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brookline Adult & Community Education WINTER 2019
brookline
Adult & Community Education
BROOKLINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Brookline, Massachusetts
superintendent
Andrew Bott
school committee
Helen Charlupski, Susan Wolf Ditkoff,
WHAT IS BA&CE? WHO TEACHES AT BA&CE? Suzanne Federspiel, Michael Glover,
Brookline Adult & Community Education Our instructors are poets, computer Jennifer Monopoli, David A. Pearlman,
(BA&CE) is one of the oldest non-credit, public programmers, teachers, chefs, therapists, David Pollak, Julie Schreiner-Oldham,
education programs in Massachusetts. Adult doctors, artists, and businesspeople who Barbara Scotto
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,
is now the largest public program in the state, will introduce you to their experience, BROOKLINE ADULT &
with close to 1,000 courses and over 10,000 talent, and training. COMMUNITY EDUCATION
enrollments yearly. Today, BA&CE is the hub advisory committee
of an educational network serving residents Marina Brodskaya, Arthur Conquest
from more than 50 neighboring communities WHO TAKES OUR CLASSES? (Chair), Laura Days, Claudia Dupre,
in the greater Boston area and beyond. A People like you. People who know that Thomas Hantakas, Jr., Chobee Hoy,
self-supporting program of Brookline Public learning does not stop with graduation, Peter Meyer, Jennifer Monopoli (School
Schools, BA&CE’s operating budget is funded but is a lifelong process. People who Committee Representative), Steve von
entirely from course fees. seek personal and professional growth; Lichtenberg
entertainment and education; new ideas
and new experiences, and who enjoy the administrative staff
WHAT DOES COMMUNITY EDUCATION MEAN? company of others who seek the same.
Director
Through its proud tradition of public
Claudia Dell’Anno
schooling, the “business” of Brookline has
always been education. The Brookline Public Program Coordinators
HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?
Schools has built on this tradition, expanding Monica von Huene
Give us a call at 617-730-2700. Monday-
the concept of public education to serve the Nicole Nacamuli
Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, please find us
many different constituencies which make up Michael Spicher
at 24 Webster Place, Brookline Village.
Brookline and its larger community. BA&CE In the evening, Monday-Thursday, 4:30- Office Manager
fulfills its mission by providing service to the 9:30 pm, and on Saturday, 8:30 am-2:00 Mona Saltalamacchia
community and enlisting its support for public pm, please visit us in the Main Office at Evening Operations Support
education. Brookline High School. Visit us online at Patrick Soares
As partners with the schools for a common www.brooklineadulted.org. Send us an Accounts Payable
purpose, BA&CE is committed to offering email at bacep@psbma.org. Our staff will Susan E. Bonoff
lifelong educational opportunity to all: answer your questions and help you choose
Operations Support Assistant
newcomers to the United States, working from among our comprehensive course
Trevette Campbell
people and professionals, those in transition selections. But first, keep reading. We think
or career change, older citizens, persons with you will be pleased by what you see.
Daytime Office:
special needs, and especially those who 24 Webster Place
have not been able to participate fully in Brookline Village, MA
the educational process. BA&CE is also OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY
dedicated to supporting public education We strive to offer educational programs Evening/Saturday Office:
by creating and providing opportunities of the highest quality to our participants. Brookline High School
for innovation and flexibility in the school Please let us know if you feel that the 115 Greenough Street
curriculum. By offering programs that bridge quality of the instruction was unsatisfactory, Brookline, MA
the generations, the Brookline Public Schools or if you feel the class did not meet your
seeks to unite the community in a common expectations. Please send us a letter Mailing Address:
purpose—educating for the improvement of expressing your concerns, comments, or P.O. Box 150 Brookline, MA 02446
the quality of life for all its members. positive feedback, and we’ll personally
respond. Phone: 617-730-2700
Website: www.brooklineadulted.org
Email: bacep@psbma.org
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twitter.com/BAandCEcontents WINTER 2019
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
1 Winter Highlights New Year, New You
2 Special Events Launch into a New Year with classes designed to help you achieve
your 2019 goals….
4 Children’s Classes
• A Balancing Act: Love and Relationships, page 7
5 December Classes • Create A Winning Self-Image, page 26
6 Thursday Evening Lectures • Re-discovering Your True Self, page 26
• Understanding Anxiety and Stress Management, page 26
COURSES FOR ADULTS • Whole30: A Primer and Cooking Class, page 26
• Winter Nature Walking Club, page 32
8 Especially for Children & Teens
• Qi Gong for Health, page 33
8 Humanities • Awakening Through Meditation, page 33
10 Music & Performing Arts • Self Care: Relieving Tension and Pain,
12 Test Prep & College Planning page 34
Includes driver’s education, • Yoga for Relaxation, page 34
private lessons
• All About Essential Oils, page 38
13 Writing & Communication
15 Languages
Includes private language lessons
18 English as a Second Language Our Gift Certificates Make
New Winter Classes
Includes private language lessons Great Gifts
21 Computers & Technology • Reconsidering A People’s History of the Surprise your friends and family
Includes private computer lessons United States in the Age of Trump, page 9 this holiday season with the gift
24 Finance & Career • Wouldn’t it Be Loverly: The Musicals of of education. Brookline Adult
25 Personal Growth Lerner and Loewe, page 10 & Community Education gift
Includes personal and professional certificates make wonderful
development courses • How to Market Your Small Business
presents; what’s more, they never
Online, page 22
26 Food & Wine expire! With the purchase of any gift
Includes culinary tours • A Taste of Syrian Cooking, page 27 certificate in November/ December,
30 Hobbies, Walks & Tours • Valentine’s Day Candy Making, page 28 we invite you to sign up for a free
Includes golf, archery Thursday Evening
• North End Jewish Walking Tour, page 31 lecture this winter.
33 Well-Being & Yoga
Includes tai chi • Winter Tracks and Signs: Unfolding a Please call 617-
Story, page 32 730-2700, ext. 0 to
35 Dance & Fitness
purchase and to
38 Home & Garden • Anukalana Yoga, page 35 sign up.
Includes birding and essential oils
• Storytelling Through Movement, page 36
40 Arts
Includes photography • Improve Your Balance for Seniors,
page 37
43 Crafts Let It Snow, Let it Snow!
Includes pottery, woodworking • Parkour for Balance and Agility: Ages
If Brookline Public Schools are
50+, page 38 canceled due to inclement weather,
• Soap Making, page 38 BA&CE classes (both day and
ESSENTIALS
evening) are canceled at all locations.
46 General Information • Intro to Succulents: A DIY Planting Missed classes will be made up at the
Workshop, page 39 end of the term. If it begins to snow
47 Refunds, Credits & Transfers later in the day, an announcement
48 Class Locations
• Painting for Type A Personalities, about our evening and Saturday
page 41 classes will be made on our website
Inside Back Cover Registration Form and outgoing voicemail.
