W INTER • 2018 explore the possibilities Enriching programs & events for adults, teens & kids FEATURING KIDZONE, TEENZONE, DRIVER’S ED, AND COLLEGE PREP New classes each week January–March 2 Register Now at ArlingtonCommunityEd.org n 781.316.3568 Welcome to the Winter Term! lease enjoy browsing through these pages and we hope Table of Contents Pyou find classes and events that will draw you out of hibernation during these winter months. Classes for Adults (14+) As developer of ACE’s youth classes, I’m thrilled by the Around Town ......................5 growing demand for our KidZone and TeenZone programs. Business, Technology, & Finance . .6 KidZone was launched 7 years ago by my colleague Nina Conversations..................... 4 Coles who worked tirelessly enlisting the support of the Crafts .............................9 elementary schools to start a handful of after-school classes. Daytime & Weekend Classes....... 24 By the time I began with ACE in 2015, KidZone had grown in Family Nights .....................36 size and reputation, and TeenZone at the Ottoson became a Food & Drink......................12 natural next step. Today it’s wonderful to see 200 students Highlights .........................3 participate in our language programs, 350 in our running Home & Garden...................15 clubs, and many hundreds more eager to try everything from Important Information.............53 programming and cooking, to art, dance and music. And we Instructor Bios ................... 47 love to see first hand how classes come to life, like when the Languages ........................16 Music, Art, & Photography .........19 Parkour students help each other scale the walls right outside Online Learning (Ed2Go) ...........52 our office window nearly every week, with an intense spirit Recreation, Fitness, & Dance . .22 of teamwork. How amazing to watch a class evolve from an Registration Form (Adult) . 55 idea, to a short catalog listing, then finally into a group of kids Wellness..........................25 enjoying something new with their peers under the guidance Writing & Literature ...............29 of an expert instructor. That’s the part we love, making all our planning worth it. Classes for Youth (K–12) Family Nights .....................36 And speaking of class ideas, we want to hear yours. Send High School & College Prep . 30 us an email or give us a call, and please submit a course KidZone (Grades K–5) ..............37 evaluation once your class is finished. The more feedback TeenZone (Grades 6–8) ............32 from you the better we can serve our wonderful community. VacationFun!......................34 Registration Form (Youth) ..........54 Andrea Loeb Arlington Community Education... No Class Dates is a program of the Arlington Public Schools that is completely No evening classes will be held at Arlington High School on supported by tuition received from our courses. ACE provides February 19 - 23. The schedule for classes held at other locations affordable education and enrichment opportunities for children may vary; please check class description for details. and adults from Arlington and surrounding communities. Tax identification number: 046-001-070. WINTER COVER ART CONTEST WINNER Jen Rothenberg, Director Andrea Loeb, Youth & Teen Programs Manager Winterberry by Robert Bicknell Nina Coles, Business Manager A resident of Groton, Massachusetts and a native New Tracey Dramstad, Registrar Englander, Bob Bicknell holds a lifelong love of both Donna Eidson, Program Consultant photography and the outdoors. Working on a continuum from Sarah Flanagan, Programs & Promotions Coordinator realism to abstraction Bob strives to capture a sense of place Franca Duffy, Evening Coordinator in his images and the ever-changing beauty that surrounds Tanya Serrao, Evening Coordinator us. A mountain sunrise, a random cluster of white birch trees, Arlington Community Education morning fog, and old farms and barns are among Bob’s favorite Arlington High School subjects to photograph. Bob’s photography maxims include: 869 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02476 “lighting is everything” and “you have to be there”. [email protected] Bob is an active member of the Bedford Center for the Arts ArlingtonCommunityEd.org • 781.316.3568 • Fax 781.316.3381 Photo Group in Bedford, MA. For those wishing to see more and/or purchase Bob’s work, please visit robertbicknellphoto.com. Catalog design: Pehlke Design Arlington Community Education n Winter 2018 HIGHLIGHTS 3 HIGHLIGHTS To secure your seat, please pre-register, walk-ins are welcome as space allows. Keeping Bees Earning Their Keep: Living with Cancer: A Alexandra Bartsch The Story of Arlington’s Physician’s Perspective If you are thinking about keeping Working