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COMMUNITY EDUCATION
AUTUMN
2015
The Butterfly (costume design for Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova), 1913
by Léon Nikolaievitch Bakst (Russian, 1866–1924)
Gift of Mrs. John Munro Longyear and Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Photograph ©2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
About Our Cover
It is useless to dabble in beauty.
One must be utterly devoted to beauty,
with every nerve of the body.
— Anna Pavlova (1881–1931)
May the courses and events in this autumn catalog provide opportunities to
deepen our knowledge and increase devotion to the dignity and beauty of life.
Craig Hall, Director
Dedication
LCE dedicates this Autumn 2015 catalog to the memory and legacy of
C. Anthony Martignetti, and Robert E. Bachelder.
Friends of the program, family at heart.
School/Municipal Employee Wellness Partnership
Courses that are marked with the yoga symbol are eligible for an
employee tuition discount. For tuition details please visit lps.
lexingtonma.org and click on the Administration tab.
LCE Online
Complete course descriptions, class status, and registration information can be
found online at www.lexingtoncommunityed.org
About Lexington Community Education
LCE is a self-sustaining, integral part of the Lexington Public School system
that is committed to promoting lifelong learning. Our programs are open to all
regardless of residency and are appropriate for participants 16 years of age and
over. Our Classes for Children are for specified ages. LCE provides an extensive
summer children’s program called Lexplorations which offers classes for
creative and academic enrichment.
LexingtonCommunityEd.org
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LCE Online
Complete course descriptions, class
status, and registration information
can be found online at:
lexingtoncommunityed.org
Table of Contents
Lexington Public Schools
Superintendent of Schools:
Dr. Mary Czajkowski
Assistant Superintendent
for Curriculum, Instruction, and
Professional Development:
Carol A. Pilarski
Classes for Children ............ 29
LEXINGTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Chairman: Jessie Steigerwald
Vice Chair: William J. Hurley
Judith Crocker
Margaret Coppe
Alessandro Alessandrini
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Abigail Schwartz
Continuing and Additional student
representatives to be named
Body/Mind............................ 39
Business, Career, and
Finance............................ 37
Computers............................ 25
Cooking................................. 34
Creating Community............... 8
Daytime Classes................... 37
ELL/Languages..................... 21
Exercise and Dance.............. 42
Fabric, Graphic & Fine Arts.... 17
Home, Hobbies & Travel....... 35
Humanities........................... 10
LCE Presents........................... 3
Music Appreciation.............. 11
Music/Theater Arts.............. 13
Lexington Community Education
Director: Craig Hall
Manager of Programming:
Andrea Paquette
Registrar: Amy Sullivan
Accounts Payable: Joan Taratuta
Parenting Perspectives......... 28
146 Maple Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
(Access office via 328 Lowell Street)
Telephone 781.862.8043
Fax 781.863.5829
[email protected]
Instructor Biographies.......... 46
Test Preparation/
College Planning.............. 32
Yoga...................................... 43
Writing.................................. 15
Registration Information...... 50
Directions............................. 50
Registration Form................. 51
Catalog Design: Pehlke Design
Lexington Community Education presents
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
A Book Talk & Signing with Martín Prechtel
Co-sponsored with the Waldorf School of Lexington
Too Safe to Succeed:
An Evening with Lenore Skenazy
Monday, September 21, 2015 • 7:30 pm
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Follen Church Society, 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington • $10 • SPRE
Waldorf School of Lexington, 739 Mass. Ave, Lexington, MA • $10 • SLSK
“Martín Prechtel’s book is beautifully
written and wise...he offers stories that
are precious and life-sustaining. Read
carefully, and listen deeply.”
– Mary Oliver author of many volumes of
poetry including, A Thousand Mornings:
Poems, and Why I Wake Early: New Poems
In his latest book, The Smell of Rain on
Dust: Grief and Praise, author and teacher
Martín Prechtel shares profound insights
on the relationship between grief and
praise and the necessity of both being
allowed to flourish in a vital human
society. Raised in one intact village culture (that of a New Mexico pueblo) and
embraced by another intact traditional culture—that of the Tzutujil Maya of
highland Guatemala, where he received his training and became part of the
village hierarchy and an integral member of the village—he points out that in
modern society grief is something that is usually experienced privately, alone,
and without the support of a community. Yet, as Prechtel says, “Grief expressed
out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself
the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the
natural way love honors what it misses.” Prechtel explains that the unexpressed
grief prevalent in our society today is the reason for many of the social, cultural,
and individual maladies that we are currently experiencing. The Smell of Rain
on Dust: Grief and Praise is a book of encouragement, inspiring hope, solace,
and courage in living through our losses, and shining a little extra light for those
deep and noble parts within each of us.
Lenore Skenazy is a lot of things —
author, humorist, keynote speaker, popular
blogger, TV host, and a thought leader on
issues ranging from parenting, to policy,
to consumer insights. And, oh yes, she
was, for a time, labeled “America’s Worst
Mom.” Google it. The New York City
columnist-turned-reality TV show host got
that title after letting her 9-year old son
take the subway, alone. In response to the
enormous media blowback, she wrote the
book and blog, “Free-Range Kids,” which
launched the anti-helicopter parenting
movement. Now, Lenore Skenazy is the
media’s “go-to” expert on parenting
culture. She’s been featured in the Wall
Street Journal more than a dozen times in
the last two years.
Her belief that we are making our kids “too safe to succeed” has led to speaking
engagements at corporations, colleges and conventions around the world,
from Microsoft Headquarters, to the Sydney Opera House, to the Yale Child
Study Center. Lenore also headlined both the International Children’s Festival in
Vancouver and the Bulgarian Happiness Festival.
A leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all
people, Martín Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language
and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico Martín teaches at
his international school Bolad’s Kitchen. The school offers a hands-on historical
and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing,
natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, story, grief and humor
to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds remember and retain
the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral
culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. Martín Prechtel is
the author of six books including Stealing Benefacio’s Roses, The Disobedience
of the Daughter of the Sun, Long Life, Honey in the Heart, Secrets of the Talking
Jaguar, and The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic.
Please visit LCE’s co-sponsor and
collaborator in community learning,
Back Pages Books
289 Moody Street, Waltham, MA 02453
(781) 209-0631 • backpagesbooks.com
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Lexington Community
Education presents (continued)
A Tribute to the Music of Ornette Coleman
A Conversation and Recital Featuring Chris Kelsey (saxophone),
Lewis Porter (piano), and Randy Sandke (trumpet)
The Accidental Universe:
The World You Thought You Knew
An Evening with Professor and Author, Alan Lightman
Saturday, November 14, 2015 • 7:30-9:00 pm
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Follen Church Society, 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington • $10 • SORN
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SWYT
Saxophonist and composer Ornette
Coleman (1930-2015) changed the way we
hear music. This event will be a unique
tribute to the late master. Saxophonist
Chris Kelsey and pianist Lewis Porter
released a CD demonstrating their
novel approach to Coleman’s music—
coincidentally within a week of Coleman’s
death. On this night they are adding the
acclaimed and dynamic trumpeter Randy
Sandke. As a bonus, each will speak
briefly–Kelsey on Ornette’s impact, Porter
on Ornette the man he knew, and Sandke
on his concept of “Metatonal music.”
Saxophonist/composer Chris Kelsey has recorded
upward of a dozen albums as leader for the C.I.M.P.,
Cadence Jazz, and Unseen Rain labels, as well as his
own Tzazz Krytyk and Saxofonis Music imprints. His
recordingWhat I Say: The Electric Miles Project won the
2014 Independent Music Award for Best Tribute Album.
He is currently Director of Instrumental Music at TrinityPawling School in Pawling, NY.
Lewis Porter, Ph.D, long known as a jazz educator and author of books
including the celebrated and definitive volume John Coltrane: His Life and
Music, is active as a jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer. Known for a free
and open attitude, he contributes to many types of musical situations. Dr. Porter
has appeared in concert internationally with such masters as Joe Lovano, Ravi
Coltrane, Jeff Coffin, Jane Ira Bloom, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Morris, Marc Ribot,
George Garzone, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Alan Dawson, Gregg Bendian
and many others. He is a regular member of the Indian-influenced quartet
Dharma Jazz with Badal Roy. He has recorded thirteen CDs. The critics have said
that Porter is “A helluva piano player” (Jazz Times). “Mixing experimental with
traditional, [he] plays up a storm.” (Midwest Record) “Porter is a deep thinker.”
(Swing Journal). His music is “founded upon depth and cunning use of space”.
Randy Sandke has recorded over 30 albums as a leader, and can be heard on
dozens more as a sideman, working with artists ranging from Benny Goodman,
Michael Brecker, Dizzy Gillespie to Sting, Bette Midler and James Taylor. He has
toured Europe more than 40 times, and has performed extensively throughout
Japan, North America, Brazil and India. He is also the author of two books and
numerous articles.
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In his book The Accidental Universe:
The World You Thought You Knew, Alan
Lightman explores the emotional and
philosophical questions raised by recent
discoveries in science with passion and
curiosity. This evening he will discuss the
dialogue between science and religion;
the conflict between our human desire for
permanence and the impermanence of
nature; the possibility that our universe is
simply an accident; the manner in which
modern technology has separated us from
direct experience of the world; and our
resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific
logic and laws. Behind all of these considerations is the suggestion–at once
haunting and exhilarating–that what we see and understand of the world is only
a tiny piece of the extraordinary, perhaps unfathomable whole.
Alan Lightman, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since
1996, is adjunct professor of humanities at MIT. He is the author of several
books on science, including Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe
and Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists. His works of fiction
include Einstein’s Dreams, The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for the National
Book Award, and, most recently, Reunion.
The views of our presenters and instructors do not necessarily
represent the views of Lexington Community Education, the Lexington
Public Schools and/or its employees.
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel
Relationship from Truman to Obama
American Bloomsbury:
An Evening with Susan Cheever
An Evening with Ambassador Dennis Ross
Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret
Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau:
Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
Thursday, December 3, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Friday, October 23, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Follen Church Society, 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington • $10 • SROS
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SBLM
For almost three decades, Dennis Ross
has been a leading figure in the diplomatic
world of Soviet and Middle East policy.
During the Reagan administration, he
served as director of Near East and South
Asian affairs on the National Security
Council staff and as deputy director of the
Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. In
the first Bush administration, he served
as director of the State Department’s
Policy Planning Office, where he played a
prominent role in developing U.S. policy
toward the former Soviet Union, the
unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations,
and the development of the 1991 Gulf War Coalition.
The 1850s were heady times in Concord,
Massachusetts: in a town where a
woman’s petticoat drying on an outdoor
line was enough to elicit scandal, some of
the greatest minds of our nation’s history
were gathering in three of its wooden
houses to establish a major American
literary movement. The Transcendentalists,
as these thinkers came to be called,
challenged the norms of American
society with essays, novels, and treatises
whose beautifully rendered prose and
groundbreaking assertions still resonate
with readers today. Though noted contemporary author Susan Cheever stands in
awe of the monumental achievements of such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Louisa
May Alcott, her personal, evocative narrative removes these figures from their
dusty pedestals and provides a lively account of their longings, jealousies, and
indiscretions. Thus, Cheever reminds us that the passion of Concord’s ambitious
and temperamental resident geniuses was by no means confined to the page.
Susan Cheever was born in New York City and graduated from Brown
University. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle
Award; she has also received an Associated Press Award and the Boston
Globe Winship Medal. A Guggenheim fellow and a board member of the Yaddo
Corporation, she has taught at Yale, Brown, Columbia, and Hunter College, and
is currently on the faculty in the MFA programs at Bennington College and The
New School.
Under President Clinton, he was a special Middle East coordinator. As a point
person in America’s ongoing role in the Middle Eastern peace process, Ross was
instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians in reaching the 1995 Interim
Agreement. He successfully brokered the Hebron Accord in 1997, facilitated the
1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and worked to bring Israel and Syria together.
Speaking of Ross, President Clinton said “No one worked harder for peace than
Dennis. He gave it everything he had and served our nation very well.” Now,
Dennis Ross provides a comprehensive account of America’s complicated history
with Israel in Doomed To Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to
Obama. Beginning with Israel’s inception and working forward administration
by administration, Ross chronicles the tense back-and-forth that has existed
between our two countries for nearly three-quarters of a century. In clear, direct
prose, Ross describes how often America was forced to view Israel as a chess
piece in a larger game with forces like the Soviet Union, pan-Arabism, and post9/11 anti-terror strategy. Indeed, Ross shows how the study of America’s bond
with Israel can serve as an outline of American foreign policy in general from
1948 to present. Written with historical precision and exhaustive detail, Doomed
To Succeed is a timely, important, and necessary recounting of one of our most
significant alliances.
Dennis Ross is the Counselor and Davidson Fellow at the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy and a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at
Georgetown. He was the director of policy planning in the State Department for
George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton’s Middle East Peace envoy, and a special assistant
to the president under Barack Obama.
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Lexington Community
THE FIVEASH LEGACY LECTURE
The Race of Women: Sex, Citizenship and
Obedience in Periclean Athens
House You Cannot Reach: Poems in the
Voice of My Mother
An Evening with Sarah Breitenfeld
Book Launch and Celebration of the New Collection of
Poems by Tom Daley
Thursday, October 8, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Saturday, September 26, 2015 • 3:30-5:00 pm
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SBRE
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $5 • STOM
“From the start, the gods made women
different” wrote the Greek poet
Semonides. For as long as there have
been humans, civilizations from across
the world have justified the secondary
status of women with both biological
and spiritual arguments, and Athens in
the 5th century BCE was no exception.
In the Athenian world, women were the
daughters of Pandora, described by the
poet Hesiod as a “beautiful evil” and “the
greatest infestation among mortal men.”
To the Greeks, female forces such as
Helen of Troy and the Amazon warriors were to blame for the world’s greatest
conflicts. Using the iconography of the Parthenon, the most recognizable
Athenian monument of all time, we will examine how Athens’ leading
statesman, Pericles, sought to curb the dangerous female forces living within the
city itself and how gender bias influenced Athenian religion, legislation and life.
Sarah Breitenfeld is a 2011 graduate from Lexington High School, where
she was a member of Dr. Fiveash’s final Latin IV class. Although enthralled by
mythology from a young age, Sarah attributes her continued passion for the
ancient world to Dr. Fiveash’s inspiring work as an educator and classicist. Sarah
is a recent graduate of Skidmore College, where she earned her B.A. in Classics
with honors for her work in both Latin and Greek. She spent her junior year
abroad, studying in Bath at the Advanced Studies in England program, including
a Greek tutorial at Trinity College, Oxford, before attending the Intercollegiate
Center for Classical Studies in Rome. This fall, Sarah is continuing to pursue
her education in the ancient languages at the University of Pennsylvania’s postbaccalaureate program in Classics and intends to work towards a Ph.D. She
is principally fascinated by the complex role of women in the ancient world,
particularly concerning issues of gendered violence and sexual assault. In this
lecture, she will present her research from her honors thesis.