Inside Back Cover Parking Map
Visit brooklineadulted.org for newly added courses and any schedule changes.
brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 1S P E C I A L E V E N TS
We are pleased to present an exciting line-up of events this winter. This special series will feature talks by speakers who
will draw on their expertise on subjects such as aging and sexuality, the story of an inspirational Kennedy, a spiritual
tea experience, and climate-related changes in the artic.
Embracing Sexuality as We Age: Keys to Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy
Vitality Daughter
Anita Hoffer, M.S., Ph.D., Ed.D. Kate Clifford Larson, Author, Rosemary: The Hidden
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 • 6:30-8:00 pm Kennedy Daughter
Brookline High, 115 Greenough Street • $6 Tuesday, March 12, 2019 • 7:00-8:30 pm, Brookline High, 115 Gree-
nough Street • $6
A common misconception in our youth-obsessed culture is that
once a man or woman reaches 50, s/he loses interest in, or cannot Rosemary Kennedy’s (1918-
enjoy, intimate relationships. Many older adults had little or no 2005) life story and her
sex education in school, and are especially inclined to believe this inspiration to her famous and
fiction. The taboo in our culture on talking openly about sex has powerful siblings remained
left many of us ignorant about the behavior of our peers, as well as obscured and hidden for
self-conscious and even ashamed. In this informative presentation, decades. Rosemary: The Hidden
discover the secrets to a satisfying sex life as you age, the surprising Kennedy Daughter, by Kate
statistic about the number of older women and men who enjoy sex, Clifford Larson, reveals a
unique and little-understood features of female anatomy, medically different perspective on the
documented facts about sexual intercourse and outercourse, the Kennedys, one that places
many benefits of maintaining sexual health in mid and later life... Rosemary at the center of
and the price of ignorance. Discussions will be conducted in an a dynamic family narrative,
atmosphere of complete confidentiality; all questions welcome. where she belongs. Rosemary,
the eldest Kennedy daughter,
Anita P. Hoffer worked at Harvard attended exclusive schools and
Medical School for over 25 years, where was presented as a debutante
she served as Associate Professor and to the Queen of England. But,
also Director of Research in Urology at she was later hidden away
the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She
because of frustration with
subsequently worked in the bio-
her intellectual disability and
pharmaceutical industry on women’s
health projects before obtaining a
intensifying mental health issues in her teens and early twenties,
second doctorate in sexology and human and eventually hospitalized and lobotomized at age twenty-three. In
sexuality. Since then she has focused Rosemary, this differently abled child comes alive, as a sweet, lively
on adult sexuality education, sexual girl adored by her siblings, who would later dedicate themselves
counseling, and writing. Her lectures and to the plight of the physically and mentally disabled. Rosemary’s
workshops address sexual literacy and story still resonates today because it shows us how much we as a
common sexual concerns. She teaches health care providers about culture have evolved in regards to the education, treatment, and
the special needs of older adults and she educates lay audiences on accommodation of people with disabilities and mental illness—and
sexuality and aging. She also maintains an independent practice in reminds us of the obstacles that the disabled and their families still
sexual counseling of women and men of all ages, and couples. face. Rosemary’s life was marred by horrific tragedy, but it is within
that story of heartbreak that readers find an enduring image of a
loving young woman who changed her family, transforming the lives
of millions.
Kate Clifford Larson is A New York Times best-selling author, and
specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. Women’s and African American
History. After earning two degrees from Simmons College and an M.B.A.
from Northeastern University, Larson pursued a Doctorate in American
History at the University of New Hampshire. Passionate about researching
and writing about American women’s lives, Larson enjoys the challenges
of teasing out life stories from voices that have long been silenced. “I feel
strongly that we must reconnect with the women who helped build and
shape this country,” Larson recently wrote, “and by putting women at
the center of the story, the world looks very different—more complex,
interesting, and colorful.” Visit her website at: www.katecliffordlarson.com.
2 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Winter 2019Winter sea ice on
the Beaufort Sea
A Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony
Yuko Sato, Chado Urasenke Tankokai Boston Association
Monday, March 4, 2019 • 6:30-8:00 pm
Brookline High, 115 Greenough Street • $10
The Japanese tea ceremony, or chanoyu is more than just drinking
tea. It is a spiritual experience that embodies the concepts of
harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. When the host prepares
and serves matcha, (green powdered tea) for a guest, he or she
pays attention to every detail including choosing the tea utensils,
flowers, hanging scrolls, sweets, and occasional meal. The host’s Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge
choreographed movements of serving tea are an attempt to
create the peaceful moment for the guest. Join us for a lecture and Mary Ellen Rowe, Expedition Advisor, Earthwork Institute
demonstration of a traditional
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 • 6:30-8:00 pm
Japanese tea ceremony, and
Brookline High, 115 Greenough Street • $6
learn what to bring and what to
wear, and what to do and not
Shrinking sea ice, retreating glaciers, a tree line migrating farther
do as a guest at a tea ceremony.
north, and less snow that also melts earlier—what do these climate-
Your host will demonstrate
related changes mean for the Arctic, and for all of us? “The Arctic
how to purify special utensils,
fever…lives only in the mind, filling its victim with a consuming urge
present and whisk the matcha,
to wander again, and forever, through these mighty spaces where
and how to receive and drink
the caribou herds flow like living rivers over the roll of the tundra,”
in keeping with traditional
wrote Canadian author Farley Mowat. But this captivating landscape
Japanese customs. Sweet
may cease to exist. On this evening, we’ll hear how volunteers on
treats will accompany our tea
the Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge project use sophisticated
ceremony. Please bring your
equipment to collect data on features of the snowpack, permafrost,
own tea bowl, or any bowl with a
and soil to reveal global-warming-related changes in these aspects
rounded bottom.
of the Arctic, and to find and monitor the timing of seasonal events
such as flowering, core evergreen trees to count their rings and
Yuko Sato is a Japanese native and a sociologist who earned her Ph.D.
in human sciences from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She has
needles. You’ll learn how teams survey mammals, birds, fish, and
taught introductory sociology classes in Japan and in the U.S. Yuko frogs, before returning to the comfort of the Churchill Northern
is also a certified Urasenke (one of the main schools of Japanese Studies Centre to enter data and process water or plant samples
ceremony) tea instructor. in the state-of-the-art lab. All of this helps researchers access how
climate change is impacting the Arctic, and us.
Mary Ellen Rowe’s adventures with Earthwatch Institute, started
with the mist-netting of songbirds in Eastern Kenya in ’98. Over the
subsequent 20 years, she has participated in 45 more expeditions on 6
continents, including a Polar Bear project at the site described tonight.
