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More at Mathe r’s APRIL | MAY | JUNE 2017 Changing the Color of Art History, p. 4 Reserve Your Spot at Our Father’s Day Jazz Brunch! See page 3. 33 E. 83 rd Street, Chicago, IL 60619 | (773) 488.2801 Look What’s Happening at Mather’s! 6 10 5 9 7 8 4 7 Computer Classes . 3 Music & Entertainment . 8 Learn all sorts of handy technology skills, like how to use Enjoy energetic events like our popular Friday night an iPad. steppers’ parties. Culinary Delights . 3 How-Tos . 9 Enjoy meal specials and food programs, like spicy and Do it yourself—from designing your own jewelry, to festive Louisiana Shrimp Creole! working with a lawyer to draft your power of attorney. History, Culture & More . 4 Fitness . 10 Choose from author presentations, lectures, and more— Try a unique workout, like our new Moving Easy class for like a visit with Chicago Treasurer Kurt Summers! those with arthritis. Health & Wellness . 6 Free Resources . 11 Sample our wellness programs—like our Food for Thought Take advantage of free resources and programs—like a series featuring advice and samples for a healthy diet. series on smart financial planning for retirement. Trips . 7 Ongoing Events . 12 Join us for a trip to enjoy the famous chicken dinner at April | May | June At-a-Glance . 13 White Fence Farm, along with a great show! MATHER’S—MORE THAN A CAFÉ HOURS Monday–Friday: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (menu available until 2:45 p.m.) 2 Saturday: 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (menu available until 1:15 p.m.) COMPUTER CULINARY CLASSES DELIGHTS ONE-DAY WORKSHOP lunch. Our meal will consist of tea Cost $15 sandwiche s, tomato bisque, and peach nest salad (chicken salad, Managing Accounts Online bread, and fruit), topped off with Thursday, June 29, 2:00–4:00 p.m. a dessert trio. Cost $20 per person Learn to manage your accounts and or $30 per pair stay secure. Friday, May 5 TWO-DAY CLASSES Meal Special: Meal Cost $30 Special Kentucky Derby Bring a friend to a two-day computer class, Asparagus soup, Kentucky and get half off your cost. You pay $15, and Hot Brown Sandwich, seasoned your friend pays $30. fries, and pecan pie. Cost $8 Learn How to Use an iPad Tuesday, June 6 Thursdays, April 6 & 13, 2:00–4:00 p.m. 12:00–1:00 p.m. Learn the basics of using the iPad along The Culinary Delighters Present: with other features like iCloud, iTunes, Siri, Louisiana Shrimp Creole and the App Store. Surge will show you how to make this New Orleans classic that’s spicy, Computer Basics hearty, and turns any meal into a Father’s Day Jazz Brunch Thursdays, April 20 & 27, 2:00–4:00 p.m. festive occasion. Afterward, enjoy a at Mather’s: Scrumptious Learn the parts of a computer, how to use a delicious bowl of creole. Cost $6 mouse, what windows are, and basic word & Sumptuous processing techniques. Sunday. June 18 Tuesday, April 11 1:00–3:30 p.m. Father’s Day Jazz Getting Started with Facebook 12:00–1:00 p.m. Try Something New! Brunch at Mather’s: Scrumptious Thursdays, May 4 & 11, 2:00–4:00 p.m. The Culinary Delighters Present: & Sumptuous Learn how to set up an account and find Eggs-travagant Eggs Edwin Daugherty, Saxophonist out about security features and ways to Joe reveals the secrets of how to Enjoy smooth lunchtime jazz from add photos. cook the perfect egg, whether hard- Chicago’s own Edwin Daugherty, boiled, over easy, or soft-boiled, as who has performed with musicians Word Basics well as how to serve them. Enjoy like Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Thursdays, May 18 & 25, 2:00–4:00 p.m. an open-faced egg salad sandwich BB King, and other greats. The This class will introduce you to Microsoft on watercress and toasted Sumptuous Sax will entertain Word, the world’s most popular word pumpernickel. Cost $5 you as you enjoy a scrumptious processing program. Familiarize yourself brunch of mixed grill (chicken, with features that can help you create Monday, April 24 beef filet, and shrimp with grilled documents that have impact. 