In Tom Daley’s House You Cannot Reach—Poems
in the Voice of My Mother and Other Poems, a
mother’s voice is re-imagined, amplified, and
permitted to ventilate both forbidden grievance
and private passion. Simultaneously wistful
and excoriating, she cherishes and denounces a
philandering husband and ponders the suicide of
her youngest son. Whether needling a portfolio
manager or reconnoitering the disappointing
God of her Irish Catholic upbringing, she casts
her sometimes witty, sometimes jaded regard
on a society that pampered and grieved her.
Complemented by poems in the poet’s voice
which extend the territory of their mutual experience, this mother’s utterances
discomfit and regale with terrifying and exultant fervor. The author, who teaches
poetry writing and memoir writing at LCE, will be performing excerpts from the
book, which will be available for purchase.
Tom Daley’s poetry has been published in numerous journals, including Harvard
Review, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, Del Sol Review, Diagram, 32 Poems,
Salamander, Perihelion, and Hacks: The Grub Street Anthology. His manuscript
Shim was a finalist for the Emily Dickinson First Book Prize and the Brittingham
and Pollak Poetry Prizes. His poetry was nominated for inclusion in the anthology
Best New Poets 2007. He graduated with highest honors in Creative Writing
from the University of North Carolina, where he won the Charles and Fanny Fay
Wood Academy of American Poets Prize.
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Spellbinding Stories: Four Local Authors
Read from Their Novels
Featuring Jack Rochester, X.J. Kennedy, Katie Li, and
Peter Shapiro
Joyce Chen: My Mother’s Journey from
Shanghai to a U.S. Postage Stamp
An Evening with Helen Chen
Monday, September 28, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 • 7:00-8:30 pm
First Parish in Lexington, 7 Harrington Road, Lexington • $10 • SLOA
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SJOY
Join us for an evening at the First Parish in Lexington to hear genre-busting,
adventurous authors read from new and recent independently published novels.
Each is an accomplished writer who has taken an interest in “indie” publishing,
which offers authors many more opportunities to explore ideas, themes and
characters in their art. X.J. “Joe” Kennedy, an award-winning poet and lifelong
author, reads from A Hoarse Half-human Cheer, his absurdist tale of post-World
War II America. Katie Li’s short novel, Somewhere In Between, is a speculative,
new adult romance about two unlikely friends who discover a portal to another
dimension. Jack Rochester’s murder-mystery thriller, White Bike, takes the
reader on a bicycling adventure from Nashua, New Hampshire to Taiwan. In
Portrait of Ignatius Jones, Peter Shapiro tells how trouble follows the discovery
of an oil painting at a Vermont rummage sale after its disappearance from
Boston a century ago. Following the readings, the authors will answer questions
about the literary craft and today’s publishing options.
X. J. (Joe) Kennedy’s stories have appeared in Story Quarterly,
Texas Review, Sunday newspaper supplements, Science Fiction
Quarterly, and other magazines. He has written several books
of verse, among them In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: new and
selected poems (an American Library Association notable book),
two dozen children’s books, including a much praised novel The Owlstone
Crown, and schoolbooks used by millions, including An Introduction to Fiction. A
Hoarse Half-human Cheer is his first novel for adults.
On September 26, 2014, Joyce Chen was honored
with her own U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp
along with such culinary luminaries as James
Beard and Julia Child, thereby recognizing her
contribution to the introduction of authentic
Chinese cuisine to America at a time when chow
mein and chop suey were considered “Chinese
food.” Many of us may remember our first
introduction to a new kind of Chinese food at the
Joyce Chen Restaurant on Concord Avenue in
Cambridge, MA. Opened in 1958, the Joyce Chen
Restaurant was the first of its kind to offer to
both Westerners and Asians, authentic Chinese
cuisine—especially the classic cuisine of Eastern and Northern China. Today,
almost all the suburban Chinese restaurants in the Greater Boston area can trace
their roots back to the Joyce Chen Restaurant.
Not content with being just a restaurateur, Joyce built her establishment into a
Chinese culinary and cultural center attracting gourmets, families, academics,
politicians, and actors among others. She went on to write and self-publish
her cookbook, The Joyce Chen Cook Book; be the first Asian to star in her own
cooking show, “Joyce Chen Cooks,” on WGBH; produce along with her son,
Stephen and daughter, Helen, a PBS Special, “Joyce Chen’s China,” recounting
her return to China in 1972; and create and market a line of Asian cookware and
cooking sauces until she was stricken with Alzheimer’s disease.
Katie Li, raised by martial artists, grew up with fascinating
stories and an eclectic cast of characters. She continues this
tradition in her work, writing fiction and narrative non-fiction
about personal transformation and unlikely possibilities. Her work
has appeared in The Huffington Post, Bitch Flicks, and Xenith. Her
first novel, Somewhere In Between, was published in August 2015.
Jack B. Rochester has worked in publishing his entire career
as an editor, publisher and writer. He’s written 12 works of
nonfiction, including the national bestseller The Naked Computer,
reviewed in the New York Times and USA Today, as well as
hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, and short stories
and poetry for literary magazines. His first novel, Wild Blue Yonder, was selfpublished in 2011. The sequel, Madrone, was published by Wheatmark in 2014.
His third novel, White Bike, is due out Fall, 2015.
This evening, her daughter, Helen Chen, remembers and
celebrates her mother’s many accomplishments from
Joyce’s early years in war-torn China, to her arrival in
Cambridge, MA in 1949 and finally to her death in 1994.
Through old family photos, stories and personal memories
Helen recounts her mother’s achievements, and shares the
dreams, struggles and hardships of this remarkable woman.
Peter David Shapiro’s novels derive from his experiences as
well as his imagination. He frequently rides the Red Line on
which commuters see their departed in Ghosts on the Red Line.
He spent time in Hong Kong, where intrigue and revenge play out
in The Trail of Money, and in Vermont, where a remarkable oil
painting opens a portal for the paranormal in his latest novel, Portrait of Ignatius
Jones. Published by PenLane Press, his own imprint.
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Lexington Community
Die Wise–A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
An Evening with Stephen Jenkinson
Creating
Community
Monday, December 7, 2015 • 7:00-9:00 pm
NEW!
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SDIE
Die Wise—A Manifesto for Sanity and
Soul, is Stephen Jenkinson’s new book
about grief, and dying, and the great love
of life. Die Wise does not offer seven
steps for coping with death. It does not
suggest ways to make dying easier. It
pours no honey to make the medicine go
down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep
wisdom, and stories from his two decades
of working with dying people and their
families, Stephen Jenkinson places death
at the center of the page and asks us to
behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise
teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living
deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well,
Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is a moral, political,
and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. It
is not a lifestyle option. It is a birthright and a debt. Die Wise dreams such a
dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people,
and how we carry our dead: this work makes our village life, or breaks it.
Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer.
He has a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and a master’s
degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Formerly a program director
at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant professor, Stephen is
now a sought-after workshop leader, speaker, and consultant to palliative care
and hospice organizations. He is the founder of The Orphan Wisdom School in
Canada and the subject of the documentary film Griefwalker.
As a self-supporting part of the
Lexington Public Schools, LCE
understands that “self-support”
means “community support.” Our
new Creating Community catalog
section is intended to highlight
opportunities for individuals to
freely assist community, and in
turn for community to freely assist
individuals.
The 2015 Lexington Citizens’
Academy
Instructors: Town of Lexington
Department Heads and Staff
“It is a tribute to the town that so
many dedicated municipal employees
shared their expertise with citizens
beyond the scope of normal business
hours. Speakers were enthusiastic,
well prepared, and clearly dedicated
to their respective departments and
quality service.”- 2013 Lexington
Citizens’ Academy Participant
Engage with Town departments,
learn more about the services
provided by your local government,
and discover new opportunities
for public involvement at the 7th
annual Citizens’ Academy. This
free, eleven-session program begins
in mid-September and continues
on weeknights at various Town
facilities. For more information or
to register, please contact Linda
Vine in the Town Manager’s
Office: [email protected] or
781-698-4541.
Lunch Time Explorations of
Lexington Conservation Land
Instructor: Eileen Entin
Lexington has set aside over 1300
acres as permanently protected
conservation land with trails that
traverse meadows, fields, forests, and
wetlands. If you have never visited
any of Lexington’s conservation
properties –perhaps because you
aren’t sure where they are, how to
access them, or what you will find
there– this outdoor “class” will
introduce you to the opportunities
they offer. The class will be comprised
of leader-guided field trips to three of
Lexington’s conservation properties:
(Katahdin Woods, Hayden Woods,
and Cranberry Hill.) These properties
are located in different parts of the
Town, are close to various business
offices, and include a variety of terrain
types, habitats, and resources. As
we walk along the trails we will
explore the resources they offer and
talk about their historical features.
The pace will be moderate, and the
distance covered will be between ½
and 1 mile. Each class will meet at an
entrance to the conservation property
we are exploring that week. Detailed
information about the meeting
locations will be provided to class
members prior to the first meeting.
The Trail Guide to Lexington’s
Conservation Lands will be available
for $10 from the instructor. Purchase
of the guide is optional.
TLEX, 3 Wednesdays, 12:00 noon1:00 pm. Begins October 7. Detailed
meeting information provided at
registration. $15.
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The Lexington Minuteman, Captain John Parker.
NEW!
Doing Good by Serving Well
Hospice Volunteer Training
Instructor: Ted Coates
Are you currently on a Board of
a charity or considering serving
on one? Far too often people find
themselves on Boards when they do
not fully understand the mission and/
or operations of the organization, and
do not understand their role as a
Board member. Often, the result is
inefficiency and frustration. This course
is intended to help you determine first;
if the Board is a good fit for you, and if
so, how you can maximize your value
to the organization and help promote
the effectiveness of the Board.
Through lecture, examples, best
practices, and discussion, you will
learn to do good by serving well.
Instructor: Compassionate Care
Hospice Staff
By engaging in activities which
enhance an individual’s quality
of life, Hospice volunteers can
make a profound difference in just
one-to-two hours per week. These
activities can include writing letters,
playing music, holding hands, or
even just sitting quietly. During this
course, you will be introduced to
interdisciplinary team members and
receive training in the philosophy of
hospice, end-of-life medical issues,
family dynamics, communication,
grief and loss, and spiritual care.
Please join us for this introspective
exploration into hospice and its
unique and comforting approach to
care of the mind, body, and spirit
at the end of life. Individuals who
successfully complete the training
will have the opportunity to serve
others. Volunteers are supervised
by a volunteer coordinator and
supported by other members
of the patient care team. Light
refreshments will be served at each
class.
ODGS, 2 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00
pm. Begins October 28, LHS, Room
226, $38.
Home Alone
Instructor: Officers of the Lexington
Police and Fire Departments
Help your child feel safer and more
secure when home alone or with
siblings, and teach them smart
telephone and doorbell answering
strategies. This class is designed
for children ages 9 and older.
Younger children may attend with an
accompanying adult. Instructors are
officers from the Lexington Police
and Fire Departments. Class size is
limited so please register early.
OHVT, 3 Wednesdays, 12:00 noon3:00 pm. Begins October 14, LCE
Conference Room, Access by 328
Lowell Street, and enter through
the side door of the Old Harrington
school, $10.
Simple Ways to
Protect Your Home
The Opioid Crisis
Instructor: Detective Aidan Evelyn,
Community Resource Officer from
the Lexington Police Department
The Town of Lexington has a current
population of approximately 33,000
people living in about 11,000
residences. Due to its affluent status
and location within the Greater
Boston area, and with easy access to
Routes 2 and 128, it is an attractive
target for residential burglaries.
Come join Detective Aidan Evelyn,
Community Resource Officer from
the Lexington Police Department
for a discussion addressing this
type of crime prevention. The
course will focus on home security
systems, target hardening through
environmental design, and other
methods to make your home a
hardened target for would-be
criminals.
FCRIM, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm.
Meets October 13, LHS, Room 221,
Free, But pre-registration is required.
Interested in Teaching?
LCE is always looking for
new course ideas, and
outstanding instructors. Call
781.862.8043, or email info@
lexingtoncommunityed.org for
a course proposal.
Instructor: Detective James
Rettman, Lexington Police
Department
Detective James Rettman will
discuss today’s drug culture and
the effects it has on our youth at
home, in school, and beyond. He will
provide guidance on the signs of drug
use, common hiding places where
drugs are stored, and how families
can seek help. Additionally, he will
discuss today’s popular drugs, their
common street names, and what
they look like. Detective Rettman has
been a police officer since 2002 and
is currently assigned to the Suburban
Middlesex Country Drug Task
Force. Detective Rettman has been
assigned to the DEF since October of
2011. His duties include surveillance,
acting in an undercover capacity
and search warrant execution
of “street level” targets. Before
being assigned to the S.M.D.T.F,
Detective Rettman was assigned to
the Lexington Public Schools as the
School Resource Officer.
TOPI, 1 Thursday, 6:30-8:00 pm.
Meets September 24, LHS, Room
226. Free, but pre-registration is
required.
K009, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 pm.
221. Free, but space is limited and
pre-registration is required.
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LexMedia
Classes
Humanities
Each term our humanities section offers classes that aim to heighten our
understanding of the human experience and honor the idea and ideals of a
liberal arts education.
NEW!
A Look at Climate Change
and Global Warming
TV PRODUCTION
CLASSES AT LEXMEDIA
Instructor: Pedro Lilienfeld
Humanity is facing
a major long term
threat from large
scale climate changes
whose causes have
now unequivocally been attributed to
human activities. It is incumbent on
humanity at large to become aware
of it, understand its implications,
and implement worldwide mitigation
measures. The results of inaction
may eventually be catastrophic
and irreversible. This short course
is intended to identify the physical
mechanisms underlying climatic
changes, principally global warming.
Important and relevant phenomena
such as global heat balance, solar
irradiation parameters, atmospheric
composition and resulting spectral
absorption characteristics, the
greenhouse effect, and atmospheric
and marine carbon cycles will be
presented. A thorough review of the
available data will be presented. This
includes long term global temperature
and carbon dioxide measurements.
Monitoring methodologies, influence
of local conditions, potential errors
and other related factors will be
reviewed. The results of computer
models used in the prediction of the
likely course of climate change will
be mentioned. Finally, the short and
long term effects of climate change
such as melting of high latitude ice
masses, rising ocean levels, increased
precipitation and weather extremes,
melting of mountain glaciers and
All classes are held at
LexMedia on Tuesdays at 7pm.
Classes are open to people
who live, work or attend
school in Lexington.
Orientation and Field
Production – Part One –
Camera
September 15, October 6,
November 10, December 1
Field Production Part
Two – Lighting and
Sound
Intro to Editing with
Final Cut Pro X
TV Studio Production,
Camera and Directing
October 20
Classes are free but
pre-registration is
required by contacting:
[email protected].
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NEW!
resulting water scarcity for specific
populations, and disruption of flora
and fauna will be addressed. Potential
methods of mitigation of climate
change will be reviewed. Extensive
use of informative graphics will be
used to clarify the concepts presented
in this course.
HINA, 2 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Begins October 20, LHS, Room 226,
$40/Seniors $30.
NEW!
Words from the
Greek Language
Instructor: Tracy Marks
Greek words and word roots permeate
the English language, and have rich
sources of meaning derived from
ancient Greek mythology, literature,
drama, history, religion, and philosophy.
