 SmartPrograms 2016 for us (detail) by Dena Haden, 2013 Hand dyed interfacing, metal,” and thread essentials 22” x 35” x 18” 47 General Information Courtesy of the artist 48 Refunds, Credits & Transfers 48 Class Locations Dena Haden is a visual artist who works with a variety of media exploring the natural cycle of Inside Back Cover Registration Form something coming into form, living, ever-changing and malleable, and the residue it leaves in passing. Within this body of work, she approaches art making as a process of surfacing rhythmic Inside Back Cover Parking Map energies inside one’s body. Searching through sound, movement, material, and her own state of awareness, she makes these areas tangible. Dena grew up on Cape Cod and went on to earn her B.F.A. in painting from UMass Dartmouth and her M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. You can find more of her work atwww.hadendena.com .

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 1 brook SmartPrograms for Childrenline Brookline SmartPrograms For Children Ages 5-13 A perfect combination of fun and learning! BA&CE offers educational and enjoyable programs especially for children throughout the school year and during summer vacation. Students enrolled in any of our SmartPrograms will have a blast learning new talents, improving skills, and making friends in state-of-the-art studios. Students need not be a Brookline resident to enjoy these programs.

SmartVacations: April 2016

Fill your child’s April vacation with fun! Students can choose from an array of activities from 9:00 am-4:30 pm during the vacation week. We also offer an early morning drop-off and late afternoon pick-up, plus a lunchtime opportunity to swim (ages 7 and older) or to watch a movie on the big screen. Program meets 4 days at Brookline High School: Tuesday, April 19–Friday, April 22, 2016. Here’s a sampling of our activities: • Soccer and Gym Games • Paint Like a Master • Cooking Creations • Science of Sound • Baker’s Delight • Computer Lab: Scratch SmartSummers: Summer 2016 • iMovie Editing Discover why SmartSummers could be your child’s smartest summer yet! Students can choose from a variety of half- and full-day educational adventures from June 27 through For more information August 31, 2016. Programs meet at Brookline High and about these programs, Lincoln School. please visit our website at Our array of summer enrichment programs includes: www.brooklineadulted.org or call BA&CE at 617-730-2700. • Creating Puppet Plays • Computer Workshops • Creative Arts for Teens • Eureka Science • Cooking Creations and • Minecraft Mania Adventures! • Wicked Gross Science • Studio Arts, Crafts, and Games • CyberSummer • Bringing Books to Life • Theater Arts • Outdoor Afternoon • Theater Arts, Jr. Adventures

For more after school, evening, and weekendSmartPrograms for children, teens, and families, please visit our website: www.brooklineadulted.org/smartprograms.

2 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 spring highlights Welcome to the Spring 2016 Program!

Spring Highlights SPRING CLEANING CHECKLIST Explore some of our favorite new offerings this Whether for finances, home, or health, spring. there are few rites of spring more satisfying than the annual clean. The • Songwriting and Composition, page 11 following classes are designed to help • The Craft of Writing: Worldbuilding, page 15 you prepare! Prepare • Business Communication Mastery, page 16 • How to be Happier: Positive for the SAT • Listening to Opera in Italian, page 19 Psychology Skills, page 7 • Crowdfunding 101, page 25 • Discover Your Inner Resources: Tools Let us help your child • How to Finance a New Home, page 29 For Living, page 8 prepare for college • Cooking and Baking with Fresh Herbs, page • Mindfulness: A Day-Long Retreat, and the SAT with these 31 page 23 helpful courses, see • Simple and Sweet Italian Desserts, page 32 • Holistic Tools for Vital Living, page 23 page 14. • Pilates: For Mommy and Baby, page 38 • Change Your Thinking, Change Your SAT Strategies: Life, page 24 • Creating a Landscape Vision and Plan, page Prepare for the June 40 • Long-Term Care Planning, page 29 2016 Exam • Combining Media: Solid Design Choices, • Yoga for Relaxation and Stress page 42 Management, page 36 College Essay Planning Workshop • Enameling 101, page 45 • Shake Your Soul, page 38 • Elevating the Impact of Your Image with Style, page 40 Tackling the New 2016 For course updates and • Organizing 101: How to Organize SAT Essay information: Your Space, Time, and Life, page 40 LIKE US ON FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/ brooklineadulted FOLLOW US ON TWITTER twitter.com/BAandCE Spring Walking Tours Embrace the great outdoors with these springtime walking, kayaking, and boating tours. • Brookline’s Hidden History of Slavery and Freedom, page 8 • Boston’s Old South End Jewish Tour, page 8 Register Early! • Kayak Adventure: The Boston Skyline, page 33 • Moonlight Canoe Trip, page 33 We recommend students register • Brookline’s Beacon Street Walk, page 33 at least one week before classes • A Walk in Newton’s Hemlock Gorge, page 33 begin. Classes with low enrollment • Changing Times: A Walking Tour of Boston Society, page 33 risk cancellation. Registering early gives the best chance of your class • Boston: A City Engineered Walking Tour, page 34 running. • A Walking Tour of Fisher Hill, page 34 • Boston’s Historic Waterfront: A Walking Tour, page 34 • Brookline’s Secret Stairways and Paths, page 34 • Parkside: Jamaica Plain’s “Little Concord,” page 35 • Urban Foraging for Wild Edibles, page 35

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brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 3 brookline distinguished lecture series

We are pleased to present an exciting spring line-up of events. This special series will feature talks by local speakers who will draw on their expertise and experience on subjects including climate change, building companies to treat disease, and how movies shape our children’s values.

Climate Change: Our Generation’s Greatest New Technologies, Developing Drugs, and Challenge Building Companies to Treat Disease Mindy Lubber, Internationally Renowned Expert Harvey Lodish, Founding Member, Whitehead on Climate Change Institute for Biomedical Research Wednesday, April 6, 2016 • 7:00-8:30 pm Tuesday, April 26, 2016 •7:00-8:30 pm Brookline High School, 115 Greenough Street • $6 Brookline High School, 115 Greenough Street • $6

Extreme weather events and December, Lubber attended Almost every day we hear companies. The basics of heat waves are impacting the United Nations Climate of a new drug or device starting a biotech company to biodiversity, threatening Change Conference in Paris, that can cure a previously develop novel therapeutics, ecosystems, and putting and will provide an overview untreatable disease. Therapies diagnostics, and devices will decades of investments into of the Paris Agreement. for many forms of cancer also be addressed. nature conservation and are being revolutionized. sustainable development Laboratory research in at risk. Experts predict that universities, medical schools, to maintain our standard of and hospitals generates living, we will have to invest a a deep understanding of trillion dollars a year by 2030 a disease at a cellular or into clean energy and a new molecular level. This research, energy future. Climate change supported by grants from the is our generation’s greatest federal government and by threat to social order, public philanthropic gifts, frequently health, national security, and points the way towards a economic stability. On this potential therapy. However, evening, Mindy Lubber will translation of these discoveries Mindy Lubber, president Harvey Lodish, Ph.D. speak about the economic into actual drugs, diagnostics, is of Ceres, directs the Ceres a founding member of imperatives of climate and medical devices often Investment Network on the Whitehead Institute change involving corporations, Climate Change, a group of depends on entrepreneurial for Biomedical Research, investors, and major 120 institutional investors academic scientists and professor of Biology economic players. While managing nearly $13 trillion in who start cutting edge and professor of Biological transitioning to a clean energy assets focused on the business biotechnology companies. Engineering at MIT. He is economy, governments and risks and opportunities of Molecular biologist, Harvey a member of the National climate change. Lubber speaks industry must work together Lodish, will discuss his own Academy of Sciences, and a regularly about corporate and to advance sustainable experiences in helping start fellow of the American Academy investor sustainability issues to of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Lodish solutions that will reduce leaders at the United Nations; Genzyme, Inc. and Millennium carbon emissions and other Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is the founding chair of the World Economic Forum; New Scientific Advisory Board of the pollutants, protect vital among other ventures. He York Stock Exchange; Clinton Massachusetts Life Sciences natural resources like water Global Initiative; American Bar will describe the innovative Center, the group charged supplies, ensure safe and Association; and more than technologies that led to with oversight of the state’s just working conditions for 100 Fortune 500 firms. She is the founding, funding, 10-year $1 billion investment employees, and reduce our a recipient of the Skoll Award and development of these in the life sciences. He was a reliance on fossil fuels. Last for Social Entrepreneurship, enterprises, and discuss founder and scientific advisory and was named one of The companies recently started by board member of companies 100 Most Influential People Boston area academics. New including Genzyme, Inc., Arris in Corporate Governance by Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Directorship magazine. Lubber drug development requires an intense collaboration between Millennium Pharmaceuticals, lives in Brookline with her Inc. Dr. Lodish lives in academic medical centers, husband and two children. Brookline with his wife Pamela, research hospitals, and three children, and seven biotech and biopharmaceutical grandchildren.

4 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 How Movies Shape Our Children’s Values Colin Stokes, Public Speaker, TED Talks; Director of Internal Communications & Culture, the Achievement Network Wednesday, April 13, 2016 •7:00-8:30 pm •MLK Room, Brookline High School, 115 Greenough Street • $6 community event There is a heated debate about how our values are shaped by the popular culture we consume— Sponsored by the Brookline Community Aging Network television shows, movies, (Founding members: Brookline Council on Aging, Center cartoons, comic books, and Communities of Brookline, Goddard House Assisted Living, video games. For parents, and Jewish Family and Children’s Services), and Brookline this question is especially Adult & Community Education fraught, since children’s lives are soaked in characters and storylines marketed on every surface. The best Selling the Fountain of Youth stories, we are told, teach Colin Stokes Arlene Weintraub, Science Journalist and lessons about morality and applies communications strategies Author how the world works. The to make social change and Monday, April 11, 2016 • 6:00-6:30 pm Reception; narratives all around us send help organizations fulfill their 6:30-8:00 pm Program messages over and over, and missions. His three TED Talks Hunneman Hall, Brookline Public Library, 361 our children can’t help but on the role stories play in Washington Street absorb them. The question identity have been viewed Free; pre-registration is required is: what are our kids really on TED.com more than six learning? From The Wizard of million times. For the past More and more people are grasping at ways to stay young. ten years, he has worked with Oz to Star Wars, from comic Will science find a way for us to live forever? On this the leadership of educational book superheroes to Disney evening, Arlene Weintraub will address some of the most princesses, our modern institutions on storytelling, branding, messaging, employee controversial practices in the anti-aging industry, including mythology sets the boundaries engagement, and inclusion. the promotion of human growth hormone and bio-identical of heroism, justice, and He has spoken at Walt Disney estrogen and progesterone to aging people—practices that victory in ways that might Animation Studios, and helped are backed up by bogus, unproven scientific claims. She surprise you. TED speaker to develop materials for Lean will explain some of the health risks, primarily cancer, that Colin Stokes will weave unique In, and the Girls Scouts’ Ban have been linked to these anti-aging strategies, and will interpretations of well-known Bossy, Leadership Tips for discuss how dietary supplements are mismarketed as the popular films together Girls campaign. Stokes was a fountain of youth. She will also present some of the most with humorous personal professional actor in Boston compelling evidence in favor of exercise as a life-extending experiences to unlock ways and New York specializing in strategy, and will end the evening with a peek at her most we can master the stories we Shakespeare and musicals recent book, Heal, describing how dogs are helping in the and holds a B.A. in Visual and live by. fight against cancer. Environmental Studies from Harvard University. He lives Arelene Weintraub has written about science and health for in Brookline with his wife and Forbes.com, U.S. News & World Report, New Scientist, and children. other publications. She was previously a science writer at BusinessWeek. Arlene is the author of Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures and Selling the Fountain of Youth: How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease out of Getting Old—And Made Billions.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 5 thursday evening lecture series

Our lecture series is an experiment in education and entertainment. From the historical to the cultural, our lectures will engage and enlighten, and give you a taste of all that Brookline Adult & Community Education has to offer.

Grant Writing 101 The Social and Artistic Family Tree Research: Reboot: Reinventing Hillel Bromberg, Grant Responsibility of An Exploration by Yourself in the Second Writer You need funds for your nonprofit Artists: Exploring Bob a Descendant of Act of Life organization; foundations have Dylan Armenian Genocide Lauren Mackler, World- money to give away. The link Renowned Coach between them is called a “grant Christopher John Survivors proposal,” and this lecture, For many people, midlife is Stephens, Teacher and challenging and identifying their taught by an experienced grant Musician Ann O’Donnell, Memoir writer, provides a whirlwind tour Writer/educator next steps is an overwhelming and of its parts and how to approach Since 1962, Bob Dylan has daunting task. In this powerful them. We’ll start with some broad worn many crowns: voice of a Ann (Goolkasian) O’Donnell was lecture with Lauren Mackler, a concepts: what is a proposal, generation, rock star, preacher, only marginally aware of her CNN commentator, best-selling what are its elements, what is blues man. In this lecture, we’ll father’s family history until the author of Solemate and co-author the writing process, and how best look at that first title. “Only a Pawn passing of her aunt necessitated of Speaking of Success with Jack to use your team. Then we will in their game” and “Lonesome emptying her grandparents’ Canfield and Stephen Covey, you get down to specifics, exploring Death of Hattie Carroll,” both home of 100 years of history. will gain practical tools to clarify each of the major sections of a from 1964’s The Times They are Photographs, Armenian newspaper what you want for your next life typical proposal. We’ll also discuss a-Changin’, examine, respectively, clippings, snippets of half-forgotten chapter and the experiences you other elements of the submission the murder of civil rights activist conversations, and Proustian seek. Lauren will teach you how package like the letter of intent, Medgar Evers and a 51 year old memories of Sunday dinners to embrace the second act of life budget, and supplementary barmaid. 1975’s “Hurricane,” at “Haig and Granny’s” came as an opportunity to assess where materials. You’ll come away with from the album Desire, covers the together to unveil the doorway to you are, re-evaluate your goals, and ideas about how to approach trials of accused and convicted a passionate family tree search… create a fulfilling life that you love. and the “secret” of the Armenian funders via grant proposals, what murderer and Heavyweight Boxing Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th makes a proposal readable and Champion Ruben “Hurricane” genocide, the second largest 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/28/2016. effective, what reviewers look Carter. Through audio exploration genocide of modern times. In Brookline High, $6. for, resources to use, and pitfalls of the lyrics and discussion of this lecture, Ann will share her to avoid, and what it takes to be the controversies that followed exploration of political intrigue, pain, noticed by foundations. There will all three songs, we will examine resilience, humor, and joy, and will be time at the end of the lecture the responsibility a protest singer read brief passages of her writing for Q&A. has to creating dramatic art and that relate to the photographs and adhering to the facts. Is the singer/ stories she presents. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. songwriter a journalist? Should Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th Brookline High, $6. there be any degree of objectivity 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/14/2016. in creating compelling narratives? Brookline High, $6. Should there be a line between pamphleteers of old, who reported the news as it happened, and subjective journalism that risks slander and defamation for the sake of a great story? We’ll answer these questions and more. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th MEET OUR FACULTY 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Brookline High, $6. Lauren Mackler

Renowned life, relationship, career, and executive coach Lauren Mackler is the author of international bestseller, Solemate, and co-author of Speaking of Success with Jack Canfield and Stephen Covey. Lauren is a frequent commentator for CNN and FOX, and blogger for the Huffington Post. www.laurenmackler.com.

6 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 thursday evening lecture series

The Lessons and How to Listen to How to be Happier: Spanish Treasures: Legacy of Nuremberg Stand Out Positive Psychology Gaudi to the Alhambra Jack Curtis, Writer and Kit Pang, President of the Skills that Will Change Sally Peabody, Travel Editor Federal Toastmaster Club Advisor and Guide At the end of World War II, from of Boston Your Brain Have you ever wanted to visit November 1945 to October 1946, Everything seems to beg for Jeanne Mayell, Intuitive Spain? Join us for a spirited look in Nuremberg, Germany, the Allied our attention these days, and Counselor at two irresistible Spanish regions: victors—Great Britain, France, especially with the rise of social Andalucia in the sunny south the Soviet Union, and the United media, we’ve started to tune things The Dalai Lama said, “Happiness and Catalonia in the northeast. States—prosecuted 21 major out more than ever. It is more is not something ready made. It Andalucia is noted for flamenco, Nazi leaders for war crimes and important than ever to slow down comes from your own actions.” Our fighting bulls, tapas, wines, and crimes against humanity. Called and listen. Listening can help us society trains us from an early age sherries. It’s also renowned for the “the greatest trial in history,” the learn about our internal struggles, to seek material success, to make stunning architectural monuments lessons of Nuremberg have had fortify relationships, and become money, or to achieve fame and built by and influenced by Spain’s profound ripple effects on how respected leaders. Listening is the recognition. But these often do Islamic era. Add the romantic, the world confronts the savagery communication skill that we use not bring happiness, which comes historic small cities, gorgeous of war and genocide. In honor of the most often. However, listening from a different path and can be ‘white’ villages tucked in the Holocaust Remembrance Day, might be the most misunderstood cultivated with surprisingly simple mountains, the Mediterranean and this lecture will focus on the communication process. In this daily practices. On this evening, Atlantic seacoasts, and you have Nuremberg Trials and the later lecture taught by an experienced you’ll be introduced to skills for an unbeatable mix. Catalonia is trials of Adolf Eichmann and Klaus consultant for entrepreneurs and achieving happiness that have known for its rich history of design Barbie. We’ll discuss the meaning speakers, we will discuss how been tried and tested. Join us to and modernista architecture, and relevance of the trials in we’ve become the listeners we are, learn positive psychology skills and for its flavorful regional cuisine, an era of ethnic cleansing and the barriers to communication, how to jump-start your healthier wines, and cavas. Barcelona is terrorism, and view excerpts from a and what effective listening can do happier life. unbeatable for diving into the 2002 PBS documentary. for us. More important, we will talk Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th Spanish alegría de vivir. Ancient Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th about how we can better listen to 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 5/19/2016. Girona is home to Europe’s best- 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 5/5/2016. ourselves and to others. Brookline High, $6. preserved Medieval Jewish quarter. Charming Cadaques, tucked in the Brookline High, $6. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 5/12/2016. northeast corner was home to Dali Brookline High, $6. and also inspired numerous other painters and writers. You’ll want to start packing your bags after this night’s talk. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 5/26/2016. Brookline High, $6.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 7 Introduction to Astronomy at the Clay Center Marek Kozubal, Instructor Humanities and Music This course is for beginning stargazers, or those who love to ponder mysteries beyond the blue sky. Our focus will be on observational astronomy, learning about constellations, sky navigation, Earth’s seasons, and phases of the moon, to gain basic knowledge and skills to help you appreciate and study the night So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Boston’s Old South End Jewish Tour sky. We will also cover the basics of reflecting Co-Sponsored by the Brookline Senior Center Robin Dexter, Guide and refracting telescopes, how to calculate telescope magnification, and tips on what to Are you contemplating retirement or have you From the 1840s to the 1920s, a vibrant look for when purchasing your own telescope. recently retired? Are you considering post Jewish neighborhood flourished just south of Weather permitting, we will use the Clay retirement passions, or interested in starting the Boston Common. Our tour will begin on Center’s 25” research-grade scope and other an independent venture? Maybe you have a Hadassah Way, and will take us on a cultural telescopes, and explore the fiber-optic-lit Stars passion, skill, or interest that could lead to your journey past many sites and buildings that Court, and the 3D Moon Court. own business opportunity? Join three Brookline still stand today. We will pass the plaque to business owners as they share stories about Edward Filene, the Grand Lodge of Masons, Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. their personal journey to entrepreneurship. and Warrenton Street where the first synagogue Begins 4/7/2016. Meet at the Clay Center Panelists will include Felice Brenner, former in Boston, Ohabei Shalom, was built in 1852. Observatory, Dexter Southfield School, 20 executive recruiter and current yoga instructor; Continuing on Warrenton Street, our tour will Newton St, Brookline, $68. Eleanor Parker, owner and CEO of Rewarding wind its way into the heart of the South End, Work; and Carol Sapoznick, owner of The Olive along Tremont Street through beautiful Union Connection Specialty Store. Park, and past the Greek Orthodox Church that Amateur Radio Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 5:30-7:00PM. was once the third home of Ohabei Shalom, Bob Phinney, Instructor Begins 5/10/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 before it moved to its present structure on This exciting course introduces you to the Winchester Street, Brookline, Pre-registration Beacon Street in Brookline. We’ll visit Berkeley hobby of amateur radio communications and is required; the program is free if reserved in Street in the Back Bay where we will view teaches everything you need to get your ham advance. There will be a $10 fee on the day of Theodore Parker Memorial Hall (now condos) radio license. Topics will range from the science the event. which was the second location of Adath Israel, of radio electronics to the FCC rules governing later renamed Temple Israel. Our tour will cover the radio spectrum. The FCC Technician test about 1 1/2 miles, so please wear will be given at the final class. Participants may comfortable walking shoes. join the Clay Center Amateur Radio Club for Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 2:00- continuing support and activities after receiving We Now Have Two Offices 4:15PM. Begins 4/3/2016. Meet on a license. Course syllabus is online at www. Hadassah Way, located across the cc-arc.org. Adult and child pairs (ages 10 and If you have a question or would like to street from the Boston Public Garden up) also welcome. Course price is for one or an register for a class in person during the day, and Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, $25. adult/child pair. Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, please Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: Th 6:15-8:30PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Meet at the Clay Center find us at 24 Webster Place, Brookline Discover Your Inner Resources: Observatory, Dexter Southfield School, 20 Village. In the evening, Monday-Thursday, Tools For Living Newton St, Brookline, $80. 4:00-10:00 pm, and on Saturday, Leah Becker, Mark Gately, Instructors 8:30 am-2:00 pm, please visit us in The purpose of the Peace Education Program (PEP), created by The Family Night Under the Stars Room 100, Brookline High School. Prem Rawat Foundation, is to help Center Clay, Instructor participants discover their own inner Learn all about space science from astronomy resources or innate tools for living. It experts at the Clay Center Observatory at is through the discovery of personal Dexter Southfield. On this special family night, Brookline’s Hidden History of Slavery peace that world peace will emerge. This you’ll learn about meteorites, stars, and and Freedom: A Walking Tour workshop offers an opportunity to explore constellations; explore the planetary scales; the possibility of personal peace, and each and see a 3D astronomy show. Walk among the Barbara Brown, Guide session will focus on one core theme from stars on the Clay Center’s fiber-optic-lit Stars While many buildings in Brookline show the Prem Rawat’s international public addresses. Court, and travel in a glass elevator up to the town’s history, they rarely reveal much of the This spring, the themes we will concentrate on roof deck, where you can enjoy a panoramic past of the people who lived here. The history include personal peace, appreciation, inner view of Boston. Finally, you’ll tour Clay Center’s can remain hidden in plain view. This walking strength, self-awareness, and clarity. Each state-of-the-art observatory and point the tour will visit four sites that tell the key stories session will include use of videos, reflection, telescope towards the planets, moon, and stars. of slavery and freedom in our town. Our tour will reading materials, writing in a workbook Ages 6 and up are welcome, accompanied begin at Town Hall, looking at evidence of slavery (provided), and sharing. No discounts or waivers by an adult. The program will start promptly hidden in plain sight. The walk will also include a apply. at 6:30 pm; latecomers may miss something dramatic re-creation at an Underground Railroad Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. exciting. Price is per family. house of Ellen Craft and her very public escape Begins 4/26/2016. Brookline High, $50. from slavery in 1848. The walk is not strenuous; Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:30-8:00PM. however, those who need to can drive the short Begins 4/13/2016. Meet at the Clay Center Observatory, Dexter Southfield School, 20 distances between sites. Newton St, Brookline, $30. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00-11:30AM. Begins 4/16/2016. Meet in front of the main door of Brookline Town Hall, 333 Washington Street, $20.

8 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Reading the Bible: Book of Samuel Part Exploring Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood HUMANITIES & MUSIC I Anderson’s Literary Masterpiece Judy Weiss, Instructor Jack Curtis, Instructor The Book of Samuel introduces the period of Published in 1919 to instant acclaim and A Special Invitation Israel’s kings, and begins with the miraculous popularity, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, birth of Samuel, leader of Israel and anointer Ohio laid bare the hopes, dreams, and fears Reading and Presentation of of Israel’s first kings. Samuel’s name literally of a small Midwestern town. Considered an Autobiographical Materials means “The Name of his god is El.” But American classic, the frank and realistic story Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 10:15-11:45 am according to his birth story his name means cycle influenced novelists such as Hemingway, Brookline Senior Center “the one pleaded for.” Why the difference, and Faulkner, and Steinbeck. We’ll explore the 93 Winchester Street, Brookline how does it help us understand his role? Join book’s engaging characters, themes, style, and The participants of Telling Your Story: us to read, study, and discuss the first part of portrayal of the human condition, and discuss Senior Seminar in Autobiographical Writing the book. Class will focus on Samuel’s life and what makes it an enduring masterpiece. Please invite you to a reading and presentation family, his call to serve God, and the need for a read Winesburg, Ohio prologue and stories 1-3 of their work at the Brookline Senior king. Please bring a Bible (any translation). and 5 for the first class. Center as part of the Brookline Archive of Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Tu 10:30AM- Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. Living History Project. Refreshments and 12:30PM. Begins 3/15/2016. Brookline Senior Begins 5/2/2016. Brookline High, $84. socializing will follow the presentation. Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $84. Modern American Western Novel World Literature: Ancient Myths and Alissa Butterworth, Instructor Legends The Western genre of literature has been Telling Your Story: Senior Seminar in Proshot Kalami, Instructor important and popular in American culture, Autobiographical Writing This world literature course, deeply embedded from the novels of Owen Wister to those of Irving Schwartz, Instructor in history and mythology, will explore Louis L’Amour. This course seeks to explore a manuscripts from early civilizations. Our Co-sponsored by the Council on Aging selection of Modern American Western novels readings will include works such as The Epic of including All the Pretty Horses by Cormac As we grow older, we tend to view our lives Gilgamesh, the first great work of literature,The McCarthy, The Assassination of Jesse James with a more reflective frame of mind. We think Persians by Aeschylus, translation of the Book by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, of who we are, where we’ve been, and what of Kings, and Seamus Heaney’s translation of True Grit by Charles Portis, and In Calamity’s meaning we can make of our ‘moments in Beowulf. We will look at these works and their Wake by Natalee Caple. Discussion will focus history.’ Telling your story, or some fragment of message from a whole new perspective, and on the Western as genre, and why generations it, is a way to order your life by giving meaning discuss their shared myths and legends. Please of readers have found it appealing, as well to your unique experience. If you want to read The Epic of Gilgamesh for the first class. as what makes the Western novel uniquely share what you have come to know, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 1:00-3:00PM. American in origin. Please begin to read True would like some help in organizing and writing Grit for the first class. your remembered past, join us. Seniors only; Begins 5/4/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 discount does not apply. Winchester Street, Brookline, $96. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 1:00-3:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 10:15-11:45AM. Winchester Street, Brookline, $96. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Inspired by the Classics Winchester Street, Brookline, $74. Alissa Butterworth, Instructor Short Stories: Hemingway and the Today, there is an ever-growing array of modern Golden Age Biblical Hebrew for Beginners novels that draw from some of literature’s most classic titles. The goal of this course Rosalie Davis, Instructor Moris Hoch, Instructor is to explore modern retellings and stories Between World Wars I and II, the short story Beginning with the Hebrew alphabet and derived from classic literature. Our readings exploded as an innovative and popular form building vocabulary along the way, learn how will include A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, in America, boosted in part by a flourishing to read and understand verses in the Hebrew March by Geraldine Brooks, The Penelopiad by periodicals industry. We will begin our study of Scriptures. Our goal will be to build a vocabulary Margaret Atwood, and The Hours by Michael this Golden Age of modern short fiction with of 100 common Biblical Hebrew words, learn Cunningham. The focus of our discussions will Ernest Hemingway’s collection, “In Our Time,” to read and pronounce Hebrew letters and be around the current work, with reference to which students should read for the first class. vowel combinations, and gain familiarity the original story it is based on. Considerations We will also sample works of such masters as with basic rules of Hebrew grammar. Writing of how the writer chose to reset the story, and Jean Toomer, Katherine Anne Porter, James Hebrew in both the block and cursive scripts whether it works or not will be explored, as well Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Katherine Mansfield, will be demonstrated. Study material and as the idea of what makes a “classic” in the and William Faulkner. Class meetings may assignments will be available in class, and slide first place. Please begin to readMarch for the include formal analysis, reading aloud, and presentations created by the instructor will first class. discussion. For the first class, please read also be available online. Please bring a pen, pages 5-180, “Francis Macomber” through notebook, and Hebrew-English dictionary. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 4/26/2016. Brookline High, $96. “Big Two-Hearted River.” Required text: The Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: M 1:00-3:00PM. Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 6:00-8:00PM. Winchester Street, Brookline, $118. Begins 5/4/2016. Brookline High, $96.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 9 Henry Mancini: The Man and His Music Jazz Appreciation: Bebop to Hard Bop Understanding Music Theory Marshall Wright, Instructor Max Mullowney, Instructor Shannon Jacob, Instructor Join us to learn about one of the great film Jazz is a uniquely American genre of music with If you want to play an instrument, improve your composers of our times. Enrico Nicola “Henry” a rich, subtle history. This course will focus on music reading or writing skills, or appreciate Mancini’s (1924-1994) career stretched over the origins and early phases of Jazz (1940s û more fully the music you listen to, music theory 50 years and included his timeless themes 1960s), beginning with the move away from is an essential tool. Music theory is the study from films like The Pink Panther, to his lesser the Big Band style. Starting with Bebop, Jazz of the very simple concepts that underlie how known, yet just as tuneful, work in television. became a separate style of music with lasting music is written, played, and heard. Open to all Over the course of three sessions, we will influence. Through listening and discussing, you students, we will begin with a brief review of the look in depth at Mancini’s music, listening will learn the distinctions between the different elements of music: notes on the staff, treble to excerpts from all points in his career. In types of Jazz along with their influence on the and bass clefs, rhythm and meter, and review addition, our instructor will perform several history of music. We will give special attention major and minor scales, sharp and flat key of Mancini’s pieces on the piano for your to Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, signatures, and simple chords and harmony. At enjoyment, also sharing several items from his Herbie Hancock, and others. the end of the course you will possess enough own personal collection. Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. skill to read and notate simple music, transpose Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Tu 10:30AM- Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $84. any given melody into any key, create melodies 12:30PM. Begins 5/17/2016. Brookline Senior to fit over chord progressions, and compose Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $84. chordal accompaniments to simple melodies. Jazz Appreciation: Coltrane and Beyond Please bring a notebook and music staff paper to the first meeting. Max Mullowney, Instructor Soli Deo Gloria: the Sacred Music of Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 7:00-8:30PM. Johann Sebastian Bach Starting with the music of John Coltrane, you will explore where Jazz headed post 1965. Begins 4/25/2016. Brookline High, $84. Raymond Chow, Instructor Coltrane serves as a transitional musician One of the most studied composers in the between early and later Jazz movements. Once Voice Class history of Western art music, Johann Sebastian Jazz became a mainstay in American culture, Bach (1685-1750) began a long lineage it was free to develop in new and different Lee R. Soto, Instructor of great Austro-German composers, from directions. This course will give special attention Experience the enjoyment of expressing Beethoven to Brahms and Schoenberg. His to John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, yourself through music by discovering your music was venerated by composers outside Stanley Clark, and end with a discussion on singing voice. Each singer will explore the the German tradition, and has for example contemporary movements in Jazz. range, agility, and timbre of his or her voice, inspired major compositions by Stravinsky Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. and work on solo and group singing. We will and Shostakovich. Bach composed numerous Begins 4/25/2016. Brookline High, $84. develop proper tone production, breathing, sacred works, including The B minor Mass, St. and posture. Students and the instructor will John’s Passion and Lutheran cantatas. In this choose the vocal repertoire so that all aspects course, we will focus on Bach’s compositional Learning to Read Music of vocal technique and musical interpretation methods, and explore the means through which can be applied to specific songs. Our emphasis Raymond Chow, Instructor Bach engages his audience in his musical will range from traditional jazz standards to contemplation on the respective liturgical texts. The ability to read music can enrich your more contemporary show or pop tunes. Beyond life. With this knowledge you may feel more Beginner is for those who have some singing Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 10:30AM- comfortable joining a singing group, helping 12:30PM. Begins 4/5/2016. Brookline Senior experience and who want to continue learning your children with their music lessons, or Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $118. about performance and vocal techniques. especially appreciating music. We will cover all the basics of note reading, including the Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: W musical alphabet, the staff, bass and treble 6:00-7:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Aaron Copland: The American Musical Building, $168. Pioneer clef, note values, rhythm, and meter. You will learn about major and minor scales, sharp Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: Raymond Chow, Instructor and flat key signatures, common chords, and W 7:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Aaron Copland (1900-1990) played a pivotal how to create harmony. We’ll also look at (and Arts Building, $168. role in the development of 20th century listen to) great composers, such as Bach, American musical culture. The impact of Beethoven, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. Please his work can be found in the music of many bring a notebook and music staff paper to the Ensemble Singing later American composers, including Leonard first meeting. Lee R. Soto, Instructor Bernstein and Roger Sessions. As a conductor, Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. Ensemble singing offers the chance to unleash he actively promoted the works of younger Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $118. your inner performer. If you like to sing, or American composers, and championed the have always wanted to learn, you may find that cause of modern American art music. In this singing in an ensemble is perfect for many course, we would explore selections from the reasons. First, you may not feel ready to sing wide range of musical genres Copland wrote on your own. Also, learning how to control in. Listening excerpts for the course include your voice while hearing and adjusting to your the ballet Appalachian Spring, the orchestral classmates’ voices will teach you valuable skills work El Salón México, and Copland’s opera The and lift your spirits. In this course for singers Tender Land. of all levels, we will sing a wide variety of fun Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 1:00-3:00PM. songs in unison and in harmony. We will focus Begins 4/6/2016. The Korean Church of on vocal techniques, posture, and breathing, Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on and explore aspects of group singing such as Holden Street), $118. harmony, blending, and style. Attention will be paid to each individual voice. We will conclude with a performance for family and friends. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:00-7:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $168.