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. vegetables), sauces, and pie à Ia Elegant Ladies’ Lunch BOGO mode. Meal Cost $15; Entertainment E-mail Basics Bring your BFF to Mather’s to Suggested Donation $10 Thursdays, June 1 & 8, 2:00–4:00 p.m. enjoy an intimate, small-group Learn how to send, receive, reply to, and ladies’ lunch. Preregister as a pair, delete e-mails; work with attachments; and get half off the price of one and organize your contact list in Gmail. PLEAsE REgIstER At LEAst oNE wEEk IN AdvANcE foR ALL PRogRAMs 33 E. 83 rd Street, Chicago, IL 60619 | (773) 488.2801 • mathersmorethanacafe.com 3 HISTORY, CULTURE & MORE The State of the City All Jokes Aside Wednesday, April 26 invest more in Chicago’s 9:30–11:30 a.m. Book Club communities. Suggested This month we’ll discuss Donation $5 The Art Forger by Barbara The Story of Harriet Tubman A. Shapiro. FREE Monday, May 8 10:00–11:30 a.m. Caring Friday, April 7 Wednesday, April 19 Friday, April 28 for Your Aging Pet 1:00 –2:00 p.m. 1:00–2:30 p.m. The Birth of 1:00–2:00 p.m. Courtnye Nichole Jackson, Chicago’s South Side Mather’s Writers’ Guild Try Something New! DVM , UIC Extension Educato r, We’ll screen the WTTW J.D. Cooper, CEO of Jazzi The Story of Harriet Tubman Small Animal Health documentary film about Creations Self-Publishing, Momma Kemba, Artistic In this workshop, we’ll dis - the South Side of Chicago Facilitator Director, American History Live cuss the steps you can take featuring Geoffrey Baer. Gather with your fellow Momma Kemba keeps alive to ensure a great quality of Discover the places, people, writers to explore the inter - the spirit of strong black life for your dog or cat and and stories that make est in a continuing writers’ women in American history some signs of aging. FREE South Side communities group where you can write through dramatic storytelling so special. FREE your life story, and have the and song. See her riveting Friday, May 12 final creation published. impersonation of the great 1:00 –2:00 p.m. All Jokes Aside Monday, April 17 FREE abolitionist and humanitar - Raymond Lambert, Former 12:30–1:30 p.m. Living ian Harriet Tubman. Owner, All Jokes Aside Clutter-Free Friday, April 21 Suggested Donation $5 AUTH OR Allyson Gunter, Presenter 1:00 –2:00 p.m. Changing PRESENTATION Do you have more stuff than the Color of Art History Friday, May 5 Hear the entertaining space? Are you constantly Pat Rose, Art Historian, 1:00 –2:00 p.m. The State behind-the-scenes story of looking for misplaced items? Teacher & Artist of the City a legendary black comedy Make these concerns a part Kerry James Marshall is Kurt A. Summers Jr., club. All Jokes Aside on of your past and learn to an African American artist Treasurer, City of Chicago Chicago’s South Side helped enjoy the peace of living in who is just now receiving Get the inside story on launch the careers of come - a clutter-free environment. international recognition as the city’s financial situation dians like Chris Rock, Jamie Suggested Donation $3 an inspired chronicler of from Chicago’s treasurer. Foxx, Mo’Nique, and many African American life. Find out what’s happening others. Get the inside story Discover his delightful with the city’s four employee on the early careers of some storytelling imagery in this pension funds and the of these top performers. slide-show presentation. Chicago Teachers Fund, as Suggested Donation $5 Suggested Donation $5 well as Summers’s plans to 4 Mather’s—More Than a Café April | May | June 2017 Monday, May 15 Friday, May 26 Friday, June 23 10:00–11:30 a.m. 1:00 –2:00 p.m. Hyde Park: 1:00 –2:00 p.m. We Were Never Slaves! A Culture of Opportunity Blues in Chicago Hunter Havlin Adams III, Rebecca Janowitz, Author , Bill Gilmore, Blues Promoter Author Culture of Opportunity: & Entrepreneur AUTH OR Obama’s Chicago: The The owner of B.L.U.E.S. on PRESENTATION People, Politics, and Ideas Halsted, the former Bill’s Over the past three decades, of Hyde Park Blues in Evanston, and blues Hunter has studied African AUTH OR clubs around the country, humanism and “slavery” PRESENTATION Bill surveys the Chicago while researching cultural Rebecca discusses the culture blues scene and talks about neuroscience and conscious - of Hyde Park and the way in his role in promoting the nes s. Get an overview of his which it has significantly blues here. Enjoy videos of enlightening and empowering shaped American politics some of the best perform - book, which explains why through the careers of people ances of Chicago’s greatest black lives don’t seem to who have lived and worked blues artists. Suggested matter to some people and there—including Barack Before Jackie Robinson Donation $5 what we can do about it. Obama. Suggested Suggested Donation $6 Donation $5 inspiring story of Isadore Wednesday, June 28 Channels and Tidye Pickett, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Book Club Friday, May 19 Friday, June 2 Chicago pioneers of African This month we’ll discuss 1:00–2:00 p.m.