Each week we will learn approximately
thirty new English words originating
from Greek sources including Homer,
Aristotle, Aeschylus and Greek
historians. Special attention will
be paid to the vocabulary of myth
and Greek tragedy - and words
such as hubris, nemesis and arete,
which are still meaningful today. Not
only will you enjoy increasing your
vocabulary, you will also deepen your
understanding of Greek influences
upon modern life. Class sessions
will include lecture, storytelling and
discussion, as well as video excerpts.
HGRE, 6 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Begins September 29, LHS, Room
222, $132/Seniors $100.
Dante’s Inferno
Instructor: Cammy Thomas, Ph.D.
In Dante’s great
medieval poem, The
Divine Comedy, his
spiritual crisis is
resolved as he voyages
through the three regions of the
Christian afterlife: Inferno (Hell),
Purgatory, and Paradise. Using ideas
and traditions from both Christian
and ancient Greek sources, Dante
creates an exciting, beautifully
structured afterworld. Following a
brief, introductory overview of the
entire poem, we’ll read selected
excerpts of Inferno and examine who
according to the text goes to Hell,
and why. We will contemplate what
we are supposed to learn as we
follow Dante, guided on his voyage
by the great Latin poet Virgil. As
we read, we will consider works of
art made in response to the poem
by such artists as Gustave Dore,
William Blake, Salvador Dali, and
Auguste Rodin.
HDAN, 6 Thursdays 7:00-8:30 pm.
221, $100/Seniors $85.
Senior Minister emeritus of Lexington’s Hancock
Church, Rev. Peter Meek teaches The Poetry of
Doubt and Belief, see below.
Music
Appreciation
NEW!
NEW!
NEW!
NEW!
Poems To Feel Known,
Poems To Inspire
The Poetry of Doubt
and Belief
A Golden Age of Film:
The 1940’s
A Guided Tour of
Blues Music
Instructor: Sharon Heermance, Ph.D.
“The act of reading poetry tunes the
ears of the heart to the real way in
which human beings most honestly
and most deeply talk about their
lives when they are speaking from
the core of their experience.” – John
McDargh
Instructor: The Rev. Dr. Peter
H.J. Meek
We will explore the poetry of several
modern poets, among them Robert
Frost, E.E. Cummings, Anne Sexton,
Gerard Manley Hopkins and T.S.
Eliot. We will consider belief as
possessed, searched for, rejected;
and we will examine the content
of belief in the context of each
poet’s work. Members of the class
will be encouraged to write their
own poems to contribute to our
discussions. There will be cookies.
Instructor: Caroline Foley
The 1940’s was a
period of turmoil
and transformation
worldwide. Still reeling
from The Great Depression and with
World War II raging, the film world
was not immune to the influence of
these important events. Used as both
propaganda and an escape, movies
played a key piece in the history of
the 1940’s. Additionally, film itself
was facing many transitions. The
restrictive Hays Code had been in
effect for only a few years, and the
era of Silent Film had only recently
come to an end. In this class, we will
explore this exciting time in movie
history. Classic Hollywood will be
a focus, but we will examine films
worldwide.
Instructor: Roger Gumley
Explore the
fascinating
music known as
the blues with
long-time blues aficionado, Roger
Gumley. Blues is the foundation of
most popular American music of
the 20th and 21st centuries, yet it
remains obscure to most people.
This evening, Roger Gumley will talk
and play video clips and the music
of the major figures of the blues
since 1945, including Muddy Waters,
Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, Otis Rush
and Buddy Guy among others. This
will be a perfect way to expand
your knowledge of this fascinating
element of America’s folklore. Roger
Gumley has been an avid follower
of blues and jazz music for over 40
years. He has worked as a radio disc
jockey in Ames Iowa and Cincinnati
Ohio. He has interviewed such blues
masters as B.B. King, Hound Dog
Taylor, Roosevelt Sykes, Koko Taylor,
John Hammond and J.B. Hutto. His
articles on the blues have appeared
in the Iowa State Daily and The
Christian Science Monitor.
With vivid language and
metaphor, poems invite
us to feel at once known
and inspired. Since poetry
is most powerful when heard, we
will read aloud poems as an avenue
toward accepting, compassionate
awareness–the essence of a mindful
perspective. Together, we will tune our
ears of the heart with accessible and
engaging poems. We will cultivate
mindful attention to imagery, thoughts,
and feelings that surface with our
spending time with a poem. We will
discuss how a meaningful poem may
echo in our own lives. Through turning
toward the heart of a poem, we will
consider how our deepest sense of
experiences can be a compass for
our own unfolding life path. Poems
chosen for clarity of expression and
enhancement of meaning include the
work of Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry,
John O’Donahue, Sharon Olds, Dereck
Wolcott, and Rumi. No prior reading
of poetry is necessary–the instructor
will provide the poems; we will provide
each other with an evening of rich
discussion. (limited to 15)
HPDB, 6 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
225, $132/Seniors $110.
See Also
Poetry Writing
Workshop, page 16.
HGAF, 5 Mondays, 6:30-9:30 pm.
$165/Seniors $145.
HGUB, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$25.
HPTI, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm. Meets
October 22, LHS, Room 226, $25.
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Garrett Wallace, Music of the Post-Modern Era,
see below.
NEW!
NEW!
The Life and Music of
Leonard Bernstein
The Story of Opera –
An Historical Overview
Instructor: Raymond Chow
American composer
Leonard Bernstein
was a prolific writer
who wrote in a range
of musical styles.
His musical theatre works, for
example “West Side Story”, are
iconic contributions to American
culture, and are performed regularly.
Join us and explore the theatrical
music of this Massachusetts-born
legend. We’ll provide a survey of
how Bernstein wrote for the theatre
and study the contributions of
some artists he collaborated with,
including songwriter Paul Simon.
We will also examine the influence
Bernstein’s music had on later
composers like Stephen Sondheim.
Through in-class discussions, audio/
video recordings, and presentations,
we will review works such as
“Trouble in Tahiti” and songs from
“Candide” including “Dear Boy”,
“Words, Words, Words” and “I Am
Easily Assimilated”. Handouts will
be provided.
Instructor: David Collins
Opera is the marriage of theater and
music. In these four sessions we will
explore the fascinating and addictive
world of opera. We will use audio
and DVD examples as we follow
the history of opera from the late
Renaissance through to the death
of Puccini in 1924. The composers
represented will include: Monteverdi,
Rameau, Purcell, Handel, Gluck,
Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini,
Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod,
Verdi, Wagner, Richard Strauss,
Bizet and Puccini. Emphasis will be
placed on understanding opera as a
dramatic art form expressed through
music. Consideration will be given
to different dramatic aesthetics—
crucial factors in a composer’s
approach to opera. This course is
geared for both beginners and those
wishing to expand their operatic
horizons.
HBER, 5 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
Begins November 2, LHS, Room 226,
$110/Seniors $95.
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HDOP, (Daytime) 4 Tuesdays,
1:30-3:00 pm. Begins September
29, LCE Conference Room, access
via 328 Lowell Street, $77/Seniors
$60. Please note there is no class on
October 20.
HSTR, (Evening) 4 Tuesdays, 6:309:00 pm. Begins November 3, LHS
Room 240, $110/Seniors $82. Please
note there is no class on November 17.
781.862.8043
NEW!
Fall Opera Preview
Instructor: David Collins
Let’s get ready for some
very exciting opera
performances this fall
by The Metropolitan
Opera and The Boston
Lyric Opera companies! We will
focus on the opera’s importance in
the composer’s output as well as
comparing older and current singers.
All of the sessions will occur within
a week before the Met’s HD movie
theater presentation or the BLO’s
live performance in Boston. The first
opera will be Verdi’s ever popular
Il Travatore, followed by Puccini’s
tragic romance, La Boheme. We will
continue with Verdi’s penultimate
masterpiece, Otello and end with
Wagner’s melodious Tannhauser.
Audio and video selections will be
used along with an invitation to
the participants to bring in favorite
selections of their own.
HOPE, 4 Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00 pm.
240, $110/Seniors $82. Please note
there is no class on October 20.
NEW!
Understanding the Forms of
Classical Music
Instructor: Richard Knisely
How is it that a symphony is also
a sonata? How many themes are
there in a Rondo? If you’ve ever
wondered what distinguishes the
many different forms of classical
music, this class is designed for you.
From the aria form of Bach and the
Baroque to the dodecaphonic series
you will learn to hear music from
a new, informed perspective with
special emphasis on sonata form,
the prevailing form in classical music
from the late eighteenth through
the nineteenth centuries. The only
requirement is a love of great music.
MFOR, 9 Wednesdays, 6:15-7:15
240, $140/Seniors $125.
NEW!
Music of the Postmodern Era
Instructor: Garrett Wallace
In this class, we will take a walk
through the diverse and varied styles
of Postmodern Music. Looking at the
instrumental music of composers and
musicians such as John Cage, Iannis
Xenakis, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa,
and György Ligeti, we will learn and
discuss what truly defines music in
the Postmodern Era.
MMPE, 8 Tuesdays, 7:45-9:15 pm.
233, $132/Seniors $100.
Music
Performance/
Theatre Arts
NEW!
Schumann and Mendelssohn:
The High Romantics
Speak the Speech! (Or How
to Give your Own TED talk)
Instructor: Richard Knisely
From poetic miniatures
like the Songs Without
Words to the true
poetry of songs on
contemporary though
epic tales like Manfred and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, these two
composers represented the height
of German Romanticism in music.
Schumann and Mendelssohn were
friends and colleagues during the
heady times of the early nineteenth
century. We will learn of their very
different lives and explore the music
which delved into the depths of
personal feeling from the song to the
symphony. Some prior knowledge of
the forms of classical music will be
helpful, but not required.
Instructor: Poornima Kirby
Do you have exciting and important
things to say, but aren’t sure how
to say them? Are you a little rusty
at speaking in public? Taught by
a professional actress and writer,
this relaxed and welcoming course
will provide a laboratory in which
to dust off your inspired notions
and give them voice. We’ll explore
the structure of famous speeches
by everyone from Shakespeare
to Martin Luther King, as well as
a variety of Ted Talks. We’ll talk
about what makes a good topic,
how to present it with your unique
perspective and personal brand
of humor, and we’ll learn simple
memorization and performance
tools that can help your words and
ideas shine. Students who wish to
will have the chance to perform and
record a short “Ted Talk” of their own
as a culminating project.
HMEN, 9 Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00
240, $143/Seniors $135.
NEW!
A Survey of the Great Women
Composers of History
Instructor: Garrett Wallace
From Hildegard Von Bingen to Clara
Schumann, Amy Beech to Germaine
Tailleferre, women have been active
in contributing great works and
defining musical traditions since the
start of our known history. In this
class, we will give prominent female
composers the spotlight they deserve.
HTDT, 1 Wednesday, 6:30-9:30 pm.
$33/Seniors $25.
Private Music Instrument
Lessons for Every Age and
Level
LCE provides excellent, convenient,
and reasonably priced individual
music lessons with highly qualified
professional musician teachers for
all interested students and adults.
The following instruments are
available for individual study: Voice,
Sitar, Cello, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet,
Saxophone, Bassoon, Upright
(double) Bass, Bass Guitar, French
Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone
Horn (Euphonium) Tuba, Percussion
(Drums), Electric and Acoustic
Guitar, Violin or Viola. Lessons are
held in the afternoon and evening
at Lexington High School. Each
semester contains approximately
16 lessons. Students must arrange
convenient weekly lesson times with
the instructor. The fee is $56 per
hour of instruction. One may choose
a 30 minute, 45 minute, or 60 minute
course of lessons. To register: Call
the LCE office and we will put you in
touch with our music teaching staff.
Saturday morning lessons are also
available.
Instrumental Camerata
for Adults
Instructor: Peter Sulski
This class is designed
for adults with a
wide range of skills
who are interested
in playing chamber
music together. We will explore
different pieces from the classical
repertoire, and address both the
technical and musical components of
ensemble playing. Whether you are
a recent beginner or someone who
has taken an extended break from
playing but would like to resume
(and need a motivational program to
help!), this is sure to be a rewarding
experience. The class is open to
violinists, violists, cellists, bassists,
oboist, flutists, and bassoonists who
are comfortable with basic notereading, and are playing at a “late
beginner” level or higher. Please
contact instructor with any questions
or concerns regarding playing ability.
Depending on the interest of the
group, the last class can end with a
performance for family and friends.
For more information on Peter Sulski,
visit http://petersulski.com/projects.
html.
MSTE, 9 Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm.
240, $209/Seniors $159.
MFCC 8 Tuesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm.
233, $132/Seniors $100.
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Andrew Eng, private Violin and Viola Instructor,
see below.
NEW!
Music Instructor Spotlight:
Andrew Eng, Violin and Viola
Andrew Eng, violinist and violist
has gained a versatile reputation
playing such diverse genres as
Baroque, Classical, Tango, Jazz and
Contemporary music. Eng’s playing
has been noted as “intense and
powerfully emotional”(Classical
New Jersey) and The New Jersey
Star Ledger described him as having
an “instinct for the emotional pulse
of a line.” A founding member of A
Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, and the
Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, Mr.
Eng also plays as the violinist for
the Bernardo Monk Tango Quartet,
and the Found Objects Jazz String
Trio of Boston. He has been featured
on the Boston Celebrity Series,
Electric Earth Concerts and has been
a Guest Artist on both the Lyrica
Boston Chamber Music and Longy
School of Music’s Modern American
Music Concert series. Festival
appearances include Spoleto,
Orford, Domaine Forget, LyricaFest,
Killington, Yellowbarn, Scotiafest
and the Quartet Program at Bucknell
University. Eng has collaborated
as a soloist with Elmar Oliveira and
the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra, in
chamber music with Eugene Drucker,
Terry King, Victor Rosenbaum, and
has improvised with musicians
including Daniel Binelli, George
Garzone, Diane Monroe, and Peter
Cassino. Engagements as featured
soloist include performances with
the Hart House Orchestra of Toronto,
Cornell Symphony Orchestra, and
the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra. In
2006, Eng joined the faculty of
LyricaFest, a summer music festival
founded in New Jersey. Three years
later, Mr. Eng joined the faculty at
Indian Hill Music where he has been
teaching for the past four years. He
currently offers private instruction
on violin and viola as well as
coaching chamber music to students
in high school through college. In
1998, Andrew received his A.R.C.T.
Performer’s Certificate from the Royal
Conservatory in Toronto, Canada, and
then in 2003 and 2005 respectively
received his Undergraduate Diploma
in Performance and Master of Music
in Modern American Music at the
Longy School of Music as a student
of Laura Bossert, Terry King and
Peter Cassino.
See Also:
A Tribute to
the Music of
Ornette Coleman,
page 4.
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Beginning Saxophone Group
Beginning Voice
Instructor: Jerry Vejmola
From orchestral
classical ensembles,
to big band swing, to
the transcendental
compositions and solos
of bop and post-bop musicians, the
saxophone evokes an emotional
response and replicates the human
voice like few other instruments
can. This group class will teach
beginners the essentials on
embouchure and finger positions,
and give intermediate players an
opportunity to hone scale skills and
develop phrasing and dynamic range.
Please bring a working saxophone
to class. Jerry Vejmola (saxophone
and clarinet) received his musical
training at Berklee College of Music
in Boston. He has studied with Eddie
Daniels, Steve Grossman, Ralph
Gomberg, Joe Allard and others.