Animals Robin Schoenthaler, MD bees, there’s lots to consider besides Dee Morris Nearly 10 million people are living with the pleasure of harvesting your own Working animals were key to Arlington’s a diagnosis of cancer. As detection pure, wild honey and beeswax. More prosperity for many decades. Draft and treatments improve, many types effort than a cat but less than a dog, horses or oxen were used to cultivate of cancer have shifted from acute to backyard beekeeping requires only market gardens and to transport chronic diseases, and some are even simple management once hives are produce. Charles Jacobs, proprietor of curable. This is a time of unusual established. Local expert Alexandra Arlington House, was especially proud of excitement in the field of oncology, Bartsch has been keeping bees since his livery stable where discerning guests thanks to new treatments that hold 1978, and will help you decide if this and locals could board their animals. the promise of making long, full lives rewarding pursuit is for you. She’ll share Some workers at the Schwamb Mill with cancer far more common. In her experiences, talk about the benefits relied on the Arlington Horse Railroad her work at the MGH Department and importance of keeping bees, the to commute from Boston. In 1908 the of Radiation Oncology at Emerson culture of beekeeping, what it’s like Fire Department described their ten Hospital, Dr. Schoenthaler has treated to keep your own and other aspects horses as being in “first class condition” cancer patients for 25 years and has to consider, including the time and and “good for a number of years to watched the field explode with new financial commitment. Come learn what come,” underscoring the importance of research. Both caring physician and all the buzz is about. the intelligent animals that protected eloquent communicator, she will share CODE: HL010 Thursday, January 18 life and property. Sportsman George her insights into these promising 7:00 - 9:00 pm $10 A. Law raced his trotters at Medford’s developments. Combination Park, introducing other CODE: HL012 Thursday, March 8 Arlington horse fanciers to the thrill 7:00 - 8:30 pm $10 of competition. And the civic-minded OUR CLASSES MAKE Robbins sisters donated a granite GREAT GIFTS! watering trough where working animals could be brought to slack their thirst. Call 781.316.3568 to purchase Still extant at the Foot of the Rocks a gift certificate today. (intersection of Mass. Ave. and Lowell St.), this relic from another time is mute witness to the “invisible army” that served Arlington every day of their lives. CODE: RF035 Thursday, March 1 7:00 - 9:00 pm $10 4 CONVERSATIONS Register Now at ArlingtonCommunityEd.org n 781.316.3568 Conversations with David Whitford Join us in the Arlington High Media Center for fascinating conversations with influential thinkers and writers. Hosted by Inc. magazine editor-at-large David Whitford of Arlington, these lively evenings actively involve audience members in the discussions. Daniel Golden on Spy Schools Alex Beam on The Feud Was the person sitting next to you in college Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a a fellow student or an undercover agent for Beautiful Friendship the CIA? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam’s latest book The Feud Daniel Golden, a senior editor at ProPublica, is a “deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary makes you wonder in Spy Schools: How giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence egomania.” It is both literary biography and a chronicle of the Secretly Exploit America’s Universities. dissolution of an intimate friendship. In 1940, Edmund Wilson In labs, classrooms, and auditoriums, was the big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a intelligence services from countries like Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a China, Russia, and Cuba seek insights into U.S. policy, recruits mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note for clandestine operations, and access to sensitive military and engineering a Guggenheim Fellowship. But then came and civilian research. The FBI and CIA reciprocate, tapping the worldwide best-selling novel Lolita, and the tables were international students and faculty as informants. Taking turned. Suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. advantage of patriotic fervor and fear in the wake of 9/11, The feud finally erupted in full when Nabokov published his the CIA and other security agencies infiltrate almost every hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable translation of aspect of academic culture and enlist professors, graduate Pushkin’s famously untranslatable verse novel, Eugene Onegin. students, and even undergraduates