Mary Ellen worked at Earthwatch from ’03 to ’10 and after a brief stint
making good money, is back as an Expedition Advisor, helping volunteers
choose an expedition that works for them.”
brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 3ro k
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SmartPrograms for Children
Brookline SmartPrograms for Children
Kids in the Kitchen: Parkour for Children Writing Wizards
Building A Gingerbread House Ages 6-9 Ages 7-9
Monday, January 7-March 4, Saturday, January 19-February 9,
Ages 6-9 6:00-7:00PM, 9:00AM-12:00PM, Brookline High, $160.
Saturday, December 8, Tappan Street Gym, $98.
10:00AM-12:00PM,
Ages 10-13
Etiquette for Teens
Unified Arts Building,
$54. Monday, January 7-March 4,
7:00-8:00PM,
Tappan Street Gym, $98. Ages 13-18
Thursday, February 7, 7:00-8:30PM,
Unified Arts Building, $55.
Bookworms
Ages 8-12
Saturday, January 19-February 9,
9:00AM-12:00PM,
Brookline High, $160.
WinterWonderland SmartSummers
December 2018 Summer 2019
Join us for the holiday break
SmartVacations Discover the hottest summer
for one, two, or all three days! February/April 2019 destination, SmartSummers!
Wednesday, December 26; Choose from an exciting array
Thursday, December 27; Sign up for a fun-filled 4 days: of educational adventures that
Friday, December 28, 2018. Tuesday, February 19–Friday, include cooking, creative arts,
February 22, 2019 and theater, computers, and more.
Tuesday, April 16– Friday, April
19, 2019.
For more information about these programs, please visit our website at
www.brooklineadulted.org or call BA&CE at 617-730-2700, ext. 0.
4 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Winter 2019JOIN US IN DECEMBER
For the Holidays
Newport, Rhode Island: All Holiday Flower Arrangements
Dressed Up for the Holidays at Cass Floral
Witness the spectacle of Newport, Rhode Celebrate the season in a creative way! Learn
Island. We’ll visit three elegant mansions that how to design festive flower arrangements
have been dressed to impress for the holiday you can use to enhance your celebrations or
season. give as unique hand-made gifts.
Saturday, December 8, 8:00AM-9:00PM, $139. Winter Frost and Glow, Thursday, November 29,
7:00-8:30PM, $75.
Countryside Holiday Arrangement, Thursday, Create a Sustainable New
Messiah: The Story and Music December 6, 7:00-8:30PM, $75.
Year’s Resolution
of Handel’s Masterpiece Fire and Ice Vase, Thursday, December 13, 7:00- Attempting to make radical changes all at
Handel’s Messiah burst onto the stage of the 8:30PM, $75. once, full steam ahead, often leads to the
Musick Hall in Dublin on April 13, 1742. The demise of the resolution before it even gets a
audience swelled to a record 700, as ladies chance to start. Learn how to clearly outline
had heeded pleas by management to wear Make a Moisturizing Lotion or your New Year’s resolution while gaining
dresses “without hoops” in order to make Balm for the Holidays tools and resources for implementing your
“room for more company.” Please join us for When the weather gets colder it is very resolution in a stress free and successful
a stimulating evening enjoying one of classical important to protect your skin from dryness, manner.
music’s true treasures. chapping rashes, and other imperfections. Thursday, December 6, 6:00-8:00PM, Brookline
Monday, December 10, 7:00-8:30PM, Brookline Learn how to mix essential oils to make the High, $36.
High, $10. ideal moisturizer for you or to give as a gift.
Saturday, December 1, 10:00AM-12:30PM,
Brookline High, $53.
FOR THE ACTIVE & ADVENTUROUS ARTS You’ve Taken the Picture...Now
What?
Parkour: All Levels Pastel Weekend Workshop Join us for a walk-through of the digital
workflow, including an anatomy of your
We’ll introduce you to the training Explore the richness, brilliance, and vibrancy
camera’s output options, how to use Image
and ideology of parkour through a of pastels and discover this medium’s limitless
Capture on a Mac or Camera Wizard on a
combination of physical and mental possibilities.
PC to transfer photos from your camera to a
exercises, and will include a variety of Saturday, December 1 & 8, 10:00AM-2:00PM, computer, editing preferences of professionals,
indoor and outdoor (weather permitting) Unified Arts Building, $104. and a comparison of popular software choices.
environments.
Saturday, December 1-15, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Unified
Tuesday, November 27, 7:00-8:30PM, Tappan Arts Building, $84.
Street Gym, $80.
A Friday Archery Night!
Join us for an evening of archery! Relax, HUMANITIES PERSONAL GROWTH
breathe, and connect your body, mind,
and spirit in this engaging martial art that
uses elements from Tai chi and yoga and
Researching the History of Positive Aging
incorporates them into a shooting form.
Friday, December 7, 7:00-8:30PM, Tappan
Old Houses in Greater Boston A study by epidemiologists at Yale University
found that older individuals with positive
Street Gym, $34. We know where well-known historical
self-perceptions of aging lived seven and a
figures like Paul Revere lived, but have
half years longer than those with less positive
you ever wondered about the history
perceptions. Embrace this new stage of our
behind other old homes in the area? Join
lives with a grounded and positive attitude.
us for a fascinating “how-to” talk on the
methodology used to study old houses Wednesday, November 28-December 19, 10:15-
around metropolitan Boston. 11:45AM. Brookline Senior Center, $30.
Tuesday, December 4, 7:30-9:00PM, Brookline
High, $36.
For full descriptions, please visit our website: www.brooklineadulted.org
brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 5THURSDAY EVENING LECTURES
For less than the price of a movie ticket, our winter lecture series is an experiment in education and entertainment.
From the historical to the cultural, our lectures will engage and enlighten, and give you a taste of all that Brookline Adult
& Community Education has to offer.
The Music and The Fine Art of Film Australia and Storytelling Through
Astrology of Photography Conservatism: Creative Movement
Leonard Bernstein Raul Melendez, How Down Under Kayleigh Kane, Theatrical
Photographer Movement Director
and West Side Story Politics Seems
You don’t take a photograph, you
David Perloff, Astrologer make it. –Ansel Adams
Strangely Familiar to This lecture will introduce
the body to moving creatively
Are you interested in popular
culture, human interest, music, or Take a step back in time and
Americans while exploring how we can
express the creative ideas in
astrology? Then this lecture is for enjoy the craft of photography Anatole Sykley, Historian our minds through physicality.
you. Leonard Bernstein was an from the days of film cameras.