10 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016

Performance Practice Whether you’re looking to try your hand at acting, or develop your skills in front of an audience, these

classes will give you the confidence to perform in front of people, whether for work or play. HUMANITIES & MUSIC

Conquering Stage Fright passionate scenes, and analyze Shakespeare’s rich verse. By acting our way through the scripts, we’ll explore story lines, act out Martin R. Anderson, Instructor key dialogues, discuss characters, and discover Shakespeare’s At some time or another, almost everyone has to get up and speak unique way of handling stage directions. Cement your passion for a in front of an audience. Even seasoned actors get stage fright. In playwright still famous almost four hundred years after his death. an entertaining environment, you’ll experience ways to transform your mind, body, and voice into a source of support while giving Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Th 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Brookline High, $118. confidence, energy, and expression to speaking in public. You’ll practice a range of approaches and learn how to read what your audience wants, from speeches and ad lib explanations, to scripted works and cold reads. We’ll work on projection, body language, Acting Sampler: Improv, Monologues, and breezing through errors, answering questions, and tailoring your talk Scenes on the fly. Please bring pencil and paper, and any material you’d like D. Adriane Spunt, Instructor to present. In this participatory sampler course, you’ll be introduced to three Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:30AM-2:00PM. Begins styles of acting: improvisation, monologue work, and acting scenes. 4/9/2016. Brookline High, $52. You will experience a variety of theatrical styles and philosophies, including improvisation, speaking to the audience, spontaneously responding in scene work, and acting from a script. We will draw An Introduction to Storytelling from period scenes, comic routines, and short speeches spanning Brendyn Schneider, Instructor from serious to absurd, and practice creating characters using Storytelling is becoming increasingly important for marketing, techniques that best complement each realm and culture. Increase branding, and social media. We will delve into the mechanics of your acting confidence, learn more spontaneity, and gain a clearer storytelling and explore its important aspects: the secrets behind understanding of the world of acting. conveying humor, tragedy, romance, anger, and more. We’ll talk Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 4/5/2016. about the storytellers that engage your imagination, a story’s trip Brookline High, $118. from the page to the stage, and how nervous energy, posture, and practice are the storyteller’s allies. Where can you perform? How do you promote yourself? How can you get paid for storytelling? Acting Workshop By the end of the course, you’ll know! We will conclude with an Emily Singer, Instructor in-class performance of your story. Notebook recommended but not Experience the excitement of acting in this participatory class. required. Through the use of improvisation and scripted work, you will Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. learn basic techniques of spontaneity, character development, Brookline High, $102. text analysis, and more. Gain confidence as you learn tricks for conquering stage fright. Stretch yourself as you develop skills of concentration and imagination, which are indispensable both Acting Shakespeare For All in the theater and in everyday life. Whether your ambition is to D. Adriane Spunt, Instructor act for stage, television, or film, master public speaking in your It is a well-known fact that Shakespeare is one of the great professional life, or for personal growth, these tools can help you. playwrights of all time. His verse is intelligent, witty, and playful, These exercises will culminate in a final show, which will include and his plays are filled with drama and rich comedy. In this class, monologues and scenes. Students are also welcome to write their designed for actors of all levels, or non-actors who just want a better own scripts. No previous experience is necessary. understanding of Shakespeare, we’ll explore this playwright from a Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00-9:15PM. Begins 3/31/2016. truly theatrical point of view. We will choose humorous and Brookline High, $136.

Singing Skills in the Afternoon Singing with Style and Expression Songwriting and Composition Raymond Chow, Instructor Lee R. Soto, Instructor Max Mullowney, Instructor The ability to listen well and sing in tune are This class is for experienced singers who wish Whether you need help writing your first song skills beneficial for any practicing musician. to focus on singing with expression and style. or you need to get back to basics, this class This course provides easy-to-follow exercises for You’ll develop your repertoire, strengthen will give you the skills to develop your song. developing these skills, and is useful for music your range, and learn how to take care of Students will learn how to make the most fitting enthusiasts who sing in a choir or community your voice for healthy singing. We will focus melodies using their own lyrics. With melodic theatre. Skills we will focus on include singing on vocal anatomy and physiology, technique, shape and different chord structures, gain at sight and developing a good sense of performance development, and instruction in knowledge of the techniques used for creating intonation. We will also practice exercises styles of your choice including rock, pop, folk, melodies that will complement the lyrics. on musical dictation (notating music by ear), country, and jazz. Students should have some Attention will also be given to instrumental developing a good aural memory, and rhythmic singing experience. We will conclude with a songs. exercises. Both beginning and intermediate performance for family and friends. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 7:30-9:30PM. level students welcome. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $96. Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: F 1:30-3:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $168. Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $156.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 11 Beginning Piano The Times They Are A-Changin’ Jonathan Lovenstein, Instructor If you have always wanted to learn to play the Bob Dylan’s music has influenced multitudes. Come find out piano, why not start now? In the Beginner about the time period when Bob Dylan began, his influence on course, you will learn how to read musical society, and the different musical genres of his career. notation and will become acquainted with basic piano techniques. You will learn to play melodies with chord accompaniments, scales, and intervals. By the end of the course The Social and Artistic Responsibility of Artists: you will be able to play simple popular and Exploring Bob Dylan classical piano pieces. The Beyond Beginner Christopher John Stephens, Teacher and Musician course is for those with some piano playing experience. We will focus on major scales, Since 1962, Bob Dylan has worn many crowns: voice of a generation, rock star, primary chords, more complicated rhythms, preacher, blues man. In this lecture, we’ll look at that first title. Is the singer/ and linear accompaniments with the left hand. songwriter a journalist? Should there be any degree of objectivity in creating compelling Each student will have a keyboard on which to narratives? Should there be a line between pamphleteers of old, who reported the news work in class. For both courses, the required as it happened, and subjective journalism that risks slander and defamation for the text, Alfred’s Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson sake of a great story? We’ll answer these questions and more. Book, Level One, is available at most music Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Brookline High, $6. stores. Access to a piano or keyboard for practice is required. Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:15- Bob Dylan: An American Original in the Context of His 8:45PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, Time $168. Christopher John Stephens, Instructor Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: Bob Dylan has gone through many musical transformations: folk, blues, gospel, and Th 7:15-8:45PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline rock. In this class, we’ll overlap appreciation with history and examine the major High, $168. aspects of his career through the social/cultural/political legacy of these songs: “Blowin’ In The Wind” (1963), “Like A Rolling Stone” (1965), and “Things Have Instant Piano for People With No Spare Changed” (2000). In many ways, Bob Dylan has been both a leader and follower of his Time times, often abandoning responsibility for the message of his music once made public. In other words, he has allowed us to do with it what we will. Through audio, video, Debbie Gruber, Instructor discussion and debate, and connection with contemporary comparable “New Dylans,” Most people learn to play the piano by reading we will explore whether or not our role as listeners is to analyze artistic motivation or notes. But professional musicians don’t simply enjoy the many ways a song can be sung. read notes; they read chords. For hopelessly Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 4/14/2016. Brookline High, $84. busy people who yearn to experience the joy of playing piano, this unconventional but highly effective class will teach you only what History of American Music: The is essential to play the popular music that you love. It may seem amazing, but you will Fifties learn to construct major, minor, and seventh John Clark, Instructor chords; memorize chords and transpose them What was Folk music before Bob Dylan from one key to another; and to embellish turned it political? What happened to Jazz your music with flair. With this knowledge, after the demise of the Big Band and the you’ll find yourself playing the piano with rise of Bebop? What musical elements ease. Students will be able to try these combined to create the most exciting and techniques both in class and at home uniquely American music of this pivotal with the workbook and CD you’ll receive decade: Rock & Roll? Join us as we hear for follow-up study. A $25 materials fee is stories and watch rare video footage of included in the course fee. the groundbreakers and pioneers of these Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 6:30- important genres of the 1950s. We’ll 9:30PM. Begins 5/3/2016. Brookline listen to the music of greats such as Miles High, $88. Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, James Brown, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Elvis Introductory Guitar Presley, Harry Belafonte, Joan Baez, among others. Catherine Capozzi, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 1:00-3:00PM. Begins Introductory Guitar is a course for those 5/2/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard who have never picked up a guitar before, or Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $96. Bob Dylan and for beginners who can strum a few chords Joan Baez, 1963 and would like to have fun learning new songs and playing with other guitarists. Our primary emphasis will be on building a chord vocabulary, establishing a rhythm, switching between chords, and gaining comfort with

12 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 the instrument. We’ll learn about different Ukulele: Relax and Play Music HUMANITIES & MUSIC chord types, what chord symbols mean, Paul Sedgwick, Instructor and how to play songs reading from a chord Step out of your busy life, and instill it with chart. In Beyond Beginner we will work on some genuine pleasure. Learn to play the rhythm, harmony, and a more expanded chord ukulele! We will start from the beginning with vocabulary, as well as alternate chord voicings lessons in chords, introductory music theory, and pentatonic scales, with an aim to get more and strumming patterns. You’ll learn to play comfortable with making music on guitar alone individual pieces on your own, and we’ll also or with a group. Please bring an acoustic guitar jam in class to familiar songs. As actress/ to class. singer Zooey Deschanel said, “The ukulele is, Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: M 6:15- like, the opposite of overwhelming.” Please 7:45PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, bring a ukulele, recording device, and Ukulele $168. Fretboard Maps: The Essential Patterns That All Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: the Pros Know and Use, by Fred Sokolow and M 7:45-9:15PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline Jim Beloff. A $5 materials fee for a songbook of High, $168. ukulele favorites is payable to the instructor at the first class. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:00-7:30PM. Electric Guitar for Beginners Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $168. Prathan Musikapan, Instructor An electric guitar converts the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses, making Play the Flute Violin music that has a real presence. Open to those David Roache, Instructor Amos Lawrence, Instructor who have just taken up the guitar, or those The flute is a comparatively easy instrument Have you always wanted to play the violin, or have been playing for a while, we’ll teach you to learn; the biggest hurdle for beginners how to play this instrument with groove and have you played in the past and want to pick it is learning to control breath. The proper up again? From the fiddlers of the Hardanger panache. You’ll learn chords, scales, and theory embouchure allows the flautist to play the while accompanying toe-tapping rock and plateau in Norway to the Highlands of Scotland flute at its full range with a full, clear tone and and Cape Breton Island, from the stage of blues songs. Playing along to an international without strain. In this course for beginners selection of songs, we’ll work on the all- Carnegie Hall to the quaint fiddlers of the Blue and those with some flute playing experience, Ridge Mountains in the Carolinas, the violin has important rhythm while also practicing melody we’ll introduce solid fundamentals, learn to and harmony. Please bring an electric guitar, succeeded in suiting every style and fulfilling read music fluidly, and study basic theory. We’ll every need. We will explore the balance needed pick, and notebook. Please bring an amplifier, if touch upon sound production and rhythm, and you have one. for proper tone production, read notes, and develop proper embouchure, breathing habits, how to comfortably hold the bow, using our Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. and fingerings. Pieces will be selected to fit the fingers and playing melodies. This course is for Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $168. skill and preference of each student, and the beginners or those with some violin experience. course may culminate in a final recital for family Please bring a violin and shoulder rest to class. and friends. Please bring a flute. A practice mute and violin book will be available Play the Banjo Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 5:30-6:45PM. for sale in class. Approximate cost, $15. Paul Sedgwick, Instructor Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $168. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:30-7:45PM. What’s more fun than listening to the banjo? Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $160. Playing the banjo! For those who are new to the instrument, or have some experience, we Play the Saxophone will identify the basic technique behind the two Irving Schwartz, Instructor Beginning Hand Drumming most popular styles of 5-String banjo playing: The saxophone has been on the American Alan Tauber, Drum Connection, Instructor bluegrass, or three-finger style picking; and scene for more than seven decades. It can For centuries the drum has provided clawhammer or frailing folk styles. You will be be heard on the earliest recordings and is given the opportunity to focus on one style or people with a powerful basic tool to express used extensively for solo and accompaniment themselves, to communicate, and to form the other, or may choose to learn both. We in many contemporary groups. Despite its will look at the amazing history of “America’s community. Focusing on tone production, appearance, the saxophone is rationally simple to complex rhythmic interaction, and the instrument” through demonstrations and designed and easy to play. We will show you recordings. Please bring a 5-String banjo and subtleties of drumming, you will play rhythms how to create a musical sound by developing of West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil on different a notebook to class. The required textbooks, proper embouchure and delivering a controlled Teach Yourself Bluegrass Banjo by Tony drums including conga, djembe, and ashiko. air-stream to the mouthpiece. With a Each week a new rhythm, technique, and time Trischka, and Mel Bay’s Frailing the 5-String reasonable effort, you’ll soon be able to read Banjo: An Instruction Manual by Eric Muller and pattern will be presented. After several weeks and play simple scales and songs and enjoy you will have acquired enough knowledge to Barbara Koehler, are available at music stores ensemble playing. Please bring a saxophone and online. begin to improvise and be comfortable in any (be sure it has a mouthpiece, reed, and strap). drumming situation. No prior musical training Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:30-9:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-8:00PM. is necessary. Please bring a conga, djembe, or Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $168. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $168. ashiko hand drum to class. A limited number of drums may be available to rent from the instructor. Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/5/2016. Brookline High, $153.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 13 High School Equivalency/HiSET Preparation Joe Green, Instructor Test Preparation The Massachusetts State Department of Education has begun using a test called HiSET, which stands for high school equivalency testing, instead of the GED. This course is designed to prepare you for the HiSET examination. You will work on five required areas of study: reading, writing, math, social Private Test Prep Sessions published by The College Board, is available studies, and science. Instruction will cover the In our individual tutoring sessions, test prep online and at area bookstores. Approximate main topics in each study area, and will be instructors are available one-on-one to work cost, $22. individualized where possible. You will have the with students of all skill levels on such topics as Sec. 01: # sessions: 12 Day: M, W 5:00- opportunity to take practice tests in each area HiSET, SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT prep. Students 7:00PM. Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, of study. Please bring a Casio fx-260 calculator, may choose the time and day of the week, $480. and a bag lunch. The required text is available Monday through Friday, or Saturday morning. at the Brookline Booksmith. Once we have your preferred schedule, we will Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 7:00- work on finding an instructor to match your College Essay Planning Workshop 9:00PM. Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, needs. Please come prepared with materials Katherine Retan, Instructor $244. you would like to work on with your instructor. Are you a rising high school senior? This Sessions meet at Brookline High School. workshop with an experienced college essay Discounts, waivers, or credits do not apply. To coach will give you the tools and the confidence Driver Education schedule a private lesson, please contact you need to get a head start on your Common Joseph Giannone, Instructor the BA&CE office at 617-730-2700. Application essay. We will begin by discussing According to Massachusetts state law, students Sec. 01 (4 hours): Brookline High, $200. what college admissions officers are looking are required to attend 30 hours of classroom Sec. 02 (8 hours): Brookline High, $400. for, common pitfalls to avoid, and strategies instruction, 12 hours of behind-the-wheel for crafting a standout essay that reveals the training, and six hours of observation. To be individual behind the grades and test scores. eligible for classroom instruction, students must Tackling the New 2016 SAT Essay In the second half of the workshop, you will have reached their 16th birthday by the end of respond to a series of prompts designed to the course. The in-class portion of the Driver Abby Kurzman, Instructor help you identify a compelling story you want Education Program is offered both days and You may have heard that the essay on the new to tell that expresses the best of who you are. evenings throughout the year. Students will be SAT (as of March 2016) is optional, but before Students will have a chance to get individual taught on cars with automatic transmissions. you say “phew,” you should know that most feedback from the instructor, a professional Administrative Fee: $62 (payable to the Town colleges will require it. The new essay is very editor and former writing teacher, about topics of Brookline). Instruction Fee: $540, payable different; it will now last 50 minutes instead they are considering. Class is limited, so please to Pleasant Auto School. Upon successful of the paltry 25 of the past. Instead of writing register early. completion of this course, students are a persuasive essay, you will be provided with Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. responsible for an additional $130 in Registry an argumentative essay by someone—former Begins 5/24/2016. Brookline High, $36. of Motor Vehicles fees. A breakdown of these president, historic figure, politician, journalist— fees is available in the BA&CE office. to read. Then, you will write an explanatory essay analyzing the effectiveness of the piece. Sec. 01: # sessions: 15 Day: M, Tu, W 6:30- Graduate Management Admissions Test 8:30PM. Begins 4/11/2016. Brookline High, We’ll prepare for this in class by discussing (GMAT) Preparation bias, logic, evidence, and the use of emotional $62. language designed to influence the reader. Olya Margul, Instructor Sec. 02: # sessions: 15 Day: M, Tu, Th 3:00- What’s more, you’ll learn how to organize these This course reviews all of the relevant 5:00PM. Begins 5/9/2016. Brookline High, observations into a strong essay that will score mathematics (pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, $62. well. as well as word problems) for problem-solving and data sufficiency questions, rules of English Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Driver Education: Parents’ Class Begins 4/6/2016. Brookline High, $160. grammar, and effective methods for solving all the different types of problems on the exam. Joseph Giannone, Instructor You’ll also be instructed on how to construct According to Massachusetts state law, parents SAT Strategies: Prepare for the June well-designed essays. One class will include of high school-aged children must also attend 2016 Exam exam practice in the computer lab. Please bring a classroom training session. If the student is the required textbook, Cracking the New GMAT, Lionel Claris, Instructor under 18 years of age, a parent must attend 2016 Edition, by Princeton Review, to the first the Parent Class so the child can be certified This intensive course enables students to class meeting. The required text is available by the Registry. Class is free for parents of master test-taking techniques and review in the college textbook department of the Pleasant Auto School students; for all others, for the New SAT exam. Students will prepare Harvard Coop, at other bookstores, and online. there is a $20 fee (payable to Pleasant Auto for all three portions of the exam: critical Approximate cost, $25. School). reading, writing, and mathematics. We will Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 6:30-9:30PM. review grammar and vocabulary, focus on Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $396. developing writing skills, and improve reading Begins 5/23/2016. Brookline High. comprehension. Time will also be dedicated to learning how to write the New SAT analytical essay. In preparation for the mathematics section of the exam, students will review both algebra and geometry. This course includes practice testing, plus test-buster strategies. The required textbook, The Official SAT Study Guide,

14 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 The Craft of Writing: Worldbuilding Annie Gaughen, Instructor Whether you write contemporary, fantasy,

Writing and Communication Skills historical, or science fiction, it’s easy to get TEST PREPARATION WRITING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS bogged down by endless descriptions of your character’s world—but nothing can be more of a turn-off for writers. And yet, these sensory descriptions—those moments when we walk into a character’s world—can often be the most vivid for a reader. How do you keep the Poetry Workshop Introduction to Experimental Literature essential and cut the unwieldy? Through a Sarah Stone, Instructor Alissa Butterworth, Instructor variety of writing exercises and a chance to Do you write poetry and want constructive There is great freedom and even delight apply these concepts to your own work, we’ll feedback? Or have you always wanted to try in smashing through the walls of literary create rich experiences that your readers will your hand at writing verse, but don’t know convention, and in this course we will do just never want to leave. where to begin? Each week we will explore that. We’ll ground ourselves with a brief study Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. a different way in to poetry, reading and of what convention is so that we can better Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $84. discussing exemplary poems by C.D. Wright, define how to break it, and visit with daring Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop, before writers from the literary past. While the scope we discuss participants’ verse. Writing will of our explorations will in part be determined Characterization Workshop occur both in class and on your own at home. by the participants, we will turn the expected Alissa Butterworth, Instructor Previous participants should feel free to enroll on its head by blurring the lines of genre, Holden Caulfield, Jo March, Rhett Butler—what again; we will work with an entirely new set of experimenting with technique and form, and is it about certain characters that makes them exercises. trying our hand at a variety of new and avant- stay with us long after we put down a book? Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. garde styles that fuse wordplay with other They are idiosyncratic, even iconoclastic, and Begins 4/5/2016. Brookline High, $118. art forms in novel ways. Topics to be covered alive—how do writers come up with and create might include absurdism, nonlinear narrative, such vibrancy that their characters jump off found poetry, slipstream, and the relationship the page (or stage or screen)? The answer is Flash Fiction: Kind of a Short Story between language and digital media, among characterization: a deliberate set of choices a many others. Participants will be able to Rosalie Davis, Instructor writer makes and techniques he or she employs experiment with exercises designed to push in order to craft a three dimensional, realized Flash fiction offers limitless possibilities in a beyond the ordinary and to share their work limited space as it combines prose narrative person with whom readers cannot help but to and experience with others in class. This course engage and remember. In this workshop we traditions with lyric strategies—small wonder it is suited for both beginning and advanced is in vogue. Through reading, analysis, writing, will examine the tools writers use to create writing students who are willing to work without memorable, living characters and how they can and discussion, we will explore the art and craft boundaries, who are ready to experiment, and of this elastic genre. For the first class, please work for you. We’ll begin with a brief survey who are prepared to embrace the unexpected of how character might be defined, and we’ll read Kate Chopin’s famous short piece, “The in fun and innovative ways. Story of an Hour,” and bring something to write spend most of our time experimenting with fun with. E-readers and laptops welcome. Required Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. and practical exercises, some borrowed from text: Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories. Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, $96. the stage, designed to help you bring to life an existing character or a new character of your Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:00-8:00PM. own creation. Begins 4/5/2016. Brookline High, $96. Writing About Place Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 11:00AM- Alissa Butterworth, Instructor 2:00PM. Begins 5/7/2016. Brookline High, Short Story Workshop Place is perhaps the most readily identifiable $45. element in literature—readers are drawn Michaela Papa, Instructor to it and transported by it. But how does a Have you ever had an idea for a short story, writer go about creating such vibrant, moving Writing Your Blog but didn’t know where to go from there? This setting through words? In this class we’ll cover Caroline Klibanoff, Instructor course will help motivate you and guide you descriptive writing about place, travel writing, Have you always wanted to be a writer, but to take your ideas and turn them into works how place functions and relate to other craft weren’t sure how to get started? Have you of short fiction. We will read selections by the elements, such as character, plot, voice, and thought about blogging, but just haven’t had great short fiction writers, discuss craft, learn more. We’ll look at writers who employ place in the time, focus, or organization to get started? activities to get you writing, and produce a final innovative and interesting ways, such as Frank In this course we will go over the basics of piece by the end of the course. Each week, we McCourt, John Steinbeck, and Alan Paton, blogging, including how to set up a basic blog, will get closer to a “finished” (is it ever really among others. Through in-class exercises, how to choose and plan your topics, how to finished?) story, through workshopping, and prompts and discussion, you’ll develop skills to construct a compelling blog post that gets learning new skills. By the last course, you will write more descriptively, learn to use place as noticed in search results, and how to find your leave with a work of your own and the tool kit to more than just a backdrop for plot, and to better place—and make online connections—in the keep making progress. understand the role of place in your own work. blogging world. Come with an idea for your Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. This class is suitable for writers in all stages blog, and together we will make it a reality. Begins 5/5/2016. Brookline High, $96. of the writing process. Please read “Place” by This course will primarily focus on content Dorothy Allison for the first class. development and content marketing, and is Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: W 6:30-8:30PM. suited for beginner bloggers as well as those Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $84. who are looking to become more prolific in their efforts. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 5:30-7:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $96.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 15 Grants and Nonprofits Learn the tips and tricks to communicate effectively about your dreams or your organization’s mission. Somebody is going to get the grant money. Why not you?