Mr. Vejmola is an active performer
whose current affiliations include
the White Heat Swing Orchestra,
South Shore Music Theater, North
Shore Music Theater, Quincy
Symphony and Foxwood Casino.
He has performed with the Buddy
Rich Band, Tito Puente, the Artie
Shaw Orchestra and with numerous
well-known artists including Aretha
Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Johnny
Mathis, The Temptations and many
others. Mr. Vejmola teaches private
students in Lexington and Concord/
Carlisle.
MSAX, 7 Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 pm.
$85/Seniors $75.
Instructor: Sandy Bornstein
Would you like to sing better?
Your voice is an instrument, so we
will focus on correct breathing,
relaxation, and expanding your
range and power. Suddenly the
high notes will become available.
Suddenly you will sing without
fatigue or tightness. If you can carry
a tune, but have always wanted to
make a better sound and sing with
confidence, this is the class for you.
The ability to read music is a plus,
but is not necessary. Solo singing is
not required.
MBEV, 8 Mondays, 7:30-9:00
pm. Begins September
21, LHS, Room 100D, $132/Seniors
$110.
Chamber Music
Performance Group
Instructor: Peter Sulski
A chamber music course led by Peter
Sulski of the Worcester Chamber
Music Society, Chamber Music
Society of Lexington, and Pedroia
Quartet. Groups will be divided by
level into one-to-a-part ensembles
that will together explore the great
chamber music repertoire. Violin,
viola and cello welcome. Performers
should play at Suzuki book level
3 and above. Repertoire picked to
serve each participant and group,
from Bach to Beethoven.
MCHA, 9 Mondays, 6:30-7:30 pm.
240, $220.
Writing
Beginning Three-Part
Harmony Singing
Beginning Bluegrass
Guitar and Mandolin
Instructor: Tony Watt
This
Beginning
Three-Part
Harmony
Singing
class is focused on two core
skills: learning how to determine
harmonies, and learning to teach
yourself to sing harmonies using
your instrument as a guide. We
will focus on a handful of common
folk/country/bluegrass vocal tunes,
and there will be homework each
class including both singing and
determining harmonies. There are
no prerequisite songs, and you don’t
need to be able to read music or play
lead. The Harmony Singing class is
open to all instruments, all levels both rhythm and lead players - but it
is geared towards those who have
trouble finding harmonies on their
instrument and/or with their voice.
You will need to bring an instrument
with you to class each week, and
although it’s not required, please
familiarize yourself with the G Major
scale in the first position of your
instrument. Class will meet October
13 and 27; November 10 and 24; and
December 1.
Instructor: Tony Watt
This Beginning Bluegrass Guitar
and Mandolin class is intended for
those who are new to playing lead
bluegrass guitar and/or mandolin,
or who have been frustrated trying
to learn to play lead before. In this
course we’ll learn how to read
tablature (tab), and we will focus on
learning the classic fiddle tune Old
Joe Clark as means to introduce a
variety of lead soloing techniques.
The primary goal is to provide you
with the skills needed to play lead
bluegrass guitar and mandolin
and participate in bluegrass jams.
Students do not need to have
previous experience playing (or
even listening to) bluegrass, and
you don’t need to be able to read
music. Students should bring a
playable mandolin or acoustic guitar
(ideally with steel strings) and a
pick. Handouts and corresponding
MP3s will be provided and students
are welcome to bring a recording
device, however it’s not necessary as
the instructor will be recording each
class and sharing the recordings
between classes. Class meets
October 13, October 27, November
10, November 24 and December 1.
MRHY, 5 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm.
$110/Seniors $82.
MGUI, 5 Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30
pm. Begins October 13,
LHS, Room 244, $110/Seniors $82.
Beginning Hand Drumming
Instructors: DrumConnection
Teaching Faculty
For thousands
of years the
drum has
provided
people with a
powerful basic tool to communicate,
express themselves, form community
and profoundly integrate the
senses. This course will give you
all the tools you’ll need to really
enjoy yourself playing your drum.
Our introduction to the rhythms of
Brazil, Cuba, Guinea, Haiti, Mali,
Senegal and Trinidad will allow us
to experience the healing power
of the drum and express our own
voice. As you unleash your natural
musical ability, you can experience
joyous, ecstatic states of mind. Plan
on having a fun time learning the
traditional rhythm for the djembe,
conga and ashiko drums. You can
learn to play simply for your own
enjoyment, or to play with other
musicians. DrumConnection’s
team teaching approach provides
individualized instruction, and
challenges and excites your
senses. You are welcome to bring
your own drum, rent from the
instructor by calling 781-316-8068, or
use an LCE drum for the class session.
LCE drums cannot be taken home.
A $5 materials fee, payable to the
instructor, will cover the cost of the
workbook and all written materials.
DRUM, 6 Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm.
247, $137/Seniors $115.
Whether it originates from memory
or fantasy, takes shape as poetry or
prose, our expert writing staff will
help you get your word out.
Memoir Writing
Instructor: Tom Daley
Memory is not an instrument for
exploring the past but its theatre.Walter Benjamin
Summon incidents and characters
from your past to the stage of your
memory through writing prompts
designed to create a personal
literature. Let your unique life
experiences help to create poems,
short stories, song lyrics, flash
fiction, personal essays, riddles or
even the beginning of a book-length
memoir. Whether you intend to
share your written remembrances
with family and friends or a broader
audience, you will find this a
collegial and supportive workshop
in which weekly exercises will help
you to transform the rich material
of your life into unique works of art.
The instructor, a published poet who
teaches poetry writing and leads
workshops on the creative process,
will offer suggestions for getting
your work published, either privately
or in journals.
WMEM, 8 Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00
224, $195/Seniors $145.
W2ME, 6 Fridays,12:30-2:00 pm.
Begins October 30, LCE Conference
Room, 146 Maple Street, Enter via
328 Lowell Street, $121/Seniors $93.
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LCE welcomes Kendall Dudley to lead a creative
course in Keeping a Travel Journal, see below.
NEW!
Poetry Writing Workshop
Writing the Personal Essay
Instructor: Tom Daley
Poetry is not only dream and vision;
it is the skeleton architecture of our
lives. It lays the foundation for a
future of change, a bridge across our
fears of what has never been before.
– Audre Lourde
Instructor: Lauren Doolan
In this course, we’ll write about
personal experiences in short essays.
If you’ve always wanted to write
about your life, but don’t know where
to start, this course is for you. We’ll
write on different themes each week
and explore different writing styles.
We’ll discuss different components
of the personal essay like tone and
format. We’ll help each student find
his or her unique voice. Students will
share their work in a supportive and
constructive environment. We’ll also
read a variety of published essays.
Poetry writing, largely, is a solitary
endeavor. This workshop will
provide the opportunity for poets,
both beginning and practiced,
to share their work with other
poets in a collegial and supportive
environment. We will concentrate on
sharpening the impact of your poems
through careful consideration of
their strengths and their limitations.
Optional take-home writing exercises
will give you the opportunity to
explore the myriad forms poetry can
take. Bring 10 copies of a recent
poem (no more than two pages long)
to the first session.
WPWW, 8 Wednesdays, 6:15-8:15
224, $195/Seniors $145.
WESS, 5 Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$110/Seniors $95.
NEW!
Fiction Writing
Instructor: Lauren Doolan
This workshop is open to all types of
fiction writing: short stories, novellas
and novels. If you’re just starting to
write or would like some feedback
on something you’ve been working
on, then this course is for you.
Your writing will be discussed in a
constructive environment, and we’ll
critique character, plot, dialogue
and setting. We’ll talk about how to
continue with your work and how
to stay motivated to write. We’ll
also look at published fiction and
experiment with writing exercises.
WFWW, 5 Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
224, $110/Seniors $95.
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NEW!
Keeping a Travel Journal:
Capture The Moment Before
It Flies Away
Metaphor, Simile, Image and
Sound: The Art of Sensory
Writing
Instructor: Kendall Dudley
Here’s a departure from the standard
travel journal! Using a fast-paced,
creative process, you’ll capture the
entire day in a few minutes, make
connections to past and present,
see context for your responses to
new things and uncover the new
in you. You’ll make use of simple
observational tools, quick-writing,
ephemera, doodling, shaped writing
and layering, and things that smell,
taste and create marks. Through
it all, your experience of travel
will deepen and some of the ways
you were on the road may carry
over to being at home. Bring an
unlined journal, 6x9 or larger, a pen,
watercolor pencils, and, if you have
one, a sample of an earlier travel
journal.
WKTJ, 2 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00
232, $44/Seniors $34.
Instructor: Tracy Marks
Do you want your writing to sparkle
with vivid sensory detail and imagery
capturing the essence of your
message? To generate metaphors
and similes like pebbles tossed in
a pond creating ripples across the
page, revealing multiple layers of
meaning? To write lyrically and
rhythmically, with rich alliteration
and assonance? Although many
class examples will be from poetry,
both fiction and nonfiction writers
as well as poets will benefit from
mini-lectures, discussion, in-class
exercises and workshopping of
students’ writing.
See Also
House You Cannot
Reach, a new
collection of Poems
by Tom Daley,
page 6.
WMET, 6 Tuesdays, 11:00 am-1:00
pm. Begins September 29, Lexington
Community Education Office
Conference Room at 146 Maple
Street. Access via 328 Lowell Street.
$132/Seniors $100.
American Bloomsbury author Susan Cheever
visits to discuss the lives of local legendary
authors, page 5.
Fine Art
Writing Children’s Books for
New and Returning Students
Instructor: Jane Sutton
Taught by a Lexington
author of eight
published books, this
class on writing for
children will focus on
character development, plot, and
descriptive writing. This course
is open to continuing students,
as well as to new students with
some previous writing experience.
Participants are encouraged to work
in the genre(s) of their interest and to
share and critique their manuscripts
and submission cover letters.
The Art of Making Picture
Books for New and Returning
Students
WCB2, 6 Tuesdays, 7:15-9:30 pm.
Begins September 29, and meets
October 13, October 27, November
10, November 24, and December 8.
Instructor: Marit Menzin
In this class we will experience
the art of creating children’s books
first-hand. Participants will make a
storyboard, and a model of the story
they are working on. We will then
review the formula for structuring
a picture book: introduction, story
development, and the story’s climax
and resolution in relation to its
illustrations. We will also examine
page layout, design and illustration
style, as well as different kinds of
art media used in picture books.
Further, we will discuss submission
packages, the use of agents,
assembling portfolios, and how to
market your work. Assignments will
be given.
See Also
Spellbinding Stories:
Four Local Authors
Read from their
Novels, page 7.
WWCB, 5 Fridays, 10:00 am-12:00
noon. Begins September 25, and
meets 10/2, 10/16, 10/23 and 10/30.
Lexington Public Schools Central
Office, Conference Rm 2, Access
by 328 Lowell Street, $132/Seniors
$100.
In his book “The Art Spirit” American
painter Robert Henri writes, “To
apprehend beauty is to work for it.”
LCE invites you to work, apprehend,
enjoy and ultimately add to the
beauty of the world through our
many art offerings.
Fundamentals of Drawing
Instructor: Peter Hines
It’s not necessary to travel to exotic
places or pick an unusual subject
to create art that is fresh and new.
Through overcoming the visual
prejudices we have developed
that make every day things seem
invisible, exciting art can be created
almost anywhere, and inspired by
almost any subject. In this drawing
class for beginning and intermediate
students, we will emphasize
observation and description of items
that are present in our own homes
and our neighborhood. We will
consider issues including form and
line, shading and shadows, shape
and proportion, and composition and
perspective. Students will receive
individual attention in a relaxed
and friendly setting. A $7 setup fee
payable to instructor at the first
class. Please call LCE for supply
information.
Daytime Watercolor
In this class we will practice the
fundamental skills of mixing color
and drawing with a brush. We
will examine many of the qualities
of appealing paintings, and how
technique enables self-expression
from the start. The cost of materials
is approximately $65 to $85. A $7
setup fee is payable to the instructor
at the first class. Supplies needed
are: 3 or 4 round sable brushes
ranging in size 2 to 10; a pad of good
watercolor paper approximately 9” x
12,” and a simple set of paints that
are mostly primary colors—cadmium
yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium
red, rose madder, ultramarine blue,
cerulean blue, Chinese white and
ivory black. Avoid paints that include
the word hue in the description, e.g.,
‘cadmium yellow hue,’ and get the
genuine traditional colors. A pad of
disposable palette paper or a small
palette may be useful.
ADYW, 4 Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 am.
Begins September 24, Conference
Room #2, Lexington Public Schools
Central Office, 146 Maple Street,
Access by 328 Lowell Street, $88/
Seniors $66.
AFOD, 8 Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30
am. Begins October 7, Conference
Seniors $132.
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An example of the art of Chinese Brush Painting instructor Son Mey Chiu.
Introduction to Pastels
Chinese Brush Painting
Art for Mindfulness
Open Sewing Skills Studio
This medium reduces the time
spent on setting up and cleaning,
and is ideal for artists with limited
space and time. We will begin with
exercises designed to get control of
color and become familiar with the
texture of pastels while practicing
the drawing of simple subjects.
Emphasis will be on studying objects
and describing what we see rather
than rehearsing the performance
of set procedures. Please bring a
beginners set of oil or soft pastels
that includes red, yellow, blue,
white, and black, and a pad of
student grade drawing paper. A $7
setup fee is payable to the instructor
at the first class.
Instructor: Son Mey Chiu
Students will learn the spontaneous
style (I-Bi) of traditional Chinese
brush techniques to create four
paintings in the “Flower-and-Bird”
genre of Chinese Painting. The four
seasons will be used as the themes
for the paintings. Spring: Crabapple
Blossoms and Butterfly; Summer: Lily
and Blue Bird; Fall: Chrysanthemum
and Dragonfly; Winter: Bittersweet
and Sparrow. Students will look
at photographs of the painting
objects, explore brushwork for
their depiction, and watch the
instructor’s demonstrations before
finishing the assigned paintings for
each class. Beginning and returning
students are welcome. The cost of
painting supplies for new students
of approximately $57 is payable to
instructor at the first class.
Instructor: Susan Dahl
Mindfulness is a meditation
practice that has been shown to
enhance focus and promote stress
management. If you have been
curious about what it is and how to
bring its benefits to your life, try Art
for Mindfulness. Students will use
drawing, painting, and printmaking,
among other projects, to explore a
different principle of Mindfulness
each week. No artistic experience
is necessary, but established
artists will discover new ways to
experience their creativity. People
interested in starting or reinforcing
a meditative practice will find that
art can make it easier to integrate its
insights in their daily lives.
Instructor: Rachel Kuberry
Do you have a sewing
project that has been
sitting unfinished in a
closet for months? Is
there a sewing project
that you would like to try but would
like some assistance with? Or do
you just want some more experience
using your sewing machine? Come
to this class with your unfinished
project or wish list and get going!
The instructor will provide support
for projects like: making a garment
using a pattern, making a pieced
quilt, and creating new pillows for
your home. If you do not yet have
a project for your sewing machine
in mind, come to the first class and
practice your sewing skills on some
simple projects while we design a
project to your liking. Please bring
your own sewing machine to class.
A few machines are available for
classroom use for an additional fee
of $5, payable with registration.