Geographically, Australia is as We will begin with stretching
American composer, conductor, As taking pictures has evolved
large as the continental U.S., to warm up our muscles, and
author, music lecturer, and pianist into an everyday affair, we may
born in Lawrence, MA. 2018 and the Australian Constitution then engage in some exercises
appreciate just how difficult it
marked the 100th anniversary and Senate are inspired by the that will introduce us to using
is to achieve an image that is
of his birth. In celebration, we’ll American model. Settlement of movement to communicate
powerful enough to stand out.
look at his life, from his Boston- Australia by Great Britain was in different emotions, experiences,
Today digital photographers
area upbringing to his many fact a response to the American and even stories. At the end of
have the benefit of computer
successes. Besides Bernstein and Revolution. And, like the U.S., the workshop, we will enjoy a
manipulation to add layers of
his West Side Story dream-team Australia is a land of immigrants period of wordless improvisation
complexity and intrigue, but
of collaborators, we’ll be talking who encountered a native which will allow ourselves to
past analog photographers
about Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aaron people with a history, according freely test out these ideas and
dealt more with the physical
Copland, Steven Spielberg, and to some, that has not yet connect with others in the
more, and how they all connect. constraints of the real world
been properly acknowledged. room. Please wear comfortable
Through biographical information, to interpret their pictures.
Australian policy towards clothing and bring water.
photos, anecdotes, and music, this From the mechanics of a
talk will have appeal to Broadway camera, to compositional refugees and illegal immigrants Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-
traditions, technical intricacies, is deemed harsher than that 8:30PM. Begins 1/31/2019. Brookline
buffs, classical music lovers, as
of the U.S., and in Australian High, $6.
well as students of astrology. and experimental film forays,
we’ll discuss why and how politics, conservative ideals have
Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-
traditional photography earned taken an upswing, which seems
8:30PM. Begins 1/10/2019. Brookline
High, $6. its way into the echelons of to cause increased division
fine art. The unique aesthetic and resentment from the more
ideas of photographers Alfred liberal-minded citizens. Do
Stieglitz, Bernice Abbott, and Australian politics mirror that
Henri Cartier-Bresson will of the U.S., or have unique
help us understand differing issues arisen that seem to divide
visions. We’ll also admire Australians more than ever?
the works of other master The speaker, a native Australian
photographers and ponder their living in the U.S., will review
interpretations, techniques, news events and historians’
and intrinsic value. A variety of perspectives from Australia from
cameras will be on hand to give the past few years, in order to
you a chance to see the tools explain affairs “down under.”
of the trade. and we’ll end the Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-
evening with a discussion of how 8:30PM. Begins 1/24/2019. Brookline
to take your own better pictures. High, $6.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-
8:30PM. Begins 1/17/2019. Brookline
High, $6.
6 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Winter 2019When Apologies Go A Balancing A Brief History of Jewels in the Crown:
Badly Act: Love and Indian Mythology The Treasure Homes
Ellis Cohen, Life Coach Relationships Gururaja Sonni, Cultural of England
Historian
Because we are all imperfect Folashade Okinyemi, Stephen Jerome,
human beings, we invariably Professor and Researcher Join us for a journey through Architectural Historian
say and do things that cause the vibrant world of Hindu
others distress. A good apology Life is about finding balance— mythology, which consists of The eternal British country
is part of the process of healing between work, family, intricately woven stories of the house has always evoked
that. We often hope and expect relationships, and yourself. Holy Trinity: Brahma the Creator, romantic imagery in the mind of
that when we do apologize, it We all have so much going on, Vishnu the Protector, and Shiva the Anglophile. From Downton
will be gratefully accepted, and and sometimes it’s hard to the Destroyer. Their stories Abbey to Manor House, the
we will be completely forgiven. find time for what matters. In illustrate how righteousness country house has come to
However, apologizing is not celebration of Valentine’s Day, (Dharma) always triumphs symbolize all that is English:
something we generally learn tonight’s discussion will center over non-righteousness from drawing rooms and cricket
how to do well, and even when around important themes of (Adharma), teaching us moral games to clotted cream teas on
we try to take responsibility love, relationships, and family— lessons relevant even in today’s the lawn. If you love all things
and not blame the other and how we can successfully cultural context. Our lecture British, or are an aficionado
person, things can go badly. In balance them all. We’ll explore will begin with a single word of glorious architecture, join
this talk, we’ll discuss the art the different phases of our love “Om”—uttered by Brahma—that us for a tour of some of the
of apologizing, how and why lives, how to keep the romance created the universe. We will most remarkable of England’s
apologies go wrong, and how to alive, and how to manage daily then be led through the stories treasure homes. We will look
prevent or recover from apology activities, which can all lead to of Vishnu in all his many brilliant at the planning and decorative
failures. We’ll use examples happy and healthy relationships. forms (including the well-known treatments of such magnificent
from the public realm and Join us for an energizing Krishna), and are finally faced homes as Arundel Castle, seat
share our own stories. Using a discussion that will provide you with the unforgiving—yet of the Dukes of Norfolk for
combination of presentation, with the tools to utilize in your remarkably artistic—Shiva, who over 700 years; Haddon Hall,
discussion, and role playing, own balancing act balances the cycle of birth, a survivor of the medieval
we’ll talk about why apologies Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 6:00- life, and death and the forces age; Charlecote Park, home of
matter, ways to be more aware 7:30PM. Begins 2/14/2019. Brookline that control them. Together, the Lucy family since the 12th
of how we may react, and how High, $6. they control our Srishti (birth), century (where, according to
to better handle the self you Sthiti (well-being), and Laya (the legend, Shakespeare was caught
want to present. demise). poaching deer); and Kelmscott
Manor, the home of William
Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00- Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00- Morris, famous designer, poet,
8:30PM. Begins 2/7/2019. Brookline 8:30PM. Begins 2/28/2019. Brookline and philosopher. Whether you
High, $6. High, $6.
are an armchair traveler, an
intrepid tourist, or a fan of the
Royal Family, this lecture will
increase your appreciation of
the social and architectural
history of the British country
house.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-
8:30PM. Begins 3/7/2019. Brookline
High, $6.
brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 7Especially for Bookworms for Ages 8-12
Right Brain Curriculum, Instructor Humanities
Children & Teens In Bookworms, we’ll get serious about having
fun while reading. Using the engaging books
of famed children’s author Bill Peet, we’ll focus
on reading comprehension skills as context
clues, literature themes, author’s message,
and making predictions and connections.
