Welcome to Adult Learning & Living
Join us for fun, educational, engaging, social, and sometimes delicious activities. Now with our growing virtual programming, it's easy! Center members, non-members, residents near or far, people of all backgrounds, faiths, ethnicities, fashion styles, chocolate preferences—all are welcome! Come along and we'll explore the arts, build a broader understanding of our world, taste a few treats together, and possibly pick up a new skill or two. We'd love to have you.
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| Fill your senses. Join us for exciting online events with custom concerts, thoughtful films, and local food tastings. These are one-of-a-kind, not-to-be-missed events! |
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Virtual Music & Morsels Bring coffee/tea & dessert to your computer, take your front row seat, and join us for a 1-hour live concert with a special guest artist who will not only perform, but also offer insights into the program’s pieces. Live Q&A enriches the experience! Your ticket purchase helps support not only our programs, but also our guest artists(s) whose schedule(s) and income(s) have been severely cut by this challenging period. |
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Terrific Tastings Partnering with family-owned businesses, many of which may be struggling during this challenging period, we are delighted to create our live, online, educational tasting experiences. Each month features a different specialty & a different guest who bring unique insights to the tasting. Come for the treats, stay for the fun! |
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Still Traveling Would you like to still travel? Now you can without leaving your home – just stay still! Let us whisk you away for an interesting, educational & fun live, guided group tour in a destination beyond your front door! Join a guide from one of our popular Cultural Arts Trips to explore a topic or site at a distant destination as (s)he Zooms across the time zones to lead us. Live Q&A, photos, graphics and video clips (when available) will transport us to the destination! Your ticket purchase helps support not only our programs, but also our special guests – professional guides – who are mostly or completely out of work. |
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Share your thoughts. Drop into Coffee Talk. Grab a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever), pull up a chair, and join others for an engaging chat. |
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Book Banter |
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Documentaries & Discussions |
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Stories of the Passed |
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Watcha Watchin’? |
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With Learning Unlimited, you can revisit a favorite subject or pick up a skill by diving into something new at our one-time lectures w/Q&A on a variety of subjects. |
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Class Whether an opera newcomer or a long-time fan, join us for a single session or a full series of our popular classes. Put down your opera glasses, take your front row seat, and explore this gorgeous, if sometimes intimidating, art form. Join James Sokol who started his career under Beverly Sills at NYCOpera, worked on projects with Opera Company of Philadelphia, then moved to work at San Francisco Opera. With years of in-theater and teaching experience, backstage anecdotes, beautiful video performance clips, and a down-to-earth perspectives, Sokol creates classes that always delight. |
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Lectures Keep an eye on our upcoming events for presenters and educators who are regularly scheduled to share their expertise on a variety topics—from current events to local art installations to financial and legal education. |
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Presentation Let us sneak you in the Stage Door to go backstage on Broadway! A different, special guest theater professional who brings his/her unique expertise, experiences, and insights to our discussion will be featured at each of these exclusive, behind-the-scenes visits. Live Q&A and photos/video clips (when available) will enrich our experience. Your ticket purchase helps support not only this program, but also our special guests – theater professionals – who are mostly or completely out of work. |
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Presentation Let former opera professional & instructor James Sokol pull back the curtain and take you on exclusive, behind-the-scenes visits to the opera. Meet a different special guest opera professional, who brings his/her unique expertise, experiences & insights to our discussion. Live Q&A and video clips highlight our visit. Your ticket purchase helps support not only our programs, but also our guests – opera professionals – who are, mostly or completely, out of work. Come learn, off-stage, what makes the magic happen on-stage! |
Adult Learning & Living Donors A special thanks to the donors who through their commitment to quality programs, care for the community, and the generosity of their gifts, are helping to make this season's Adult Learning & Living programs possible. |
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| Annette & Richard Delaney, Nancy Ellenbogen & Joel Lurie, Michael & Lori Ferguson, Gail & Harold Glassberg, Jean & Alan Kay, Janet Gallin/The Kelter Foundation, Harriet Kossman, Judith & David Layne, Margarite Olmos, Edie Pankratz, Barbara Sachs-Senn, Jackie & Larry Slayen, Carla Sokol, Michele Spitz/Woman of Her Word. |
| Anonymous, Lorraine Barry, Marilyn Beller, Joanne Chappell & George Hagan, Carolyn & Richard Cogan, Dimensions in Travel, Jeanne Gnuse, Liz & Joe Greenberg, Christine & Ron Grossi, Nancy Hemmenway & Thomas Welsh, Joan & Jim Kirsner, Susan Kolb, Susan & Mark Lachtman, Levi Strauss Foundation, Sue Moriguchi, Kim & Marc Press, Melanie Sperling, Ruthellen Toole/Cindy Tollin, Lorraine Voskanian. |
| Elizabeth Austin, Faith Barry, Dolores Bartning, Lee & Frank Battat, Janet Braff, Gloria Cote, Dwight Daley, Barbara Dembo, Mary & Oak Dowling, Carol Durham, Judith Einbinder, Bernice Greene, Nancy Hemmenway & Thomas Welsh, Gail & Jerry Jacobs, Marjorie Jules, Iris & Alvin King, Julie Klein, Sheri & Jerome Langer, Joan Lithgow, Jeanie E Merriman, Jane Merryman, Emiko Moore & Gary Smith, Joyce Pavlovsky, Jeanne Radtke, Joyce Ratner, Steven Reynolds, Joyce & Gary Rifkind, Donna & Mark Saberman, Judie & Leonard Shaw, Damien Keller & James Sokol, Gregory Spencer & Ben Isaacs, Neva Turer, Hollace Vaughan, Beth Vivio, Judy Whellan, Marilyn Rae Williams, Diane Williams, Sondra Wuthnow. |
| Alicia Allen, Lauri Arbeit, Marilyn Bagshaw, Marion & Wayne Bulette, Jody & Ed Cale, Karen Carmody, Betsy & Chuck Cordes, Jim Cox, Carol Cuzner, Marilyn de Guzman, John & Martha Denison, Jill Denney, Etty Dolin, Jane Epel, Ronnie & William Feldman, Barbara Fopp, Carole & Mark Friedlander, Shirley Gallagher, Carlotta Gonzalez, Michael Gorton, David Gowdey, Rosemary Greenberg, Catherine Gross, Marc Horowitz, Diane Hyde, Susan Kelly, Lamar Leland, Jerrold Levine, Gerald Lopatin, Judith Mandelbrot, Elaine McKenna, Holly Middleton, Sonja Miremont, Dorothy Nirenstein, Judith & Neil O'Hanlon, Pamela Rand, Donald Reinberg, Jack Rengstorff, Crissy Davis Roach, Lois Roach, Wendy Robbins, David Rose, Dolores Rubin, Marilyn Schneider, Carole Shaw, Judie & Leonard Shaw, Marjorie Siegel, Lexie Sifford, Nina Komiakoff Smith, Peter Snoek, Melanie Sperling, Philip & Rebecca Susser, Maureen Tarpey, Delore Veenstra, Jane Wallace, Carol Wolfe, Rhea Wolkowitz. |
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