APAS, 4 Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 am.
Begins September 24, Conference
Seniors $66.
ACBP, 4 Tuesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm.
$126/Seniors $96.
See Also
Stress Less: Learn to
Meditate, page 40.
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AMMA, 8 Thursdays, 9:30-11:30
am. Begins October 1, Room 4A at
the Lexington Public Schools Central
Office, 146 Maple Street, Access
by 328 Lowell Street, $148/Seniors
$115.
ASEW, 6 Wednesdays, 6:308:30 pm. Begins October 7, LCE
Conference Room, enter via 328
Lowell Street, $150/Seniors $120.
NEW PROJECT!
Weave an Infinity Scarf on A
Cricket Loom
Instructor: Beth Cederberg Guertin
Rigid heddle looms produce plain
weave cloth on a fun and portable
loom. In four weeks (12 hours),
students will weave a bamboo scarf
with lace stripes and then sew the
scarf together to create an infinity
scarf. The first class will consist of
choosing colors and winding a warp
on a warping board. In the second
class students will thread the loom.
The third week we’ll begin weaving
and learn how to use a pick-up stick
to create lace stripes. Students will
take the loom home to weave the
scarf between classes (2 weeks).
The fourth class will consist of taking
the scarf off the loom, sewing the
edges, sewing the infinity scarf,
and learning how to wash the scarf.
Schacht Cricket Looms will be
provided for student use (and can
optionally be purchased from the
instructor). These looms are small
and lightweight enough to be carried
in a canvas tote bag, provided by
the instructor. A materials fee of $15
for the yarns will be paid directly to
the instructor. Please bring a 3 ring
binder and scissors to class. Class
will meet on October 14, 21, 28 and
November 18.
AWVE, 4 Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00
pm. Begins October 14, and meets
10/21,10/ 28 and 11/18. LHS, Room
214, $175/Seniors $135.
Knitting
Instructor: Pat Heggie
This class for beginning and
intermediate knitters will enhance
your enjoyment of a creative and
relaxing hobby that can provide
beautiful and cozy wearable items
for you or for others. The instructor
will provide individual help as
needed, using the American knitting
style. Bring either your current
project or a skein of worsted weight
yarn and a pair of #8 needles.
AWKN, 7 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00
211, $137/Seniors $117.
ATHKN, 10 Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
211, $192/Seniors $143.
Daytime Advanced Knitting
Instructor: Kerry Keohane
Bring a new or working project for
guidance and hand holding. Learn
to knit a gauge, a new technique, or
to seam and block your project. The
instructor, who has been teaching
knitting for fifteen years, is familiar
with knitting in round, magic loop,
cabling without a cable needle, color
work and lace. Bring your patterns,
yarn, needles, unfinished projects
and questions for a morning of
knitting.
An Introduction to Sea Glass
Jewelry Making
An Introduction to
Metalsmithing
Instructor: Carol Redinger
This course will review basic
concepts of sea glass jewelry
making, and introduce intermediate
level techniques. Learn to create
coiled wire, spirals and other
embellishments on genuine sea
glass! Materials fee of $35 is
payable to the instructor at the
first class. Class is held in the LCE,
Lowell Street, and enter through the
side door of the Old Harrington.
Instructor: Karenna Maraj
Come and learn how to
make beautiful jewelry
with an introduction
to metalsmithing
techniques! You will
be guided the first day on basic
techniques; how to solder, saw,
file, hammer, make jump rings and
findings. The next two sessions will
be spent using your new skills to
make bracelets, rings, earrings, and
pendants. We will use stamps, set
stones and learn wire wrapping,
just to name a few examples of
skills. Silver is available for a small
additional fee. While this class is
geared toward beginners, students
with some previous experience
will work on perfecting skills and
learning new techniques. Class is
limited to six students.
ASGJ, 2 Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00 pm.
Begins November 10, LCE Confer
ence Room, Access by 328 Lowell
Street, $49/Seniors $37.
AITM, 3 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Begins November 17. Karenna
Maraj Jewelry Collection, 95 Trapelo
Road, Belmont, $125.
ADKNIT, 4 Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30
am. Begins October 7. Meets at
Conference Room, 146 Maple Street,
access via 328 Lowell Street, $84/
Seniors $66.
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Scott Metzger teaches Photography: The Basics
and Beyond, page 21.
NEW!
Beginners Stone Carving
Stone Carving Saturday
Quilting and Beyond
A Taste of Blacksmithing
Instructor: Scott Cahaly
Become acquainted with carving
the five million year old medium of
soft stone known as alabaster. The
emphasis will be on staying present
with the ‘process’ instead of forcing
the results! Stone selection, tool
demonstrations, group discussions
and art historical references make
this a great introduction to this
ancient medium. Ideal for beginners
who can’t commit to a ten week
class but want more time to carve
then a weekend session. Price
includes tools, stone is an extra
expense. Classes are held at Scott’s
Stone Carving, 80 Loomis Street
(Bike Path) Bedford, MA 01730.
For additional class information
please visit: www.stonecarvingdust.
blogspot.com.
Instructor: Scott Cahaly
In this one-day workshop, you’ll
have the unique opportunity to carve
your own stone. For beginners and
experienced sculptors alike, you’ll
be guided through the process of
looking into the rock for imagery,
carving into material, planning and
forming a sculpture, and using tools.
Hand-carving techniques will be
demonstrated, and stone carving
lore will be discussed. We’ll also
touch upon safety in the studio, and
stone and tool sourcing. You will
leave with your stone sculpture in
hand. Please bring a bag lunch to
class. All materials will be provided.
Classes are held at Scott’s Stone
Carving, 80 Loomis Street (Bike Path)
Bedford, MA 01730. For additional
class information please visit: www.
stonecarvingdust.blogspot.com.
Instructor: Cathy Berry
Is there a quilt you would like to
make? Do you have a project that
you would like to finish? Have you
ever seen a quilt that just strikes
your fancy but you think it would be
too difficult? Come join our class
and learn the basics and beyond
with all the company of fellow
quilting and appliqué enthusiasts
which will keep you going through
the time consuming but creative
and rewarding process of starting,
making and finishing your own
special quilt. Optional field trips
to quilt and fabric shops will be
discussed in class.
Instructor: Carl West
The discovery of iron
and how to work it
changed human history.
Tools, weapons, and
daily life haven’t been
the same since. Here’s your chance
to learn to control one of the basic
elements of modern human life.
In this three hour class you will be
introduced to the basic smithing
techniques of hammering, drawingout, cutting, bending, and twisting.
Using these techniques and a coalfired forge you will heat a piece
of iron to brilliant incandescence
and with anvil, hammer, and tongs
create a decorative and useful
S-hook. Students should visit www.
prospecthillforge.com/safety.
php for safety notes and clothing
recommendations.
AWSTN, 5 Wednesdays,10:00
am-1:00 pm. Begins September 16,
Meets at Scott’s Stone Carving, 80
Loomis Street, Bedford, $255.
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ASTN, 1 Saturday, 9:30 am-3:00 pm.
Meets October 17. Meets at Scott’s
Stone Carving, 80 Loomis Street,
Bedford, $125.
A2STN, 1 Saturday, 9:30 am-3:00
pm. Meets November 21. Meets at
Scott’s Stone Carving, 80 Loomis
Street, Bedford, $125.
781.862.8043
AQ&M, 6 Mondays, 6:30-9:00 pm.
Begins September 21 and meets
9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2 and 11/16.
See Also:
The Accidental
Universe: The World You
Thought You Knew,
page 4.
ABLA, 1 Sunday, 6:30-9:30 pm.
Meets September 27, Meets at
Prospect Hill Forge, 38 Guinan
Street, Waltham, $65.
A2BL, 1 Thursday, 6:30-9:30 pm.
Meets November 5, Meets at
A3BL, 1 Sunday, 2:00-5:00 pm.
Meets November 15, Meets at
ELL/
Languages
Photography:
The Basics and Beyond
Introduction to
Photoshop Elements
Instructor: Scott Metzger
Great photographs are created
through the right mixture of angle,
light, subject, story, and spirit. To
capture all of these ingredients in
the snap of a shutter, a photographer
needs the skill set to potentially
assess, frame, and shoot in a
fraction of a second. In this class,
we will stock our photographic “tool
box” through studying the essential
elements of taking a great picture.
We will explore documentary,
lighting, the rule of thirds,
camera and computer processing
equipment, and composition. We
will also examine ways to manage
work flow and the particulars of
portrait, landscape and commercial
photography. By the end of the class,
students will feel more comfortable
with their ability to make a stronger,
more engaging photograph. Please
bring your camera to class. Please
note there is no class on October 12.
Instructor: Katherine Gorry Hines
In this hands-on introduction to
Adobe Photoshop Elements 12,
we’ll explore the different Elements
workspaces, and take a look at some
of the tools and their functions.
You’ll learn how to resize, crop, and
rotate images, and how to fix some
common problems such as red-eye,
and over- or under-exposed images.
You’ll also learn about adjustment
layers and masks, how to add text,
filters, and use blending modes
and special effects. You’ll learn
techniques for repairing old, faded,
or damaged photos, and retouching
to bring out the best in your photos.
We’ll cover some methods for
removing unwanted objects, and
combining elements from different
photographs. Class is limited to 4
students. Each student will have his
or her own computer to use during
the class. Instructor Katherine GorryHines is the co-owner of Complex IT.
APBB, 4 Mondays, 7:00-9:00
pm. Begins September 28,
LHS, Room 229, $88/Seniors 66.
CAPB, 3 Tuesdays, 10:00 am-12:00
pm. Begins September 29, at
Complex IT, 9 Meriam St., Lexington
Center. $165.
See Also
iPhone Photography, page 28.
No matter where you travel in the
world, communication is the key to
success. Our courses are taught by
instructors who both speak well and
teach well in multiple languages.
Beginning English
Instructor: TBA
This course is for those who have
little or no knowledge of English.
We will review the alphabet and
work on spelling, pronunciation,
and vocabulary. Letters, words,
and simple sentence structure
will be discussed. Basic grammar
will include simple present and
present progressive tenses. We
will use a textbook, worksheets,
and audio tapes, and we will
practice pronunciation, listening
and conversation skills in class. This
class will help you to understand,
speak, and write American English
in a friendly classroom setting.
Textbook “Allstar 1 Student
Book,” by Linda Lee, McGraw Hill
Publishers. Cost is about $25- $30,
including the audio tape.
LBGE, 9 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
$198/Seniors $178.
Intermediate English
Instructor: TBA
This course is intended for students
who can already speak, read, write,
and understand basic English and
want to focus on conversation
practice. We will review grammar
including verbs and prepositions. We
will also work on practical exercises
to improve everyday conversation.
LINE, 8 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
$160/Seniors $140.
English Conversation
Instructor: TBA
Have you studied English or perhaps
traveled or lived in an English
speaking country, yet still feel
uncomfortable when Americans
use informal English? In this
class, you will learn to understand
and make yourself understood
in communication with schools,
landlords, neighbors and government
officials. Your confidence will grow
as we converse about daily life,
family, children, friends, shopping,
travel and what to see and do in the
Boston area.
LCOE, 8 Tuesdays, 9:30 am-11:30
am. Begins October 6, Follen Church,
$160/Seniors $140.
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Beginning Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Advanced Spanish
Beginning Italian
Instructor: Pilar G. Cabrera, Ph.D.
This beginner course focuses on
basic communication in Spanish.
Students will develop communication
skills that include greetings and
farewells, answering the phone,
ordering a meal, discussing traveling
and hotel accommodations, and
talking about recreation and sports.
Students will learn grammar usage
such as regular and irregular verbs,
subject-verb agreement, progressive
tense, agreement of articles, nouns,
and adjectives in the context of
discussion, reading, and writing
exercises.
Instructor: Elsa-Lucia Cabrera, MD
The demand for Spanish speakers
in professional and personal
situations is constantly increasing.
This Intermediate Spanish course is
designed for students with a basic
understanding of Spanish who would
like to improve their conversational
and compositional skills. Emphasis
will be placed on the mastery
of grammar, especially of verbs,
in order to progressively master
the language. There will also be
emphasis placed on pronunciation,
vocalization, understanding,
intonation and vocabulary building.
In eight two-hour sessions,
students will learn how to express
themselves through phrases and
questions, compose and read written
assignments in class and learn about
traditions of Hispanic-American
cultures.
Instructor: Consuelo Abrisqueta
This course is for those who have a
sound intermediate level knowledge
of the Spanish language and
culture. The objective of this class
is to engage students in multiple
task approaches to learning both
grammar and cultural mores that
equal “the backbone to correct
conversation.” We will develop
further mastery of the practical
application of the Spanish Language
as is used in everyday life across
different environments. Each class
will place emphasis on speaking,
reading, writing and listening with a
special emphasis on pronunciation,
comprehension, vocalization,
intonation, and vocabulary building.
Students will be giving weekly class
presentations on specific themes
followed up by class question and
answer period and debate. The
Instructor will also provide readings
from Spanish Newspapers and
literature, as well as other media
sources, such as Spanish talk shows
and television programs.
Instructor: Sonia Parravano
In this class students will have
opportunities to develop skills in
grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary,
spelling, and conversation. Students
will learn the Italian sound system
and the rudiments of vocabulary
and grammar necessary for basic
communication. They will also
become increasingly competent in
listening, reading, writing, speaking,
grammar and culture. This course
is built around readings, class
discussion, videos, and active class
participation. Memorization and
mechanical practice is required.
Textbook will be discussed at first
class.
LBGS, 8 Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00 pm.
$165/Seniors $132.
See Also
Italian Cooking and
Language, page 34.
LHCC, 7 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$115/Seniors $88.
LADS, 8 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
231, $132/Seniors $100.
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LBIT, 9 Thursdays, 6:30-7:45 pm.
240, $143/Seniors $107.
LDBI, 9 Fridays, 9:30 am-11:00 am.
Begins September 25, LCE Office
the side door of the Old Harrington,
$143/Seniors $107.
A variety of French language classes can be found
on pages 23 and 24.
NEW!
NEW!
Intermediate Italian Daytime
Italian Conversation
Evening Beginning French
Beginning French II
This level is appropriate for students
who have completed advanced
beginner, are comfortable in an
immersion environment, and
confident using vocabulary and
grammar skills acquired in Italian
beginner I and Italian beginner II.
The goal of this course is to further
advance students’ proficiency in
Italian. This class will meet in the
LCE Conference Room at 146 Maple
Street. Access via 328 Lowell
Street.
Engage in fun and stimulating
conversation while enhancing your
cultural, literary, and linguistic
proficiency. The course explores
a wealth of interesting topics, like
Renaissance Italy, contemporary
literature, current news, cuisine,
music and more. Students are
encouraged to prepare a topic and
discuss their findings in an informal
atmosphere. In addition to oral
production, writing assignments
and in-class prompts aim to help
students express their ideas in the
language. This class is a great fit for
students who have intermediate to
advanced proficiency in Italian.
Instructor: Maurice Bombrun
Beginning French is for students
with no, little, or “forgotten” French
knowledge. The course introduces
basic pronunciation, grammar, and
vocabulary to build the foundation of
the language in a fun environment.