We’ll also draw story maps, write screenplays,
stage autobiographies, and make up monster White People Challenging Racism:
stories. See a full curriculum preview: Moving from Talk to Action
rightbraincurriculum.com/bookworms. Barbara Beckwith, Shannon Fuller, Instructors
Discounts or waivers do not apply. People of all heritages and identities are
Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Sa 9:00AM-12:00PM. welcome to join us as we focus on the role of
Begins 1/19/2019. Brookline High, $160. white people in dismantling racism and building
a just society. We’ll examine the impact of
white privilege and how unawareness of that
Etiquette for Teens: Ages 13-18 advantage helps perpetuate racism. We’ll discuss
Nikki Sawhney, Instructor short readings and share everyday situations
in which we did not speak up effectively against
Soon your teen will move away to college,
racial bias. Using role-playing, we’ll work out
interview for admissions and internships, make
effective ways to respond. Participants will
their way out into the business world—but do
develop specific plans for challenging racism,
they know how to meet each new situation
in their workplace, organizations, community,
with aplomb and leave a positive impression?
and personal circles. You will be encouraged to
Practicing good social etiquette will get them
find other people in your life who can provide
very far in life and the skills teens learn in this
support and serve as allies in your efforts.
class can be applied to any context: school,
Discounts or waivers do not apply.
Writing Wizards for Ages 7-9 work, and more. This class will cover the rules
of introductions, sportsmanship etiquette, Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Sa 9:30AM-1:00PM.
Right Brain Curriculum, Instructor Begins 1/12/2019. Brookline High, $85.
public speaking and interview skills, showing
Write and publish a fantastical book that self-respect and respect for others, and much
includes major and minor characters, more. Discounts or waivers do not apply.
wondrous settings, an extended backstory, and A Workshop for Baby Boomers
a world of wonder. We’ll brainstorm plot twists Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins
2/7/2019. Unified Arts Building, $55.
Dawn Sully Pile, Instructor
and build up dynamic characters in our stories
From now until 2030, 10,000 Baby Boomers
that will be filled with detailed descriptions,
each day will hit retirement age. Millions will
sensory-rich word choice, and character, plot
begin to officially retire, and others will keep
and theme development. Artwork will also
on working either out of financial necessity or
illustrate our pages. At the end of the course,
out of identity and self-worth. This generation
we’ll publish our fantastical books! See a full
was one of the largest in American history, and
curriculum preview: rightbraincurriculum.com/
it is perhaps one of the most important right
writingwizards. Discounts or waivers do not
now when it comes to senior living. Taking
apply.
cues from her book, Baby Boomers +: A Guide
Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Sa 9:00AM-12:00PM. to Designing These Years, Honoring the Full Circle
Begins 1/19/2019. Brookline High, $160. of Life and Creating Life-giving Conversations,
Dawn Sully Pile will touch on topics such as
the aging mindset, how to claim these years
Basic Reading and Writing Skills: Grades as magical, looking at retirement as a glorious
1-3 blank canvas, and more. Our time will be
TBA, Instructor conversational, collaborative, optimistic, and
This class is for students who are beginning to joyful. Discounts or waivers do not apply.
read and write in English. We’ll learn to write Sec. 01: # sessions: 1 Day: Tu 6:30-8:30PM. Begins
sentences, practice spelling, and learn many 2/12/2019. Brookline High, $20.
new vocabulary words. Each week, we’ll read
and discuss favorite books to improve our
reading skills, and put our thoughts on paper Telling Your Story: Senior Seminar in
to improve our writing skills. Autobiographical Writing
Sec 01: #sessions: 8 Day: F, 2:00-3:30PM. Begins Irving Schwartz, Instructor
1/11/2019. Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Co-sponsored by the Council on Aging
Street, (enter on Holden Street), $140. As we grow older, we tend to view our lives with
a more reflective frame of mind. We think of who
we are, where we’ve been, and what meaning
we can make of our ‘moments in history.’ Telling
Additional Courses for Teens your story, or some fragment of it, is a way to
order your life by giving meaning to your unique
Please see Pre-SAT Preparation experience. If you want to share what you have
Course, page 12, and Driver’s come to know, and would like some help in
organizing and writing your remembered past,
Education, page 13.
join us. Seniors only; discount does not apply.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 10:15-11:45AM. Begins
1/9/2019. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester
Street, Brookline, $74.
8 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Winter 2019A History of the Vietnam War: Local and Reconsidering A People’s What is Film Noir?
NEW!
E S P E C I A L LY F O R C H I L D R E N & T E E N S
HUMANITIES
Global Walk-Through History of the United States in Matt Berger, Instructor
Anatole Sykley, Instructor the Age of Trump Say “film noir” and what comes to mind are
The Vietnam War in an American perspective Joshua Frank, Instructor images of dark rain-slicked city streets, wise-
acts both as history and a source of lessons. The non-fiction book A People’s History of the cracking trench-coated detectives, alluring
It is also the source of many interpretations, United States was written in 1980 by Howard femmes fatales, and evil twists of fate. But
some which remain divisive even today. This Zinn, American historian and political scientist. these films are more than that: they are a
course will explore basic historical events of Through consideration of different voices sentimental memory of an unsentimental time.
the Vietnam War from 1945 until 1975 in a from our past, Zinn presented a very different As a class, we will ask, “What is film noir?” We
neutral fashion, and review the interpretations history than what he considered to be the will review the historic development of film
of causes and outcomes as historical more traditional “fundamental nationalist noir (including the origin of the term itself); key
phenomena that are part of the Vietnam War’s glorification of country.” Whatever your events (Great Depression, WWII, the Bomb,
long and complex history. We will explore how experience, in the age of Trump, Howard anti-Communism, suburbanization) reflected
it is that Vietnam today, seems in competition Zinn’s unvarnished view of our past, and his in the films; important players (directors,
and rivalry with its former allies, and now seeks realistic, yet hopeful vision of our shared cinematographers, performers, writers); and
both economic and military cooperation from future resonates in a new and deeper way. primary themes (alienation, obsession, fate,
the U.S. Looking at the Cold War, World War I, In our sessions, we’ll gain new insight into “winners” vs. “suckers”); and structures (lighting,
and World War II, we will try to determine if the this moment of division in the United States flashbacks, studio sets vs. on-location). Classes
Vietnam War, its outcomes and lessons, are through analysis and discussion of this text. will be part lecture, part viewing, and part
indeed any different or so unique, compared Through consideration of the stories of people discussion. While there will be no required
to outcomes from other major historical whose role in our history has been forgotten, reading or assignments, annotated reading
conflicts where the U.S. was a major player. minimized, or erased, we will share our and viewing lists will be distributed in class.
Suggested text: The Vietnam War: A Concise emerging new understanding of our shared Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: W 6:00-8:00PM. Begins
International History by Mark Atwood Lawrence. history and their place in that history. The 2/27/2019. Brookline High, $96.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: F 1:00-3:00PM. Begins required text: A People’s History of the United
1/11/2019. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard States by Howard Zinn. Please read chapters
Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $130. 1-2 for the first session. History of American Music: The Fifties
Sec. 01: # sessions: 6 Day: F 9:30-11:00AM. Begins John Clark, Instructor
1/18/2019. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard What was Folk music before Bob Dylan turned
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus: Historical Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $102. it political? What happened to Jazz after the
and Cultural Perspective demise of the Big Band and the rise of Bebop?
