MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY EDUCATION Discoversomething different. ADULT ENRICHMENT CLASSES WINTER 2017 Turn snow season into KNOW season WOODWORKING • AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART HISTORY • CAST IRON COOKERY CAJUN DANCE • PICKLEBALL • INDONESIAN MARTIAL ARTS +600 MORE Register now for ❆ classes starting Jan. 30 mplscommunityed.com mce Minneapolis Community Education New Discoveries Can’t-miss classes this season Magical Ice Luminaries Get creative with the cold 1 and start glowing this season. 2 PAGE 33 “Tin Chef” Cook Off Compete for culinary champion or see things sizzle from the sidelines. PAGE 19 Triple Threat Workout 4 Tackle three different 3 techniques to elevate your exercise experience. Russian Gems: PAGE 45 The Faberge Tour Explore a Faberge exhibit to discover the history and value of these fine works. 5 PAGE 58 Inside This Issue This Inside Android App Development Take your technical skills to the next level as you create an app from start to finish. PAGE 11 Inside This Issue… Arts & Entertainment Adults 55+ (continued) Arts & Crafts ........................................ 30 Creative Activities ................................ 58 Life & Learning Dance .................................................. 36 Defensive Driving 55+ ......................... 56 Academic Enrichment ........................... 4 Music & Performance .......................... 38 Elder Enrichment ................................. 57 Business & Consumer/Real Estate ......... 6 Photography ........................................ 39 55+ Fitness/Health Talks...................... 59 Computers & Technology .................... 11 55+ Trips & Tours ................................. 62 Personal Development ........................ 13 Health & Fitness Trips, Tours & Special Events ............... 14 Aquatics ............................................... 42 Youth & Family Exercise & Fitness ................................ 43 Family .................................................. 64 Hobbies & Skills Health & Wellness ............................... 46 Parenting/Teens & Youth ..................... 65 Cooking ............................................... 16 Sports & Recreation ............................. 49 Youth & Family Swimming ................... 66 Hobby & Leisure .................................. 20 Yoga & Mind/Body .............................. 50 Home & Garden .................................. 23 Additional Information Languages ........................................... 25 Adults 55+ Teaching CE Classes ............................ 68 Adventures in Learning ....................... 54 Class Locations .................................... 69 Armchair Travel .................................... 55 Registration Forms & Information ....... 70 2 WINTER 2017 Minneapolis Community Education Adult Enrichment www.mplscommunityed.com Life & Learning Whether you want to brush up on existing knowledge or delve into new territory, we can help you expand your awareness of everything from finances to documentary films and so much more. American Indian History & Culture Through Videos View and discuss such topics as Indian boarding schools, civil rights, culture, music and dance, legends, code talkers in American wars, the Indian Health Service, Leonard Peltier, and Ancient Americans. Student input will determine the topics covered. Southwest 7 Mondays Jan 30-Mar 20 6:30-8:30 pm $52 American Indian History & Culture Examine stereotypes, cultural areas, linguistic areas, ways of life, traditional and modern government, Academic Enrichment pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations, and more. Receive an NEW | African American NEW | African American overview of history since 1492, and Art History: The First Art History: The Art of discuss the Columbian Exchange, Professional Artists Protest Yesterday, Today famous Native people, arts, dance Examine the journey and art of & Tomorrow and music. several black individuals born into Artists have the unique privilege of South 7 Tuesdays the circumstances of 18th- and creating visual response to events Jan 31-Mar 14 6:30-8:30 pm 19th-century America who became and circumstances that sometimes $52 professional visual artists in spite have no counterpart in spoken of societal barriers. Artists include language. They can create the cultural Art Collections Joshua Johnson, Robert Scott vocabulary to interpret acts that cause of the Twin Cities Duncanson, Mary Edmonia Lewis unspeakable pain. Examine the art Life & Learning Life Explore some of the key pieces of and more. across various historical periods, art and architecture you can see in Henry 1 Wednesday and look at movements like Afro- the public art collections of the Twin Feb 8 6:30-8:30 pm Futurism. Cities. This class will help you become $18 Henry 1 Wednesday more knowledgeable about the many Feb 15 6:30-8:30 pm great cultural resources available for $18 your appreciation and enjoyment. Which Class Level Pratt 1 Tuesday Should I Take? NEW | African American Mar 14 6:30-8:30 pm $18 Community Education classes are Art History: Contemporary organized by levels, 1 through 5. Art—Who is Hot Now? If you are new to a subject or it There is a myriad of interesting has been a number of years since work being created in contemporary you last studied, start with a class art. Join us as we take a look at the followed by “1.” If you’ve taken art and careers of 20 artists getting a Community Education class recognition today. recently, proceed to the next level. 1 Wednesday Classes do not follow a standard Henry Feb 22 6:30-8:30 pm curriculum, so a Level 2 class at $18 one site may differ from Level 2 at another. If you have questions, please call the class site directly Enjoy studying artists? Become (See page 69 for list of sites). one yourself with our arts and crafts classes on pages 30–36. 4 WINTER 2017 Minneapolis Community Education Adult Enrichment mplscommunityed.com NEW | Gidinawenidimin Writing: Creative Writing (We Are All Related): Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child The Seven Generations is an artist. The problem is how & The Seven Grandfather to remain an artist once he grows Teachings up.” Engage your inner child writer. Listen to a presentation of the Come and enjoy writing time! 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All ages welcome! & Narrative Writing Generations in Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) Waite Park 4 Saturdays Writing about your own life can be culture and the connection to the Mar 4-Mar 25 10 am-noon rewarding — and there are many Anishinaabemowin language. $34 forms your material can take: memoir, short story, online blog, performance Pratt 1 Wednesday monologue and more. In this all-levels Mar 1 7-8:30 pm Writing: Developing a $18 class, find the heart of a personal Creative Writing Habit story, decide what needs to be told, Develop your writing habit in this work with specificity and detail, and fun, creative writing class. Explore & Learning Life Shakespeare 101 develop your unique voice. On the your creativity through a variety of Experience a crash course in last day, take a field trip to Story Club writing prompts. 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Wonderland Park way to connect with our deeper self Henry 4 Mondays on Lake Street is through writing by hand. More Feb 27-Mar 20 6:30-8:30 pm In 1905, Wonderland Park offered the than journaling but less than therapy, $34 public the chance to do everything intuitive writing is an accessible from ride one of the world’s finest process that you can learn and then carousels to witness amazing, Writing Workshop: practice on your own. Explore a death-defying acts. The park also Creative Fiction different theme each week, learning featured prematurely born infants Discover the productive habits of a how the brain works and exercising on display in electric incubators. writer. Learn the magic of revision, it through guided writings. Leave this presentation with a deeper improve your writing with dynamic understanding of America’s