Grant Writing 101 required and is an opportunity for those looking to transition from the corporate and “for-profit” world to start a development career. Hillel Bromberg, Grant Writer Prior grant writing experience is helpful but not required. You need funds for your nonprofit organization; foundations have money to give away. The link between them is called a “grant Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 11:00AM-1:00PM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, proposal,” and this lecture, taught by an experienced grant writer, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $96. provides a whirlwind tour of its parts and how to approach them. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $6. Grant Proposal Budgeting Adjoa-Eva Acquaah-Harrison, Instructor Grant Writing Foundations are equally interested in the supporting documents you submit as they are with the proposal itself. Essential to your David Marshall, Instructor grant proposal is the budget process—the submission of your Strong grant-writing skills make all the difference in the competition organizational budget, and one that is specific to the program for funding resources. This course, taught by an experienced grant for which you are proposing funds. Does your budget tell a writer with a ninety percent success rate, will introduce you to the corresponding story to the proposal? In this course, you will learn grant-seeking process and give you techniques for creating effective how to quantify and describe the additional cost to existing program proposals for your nonprofit organization. You will learn how to expansion, a new program projecting the cost of future activities, identify and cultivate likely funders, create a credible budget, use related staff and administrative expenses, etc. The objective of valuable information the IRS provides about funding organizations, this class is to help the grant writer anticipate and capture all the and develop an appropriate writing style for grant writing. You will be numbers that reflect what the proposal describes. Experience in the introduced to a powerful strategy for developing excellent programs nonprofit sector is helpful but not required. and grant-worthy proposals. Whether you are seeking funding for a Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: F 11:00AM-1:00PM. Begins 5/6/2016. specific project or considering a career in development, this course The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter will strengthen your skills and demystify the grant-writing process. on Holden Street), $96. No prior grant writing experience is required. A $10 materials fee is included in the course fee. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 4/26/2016. Starting Your Dream Nonprofit in 2016 Brookline High, $96. Adjoa-Eva Acquaah-Harrison, Instructor After much thinking and consideration, weighing and discussing Grant Writing and Foundation Relations with friends and family, you are now closer to making a decision to launch the nonprofit of your dreams. The steps are closer than Adjoa-Eva Acquaah-Harrison, Instructor you can imagine, and this course will teach you how to assemble With great competition for diminishing funding resources, strong the practical components to the setup and operation of your new grant writing skills assume an important role now more than ever. organization. You will learn how to design compelling programs Learn the protocols of the grant-seeking process from an expert for your target audience and constituency. You will learn the basic with techniques, tips and tricks that will help you create effective strategies and leverage the expertise of your staff, board, and grant proposals. You will learn how and where to research for develop a reasonable budget for startup operations. You will create foundations that match your mission and programmatic needs. You a due-diligence checklist that will help you determine the strength will understand how your schedule of activities in the grant writing of impact that your organization can make in the designated process impact the success of your cultivation and solicitation communities. Experience in the nonprofit sector is not required. process, and the role that the agency and program budgets play in Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 11:00AM-1:00PM. Begins the grant writing process. Experience in the nonprofit sector is not 3/30/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $96.

Introduction to Self-Publishing Business Communication Mastery Write the Perfect Cover Letter Jacob Boucher, Instructor Kit Pang, Instructor Gemma Cooper-Novack, Instructor Do you have a story you want to share with the Effective communication skills are crucial for Are you entering or struggling with the job world, but you’re not sure how to get it published anyone working in the professional world, and search? Are your cover letters showing you and in front of readers? In recent years, self-pub- it is one of the foundations of success for any off to your best advantage? In this workshop, lishing has grown from a niche market to become business. This course will cover key skills and we’ll look at tips and tricks for different fields, the choice for countless authors, from veteran strategies for networking, building relationships, find strategies that help you play up your novelists to aspiring new writers. This class is for and public communication in a business and strengths, and learn to write cover letters that anyone interested in publishing and selling their professional environment. This is an ideal get the attention of employers, and get you an written works, in either a digital ebook format, course for entry-level, mid-level professionals, or interview. Our three-session format will allow or in print. Topics will include an overview of the anyone looking to improve their communication students to revise a cover letter draft that will self-publishing industry, planning and completing skills as a leader. be job hunt-ready by the end of the course. your writing projects, picking the right distributor, Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: F 10:00-11:30AM. the technical process of self-publishing, and Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $118. Begins 5/6/2016. The Korean Church of pricing and promoting your books. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. Holden Street), $68. Begins 4/28/2016. Brookline High, $96.

16 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Creative Nonfiction: Personal Narrative Introduction to Screenwriting Rosalie Davis, Instructor Andrew Osborne, Instructor This workshop introduces students to personal Whether you’re picturing an independent film narrative through journal writing, memoir, or a Hollywood blockbuster, come learn the Languages and classic essay forms. In exploring these tricks and techniques of screenwriting and narrative non-fiction modes, students will learn take the first steps toward getting your project to recognize and develop essential elements of produced. This workshop will focus on the prose, including character, point of view, plot, essentials of screenwriting, including strong LANGUAGES setting, subject, and theme. We will also devote character development, and writing plot and time to lyric, collage, and literary techniques, dialogue. While working towards the completion Private Language Lessons and there will be some emphasis on revising of a quality final draft, we will learn the basics In our individual tutoring sessions, language and finishing a project. Class meetings may of industry-standard screenplay formatting. We instructors are available one-on-one to work include discussion of published works, writing will also examine the three-act writing structure with students of all skill levels on anything process exercises, and formal or peer review. and the art of pitching and selling your ideas. from pronunciation, to conversation, to travel For the first class, please bring a poem or Whether you’ve been writing for years or are a tips. Students may choose the time and day of photograph that means something to you, and a novice, you’ll find this course beneficial. the week, Monday through Friday, or Saturday pen or pencil to write with. Recommended Text: Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Sa 10:00AM- morning. Once we have your preferred schedule, Jane E. Aaron: 40 Model Essays: A Portable 12:00PM. Begins 4/9/2016. Brookline High, we will work on finding an instructor to match Anthology (2005 or later). $118. your needs. Please come prepared with Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. materials you would like to work on with your Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $118. instructor. Sessions meet at Brookline High Writing and Selling a Nonfiction Book School. Discounts, waivers, or credits do not Proposal apply. To schedule a private lesson, please Thanks for the Memories: Memoir for Janice Pieroni, Instructor contact the BA&CE office at 617-730-2700. the Non-Celebrity In this course, for first-time writers and Sec. 01 (4 hours): Brookline High, $160. Daniel Gewertz, Instructor seasoned authors, we will hone our book ideas Sec. 02 (6 hours): Brookline High, $240. Celebrities can assume readers of their for publication. The instructor will discuss: biographies will be seduced by fame; but elements of a strong book proposal, including Sec. 03 (8 hours): Brookline High, $320. when the rest of us write about our personal suggestions for optional elements that can enhance placement prospects; factors to lives, we need to grab hold of a reader by the Introduction to Farsi (Persian) powers of our expression, our ideas, and our consider when selecting a topic, including storytelling charms. Each week, this class comparing your proposed book with published Sheila Amirinazari, Instructor will help sculpt your selected memories so and upcoming books; deciding which sample Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is that their inherent power can be brought to chapter or chapters to include; approaches primarily spoken today in Iran, Afghanistan, the page. We’ll focus on the crafting of short, to selling; and more. Students will be given Tajikistan, and the Pamir Mountain Regions. concise memoir pieces, with weekly prompts a sample outline in the first class, as well as Approximately 110 million people speak Farsi and assignments meant to jump-start your several short, take-home exercises. around the world. This class, for students with writing. But the class also welcomes students Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. little or no experience with Farsi, will include who are starting, or continuing, longer works. Begins 4/6/2016. Brookline High, $70. the alphabet, basic grammar, and sentence Why do certain moments haunt, charm, excite, structure of Farsi in both written and spoken or sadden us in retrospect? Whether emotional, forms. A command of greetings, numbers comical, sensual, or spiritual in nature, what Right Grammar, Right Now: A Rapid and time, and basic conversation will be are the moments in your life that make for great and Reassuring Review achieved by the end of the course. We will also stories? Writing will be read aloud in class. Anne Jackson, Instructor discuss relevant cultural history to enhance our understanding of the language. Heritage Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: M 5:30-7:30PM. You probably know more about U.S. American Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $125. speakers of Farsi are also welcome. A $15 English grammar than you think you do. This materials fee is included in the course fee. course will help you organize and clarify Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 5:30-7:30PM. The Writer’s Toy Box that knowledge. Through guided exercises and mini-quizzes, “Right Grammar” defines Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $175. Daniel Gewertz, Instructor and explains basic grammatical terms, then provides tips, reminders, and signposts to We all know what toolboxes are for: Work. Often Korean Language and Culture hard work that can result in banged-up fingers highlight the aspects of each topic most likely and cursing. Writers utilize their own tools, of to cause confusion and errors, and how to Olivia Kin, Instructor course, often with comparable sweating and avoid or correct many of these. This course will Learning the Korean language is the best consternation. But toy boxes are for play and cover sentence structure; nouns; pronouns; way to understand and enjoy this beautiful experimentation. In this class, we will practice adjectives/adverbs; and verbs, time permitting. country, its people, traditions, and culture. This using the tools of prose writing in fun, inventive Please come prepared to take notes and draw beginning class is for students who have not ways. In class exercises and short assignments diagrams. Homework will be assigned. This studied Korean before, or have less than 10 we will tap into the freedom and spirit of play: course is designed for native and fluent non- hours of classroom time within the last year. often a good way to combat writer’s block. native speakers of English. A $40 materials Students will learn to read and write the Korean You might leave the class with a few totally fee for an extensive workbook written by the alphabet, read basic vocabulary, ask and unexpected pieces of writing. Such writerly instructor is included in the course fee. answer simple questions in areas of immediate elements as dialogue, characterization, use Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. need, and use simple phrases and sentences of tenses, narrative point of view, description, Begins 5/12/2016. Brookline High, $124. to describe familiar people and places. Class scene-setting, pace, and plotting will be discussions will be tailored to topics of interest explored with exercises that are, hopefully, as such as popular entertainment, traditional enjoyable as they are challenging. Korean food, shopping experiences, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: M 8:00-9:30PM. travel excursions in South Korea. The required Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, $96. texts are: Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 and Integrated Korean Workbook, Beginning 1. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $160.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 17 Beginning Mandarin Chinese Beginning Japanese Italian I Zimo Zhou, Instructor Yuko Sato, Instructor Maria Conte, Instructor This course is designed to introduce the correct Introductory: you will explore basic grammar, Whether you’re planning your first trip to Italy pronunciation and intonation of Mandarin vocabulary, and pronunciation through or are enchanted by the language of Dante, Chinese. You will be equipped with the basic situational dialogues on topics such as this course will introduce you to Italian using a phrases and sentences to communicate in a shopping, making acquaintances, dining relaxed, conversational approach. This course variety of situations with real Chinese speakers, out, and more. Vocabulary lists with the is for those who have little or no previous such as greeting, shopping, dining, bus-taking, corresponding basic Hiragana characters will experience learning Italian. We will focus on and so on. The course will also guide you to help you learn to read and pronounce survival vocabulary, grammar, basic verb conjugation, grasp the reading and writing of basic Chinese Japanese. The required textbook, Japanese and pronunciation. Emphasis will be placed characters, and to learn more about Chinese for Busy People I: Romanized Version with on speaking and listening comprehension. By cultural context. A $10 materials fee is included CD, is available at the Brookline Booksmith. the end of the course, you will become more in the course fee. Intermediate: this course is for those who comfortable speaking, writing, and listening Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: M 6:00-8:00PM. have completed Beginning Japanese Level 2 & to Italian. A $22 textbook fee is payable to the Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $157. 3, or its equivalent. The course objective is to instructor at the first class. improve the ability to use Japanese accurately Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 5:30-7:30PM. and appropriately with fluency, building on Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $160. Introduction to Latin the basic skills you have learned. This course stresses reading comprehension, spoken Veronica Campanini, Instructor fluency, and composition, with materials Italian II Latin lies at the heart of Western culture. Not organized around social and cultural topics. Maria Conte, Instructor only are the Romance languages, French, You will learn about 100 Kanji characters. The Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian required textbook, Japanese for Busy People II: This course is for those who have completed derived from it, but the languages of religion, Revised 3rd Edition with CD, is available at the Italian I, or have equivalent experience. We will law, medicine, art, and the sciences all share its Brookline Booksmith. continue to expand vocabulary, learn irregular influence. This class will introduce you to Latin verbs, their conjugation, and the simple past vocabulary, grammar, and word order so that Sec. 01 (Introductory): # sessions: 8 Day: Tu tense, and improve speaking and listening you can read simplified stories and also learn 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline comprehension. By the end of the course, High, $160. some of the Latin words which are the roots you will become more comfortable speaking, of many words in English and the Romance Sec. 02 (Intermediate): # sessions: 8 Day: Th writing, and listening to Italian. A $22 textbook Languages. We will also start to read the easiest 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline fee is payable to the instructor at the first class. High, $160. writings of some of the greatest authors ever, Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:30-9:30PM. such as Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, and Horatius. A Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $160. $10 materials fee is included in the course fee. Beginning German Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 1:00-2:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean Church of Agnes Farkas, Instructor Italian III Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on German is an exciting and enriching language, Maria Conte, Instructor Holden Street), $138. with many applications in travel, art history, and This Italian course covers I pronomi literature. Level 1 is for beginners who have complemento oggetto diretto, l’imperfetto little or no experience with German, but wish indicativo, il trapassato prossimo, il passato Beginning Russian to acquire a working knowledge of the spoken remoto, il trapassato remoto, il futuro semplice, language. Areas of emphasis will include Polina Dubovikova, Instructor il futuro anteriore, il condizionale presente, il vocabulary building, verb conjugation, sentence This course is for students who have little condizionale passato, il gerundio, il gerundio formation, contemporary idiomatic expressions, or no previous experience learning Russian. passato e l’imperativo. In addition, there are and discussion of culture. Level 2 is for those Our study of the language will include the interesting Italian cultural readings at each who have completed Level 1 or its equivalent Cyrillic alphabet, basic Russian pronunciation, class. A $30 textbook fee is payable to the and wish to improve their speaking, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and customs. By the instructor at the first class. end of the course, students can expect to read and listening comprehension. For both levels, the required textbook, German Demystified, is Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:30-9:30PM. some Russian, hold a very simple conversation, Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $160. and feel confident enough to continue studies available at the Brookline Booksmith. on their own. The required textbook, Living Sec. 01 (Level 1): # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00- Language Russian: Essential, is available at the 9:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, Italian Conversation and Vocabulary Brookline Booksmith. $160. Veronica Campanini, Instructor Sec. 01 (Level 1): # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30- Sec. 02 (Level 2): # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00- Do you speak Italian and want to enrich your 8:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, 9:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $160. $160. knowledge of the language? Are you traveling to Italy soon and want to increase your appreciation of the culture? This course is for Beginning Brazilian Portuguese students who have a working knowledge of the language and who would like to improve their Elizabeth Kugell, Instructor Progressive Language Study conversation, pronunciation, and vocabulary Portuguese is the language of almost two skills. Taught by a native speaker, we will focus hundred million people in Europe, Asia, and Don’t see the next level of your language on language functions and vocabulary, and South America. This class is for beginners course? BA&CE may extend your course have discussions about interesting topics such who have little or no previous knowledge with more sessions or with a new course as cuisine, media, fashion, history, and current of Portuguese. Emphasis will be placed on if the instructor is available and there is events. Study of Italian films, painters, songs, listening and speaking skills, so that by the interest among the students. Please let and cartoons will also aide us in increasing our conclusion of the course you will be able to the BA&CE office know if you would like to conversation and vocabulary. A $10 materials carry on simple conversations with Brazilian request a course, and we will do our best fee is included in the course fee. native speakers. The required textbook, to add it to our offerings. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 12:30-2:30PM. Portuguese in 10 Minutes a Day with CD-ROM, Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean Church of is available at the Brookline Booksmith. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. Holden Street), $170. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $160.

18 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Listening to Opera in Italian French III You’ll improve your spoken French, enrich your Veronica Campanini, Instructor Martine Della Ventura, Instructor vocabulary, and improve your comprehension of written texts, while broadening your knowledge If you find Pavarotti or Italian arias fascinating, This course is for those who have completed of great French literature and film. Students but don’t fully understand the meanings of the French II or its equivalent, and would like to should have completed French III or its expressions, this class is for you. For students improve their vocabulary, accent, and fluency. equivalent. The required texts are: L’Etranger by with some Italian, we will listen to and examine Students should be comfortable conjugating Albert Camus and Meutsault, Contre-Enquête the best performances with attention to the regular and irregular verbs in the present and by Kamel Daoud. wordings and plots. The most accessible and passé composé, and be able to count and tell LANGUAGES beautiful operas are usually sung in Italian, time. You will be introduced to the conditional, Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 10:30AM- after all opera began in 16th century Italy. subjunctive, future tense, and will continue 12:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean Rossini, Verdi, Puccini—and even Mozart—were to expand your knowledge of grammar and Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline the master composers of operas in Italian. This commonly used expressions through the (enter on Holden Street), $160. class will introduce you to the wonderful world practice of reading, writing, and speaking. The of Opera in Italian, training you to understand required textbook, Ultimate French Beginner- French Pronunciation the text, plot, composers, and the social and Intermediate, is available at the Brookline historical contexts. Booksmith. Lionel Claris, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Sa 10:00AM- Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 9:30-11:30AM. Would you like to improve your French accent? 12:00PM. Begins 4/30/2016. Brookline High, Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Unlock the secrets of French pronunciation $112. and achieve a more authentic accent. This course, for those with some French speaking French II and III Review experience, will enable you not only to hear the language better, but to know what to listen French I Monique Dlugy, Instructor Michelle Alfred, Lionel Claris, Instructors for to facilitate comprehension of the spoken This course is for those who have completed language. We will cover general principles of French I is for those who have had no previous French II and III or equivalent, and feel they French phonetics, rhythmic groups, liaison, and French study, or have forgotten what they need a review of concepts learned thus far intonation. We will also learn the rules for when learned. Emphasis will be placed on learning before enrolling in French IV. Students will not to pronounce certain letters and sounds a new sound system and listening skills. By review conjugating regular and irregular verbs (e.g., the mute “e”) in French, a stumbling block studying vocabulary and basic grammar, you in the present and passé composé, and will for even advanced speakers. A $10 materials will learn to understand and say simple phrases practice the conditional, subjunctive, future fee is included in the course fee. using the present tense of the three basic tense; conversation with numbers and time, verb groups. You will gain confidence in basic and travel and food. You’ll gain more confidence Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 12:00-2:00PM. sentence construction as well as listening in your basic skills with grammar, reading, Begins 3/31/2016. The Korean Church of comprehension. The required textbook, writing, and speaking. The required textbook, Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $170. Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate, is Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate, is available at the Brookline Booksmith. available at the Brookline Booksmith. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-8:30PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 11:00AM- Théâtre Français Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $160. 1:00PM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean Monique Dlugy, Instructor Alfred Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $150. Si vous aimez le théâtre et avez une bonne Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. connaissance du français, découvrez toutes Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $160. les pièces du répertoire du Théâtre français, Claris French IV & V tout en améliorant votre vocabulaire, la prononciation et la diction, et l’analyse du Monique Dlugy, Instructor French II caractère des personnages. Venez jouer la This course is designed for those who have Comedie. 10$ pour le materiel pédagogique Michelle Alfred, Lionel Claris, Instructors completed French III or its equivalent, and sont inclus dans les frais d’inscription. French II is for those who have completed have a mastery of the three main verb groups, and être, avoir, aller, faire, and savoir, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:00-9:00PM. French I, or its equivalent. You will continue Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $170. to develop vocabulary and speaking skills at the passé composé, imperfect, and future a beginning level. You should know the verbs tenses. This course is designed as a step être, avoir, aller, and faire and their many toward increasing your fluency and proficiency. Writing Skills En Français uses, plus the three verb group conjugations Our activities will involve presentation skills, in the present tense. We will introduce the spoken vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, Lionel Claris, Instructor passé composé, l’imparfait and futur simple, reading, writing, and speaking, and we will For high intermediate and advanced students, and continue with skills for simple speaking converse on specific topics from French short this course will equip you with the necessary and writing. You will be able to count and tell stories, plays, and newspapers. The required skills to write confidently in French. Hone your time. The required textbook, Ultimate French textbook, Ultimate French Review and Practice, French writing skills by learning from model Beginner-Intermediate, is available at the is available at the Brookline Booksmith. texts about a variety of subjects, as well as from Brookline Booksmith. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 8:30-10:30AM. fellow students, and helpful writing activities. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean Church of We will focus on a range of forms, including Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. letters, short stories, biographical accounts, Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $160. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on summaries, articles, interviews, and essays. Claris Holden Street), $160. We will learn from excerpts in both fictional and Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: M 3:00-5:00PM. non-fiction works, studying in particular their Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $160. French Literature, Culture, and sentence and paragraph structures. By learning Alfred Conversation to write better in French, you will also improve Monique Dlugy, Instructor your ability to speak it. The required textbook, Developing Writing Skills in French is available This course is for those interested in French for purchase online. literature and culture. In our sessions, we will read, view, and discuss selections by Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 10:00AM- prominent French writers, poets, musicians, 12:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. The Korean and filmmakers, both classic and contemporary. Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $160.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 19 Conversations en Français Spanish III Spanish Review and Conversation Monique Dlugy, Instructor Soledad Phelan, Instructor Francisco Ruiz, Instructor Pour ceux qui parlent déjà français et qui This course is for students who have completed Would you like to review and practice speaking veulent maintenir ou améliorer leur niveau de Spanish II or have equivalent experience. We Spanish in a fun and supportive class? This langue. Nous travaillerons dans des séances will review the irregular verbs in the present course is for those who have completed de conversation sur des sujets divers afin tense and study the preterite or past tense of Spanish III (or its equivalent), are familiar with d’enrichir votre vocabulaire et de développer regular and irregular verbs, reflexive verbs in the basics of Spanish grammar, and wish to votre sens de l’expression idiomatique the present and preterite tenses, direct and increase their fluency and proficiency. Each française. En plus de la production orale, indirect object pronouns, and the verb gustar. week, the class will choose different topics of objectif essentiel du cours, nous reverrons des By the end of the course, you will become more conversation relating to Hispanic literature, points de grammaire, lirons des extraits de comfortable speaking, writing, and listening to art, and music. We will also concentrate textes francophones, écouterons de la musique Spanish. The required textbook, Spanish Now! on speaking and listening skills, practicing et regarderons des documents audiovisuels. Level 1 with CDs, is available at the Brookline vocabulary, and learning new idiomatic 10$ pour le materiel pédagogique sont inclus Booksmith. expressions. Basic grammar and conjugation dans les frais d’inscription. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:30-9:30PM. will be reviewed as necessary. Students should Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $160. be able to converse in Spanish using present Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $170. and preterite tenses of regular and irregular verbs, respectively. A $10 materials fee is Spanish IV included in the course fee. Spanish I Cecilia McIsaac, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: F 9:00-11:00AM. Soledad Phelan, Cecilia McIsaac, Instructors This course is for students who have completed Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on This course is for those who have little or Spanish III or have equivalent experience. Holden Street), $170. no previous experience learning Spanish. The goal of this course is to increase fluency Emphasis will be placed on simple and proficiency by deepening your knowledge conversation, including everyday vocabulary. of conversation, grammar, and writing skills. Conversación en Español We will cover greetings, the alphabet, the Grammar topics to be covered include a review present tense of regular verbs, noun-subject of the preterite tense (regular and irregular Marisol Marquez, Instructor and gender agreement, numbers, and other verbs), the stem-changing verbs (-ar, -er, -ir) in Esta clase es para los que ya pueden hablar basic vocabulary. The required textbook, the present and past tenses, formation of the español con cierta fluidez y para los que Spanish Now! Level 1 with CDs, is available at past imperfect tense of regular and irregular quieren mejorar su dominio del vocabulario y the Brookline Booksmith. verbs, and the future tense of regular and de la gramática de idioma. Utilizaremos una serie de lecturas y videos o cortometrajes Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 9:00-11:00AM. irregular verbs. A $10 materials fee is included Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. in the course fee. (short films) para iniciar charlas, ampliar nuestro vocabulario y aprender sobre la cultura Phelan Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 11:00AM- del mundo hispano. Además, repasaremos Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:30-9:30PM. 1:00PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $170. los temas gramaticales avanzados (y no tan Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $160. avanzados) que sean necesarios, según los McIsaac conocimientos de los estudiantes. Incluido Sec. 03: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 10:30AM- Spanish V en el costo del curso son $10 por cargo de 12:30PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Brookline High, materiales. $160. Phelan Soledad Phelan, Instructor This course is for students who have completed Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $157. Spanish IV or have equivalent experience. Spanish II Students will deepen their conversation skills Soledad Phelan, Cecilia McIsaac, Instructors in this class, in which the course material and Spanish for Travelers discussion is conducted entirely in Spanish. This course is for students who have completed The required textbook, Spanish Now! Level 2, is Maria Conte, Instructor Spanish I or have equivalent experience. We will available at the Brookline Booksmith. Traveling to a Spanish-speaking country? Join cover the present indicative tense of irregular us in this introductory level course to meet verbs, the prepositions a and de, the verbs ser Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:30-9:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $160. other travelers and get to know the language and estar, descriptive and limiting adjectives, you’re interested in. You will learn useful more cardinal numbers, the agreement of phrases for your trip in order to communicate ordinal numbers, and other basic vocabulary. Spanish VI-VII basic information. Learn how to understand By the end of the course, you will become more cultural customs, introduce yourself, ask for comfortable speaking, writing, and listening to Cecilia McIsaac, Instructor directions, and thank your host. You will develop Spanish. The required textbook, Spanish Now! This course is for students who have completed a basic understanding of weather expressions, Level 1 with CDs, is available at the Brookline Spanish V or have equivalent experience. cardinal and ordinal numbers, time, colors, Booksmith. Students will deepen their conversation skills days and months, seasons, transportation, Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: F 11:00AM-1:00PM. in this class, in which the course material and useful verbs, and more. Our lively introduction Begins 4/1/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. discussion is conducted entirely in Spanish. will generate excitement for your travels, and McIsaac We will review compound tenses, and we may prepare you for the experiences you will have. A Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:30-9:30PM. learn the subjunctive, time permitting. A $10 $22 textbook fee is payable to the instructor at Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $160. materials fee is included in the course fee. the first class. Phelan Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 9:00-11:00AM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: Th 5:30-7:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $170. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $147.