Anatole Sykley, Instructor What musical elements combined to create
Otto the Terrible: The
Some historians have maintained that Russia’s NEW! Hollywood Career of Otto
the most exciting and uniquely American music
history cannot be written without Ukraine or of this pivotal decade: Rock & Roll? Join us as
Belarus, and the same goes for each nation. Preminger we hear stories and watch rare video footage
Each country needs the others to properly Julian Peterson, Instructor of the groundbreakers and pioneers of these
define it. In what way do the histories of these Nothing about Otto Preminger (1905-1986) important genres of the 1950s. We’ll listen to
three geographically linked countries diverge was small, trivial, or self-denying, from his the music of greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy
and in what way do they converge? How can privileged upbringing in Vienna as the son of Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles, James
we explain cultural and linguistic similarities, an improbably successful Jewish lawyer to his Brown, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Buddy
yet also acknowledge cultural and linguistic work in film and theater in Europe and, later, in Holly, Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte, Joan Baez,
differences, and to what extent does common America. A theatre and film director, Preminger Kingston Trio, among others.
culture and history explain the tensions and directed more than 35 feature films in a Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: M 6:30-8:00PM. Begins
conflicts today? In this course, we will answer five-decade career after leaving the theatre, 2/4/2019. Brookline High, $95.
these questions and more. We will utilize and was twice nominated for the Academy
recent news reports from Russia, Ukraine, Award for Best Director. In our sessions, we’ll
and Belarus to deepen our perspective, and explore the great range of Preminger’s films The Music of Igor Stravinsky: Full
examine how their common heritage can also that pushed the boundaries of censorship Spectrum Composer
result in deep misunderstandings between by dealing with topics which were then taboo
Marshall Wright, Instructor
these three nations. in Hollywood. Some of the films we’ll look at
and discuss include The Man with the Golden Long considered one of the 20th century’s
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 1:00-3:00PM. Begins most influential composers, Igor Stravinsky
1/10/2019. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Arm that dealt with the topic of substance
abuse; Anatomy of a Murder that touched (1882-1971) pushed the boundaries of
Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $130.
upon insanity; and The Moon is Blue that dealt classical composition into areas not seen
with censorship. before, encompassing every style, from the
classical to the avant-garde. From his early
The Fantastic City Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: W 1:00-3:00PM. Begins groundbreaking ballets like the Firebird and
Brinton Coxe, Instructor 1/23/2019. The Korean Church of Boston, 32 Harvard Symphony of Psalms, to his opera The Rake’s
What is the Fantastic City? In this course we Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $106.
Progress, and concluding with his experimental
will explore the unreal, the uncanny, and the twelve-tone works, Stravinsky’s output defied
unusual in three literary cityscapes, including boundaries. Over the course of four weeks,
Moscow, in Victor Pelevin’s Homo Zapiens, you will experience Stravinsky’s remarkable
Paris, in Patrick Modiano’s In the Café of Lost works and career.
Youth, and Prague, in Michal Ajvaz’s The Other
Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 1:00-3:00PM. Begins
City. In these texts, the city is more than a 2/4/2019. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester
setting, it is rather a space where memory, Street, Brookline, $96.
history, imagination, location, and language
interact. Please begin to read Homo Zapiens for
the first session.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Tu 6:00-7:30PM. Begins
1/22/2019. Brookline High, $84.
brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 9NEW! Wouldn’t it Be Loverly: The
Musicals of Lerner and Loewe Music & Play the Saxophone
Morgan Smallwood, Instructor
Performing Arts
Marshall Wright, Instructor The saxophone has been a pervasive
Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer instrument in the American music scene,
Frederick Loewe are known primarily for the made especially popular through Jazz. It is
music and lyrics of some of Broadway’s most used extensively for solo and accompaniment
successful musicals, including My Fair Lady and in many contemporary groups. Despite its
Camelot. Meeting by chance in the early 1940s, appearance, the saxophone is rationally
the pair churned out several hits, and for over designed and easy to play. This beginner
30 years, they collaborated on a variety of Music Theory 101 course is for students who have little to no
musical projects. In three sessions, we’ll enjoy Shannon Jacob, Instructor experience with the saxophone. Please bring a
the music of Lerner and Loewe’s successful If you want to play an instrument, improve your saxophone with a mouthpiece, reed, and strap.
shows, and also look some of their other music reading or writing skills, or appreciate Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 7:00-8:30PM. Begins
popular offerings like Brigadoon and Paint Your more fully the music you listen to, music theory 1/10/2019. Brookline High, $168.
Wagon, as well as lesser known works like Life is an essential tool. Music theory is the study
of the Party, and the Little Prince. Join us as we of the very simple concepts that underlie
relive these golden musical treasures. how music is written, played, and heard. We Ukulele: Relax and Play Music
Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: M 1:00-3:00PM. Begins will introduce the basic elements of music: Paul Sedgwick, Instructor
1/7/2019. Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester notes, clefs, rhythm and meter, major and
Take care of yourself and learn to play the
Street, Brookline, $84. minor scales, sharp and flat key signatures,
ukulele. We will start from the very beginning
and simple chords and harmony. We will focus
with lessons in chords, strumming patterns,
on composing a song with chords and lyrics,
introductory music theory, and maybe even
so being able to identify meter, rhythm, and
a little fingerpicking. You will learn to play
notation is very important. Please bring a
and sing a variety of popular songs, including
notebook and music staff paper.
ukulele classics from the 20s and 30s, Pop
Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: M 7:00-8:30PM. Begins tunes, Rock, Blues, and Folk. We will also take
2/4/2019. Brookline High, $84. advantage of the joy of playing music with
others from the very first class. Please bring
a ukulele, music stand and recording device.
Beginning Flute Required texts: The Daily Ukulele: 365 Songs
Joe LaRocca, Instructor for Better Living, by Liz and Jim Beloff, and Jake
The flute is one of the most popular and Shimabukuro Teaches Ukulele Lessons: Book with
gratifying instruments to learn to play. Full-Length Online Video.
Designed for beginners and those with Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:00-7:30PM. Begins
some experience, this class will cover basic 1/9/2019. Brookline High, $168.
techniques such as fingerings, breath control,
and proper aperture. Learn to read music
as well as some helpful tips to use when Beginning Mandolin
practicing. We will discuss the history of Aidan Scrimgeour, Instructor
the instrument, listen to recordings of top
A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument
performers, and review essential information
in the lute family and is usually plucked with
about caring for your instrument. Please bring
a plectrum or pick. This is a class for students
a flute.
who are interested in developing basic
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 6:00-7:30PM. Begins mandolin skills and playing with others in a
1/7/2019. Brookline High, $168. group. We will practice picking techniques and
learn scales and chords. In addition, we will
learn to play several Americana folk songs as
Flute Workshop well as a couple of tunes from the Bluegrass
Joe LaRocca, Instructor and Celtic traditions. Please bring a mandolin.