Students will learn to communicate
simple concepts in French, both
written and spoken. Focus is shared
among reading, writing, listening
and speaking for a well-rounded,
dynamic learning experience. The
college-level Contacts, Valette/
Valette, may be purchased online or
from a bookstore.
Instructor: Karen Girondel
This course is for students with some
very basic knowledge of French. It
is the second half of a typical first
year French course. We use the
free online French program from
the University of Texas at Austin,
Français interactif (www.laits.
utexas.edu/fi/home), starting with
Chapter 7. Emphasis is on developing
vocabulary in a variety of contexts,
with class work concentrating on
developing confidence speaking
French. The program also provides
ample opportunities for grammar
exercises and writing.
LBFR, 10 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
234, $220/Seniors $195.
LADF, 9 Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
166, $148/Seniors $115.
LDII, 9 Fridays, 11:00 am-12:30 pm.
Begins September 25, LCE Office
the side door of the Old Harrington,
$143/Seniors $107.
LICO, 9 Thursdays, 7:45-9:00 pm.
240, $143/Seniors $107.
See Also
Paris Off the Beaten
Path, page 35.
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French instructor Maurice Bombrun.
NEW!
Daytime Intermediate French
Intermediate French
This total immersion
course is designed for
students who are able
to create sentences in
French using learned
vocabulary and expressions in basic
social situations. While students
may make mistakes, and pause to
find the right word or to self-correct,
they are generally understood by
sympathetic native speakers who are
accustomed to non-native fluency.
The emphasis will be on perfecting
listening and speaking skills in a
variety of authentic cultural contexts,
as well as increasing vocabulary and
grammatical accuracy. The course is
taught in a very visual way making it
fun and easy to make rapid progress
towards advanced proficiency.
Instructor: Maurice Bombrun
Intermediate French is for
students with all basic concepts
of pronunciation, grammar and
vocabulary. The course quickly
reviews the foundation to build
upon and expand the language
patterns and grammatical structures.
Vocabulary is enhanced further
through simple dialogues, readings,
and translations. We will review
verb tenses and more are presented.
Students learn how to communicate
with simple sentences in applicable
situations. The college-level book
Contacts, Valette/Valette, may
be purchased online or from a
bookstore.
LDIF, 10 Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 am.
Begins September 29, Downstairs
Conference Room #2, $165/Seniors
$132.
LINF, 10 Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
234, $220/Seniors $195.
See Also
Planning Your European
Vacation, page 36.
French Language
Through Film
Biblical Hebrew for
Beginners
Film transports us to another place,
another time and another life. Film
provides language learners with
a rich audio-visual context, along
with dynamic vocabulary, idiomatic
expressions, authentic dialogue, in
addition to cultural and historical
references. This course will feature
presentation of vocabulary and some
key grammatical structures which
students will practice in the context
of the film, as well as open-ended
exercises, activities, discussions,
and role-playing designed to help
them improve their proficiency.
Listening and speaking skills will be
emphasized in this class rather than
reading and writing. This course
is for you if you know some basic
French, understand some of what
you hear when spoken at normal rate
of speed, and want the opportunity
to speak in a context that will
encourage increased vocabulary
and grammatical accuracy without
lists of words and tedious written
exercises.
Instructor: Moris Hoch
The Hebrew Scriptures
including the Psalms,
Song of Songs, Book
of Ruth, etc., can be
studied as literature
as well as history and comprise
a cultural treasure for the world
that everyone can enjoy and all the
more so in the original language.
Beginning with the Hebrew alphabet
and building vocabulary along the
way, the diligent student will learn
to read and understand verses in the
Hebrew Scriptures. How to write the
Hebrew block and cursive script will
be demonstrated. The study material
and homework assignments will
be printed and handed out to the
class. Slide presentations created
by the instructor will be available
online as well. The goal is to build a
vocabulary of 100 common Biblical
Hebrew words, to learn to read
and pronounce the Hebrew letters
and vowel combinations, and to
gain familiarity with basic rules of
Hebrew grammar. Instruction will
be given to help the student gain
sufficient skill to use a HebrewEnglish dictionary or lexicon to find
the meanings of unknown words.
LFIL, 7 Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$115/Seniors $88.
LHEB, 8 Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 pm.
$132/Seniors $100.
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Computers
From editing digital photos, to creating your own web page, you are sure to find
something to match your ability and interest.
Computers are provided for all
computer classes. However, if
preferred, students may bring their
laptops for any of Kristen Butler’s
classes.
Introduction to Microsoft
Excel – Daytime
Organizing Your Computer –
Daytime
Instructor: Kristen Butler
Learn how to use a spreadsheet
application and create graphs using
the data in your spreadsheets. Learn
how to use multiple worksheets
and share the data between the
worksheets. MS Excel is a great tool
for tracking numbers.
Learn how to organize your files
and folders, manage the “My
Documents” folder, and backup
your information. Students must be
familiar with the basics of how to
use a computer.
Introduction to Computers –
Daytime
Have you never used a computer
...or feel that you really need to
learn the basics? Learn the lingo and
the fundamentals of a computer. In
this hands-on class, learn how to
use a mouse; keyboard; pull-down
menus; find and save files; basic
file management; how to print;
and how to shut down. Class will
include a brief overview of what to
look for when you buy a computer.
Class size is limited to 8 to allow for
individualized instruction.
CDINT, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am12:30 pm. Meets October 1, LCE
Conference Room, $48.
Introduction to Microsoft
Word – Daytime
Learn how to use this powerful word
processing program to write your
papers, create flyers, write your
resume, modify document setups,
change margins, change fonts, and
other information. Students must be
use a computer.
CDEX, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am12:30 pm. Meets October 15, LCE
Introduction to PowerPoint –
Daytime
Learn how to use a presentation
package that will allow you to
create slide presentations using
text, charts, pictures, and graphics.
Instead of using overheads,
PowerPoint allows you to create
interesting, colorful, and interactive
presentations. Students must be
use a computer.
CDPP, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am12:30 pm. Meets October 22, LCE
CDORG, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am12:30 pm. Meets October 29, LCE
Intermediate Word – Daytime
Learn how to use this powerful
word processor to create your own
letterhead, your own fax cover sheet,
create footnotes and endnotes, use
styles, make a table of contents,
and more. Students must be familiar
with the basics of how to use a
word processor. Class size is limited
to 8 to allow for individualized
instruction.
CDIW, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am-12:30
pm. Meets November 5, LCE
Intermediate Excel – Daytime
Learn how to import and link files,
setup databases and mail merge,
create your own labels, modify
charts, define macros, and more.
Students must be familiar with the
basics of how to use Excel. Class
size is limited to 8 to allow for
individualized instruction.
CDIX, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am-12:30 pm.
Meets November 12, LCE Conference
Room, $48.
Intermediate Powerpoint –
Daytime
Learn how to create slide masters,
tables, create custom shows,
insert photos, add sound, animated
graphics, and more. Students must
be familiar with the basics of how to
use PowerPoint. Class size is limited
to 8 to allow for individualized
instruction.
CDIP, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am-12:30 pm.
Room, $48.
Register for DAYTIME classes with Kristen Butler and SAVE!
• Sign up for 3 computer classes for $134 a $10 savings!
• Sign up for 4 computer classes for $165, a $15 savings!
CDWO, 1 Thursday, 9:30 am12:30 pm. Meets October 8, LCE
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Introduction to
Microsoft Word
processing program to write your
papers, create flyers, write your
resume, modify document setups,
change margins, change fonts, and
other information. Students must be
use a computer.
CWOR, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00
pm. Meets October 7, LHS, Room
215, $38.
Introduction to PowerPoint
Intermediate Excel
Intro to Adobe Photoshop
Learn how to use a presentation
package that will allow you to
create slide presentations using
text, charts, pictures, and graphics.
Instead of using overheads
PowerPoint allows you to create
interesting, colorful, and interactive
presentations. Students must be
use a computer.
Learn how to import and link files,
set up databases and mail merge,
create your own labels, modify
charts, define macros and more.
basics of how to use Excel.
CIPO, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm.
Meets October 21, LHS, Room 215, $38.
Intermediate PowerPoint
Instructor: Damian Barneschi
In this class students, will learn how
to use Photoshop as both a tool to
alter digital images and as a means
of creating finished pieces of original
artwork. The course begins with an
explanation of Photoshop tools and
soon has students using these tools
to manipulate images. Students will
then learn how to use Photoshop
to improve digital photos. For this
purpose, students are encouraged
to work from their own image
bank, but images will be provided if
necessary. Finally, students will use
their acquired knowledge to create
original pieces of artwork, including
a print advertisement and a photo
collage.
Organizing Your Computer
Introduction to
Microsoft Excel
Learn how to use a spreadsheet
application and create graphs using
the data in your spreadsheets. Learn
how to use multiple worksheets
and share the data between the
worksheets. MS Excel is a great tool
for tracking numbers.
CINX, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm.
$38.
Learn how to organize your files
and folders, manage the “My
Documents” folder, and backup
your information. Students must be
use a computer.
CORG, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00
215, $38.
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Learn how to create slide masters,
tables and custom shows; insert
photos, add sound and animated
graphics, and more. Students must
be familiar with the basics of how to
use PowerPoint.
CNPO, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00
pm. Meets December 2, LHS, Room
215, $38.
CAPS, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
$198/Seniors $148.
Register for EVENING classes with Kristen Butler and SAVE!
Intermediate Word
processor to create your own letterhead,
your own fax cover sheet, create
footnotes and endnotes, use styles,
make a table of contents, and more.
basics of how to use a word processor.
CINW, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00
pm. Meets November 4, LHS, Room
215, $38.
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CIEX, 1 Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 pm.
Meets November 18, LHS, Room
215, $38.
781.862.8043
Classes taught by Complex IT are held in the Adams Building, located at 9 Meriam Street in Lexington.
Understanding Your
Home Network
Instructor Steve Iverson, co-owner
of Complex IT
Q: What’s a network? A: It’s a
group of computers and other
devices that can communicate
with each other, and chances are
you’ve got one in your home. This
class will teach you the basics of
home networks. We’ll talk about
routers, modems, switches, wireless
access points, and the basics of
TCP/IP, the addressing scheme
for devices on networks – overall,
enough information to help you
perform basic troubleshooting when
something isn’t working right on
your home network. Don’t be at
the mercy of your Internet Service
Provider’s phone support! The class
assumes no previous knowledge of
networking. Appropriate for both
Windows and Mac computer users.
Class will be held at Complex IT, 9
Meriam St., Suite 1, in Lexington
Center. Instructor Steve Iverson is
the co-owner of Complex IT.
CHOM, 1 Wednesday, 2:00-4:00
pm. Meets October 7 at Complex
IT, 9 Meriam St., Suite 1, Lexington
Center. $55.
Back It Up
Keep Your Computer Secure
The iPad for Beginners
Instructor: Steve Iverson, co-owner
of Complex IT
Computer backups are
essential, but they’re
often poorly understood
and overlooked.
We’ll talk about the
essentials of backups, including
programs such as CrashPlan that
automate and simplify the task.
We’ll also talk about the importance
of verifying that you can get back
the data that you’ve backed up,
because a backup is useless if you
can’t restore your data. Class is
appropriate for Windows and Mac
users, and for both individual and
small business users. Class will
be held at Complex IT, 9 Meriam
St., Suite 1 in Lexington Center.
Instructor Steve Iverson is the coowner of Complex IT.
Instructor Steve Iverson, co-owner
of Complex IT
The Internet is full of hazards.
You need to have at least a basic
understanding of the risks and of
how to keep your computer and
other devices safe. This class will
cover malware (viruses and similar
programs), security programs,
and many other aspects of online
security. We will cover topics
appropriate to Windows and Mac
computers as well as mobile
devices. The class requires no prior
knowledge of the topic. Instructor
Steve Iverson is the co-owner of
Complex IT.
Instructor: Katherine Gorry Hines,
co-owner of Complex IT
Are you thinking about getting an
iPad, or did you just get one? If
you’re feeling a bit lost and would
like to learn the basics, this is
the class for you! This general
introduction will cover iPad features;
swiping and gestures; some of the
built-in applications (apps), and how
to find more apps in the App Store.
Bring your own iPad if you have one,
or follow along as we demonstrate
the iPad’s features. Please note that
class is taught using iOS7. If your
iPad has an older operating system,
not all features demonstrated in
class will apply to your iPad. To
check your iOS version and see if
there is an available update for your
iPad, do the following: from the
Home Screen, tap Settings > General
> About. Instructor Katherine Gorry
Hines, is the co-owner of Complex IT.
CBIU, 1 Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 pm.
Meets October 21, at Complex IT, 9
Meriam St., Lexington Center. $55.
CSAF, 1 Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 pm.
Meets October 28 at Complex IT, 9
Meriam St., Lexington Center. $55.
See Also
Simple Ways to Protect Your
Home, page 9.
CPAD, 1 Tuesday, 10:00 am-12:00
pm. Meets October 27, at Complex
IT, 9 Meriam St., Lexington Center.
$55.
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Parenting
Perspectives
NEW!
NEW!
iPhone Photography
Facebook for Beginners
You may have heard the saying that
“the best camera is the one you
have with you.” For many people,
the camera that’s almost always
with them is the camera in their
iPhone…find out how to make the
most of it! This course will cover
the basics of using your iPhone to
shoot, edit, organize, and share
photos and videos. We’ll discuss
topics such as the camera controls,
how to adjust exposure, use the
timer, access burst mode, and shoot
panoramas. You’ll learn how to crop
and straighten photos, and apply
color and lighting adjustments right
on your phone. We’ll also cover
using the photos app on your phone
to find and organize your photos,
and discuss some ways for sharing
your photos via Messages, Mail,
iCloud photostream, social media,
and Instagram. This course applies
to iPhones and iPads using iOS8.
Instructor Katherine Gorry Hines is
the co-owner of Complex IT.
CIPH, 1 Tuesday, 10:00 am - 12:00
pm. Meets October 20, at Complex
$55.
Everyone keeps telling
you to get on Facebook,
and you haven’t joined
yet. Or perhaps you
joined, and then after
logging in, said to yourself, “Now
what?” Facebook is becoming the
first place many people turn to for
sharing news, photos, and event
invitations. Don’t miss any more of
your friend’s and family’s wedding,
baby, or cute kitten pictures! You’ll
learn about friend requests, Timeline,
your news feed, messaging,
Facebook etiquette, and privacy
and security settings. Please come
to class with your Facebook login
email and password, so you’ll have
a chance to follow along using your
own account. Instructor Katherine
Gorry Hines is the co-owner of
Complex IT.
CFAC, 1 Thursday, 10:00 am-12:00
noon. Meets October 15, at Complex
$55.
See Also
Photography: The Basics and
Beyond, page 21.
Too Safe to Succeed: An
Evening with Lenore Skenazy
Lenore Skenazy is a lot of things—
author, humorist, keynote speaker,
popular blogger, TV host, and a
thought leader on issues ranging
from parenting, to policy, to
consumer insights. And, oh yes, she
was, for a time, labeled “America’s
Worst Mom.”