20 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Beginning English Lee R. Soto, Instructor This course is for students who know some English as a Second Language English and who have completed an introductory English course. In each class, you will work on grammar and vocabulary, writing, conversational skills, and reading and comprehension. We will review use of the present tense to talk and write about our habits and daily routines, and ESL Private Lessons Let’s Talk: Conversation Practice we will work on prepositions of place (at, in, on), determiners (this, that, these), simple past tense In our individual tutoring sessions, E.S.L. TBA, Instructor (I ran), the verb to be, and present continuous. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE instructors are available one-on-one to work Would you like to speak with others about The required textbook, Side by Side 2 Book with students on all skill areas. Students may current events, different cultures, or life in and Workbook, is available at the Brookline choose the time and day of the week, Monday the U.S.? This course is for intermediate and Booksmith. through Friday, or Saturday morning. Please advanced students who are comfortable Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th come prepared with materials you would like to carrying on a conversation in English, and 10:15-11:45AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The work on with your instructor. Once we have your will help you clearly express and exchange Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, preferred schedule, we will work on finding an ideas through informal discussions, debates, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $288. Soto instructor to match your needs. Sessions meet role-plays, presentations, and group activities. Sec. 02: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 7:00- at Brookline High School or the Korean Church. Idioms, world and local news, and new Discounts, waivers, or credits do not apply. To 8:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, vocabulary will be introduced. A $10 materials $197. schedule a private lesson, please contact fee is included in the course fee. the BA&CE office at 617-730-2700. Please do not register online. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 9:00-10:00AM. Begins 4/2/2016. Brookline High, $120. Intermediate English Sec. 01 (2 hours): Brookline High, $80. TBA, Instructor Sec. 02 (4 hours): Brookline High, $160. Writing and Grammar Skills This course is for students who have some Sec. 03 (8 hours): Brookline High, $320. fluency in speaking and reading English, and Sheila Amirinazari, Instructor need to brush up on beginning grammar. We Do you need help with your grammar, or do will focus on conversation, vocabulary, and Reading, Writing, and Speaking for you want to be a better writer? This course, reading short stories. We will also discuss Beginners designed for intermediate and advanced interesting topics like holidays and finding an TBA, Instructor students, will focus on improving your apartment in the U.S. Grammar topics that may grammar and writing skills. Grammar topics be reviewed include present continuous, future This class is for students who are beginning we’ll review include past, present, and future simple, and past continuous (while he was to read and write in English, and who want to tenses, question formation, passive voice, living in Boston), modal verbs and expressions, practice speaking English with others. We’ll nouns and pronouns, gerunds and infinitives, action and nonaction verbs, and gerunds and learn to write sentences, practice spelling, read prepositions, and phrasal verbs. Writing topics passive voice. The required textbook, Ventures easy stories, and learn many new vocabulary will include sentence structure, paragraph 3: Students Book, is available at the Brookline words. Students will focus on improving our organization, and essay and summary writing. Booksmith or online. speaking and pronunciation skills through a We’ll also work on building our vocabulary. The Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th variety of fun activities that require students to required textbook, Academic Writing Series work together in pairs or small groups. 10:15-11:45AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The 3: Paragraphs to Essays, is available at the Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Sec. 01 (reading and writing): # sessions: 4 Brookline Booksmith or online. Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $288. Day: Sa 10:00AM-12:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 10:00AM- Brookline High, $110. Sec. 02: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 7:00- 12:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Brookline High, 8:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, Sec. 02 (speaking): # sessions: 3 Day: Sa $165. $197. 10:00AM-12:00PM. Begins 5/7/2016. Brookline High, $84. Sec. 03 (both classes): # sessions: 7 Day: Introductory English High Intermediate English Sa 10:00AM-12:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Lee R. Soto, Instructor Ronna Maltz, Instructor Brookline High, $155. This course is for students who are just learning This course is for students who want to feel English. We will focus on all four skill areas more comfortable speaking English and who including listening, speaking, reading, and Saturday Intermediate English need an intensive review of intermediate writing. We will practice speaking English, study grammar and vocabulary before taking TBA, Instructor the alphabet, learn new vocabulary, review advanced courses. You will work on improving This class is designed for intermediate students introductions and currency, and work on the silent and oral reading ability, comprehension, who are seeking to develop and improve their simple present (I study), past (I studied), and and writing skills. Grammar topics we will review command of English. We will focus on all the present continuous (I am studying) tenses. may include present perfect, present perfect four skill areas including listening, speaking, The required textbook, Side by Side Book 1 continuous, present conditional (If I were rich, reading, and writing. In our sessions, emphasis Student Book and Activity Book, is available at I would move to Hawaii) and past conditional will be placed on improving our grammar, the Brookline Booksmith or online. (If he had studied, he would have passed the reading, vocabulary, and conversation skills Sec. 01: # sessions: 21 Day: M, Tu, W 8:30- test), and gerunds and infinitives. The required through in-class exercises and assignments. 10:00AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean textbook, Ventures 4: Students Book, is The required textbook, Ventures 3 Student’s Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline available at the Brookline Booksmith or online. Book, is available at the Brookline Booksmith (enter on Holden Street), $224. Soto or online. Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th Sec. 02: # sessions: 14 Day: Tu, Th 7:00- 8:30-10:00AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 10:00AM- 8:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline 12:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Brookline High, $189. (enter on Holden Street), $288. $165. Sec. 02: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $197.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 21 Intermediate and High Intermediate Advanced Reading and Writing Skills Speaking and Listening English Ronna Maltz, Instructor Agnes Farkas, Instructor TBA, Instructor This class is for those who are interested Would you like to develop confidence in your For students who want an intensive course in both reading and writing. We will read a speaking and listening skills through extensive of study and wish to attend class four days contemporary novel that inspires surprising practice? This course will emphasize the per week, this course offers the chance to discussions. In addition, we will review the development of conversational English by giving attend both the Intermediate English and High basics of sentence structure, and learn how students practice with spoken language. For Intermediate English courses at a special to make your writing more interesting by using intermediate and high intermediate students. savings. The required textbooks, Ventures 3: sentence variety, increasing your flexibility in the Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 12:00- Students Book and Ventures 4: Students Book, use of new and old vocabulary, and practicing 1:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean are available at the Brookline Booksmith or many different types of phrases and clauses. Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline online. Your skills will also be developed reviewing (enter on Holden Street), $197. Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th paragraph writing, and working on essay 8:30-11:45AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean organization. Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th Grammar Refresher (enter on Holden Street), $499. 10:15-11:45AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Susan Guth, Instructor Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Do you have a paper to write for work or Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $288. Afternoon Intensive: Intermediate or school that you need assistance with? Are you Advanced English preparing to take the TOEFL? A grasp of English grammar is important if you want to improve Proshot Kalami, Ronna Maltz, Instructors Advanced English and Advanced Reading and Writing Skills your writing and speaking. In this course for This course is for students who are seeking intermediate and advanced students, we’ll to develop and improve their command of TBA, Instructor review important structures in English grammar, English. Each session will focus on all key For students who want an intensive course of and students will have a chance to get their language skills including speaking, listening, study and wish to attend class four days per questions about English grammar answered. pronunciation, vocabulary, reading, and writing. week, this course offers the chance to attend We’ll also review mastering phrasal verbs and You will practice your conversation skills, both the Advanced English and Advanced prepositions, and focus on sentence structure learn to write with accuracy and effectiveness, Reading and Writing Skills courses at a special and forming paragraphs. The required textbook, develop strategic listening skills, and improve savings. For Advanced English, the required Understanding and Using English Grammar your use of grammar. The required textbook for textbook, A World of Fiction: Twenty Timeless Workbook B, is available at the Brookline Intermediate level, Ventures 3, Student Book, is Short Stories, is available at the Brookline Booksmith or online. available at the Brookline Booksmith or online. Booksmith or online. No textbook required for Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: F 9:00-11:00AM. Sec. 01 (Intermediate): # sessions: 18 Day: Tu, Advanced Reading and Writing Skills. Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of W, Th 1:30-3:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, 8:30-11:45AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean Holden Street), $155. Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $252. Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Sec. 02 (Advanced): # sessions: 18 Day: Tu, (enter on Holden Street), $499. W, Th 1:30-3:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Three Week English: May Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, TBA, Instructor Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $252. History of the Arts in Boston: Discussion and Walking Tour For those students who don’t have time for an eight-week course, this short three-week Wendy Dodek, Instructor program offers an intensive course of study. Advanced English Boston offers visitors or newcomers a variety We will work on grammar and vocabulary, TBA, Instructor of interesting places and events to explore and writing, conversational skills, and reading and This course will help you develop the skill and discover. This course, for high intermediate and composition. Handouts will be provided. A $10 confidence you need to be a fluent speaker advanced students, will introduce you to some materials fee is included in the course fee. of English. Each class will be devoted to of Boston’s artists through classroom activities Sec. 01 (Beginning): # sessions: 9 Day: Tu, activities involving presentation skills, with a and a field trip. You’ll enhance your vocabulary, W, Th 9:00-11:30AM. Begins 5/10/2016. special emphasis on rapid speech, vocabulary, reading, and speaking skills while learning Brookline High, $204. about the city’s rich artistic history, and its most and idiomatic expressions. We’ll work to Sec. 02 (Intermediate): # sessions: 9 Day: communicate our ideas clearly and precisely interesting early artists such as painter John Singleton Copley and silversmith Paul Revere. Tu, W, Th 9:00-11:30AM. Begins 5/10/2016. through conversations on specific topics, small Brookline High, $204. and large group discussions, debates, and The course includes one walking tour of the group activities. Grammar will be reviewed older neighborhoods of Boston, plus one visit Sec. 03 (Advanced): # sessions: 9 Day: Tu, as necessary. The required textbook, A World to the Museum of Fine Arts. Handouts about W, Th 9:00-11:30AM. Begins 5/10/2016. of Fiction: Twenty Timeless Short Stories, is Boston’s history and artistic traditions will be Brookline High, $204. available at the Brookline Booksmith. provided. Sec. 01: # sessions: 32 Day: M, Tu, W, Th Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu, Thu 1:30- Friday Conversation and Vocabulary 8:30-10:00AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean 3:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Korean Church of Susan Guth, Instructor Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on (enter on Holden Street), $288. Holden Street), $165. Would you like to increase your vocabulary and improve your spoken English? For students who Sec. 02: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 7:00- are comfortable carrying on a conversation 8:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, in English, this course offers an opportunity $197. to practice your speaking skills in a variety of contexts, and to develop your vocabulary, comprehension, and cultural awareness. Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: F 11:15AM-1:15PM. Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $155.

22 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Preparation for the TOEFL iBT Exam The Practice of Meditation Susan Guth, Instructor Donna Rubenoff, Instructor This course combines listening, speaking, This course is designed for those of all ages reading, and writing exercises and assignments Mind and Body and backgrounds who want to experience a that will help you to prepare for the TOEFL iBT. more peaceful way of being in their lives by Basic communication and vocabulary building connecting breath, body, and mind. In our skills will be developed through in-class and sessions, we will explore connecting with the homework exercises, and pair and small group breath, discovering and activating sensations in activities. Students will learn about the iBT the body, and we will tap into our feelings and test format, test sections, and the different emotions. We will also incorporate some guided types of test tasks. This course is a first step Discover Your Inner Resources: Tools meditations where we will use our imagination in identifying the skills needed for the iBT. The For Living to elicit our senses to relax our body and mind. required textbook, Complete Guide to the TOEFL As we practice meditation together, we will Leah Becker, Mark Gately, Instructor Test iBT, is available at the Brookline Booksmith get in touch with who we really are, ultimately or online. The purpose of the Peace Education Program changing our relationship with our body and (PEP), created by The Prem Rawat Foundation, MIND & BODY Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 9:30- emotions and developing compassion and is to help participants discover their own inner loving-kindness for ourselves. 11:30AM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean resources or innate tools for living. It is through Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline the discovery of personal peace that world Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 11:30AM- (enter on Holden Street), $224. peace will emerge. This workshop offers an 12:45PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $70. opportunity to explore the possibility of personal Conversation at Noon peace, and each session will focus on one core theme from Prem Rawat’s international Introduction to Zen Meditation Susan Guth, Instructor public addresses. This spring, the themes we Would you like to practice your spoken English? will concentrate on include personal peace, Cambridge Zen Center, Instructor This course will emphasize the development appreciation, inner strength, self-awareness, Zen meditation is a discipline, a practice, of conversational English by giving students and clarity. Each session will include use of and a path that dates back over 2,500 years practice with spoken language. Intermediate videos, reflection, reading materials, writing in a to the historical Shakyamuni Buddha. As a and advanced students will improve their workbook (provided), and sharing. No discounts discipline, it helps us cultivate openness and speaking abilities and their listening or waivers apply. concentration, heightening our awareness of comprehension by learning the natural rhythms Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. both our inner being and the world around us. and melodies of English. Begins 4/26/2016. Brookline High, $50. As a practice, it helps us discover who we are, Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 12:00- develop greater compassion for ourselves and 1:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean others, and open up to the deeper layers of Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Holistic Tools for Vital Living experience. As a path, it is a way to grow, to (enter on Holden Street), $197. deepen, to let go, and to live. We will explore Elisa Albaghdadi, Instructor basic meditation techniques for use while At times in life we all become lackadaisical, sitting, walking, and chanting. Each class Reduce Your Accent and Public but this course offers a spring awakening for will include explanations and discussion of Speaking the body, mind, and soul. We’ll explore seven the philosophies behind the practice of Zen essential and practical tips for bringing your Lionel Claris, Instructor meditation. Please wear comfortable clothing inner spark back to life. The revitalization and bring a cushion or pillow to sit on. Chairs Do you have a command of the English process should be an inspiring and enjoyable will also be available. language, but feel frustrated because others experience. By learning how to enhance your may have a hard time understanding you? Do energy with power postures, herbs, aromas, Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 7:15-8:30PM. Begins 4/6/2016. Devotion School, 345 you think your accent may be holding you back sounds, and super foods you will be treating all Harvard Street, Brookline, $96. professionally? This class is for students who 5 of your senses. have completed an introductory course and want an advanced study of accent reduction Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 5/11/2016. Brookline High, $36. and public speaking. Course curriculum will be Demystifying Intuition: A Motivational developed based on the needs and interests of Workshop participants. A $10 materials fee is included in Mindfulness: A Day-Long Retreat Jason Gardner, Instructor the course fee. Have you ever had a phone call from someone Patricia Howard, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. who had just been in your thoughts? At times in Begins 4/5/2016. Brookline High, $165. Mindfulness is an ancient practice exquisitely your life, you may have experienced flashes of illustrated by the Buddha long ago and intuition that turned out to be correct. Did you expounded upon today by modern doctors know you can cultivate that intuition in order and teachers such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, S.N. to tap into it when needed? Listening to your Goenka, and Thich Nhat Hanh. By employing intuition allows you to make thoughtful and the simple technique of being watchful moment grounded decisions in your personal life and in to moment and breath to breath, we can detach business interactions. This course will provide from habitual stress-heightening reactions you the tools to access the powerful, deeper and develop new and practical insight into the knowing that exists within your own mind. ever-present center of our being. In this course, Through meditation and the use of personal we will learn and practice various mindfulness symbology, participants will practice accessing techniques that will teach us to gain and listening to their intuition. Come with an discernment and insight into what is happening open and curious mind and you may leave with both externally and internally in each moment. the power to change your life. Please bring a yoga mat and bag lunch. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 7:00-9:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 9:00AM-2:00PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $96. Begins 4/30/2016. Brookline High, $70.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 23 Living Free of Anxiety Creating a Happy and Lasting Romantic Niki Birbilis, Instructor Relationship Approximately one out of 5 Americans struggles Alex Poeter, Instructor with some form of anxiety—not to mention Are you someone (or a couple) whose Computers and the added anxiousness induced for many by relationship is stuck in a rut, or who has started the daily grind. While this experience can feel a committed relationship but is experiencing overwhelming, there are holistic, drug-free ways all kinds of obstacles? Or are you someone Technology to conquer it. Anxiety is not a disease or illness, who’s ready to move from casual dating into and can be eliminated from your life for good. a committed relationship but doesn’t know Why suffer when you can learn how to let go and how to pull this off successfully? Through this live in the moment, and be more effective in interactive course you will learn about the most everything you do? In this class, we’ll learn safe common mistakes couples make and how to tools and techniques to help conquer anxiety avoid them, tools for keeping your relationship Private Computer Lessons and take back control of our bodies and minds. adventurous and exciting, and the three most In our individual tutoring sessions, Mac and PC computer instructors are available to work with Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. important keys to maintaining a harmonious Begins 4/26/2016. Brookline High, $84. relationship. You will also learn powerful students one-on-one, on anything from basic communication techniques and tools that word processing, to setting up a blog, to using you can start applying immediately to have a LinkedIn to find employment opportunities. Better Days: A Mental Health Recovery positive relationship experience. Students may choose the time and day of the week, Monday through Friday, or Saturday Workshop Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 4/26/2016. Brookline High, $56. morning. Once we have your preferred schedule Craig Lewis, Instructor and what you’d like to learn, we will work on This workshop is intended to help guide us finding an instructor to match your needs. toward embracing and benefiting from the Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Sessions meet at Brookline High School. You innate and experiential self-expertise that may choose to bring your own laptop or use exists within each one of us. Life is challenging Stephanie Hessler, Instructor our computer labs. Please come prepared with at times and the reality is that we all feel pain Do you want to be more, do more, and have questions about the application(s) or operating and know what struggle, hurt, and upset feel more? Identify habitual thought patterns and system you wish to learn. Discounts, waivers, like. However, how we manage and cope with limiting beliefs that are holding you back. Clarify or credits do not apply. To schedule private what life throws at us is our choice. We will work your desires and goals. Learn life-affirming lessons, please contact the BA&CE office from the instructor’s text, Better Days-A Mental techniques to guide you toward greater at 617-730-2700. Health Recovery Workbook. Section 01 will awareness and achieving your goals. This class Sec. 01 (2 Hours): Brookline High, $100. help nurture the concept that being personally draws on Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, responsible for our words and actions is integral one of the world’s best-selling success books of Sec. 02 (4 Hours): Brookline High, $200. for living a happy, healthy, and satisfying life. all time, as well as on other thinkers in the field Sec. 03 (6 Hours): Brookline High, $300. Without any question, self-expertise, examining of personal achievement. Come prepared to our thoughts and actions and intentionally shift your thinking and step into your power. choosing to take self-identified and directed Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. Websites Made Easy with Wordpress steps forward results in better days. Section Begins 4/14/2016. Brookline High, $36. Ben Vivante, Instructor 02 will focus on developing coping skills. We will have the opportunity to share, contribute, Do you dream of having your own website reflect, and learn, by tapping into our personal Career Transition In Midlife: Tools For for your business or blog? Using Wordpress, self-expertise, in order to have the best possible Turning Your New Vision Into Reality you’ll learn to build, edit, and customize your results in how to cope with life struggles and own website—without advanced knowledge of Alex Poeter, Instructor move forward with more peace. Participation HTML. In the Beginner course, we’ll cover both is encouraged, and respect, empowerment, Have you decided to make a career transition technical setup and creative customizations, validation, choice, and personal responsibility in midlife, but you don’t have a roadmap for tailoring our efforts to the interests and needs will be on the menu. Join us for one or both making it happen? Are you overwhelmed by the of the class. By the end of this course, you sessions. fears and uncertainties such a big transition will have a simple yet professional site up and brings and want to learn how to overcome these running. In Beyond Beginner, for students Sec 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-9:30PM. and other personal barriers? If you are stuck who have completed the Beginner course or Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High. $45 in an unfulfilling career and want change, this already have an existing Wordpress site, we will Sec 02: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-9:30PM. interactive course will help you learn strategies focus on advanced design; configuring plugins Begins 5/2/2016. Brookline High. $45 to successfully create and carry out a plan for and widgets; forms; shopping carts; and search your new career vision. You will learn valuable engine optimization. Students are encouraged tools for overcoming internal barriers, such to bring checklists of improvements they wish Create a Winning Self-Image as fears, limiting beliefs, or self-defeating to make in this lab-style class. Students should Stephanie Hessler, Instructor habits that keep you from taking action and expect an additional expense if they choose to Are you the star of your own life or are you merely successfully realizing your new career vision. purchase a website domain and host. Students playing a supporting role? You have programmed You will also learn how to effectively tap into who wish to continue from Beginner to Beyond into the deepest parts of your mind an inner your personal strengths and build a strong Beginner will receive a discount after the image of who you are and what you are worth. support structure so you’re prepared to completion of Beginner. Although this course is It is like a control mechanism that determines overcome any challenges. taught in a PC lab, skills are transferable to Mac. your results and how well you do. You will begin Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:00- building awareness around your current self- Begins 4/7/2016. Brookline High, $56. 8:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, image and understand how this may be limiting $160. you. Come prepared to learn techniques to Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 4 Day: create an empowered and winning self-image, Tu 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 5/3/2016. Brookline and begin to experience improved results. High, $160. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. Sec. 03 (Both Sessions): # sessions: 8 Day: Tu Begins 5/5/2016. Brookline High, $36. 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $232.

24 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Building the New Web: HTML5 and CSS3 Master the Adobe Suite TBA, Instructor HTML5 is the new standard that is sweeping Adobe Creative Suite is the premier software used in photo and the web, allowing both beginners and seasoned video editing, layout, design, and web development projects. developers to create beautiful custom websites Learn these programs from creative professionals in top-of-the- for desktops, tablets, mobile, and more. In this beginning course, we will cover all of the basic line computer labs and put your new skills to use in career or HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS3 personal life. (Cascading Style Sheets) tags using a simple text editor, learning how to write and manipulate code. With hands-on experience in these two Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS6 cornerstones of web development, you will be Sarah Georgakopoulos, Instructor ready to learn how to become a web developer. Adobe InDesign is cutting-edge layout design software for publishing print and digital Although this course is taught in a Mac lab, documents. It is tightly integrated with other Adobe applications such as Photoshop and skills are transferable to PC. Illustrator, and has become the standard for commercial print production and desktop Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. publishing. Equally well-suited to designing flyers, posters, brochures, newsletters, Begins 4/6/2016. Unified Arts Building, $207. magazines, and even books, InDesign gives you precise control over typography and

layout so you can produce files for home/office printing, commercial printing, or digital COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY distribution with ease. Through instruction and class exercises, you will develop a solid Introduction to SQL and Databases understanding of InDesign’s interface and basic functions, and learn to create multi- TBA, Instructor page document layouts with type, images, and vector graphics. Although this course is Structured Query Language (SQL) is the taught in a Mac lab, skills are transferable to PC. language of databases. All modern relational Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:30-9:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, databases, such as Access, Microsoft SQL $232. Server, and Oracle use SQL as their basic building block. An understanding of its capabilities will allow you to retrieve and Introduction to Adobe Illustrator manipulate data for reports, analyses, and Karla Beatty, Instructor presentation. This course will introduce the Adobe Illustrator is one of the most powerful and popular graphic design programs history and basic concepts of databases and available. Setting the standard for design software with its drawing and typographic cover the main commands and functionality functions, Illustrator is used by graphic designers, layout artists, and desktop of SQL. We will also discuss some of the more publishers—anyone interested in producing professional quality design and high- advanced features that have been added as resolution output for print. If you’re a graphic designer or artist, or are interested in a the language has evolved. Students should feel career in desktop or web publishing, learn how to use the advanced graphic tools of comfortable using a PC. design professionals. Basic Mac skills are required. Although this course is taught in a Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:00-9:00PM. Mac lab, skills are transferable to PC. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $232. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $232. Crowdfunding 101 Christi Electris, Instructor Adobe Photoshop CS6 Crowdfunding is the use of small amounts David Leifer, Instructor of capital from a large number of individuals Adobe Photoshop is the dominant image-editing program used in digital photography to finance a project or business (non-profit and both print and digital media production. In this course for beginners, you will learn or for-profit). This course will explore generic how to create, edit, and adjust digital images and prepare them for print and web. We and applied concepts of crowdfunding, major will explore essential Photoshop skills such as creating selections, cropping, retouching, categories of crowdfunding models (e.g. using filters, and making tone and color corrections through adjustment layers. We donations, loans, equity), fixed and flexible will investigate advanced use of layers, masking, smart objects, and Camera Raw for funding models, and we will review some of the compositing, special effects, and a complete non-destructive editing workflow. Although major donation crowdfunding platforms & sites this course is taught in a Mac lab, skills are transferable to PC. such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We will talk about how to choose a good project, choosing Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, the right platform, gathering the right team, and $220. we will review a variety of example campaigns. We’ll also review how the follow-on course, Launching a Crowdfunding Campaign, will Advanced Photoshop Class walk you through each step in developing and Mark Sarver, Instructor launching a campaign. The class begins with a quick review of Photoshop. We then explore using layers and Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. adjustment layers more deeply, including channels, quick mask, paths, clipping groups Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $34. and content aware. Students are encouraged to bring in their layered projects using the tools you learn. Students should have completed a beginning photoshop class or have an understanding of layers, adjustment layers, tool bar, option for the tools, menu bar, and panels. Students must have a computer to access a class Dropbox folder for notes and sharing. Bring a flash drive to every class for saving projects and information. Although this course is taught in a Mac lab, skills are transferable to PC. Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: Th 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $220.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 25 Launching a Crowdfunding Campaign Audio/Visual Editing Skills Christi Electris, Instructor In this action-learning class, we will walk Let our expert instructors show you how to express yourself through everything needed to develop and with panache using these popular audio/visual editing tools. launch your own crowdfunding campaign. Whether you are ready to launch or not, we recommend working on a real-life potential Video Editing with iMovie campaign through the five week course. You will also learn how to identify and connect Michaela Papa, Instructor with circles of supporters on social media and Whether you want to share your epic family vacation, learn how to cut a movie trailer, beyond, and how to hone your pitch in several or just gain a new skill, this introductory course to iMovie is a great fit. We will learn the formats in preparation for future fundraising basics of video editing and how we can apply some production knowledge to create and investment work. All students will have a final product! You will leave this course knowing more about iMovie, editing, and the opportunity to test their ideas during the production in general, such as adding text and sound. class and receive feedback from the teacher Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, and classmates. Take this course as a team to $160. increase your success. Inquire about a group discount by calling 617-730-2700. Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. Introduction to Audio Editing on GarageBand Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, $140. Caroline Klibanoff, Instructor Ever wanted to record a voiceover, create digital music, or make your own podcast? All About iTunes Learn to edit audio files in GarageBand, a user-friendly music and voice-editing program that comes standard on all Mac computers. In this class, you will learn how to record Marjorie Wein, Instructor music or voice to import into GarageBand; how to create sounds using built-in digital iTunes is the Apple music player application musical instruments; how to edit the files in a timeline; and how to add special effects, and so much more. Users can download music, transitions and sound improvements. Whether you’re an aspiring musician, voice actor, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, and more to or merely interested in seeing where your creative pursuits might take you, this class their computer, iPhone or iPad. We will discuss will leave you with an understanding of both the software and best audio recording and and demonstrate creating playlists, using editing practices. Genius, importing music (43 million songs Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 7:30-9:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $160. available), downloading, and purchasing from the iTunes store. Whether you use iTunes on a PC or an Apple computer, this class is for you. Digital Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 5/5/2016. Unified Arts Building, $48. Andrew Sweet, Instructor Learn to edit your videos in Adobe Premiere, a user-friendly, advanced digital video editing program designed to help you create professional-looking videos. In this Photography for iPhone class, you will learn media management, how to import and capture footage, edit in a David Leifer, Instructor timeline, and add video and audio effects using multiple tracks. Whether you would like to learn to edit footage of your child’s sporting events or create a blockbuster movie, Thanks to the iPhone, many more of us have a editing in Adobe Premiere will give you the tools to create videos that you’ll be proud of. camera in our pocket, making us into instant pho- Although this course is taught in a Mac lab, skills are transferable to PC. tographers. However, in order to achieve stunning results, we need apps and time to learn about Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, them. In this course, we will train you on the best $232. photo apps for the iPhone, including Instagram. We’ll talk about controlling focus and exposure, filter-based apps, sharing photos, and preparing Digital Storytelling: Create Your our photos for print. Photographers and non-pho- Legacy Using Digital Media tographers alike are welcome. Please bring your Brookline Interactive Group, Instructor iPhone. iPad users are also welcome. Storytelling is a framework for self-identity, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM-2:00PM. our cultural currency that we leave to the next Begins 5/7/2016. Unified Arts Building, $88. generation. Tell your story by making your autobiography into a narrated two-minute video. In this 4-week course, students will learn to Photos: Doing More with the New Mac digitalize their life story by utilizing multimedia App tools and equipment, and will develop writing Marjorie Wein, Instructor skills, receive feedback during story circles, and Photos is Apple’s new app for organizing, editing, cultivate basic audio, photography, and production and sharing your images. Replacing, rather techniques. Discounts and waivers do not apply. than merely modifying iPhoto, it offers some Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 6:00-8:00PM. Begins significant differences. If you haven’t had the 5/3/2016. Unified Arts Building, $207. chance to learn all that Photos can do, then this is your chance. You will explore fundamental skills, like importing photos from your camera and organizing them. Learn some of the more technical skills, like cropping, correcting Check out Brookline Interactive Group’s Open Saturday workshops exposures, and removing red eye. We will also to further hone your skills: brooklineinteractive.org explore the benefits and proper use of using the Cloud to store, sync, and share your photos. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 4/25/2016. Unified Arts Building, $48.

26 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 How to Put Your Teaching or Training commands. You’ll learn to record and repeat Mail Merge Online your steps, so you aren’t coming up with a new Michael Toon, Instructor Teodora Hristov, Instructor system every time you need to perform the same task. We’ll also use VLOOKUP to find a Mail merge is a helpful tool used to produce What does it take to create a great online value in a list or table, similar to looking up a letters, labels, envelopes, and nametags, learning or training experience for you, your person’s name in a telephone book. Ultimately, using the information in a data source. Rather students, and employees? Do you know you will leave this class with a more efficient than copying and pasting each recipient into where to start and how much time you need approach to Excel for application at work or an individual letter, mail merge will perform to prepare? This is a crash course for busy home. Students should be familiar with MS this tedious task for you, by changing the teachers and professionals who would like Excel. Please bring a USB drive to back up your appropriate information on each document. In to learn the basics of online course design data. Although this course is taught in a PC lab, this course, you will get a hands on approach and online training. It is not only for those skills are transferable to Mac. to explore the different features of this tool by who are transitioning, but also for those who creating a mail merge and labels using an excel want to utilize the best from both worlds to Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. database. Whether for personal or professional create effective blended learning. In just three Begins 5/5/2016. Brookline High, $130. use, learn how to personalize letters and cards sessions, you will learn the main differences for family, friends, or clients. between face-to-face and online learning Intermediate MS Excel Workshop Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. environments including how to use learning Begins 4/7/2016. Brookline High, $88. management systems for teaching and class Glen Cabbage, Instructor

management. Best practices checklists on In this workshop, we will build on existing Excel COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY course development and readiness for online skills to explore data analysis and advanced Computer Basics for Seniors teaching will be provided. data validation techniques. We will address Michael Toon, Instructor pivot tables, linking cells across multiple Excel Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: M 6:00-8:00PM. In the Introduction course, you’ll learn Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $130. workbooks, customizing toolbars, and exporting data to other MS Office applications. We will basic skills such as how to use a mouse and discuss key strategies for using Excel more keyboard, navigate the desktop, and make Mac Essentials effectively to make data reporting and analysis sense of computer jargon. We will also explore word processing. By the time you leave, you Marjorie Wein, Instructor faster and easier. This workshop will have a flexible structure that will allow students to will be ready to move on to other subjects Do you need help getting to know your Mac? bring questions and real-life examples to class. such as using the Internet, writing email, and Intermediate Are you thinking about switching to a Mac but Although this course is taught in a PC lab, skills managing your finances. In the you want to know more? In our first session, we are transferable to Mac. course, students will learn improved file and will go over the basics of using Mac computers. folder management, and word processing skills. We’ll discuss basic computer terms, setting Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 9:00AM-1:00PM. Students will also gain comfort with printing, preferences, the Dock, Finder, saving and Begins 5/21/2016. Brookline High, $88. burning a CD, copying and pasting text, and opening files, and other essential skills such as will learn efficient word processing commands. using the touch pad and keyboard shortcuts. Seniors only; discount does not apply. Limited In our second session, building on basic Intermediate MS PowerPoint Workshop to six. knowledge of the Mac computer, we will go over Phyllis Mays, Instructor Sec. 01 (Introduction): # sessions: 4 Day: the key applications that come installed on your For students who are already comfortable W 10:30AM-12:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Mac, including Mail, Safari, Contacts, Calendar, with the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint, this Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester Street, and Time Machine. class will focus on this application’s advanced Brookline, $74. Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: M 6:00-8:00PM. features. In this intensive one-day session, Sec. 02 (Intermediate): # sessions: 4 Day: Begins 5/9/2016. Unified Arts Building, $88. we will explore how to manage large numbers W 10:30AM-12:30PM. Begins 5/4/2016. of slides efficiently, merge presentations, Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester Street, create slides from a Word outline, and link and Brookline, $74. MS Excel for Your Job or Business embed Excel worksheets. We will also discuss Michael Toon, Instructor how to use PowerPoint more effectively in the workplace so that you can make more polished Online Auctions: Successful Selling on Microsoft Excel is the most widely used and presentations with confidence. comprehensive spreadsheet program available, eBay and allows you to quickly and easily create Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 9:30AM- Larry Gold, Instructor business and financial reports. This course will 12:30PM. Begins 4/9/2016. Brookline High, Join the tens of millions of people who use provide an introduction to Excel’s user interface $71. eBay, the world’s largest online auction, to earn and will cover important features such as how money by selling anything from hubcaps to to create and edit worksheets and workbooks, Computer Essentials for the Workplace tickets to rare antiques. This class will introduce manipulate table cells, create formulas, and you to the ins and outs of eBay, including how validate data. Students should have basic PC Michael Toon, Instructor auctions work, how to register as an eBay seller, skills. Although this course is taught in a PC lab, Efficient use of the PC requires basic knowledge and how to make smart and safe transactions. skills are transferable to Mac. in several areas: the operating system, software You’ll learn how to establish yourself as a seller, Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 7:30-9:30PM. applications (Microsoft Office), and the Internet. research the marketplace, create listings, Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $207. In this class, you will learn about the Windows develop pricing strategies, explore PayPal and operating system and its tools, and how to other payment options, monitor sales, and manage software, files, and folders. We will work with buyers after sales close. This class Excel: Pivot Tables, Macros, and explore basic word processing using Word, requires basic PC, Internet, and email skills. If VLOOKUP learn about spreadsheets with Excel, and look you are not already registered for PayPal, please Michael Toon, Instructor briefly at PowerPoint. Finally, we will examine bring your checking account number and bank the Internet with a popular web browser and routing number, for your reference. Seniors Would you like to build on your basic MS discuss issues such as internet access and only; discount does not apply. Limited to six. Excel 2010 skills to more efficiently organize, different types of internet services. This hands- Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: M 11:45AM- summarize, and interpret data? We’ll use on course is for beginners. pivot tables to automatically sort, count, 1:45PM. Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline Senior total, or average the data stored in one table Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 5:30-7:30PM. Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $40. or spreadsheet. Then, we’ll discuss macros Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $207. and how they can repeat, or “play back,”

