brook WINTER 2017 Adult & Community Educationline brook BROOKLINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Adult & Community Education Brookline, Massachusetts line SUPERINTENDENT Andrew Bott SCHOOL COMMITTEE Benjamin Chang, Helen Charlupski, WHAT IS BA&CE? WHO TEACHES AT BA&CE? Susan Wolf Ditkoff, Michael Glover, Lisa Brookline Adult & 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 life long 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. In the Daphne Soto its larger community. BA&CE fulfills its mission evening, Monday-Thursday, 4:30-10:00 pm, by providing service to the community and Evening Operations Support and on Saturday, 8:00 am-2:00 pm, please Patrick Soares enlist ing its support for public education. visit us in the Main Office at Brookline High School. Visit us online at www. Accounts Payable As partners with the schools in a common Susan E. Bonoff purpose, BA&CE is committed to offering brooklineadulted.org. Send us an email at lifelong educational opportunity to all: [email protected]. Our staff will answer your Operations Support Assistant newcomers to the United States, working questions and help you choose from among Trevette Campbell people and profes sionals, those in transition our comprehensive course selections. But or career change, older citizens, persons with first, keep reading. We think you will be Daytime Office: special needs, and especially those who pleased by what you see. 24 Webster Place have not been able to participate fully in the Brookline Village, MA educational process. BA&CE is also dedicated to supporting public education by creating OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY Evening Office: and providing opportunities for innovation and We strive to offer educational programs Brookline High School flexibility in the school curriculum. By offering of the highest quality to our participants. 115 Greenough Street programs that bridge the generations, the Please let us know if you feel that the Brookline, MA Brookline Public Schools seeks to unite the quality of the instruction was unsatisfactory, community in a common purpose—educating or if you feel the class did not meet your Mailing Address: for the improvement of the quality of life for all expectations. Please send us a letter P.O. Box 150 Brookline, MA 02446 617-730-2700 its members. expressing your concerns, comments, or positive feedback, and we’ll personally www.brooklineadulted.org respond. [email protected] ______ Volume 25/Issue 1/Winter 2017 Catalog Design Brookline Adult & Community Education • USPS #009-762 Sarah Georgakopoulos Design Distribution Published quarterly by Brookline Adult & Community Education, Max’s Trucking 115 Greenough Street, Brookline, MA 02445. Printing Periodicals U.S. postage is paid at Boston, MA. Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. Postmaster: Send address changes to Brookline Adult & Community Education 115 Greenough Street, Brookline, MA 02445 contents Welcome to the Winter 2017 Program! SPECIAL PROGRAMS 1 Winter Welcome 2 Special Events New Year, New You NEW WINTER CLASSES 4 Courses for Children/Teens Launch into a new year with classes Explore our new offerings 5 December Classes designed to help you achieve your 2017 this winter. Here’s just a goals… sampling… 6 Thursday Evening Lectures • Transforming Toxic Emotions, page 7 • Jewels in the Crown: COURSES FOR ADULTS The Treasure Homes of • Discover Your Inner Resources: Tools England, page 8 40 Arts For Living, page 8 Includes photography • Mazurkas, Polonaises, • Writing and Meditation: Hearing the and Nocturnes: The 22 Computers & Technology Words Within, page 14 Many Sides of Frederick Includes private computer lessons Chopin, page 9 43 Crafts & Skills • Awakening Through Meditation, page 21 • Musician Ensemble, page Includes pottery, woodworking • Simple Steps to Finding Your Clarity 10 36 Dance & Fitness Within, page 21 • Writing for Young Adults: Plot, page 14 19 English as a Second Language • Five Keys to Successful Weight Loss, Includes private lessons • Introduction to Hindi, page 21 26 Finance, Career & Real Estate page 17 Includes accounting, career • Create a Winning Self-Image, page 21 • Ending Relationship transition Frustration: How to • Yoga for Relaxation and Stress Communicate with 29 Food & Wine Management, page 35 Includes cheese and wine Women, page 22 appreciation • Winter Bootcamp, page 38 • LGBTQ: Finance 101, page 28 35 Health & Yoga • Artful Healing Expressions, page 40 Includes tai chi • The Science of Food, 32 Hobbies, Walks & Tours page 29 Includes golf, skiing • Animals at Play at the 39 Home & Garden Franklin Park Zoo, page Our Gift Certificates Make 34 8 Humanities Includes architecture, government, • Yoga for Core Strength, literature Great Gifts page 35 • R&B and Soul Line 15 Languages Surprise your friends and family this holiday Includes private language lessons Dancing, page 37 season with the gift of education. Brookline 21 Mind & Body Adult & Community Education gift certificates • Backyard Alchemy: An Intro to Composting, Includes meditation make wonderful presents; what’s more, they page 39 9 Music & Performance never expire! • Illustration, page 41 Includes theory, instrument Please call 617-730-2700, ext. 0 to purchase. instruction, voice, acting 12 Test Preparation Includes GRE, GMAT, driver education, private lessons Let It Snow, Let it Snow! 13 Writing & Communication Skills If Brookline Public Schools are Includes public speaking, writing cancelled due to inclement weather, consultation, cartooning BA&CE classes (both day and evening) For course updates and information: are cancelled at all locations. Missed ESSENTIALS classes will be made up at the end of LIKE US ON FACEBOOK 46 General Information www.facebook.com/brooklineadulted the term. If it begins to snow later in the day, an announcement about our 47 Refunds, Credits & Transfers FOLLOW US ON TWITTER evening and Saturday classes will be twitter.com/BAandCE 48 Class Locations made on our website and outgoing voicemail. Inside Back Cover Registration Form Inside Back Cover Parking Map Visit brooklineadulted.org for newly added courses and any schedule changes. brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 1 special events Inside Peace: Award Winning Documentary Tuesday, January 10, 2017 • 6:30-8:00 pm MLK Room, Brookline High School, 115 Greenough Street • $6 Understanding Transgender Identities Four years in the making, Ev Evnen, Partner, MaeBright Group, LLC the 2014 award winning Monday, January 30, 2017 • 7:00 -8:30 pm documentary Inside Peace MLK Room, Brookline High School, 115 Greenough focuses on four compelling Street • $6 prisoners at Dominguez State Jail in San Antonio, Texas: Gender identity and expression Trinidad, David, Chase, and are central to the way we see Jake. These men begin to ourselves and engage in the change when they enroll in the world around us. As people Peace Class, which focuses are becoming more aware of on building a person’s inner transgender identities, it can strength and self-worth. They feel like the vocabulary and all grew up in neighborhoods concepts can be confusing or with the multiple layers of overwhelming. Transgender deprivation that produce most people are your classmates, of the offenders in this country. Join us for a viewing of your coworkers, your Each of them had come to this poignant 60-minute neighbors, and your friends. Ev Evnen (pronouns: they/ identify with the hardened documentary followed by a post With approximately 1.4 million them/theirs) is a white, Jewish, criminal exterior they screening discussion. For more transgender adults in the genderqueer from Nebraska, presented