Google it. The New York City
columnist-turned-reality TV show
host got that title after letting her
9-year old son take the subway,
alone. In response to the enormous
media blowback, she wrote the
book and blog, “Free-Range Kids,”
which launched the anti-helicopter
parenting movement. Now, Lenore
Skenazy is the media’s “go-to”
expert on parenting culture. She’s
been featured in the Wall Street
Journal more than a dozen times in
the last two years. Her belief that
we are making our kids “too safe
to succeed” has led to speaking
engagements at corporations,
colleges and conventions around the
world, from Microsoft Headquarters,
to the Sydney Opera House, to the
Yale Child Study Center. Lenore also
headlined both the International
Children’s Festival in Vancouver and
the Bulgarian Happiness Festival.
SLSK, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm.
Meets October 6, Waldorf School of
Lexington, 739 Massachusetts Ave,
Lexington, MA, $10
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Music educator Shinichi Suzuki
states, “Children learn to smile
from their parents.” Each term
our parenting perspectives offers
courses and talks that are geared
toward living happily and healthy in
family, in community.
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Understanding ADHD and
Non-pharmacological
Approaches to Treatment
Instructor: Naomi Steiner, MD
9.6% of children and
adolescents are present
with ADHD (Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder), by far the
most common neurodevelopmental
disorder in childhood. In addition to
the classic ADHD symptoms of poor
attention span, high activity level,
and impulsivity, children with ADHD
are at substantial risk for behavioral
problems at school, academic
underperformance and failure, and
dropping out. Dr. Steiner will review
and explain the presentation of
ADHD, using examples to illustrate
the symptoms and how they can
change between elementary,
middle and high school, and
college. She will discuss treatment
options, focusing particularly on
nonpharmacological approaches
such as computer based attention
training systems, which include the
highly publicized neurofeedback. Dr.
Steiner will review these therapies,
demonstrate neurofeedback, and
answer your questions regarding
this approach and ADHD in general.
Please Note: No direct patient
clinical therapeutic guidance will
be given.
PADH, 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$25.
Amanda Strawhacker and Amanda Sullivan of the Amandas Consulting teach K-2 STEM, see below.
Courses for
Children
NEW!
The Opioid Crisis
Instructor: Detective James
Rettman, Lexington Police
Department
Detective James Rettman will
discuss today’s drug culture and
the effects it has on our youth at
home, in school, and beyond. He will
provide guidance on the signs of drug
use, common hiding places where
drugs are stored, and how families
can seek help. Additionally, he will
discuss today’s popular drugs, their
common street names, and what
they look like. Detective Rettman has
been a police officer since 2002 and
is currently assigned to the Suburban
Middlesex Country Drug Task
Force. Detective Rettman has been
assigned to the DEF since October of
2011. His duties include surveillance,
acting in an undercover capacity
and search warrant execution
of “street level” targets. Before
being assigned to the S.M.D.T.F,
Detective Rettman was assigned to
the Lexington Public Schools as the
School Resource Officer.
TOPI, 1 Thursday, 6:30-8:00 pm.
226. Free, but pre-registration is
required.
NEW!
Each summer LCE’s Lexplorations
program offers wonderful creative
experiences that are anticipated and
warmly remembered throughout the
regular school year. Our Courses for
Children section aims to offer that
same no-stress environment filled
with opportunities for enrichment
and fun.
Home Alone
Instructor: Officers of the Lexington
Police Department
Help your child feel safer and more
secure when home alone or with
siblings, and teach them smart
telephone and doorbell answering
strategies. This class is designed
for children ages 9 and older.
Younger children may attend with an
accompanying adult. Instructors are
officers from the Lexington Police
and Fire Departments. Class size is
limited so please register early.
K009, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 pm.
221. Free, but space is limited and
pre-registration is required.
Babysitter’s Training with
American Heart Association
Heartsaver First Aid, CPR/
AED
Instructor: Kathleen Irving
Participants will gain the knowledge
and skills necessary to safely
and responsibly care for children
and infants. This training will
help participants to develop
leadership skills; learn how to
develop a babysitting business;
keep themselves and others safe;
help children behave, and learn
about basic child care. In addition,
participants will learn to recognize
and respond appropriately to
cardiac, breathing and first aid
emergencies until more advanced
medical personnel arrive. Students
who successfully complete this
course will receive an Adult, Child
and Infant CPR/AED and First Aid
certification, valid for two years, and
a Babysitter’s Training certification
with no expiration. Course curriculum
is appropriate for students ages
11-15.
Saturday STEM Series for
Grades K-2
Instructor: Amanda Strawhacker
and Amanda Sullivan (the Amandas
Consulting)
Want a little more technology and
engineering in your weekend? Sign
up for our Saturday STEM Series for
children in grades K-2. Each Saturday
we’ll present new topics and handson activities for kids to explore.
You’ll have fun playing with circuits,
programming robots, and editing
your own cartoons and movies. You
will even be able to take home some
of your engineered creations to share
with friends and family! Please
note class will meet: September 26;
October 10, and 31; and November
14 and 21.
KSTM, 5 Saturdays,10:00 am-2:00
pm. Begins September 26, LHS,
Library Media Center, $175.
KBTR, 2 Thursdays, 4:00-7:30 pm.
$150.
K2BT, 2 Tuesdays, 4:00-7:30 pm.
Begins November 10, LHS, Room
173, $150.
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Author Brigid Gorry-Hines leads the Teen Writing
Workshop, see below.
NEW!
NEW!
Bon Appétit!! French Cooking
for Kids (Grades 4-5)
Instructors: Joan Yarmovsky,
Elisabeth Passeri, and Christine
Goulet
Are you fascinated by Julia Child’s
and Jacques Pepin’s delicious food
creations? Then Bon Appétit! will
transform you into the next master
chef by learning all about the art of
French cooking and cuisine. You will
learn French vocabulary for cooking
terms and ingredients and each
week you will make a traditional
dish to either sample in class or
bring home for your family to enjoy.
Some dishes may include a Tarte
Tatin, Croque Monsieur, and many
delicious crêpes. You will even be
part of a cheese tasting event where
you will critique a variety of French
cheeses. By the end of the six
weeks, you will have made your very
own French cookbook and be ready
to open your own 5-star restaurant!
Miam! This class will not be filmed
for broadcast. A $30 materials fee
is to be paid to the instructor at the
first class.
NBON, 6 Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00
pm. Begins October 7, LexMedia
Studios, $90.
Teen Writing Workshop
Instructor: Brigid Gorry-Hines
In this writing workshop, young
writers will have the chance to
hone their writing skills and share
feedback with their peers. The class
will include designated writing
time as well as discussions about
the craft-including subjects such as
character development, outlining,
word-building, and finding your own
voice. This workshop will be most
suitable for students in grades 7-9.
No writing experience is necessary.
Please bring a notebook and a
writing utensil.
KEEN, 5 Mondays, 4:30-5:30 pm.
220, $60.
Fiction Writing for Fourth
and Fifth Graders
Instructor: Karen Day
Local children’s book author Karen
Day will lead fourth and fifth
graders through interactive writing
exercises as they explore how to
start a fictional story of their own.
Students will learn the importance of
showing, not telling, and why every
book needs a strong, active voice.
No experience needed, just a good
imagination!
K2FI,1 Thursday, 6:00-7:30 pm.
222, $44.
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Fiction Writing Workshop for
Middle School Students
Dungeons and Dragons for
Middle School Students
Instructor: Karen Day
Creating a strong
narrative voice is
one of the most
important ingredients
in fiction writing. In
this workshop local children’s author
Karen Day will take middle school
students through the exercises
she does when creating fictional
characters. They will also explore
plot, setting and theme. Students
will leave with an understanding of
how to create a strong voice. They
will also have the beginnings of a
story of their own.
Instructor: Gerry Goolkasian
This ever popular game of logic and
imagination begins with the creation
of characters with the rolling of
dice. You and your collaborators
guide your characters through an
imaginary journey encountering
exciting adventures along the way.
Your journey is referred to as a
“campaign” which is creatively
structured like the plot of a good
book by one player known as the
Dungeon Master. This player is
usually a more experienced player.
In Week 1, we will begin taking
requests to write and run campaigns,
and then create characters. After
that our imaginations will guide us
onwards. Both experienced players
and beginners are welcome.
KFIC, 1 Thursday, 6:00-7:30 pm.
222, $44.
KCDD, 6 Tuesdays, 3:00-6:00 pm.
Begins November 3, Clarke Middle
School, Room 221, $126.
KDDD, 5 Thursdays, 3:00-6:00 pm.
Begins November 5, Diamond Middle
School, Cafeteria, $104.
NEW!
Drawing and Painting
People, Animals and More
for Grades 6-8
Instructor: Carol Butler Redinger,
M.S.W., and Robert Butler
It has been proven that the
inspirational power of art can affect
all of us profoundly! Students will
discover their own unique creative
gifts in a relaxed, yet structured
setting. Included in the classroom
demonstrations and individual
instruction are the essential art
techniques and fundamentals:
Human and Animal Anatomy,
Color Mixing, Light and Shadow,
Perspective, Landscapes and more.
Students of any learning style will
develop the confidence to create
their own exciting artwork, with
that confidence extending into
their daily lives! The curriculum for
these sessions was created as a
collaborative partnership between
Carol Butler Redinger, M.S.W. and
Robert Butler, artist and teacher. An
art materials fee of $25 is payable
to the instructors at the first class.
Texts and diagrams are provided
free of charge by the instructors.
Carol Butler Redinger, M.S.W.
is a clinical social worker who has
provided comprehensive services to
individuals of all ages, in a variety
of educational and social service
settings. She has empowered them
to meet the challenges of daily
life and beyond. Robert Butler is
currently an adjunct professor and
teacher at New England colleges and
Grade schools K-12. He has been a
teacher and mentor of the arts for
students of all populations for thirty
years. Mr. Butler’s artwork has been
shown on the Discovery Channel
and exhibited at the Smithsonian
National Museum.
KDPA, 3 Saturdays, 10:00 am-12:00
noon. Begins October 10, LHS, Room
210, $66.
Art Studio: Charcoal and
Pastel for Grades 2-5
Instructor: Alma Bella Solis
Using a combination of charcoal
pencils and chalks, or dry pastel
pencils and chalks, you will produce
your own compositions, interpreting
subjects ranging from still life to
human figures. You’ll learn drawing
methods including outline, contour,
shading, blending, detailing and
explore perspective, proportion,
and more. Class size limited to 7
students.
KPAC, 6 Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30 pm.
173, $165.
Art Studio: Charcoal and
Pastel for Grades 6-9
Instructor: Alma Bella Solis
Using a combination of charcoal
pencils and chalks, or dry pastel
pencils and chalks, you will produce
your own compositions interpreting
subjects ranging from still life to
human figures. You’ll learn drawing
methods including outline, contour,
shading, blending, detailing and
explore perspective, proportion,
and more. Class size limited to 7
students.
K2PAC, 6 Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm.
173, $165.
NEW!
Fiddle in the Middle
Instructor: Chris LeDoux
Has anyone ever asked you what
the difference is between a violin
and a fiddle? Come explore some
alternative music styles and find
out the answer for yourself! This
course is open to students in Grades
6-8 who have at least two years’
experience playing violin, viola, cello,
or bass. No experience playing fiddle
music? No problem! We’ll learn
music the traditional way (by ear) as
well as with sheet music - selections
may come from Celtic, FrenchCanadian/Cajun, bluegrass, Scottish,
Scandinavian, and other traditions.
Jazz in the Middle
Instructor: Toby Forman
Do you love Jazz?
Joining the Jazz In The
Middle band will get
you playing cool Jazz
every week! Young
musicians will get a solid grounding
in jazz styles, music theory, and
improvisation skills. This town-wide
big band is just for middle school
students, and will prepare you for
playing at the high school level and
beyond. Playing regularly with other
musicians is one of the best ways to
improve your own instrumental skills.
The Jazz in the Middle band is not
appropriate for beginners. Students
must have some level of proficiency
on their instrument. Please indicate
your instrument on registration form.
Auditions are not required.
KJZC, 10 Mondays, 3:00-4:30 pm.
Begins September 21, Clarke Middle
School Auditorium, $165.
KJZD, 10 Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 pm.
Begins September 29, Diamond
Middle School Music Room, $165.
KFID, 10 Mondays, 3:45-4:45 pm.
133, $110.
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Test Prep/
College
Planning
In Control:
Crash Prevention Training
LCE Test Prep
This course offers students from
Lexington High School and their
families an opportunity to learn the
skills that can not safely be taught
on public roadways. Learn how to
handle panic stops, turning into
the skid, tailgating, and emergency
lane changes, as well as the latest
techniques for maintaining safe
habits. This 4.5 hour class will teach
you how to handle mistakes made
not only by you, but also by others.
Car crashes account for almost 50%
of teen deaths and training has been
shown to be the answer.
Visit www.driveincontrol.com/
lexingtonhighschool to learn about
the discount on the class, available
insurance discounts for graduates,
and how much fun learning to handle
Massachusetts roads can be in a
closed course environment.
Driver Education
Instructor: CS Driving School
A complete driver’s education
program (classroom and behind-thewheel lessons) is available through
LCE. Students must be at least 15.9
years old to begin the program.
Please see the LCE website at www.
lexingtoncommunityed.org for details
and dates. The cost for the course
is $550.
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Instructors: LHS teacher Chris
Doucette, retired LHS teacher
Karen Mechem
Prepare for the SAT exams by
reviewing the critical components of
the test. Each subject is taught by an
experienced LHS teacher. Students
receive individual attention as
needed. Register early as enrollment
is limited. Please purchase texts
before the first class. Texts are
available at Barnes and Noble or
online.
Wednesday Math SAT Prep
for the November Test with
Chris Doucette
Instructor: Karen Mechem
Prepare for the Reading section of
the PSAT. Required text for this class
is the new Official SAT Study Guide
published in June 2015.
ENGLISH:
PPSR, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Meets October 6, Room 229, $30.
MATH: In SAT Math, students will
review mathematical operations and
learn test strategies necessary for
success on the SAT. Required Text for
SAT Math : The Official SAT Study
Guide
Monday Math SAT Prep for
the November Test with Chris
Doucette
Thursday English SAT Prep
for the November/December
Test with Karen Mechem
781.862.8043
PSAT Prep: Reading
PSAM, 6 Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30
pm. Begins September 24, LHS, Room
230, $200. (Please note the snow
make up date for this class, if needed,
will be Thursday, November 5)
In SAT English, students learn
strategies for answering sentence
completions and critical reading
questions, as well as acquire
college-level vocabulary and
test-taking wisdom. Instruction is
individualized. Required text for
SAT English and SAT Writing with
Karen Mechem: The Official SAT
Study Guide - Second Edition by the
College Board.
PMST, 6 Mondays, 6:30-8:30
pm. Begins September 21, LHS,
Room 232, $200. (Please note the
snow make up date for this class,
if needed, will be Wednesday,
November 4)
NEW!
PESA, 6 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
224, $200.
Saturday Writing SAT Prep
for the November/December
Test with Karen Mechem
PSAW, 6 Saturdays, 9:30-11:30
am. Begins September 19, LHS,
Room 224, $200. Note: No class on
Saturday, October 3.
NEW!
PSAT Prep: Writing and
Language
Instructor: Karen Mechem
Prepare for the Writing & Language
section of the PSAT. Required text
for this class is the new Official SAT
Study Guide published in June 2015.
PPSW, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Meets September 29, Room 225, $30.
Ambassador Dennis Ross visits LCE to discuss
his new book, page 5.
