2018 Summerfest

20 18 JUNE SUMMERFEST COURSE DATES: JUNE 1, 8, 15, 22

course FIRST PERIOD 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. page

1A Difficult Discussions: A Workshop 2 1B Introduction To Pagan Spirituality 2 1C Leonard Bernstein’s Centenary 2 1D New Yorker Cartooning 2 1E Shoot Film! 2

SECOND PERIOD 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

2A Art Once Known, But No Longer: A Personal Picture Show 3 2B Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement® 3 2C Four Iconic New York City Buildings 3 2D Meditations On Photographing Your World 3 2E Science Potpourri 2018 4

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

SUMMERFEST CLASSES TAKE PLACE ON THE FIRST FOUR FRIDAYS OF JUNE: JUNE 1, 8, 15, 22

Registration is online only, and is open to LLI members and to members of the community. Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis; the registration system will not allow registrations for a class once it is filled.

REGISTRATION OPENS ON MAY 7, CLOSES ON MAY 18

SummerFest is free for current LLI members; nonmembers may enroll for a fee of $50 for CONTACT the four weeks, payable by cash or check at the first class. Lifetime Learning Institute PO Box 22 TO REGISTER Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Go to the Bard LLI website, bardlli.com, and follow the instructions for SummerFest registration. 12504-0022 All registrations will be acknowledged by email before classes begin. Telephone: 845 758-7314 Email: [email protected] ALL CLASSES WILL BE HELD IN OLIN HALL ON THE BARD CAMPUS Website: bardlli.com Room assignments will be posted on the first day of class.

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a.m. a.m. holds Listings presenting his popular as course Opera Presenter: ChuckMishaan(LLI) classics of American musical theater. materials and video excerpts of these Story theOn Town onBernstein, focusing his theater works and collaborative works of Leonard examine course this birth, creative will the I June 1,8,15,22 Friday: 1C. LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S CENTENARY Producer: Jay Hochstadt by Bishop Nedi Rivera of Oregon. Eastern ordained later to priesthood the that year ofSchool Pacific the in2010 and was She graduated from Church Divinity St. John’s Episcopal Church inKingston. TheReverend Congregation of Catskills the inKingston. minister of Unitarian the Universalist Christopher Penczak. as the She serves School also studiedandwith Theological divinity degree from Andover Newton Wiccan minister. She has amaster of Universalist minister and an ordained Producer: Chuck Mishaan HallCarnegie and Lincoln Center. chats with maestro the greenroom inthe at director, and he had pleasure the of many during Leonard Bernstein’s years as its music to New the subscriber York Philharmonic years. He pastthe several was alongtime Politics at Bard LLIand other area LLIs for Presenters: EricaBaron American paganism. as some of different the varieties of n celebration of centenary the of his . The consist coursewill of lecture 9:15 a.m. - , Candide Michelle Meech Michelle 10:30 , and

a.m. is aUnitarian West Side is rector of of rector is has been been has a staff artist forthe inscribed with winner’s the inscribed caption. is an Shanahan original, signed cartoon culminate inacaption contest. The prize artwork in topical,seasonal, and cartoons political and on creation, idea writing, and drawing direction, along with ahands-on workshop magazinethe and his thoughts on its future with students abrief of history his tenure at cover artist at the Danny Shanahan, alongtime cartoonist and June 1,8,15,22 Friday: 1 photos for discussion. are encouraged to bring equipment and how to develop or photos. Students scan correct Discuss film. formats, and learn it adjusted or overhauled, and pick the howpurpose; equipment, to choose have whatLearn lighting for is best each only to produce intended the image. compose carefully, and press shutter the approach from slow digital: down, 36 exposures roll for per calls adifferent sizable renaissance. Having only 12or photographyFilm is undergoing a June 1,8,15,22 Friday: 1E. SHOOT FILM Producer: GeneBurns museums worldwide. and galleries numerous other publications and in anthologies. His work found can be in and appears indozens of published four collections of his work, ads and illustrations. He has also cartoons and 12covers, plus numerous than 30years, publishing some 1,200 Presenter: Danny Shanahan Class Limit: 20 D. D. NEW NEW YORKER 9:15 9:15 9:15 New Yorker a.m. - a.m. - ! New Yorker CARTOONING 10:30 10:30 New Yorker style. The course will style. The coursewill a.m. a.m. New Yorker , will share , will