This flute workshop is suitable for practicing Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: M 7:30-9:00PM. Begins
flutists. Whether you are improving your 1/7/2019. Brookline High, $133.
ability to read music, making sound on your
instrument, or reading beginner to advanced
music, this course will expose you to playing Violin
with others using repertoire that challenges Amos Lawrence, Instructor
different levels of playing. We will focus on
Have you always wanted to play the violin,
rhythm as an ensemble, articulation and
or have you played in the past and want to
dynamic possibilities, and how to better
pick it up again? From the fiddlers of the
improve your habits as a performer and an
Hardanger plateau in Norway to the Highlands
individual. Students will have the option of
of Scotland and Cape Breton Island, from the
preparing solo music, alongside working on the
stage of Carnegie Hall to the quaint fiddlers
music we study in class. Although practicing
of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Carolinas,
by yourself is beneficial, this class provides the
the violin has succeeded in suiting every style
opportunity to learn how to play with others.
and fulfilling every need. We will explore the
Please bring a flute.
balance needed for proper tone production,
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:30-9:00PM. Begins along with how to read notes, comfortably hold
1/7/2019. Brookline High, $168. the bow, and play in small ensembles. Violin
players of all levels welcome. Please bring a
violin and shoulder rest. A $15 music book fee
is included in the course fee.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: Th 6:30-7:45PM. Begins
1/10/2019. Brookline High, $175.
10 Brookline Adult & Community Education • Winter 2019Beginning Piano
Jonathan Lovenstein, Instructor
If you have always wanted to learn to
play the piano, why not start now? In the Learn the Guitar this Winter
Beginner course, you will learn how to
MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS
We offer courses for those just beginning and those who want to get to
read musical notation and will become
acquainted with basic piano techniques. the next level in their playing.
You will learn to play melodies with chord
accompaniments, scales, and intervals. By
the end of the course you will be able to play
simple popular and classical piano pieces. Introductory Guitar
The Beyond Beginner course is for those Steven Ohm, Instructor
with some piano playing experience. We Introductory Guitar is a course for those who have never picked up a guitar before, or for
will focus on major scales, primary chords, beginners who can strum a few chords and would like to have fun learning new songs and
more complicated rhythms, and linear playing with other guitarists. Our primary emphasis will be on building a chord vocabulary,
accompaniments with the left hand. For both establishing a rhythm, switching between chords, and gaining comfort with the instrument.
courses, the required text, Alfred’s Basic Adult We’ll learn about different chord types, what chord symbols mean, and how to play songs
Piano Course: Lesson Book, Level One, is available reading from a chord chart. In Beyond Beginner we will work on rhythm, harmony, and
at most music stores. Access to a piano or a more expanded chord vocabulary, as well as alternate chord voicings and pentatonic
keyboard for practice is required. This course scales, with an aim to get more comfortable with making music on guitar alone or with a
will be taught on keyboards. group. Please bring a guitar.
Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: W 7:15- Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 7 Day: M 6:00-7:30PM. Begins 1/7/2019. Brookline High, $163.
8:45PM. Begins 1/9/2019. Brookline High, $168.
Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 7 Day: M 7:30-9:00PM. Begins 1/7/2019. Brookline High,
Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: Th $163.
7:15-8:45PM. Begins 1/10/2019. Brookline High,
$168.
Afternoon Beginner Guitar
Steven Ohm, Instructor
Introduction to Jazz Piano
This course is designed for beginner guitarists. We will begin with the fundamentals,
Aidan Scrimgeour, Instructor
including an overview of tuning methods (using standard tuning), basic picking and
This is a class for those interested in exploring strumming techniques and proper fretting, as well as techniques for developing strength
the world of jazz piano! We will learn jazz and agility in both hands. As the course progresses, we will learn about intervals, scales,
standards performed by Louis Armstrong and chord construction, popular chord progressions, and song analysis. During each lesson, we
Frank Sinatra as well as the African-American will hone our rhythm with the aid of metronomes and grooves. Last but not least, we will
spirituals that influenced the development of explore improvisation at all points along the way. Please bring a notebook, pen/pencil, and
Jazz. This class is great for anyone who wants an acoustic guitar.
to learn more about chords or is interested
in writing music. We will also learn techniques Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 2:00-3:30PM. Begins 1/9/2019. The Korean Church of Boston, 32
for improvisation and playing by ear. It is Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street), $168.
recommended that students have some prior
piano playing experience. Access to a keyboard
or piano for practice is necessary. This class
Introduction to Jazz and Blues Guitar
will be taught on keyboards. Steven Ohm, Instructor
This course will focus on basic to intermediate jazz and blues techniques, including single-
Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: M 6:00-7:30PM. Begins
1/7/2019. Brookline High, $133. note blues heads, solos based on the blues scale, basic walking bass line, and comping.
We will emphasize the spirit of Jazz which is individuality and harmony. Once we learn the
basics mentioned above, we will play together as a group. This course is for guitarists who
Learn to Sing have some experience playing. Please bring a guitar.
Lee R. Soto, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: W 6:30-8:00PM. Begins 1/9/2019. Brookline High, $168.
Experience the enjoyment of expressing
yourself through music by discovering your
singing voice. Each singer will explore the Rock Your Guitar!
range, agility, and timbre of his or her voice, Bryan Tucker, Instructor
and work on solo and group singing. We will This course is designed for guitar players who know
develop proper tone production, breathing, bar chords, in addition to basic first-position chords.
and posture. Students and the instructor will We’ll explore the potential of the entire fingerboard,
choose the vocal repertoire so that all aspects while learning Classic Rock and Folk Rock tunes from
of vocal technique and musical interpretation artists like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell.
can be applied to specific songs. Our emphasis Our emphasis will be on gaining experience with a
will range from traditional Jazz standards variety of left- and right-hand techniques, including
to more contemporary show or pop tunes. flat-picked bass runs, arpeggios, alternate tunings,
Beyond Beginner is for those who have some finger-picking patterns, rhythmic syncopation, and
singing experience and who want to continue string damping with “Jazz-style” chords. Standard
learning about performance and vocal tablature transcriptions will assist students who are
techniques. not familiar with reading music. Students will have
Sec. 01 (Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: Tu 6:00- the opportunity to play solos based on simple scale
7:30PM. Begins 1/8/2019. Unified Arts Building, patterns, while the rest of the class accompanies
$168. them on rhythm. Please bring a guitar.