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 27 Mastering Your iPhone or iPad Marjorie Wein, Instructor With the iPhone and iPad, checking email on the go, browsing the web, reading books, Finance, Career, and Real Estate watching movies, and sharing photos or slideshows have never been easier due to their bright displays and portability. In the separate iPhone and iPad classes, we’ll learn how easy it is to adjust settings to suit your individual needs, how to use the touchscreen interface, prospectuses, and building a balanced portfolio. how to add applications to your system using Accounting 101 for Business Management Find out what really matters when you pick the App store, and discuss what makes each mutual funds (hint: it’s not the number of stars). device unique. Please bring your iPhone or Joosung Lee, Instructor Learn how to protect yourself from salespeople iPad, if you have one, and your questions, to the This is an introductory financial accounting and speculators, and how to use the financial Section 01 appropriate class. is for iPhone and course for anyone who is interested in the services industry to your best advantage. A $20 Section 02 is for iPad. Seniors only; discount principles of bookkeeping and the monetary materials fee for a course packet is payable to does not apply. Limited to six. management of personal or business trans- the instructor at the first class. Sec. 01 (iPhone): # sessions: 2 Day: M 9:30- actions. By introducing the fundamentals of Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. 11:30AM. Begins 5/2/2016. Brookline Senior accounting and business issues that are related Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $128. Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $50. to business management and daily operations, Sec. 02 (iPad): # sessions: 2 Day: Th 9:30- you will gain the knowledge and skills to analyze 11:30AM. Begins 5/12/2016. Brookline Senior financial statements and cash flow/profits. We Tools of the Trade: A Technical Analysis Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $50. will also cover real-world examples and practice of the Stock Market reading various financial statements. By the end Debra Stotler, Instructor of this course, participants gain aptitudes and Facebook for Seniors practical tools in the fundamentals of account- For those who have dabbled in the stock market but are looking for something more, this class Michael Toon, Instructor ing including understanding financial state- ments and analyzing business performance with is for you. We will learn about the technical side Facebook is a hugely popular social networking financial statements, and embarking on new of trading, studying such aspects as moving site that allows you to connect with other business projects. These accounting essentials averages, momentum, Dow Theory, chart users, share interests, and join groups. Using will become a solid foundation for your personal patterns, market cycles, Elliott Wave, and other Facebook, you can keep in touch with family or business financials. technical tools. Basic technical analysis will members, reconnect with long-lost friends and help you decide when to buy, sell, or buy more; classmates, and even play games with others Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. it is the study of market sentiment and timing. online. If you are curious about Facebook, this Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $128. hands-on class will help you get started by Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 4/27/2016. Brookline High, $156. explaining the basics and helping you to create your own account. We’ll learn how to share Accounting 102 for Business Success photos, videos, and more, while also discussing Joosung Lee, Instructor Trading With Options Facebook’s privacy policy. Seniors only; This is a managerial accounting course for Debra Stotler, Instructor discount does not apply. Limited to six. business owners and managers who are Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: F 10:00AM- interested in assessing their organization’s In times of extreme market volatility, options 12:00PM. Begins 4/1/2016. Brookline Senior business performance in detail to improve are a good choice for both beginners and Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $60. profitability. By introducing the key terminology seasoned investors. Options are derivatives of such as the types of costs and the metrics to such entities as equities, futures, and indices, assess the profitability of business functions, and we’ll cover in detail what they are, how they Organizing Your Budget with MS Excel you will gain the practical skills to analyze the trade in relation to their underlying variable, for Seniors weak areas of your business and recommend their worth, and when to use them. In this class, for those who want to trade options as well as Michael Toon, Instructor innovative ways to resolve the issues. We will also cover real-world cases and examine how those who simply want to learn more, we’ll learn Did you know you can get your finances, leading companies managed their business the basics as well as conservative strategies budgets, and personal records in order using operations to improve profitability. By the end of such as covered calls, spreads, and strangles. Microsoft’s popular Excel program? In this this course, participants gain business aptitudes We will cover risk management, volatility, course, we’ll begin by exploring the basic to consider the costs of production and innovate timing, and optimizing reward. After all, the features of Microsoft Windows, including file the value of their products and services. more you know, the better you trade. management and the control panel. Then you’ll learn to produce spreadsheets with Excel that Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Th 7:00-9:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. will allow you to track budgets and accounts, or Begins 5/5/2016. Brookline High, $128. Begins 5/17/2016. Brookline High, $128. create a database of useful information, such as addresses or birthdays. Students should Index Fund Investing have completed Computer Basics (Introduction) The ABCs of Investing or equivalent. Although this course is taught in Mary Ellen McCarthy, Instructor Mary Ellen McCarthy, Instructor a PC lab, skills are transferable to Mac. Seniors Would you like to learn about investing and a The mutual fund industry promises performance, only; discount does not apply. Limited to six. practical approach to building wealth, but don’t but year after year—in good markets and bad— Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: F 10:00AM- know where to start? This comprehensive course most mutual funds perform poorly compared to 12:00PM. Begins 5/6/2016. Brookline Senior is designed to demystify investment jargon and the broad indices that track stock and bond mar- Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $74. empower you to manage your money safely kets. So why not invest in the index? Learn why and effectively. We’ll start by examining money the best-informed investors are doing just that, market accounts, certificates of deposit, savings and how choosing the right index funds can save accounts, stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. you thousands of dollars, open new investment With weekly hands-on exercises, you will master opportunities, make your life easier, and help practical investment skills such as spotting high reduce your tax burden. In this hands-on course, fees on account statements and in mutual fund you will build model portfolios, learn how to use index funds to your best advantage in different

28 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 types of accounts, and study prospectuses and other SEC filings for index funds in every major investment category. You’ll leave with a solid un- First-time Home Buyers derstanding of how to invest in index funds and a list of the best fund choices. A $25 materials fee Are you considering buying a home for the first time? Our is payable to the instructor at the first class. courses on financing, buying, and selling real estate will help you Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. make a plan that works to your advantage. The more you know, Begins 5/4/2016. Brookline High, $128. the more confidence you will have in making the right decisions.

WomensWorth: The Ten Dimensions of How to Finance a New Home Financial Mastery Chuck Silverston, Instructor Amy Lampert, Instructor When shopping for a new home, visions of beautiful kitchens and master baths, and The time is now to command your own financial closet space galore may be appealing, but you can’t forget the most important step: mastery. This course seeks to create a safe financing. On this evening, a professional realtor will answer your questions and help and comfortable environment in which women you create a checklist for financing your new home. We will discuss how much you can can learn the skills and acquire the knowledge afford in the way of a mortgage, how much money you need to save, different loan to take an active role in their financial affairs. options, how to shop for a mortgage, and when to lock in a rate. We will begin by conducting a gap analysis to Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 4/5/2016. Brookline High, $54. evaluate how involved you are now versus how involved you want to be with your finances. We will then move on to discuss organizing How to Sell Your Home and managing financial documents, creating Chuck Silverston, Instructor FINANCE, CAREER, & REAL ESTATE a sound budget, understanding your own Are you thinking of selling your home or condo? Spring is the perfect season to begin cash flow and planning how to invest excess the process, but do you know the steps you can take to ensure a speedy sale? Setting cash, how to give voice to your own needs the right price and making an excellent first impression are both essential to attracting and concerns, and how to save for retirement. buyers, but what else can you do to get the offers rolling in? Let a professional realtor By the end of this class, you will be ready to walk you through the steps to preparing your home for a quick sale, choosing the right confidently manage your finances and know realtor and attorney, pricing your home correctly, and getting financing. We’ll also how to stay on the path to success. You will discuss upgrades, repairs, staging, pricing, and timelines. leave with a self-assessment and a customized action plan to tackle your financial future. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $54. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 4/27/2016. Brookline High, $54. First Time Home and Condo Buyers David Miller, Instructor Passport to Retirement In today’s market, it’s more important than ever to be real estate savvy before Matthew Clayson, Jeffrey Carey, Justin Hayward, purchasing a home or condo. Get an overview of the entire process, from finding the Instructors perfect neighborhood and selecting a real estate broker, to obtaining favorable financing Due to recent tax law changes, an uncertain and hiring an attorney to protect your investment. We’ll teach you how the rights and future for Social Security, and the shift toward responsibilities of condo owners differ from those of homeowners, and review the employee-directed retirement plans, the need primary legal documents related to each. This course’s unbiased, comprehensive for sound financial strategies has never been approach can help you avoid disastrous situations from the loss of your hard-earned greater. In this class, you will learn time-tested deposit, to buying a property with latent defects such as termites, lead paint, or water strategies to help you make informed retirement damage. Walk away feeling confident and ready to make this important life decision. decisions. Whether your objective is to build a Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Brookline High, $54. nest egg, protect your assets, or preserve your lifestyle throughout retirement, this course will help you plan your future with confidence. You’ll begin by assessing the costs of retirement and evaluating your sources of income. We will then review various types of investments as Maximize Your Social Security Benefits Long-Term Care Planning well as risk management strategies. We will Amy Lampert, Instructor Amy Lampert, Instructor also discuss how to make informed insurance Social Security is a significant piece of the Are you considering the impact of long-term decisions to protect your health and wealth, retirement puzzle. Learn how to get the most care costs on your spouse and family? There and different methods for receiving money from from your benefits and coordinate this income are ways to protect your savings and home your retirement plans. An illustrated workbook is with your overall retirement strategy. We will should long-term care be required. In this included in the course fee. talk about the current state of Social Security, workshop, we will review types of care, cost, Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Tu 6:30-9:15PM. what to consider when planning your benefit and who pays for various options, the role of Begins 4/26/2016. Brookline High, $102. start date, spousal benefits, options for Medicare and Medicaid, types of insurance Sec. 02: # sessions: 2 Day: Th 6:30-9:15PM. divorcees, buy-back strategies, tax reduction available to help pay for care, and what to look Begins 4/28/2016. Brookline High, $102. strategies, and coordination with state and for when evaluating policies. We will compare federal retirement plans, such as Windfall traditional long-term care policies with newer Elimination Provisions and Government hybrids that can guarantee a payment for care Pensions Offsets. We will also review special and/or provide a life insurance benefit. This planning considerations for self-employed course is for you if you are approaching or Crowdfunding is the use of small individuals. Join us to navigate this sometimes in retirement, as well as for family members amounts of capital from a large confusing benefit. concerned about aging parents. You will gain an number of individuals to finance a Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-9:00PM. understanding of available options and leave project or business. Check out our Begins 4/25/2016. Brookline High, $54. with the tools to plan for the future. classes on crowdfunding on pages Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. 25-26. Begins 5/4/2016. Brookline High, $54.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 29 Real Estate Salesperson’s Course Social Media Marketing Scott Gordon, Instructor Christi Electris, Instructor International Cuisine Learn the real estate fundamentals necessary In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how Take a trip around the world and to be licensed by the Commonwealth of to grow your business or organization by experience unique flavors from Massachusetts as a real estate salesperson. connecting with customers and supporters of Areas to be covered include legal aspects of your work through social media. We’ll explore China to the Mediterranean without brokering, real estate financing, mechanics of the most popular social media tools, including leaving Brookline. closing, residential market evaluation, landlord- Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. You’ll learn tenant relations, condominium conversions, about creating profiles and pages, attracting Explore the World in a Cup of Tea tax abatements, zoning and land use control, fans and followers, what to post to encourage license law and Massachusetts real estate conversations with your audience, and Hillel Bromberg, Instructor practice, and real estate math. This course is measuring the success of your social media Tea can be sweet, rich, buttery, and citrusy. also appropriate for individuals who would like efforts. We will also introduce other social It can wake you up and calm you down. Tea to be better informed on all aspects of real media sites such as YouTube, Yelp, and blogs. has a history that spans the globe, and health estate. Please note: by completing this 42-hour All students will have the opportunity to explore benefits that will keep you going. It has been course, students will have met the pre-licensure various social media during class and receive cultivated for over 3,000 years and is the education requirement for the Massachusetts feedback from the instructor. second most popular drink in the world. Get to Real Estate Salesperson exam. A textbook Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Th 6:30-8:30PM. know tea’s delightful flavors and aromas, as fee for the required textbook is payable to the Begins 5/19/2016. Brookline High, $72. well as its fascinating history, how it’s made, instructor in class. Approximate cost, $40. where it’s from, and what it can do for you. Sec. 01: # sessions: 14 Day: M, W 6:00- You’ll learn how to steep for best flavor and 9:00PM. Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, sample several varieties, such as delicate $410. whites, smooth oolongs, refreshing greens, malty blacks, and deep, rich pu-erhs. Palate Food and Wine cleansing refreshments will be provided. A $10 Empty Nester Alternative: LIVING in the tea fee is included in the course fee. City Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. Andrew Friedland, Instructor Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $50. While some empty nesters stay in their single family home and some move to senior Korean Kimchi Workshop communities, others choose to move to a full- service city condo to simplify and enhance their The Basics Minnie Luong, Instructor lives. In this course we will discuss economics, One of the world’s healthiest foods, Korean lifestyle changes, and condo association issues; Start at the very beginning with kimchi pickles are full of vitamins A, B, and purchasing versus renting; and will survey the essential courses that will get you C, and full of probiotics, such as those found full-service buildings located in Boston and in yogurt and other fermented foods that aid Brookline areas. An industry expert will unravel started in the kitchen. in digestion. Kimchi is also a delicious Asian the search and buying process so that you ingredient that adds a complex, spicy, and tangy can feel comfortable, be in control, and focus Beginning Cooking: Basic Skills flavor profile to many dishes. In this course you on your goals with emphasis on the many will learn a simplified method to make your own Dagmar Smith, Instructor resources available to help you live and connect delicious vegan and traditional kimchi. You will in the city. You’ll leave with a packet full of ideas If you’re a new cook and would like extra also learn techniques on how to incorporate it to assist you in finding your next new home in guidance in the kitchen, this hands-on course is into your cooking with dishes such as Kimchi the city. a fantastic starting point. Learn basic cooking Stir-Fried Rice, and Kimchi-Scallion Pancakes, skills and techniques such as steaming, and take part in a homemade kimchi tasting. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. pan-frying, roasting, and baking. The first two Begins 4/11/2016. Brookline High, $43. You will walk away with a jar to take home and sessions will emphasize knife skills, the most a set of recipes. An $18 food fee is included in important skills any home cook or chef can the course fee. Video Marketing 101 have. Students will work in pairs to create a complete dinner to be shared at the end of the Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. Caroline Klibanoff, Instructor evening. Recipes will include fresh Pineapple Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $67. Are you interested in using video content to Salsa, Mashed Potatoes and Mushroom Gravy, advertise your brand, introduce a product, or Baked Salmon with Yogurt Dill Sauce, Rice Pilaf, Perfect Pad Thai gain followers on social media? This course Roasted Vegetables, Turkey Chili, Pan-Seared will go over best practices for video content Steak, a whole Roast Chicken, and pasta Minnie Luong, Instructor and dissemination, including how to create and sauces from scratch. We will also cover The perfect combination of salty, sweet, and compelling scripts, audio and visual strategies, breakfast foods including Pancakes, French sour flavors, smooth rice noodles, crunchy tagging and searchability, and how to use video Toast, and Omelets. An $80 food fee is payable vegetables and peanuts, and just the right to create action in your viewers. We will explore to the instructor at the first class. amount of heat makes Pad Thai the perfect the most effective tactics for YouTube, Vine/ Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. seasonal dish. If you order this dish every time Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook video, and in Begins 4/6/2016. Unified Arts Building, $150. you’re out at a Thai restaurant, join us to learn soliciting user-generated content. the easy and authentic way to make it at home. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:00-8:30PM. The recipe you will learn was passed on to Chef Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $54. Minnie during her time in Thailand from a five star Thai chef. You will leave with the secrets on how to create a traditional Pad Thai along with a gluten free carrot Pad Thai. Join us to get your wok on! A $20 food fee is included in the course fee. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 5/4/2016. Unified Arts Building, $69.

30 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Thai Curry Cooking: Chicken Khao Soi Minnie Luong, Instructor Seasonal Cooking Khao Soi is a spicy, aromatic coconut curry noodle soup that makes a comforting and Take advantage of what the season has to offer; perfect for delicious meal. A traditional dish from Northern those with a green thumb. Thailand, Khao Soi is an irresistible mix of noodles, coconut curry broth, and Southeast Asian aromatics. Take an authentic taste of Cooking and Baking with Fresh Herbs Southeast Asian cuisine, and learn how to make Edgar Ievins, Instructor your own red curry paste, and how to shop for Used separately or in combinations, herbs impart freshness and fullness of flavor, and utilize Thai ingredients. A $20 food fee is especially when one is looking to cut back on salt. Transform your meals with the included in the course fee. abundance of fresh and fragrant herbs currently taking over your garden or farmers’ Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. market. We will discuss how to best grow herbs and secrets of buying, using, storing, Begins 4/6/2016. Unified Arts Building, $69. and preserving fresh herbs. We’ll prepare and enjoy dishes that may include Oven- roasted Spring Vegetables, Herb-roasted Chicken, Tarragon-infused Potato Salad, Gnocchi in Sage-Brown Butter Sauce, and Herb-infused homemade Foccacia. Basil Three Tastes of China gelato will complete our herb-infused feast. Take home containers will be provided. A Fan Stanbrough, Instructor $20 food fee is included in the course fee. Take a trip to China as we explore dishes from Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM-1:30PM. Begins 5/21/2016. Unified Arts several regions and create a feast to share. Building, $75. With guidance from a Chinese native, in the first session, you will learn to make dumplings, a popular snack or meal in China, and master the techniques of folding and wrapping, steaming and pan-frying. You will have the choice to Vegan Indian Sangría y Tapas Fantasticas make sweet and savory dumplings, as well as FOOD & WINE pork or vegetarian. We will also concoct an Shruti Mehta, Instructor Marisol Marquez, Instructor array of dipping sauces. In the second session, It can be a true challenge to cook delicious, An integral part of the Spanish lifestyle, tapas we’ll make and enjoy Zha Jiang Mian, a dish healthy Indian meals from scratch, especially are many and varied, ranging from a simple consisting of thick wheat noodles topped with if you’re trying to go vegan. But with a little snack of fried almonds or marinated olives a savory soybean and sweet bean paste sauce, guidance, you’ll be on your way to creating to delicious little dishes of grilled mussels, and Kung Pao Chicken, a spicy dish made with aromatic, colorful, and healthy vegan dishes roasted vegetable tartlets, or zucchini fritters. peanuts, vegetables, and chilies. A $30 food in no time. Add various options to your vegan Let a native of Spain teach you how to prepare fee is payable to the instructor at the first class. repertoire, including sprouted Mung Bean these delightful little dishes that are simple to Chaat (salad with sprouted mung beans, make and easy to serve. Our feast will include Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 5/11/2016. Unified Arts Building, $79. onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, and spices), Montaditos (vegetable brochettes), Tortilla Gobhi Masala (cauliflower curry with cashews Española (traditional Spanish omelette), and poppy seeds), Green Pepper Pulao (rice Patatas Bravas, Empanadas de Atun, and A Traditional Indian Dinner with sautéed green peppers), Tarka Dal (split additional tapas fantasticas. After our cooking pigeon peas or lentils with whole red chili lesson we will enjoy our savory creations, and Shruti Mehta, Instructor peppers and garlic), and Garlic Naan. An $18 toast the evening with sangría A $17 food and Indian cuisine is known for its aromatic, food fee is included in the course fee. wine fee is included in the course fee. flavorful, and sometimes spicy food. Discover Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 6:00-9:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: M 6:00-9:00PM. the treasure of Indian cuisine for an evening of Begins 5/12/2016. Unified Arts Building, $67. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $66. cooking and culture as we prepare an elaborate Indian vegetarian meal. Dishes may include Shahi Paneer (fried paneer curry stewed in The Weeknight Italian: Stress Free, Wine Appreciation Crash Course tomatoes, onions, and ginger), Green Pulao Authentic Meals (rice with cilantro chutney and vegetables), John Fiola, Instructor Kadhi (warm yogurt soup), and Garlic Naan. Francesca Montillo, Instructor The world of wine is so vast and intimidating Dessert may include Halwa (sweet Indian dish Some cooking shows and books will lead you that we often don’t know where to begin, and consisting of carrots or semolina boiled with to believe that you need advanced culinary with our busy schedules, we often don’t have milk, almonds, sugar, butter, and cardamom). training, plus hours in the kitchen, in order to time to take an extensive course. Join us for this An $18 food fee is included in the course fee. prepare a delicious, homemade Italian meal. crash course and primer on wine education. In this course, a native Italian will teach you Learn what to look for on a bottle label or wine Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 4/5/2016. Unified Arts Building, $67. authentic recipes designed for the busy home list, taste the difference between a Burgundy cook. Session one will be all about pasta and and a Bordeaux, and evaluate various wines our dishes may include Pasta al Pomodoro; from France, the United States, Italy, and so Fettuccini Bolognese; Bow Ties with Sautéed on. You’ll leave with a keen sense of what Zucchini; and Aglio e Olio. Session two will makes wines different along with a better What You Should Know About Food and focus on meat and chicken and recipes may understanding of what you like. Please bring Wine Classes include baked Cutlets; Sausage, Peppers and three wine glasses to class. A $25 wine fee is Mushrooms; and Lemon-Rosemary Chicken. included in the course fee. • All of our cooking and baking classes Our last session will focus on vegetables and meet at the kitchens in the Unified Arts Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: W 6:30-8:30PM. legumes with recipes including Tuscan Bean Begins 5/4/2016. Brookline High, $81. Building at Brookline High School. Soup; Chickpeas with Spinach in Red Sauce; • In order to receive a refund or credit Peas and Prosciutto; and baked Stuffed for your food or wine course fee, we Mushrooms. Class will include demonstration, must have five business days (Monday participation, and eating! A $60 food fee is through Friday) notice in advance of the payable to the instructor at the first class. starting time of the class. Please refer to Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: M 6:00-9:00PM. our course refund policy at the back of Begins 4/25/2016. Unified Arts Building, $99. the catalog for more information.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 31 Baking and Desserts: Baking delicate confections doesn’t have to be complicated; Hobbies, Walks, Let these knowledgeable instructors guide you through the process so you can impress your guests at your next get together. and Tours

Simple and Sweet Italian Desserts Francesca Montillo, Instructor Beginner’s Guide to Golf No Italian meal is complete without some form of dessert or sweet ending. For the home cook, baking a dessert TBA, Instructor after having cooked a full meal might seem time- Golf is a wonderfully complex and consuming and overwhelming, but it doesn’t have satisfying hobby. It takes intellect, to be. In this 3-session class, taught by a native of etiquette, sportsmanship, and skill. Italy, we will prepare authentic desserts that will not In an indoor gym a golf master will take an entire afternoon to bake. In the first session, help you hone your basic grip, stance, our desserts may include Limoncello Cake, Pignoli swing, and attention to the ball. We’ll Cookies, and glazed Anise Cookies. Session two may discuss the various clubs, techniques include Chocolate-Espresso Cookies, Orange-Ricotta that address aim and distance, and Cake, and Cherry-topped Ricotta Cookies. In the final importantly the rules, vocabulary, and class, we’ll bake desserts that may include Nutella Loaf, subtleties of the play. The course is divided Biscotti, and Wine cookies. Please bring a 10-12” round into three sections, so you can only focus cake pan to the first class and a loaf pan to the second on the areas you want to perfect. Section and third classes. Please bring a container to take home your 01 is putting, Section 02 is chipping, and goodies. A $60 food fee is payable to the instructor at the first class. Section 03 is driving. Or you can opt to take all Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Sa 10:00AM-1:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Unified Arts three. Our goal is to provide you with the basic Building, $99. knowledge and skills you’ll need to start playing. Equipment will be supplied by the instructor. A $4 materials fee is payable to the instructor at Puff Pastry and Pâte à Choux the first class. Edgar Ievins, Instructor Sec. 01 (Putting): # sessions: 2 Day: Th 7:00- Puff Pastry and Pâte à Choux bring two of the most playful, yet elegant elements 8:30PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Devotion School, 345 Harvard Street, Brookline, $48. to any dining experience. Whether used as appetizers or for main dishes, savory or sweet, these pastries are regularly presented in the finest of catered events. Learn to Sec. 02 (Chipping): # sessions: 2 Day: Th 7:00- make mouthwatering puff pastry from scratch, and how to use commercially-available 8:30PM. Begins 4/28/2016. Devotion School, products to make Cheese Straws, Palmiers, and Pithiviers. We will also learn to make 345 Harvard Street, Brookline, $48. savory French Choux Pastries with Cucumber and Salmon filling, and sweet pastry Sec. 03 (Driving): # sessions: 2 Day: Th 7:00- cream-filled Eclairs with Chocolate Sauce. Take home containers will be provided. A $20 8:30PM. Begins 5/12/2016. Devotion School, food fee is included in the course fee. 345 Harvard Street, Brookline, $48. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM-1:30PM. Begins 4/9/2016. Unified Arts Sec. 04 (Putting, Chipping, and Driving): # Building, $75. sessions: 6 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/7/2016. Devotion School, 345 Harvard Street, Brookline, $117.

The Game of Mah-Jong The Fireplace: New England Whiskey The Fireplace: New England Micro Brew Beers Muriel Haber, Instructor Staff, The Fireplace Mah-jong, or “the game of a hundred In the past, whiskey was strongly associated Staff, The Fireplace intelligences,” is a Chinese tile game that with various locales including Kentucky and Craft brewing has changed the world of beer became overwhelmingly popular in the U.S. Scotland, but you may be surprised to hear that dramatically over recent years, and New in the 1900s. The popularity of mah-jong has New England has a burgeoning whiskey scene England has a thriving microbrew scene. Due since waned as the nature of leisure-time as well. If you have a fondness for this delicious to the creativity and skill of the brewers and activities has changed, but the excitement amber “water of life,” join us at the Fireplace for the high quality of ingredients they use, beer of the game still remains. Learn about the a cocktail chat and for a sampling of a variety has become a refined and fascinating beverage strategic game, played with beautiful tiles and New England whiskeys. You’ll taste samples with many facets to explore. Breweries such terminology that includes winds, dragons, of corn whiskey and bourbon from Berkshire as Portico in Cambridge, Jack’s Abby in flowers, pungs, and kongs. Once you’ve learned Mountain Distillery in Sheffield, MA; American Framingham, and Cisco Brewing in Nantucket the rules, the ability to excel is limitless, and straight whiskey from Bully Boy of Boston, are all brewing and thriving in the Boston-metro better yet, it’s easy to teach your friends. This MA; and Battle Cry Whiskey from the Sons of area. On this afternoon, we will explore (and class will teach you the fundamentals, and Liberty in South Kingston, RI. Discover what the taste) a variety of beers that may include ales prepare you to form your own mah-jong group. recent New England explosion of bourbon is all and lagers, dark beers, varieties of hoppy and Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 6 Day: Th about; bourbon and single malt will be tasted. mild beers, “funky” beers, and sour beers all 11:30AM-1:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. The A selection of savory appetizers will accompany brewed locally. No discounts or waivers apply. Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, our tastings. No discounts or waivers apply. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 3:00-4:15PM. Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $130. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 3:00-4:15PM. Begins 5/14/2016. Meet at 1634 Beacon St, Sec. 02 (Advanced Beginner): # sessions: 6 Begins 4/30/2016. Meet at The Fireplace, Brookline, $30. Day: Th 1:30-3:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. The 1634 Beacon St., Brookline, $30. Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $130.

