This holiday season, give yourself the gift of lifelong learning by signing up for winter semester classes. Your course book is in the mail and filled with opportunities to make 2016 your best year yet.
Learn about climate change and biosphere ecology, which instructor Dr. Mitch Wagner calls “exciting, terrifying and fascinating … the great story of our time.” That’s also a fitting description for World War II prisoner of war Louis Zamperini’s story, this semester’s history topic. Or consider the American Revolution through the language of Thomas Paine. Discuss the stories of Sherlock Holmes, works by great thinkers, or newly released books. Or write your own story in the new memoir writing class. Consider music composed for stories of enchantment or for stories of Shakespeare. See Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by signing up for a trip to the Hartford Stage. Other trips will take you to Foxwoods, or to MoMa in New York City for a new Picasso sculpture exhibit. Or take an armchair tour of three countries on three continents. Explore your inner artist through drawing or painting classes, or try your hand at something new in hobby classes, which include beginning genealogy as well as a new culinary series. To warm up even the coldest of winter days, come to more than 15 different seminars, speakers and social events.
Thanks to the generosity of sponsors and donors, all of these and many more classes are available to members at extremely low cost, and many events are free. Be sure to register by Dec. 14.
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