Sec. 02 (Beyond Beginner): # sessions: 8 Day: Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: Th 6:30-8:00PM. Begins 1/17/2019. Brookline High, $133.
Tu 7:30-9:00PM. Begins 1/8/2019. Unified Arts
Building, $168.
brooklineadulted.org • 617•730•2700 11Vocal Harmonies for Beginners
Liz Chen, Instructor
Acting Workshop: Brush Up Your
Shakespeare Test Prep
& College
This beginner’s class is for those interested in D. Adriane Spunt, Instructor
learning to read and sing a cappella harmonies Shakespeare is one of the great playwrights
through sheet music. Music will be taught of all time. His verse is intelligent, witty, and
using solfège (do, re, mi, etc.), and students
will discover how to use their voices in non-
instrumental ensemble settings. We will focus
playful, and his plays are filled with drama and
rich comedy. In this class, designed for actors Planning
of all levels, or non-actors who just want a
on sight-singing and blending our voices better understanding of Shakespeare, we’ll
together. Depending on the concept we are explore this playwright from a truly theatrical
working on, we may practice songs, like the point of view. We will choose humorous and
well-known “Amazing Grace” and “Somewhere passionate scenes, and analyze Shakespeare’s Private Test Prep Sessions
Over the Rainbow,” and the classic “Stand By rich verse. By acting our way through the In our individual tutoring sessions, test prep
Me” by Ben E. King, and more. Come ready to scripts, we’ll explore storylines, act out key instructors are available one-on-one to work
sing! A $10 sheet music fee is included in the dialogues, discuss characters, and discover with students of all skill levels on such topics
course fee. Shakespeare’s unique way of handling as HiSET, SAT, GRE, and GMAT prep. Students
Sec. 01: # sessions: 8 Day: M 7:00-8:30PM. Begins stage directions. Cement your passion for a may choose the time and day of the week,
1/7/2019. Brookline High, $128. playwright still famous almost four hundred Monday through Friday, or Saturday morning.
years after his death. Some homework will Once we have your preferred schedule, we
be given to prepare for each week, such as will work on finding an instructor to match
Acting Workshop memorizing a monologue. your needs. Please come prepared with
Emily Singer, Instructor Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: Th 6:30-8:30PM. Begins materials you would like to work on with
2/7/2019. Brookline High, $106. your instructor. Sessions meet at Brookline
Experience the excitement of acting in this
High School or Webster Place (student may
participatory class. Through the use of
indicate preference). Discounts, waivers,
improvisation and scripted work, you will learn
Theatre Ensemble Class credits, or transfers do not apply. To schedule
basic techniques of spontaneity, character
Deniz Khateri, Instructor private sessions, please visit our website
development, text analysis, and more. Gain
(brooklineadulted.org) to fill out a tutoring sign
confidence as you learn tricks for conquering This course aims to introduce various elements
up form.
stage fright. Stretch yourself as you develop in creating a theatrical performance and to
skills of concentration and imagination, which build and develop the skills for devising a play. Sec. 01 (4 hours): $240.
are indispensable both in the theater and Students will have an opportunity to learn, Sec. 02 (8 hours): $480.
in everyday life. Whether your ambition is explore, and integrate elements of physicality,
to act for stage, television, or film, master voice, puppetry, and crafts into a play or a
public speaking in your professional life, or performance, in relationship with the spatial Preparation for the TOEFL iBT Exam
for personal growth, these tools can help you. and dramaturgical elements. The course will Susan Guth, Instructor
These exercises will culminate in a final show, include discussions as well as solo, duo, and
This course combines listening, speaking,
which will include monologues and scenes. group exercises. Whether you want to be a
reading, and writing exercises and assignments
Students are also welcome to write their own performer or a designer who is involved in a
that will help you to prepare for the TOEFL iBT.
scripts. No previous experience is necessary. production, this class will help you understand
Basic communication and vocabulary building
Sec. 01: # sessions: 7 Day: W 7:00-9:00PM. Begins the entire process process. Open to all levels.
skills will be developed through in-class and
1/9/2019. Brookline High, $125. Sec. 01: # sessions: 4 Day: Sa 12:00-2:00PM. Begins homework exercises, and pair and small group
2/9/2019. Brookline High, $96. activities. Students will learn about the iBT test
format, test sections, and the different types
Acting Workshop: Scenes from Pulitzer of test taking techniques. This course is a first
Award-Winning Plays Voice Talent: Acting with Your Voice step in identifying the skills needed for the
D. Adriane Spunt, Instructor Lau Lapides, Instructor iBT. The required textbook, Complete Guide to
Immerse yourself in award-winning writing by Have you ever been told you have a voice the TOEFL Test iBT, is available at the Brookline
acting in scenes from playwrights who have for radio? Have you ever wondered what it Booksmith or online.
garnered the highest awards for their original would be like to voice the next hit cartoon or Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 10:00-11:30AM.
and compelling plays. See for yourself why commercial? This fast-paced, interactive, fun Begins 1/8/2019. The Korean Church of Boston, 32
writers like Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Beth workshop will introduce students to the world Harvard Street, Brookline (enter on Holden Street),
Henley, and Marsha Norman took home the of voice-over. Discover powerful techniques $197.
prize. Explore these writers’ creative minds by that offer a solid foundation of vocal tools for
becoming the characters in their imaginative those who are experiencing voice-over for the
worlds. Character work, genre, and verbal and first time or looking to launch a career in the Pre-SAT Preparation Course
nonverbal communication are just a few of the industry. We will incorporate practice time Chris Orr, Instructor
many topics that will be covered in this highly and offer professional feedback, including a This class is geared towards sophomores
participatory acting class. Some homework Q&A discussion. Learn about the many genres or juniors planning to take the SAT exam. In
will be given to prepare for each week, such as of scripts including: animation, commercial, our sessions, we will cover all aspects of this
reading a play. narration, eLearning copy, and much more. critical college entrance exam. This course
Sec. 01: # sessions: 5 Day: M 6:30-8:30PM. Begins Please wear comfortable clothing and bring focuses on teaching strategies, reviewing
1/28/2019. Brookline High, $106. water. important content, and examining test taking
Sec. 01: # sessions: 3 Day: Sa 11:00AM-12:30PM. techniques. Between class sessions to simulate
Begins 1/26/2019. Brookline High, $68. the actual test, students will take practice tests.
The instructor will provide feedback on the
student’s progress in both the Math and Verbal
sections of the SAT. The required text, The
Official SAT Study Guide is available for purchase
online.
Sec. 01: # sessions: 16 Day: Tu, Th 3:00-5:00PM.
Begins 1/8/2019. Brookline High, $640.
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