32 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Bridge want to sharpen your understanding of all of Spanish-style shelters, Richmond Court, Amory Jori Grossack, Instructor the rules and strategies, join us to discover the Park, Longwood Mall, Cottage Farm, St. Mary’s, enjoyment of chess. and Audubon Circle. We’ll discuss the zoning, Enjoy your Saturday learning to play bridge, an layout, and architecture of the street, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: M 7:00-9:00PM. exciting, fast paced, and competitive game. In how politics and the values of the day shaped Beginner Begins 4/4/2016. Brookline High, $130. the class, we will learn fundamentals changes. We’ll cover about two miles and end at about play of the hand, partnership defense, Audubon Circle. and modern bidding techniques. By the end of this course you will have the confidence and Kayak Adventure: The Boston Skyline Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:30AM- skills to play a social game of bridge. In the Charles River Canoe & Kayak & Weston Ski 12:30PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Meet at the Advanced Beginner bridge class, we will build Track, Guide Cleveland Circle T-stop, C-Line, Brookline, $20. upon techniques of defense, play of the hand, Revel in the best view of Boston’s skyline from and bidding. Students should have completed a kayak on the Charles River. Our tour begins A Walk in Newton’s Hemlock Gorge a beginner level class or have general bridge and ends near Kendall Square. We’ll begin playing experience. By the end of this course, with a quick introduction to kayak strokes, Phyllis Mays, Guide you will be able to play a duplicate or club game and then we’ll launch double kayaks to paddle Hemlock Gorge Reservation is located on a of bridge or just wow your social bridge friends along the Cambridge shoreline. After passing 23-acre site, bound by trails that weave through with your advanced playing abilities. Calling the Great Dome of MIT, we’ll cross the Charles adjoining corners of Needham, Newton, and all you advanced bridge players: Spice up your to the Esplanade, admiring the Hancock and Wellesley. Water runs rapidly down the gorge, bidding, declarer play, and partnership defense Prudential Buildings, Citgo Sign, State House the most precipitous drop in elevation along the in the Intermediate class. Learn what the Dome, and Financial District. We’ll paddle Charles River. Lined with overhanging hemlock experts do in difficult situations. Furthermore, under the footbridges of Storrow Lagoon, near trees, the gorge is spanned by the beautiful you will experience first hand, the benefits of the Hatch Shell, head towards the Longfellow Echo Bridge, built in 1877 and boasting a 133- counting out the hands. This course will change Bridge, and turn back toward Kendall Square foot sweeping granite arch that soars above your bridge game for the (much) better. while your guide entertains you with stories the river’s surface. Decide for yourself what is Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 7 Day: M 9:00- about the history of Boston and Cambridge. more magnificent: the experience of being atop 11:00AM. Begins 3/28/2016. The Korean Paddlers of all levels welcome. Tour information the grand old bridge, reverberation of voices Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline, will be emailed upon registration. Discounts or in the chamber, or standing downstream and $140. waivers do not apply. taking in the view. Join us on a moderate hike to enjoy the natural and historical highlights Sec. 02 (Advanced Beginner): # sessions: 7 Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 11:00AM- that makes this little-known park so intriguing.

Day: Sa 10:00AM-12:00PM. Begins 4/9/2016. 1:00PM. Begins 5/28/2016. Meet at 15 Broad HOBBIES, WALKS, & TOURS Wear comfortable hiking shoes as the trail can Brookline High, $140. Canal Street, Cambridge, $65. be uneven and steep. Directions will be emailed Sec. 03 (Intermediate): # sessions: 7 Day: Sa upon registration. 12:00-2:00PM. Begins 4/9/2016. Brookline High, $140. Moonlight Canoe Trip Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 1:00-3:00PM. Charles River Canoe & Kayak & Weston Ski Begins 4/3/2016. Meet at Echo Bridge Office Track, Guide Park (flag pole) on Elliot Street, Newton Upper Falls, $22. Fencing Imagine twinkling lights silhouetting a fleet Neal Carney, Instructor of canoes slipping silently down a darkened Fencing, often described as “physical chess,” river. Overhead, a full moon beams down on Changing Times: A Walking Tour of develops graces and skill in the mind and the the evening’s revelers. What could be more Boston Society romantic or inspiring? Enjoy a trip down the reflexes. It is a demanding and fascinating art Stephen Jerome, Guide form that is both recreational and an excellent Charles River when it is at its most mysterious form of exercise. In this introduction to the and beautiful—by the light of the silvery moon. Boston’s skyline and streetscapes are fundamentals of fencing, you will learn both Whether you are a beginning or advanced level constantly in transition. On this walking tour, footwork and bladework, including en garde paddler, this trip is sure to delight you. We our focus will be on a comparison of the old advance and retreat positions as well as simple will take you through the historic Auburndale and the new, including museums, churches, attacks and defensive actions. You will use a foil section of the river, and provide a narrative schools, hospitals, and public facilities as your weapon, but will also become familiar tour of the offshore and onshore sites. Tour in the Longwood Medical area. Led by a with an épée and sabre. Please wear long information will be emailed upon registration. knowledgeable guide, we’ll travel through an sweat pants and sneakers to class. All uniforms Discounts or waivers do not apply. urban maze, discuss Boston society, and learn and equipment will be provided. fascinating architectural and historical facts Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 6:00-9:00PM. about the growth and contributions that have Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: M 7:30-9:00PM. Begins 5/21/2016. Meet at 211 Moody Street shaped the city as we know it today. We’ll cover dam, Waltham (next to Margaritas), $45. Begins 3/28/2016. Lawrence School, 27 a lot of territory, but our leisurely pace will allow Francis Street, Brookline, $126. you to soak it all in. Cameras and notepads are Brookline’s Beacon Street Walk highly recommended. Learning Chess Kenneth Dumas, Guide Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 1:00-3:00PM. Begins 4/3/2016. Meet at the Longwood T-stop, Walter Driscoll, Instructor In the 1850’s Brookline’s Beacon Street was Greenline/Riverside Train, Brookline, $20. A game of strategy and intellect, chess is simple still a narrow country road. By 1900, Frederick to learn, especially when you’re engaging in Law Olmsted and his partner John C. Olmsted friendly micro games that will build your skills had been hired as designers, and the street and confidence. Once you understand the was transformed into a wide boulevard lined by essentials, chess then becomes a game with apartment blocks and stores, and included the infinite appeal. This class will introduce you to nation’s second electric trolley line. Join us for a a new piece each week, and its combination stroll from Cleveland Circle to Audubon Circle as with the king, as well as simple mating patterns. we talk about the development of Beacon Street By week seven, you will learn one opening as over the years, including important historical well as ideas general to all openings, and we moments as well as more contemporary will pair up. You will be able to read and write changes and its reconstruction. You’ll learn chess notation, set up the board, and ways to about the Beaconsfield Terraces, hidden paths, open the game. If you are a beginner, or if you Stoneholm, Brandon Hall, “Taxpayer Buildings”, Coolidge-Bros. Market, S.S. Pierce, tiled MBTA

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Bicycle Commuting and Maintenance Bicycles have been a reliable means of transportation since the 19th century, but even the best bikes need occasional repairs. Learn the basics of maintaining your bike, and then the tips for being safe when riding around the city. Basic Bike Maintenance Urban Riding and Commuting Tips Galen Mook, League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor Galen Mook, League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor Learn how to fix your own bike and keep riding safe and smooth. Are you concerned about riding in the streets of Brookline and Just as spring arrives, chances are your bike will need some loving Boston? We all are, but there are certain ways you can stay safe, care to get road ready. Most basic maintenance can be done by you, comfortable, and efficient while riding your bike. Come join the with the proper know-how and experience. This three-hour class will conversation and learn some tips and tricks from the pros at leave you with the ability to diagnose problems with the tires/tubes/ Landry’s Bicycles. This three-hour class will focus on the rules of wheels, brakes and cables, gears/chains/derailleurs, and learn the the road, types of bike infrastructure, safe riding in traffic, clothing most common problems and how to fix them yourself. This class is and gear, simple ABCs of maintenance, and finding your way around geared toward beginner to intermediate riders. After the class there town on the proper routes. We’ll cover these topics under the will be an optional bike ride at no extra cost. If interested, you must umbrella of “Comfort, Knowledge, and Awareness” with the goal of bring your own bike and helmet. making you a better rider. This class is geared for all levels of bikers, Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 9:00AM-12:00PM. Begins 5/8/2016. from novices to experts, since we can all learn and share some new Meet at Landry’s Bicycles, 890 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, $48. tips. After the class there will be an optional bike ride at no extra cost. If interested, you must bring your own bike and helmet. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 9:00AM-12:00PM. Begins 5/1/2016. Meet at Landry’s Bicycles, 890 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, $48.

Boston: A City Engineered Walking Tour one of Boston’s classic neighborhoods and a Boston’s Historic Waterfront: A Boston By Foot, Guide group discussion sure to whet your intellect. Walking Tour Children are welcome as guests. A walk through Boston is a walk through an Boston By Foot, Guide engineered land. Boston has aggressively Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 11:00AM- Boston has a great seafaring heritage. Ocean reinvented itself over and over again to 1:15PM. Begins 4/16/2016. Meet at Carroll trade and related industries had a major impact accommodate a growing population, the and Sons Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, on the growth of Boston and the shape and needs of business and industry, public and $24. character of its waterfront. Today’s waterfront is private transportation, and public health and a vibrant mix of hotels, restaurants, residences, safety. The eclectic streets and buildings are A Walking Tour of Fisher Hill and recreational spaces, from Atlantic Wharf on composed of layers of history whose story is the Fort Point Channel to Battery Wharf in the revealed by the clues left behind. From the Stephen Jerome, Guide North End. This tour includes the beginnings of narrow streets of the 17th-century town to Long Enjoy a walk along the summit of Fisher Hill, Long Wharf as the grand entry into Boston, and Wharf to the Big Dig, discover layers of Boston a neighborhood filled with magnificent late the genesis of its Financial District, the lore of and the hows and whys of its changes. Learn 19th and early 20th century homes. Fisher clipper ships and the China Trade, and classic more about the invention of the telephone, Hill boasts the Longyear Estate, built in 1890, 19th century Boston granite wharf buildings the first American subway, the rise and fall of formerly the home of wealthy Christian Science including Commercial Wharf, Lewis Wharf, and interstate highways, the recovery of Boston Church devotees John and Mary Longyear, Union Wharf. Take in the spectacular views of Harbor, and perhaps even a forgotten body of and later the site of a museum chronicling Boston Harbor as we wind our way among the water that was once Ben Franklin’s favorite the life of Church founder Mary Baker Eddy. wharves old and new. swimming hole. Originally designed by the leading landscape Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 5:30-7:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: F 5:30-7:00PM. architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Fisher Hill Begins 5/19/2016. Meet behind Atlantic Begins 4/8/2016. Meet on City Hall Plaza, still attracts those in search of large homes Wharf, 290 Congress Street (along Fort Point corner of Tremont Street and Court Street in convenient to the city. It also boasts an Channel), Boston, $20. front of the steaming kettle, $20. abandoned reservoir atop Fisher Avenue, with a Richardson Romanesque pump house designed in 1887 by city architect Arthur Vinal, who also Brookline’s Secret Stairways and South End Galleries designed the larger pump house of the same Paths: A Walking Tour Kayla Mohammadi, Guide style at nearby Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Our Kenneth Dumas, Guide tour guide will concentrate on the architectural The trendy galleries of Boston’s South End are significance of the homes in the area, the During the late 19th century, a network of where it’s happening. On this tour, we will pop history of Fisher Hill, and interesting facts about pedestrian paths and walks was constructed to in and out of several galleries and see what’s past inhabitants. At least one interior visit will facilitate the passage of citizens up and down new this month by local and international be arranged. Corey and Aspinwall Hills to the new Beacon artists. Guided by a professional artist who will Street Boulevard streetcar line. Beacon Street, highlight the exciting contemporary paintings, Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 1:00-3:00PM. widened in 1887 according to plans drawn up photographs, sculptures, and more that hang Begins 5/7/2016. Meet at the corner of by Frederick Law Olmsted, afforded such easy for one month only, you will meet gallery staff, Beacon Street and Dean Road, Brookline, $22. access to Boston that mansions were built for discuss trends, compare artist styles and wealthy families abutting the stylish street. On subject matter, and perhaps even peek at a few this walking tour of the paths, we will cover all price tags. Along with seeing beautiful works of the stairs and terraces that comprise the great art, you will be rewarded with a stroll through circuit of pedestrian walks, from Summit Path all the way to Beaconsfield Path ending at the MBTA Beaconsfield station. The history of the

34 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 paths, the architecture around them, and the Boston Art and Architecture by Bicycle camera; photo opportunities will be provided. story of the lost paths will be recounted. This is Urban Adventours Tour Guide, Guide This tour is for students ages 16 and older. a long, strenuous walk that covers several miles Discounts or waivers do not apply. of mostly stairs, but those who join may drop Boston is an art and architecture wonderland. On this bicycle adventure, you will visit some Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM- out at any point along the way and hop onto the 1:00PM. Begins 6/4/2016. Meet at the Main Green Line to return home. of the city’s highlights including the new Rose Kennedy Greenway, a focal point of the Big (Zebra) Entrance of the Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM- Dig project, and the Museum of Fine Arts. Led Franklin Park Road, Boston, $42. 12:00PM. Begins 5/21/2016. Meet at the by a knowledgeable guide, we’ll ride through intersection of Washington and Beacon Streets an urban maze, making stops at a variety of near the outbound T stop, Brookline, $22. Understanding Gorilla Behavior: Behind public art installations. Along the way we’ll see the Scenes at the Franklin Park Zoo examples of eclectic architecture and learn Staff, Franklin Park Zoo Parkside: Jamaica Plain’s “Little fascinating historical facts about the growth Concord” and contributions that have shaped the city as Gorillas are often a source of fascination and we know it today. We’ll cover a lot of territory, fear in movies, books, and other media. This Stephen Jerome, Guide but our leisurely pace will allow you to soak it tour offers a chance to study gorillas up close One of Boston’s hidden gems, Parkside, all in. Bicycle rentals ($15) are available upon and personal at the Franklin Park Zoo. We will between Egleston Square and Forest Hills, was advance request. Riders should wear helmets, begin with a video presentation and opening home to many leading 19th century reformers, bring water bottles, and be ready to ride on the discussions on current research methods. Then philosophers, artists, architects, bohemians, streets. Cameras are also highly recommended. we will meet the gorillas’ keepers and through and writers, including abolitionist George Robert Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 2:00-5:00PM. viewing windows, encounter the gorillas face- Russell, who hosted John Brown of Harper’s Begins 5/15/2016. Meet at Urban Adventours, to-face, applying what we’ve learned to collect Valley Raid fame, and Ednah Dow Cheney, who 103 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Brookline, $45. behavioral data and answer our own questions. is immortalized in the Augustus St. Gardens We will conclude by learning more about efforts Shaw Memorial opposite the State House. Ralph underway to preserve this endangered species. Waldo Emerson is commemorated in Parkside Behind the Scenes: A Day in the Life at Please bring your camera; photo opportunities by Schoolmaster’s Hill, the site of Emerson’s the Zoo will be provided. Please bring a lunch or money school house, and the Margaret Fuller Staff, Franklin Park Zoo to buy lunch at the zoo. For students ages 16 schoolhouse was named after a pioneering and older. Discounts or waivers do not apply. feminist and Transcendentalist who once lived There are a multitude of details surrounding the mechanics of running a zoo. In this behind-the- Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM- here. This tour highlights an illustrious history of 12:00PM. Begins 4/9/2016. Meet at the Main an area that once accommodated rural estates scenes look at how a zoo works, we will visit and talk with staff at the Franklin Park Zoo. (Zebra) Entrance of the Franklin Park Zoo, 1 that were later subdivided, in many cases by the Franklin Park Road, Boston, $36. residents themselves, into picturesque streets You’ll hear intriguing details about their daily laid out over the rugged Roxbury puddingstone- rounds, and learn about animal habits, feeding HEALTH & YOGA lined hills. House lots of varying sizes were processes, relationships between animals built up with Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and and caretakers, what happens when animals Shingle style homes, many designed by leading get sick, and the number involved in the care Boston architects, including W. R. Emerson, W. of just one animal. You’ll learn how decisions G. Preston, E. M. Wheelwright, Rand and Taylor, are made, how weather conditions are dealt Health and Yoga and the important Roman Catholic Church with, and how the zoo fits into the community. architect, P. W. Ford. Depending on the day, we’ll visit animals in behind-the-scenes areas usually open only to Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 1:00-3:00PM. staff. For students ages 16 and older. Discounts Begins 5/22/2016. Meet on front steps of or waivers do not apply. Margaret Fuller School, 25 Glen Road, Jamaica Plain, $22. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM- 12:00PM. Begins 5/14/2016. Meet at the Main Evening Yoga (Zebra) Entrance of the Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Urban Foraging for Wild Edibles Franklin Park Road, Boston, $36. Jessica Pate, Instructor An after hours yoga practice may be the best David Craft, Guide part of your week. This moderately paced class Tasty wild plants grow abundantly in the Tall and Blonde: Giraffes at Franklin will allow you to stop thinking about your to-do area, many of which we walk right by without Park Zoo list, relax after an active day, release physical ever knowing they are there. Upgrade your Staff, Franklin Park Zoo tension, and let your mind glide to a state of knowledge of the wild greens readily available calm. We’ll concentrate on poses that are for foraging by joining a plant expert on a How can you resist a giraffe, with its big, gentle eyes, fuzzy short horns, extravagant neck, and beneficial to yoga practitioners at all levels, ramble through an urban wild. You’ll learn and watch that you’re safe as you move into how to identify dozens of edible wild plants, wonderful spots? This is your chance to get up close and personal to a live giraffe and to learn positions that feel right to you. Throughout and how they can add significantly to your the class, attention to physical alignment and culinary and nutritional repertoire. We’ll also all sorts of intriguing facts about this gentle- natured giant. A zoo specialist will be on hand modifications will be given. Practicing healthy discuss cooking options, seasons of availability, postures, breath regulation, and meditation and guidelines for safe and environmentally to answer all of your questions while filling you in on the unique adaptations of the species, techniques, you’ll build new patterns into your responsible foraging. You’ll be amazed at the daily habits and improve your overall outlook amount of greens, nuts, roots, and mushrooms their social systems, reproduction and maternal care, and general giraffe behavior. We’ll and health. Open to all levels. Please bring a that you can find now and over the next yoga mat and two blocks. couple of months. Sampling in the field will be compare how giraffes live in the wild versus encouraged. For those interested in learning their lives in zoos and discuss current thoughts Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:15-8:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Devotion School, 345 more about this subject, the guide’s book, on sustainable conservation programs. While Harvard Street, Brookline, $120. Urban Foraging, will be available at the walk. we are at the zoo’s giraffe home we may also Approximate cost, $10. get the opportunity for a personal face-to-face (okay, face-to-knee) introduction. Bring your Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Su 10:30AM- 12:30PM. Begins 5/15/2016. Meet at the parking lot adjacent to the Christian Herter Community Garden, 1155 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, $22.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 35 Yoga for the Core Morning Yoga Safe Stretch for Everyone Kate Ciullo, Instructor Felice Brenner, Instructor Cecile Raynor, Instructor Core flow will restore and strengthen all A good day begins with yoga. We’ll practice a Safe Stretch for Everyone is open to all, muscles in the abdominals using core centric series of flowing asanas (postures) to achieve regardless of fitness, age, physical challenges, poses within this vinyasa-inspired flow. Class a healthy balance of calm and energy. With or limitations. It is a gentle stretch/yoga class will focus on how to access the core in unique spinal and arm movements, we’ll awaken, for the body, mind, and spirit that honors each ways by integrating all of the deep muscles in build flexibility to energize, and focus on person’s present abilities. Class incorporates the abdominal region. The class will consist of strengthening muscles and inner relaxation. both stretching exercises and individualized yoga poses linked to breath which activate and Our varied workouts will be designed for all yoga modifications, and will guide you toward condition the core, as well as deep stretching levels and experience. Please bring a yoga mat a healthier, calmer, stronger, and more and strengthening. The goal of the class is to and block. energetic life. We will also teach you how to gain a strong power center and a healthy, stable Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 8:30-9:45AM. take your yoga off the mat and to practice any spine by learning how to properly utilize your Begins 3/30/2016. The Korean Church of time you want. Join us to awaken your body to body’s core. Open to all levels. Please bring a Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on simultaneously challenging and gentle safe yoga mat and two blocks. Holden Street), $120. stretch. Please bring a yoga mat. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 6:30-8:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 4:00-5:00PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $128. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $96. Yoga for Relaxation and Stress Management Yoga for You Felice Brenner, Kate Ciullo, Instructor Yoga Clinic: Proper Poses Using the Carol Iancu, Instructor If you are interested in clearing your head and Alexander Technique Do you spend a lot of time caring for others? grounding yourself in the present moment, this Cecile Raynor, Instructor Cherish yourself, and they will feel the hatha yoga class offers an excellent wind-down Free yourself from strain in your yoga practice benefits. Caring for ourselves so that we can experience. Through meditation and gentle (and in your everyday life) by gently re-educating better support others will be our focus in this yoga practices we will focus on re-centering and your body to stretch in a natural way. In this grounding and empowering yoga practice. Each calming your body, mind, and spirit. Slow and class, we’ll practice standing and floor poses week we’ll use both challenging and restorative gentle poses will help your body begin to relax, that are typical of Hatha yoga, while building yoga poses, breathwork, and meditation to and breathing practices will calm your nervous in principles of the Alexander Technique, a experience themes of centering and stability, system. Extended and guided deep relaxation method popular with successful performers developing awareness, releasing unhealthy will return your mind to its place of peace. and athletes that helps them use their bodies patterns, creating space, opening our hearts, Techniques that you can draw on in your daily life efficiently for optimal performance. Learn to and recognizing the power within. The practices to stay calm and relaxed will also be taught. Open connect core strengthening and stretching will cultivate harmony within that will transcend to all levels. Please bring a yoga mat and blanket. to your natural form on and off the mat. The to all of our relationships and caregiving Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 10:00-11:30AM. Alexander Technique shows you how to use your responsibilities. Each class will include optional Begins 3/30/2016. The Korean Church of mind and body to let go of muscular tension, opportunity to share insights that arise during Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on develop dynamic alignment for improved class or as we apply the practices during the Holden Street), $128. Brenner posture, and free your neck, back, and joints week. Open to all levels. To drop into single from compression and discomfort. Learn to Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: W 5:45-7:15PM. sessions (rather than register for the whole Begins 3/30/2016. Devotion School, 345 challenge yourself without strain. Open to all term), please call the BA&CE office before the Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden levels. Course fee includes one private lesson start of class: 617-730-2700. Discounts or Street), $128. Ciullo outside of class. waivers do not apply to drop-in sessions. Please Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Th 5:30-7:00PM. bring a yoga mat, two blocks, and towel. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $116. Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Sa 10:00-11:30AM. Hatha Yoga Begins 4/9/2016. Brookline High, $116. Cher Duffield, Instructor Yin Yoga and Meditation Sec. 02 (Drop In): # sessions: 1 Day: Any The qualities of youthfulness, vitality, and Saturday 10:00AM-11:30PM, $16. inner strength characterize those who have Sarah Jane Shangraw, Instructor brought yoga into their everyday lives. Through Twist, bend, and lengthen like never before, the practice of hatha yoga postures, breathing as you open up the spine, improve posture, Morning Tai Chi exercises, and meditation, you will be put and calm the nervous system. In Yin yoga, a Vincent Chu, Instructor in touch with your own energy source. Yoga Chinese style of passive posturing, everything Start your day with new energy and inner calm promotes flexibility in the spine and back, opens slows down. Long holds of milder yoga poses with the practice of one of the original ancient joints, stretches the muscles, and stimulates target specific muscles and connective tissue, Chinese martial arts, tai chi. The slowness and the internal organs. Yogic breathing, which and can lead to a deep, sophisticated, and evenness of continuous movement, based on helps to reduce physical and emotional stress varied practice in a short period of time. Yin ancient philosophy, makes this an ideal form through total relaxation, can lead to a new sense yoga enhances the flow of chi (orprana ) and of exercise for men and women of all ages and of self-awareness. Open to all levels. To drop provides you with an opportunity to build an abilities. You’ll increase your strength and resil- into single sessions (rather than register for the awareness of your body’s connection to your ience, promote cardiovascular and respiratory whole term), please call the BA&CE office before mind through mindfulness meditation. Open to endurance, improve coordination and balance, the start of class: 617-730-2700. Discounts or all levels. To drop into single sessions (rather and build confidence. We’ll practice a series of waivers do not apply to drop-in sessions. Please than register for the whole term), please call movements in the yang style, today’s most popu- bring a yoga mat and two blocks. the BA&CE office before the start of class: 617- lar form. Please wear soft, flat-bottomed shoes. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:30-8:00PM. 730-2700. Discounts or waivers do not apply to Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $128. drop-in sessions. Please bring a yoga mat and Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 8:30-9:15AM. towel or blanket. Cushion, strap, and blocks are Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean Church of Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: F 8:00-9:00AM. optional. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Holden Street), $60. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:00-7:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $128. Sec. 02: # sessions: 6 Day: Th 8:30-9:15AM. Holden Street), $112. Begins 3/31/2016. The Korean Church of Sec. 03 (Drop in for BHS classes): # sessions: 1 Sec. 02 (Drop In): # sessions: 1 Day: Any Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Day: Any Tuesday, 6:30-8:00PM, $16. Thursday 6:00-7:30PM, $16. Holden Street), $60.

