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. lifetime learning institute summerfest bard college | 2018 | 1 20 SummerFest Course Listings 18 JUNE as some of the different varieties of 1D. NEW YORKER CARTOONING FIRST PERIOD American paganism. Friday: 9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Presenters: Erica Baron is a Unitarian June 1, 8, 15, 22 Universalist minister and an ordained Danny Shanahan, a longtime cartoonist and 1A. DIFFICULT DISCUSSIONS: A WORKSHOP Wiccan minister. She has a master of cover artist at the New Yorker, will share divinity degree from Andover Newton with students a brief history of his tenure at Friday: 9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Theological School and also studied with June 1, 8, 15, 22 the magazine and his thoughts on its future Christopher Penczak. She serves as the direction, along with a hands-on workshop Participants will develop a set of norms minister of the Unitarian Universalist on idea creation, writing, and drawing that will facilitate discussion of difficult Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston. seasonal, topical, and political cartoons and topics, such as family, society, business, The Reverend Michelle Meech is rector of artwork in New Yorker style. The course will religion, and politics. These norms will St. John’s Episcopal Church in Kingston. culminate in a caption contest. The prize include a code of behavior that respects She graduated from Church Divinity is an original, signed Shanahan cartoon all class members. Participants are School of the Pacific in 2010 and was inscribed with the winner’s caption. encouraged to propose difficult topics ordained to the priesthood later that year Class Limit: 20 for examination and discussion; the class by Bishop Nedi Rivera of Eastern Oregon. Presenter: Danny Shanahan has been will discuss such topics to create learning Producer: Jay Hochstadt a staff artist for the New Yorker for more experiences. Critical thinking, Socratic than 30 years, publishing some 1,200 method, and related learning approaches 1C. LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S CENTENARY cartoons and 12 covers, plus numerous will be used where applicable. Articles Friday: 9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. ads and illustrations. He has also from current media will be used as sources. June 1, 8, 15, 22 published four collections of his work, Class Limit: 12 In celebration of the centenary of his and appears in dozens of New Yorker Presenter: Ollie Johnson (LLI) holds birth, this course will examine the creative anthologies. His work can be found in B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering. and collaborative works of Leonard numerous other publications and in His teaching and facilitating experience Bernstein, focusing on his theater works museums and galleries worldwide. includes managing an international On the Town, Candide, and West Side Producer: Gene Burns Systems Research Institute, developing Story. The course will consist of lecture and teaching breakthrough techniques materials and video excerpts of these 1E. SHOOT FILM! to product development teams, coaching classics of American musical theater. Friday: 9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. executive teams, and working with Presenter: Chuck Mishaan (LLI) has been June 1, 8, 15, 22 industry and nonprofits to achieve presenting his popular course Opera as challenging transitions. He has taught Film photography is undergoing a Politics at Bard LLI and other area LLIs for three single-presenter courses at LLI and sizable renaissance. Having only 12 or the past several years. He was a longtime co-presented a discussion course. 36 exposures per roll calls for a different subscriber to the New York Philharmonic approach from digital: slow down, Producer: Dorothy Baran during Leonard Bernstein’s years as its music compose carefully, and press the shutter director, and he had the pleasure of many 1B. INTRODUCTION TO only to produce the intended image. PAGAN SPIRITUALITY chats with the maestro in the greenroom at Learn what lighting is best for each Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Friday: 9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. purpose; how to choose equipment, have June 1, 8, 15, 22 Producer: Chuck Mishaan it adjusted or overhauled, and pick the Paganism in its various forms is growing correct film. Discuss formats, and learn in the United States. This class will how to develop or scan photos. Students examine some of the foundational are encouraged to bring equipment and elements of pagan spirituality, as well photos for discussion. 2 | lifetime learning institute summerfest SummerFest Course Listings 20 JUNE 18 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).