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Presenter: Gary Miller (LLI) is an 2B. FELDENKRAIS: AWARENESS winning projects that required specialized award-winning photojournalist, writer, THROUGH MOVEMENT® tools, analysis, and meticulous hands-on filmmaker, communications consultant, Friday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. attention in order to diagnose causes of and live-television director with more (note earlier end time) distress and to design, specify, quantify, than 40 years of experience for corporate June 1, 8, 15, 22 and execute thousands of large- and and editorial clients, exhibits, and The Feldenkrais Method is a mindful way small-scale repairs in a consistent manner galleries. He was the youngest staff to improve movement. It works through on massive, iconic buildings. photographer for Eastman Kodak. He has a combination of slowing down, reducing Producers: Christopher Tavener, taught freelance photography at The New effort, and paying attention to sensation Dorothy Baran School and is the author of a book on that while being guided verbally through subject. fundamental movement patterns. Daily 2D. MEDITATIONS ON PHOTOGRAPHING Producer: Dorothy Baran activities become easier: standing, sitting, YOUR WORLD walking, bending, and reaching. Posture, Friday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. breathing, and balance improve. An June 1, 8, 15, 22 SECOND PERIOD emphasis on comfort and ease makes the This course is for photographers who method especially effective for aging bodies. seek to increase awareness of how to 2A. ART ONCE KNOWN, BUT NO Participants must be able to get down on see their world while they make better LONGER: A PERSONAL PICTURE SHOW and up from the floor—with help is fine. photos. With short, experiential, and Friday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Class Limit: 20 meditative exercises, students will explore June 1, 8, 15, 22 Presenter: Margaret Pierpont, a the intuitive place of creation. Weekly Professional artist William Clutz Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner lectures, assignments, and critiques introduces a personal selection of late-19th (GCFP), offers group classes and private will enhance their experience. Open to mid-20th century artists that are not sessions in New York City and locally. She to anyone, regardless of experience or as well known today as they once were. has had a lifelong interest in movement, camera choice. Participants will bring a The class will see how some of the ideas of relaxation, and the mind-body minimum of four prints (color or black these earlier artists influenced artists of a connection, and has extensive experience and white, no smaller than 5 x 7 inches) later period. Although many works hold in dance, yoga, and meditation. She favors to class each week, based on assignments. elements of abstraction, the point of view the Feldenkrais Method as a way to keep Class Limit: 16 is basically humanistic. One session will her mind and body nimble in retirement. Presenter: Lauren Piperno (LLI), discuss works of two early portrait painters Producer: Margaret Shuhala photographer and educator, has taught at in Rhinebeck and the Hudson Valley, M. the International Center of Photography, Robert and Ammi Phillips. 2C. FOUR ICONIC NEW YORK CITY Parsons School of Design, Center BUILDINGS Class Limit: 20 of Photography at Woodstock, and Presenter: William Clutz (LLI) was Friday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. SUNY New Paltz. She has work in the associated with “the return of the figure” June 1, 8, 15, 22 permanent collections of MoMA (New in Recent Drawing U.S.A. (MoMA, 1956) Learn the inside story on the exterior York City), Brooklyn Museum, and and in Recent Painting: U.S.A.: The Figure restoration of the Woolworth Building, Bibliothéque Nationale (France). She has (MoMA, 1962). Known for his street scenes Metropolitan Museum of Art, American received numerous awards, including transformed by light, he had regular New Museum of Natural History, and New an American-Scandinavian Fellowship. York City solo shows from 1959 to 2005. York Public Library. She is coauthor of Masked Culture: The He taught at Parsons School of Design Presenter: Timothy Allanbrook (LLI) Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. from 1970 to 1992 and was elected to the has over 40 years of experience in Producer: Dorothy Baran National Academy of Design in 2005. architectural and preservation projects. Producer: Marcie Woodruff He has directed large-scale, award-

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2E. SCIENCE POTPOURRI 2018 Physics I labs, and develops and presents CURRICULUM COMMITTEE Friday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. live planetarium shows for the campus Anne Sunners, Chair June 1, 8, 15, 22 community and regional public. Irene Esposito, Secretary Science encompasses a broad range Regina Armstrong of human activity. Each session of June 15: Energy in the Hudson Valley Dorothy Baran this course will examine a different, What is the “energy world” of the Bob Blacker interesting, and exciting aspect of science. Hudson Valley? How did it arrive at its Anne Brueckner present configuration, and what energy Jane Diamond June 1: Getting Intelligent about alternatives do we face in the future? The Ellen Foreman Artificial Intelligence presenter will construct a simple model Joanne Gelb The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to help make technical choices, then Dacie Kershaw used frequently to describe a view of discuss several different ways in which Linda LeGendre the future. This presentation will show this energy world might change. Claire Luse how AI, massive amounts of data (Big Presenter: Andrew Hunter is a retired Emily Michael Data), statistical algorithms, and machine energy professional. He began with Chuck Mishaan learning interrelate. The class will discuss a big oil company, then consulted on Marge Moran the near-term prospects and societal broad energy issues. Most recently, he Joanne Mrstik implications of increased reliance on taught energy economics and energy Cathy Reinis semiautonomous devices. engineering for 10 years at Cornell Margaret Shuhala Presenter: John Bassler, Ph.D., is a University. Bill Tuel retired professor of business statistics, Leslie Weinstock marketing research, and marketing June 22: Is the Moon Still There When strategy. His Ph.D. is from Carnegie Nobody Looks? Mellon University. He taught at the Tuck A historical survey of the counter- CATALOG COMMITTEE School at Dartmouth and Yale School intuitive implications of quantum Bill Tuel, Chair of Management, and he directed the mechanical physics, and their Ellen Foreman master’s degree program in marketing implications for our understanding of Barbara Herles research at the University of Texas- reality and causality. Tony Herles Arlington. Presenter: Matthew Deady, Ph.D., is Deborah Lanser professor of physics and director of the Margaret Shuhala June 8: Discovering New Worlds: Physics Program at Bard College, where Extrasolar Planets he has taught courses at all levels for 31 This talk will focus on exploration and years. His research expertise includes current research in the field of extrasolar experimental nuclear physics and applied planets, that is, discovering and mathematics. characterizing planets outside of our Producer: Bill Tuel solar system. Presenter: Raj Pandya is director of the Kirk Planetarium and a full-time lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at SUNY New Paltz. He teaches courses in astronomy and

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