36 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Yoga for Older Adults Barre Workout wedding, club, party, or venue in town—or just Steffi Shapiro, Instructor Jennifer Lin, Instructor have fun dancing at home! Please note: this course is designed for couples only. Yoga is an ancient system of gentle exercise Would you like a fitness program that will help you and breathing techniques that enhance to develop lean abdominals, sculpted legs, strong Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:30-9:00PM. physical well-being. Yoga is well suited to older arms, and the flexibility, balance, and grace of a Begins 3/29/2016. Dance Studio at the people because it combines safe, gentle, dancer? In this course, you’ll learn basic ballet Tappan Street Gym, $138 (per person). invigorating stretching exercises with relaxation steps and moves to form an elegant workout and introspection, all in a non-competitive that lengthens, strengthens, and tones the atmosphere. Our exercises will consist of entire body. Our sessions will include stretching Flamenco: Dance of the Spanish Gypsy gentle stretches and simple movements, which and mat work, and using the ballet barre, we’ll Wendy Caplan, Instructor release tension from the neck, shoulders, back, practice classical ballet movements. Open to all Flamenco means passion, intensity, rhythm, and other areas of the body. Most exercises can levels. Bring a yoga mat and ballet slippers. and soul. The music and dance that originated be done in a chair or in a comfortable standing Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 10:00-11:30AM. in Spain has become internationally popular. position. Section 01 is taught in a chair; mat Begins 4/2/2016. Dance Studio at the Tappan Learn the fundamentals of the dance technique students are welcome. Section 02 is taught on Street Gym, $138. comprised of rhythmic clapping and footwork the floor. Please bring a yoga mat. Seniors only; patterns, and upper body movements. With Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:15-8:45PM. discount does not apply. a flamenco guitarist accompanying the class, Begins 3/31/2016. Dance Studio at the Tappan Sec. 01 (Chair Class): # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 2:00- Street Gym, $138. move to the accompaniment of live guitar music. 3:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline Senior Beginning and returning students are welcome Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $63. as new choreographies are taught each session. Please bring shoes that have ties or straps. Sec. 02 (Floor Class): # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 3:00- Bellydancing For Women 4:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline Senior Shadia Mirson-Tohme, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: M 6:30-7:30PM. Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $63. Begins 4/4/2016. Dance Studio at the Tappan Bellydancing is one of the oldest dance forms Street Gym, $90. based on traditional women’s dances from the Tai Chi for Seniors Middle East. In this course, we will focus on putting basic moves into a brief dance routine. Salsa Dance Vincent Chu, Instructor Traveling steps with the veil will be introduced. One of the original ancient Chinese martial Open to all levels. Wear loose clothing or leggings Michele Cloutier, Instructor arts, tai chi is practiced today as a form of and socks or dance slippers, and bring a chiffon Salsa is a Latin-Caribbean dance form that devel- exercise. Tai chi movements are slow and even, veil (three yards) to class. Veils are available for oped from a blend of Afro-Cuban and Caribbean and their continuous flowing poses will build purchase from the instructor for $20. rhythmic, musical, and dance traditions. In our sessions, students of all levels of dance will learn your strength, endurance, coordination, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:00-8:30PM. contemporary salsa derived from the traditional confidence. Exercise, mind-body development, Begins 3/28/2016. Dance Studio at the and the practice of a traditional art form Tappan Street Gym, $138. Latin-Caribbean merengue, calypso, cha cha, and will leave you relaxed and centered. Classes rumba. You will also learn to recognize different will be taught in the yang style. Please wear Latin musical patterns as they relate to various choreographic styles. Please note: this course is comfortable clothing and soft, flat-bottomed Ballroom Dancing DANCE & FITNESS shoes. An optional DVD is available for sale, designed for couples only. Michele Cloutier, Instructor $20. Seniors only; discount does not apply. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 8:00-9:30PM. Dancing With the Stars has made ballroom Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: F 2:00-3:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Dance Studio at the dance quite the sensation, and across the Tappan Street Gym, $138 (per person). Begins 4/1/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 country, people are learning or re-learning its Winchester Street, Brookline, $74. joys. Here’s your chance to master the waltz, foxtrot, and swing. Learn to think of dancing as a conversation set to music, where you can respond smoothly and easily to your partner. By the end of our sessions, you’ll be prepared for What You Should Know About Your Dance and Fitness your wedding or other social event. Please bring Dance Class leather-soled shoes. Please note: this course is • If your class meets in the dance studios, designed for couples only. please bring an extra pair of shoes with Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-8:00PM. you. Outdoor shoes are not allowed in the Begins 3/30/2016. Dance Studio at the dance studios at Brookline High School. Tappan Street Gym, $138 (per person). • Some classes are designed for couples Introduction to Classical Ballet only. If you would like to take a couples dance class and need a partner, just let Natalia Maldari, Instructor 8 Dances in 8 Weeks Maureen Ferguson, Brian Whalen, Instructors us know and we’ll try to find you one to This course is for those who have always had an balance out the class. Please contact interest in ballet but have never taken a class, Want to learn a new dance each week? How Susan Bonoff at 617-730-2700, extension or who have taken ballet in the past and want to about eight different dances? Join us for this 1101. move beyond basic exercises. In a comfortable, fun and fast-paced class where you and your relaxed atmosphere, students will develop an partner will learn basic rhythm and style, • The cost of couples-only dance classes is appreciation for ballet as an art form and will partnering skills, and common dance figures, per person (unless otherwise noted). gain proficiency in executing the elementary such as underarm turns, free spins, and cross- forms of ballet steps. Emphasis will be placed body leads. Each week we’ll introduce a new on musicality and precision of movement as dance and you’ll learn steps from the waltz, we concentrate on fluid dance combinations. rumba, foxtrot, cha cha, merengue, swing, Women should wear leotards, tights, and ballet salsa, and tango. By the end of this unique slippers; men should wear dance belts, tights or course, you’ll be prepared to impress at any jazz pants, T-shirts, and ballet slippers. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Dance Studio at the Tappan Street Gym, $138.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 37 Zumba Pilates Beginning Running Instructor TBA Kathleen Anderson, Instructor David Leung, Instructor Zumba is a Latin dance-inspired cardio class Pilates is a system of movement that works Have you thought about running for exercise but utilizing interval training for a dynamic workout. the abdominal muscles, and in the process, don’t know how to begin training? Is your goal to It is also the hottest dance fitness craze the entire body. Movement is precise, and at one day run a 5 or 10K race? With planning and around. In our sessions, we’ll pair high-energy the same time, flowing. Muscles are toned goal setting you can begin a training program and motivating music with unique moves and stretched, leading to improved strength, that will keep you motivated and energized. In and combinations that allow for a dynamic stamina, posture, and flexibility. Pilates seeks our sessions, we’ll gradually build up each week workout. We’ll learn dance moves from samba, to unite mind and body through breath, until we reach a comfortable 30-minute run merengue, and salsa, to reggaeton and hip-hop. concentration, and control of movement. by the eighth week. We’ll talk about flexibility, Get in shape and have fun doing so in this Physical fitness and a sense of well-being are strength training, nutrition, injury prevention, dynamic class. Open to all levels. equally important in this class. Ballet- and and cross training. Class format includes a Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:00-8:00PM. yoga-inspired moves and stretches will be weekly training schedule and running assign- Begins 3/28/2016. Dance Studio at the included as well. Class will be taught using floor ments. We’ll be running outside, so please wear Tappan Street Gym, $110. mats and floor exercises only. Please bring a appropriate running clothes and footwear. cushioned exercise mat. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:00-7:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 10:30- Begins 3/30/2016. Dance Studio at the Hula Hoop Dance for Beginners 11:30AM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean Tappan Street Gym, 66 Tappan Street, Laura Hanley, Instructor Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Brookline, $110. (enter on Holden Street), $160. Hula hooping has been quoted by Shape Magazine to be a “hot dance workout.” Not only Introduction to Parkour does it take you back to your childhood, but Pilates: For Mommy and Baby hula hooping on your core can burn as many Parkour Generations Boston, Instructor calories as running an eight-minute mile. In this Elda Esim-Aner, Instructor Parkour was born in the banlieues (suburbs) of class we will start with basics including core Get in shape and rebuild your body while you Paris in the 1980s and is now one of the world’s work, off-body movements, dynamic tricks, and practice Pilates with your baby. This mat class fastest-growing sports. While often recognized finding flow with the music. This will be the most is specifically designed to challenge all of the in the fantastic images seen on YouTube, the fun you’ve ever had dancing and getting fit. parts we want to tighten: abs, glutes, and thighs. sport is actually a form of movement that has Open to all levels. Bring your enthusiasm and a By focusing on corrective and oppositional roots in a wide variety of physical disciplines yoga mat; we’ll provide the hoops. movement patterning, you can expect to see including gymnastics, martial arts, climbing, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:30-9:00PM. significant changes in your shape within a few track and field. This course will introduce you to Begins 3/30/2016. Dance Studio at the sessions. Please bring your baby (up to 24 the training and ideology of parkour through a Tappan Street Gym, $138. months) and a mat. The instructor will be flexible combination of physical and mental exercises, about taking breaks in case your baby needs you. and will include a variety of indoor and outdoor Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: M 9:30-10:30AM. (weather permitting) environments. Open to Shake Your Soul Begins 4/4/2016. The Korean Church of all levels. To drop into single sessions (rather than register for the whole term), please call Try it Marcia Hulley, Instructor Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on out! Holden Street), $90. the BA&CE office: 617-730-2700. Discounts or Free your inner dancer with this waivers do not apply to drop-in sessions. class that will leave you feeling good Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00-8:30PM. about your body and yourself. Shake Your Saturday Morning Stretch and Tone Soul is a unique and invigorating approach to Begins 3/29/2016. Tappan Street Gym, 66 Tappan Street, Brookline, $128 body-spirit fitness, incorporating elements of Jennifer Lin, Instructor movement therapy, Qigong, yoga, and dance. A good stretching routine is critical to a balanced Sec. 02 (Drop In): # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 7:00- Our sessions will begin with slow warm-ups, program of muscle toning and exercise. Muscle 8:30PM. Any Tuesday in the spring term. and as the music tempo increases, students stretching and lengthening exercises will improve Tappan Street Gym, $16. will incorporate more rhythm and power, and your flexibility, reducing muscle stiffness and learn and create new choreography. This the chance of injury or strain. Relax and release technique promotes cardiovascular fitness, your muscles as you develop more length in your Spring Bootcamp toning, and flexibility while working to relieve body and clarity in your mind. Our sessions will Steve Shain, Instructor stress and tension. No dance experience include stretching and Pilates exercises for body Get in shape and kick your workout up a notch required. All levels welcome. Bring a yoga mat. sculpting and flexibility, and time will be spent on in this fun and energetic spring training and abs and upper and lower body moves. Open to Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:30-7:30PM. bootcamp course. We’ll focus on individual, Begins 3/30/2016. Lawrence School, 27 all levels. Please bring a yoga mat. partner, and group exercises that use Francis Street, Brookline, Free: pre-registration Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 9:00-10:00AM. strength, flexibility, balance, agility, speed, is required. Begins 4/2/2016. Dance Studio at the Tappan and coordination. Each session will include Sec. 02: # sessions: 7 Day: Th 6:30-7:30PM. Street Gym, $110. calisthenics, plyometrics, cardiovascular Begins 4/7/2016. Lawrence School, 27 Francis conditioning, and muscular endurance training. Street, Brookline, $98. Working at your own level and pace, you’ll ACE it: Awaken, Center, and Energize utilize your body weight and equipment such Kathleen Exar, Instructor as resistance bands as you perform a range Get your day off to a good start. This morning of exercises to work your entire body. All levels class will awaken you with range of motion welcome. Please bring a towel and water bottle. stretching and gentle dance moves, then center Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 6:30- you with pilates/yoga core work, and energize 7:15PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Tappan Street you using yogic breathwork and inspirational Gym, $138. movement to start your day. Open to all levels. Please bring a yoga mat. Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: M 8:30-9:30AM. Begins 3/28/2016. Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $90.

38 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Fit in 30 Perfect Abs and Glutes Strength Training for Seniors Louise Olafsson, Instructor Steve Shain, Instructor Steve Shain, Instructor Are you looking for the secret to weight loss? Here’s a quick way to improve your sense of Co-sponsored by the Council on Aging All it takes is 30 minutes to achieve a proper physical strength and core power. Learn the Studies have shown that seniors who level of fitness. In this total body workout, we’ll secrets to fabulous abdominals and glutes supplement their exercise routine with light alternate between six minutes of weights, two in this 30-minute class. We’ll incorporate strength training are able to stay active minutes of cardio, and two minutes of abs. exercises drawn from multiple disciplines longer. This course is for those who have been Three sets of this routine and you will be done. such as yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, and athletic exercising regularly and who wish to increase All body parts will be used to achieve total body conditioning that are designed to strengthen their strength, balance, stamina, and physical fitness as effectively as possible. Open to all and tone troublesome areas. We’ll do exercises flexibility. We’ll start and end with stretches levels. Wear appropriate workout clothing and such as planks, bridges, one hundreds, squats, and flexibility exercises to help make everyday footwear, and bring a mat or towel and a set (2) lunges, and more. You will experience a new movements smooth and comfortable. We’ll also of three- to five-pound hand weights. level of strength, firmness, and fitness. Open to work on low-impact conditioning, mat work, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 6:15- all levels. Please bring a towel and water bottle. endurance and strength training while sitting 6:45PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Lawrence School, Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 6:00- or standing (weights optional). Bring a mat or 27 Francis Street, Brookline, $110. 6:30PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Dance Studio at towel and a set (2) of one-, two-, or three-pound the Tappan Street Gym, $110. hand weights to class. Seniors only; Discount Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: F 9:00-9:30AM. does not apply. Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 8:45- Holden Street), $64. Morning Workout 10:15AM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline Senior Steve Shain, Instructor Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $94. Are you an active Baby Boomer who wants to Strength Training for Everyone maintain a high level of fitness? This exercise Senior S-T-R-E-T-C-H Louise Olafsson, Instructor class involving floor work offers varied and Strength training increases muscle to fat ratio, intensive exercises, while also allowing Steve Shain, Instructor improves metabolism so that you are able to participants to modify exercises to match their Co-sponsored by the Council on Aging burn more calories, and enables you to better abilities and physical challenges. We’ll learn This class is for those who want to stretch out perform daily activities that require lifting, drills to target all major muscle groups and gently and safely and work on maintaining pushing, and pulling. We will focus on toning build strength and stability, and explore balance strength and balance. We’ll work on rhythmic each part of your body using hand-held weights. training to reduce the risk of falls. Our exercises movement and using hand weights in a sitting Class will focus on warm-up and abdominal will be high energy, yet easy on joints, and will position. You will learn stretches and flexibility exercises, yoga stretches for flexibility, and target both upper and lower body and involve exercises to help make everyday movements strength training for the upper and lower body. all planes of motion. This class will improve smooth and comfortable. Going at your own Please bring a mat or towel and a set (2) of one- your strength, flexibility, tone, balance, ease pace, you will improve your range of motion, to five-pound hand weights. of movement, and allow you to live the life you balance, and stamina. Please bring a set (2) want at this important point in your life. Bring a of one-, two-, or three-pound hand weights to Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 5:45- set (2) of two- to five-pound weights and a mat. class. Seniors only; discount does not apply. 6:15PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Lawrence School, DANCE & FITNESS Seniors only; discount does not apply. 27 Francis Street, Brookline, $110. Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: M, W 10:30- Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: F 10:00-11:00AM. 11:30AM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline Senior Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: F 9:30-10:00AM. Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $82. Begins 4/1/2016. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $60. Holden Street), $64. Bootcamp for Seniors: Balance and Strength Training Strength Training for Women in Midlife Pilates for Baby Boomers Steve Shain, Instructor Elda Esim-Aner, Instructor Louise Olafsson, Instructor Co-sponsored by the Council on Aging Pilates has gained popularity over the years One of the most important things you can do Leading an active lifestyle is more important with all age groups as a great way to stretch and for your health at midlife is strength training. than ever. Regular exercise is not only good for strengthen all major muscle groups. In this low- Strength training enables you to better perform your body—it’s also good for your mind, mood, impact course, routines will be customized to daily activities and helps to create strong and memory. This bootcamp class incorporates individual fitness and ability levels, and students ligaments and tendons. This class will focus on the best of balance and strength training. Our will tone their muscles without stressing their warm-up exercises, yoga stretches for flexibility, focus will be on exercises that build on our joints. Learn how Pilates can benefit you in a and strength training for the upper and lower strength, endurance, mobility, and flexibility. number of ways, including improving balance body. Please bring a mat or towel and a set (2) Please bring a set (2) of two- to three-pound and coordination, helping to avoid falls, reducing of one- to three-pound hand weights. hand weights to class. Seniors only; discount stress, strengthening your immune system, does not apply. Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 9:30- improving posture to alleviate back pain, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: F 1:00-2:00PM. 10:15AM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean increasing strength and flexibility. Class will be Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Begins 4/1/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 taught using floor exercises. Please bring a yoga Winchester Street, Brookline, $65. (enter on Holden Street), $150. mat. Senior discount does not apply. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 9:00-10:00AM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $65.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 39 Makeup Tips and Tricks Kate Taylor, Instructor Do you feel like you need help with your makeup Home and Garden routine? Confused about all of the products on the shelves? Learn how to achieve a beautiful classic look using universal techniques. Let a professional guide you in exploring colors and products that will bring out your true beauty without leaving you overly made up. We’ll talk Skin Care for all Seasons Elevating the Impact of Your Image about transitioning from day to night looks, and with Style you will learn some of the finer points about eyes, Lavinia Borcau, Instructor eyebrows, contouring, brushes, and caring for Most of us would like to have healthier, clearer, Kate Taylor, Instructor your products. Please bring your makeup bag to smoother, younger skin. But how can we How wonderful would it feel if you had more class for a demonstration and recommendations. reverse the effects of time and seasons? As the confidence in your image? In this class, you will Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 6:30-9:00PM. largest organ, the skin mirrors all aspects of our gain that confidence by learning how to dress, Begins 4/14/2016. Brookline High, $43. health and lifestyle. This workshop, taught by act, and adapt in different settings. Creating a skilled esthetician, will explore the structure, your custom image is all about having the right function, and proper care of the skin. We’ll tools to start letting your outer wardrobe reflect Introduction to Aromatherapy talk about how environment, diet, and exercise your personality and the achievements that Cher Kore, Instructor impact skin, so you can learn good habits for you have worked so hard to accomplish. We this lifelong discipline. Participants will also will explore the power of first impressions, what Intrigued but confused with all the essential receive a skin analysis and advice for specific clothing colors say about you, actionable tips oil choices? Find out how to cut through the products for their personal skin care regime. (e.g., clothes for an interview versus a business complexities and learn which essential oils and methods of aromatherapy work best for Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. dinner) that will elevate your image, how to match your style with your goals, and more. you. Aromatherapy can help with a variety of Begins 4/5/2016. Meet at Lavinia Borcau Skin physical, emotional, and beauty concerns. Care, 29 Harvard St, Brookline, $36. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 6:30-9:00PM. For example, you can treat stress with many Begins 5/12/2016. Brookline High, $43. essential oils including Lavender and Mandarin; Sweet Orange and many other scents can aid depression. Other oils can ease insomnia and sinus congestion. Learn the best methods of application for each ailment. We will be making a customized aromatherapy mister for each student in class. A $10 materials fee is payable Designing Your Outdoor Space to the instructor. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 12:00-2:00PM. Whether you need some help touching up your garden or Begins 5/7/2016. Brookline High, $36. want to redesign your entire yard, our classes provide the tools to develop and achieve your plan. The Art of Natural Perfumery Cher Kore, Instructor Outdoor Environment: Creative Landscaping Learn the art and science of creating natural Myrna Balk, Instructor perfumes and colognes. In this class, you will It’s time to start thinking about the changes you want to make in your garden to start from scratch with individual ingredients and prepare for spring and summer. Whether large or small, your garden will have practice combining winning recipes to suit your enough room for your own creative touch. In this class, we will look at basic taste. We will discuss aromatherapy and explore principles of garden design, and discuss how we can use them to make our yard the emotional effects of dozens of essential oils an inviting environment. We will look at how to change the contour of your garden’s including the very expensive absolute oils like structure or develop the space in a new way. By adding soil, stones, or raised beds, Rose, Jasmine, and Neroli. You’ll learn to balance you can easily modify the space to significantly change the layout. We will also top, middle, and bottom scent notes to craft consider what plants are ready for feeding and pruning. An experienced gardener alluring aromas, and will make a customized will show you that we are only limited by our ideas and imagination. Bring pictures of perfume or cologne to take home. A $15 the space you want to focus on. materials fee is payable to the instructor. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:30-8:30PM. Begins 5/18/2016. Brookline High, $36. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 12:00-2:00PM. Begins 5/21/2016. Brookline High, $36. Creating a Landscape Vision and Plan Organizing 101: How to Organize Your Barbara Quartier, Instructor Space, Time, and Life Get started on developing a vision for your own outdoor space from a professional Judy Eisenberg, Instructor landscape designer with over 20 years of experience. In a relaxed setting, you’ll learn the techniques to measure and photograph your land, pick a style that suits Effective organization involves all aspects of your you and the space, and identify the right plants to make it all work for the season life. Through an exploration of the principles of and over time. Bring photos of your yard and garden area you want to focus on and organization, this class will help you organize a images of plants or garden styles you like. No design or artistic skills required. Bring cluttered space, arrange your time for efficiency, good pencils and erasers and a 12-inch ruler. 18x24 inch graph paper for designing and keep your everyday life structured. Through will be provided. A $2 materials fee is payable to the instructor at the first class. a focused presentation and discussion, you will explore with a professional coach how to address Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $106. these challenges so you can take steps to get your space, time, and life organized and on track. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins 4/28/2016. Brookline High, $28.

40 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 7 Things Under $500 to Spruce up Your Home Deborah Carducci, Instructor Spring has begun, and we all want that fresh Arts new look for our homes. Join us for a one night interactive workshop where you will learn seven designer tips on how you can spruce up your home for under $500. For example, learn to use accents and lighting to bring your space to life. Whether you want to do it yourself or have a professional take care of it, we will show you The Art of Photographic Composition The Colored Pencil Workshop some creative ways to stretch your budget and Raul Melendez, Instructor Cyrus Whittier, Instructor recharge your interior. Students are welcome to Why are some photographs, despite being Colored pencils are an often overlooked fine art bring in photos of problem areas in their homes in focus, well-exposed, and properly framed, medium. Learn about the uses of linear strokes, for a quick evaluation. still not interesting? In this course, you’ll layered tonal effects, color mixing, and value Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. examine the characteristics of a well-composed relationships. We will use still lifes for inspiration. Begins 4/6/2016. Brookline High, $36. photograph by looking at the work of other Basic drawing skills are recommended. Please photographers, and by learning how to judge bring a 36-color set of Prismacolor colored and edit your own work. We will discuss how pencils, kneaded eraser, portable sharpener, Simple Home Repairs to integrate exposure, focus, and depth of and a 9” x 12” pad of Strathmore 400 series Bryan Tucker, Instructor field with the elements of composition. We white drawing paper to class. Have you ever wondered if you needed a plumb- will explore new approaches to composition Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Sa 10:00AM- er to stop that running toilet from wasting water and challenge your ideas about photography. 2:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Unified Arts and money, or waited days on end for a busy Don’t just take a picture; learn how to capture Building, $104. electrician to fix a broken light? In this course, a photograph. A $5 materials fee is included in you’ll learn the basics of painting, plumbing, the course fee. light carpentry, and electrical repairs so that you Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Experimental Drawing can take control of problems that arise in your Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $126. Tim McCool, Instructor own home. We’ll show you how to buy and use Expect the unexpected in this course, as we hand tools and materials at an affordable price. Beginning Drawing use experimental drawing techniques to unlock Whether fixing a hole in your ceiling, changing a some of your hidden creative potential. We’ll broken socket, or repainting that sunroom, you’ll Bil Thibodeau, Instructor work to create drawings with traditional tools, learn techniques, tips, and tricks of the trade Drawing is the building block for all forms of like pencils, markers, charcoal, and ink, but so that you can do it yourself more easily. You’ll visual expression. In this course, you will build using non-traditional methods. Course lessons also learn when the task really requires a skilled basic drawing skills by learning the use of line, will explore many different ways to draw from tradesperson. Take charge and stop feeling shape, negative space, composition, proportion, the imagination, with a smaller emphasis on intimidated by household repairs, and gain and perspective. Observing the way light falls on drawing from life. Along the way, we’ll work on the satisfaction of learning practical skills that objects, you will practice shading to create form individual and group projects, and also play will last a lifetime. We may move offsite, group in your contour drawings. Our goal is to help you a few creativity-enhancing games originally permitting. A $10 materials fee is payable to the improve technique, heighten visual awareness, invented by Surrealists like Salvador Dali. For instructor at the first class. and develop personal expression through artists of all levels. A supply list will be emailed HOME & GARDEN ARTS Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 6:00-8:00PM. individual attention and group discussions. A upon registration. Begins 4/5/2016. Unified Arts Building, $118. supply list will be emailed upon registration. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-9:00PM. Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: M 6:00-8:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Urban Beekeeping Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $144. Staff, The Best Bees Company Botanical Drawing and Painting For as long as there have been cities, people Beginning Drawing in Color Samara Pearlstein, Instructor have kept bees in them. The “Father of Mark Dooley, Instructor Botanical drawing is an art that combines American Beekeeping” L.L. Langstroth, was In a twist on the typical drawing class, we’ll careful observation with the achievement of introduced to beekeeping in an urban apiary build foundation drawing skills of line, shape, artistic effect. In this course, using plants and in Philadelphia in the 1830’s and kept bees space, value, perspective, proportion, and flowering branches as your model, and colored in his attic in Andover, MA. Ensuring that composition, while also experimenting with pencils and washes as your medium, you will cities are a friendly place for bees and their the effects of color. We’ll use charcoal, ink, develop careful drawing skills that will allow keepers has taken on new urgency as the and pastels in a series of exercises designed you to render shape, size, texture, proportion, total number of colonies in the U.S. has been to stimulate your technical and expressive and color correctly. Different methods of seeing cut in half since the 1950’s. Since 2010, the drawing skills. Students will be encouraged to and drawing will be explored in a series of Best Bees company has managed hundreds work on developing their individual aesthetic as exercises designed to create confidence, skill, of colonies between Cape Cod and Cape Ann, we discuss color theories, study the changing and pleasure in the drawing process for artists on commercial rooftops, in tiny backyards, and effects of light, and work with alternative of all levels. Please bring your own subject in open fields. Both seasoned beekeepers and drawing surfaces both large and small. A supply matter such as plants, flowers, or fruits to the those without experience should enjoy this class list will be emailed upon registration. first class. A supply list will be mailed upon as Best Bees Chief Apiculturist, Mark Lewis, registration. leads a discussion on a range of topics related Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 10:00AM- to honeybees, and shares tips and advice he 12:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. The Korean Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:00-8:00PM. has picked up over many years of experience. Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline Begins 3/31/2016. The Korean Church of The second session will include a hive visit in (enter on Holden Street), $144. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Roxbury; details to be discussed in class. Holden Street), $144. Sec. 01: Meets Thursday, 4/7/2016, 6:30- 8:30PM, Brookline High, and Saturday, 4/9/2016, 1:30-3:30PM, Offsite, $56.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 41 Drawing from the Masters Developing Your Skill in Watercolor Acrylic Painting Cyrus Whittier, Instructor Painting Anthony Riccardi, Bil Thibodeau, Instructors Drawing from the flat is a time-honored method Seth Berkowitz, Instructor Acrylic paint, the chosen medium for many of learning how to draw by copying master Watercolor can be an immensely satisfying amateur and professional artists, is versatile, drawings to garner the wisdom of great artists. medium to work with, but taking control of non-toxic, easy to clean, and offers brilliant Copywork is an ideal opportunity for artists of the paint is not always an easy task. In this color. This course provides an introduction all levels to observe line, shape, value, form, class, for those who have some experience to the skills and practice of acrylic painting, texture, and space. In our sessions, we’ll study with watercolor, we will focus on technique by including paint thinning, surface preparation, portraits, still life, and landscapes created by intertwining sketching, drawing, and painting and paint application techniques. We will also great masters past and present, and re-create exercises in order to teach you how each skill concentrate on general painting skills such as pieces of their works. By emulating da Vinci’s can help inform and improve the others. In composition and color mixing. Students will line quality and his use of cross-hatching, lessons that build sequentially, you will learn to be encouraged to pursue their own choices in for example, you will better understand his sketch out a composition that includes value subject matter and style. Artists of all levels techniques, and perhaps apply this insight to and lighting, and then how to transform your welcome. A supply list will be emailed upon your own artistic style. Basic drawing skills are sketches into colorful, full, and vibrant paintings registration. recommended. Please bring a 14” x 17” pad using specific watercolor techniques. The aim Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 9:30AM- of good quality white charcoal paper, three of this class is to help you refine your technique 12:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. The Korean General’s charcoal pencils (2B medium), and to a point where your paintings reflect, among Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline a kneaded eraser to the first class. Additional other attributes, confidence and satisfaction. A (enter on Holden Street), $160. Riccardi supplies will be discussed in class. supply list will be emailed upon registration. Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:00-8:30PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00-9:30PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Thibodeau

Life Drawing Introduction to Pastel Painting Nature in Oil Samara Pearlstein, Instructor Cyrus Whittier, Instructor Ariana Berns, Instructor This class is designed to provide students at Whether you like to work in fine detail, or your In this class, using the organic forms of flowers, any level with a non-competitive environment in style is more broad and painterly, pastels will fruits, shells, and other natural materials, we which to develop drawing skills, expand visual adapt to both of these methods and many will capture the joy of making art with freedom, perception, and experiment with media and more. In this class, you will work with a wide relaxation, and pleasure. This course, for both technique. Our emphasis will be on building an range of objects and textures (flowers, fruit, beginning and experienced students, will intuitive response to the figure while striving vegetables, ceramic, glass, and metal objects) provide a creative environment to explore the to sharpen awareness of proportion, light, and in order to discover the limitless possibilities varied challenges of painting natural objects the inherent beauty of marks, smudges, lines, that pastels offer. By learning about linear using oil paints. We will study formal issues and tones. Through class discussion we will try strokes, cross-hatching, scumbling, feathering, such as space composition, color, stroke, scale, to identify what gives a drawing its spirit. This and blending, you will find ways to express your observation, imagination, perspective, and class is also open to artists who would like to own personal style. Classes will progress from media. The class format will be flexible and draw from a model but prefer little instruction. a restricted palette to full color compositions, the instructor will provide advice, instruction, Please bring charcoal pencils, compressed and will especially focus on how to identify and support. As you begin to understand the charcoal, kneaded eraser, and an 18” x 24” and adjust the colors you observe. Basic language of oil, you will develop your own style pad to the first class. Additional supplies will be drawing skills are recommended. Please bring and your own sense of purpose in painting. A discussed in class. A $60 model fee is payable soft, medium, and hard vine charcoal sticks, supply list will be emailed upon registration. to the instructor at the first class. kneaded eraser, and large white charcoal paper Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-9:00PM. to the first class. Additional supplies will also be Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. discussed. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00-9:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. Combining Media: Solid Design Choices Introduction to Watercolor Tim McCool, Instructor Anthony Riccardi, Instructor Pastel Weekend Workshop Intriguing, adventurous, inspiring. Mixed media Watercolor is one of the most pleasurable and is an art form that allows artists of all levels satisfying media employed by both beginning Cyrus Whittier, Instructor a chance to do something outside the norm. and experienced artists. The soft transparent Explore the richness, brilliance, and vibrancy In this class, we’ll work to combine different colors and textures lend themselves to a of pastels and discover this medium’s limitless mediums like painting and collage that will variety of subjects and techniques, and yield possibilities. We’ll work with still lifes to study result in fun surprises. Early classes will focus paintings that reflect the unique spontaneity key concepts for handling the medium in on building solid design habits by focusing on and creativity of each individual artist. In this a relaxed atmosphere. We’ll also explore composition and color theory. Later classes class, we will concentrate on representational drawing basics such as line, cross-hatching, will emphasize more personal and in-depth methods in an effort to pursue new avenues feathering, and blending, and discuss color projects. We will use acrylic paints, drawing of creativity. A supply list will be emailed upon theory and composition. Basic drawing skills tools, paper, fabric, and other elements to registration. are recommended but not required. A supply create bold experimental works. A supply list Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 10:00AM- list will be emailed upon registration. will be handed out and discussed in the first 12:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline Senior Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Sa 10:00AM- class. Center, 93 Winchester Street, Brookline, $160. 2:00PM. Begins 5/14/2016. Unified Arts Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 6:30-9:00PM. Building, $104. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160.

42 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Experience Printmaking Encaustic Art Creative Darkroom Cristina Hajosy, Instructor Elise Mankes, Instructor Josephine Shields, Instructor Printmaking is a process of creative discovery Encaustic is the ancient art of painting with This class is ideal for photographers who have because we can never be sure of what each molten beeswax combined with pigment, a working knowledge of darkroom processing print will bring. Often, the more fun you have, producing results that are dimensional, and printing techniques and who want to the better the artwork becomes. Open to mysterious, deep, and translucent. In this class, expand their black and white darkroom skills. artists of all levels, we will explore a variety of for artists of all levels, you will be instructed in While students will work on their own projects fundamental printmaking techniques. As you basic methods of layering and manipulating under supervision, there will also be time create and manipulate a series of images, beeswax, as well as an exploration of the many for class critiques and demonstrations of you will become a better image-maker as possibilities it invites—mixed media, stenciling, different printing and toning chemistry. Class you work on composition, texture, mood, collage, transfers and more. From the basics, participation, suggestions, and experimentation process, and outcome. To provide a sense of we will move forward into innovative treatments will be encouraged. We provide enlargers for accomplishment, you will learn how to bind your that invite further experimentation. Students 35mm, some medium formats, and chemistry. portfolio of unique monotypes into a finished are encouraged to bring their own assortment Students should provide their own film and book. A $25 materials fee is payable to the of metal mark-making tools to inscribe the paper. A $25 studio fee is included in the instructor at the first class. Additional supplies warm, wax surface. This may include assorted course fee. will also be discussed at the first class. ceramics tools, kitchen gadgets, or found Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-9:30PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:30-9:00PM. objects. Optional supplies will be discussed at Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $205. Begins 4/5/2016. Unified Arts Building, $120. the first class. A $50 materials fee is payable to the instructor at the first class. Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Sa 10:00AM- The Role of Flash in Photography Abstract Painting 1:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Unified Arts Raul Melendez, Instructor Building, $162. Tim McCool, Instructor Flash is a wonderful photographic tool, one you Abstract painting is fascinating and controver- shouldn’t be afraid to use. Direct flash, fill flash, sial; complicated, and yet remarkably simple. Photography: Taking Better Pictures slow sync flash, bounce flash, and front and In this course, we will explore abstract painting rear curtain sync are flash modes we’ll explore. by working from our imaginations and still lifes Raul Melendez, Instructor Through lecture and demonstration, you’ll to create vivid and innovative imagery. We will There are many subtle processes and elements observe the play of lights, darks, highlights, learn about color, line, form, space, light, and involved in producing a visually pleasing image. and shadows that make images vibrant and composition, and will look at work by well-known Choice of subject matter, the framing of an dynamic. You will learn when to apply flash abstract artists to understand the various image, composition, light and shadow, and and how to use its principles to communicate techniques they employed. If you’ve looked at appropriate treatment of portraits, landscapes, moods and emotions as you take pictures paintings by Kandinsky, Klee, Pollock, Mother- or action photos are some of the picture-taking at different times of day and in different well, or other abstract artists and said, “Even I choices to be considered. Learn to manipulate environments. can do that,” then join us as we challenge our shutter speed, f-stops, focal range, and depth Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. imaginations. Artists of all levels welcome. A of field, and discover the many types of lenses Begins 5/10/2016. Unified Arts Building, $84. supply list will be emailed upon registration. and filters, and their uses and effects. The Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. menu functions of digital cameras will also be Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160. explored. Please bring a film or digital camera You’ve Taken the Picture...Now What? to class. A $6 materials fee is included in the Raul Melendez, Instructor

course fee. ARTS Collage Technique Workshops When it comes to digital photography, our Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. computers (and in some cases even the Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $126. Melissa Kulig, Instructor camera) are the darkroom. Join us for a walk- Exuberant, thought-provoking, or whimsical, through of the digital workflow, including an collage is an art form for beginners as well as Photography: An Introduction to anatomy of your camera’s output options, how seasoned artists who like to express depth, Darkroom & More to use Image Capture on a Mac or Camera breadth, and range. In these classes, we’ll Wizard on a PC to transfer photos from your focus on simple design principles, materials, Raul Melendez, Instructor camera to a computer, editing preferences of and assemblage. Inspired by each other and Even in this fast electronic age, it is amazingly professionals, and a comparison of popular examples in books and magazines, you will satisfying to develop your own pictures in a software choices. We’ll discuss the elements leave with works that demonstrate multiple classic black and white photography darkroom. that make a good photo, and how to size and styles. Join us for one, two or all three classes. This course will teach the fundamentals of save your pictures so that they can be posted In Classic Techniques you will learn about darkroom photography, and for returning online, emailed, printed, or compiled for layering, colors, and materials. In Experimental students, use of darkroom with guidance. future viewing. We’ll also show you how to use Options you will delve into materials that are We will review proper film exposure and software such as iPhoto for Mac and Picasa off the beaten path. In Journals we will weave development. Students will gain darkroom on PC that can help you manipulate pictures, imagery into stories, and create a simple book. experience and an increased understanding to balance colors, or add effects. Please bring your A $15 materials fee is payable to the instructor produce pictures of high quality and interest. digital camera, camera cable, and laptop if you in each section. Additional supplies will also be This course is tailored for beginners and have one. emailed upon registration. students with some darkroom experience who Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Sec. 01 (Classic Techniques): # sessions: 2 Day: would like guidance in producing exquisite Begins 5/11/2016. Unified Arts Building, $84. W 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified prints. (For returning and advanced students, Arts Building, $75. bring film to develop for the first two meetings.) Students assume the cost of film, paper, and Sec. 02 (Experimental Options): # sessions: incidentals. Approximate cost, $40-$50. A $25 3 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 4/13/2016. studio fee is included in the course fee. Unified Arts Building, $98. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:00-9:30PM. Sec. 03 (Journals): # sessions: 3 Day: W Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $185. 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 5/11/2016. Unified Arts Building, $98. Sec. 04 (all sessions): # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $160.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 43 Pottery and Cookies: Adult & Child Pairs Kim Carmona, Instructor Crafts and Skills This special class, for adult and child pairs, offers a fun and creative combination of working with clay and baking cookies from scratch. Our first two sessions will be spent in the pottery studio where each pair will make their own homemade cookie jar or serving Introduction to Woodworking or sofas as there is no storage space available. bowl from clay. We’ll roll and cut slabs of clay, shape and adhere our pieces, embellish Michel LaFantano, Damian Neill, Instructor Along with your project, bring a pair of 10” shears, pliers, tack hammer, screwdriver, and them with signature designs, and add colorful This course is designed to teach you the goggles. You should expect to spend $80-$100 glazes. In our third session, we’ll meet in the basics of woodworking by walking you step-by- on materials. A $25 shop fee is included in the kitchen where we’ll mix, measure, and whip up step, and machine by machine, through the course fee. tasty nut-free cookies to store in our new jars. process of building a small project that lays the Children of all ages welcome. A $25 materials foundation for good woodworking technique. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-9:30PM. fee is included in the course fee. Begins 3/31/2016. Brookline High, $220. Our emphasis will be on the achievement of a Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Sa 12:00-2:00PM. solid foundation in the skill and process of the Begins 4/16/2016. Unified Arts Building, $109. woodworker’s craft, rather than on the size and complexity of the product. The proper use of The Picture Framing Workshop machinery with emphasis on shop safety will be Larry Glickman, Instructor Pottery for Your Table reviewed. Each student should expect to spend The purpose of custom framing is to find the Kim Carmona, Instructor $70-$100 on materials. Please bring a pair of best frame and matting design to enhance safety glasses, a tape measure, and earplugs to the elements of your artwork. We will help Give your dining table a personal touch by class. A $25 shop fee is included in the course you design and frame your prints, graphics, creating your own ceramics. In this class you fee for equipment maintenance. photography, posters, fine art, and needle art in will learn to make napkin holders, candlesticks, vases, mugs, and plates. We’ll begin class by Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:30-9:00PM. a do-it-yourself format with expert assistance. You will receive instruction in selecting a frame creating simple items that will allow you to Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $185. explore the features of pottery, both on the LaFantano style and design, coordinating your mat color, and be guided through the steps of framing wheel and by handbuilding. We’ll then progress Sec. 02: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. technique. Measuring and cutting single to more difficult items that have standard Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $185. dimensions. Once your work is completed, you’ll Neill and double mats, mounting artwork, joining wood and metal frames, and completing final learn about glazing and how to fire your pieces. assembly will be discussed. Former students By the end of the class, you’ll be ready to throw a dinner party and show off all of your new Open Woodshop are encouraged to return and advance their skills in cutting and assembly of more difficult pieces. Please bring paper and pen to the first Damian Neill, Instructor pieces. All materials will be supplied at a class. Open to all levels. A $45 materials fee is Students who have prior experience in 40 percent discount. The cost of materials included in the course fee. woodworking with hand tools and machinery (approximately $70-$90) depends on the size Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Sa 9:30AM- can build whatever they wish in this course, of the project. 12:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Unified Arts subject to approval by the instructor at the first Building, $205. class. Tables, stands, medicine cabinets, and Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:30-9:00PM. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $170. objects requiring elaborate joining or carving are suggested projects. The proper use of Pottery and Wheel-Throwing machinery with emphasis on shop safety will Stone Carving Margaret DeBruin, Marc Mancuso, Instructors be reviewed. Please bring a plan, design, or Scott Cahaly, Instructor Section 01 is designed for beginning photograph of your proposed project, a pair of students who are interested in a survey of Stone carving is an ancient craft where pieces safety glasses, tape measure, and earplugs ceramic techniques. You will learn a variety of rough stone are shaped by the controlled to the first class. Each student should expect of handbuilding methods, while also being removal of stone. In this one-day workshop, to spend $70-$100 on wood, available for introduced to the pottery wheel. Our guided you’ll have the opportunity to carve your purchase in class. Costs vary based upon projects will range from functional objects to own stone, an art form that is not typically project and choice of wood. Students should whimsical sculpture. You’ll learn about applying accessible. For beginners and experienced have completed Introduction to Woodworking or dozens of decorative accents, and be given the sculptors alike, you’ll be guided through the its equivalent. A $25 shop fee is included in the freedom to explore your own self-expression. process of looking into the rock for imagery, course fee for equipment maintenance. In Section 02, for returning students or those carving into material, planning and forming Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-9:30PM. with ceramics experience, the instructor will a sculpture, and using tools. Hand-carving Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts Building, $205. troubleshoot skills needing improvement, techniques will be demonstrated, and stone lead class exercises, demonstrate advanced carving lore will be discussed. We’ll also touch techniques, and provide inspiration for further upon safety in the studio, and stone and Furniture Upholstery exploration. A $45 materials fee is included in tool sourcing. You will leave with your stone the course fee. Paul DeVito Jr., Instructor sculpture in hand. Please bring a bag lunch to Are the springs popping out of your favorite class. All materials will be provided. Discounts Sec. 01 (Beginning): # sessions: 8 Day: M armchair? Is the upholstery on those dining or waivers do not apply. 7:00-9:30PM. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts room chairs getting shabby? Learn how to strip Building, $205. DeBruin a piece of furniture to the frame and build it Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 9:30AM-3:00PM. Begins 4/16/2016. Meet at Scott’s Stone Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: up again. Replace webbing and springs, and Carving, 80 Loomis Street, Bedford, MA. Scott’s Th 7:00-9:30PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified stuff, cut, fit, and sew the finished product. Stone Carving, 781-258-9530, $125. Arts Building, $205. Mancuso Suitable projects may include chairs, ottomans, footstools, dining room chairs, or other small upholstered pieces. Please do not bring in large pieces such as tufted chairs, loveseats,

44 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Spring 2016 Wheel-Throwing Workshop Intermediate and Advanced Jewelry and Mosaic Design Techniques Marc Mancuso, Instructor Silversmithing Richard Youngstrom, Instructor Designed for students who are interested in Marcia Deluty, Instructor This class is intended for those who have some a focused introduction to wheel-throwing, this The Intermediate class is for those who have basic mosaic experience, or artists who are course will stress the fundamentals of proper basic experience working with metals and gas- interested in learning about advanced mosaic pot-throwing techniques. Whether you are new fueled torches. You will hone your skills while techniques and materials. After a brief re-cap to pottery or a beginner brushing up on the also learning stone setting, married metals, of the basics, you will learn more advanced basics, this workshop will provide instruction, hollow construction, and advanced soldering techniques, experiment with materials, and guidance, and feedback as you work your way techniques. A $50 materials fee is payable to work on complex projects of your choosing toward mastery. This general introduction the instructor at the first class. TheAdvanced under the tutelage of an experienced teacher. will cover basic skills, control, and the subtle Workshop is for students who have completed We’ll discuss base materials, pebble mosaic aspects of wheel-throwing and self-expression. the intermediate course or have equivalent technique, 3D sculpture, mosaic jewelry, Tools will be available for use during class. A experience. You will have the opportunity to ancient mosaic techniques, and more. $45 materials fee is included in the course fee. work independently, and explore new ideas and While working on classroom projects we’ll Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 7:00-9:30PM. techniques with guidance from the instructor. also discuss larger projects (backsplashes, Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $205. A $30 materials fee is payable to the instructor tabletops, hearths), outdoor mosaics (dos and at the first class. Additional materials will also don’ts, studio vs. onsite fabrication), and other be available for purchase. A $25 shop fee applications you can complete at home. All Mother’s Day Jewelry: Ages 13 and Up is included in the course fee for equipment tools and starting materials will be provided. A maintenance. $30 materials fee is payable to the instructor at Marcia Deluty, Instructor the first class. Spend some time with the special mom in Sec. 01 (Intermediate): # sessions: 8 Day: W your life, exploring and nurturing each other’s 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 6:30-9:00PM. Building, $205. creativity in a jewelry studio. Have fun learning Begins 3/30/2016. Unified Arts Building, $152. to make a textured ring and pair of earrings Sec. 02 (Advanced): # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:00-9:00PM. Begins 3/31/2016. Unified Arts with mixed metals and handmade ear wires, as Stained Glass Workshop time allows. Open to jewelers of all levels, age Building, $205. 13 and older. A $30 materials fee (per person) Michel L’Huillier, Instructor is payable to the instructor at the class. A $10 Learn the copperfoil method and create a shop fee is included in the course fee. Please Enameling 101 stained glass panel measuring up to two square bring a bag lunch. Tanya Crane, Instructor feet in size. In this course, students of all levels Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 9:00AM-2:00PM. Enameling is an ancient process where will learn to cut glass accurately, and foil, solder, Begins 5/7/2016. Unified Arts Building, $85. powdered glass is fused to metal. In this and patina. Students will develop quick sketches introductory course, we will explore the basic into a full-scale design, brought to life with principles of enameling including sifting, shapes and textures, colors and light. All glass Beginning Jewelry and Silversmithing wet applications, cloisonné, champlevé, and and tools are available from the instructor for $90; however, you may bring your own materials. Marcia Deluty, Instructor sgraffito. Students will explore torch-firing enamels and also cover patterning metal for A supply list will be emailed upon registration. A In this class you will learn the basic skills of basse taille, metal leaf application, and melting $10 shop fee is included in the course fee. jewelry making as you are guided through the glass beads into enamel for further surface design and fabrication of several sterling silver Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: W 6:30-9:30PM. options. The goal of this class is for students to custom rings from concept to completion. We Begins 4/6/2016. Brookline High, $178. gain an understanding of the ancient technique will cover basic tools, sawing, filing, sanding, of enameling and further the discussion by beginning soldering, and surface texturing. creating contemporary art pieces. All materials Chain Maille Jewelry Demonstrations of new ideas and techniques will be supplied. Optional materials will be Katie Burke, Instructor

will be paired with hands-on work and guidance & SKILLS CRAFTS discussed in class. A $10 equipment fee is from the instructor. A $50 materials fee is Have you ever wanted to make your own metal included in the course fee. A $60 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class. jewelry? Learn the ancient art of chain maille. is payable to the instructor at the first class. Additional materials will also be for sale. A We will begin by making an orbital chain maille $25 shop fee is included in the course fee for Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: M 6:00-8:30PM. bracelet using colorful aluminum rings. We equipment maintenance. Begins 3/28/2016. Unified Arts Building, $152. will progress to a parallel weave bracelet using Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: Tu 6:00-9:00PM. brass rings in silver or gold in the second week. Begins 3/29/2016. Unified Arts Building, $187. Then, we will use brass rings and colorful beads Glass Fusing Workshop to make the magical caged bead bracelet. Michel L’Huillier, Instructor Round out your chain maille making skills Explore the basics of glass fusing by combining with an elegant pair of Byzantine chain maille colored glass pieces and stringers, glass earrings with crystals. A $40 materials fee is powders, and frits. After learning a variety payable to the instructor at the first class. of technique, you’ll melt the pieces together Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 6:00-9:00PM. into a final, one-layered project. You’ll explore Begins 4/25/2016. Brookline High, $138. texture and design, and create one 4” square dish and one 8” plate or bowl using Bullseye compatible glass. After a final firing, projects will be available for pick up at the Adult Education office within one week. All tools and materials will be provided. An $85 materials fee is included in the course fee. Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: W 6:30-9:30PM. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $136.

brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 45 Crochet for Beginners and Beyond Needle Felting: Wool Sculpture Emily Brodrick, Instructor Anastasia Semash, Instructor Crochet uses only one hook and some yarn Needle felting is the process of felting/tangling to create beautiful items of clothing and one piece of wool to another using barbed accessories. In this course beginners will needles. The needles take the wool fibers from master the fundamental skills that will allow you one piece and drag them through the other to produce traditional and modern hand-crafted piece where they tangle and attach the two items. You’ll learn several stitches and basic pieces. In this relaxing and therapeutic course, crochet techniques and how to use them in you will learn how to turn unspun wool into your different patterns. Projects may include a scarf, own wool sculptures. You’ll be introduced to baby afghan, dishcloth, throw, or other creative sculptural felting, including tools and materials, project. Experienced crochet crafters will be and how to blend colors, use armatures in introduced to more elaborate projects that add sculptures, and create human-like figures, depth and a sculptural quality to your work. heads, and facial features. In each session, Please bring a set of crochet hooks, two skeins students will create one project that will include of practice yarn, and your choice of patterns a pincushion, fruit/flower, animal, and needle- and/or stitch diagrams. felted doll. All materials will be provided. A $15 Sewing for Beginning and Intermediate Students Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: Tu 7:00-9:00PM. materials fee is included in the course fee. Begins 3/29/2016. Brookline High, $149. Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: Sa 10:00AM- Miriam K. Sokoloff, Instructor 1:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Unified Arts Using a step-by-step individualized approach, Building, $99. this course will teach basic sewing technique. Knitting for New and Not-So-New Students will learn to thread and operate the Beginners sewing machine, and to hem clothing both Irina Taytslin, Instructor Classic Hat Making by hand and machine. You’ll work on a class Andrea Zax, Instructor project of your choice and at your ability level. Knitting has been shown to be seriously good For the first class, please bring a spool of Whether your style is sophisticated or for your mental health. This class is for knitters thread, scissors, and a hand needle (sharps flamboyant, a good hat stems from a solid of all levels, including absolute beginners #7). Fabric for the first class project is available foundation in millinery basics: pattern fitting, who have never picked up needles, as well as for purchase from the instructor. Additional strong construction, and composition. In this knitters with basic skills who wish to improve. supplies will be discussed in class. We have class, you’ll learn the basics as we use buckram We will cover basic stitches and various shaping several sewing machines on hand, but students and wire to make beautiful hats that are strong techniques, cable stitch and other patterns, and are encouraged to bring their own. A $10 shop and flexible. Once we’ve practiced the technical how to correct mistakes. Join a friendly group of fee is included in the course fee. knitters in a congenial setting and knit yourself process of building a frame with strong lines into a better state of mind. Beginners, please and symmetry, you will then choose and apply Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: M 3:45-6:15PM. bring a ball or skein of light-color worsted trims and finishes. Please bring good fabric Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $162. weight yarn, no. 7 or 8 needles, crochet hook scissors, a sketchbook, pins, measuring tape, Sec. 02: # sessions: 7 Day: M 6:30-9:00PM. size H or G, cable needle, and a stitch holder. and a ruler to class. Basic sewing skills are Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $162. For those with basic knitting skills, we will helpful, but not necessary. A $20 materials explore different methods of constructing and fee for buckram, millinery wire, pattern paper, finishing a variety of knitwear styles, and learn and glue is payable to the instructor at the first Sewing: Complete a Project problem-solving techniques. Please bring no. 8 class. Andrea Zax, Muriel Haber, Instructors needles, worsted weight yarn, and a project you Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. Many of us have started a sewing project, only are working on. Begins 4/13/2016. Brookline High, $162. to put it down unfinished. Take this opportunity, Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 6:30-9:30PM. with a pro at your side, to give your project a Begins 3/28/2016. Brookline High, $180. re-boot and complete the job. We’ll talk about Get To Know Your Sewing Machine the project you are working on, what you’ve Andrea Zax, Instructor accomplished, and how to take the next steps. Specialty Knitting Do you have a sewing machine that you would You’ll be coached on proper sewing technique, Irina Taytslin, Instructor like to become better acquainted with? Bring and guided in correcting mistakes. Materials, Would you like to bring your knitting skills to a your sewing machine with you to this one- alterations, fitting, and measuring will all be higher level or add some specialty techniques day class and learn how to thread needles topics of discussion, as well as addressing to your repertoire? In this workshop, for and bobbins, explore stitch settings, receive specific questions. Whether your project is confident knitters, you will learn advanced a basic introduction to material and thread an article of clothing or throw pillow, newly- techniques and work through your plans with a choices, and learn how to use the “free arm” unfinished or has been in the closet for years, creative and experienced teacher. Techniques on your sewing machine, if it has one. If time this workshop will help you find closure. Please will include which seams to use to connect allows, we’ll also discuss a variety of presser bring your project and basic sewing supplies parts of garments, different ways to correct feet included with sewing machines, special including pins, fabric scissors, hand needles, mistakes, and how to design or re-size a pattern tension and needle settings, and other options a seam ripper, and measuring tape to class. of your choice. In-class demonstrations may such as sewing a buttonhole. We’ll discuss For our class at Brookline High School we have include how to create different buttonholes, common sewing snags, and show you how several sewing machines on hand, but students cable patterns, advanced stitches, and about best to unravel them. Please bring your sewing are encouraged to bring their own. A $5 shop the importance of a gauge swatch. All of your machine and manual (if you have one), fabric, fee is included in the class fee. For our class knitting questions or issues will be addressed thread, and scissors to class. at the Korean Church please bring your own machine, and manual if you have one. and resolved in an informal classroom Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Sa 10:00AM- atmosphere. Bring your favorite yarn or a project 1:00PM. Begins 4/2/2016. Unified Arts Sec. 01: # sessions: 2 Day: W 6:00-9:00PM. you’re working on to class as well as your Building, $51. Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $89. Zax knitting tools and practice yarn for swatches. Sec. 02: # sessions: 4 Day: W 2:00-4:00PM. Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-9:30PM. Begins 4/6/2016. The Korean Church of Begins 3/30/2016. Brookline High, $180. Boston, 32 Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $104. Haber

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HOLIDAYS SCHOLARSHIPS AND DISCOUNTS FOOD AND WINE FEES Classes will not be in session the following • All School and Town of Brookline For food or wine classes that meet for one dates this spring. All missed classes will be Employees receive a 20 percent discount session only, the food and wine fee is included made up at the end of the term. on course fees (excluding material, food, or in the course tuition. For classes that meet • Monday-Saturday, April 18-23, 2016 wine fees and contracted courses). two or more sessions, the food or wine fee (Spring Break) • Partial tuition-remission is available for is payable to the instructor at the first class. Payment is accepted by cash or check only. • Monday, May 30, 2016 those in need of scholarship assistance. (Memorial Day) Disabled veterans, persons on Social Security Disability (SSDI), or receiving PROGRAM CHANGES AFDC receive a 25 percent discount on The program reserves the right to cancel OUR HOURS course fees upon presenting a letter of 24 Webster Place: Our administrative office classes that are under-enrolled, to change verification or veterans’ identification. dates, times, and locations when necessary, is open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday Please call 617-730-2700 for more through Friday. and to substitute instructors. We will contact information. Please note: completed you with all cancellations and changes to Brookline High, Room 100: Our evening office scholarship forms are due one week in course dates, times, and locations. is open from 4:30 pm to 10:00 pm, Monday advance of the course start date. through Thursday, and on Saturday from 8:30 • Persons over 65 receive 25 percent am to 2:00 pm. discount on courses except where COURSE ADMISSION & CONFIRMATIONS Please see our website for special holiday and indicated. This discount does not apply to BA&CE courses are open to participants 16 vacation hours. courses marked “senior discount does not years of age and older, unless the course is apply,” or to food, wine, material, studio, especially for children. You are officially and shop fees, or to contracted courses. enrolled and your name is placed upon HOW TO REGISTER Students 60 years of age or older are the class roster as soon as we receive your • Register online 24 hours a day at eligible to enroll in senior-only classes. registration form and payment. A confirmation www.brooklineadulted.org. will be emailed, provided we have a valid • If you are a current student, bring a friend email address. • Call us at 617-730-2700. Our staff will be with you when you register for a class and happy to complete your registration over the you will receive 10 percent off your course phone using MasterCard, VISA, or Discover tuition. You must be listed in our database to ACCESSIBILITY Card. Hearing impaired students should call be considered a current student. Your friend The Town of Brookline does not discriminate 617-713-5097 (TTY). must be new to BA&CE, and registrations on the basis of disability in admission to, • Mail your completed registration form must be concurrent for you to receive a access to, or operations of its programs, (found at the back of this catalog) and discount. The discount must be used in the services, or activities. If you need assistance payment to BA&CE, P.O. Box 150, Brookline, current term, is not transferable, and cannot or special accommodations, please contact MA 02446. Please make your check be combined with other discounts, waivers, the BA&CE office at 617-730-2700 or 617- or money order payable to the Town of or scholarships. 713-5097 (TTY). Brookline, or provide your MasterCard, VISA, • Please note that if you are eligible for a or Discover Card information (no Amex). scholarship or discount, it is not possible to WAITLIST • Register in person at our Webster Place register online. Please call the BA&CE office All classes are limited. If the class you wish Office from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday at 617-730-2700. to register for is filled, you will be placed on through Friday, or at our Brookline High a waitlist. Our office will contact you if space Office from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Monday becomes available. Please note: you are not WEBSITE LOG-IN officially enrolled if you are still on a waitlist. through Thursday, and on Saturday from Our registration system requires that you 8:30 am to 2:00 pm. create a log-in if you are registering online • Email us at [email protected] (brooklineadulted.org). Instructions will be CLASSROOM NUMBERS with your registration information. sent to your email account upon user account Your classroom number will be posted in the • Fax your registration form to us at 617-730- creation. foyer of the building where your class meets. To 2674. Please be sure to include your credit determine the building in which your class will card information. SENIOR ONLY COURSES be held, please check our catalog or website. Some of our classes are priced and marked for seniors only (additional discounts do not REGISTRATION FEE apply). Students 60 years of age or older are REGISTER EARLY! A $6 registration fee is charged once per eligible to enroll in senior-only classes. We recommend students register at least one person, per semester. This fee helps fund week before classes begin. Classes with low scholarships so that all can participate. The fee enrollment risk cancellation. Registering early does not apply to courses of $15 or less. MAPS AND LOCATIONS gives the best chance of your class running. Find addresses, directions, and parking information on our website www.brooklineadulted.org/locations/.

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BEFORE THE START OF CLASS COURSE CREDIT We will refund your full tuition, or issue you a course credit: If you choose to withdraw from a class at least three (3) business days in advance of the start date, you may elect to receive a full  1. In the event that your course is cancelled due to low credit. If you choose to withdraw from a food and wine course at enrollment. least (5) business days in advance of the start date, you may elect  2. If you withdraw from a class at least three (3) business to receive a full credit. After this time, no credits are given, but days (Monday-Friday) in advance of starting time, you may you may transfer to another course during the term (please see request a refund, minus a $10 processing fee. If you elect transfer policy below). Please note: credits are good for two terms to receive a course credit (valid for the next two terms, only and are non-refundable. see below), the $10 processing fee will be waived. The $6 registration fee is non-refundable, unless we cancel due to TRANSFERS low enrollment.  1. You may transfer to any other class offered during the term  3. Food and Wine Classes: In order to receive a refund or prior to the second meeting of the class you are dropping, a credit for a food or wine course or a food or wine fee we provided that there is space available in the class you wish to must have at least five (5) business days (Monday-Friday) transfer to. This excludes transfer from one food or wine class notice in advance of the starting time of the class. No to another. No refunds are given for price differences, but any refunds or credits are given after this time. additional amount can be applied to another course in the same term.  4. Special events and lectures are non-refundable.  2. We regret that no transfers can be granted after the  5. No refunds or credits are given for rescheduled classes second session of your class. or changes to locations or instructors.  6. Refunds will not be given in cash. Credit card refunds will be processed within five to seven business days. Refunds issued by check will be processed within two to four weeks. our locations

BROOKLINE HIGH SCHOOL COMPLEX Brookline Booksmith The Korean Church of Boston (near Route 9) 279 Harvard Street (Coolidge Corner) 32 Harvard Street (entrance on Holden Street) Brookline High School: 115 Greenough Street, t Public Transportation: Take the Green Line Room 100 Brookline Senior Center “D” train to Brookline Village. Walk up Har- Dance Studios and Gym: 66 Tappan Street 93 Winchester Street. vard Street. Church on left. Or take the #66 bus to the Kent Street or Pierce Street stop. Unified Arts Building: 46 Tappan Street • Parking: available on neighboring streets. • Parking is available on the street or in one t Public Transportation: Take Green Line “D” of the many public lots in the area. Church Train to the Brookline Hills stop. Brookline Devotion School entrance is located on Holden Street. High School complex on left. 345 Harvard Street (intersects Beacon St.) • By Car: From Route 9, take Sumner Road. t Public Transportation: Take the Green Line Lawrence School 27 Francis Street From Beacon Street, take Washington Street “C” train to Harvard St./Coolidge Corner. or Harvard Street. From Washington Street, Walk up Harvard St. towards Allston. School take Greenough Street. From Harvard Street on right. Or take the #66 Bus up Harvard St. Pierce School 50 School Street take School Street to Washington Street to Greenough Street. • Parking: available on the street. • Parking: For Brookline High and Elementary FOR DETAILED DIRECTIONS, PLEASE USE: Schools, parking is allowed in designated Goddard House Google Maps (maps.google.com) or Mapquest school spaces after 3:00pm. During the day, 165 Chestnut Street, Brookline (mapquest.com). please park on neighboring streets or take the T. Webster Place: Administrative Office 24 Webster Place, Brookline Village

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A program of the Brookline Public Schools, BA&CE invites you to enjoy our state-of-the-art educational and vocational spaces for arts and crafts, computers, exercise, and workshops at BHS and our offsite locations.