College Essay Writing
Instructor: Mindy Pollack Fusi
Are you a high school student who
will need to write your essay(s) for
college applications? Have an idea
for a topic...or no idea at all? When
you write, do you tend to stare at a
blank page, or at the few lines you’ve
managed to crank out, and have no
clue what to put down next? Relax!
Writing the essay(s) can actually be
fun, and simple--and we will discuss
Do’s and Don’ts. You will learn tips
to finally get started and complete
your essay in advance of those nasty
deadlines. Each student will get a
few minutes one-on-one at the end of
class. Class size limited to eight.
PEST, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Meets October 6, LHS, Room 221, $35.
PESW, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-9:00
pm. Meets November 4, LHS, Room
229, $35.
Finding the Right Fit: The
College Admissions Process
Instructor: Larry Dannenberg
Looking to find the right school for
your child? If you have a child in
high school, you can’t afford to miss
this class! We will show you how to
choose the school that is the right
fit for your child as we walk you
through the admissions process.
Learn about how merit scholarship
money works and what you can do
to better your chances to receive it
even if you are not a top student.
This class is particularly important
if your student is at the top of the
class, has learning disabilities, is
an athlete, or is average. Learn
why starting the process early
can offer significant advantages,
especially for business owners,
divorced parents, or home-schooled
children. The instructor will discuss
recent changes in student loans.
For adults only. Larry Dannenberg
is a professional college placement
consultant.
PFIT, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm.
229, $25.
You Can Afford College If...
Instructor: Donald Anderson
If… you plan in advance; you
understand the financial aid process;
and you act early enough to be
successful. Financial aid goes to
the families who plan in advance—
ideally before December 31 of the
child’s sophomore year of high
school. This course will teach you
the concepts and strategies that will
help you maximize your financial aid
by understanding the process, and
how implementing strategies may
increase a family’s eligibility even
if you have a “high income” or own
a business. The greatest amount
of financial aid goes to the families
who act in the years before college.
Remember: procrastination equals
less financial aid. All schools are
not alike, so it is important to know
your options and opportunities. A
free financial aid analysis will be
available to all attendees. For more
information please visit our website
at www.collegefundingadvisors.com.
PMFA, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm.
October 29, LHS, Room 229, $25.
Navigating the StudentAthletes College Search and
Recruiting Process
Instructor: Nicholas Michael
This two-part course is designed
to educate student-athletes and
their parents about navigating the
often confusing, generally stressful
college search and recruiting
process and to assist the collegebound student-athlete how to make
sound and fact-based decisions
throughout the 12 to 24 months
leading up to the submission of
applications to colleges. We will
cover the factors that influence a
student’s college preference criteria,
process timelines, define recruiting
terminology, describe the differences
between NCAA divisions and their
impact on the student-athletes’
recruitment and college life,
identify what coaches are looking
for, explain how to get noticed by
developing and executing a targeted
communication plan to get on a
“coach’s list,” and much more. The
second session is designed to outline
specific academic and athletic action
steps for each year of high school,
and to show how to develop and
implement a prototypical plan for
each student-athlete.
PNSA, 2 meetings, Tuesday October
13th, and Thursday October 15th,
7:00- 9:00 pm. LHS, Room 229, $40.
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Adjoa Acquaah-Harrison teaches Tasty Soups
and Stews, see below.
Cooking
NEW!
Appreciating Craft Beers of
New England: A Beer and
Cheese Pairing
Tasty Soups and Stews
Instructor: Damian Barneschi
The beer landscape has transformed
dramatically over the last twenty-five
years. What was once a flavorless,
fizzy yellow beverage has now been
redefined by the craft beer world as
a product that has as much, if not
more, complexity and nuance as
some of the most sought after wines
and spirits. This class gives you a
crash course in the craft beer world.
The class begins with a brief history
of beer, then delves into the specifics
of various beer styles. Participants
will have an opportunity to sample,
take notes on, and discuss six of the
best widely available beers made by
New England craft breweries. Later
in the class, the instructor will give
a brief explanation on pairing beer
with food. Participants will sample
six New England cheeses and then
pair each with the beers sampled
earlier in the class, noting how the
flavor profiles might compliment or
alter the perceptions of each other.
A materials for of $20 is payable
directly to the instructor at the first
class. This class will not be filmed
for broadcast. Participants must be
21 years of age or older.
NBEE, 1 Monday, 7:00- 9:00 pm.
Meets September 21, LexMedia
Studios, $49.
Instructor: Adjoa AcquaahHarrison
Soup! That’s what’s for dinner!
We will build great hearty soups
that pair nicely with a crusty
baguette or hot rolls from your
favorite bakery. Change it up
and you can enjoy a robust stew
that everyone will enjoy, perhaps
even go for seconds. This class
is for soup lovers and anyone
who enjoys a variety of legumes,
leafy greens, herbs and spices
that not only taste good but are
helpful for withstanding the fall
and winter months. Serve your
soup in a bowl or a cup, piping
hot with delicious aromas that
beckon for a spoon, and settle
into that comfortable chair you
love to relax in after a busy day.
You can also gather at the dining
table with your yummy stews,
accompanied by a side dish or
two. We will create recipes that
incorporate hardy vegetables such
as leeks, cauliflower and carrots,
and tender and leafy-greens
such as spinach, watercress, and
cilantro in our soups and stews.
We will season meat and seafood
with spices, herbs, pimentos,
ginger, scotch bonnets, and
tomatoes that are both healthy
and delicious. A $45 food fee is to
be paid directly to the instructor
on the first day of class. This class
will be filmed for broadcast.
NSTW, 4 Thursdays, Begins
October 29, 6:30-8:30 pm.
LexMedia Studios, $65.
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Italian Cooking and
Language
H Mart Tour and Korean
Cooking Class
Italy is famous for combining a
passion for food, family and friends
in day to day life. In this Italian
Cooking and Language course,
you’ll learn up close and hands-on
from Sonia Parravano, an Italian
native and experienced cook, in an
environment that is highly social,
supportive, fun and inspiring. From
a variety of pastas, risottos, and
sweets, you’ll learn to cook a vast
range of classic Italian plates, the
everyday food of Italians. Along the
way, you will be introduced to useful
cooking vocabulary, and Italian
cooking traditions. An important
objective of this course, along with
learning cooking skills, is to deepen
your knowledge of beginner Italian.
Wow your friends and family with
the skills you will acquire in this
course. What are you waiting for?
Buon Appetito! A materials fee
of $30 is payable to instructor at
first class. Class will be filmed for
broadcast.
Instructor: Debra Samuels
The Asian supermarket
H Mart is just around
the corner from
Lexington. Its aisles are
chock full of treasures:
sauces, noodles, dumplings,
seaweed, rice, tofu, fresh banchan
(Korean side dishes), an ocean
of fish, teas, condiments galore
and so much more. But for some
of us, the unfamiliar ingredients,
unrecognizable labels and the
football-field-size of the store is
just too daunting for an enjoyable
shopping experience. Join Debra
Samuels, Boston Globe food writer
and author of two cookbooks (“The
Korean Table” and “My Japanese
Table”) for a tour as she guides you
around the market to acquaint you
with this wonderful resource. “Shop
with a recipe; that helps to focus
your task” says Samuels. Participants
will do just that pulling together
the components of a Korean meal.
The next session will be a cooking
class where students will use all
the items to create a feast. Please
let the instructor know in advance
if you have any dietary restrictions.
A $20 per person materials fee is
payable directly to the instructor on
NCOO, 4 Mondays, 7:00-8:30 pm.
Begins September 28, LexMedia
Studios, $65.
See Also
Bon Appetit! – French Cooking
for Kids, page 30.
Home, Hobbies
and Travel
NEW!
the second evening and includes the
meal, recipes and an introductory
bag of cooking spices.
NHMT, 2 Meetings, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Meets Monday October 5, and
Tuesday October 6. On 10/5 students
will meet at H Mart, 3 Old Concord
Rd, Burlington, MA 01803 at the
entrance to the Food Court. On 10/6
students will meet at 127 Woburn
St., Lexington, MA 02420. $50.
NEW!
Thai Dinners with Shwarya
Instructor: Shwarya Viboonlarp
Experience the sublime and exotic
flavors of summer evening in
Thailand. You will learn to cook
simple yet delicious soups such
as Tom Kha Gai (chicken coconut
soup), Tom Yam Koong (hot and sour
shrimp soup), Khoa Mun (coconut
rice), spicy dishes such as Kaeng
Keaw Wan (green curry) and more!
Come and learn about Thailand, the
land of smiles. A food fee of $30, is
payable to the instructor at the first
class. The classes will be held at
LexMedia Studios and will be filmed
for broadcast.
Learn Magic – Amaze
Anyone, Anytime!
Instructor: Ken Wax
Learn how to use everyday items
to amaze anyone—anytime you’d
like! Discover how to make things
vanish, reappear, and even travel
invisibly. Make coins vanish, do
astounding things with an ordinary
deck of cards, restore a cut rope,
and make straws or rubber bands do
things which are simply impossible.
Enjoy the expressions when you
amaze others! No prior knowledge
is needed. This course is for parents,
teens, aunts, or uncles—anyone
who ever wanted to learn to astound
others with pro-level magic tricks.
All students aged 12 and up are
welcome. The instructor will provide
just about everything—please bring
a deck of new-ish cards to the first
class (Bicycle Brand is best), and
large towel to cover the desk so
handling the cards is easier. Limited
to 12.
FMAG, 4 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm.
$66/Seniors $55.
Straighten Up
Paris Off the Beaten Path
Instructor: Pamela Kristan
Whether you’re
drowning in papers,
can’t see your desktop,
do ‘binge-and-purge’
maintenance, or just
struggle with organization, this
session is for you. You’ll see the
4-Point Straighten Up! strategy in
action. Find out how to exercise your
sorting ‘muscles’, create appropriate
stuff-handling systems, throw things
out, pinpoint what you need to stay
optimally organized, and learn how
and when to stop. Participants have
called this work “a godsend!” “easy,
fun and upbeat.”
Instructor: Sally Peabody
Love Paris? Get beyond the Champs
Elysees and the Eiffel Tower to
explore four delightful up-andcoming quarters with Paris-expert
Sally Peabody. Sally will take you on
a virtual tour of charming village-like
Batignolles in the 17th arondissment,
to the hot rue de Martyrs area in
the 9th just south of Pigalle, to the
funky Faubourg St. Antoine quarter
in the 11th and to multicultural, arty
Belleville in the 19th. Bistro, cultural
and shopping recommendations
will be included. $5 materials fee
payable to instructor. Sally Peabody
is a consummate traveler, travel
writer, tour guide and president of
Your Great Days in Paris.
FORGA, 1 Thursday, 6:30-8:30
pm. Meets October 15,
See Also
Lunch Time Explorations of
Lexington Conservation Land,
page 8.
FPAR, 1 Monday,1:00-2:30 pm.
Room at 146 Maple Street, access
via 328 Lowell Street, $25/Seniors
$20..
NTAI, 3 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Begins October 13, LexMedia
Studios, $65.
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Learn Magic–Amaze Anyone, Anytime! Instructor Ken Wax performing at Faneuil Hall,
page 35.
Planning Your
European Vacation
Savvy Travel to Turkey
Instructor: Wim Nijenberg
Learn how to book the best products
and services: air, hotels, rail, car,
ferry, and sightseeing from an expert
with 35 years of experience! You
can make your trip more enjoyable
and save time by wisely planning
it in advance. Become aware of
the many discounts in Europe and
avoid missed opportunities. For
individual and escorted travel as well
as cruises in Europe. Participants
receive 2 months free access to a
Europe Travel Reference web site.
You may already have made your
own arrangements for this summers
vacation… but learn a lot more on
how to enjoy it even more....
FEUR, (Evening) 1 Tuesday, 7:00-9:00
221, $25/Seniors $20.
FDER, (Daytime) 1 Monday,
9:30-11:30 am. Meets November
23, Class will meet at the LCE
Street, access via 328 Lowell Street,
$25/Seniors $20.
Instructor: Sally Peabody
Turkey is easy to
access and enjoy.
Fabled Istanbul is
one of Europe’s top
travel destinations
on its own and as a gateway to
other regions in this wonderful
country. Vibrant, richly layered,
Turkey’s culture, landscapes, history,
architecture, and delicious cuisine
are endlessly evocative. This class
will include a snapshot of Istanbul’s
must-sees as well as selected top
regions beyond Istanbul. First, the
Aegean Coast, home to ancient
Ephesus and other superb Ionian,
Greek and Roman ruins as well as
charming beach towns on the Cesme
Penninsula. Second, the fairy tale
landscapes of Cappadocia replete
with 5th century underground cities
and churches hewn from limestone
canyons. Finally, Bodrum and the
Mediterranean coast, ‘blue cruises’
and more. A $3 materials fee is
payable to the instructor. Sally
Peabody is a consummate traveler,
travel writer, tour guide, and
president of Turkish Journeys. www.
turkishjourneys.com.
FTRK, 1 Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm.
221, $25/Seniors $20.
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Are You Ready to Move to
Boston?
Universal Design for
the Home
Instructor: Andrew Friedland
A move into the city—Back Bay,
South End, Beacon Hill, etc. - may
represent a major lifestyle change
that could imply certain difficult
tradeoffs. This course explores the
benefits, obstacles and choices you
might encounter in this journey.
Taught by a Realtor who lived in
Newton and made the move many
years ago, Andrew frequently
assists couples and individuals who
are pursuing this move with his
very patient coaching style. Topics
covered include what you will find
different with city-living, how to
approach the potentially daunting
task in adjusting to a smaller
home as well as the mechanics of
searching for and selecting your new
home.
Instructor: George Little
Do you have an older or handicapped
loved one living at home, but in
need of better accessibility? Are
the kitchen counters too high,
doors difficult to open, hallways too
narrow, or the house just difficult to
access without a ramp? Accidents
in the home can be prevented with
modifications to the home. Many
of today’s retirees are choosing the
high cost of a retirement home, just
because their own homes are not
properly designed for them! Explore
the benefits of Universal Design,
taught by a practicing architect and
interior designer. Classes will be
structured to educate homeowners
about existing challenges, and offer
real solutions, with estimated costs
for repairs and modifications. Topics
will include bathroom and kitchens,
and students are encouraged to bring
information about their own homes
for in-class analysis.
FBOS, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-9:00 pm.
$25/Seniors $20.
See Also
Joyce Chen: My Mother’s
Journey from Shanghai
to a U.S. Postage Stamp,
page 7.
FUNI, 2 Mondays, 6:30-9:00 pm.
Begins November 23, LHS, Room
221, $55/Seniors $44.
Business
and Career
Daytime Classes
NEW!
Coping with the Possibility
of Living a Long Life
Instructor: Robyn Samuels
Anyone who has taken care of
an aging or declining parent
understands the emotional and
financial toll it takes on all close
family members. Long term care
planning helps provide for the
consequences of living a long life
and addresses the accompanying
physical and cognitive issues that
may occur. In this seminar, we will
discuss a variety of options that
are available should you or a loved
one need assistance at home, in
an assisted living facility, or in a
skilled nursing facility. You will
learn strategies that are currently
available to help meet your family’s
long term needs, while avoiding the
emotional and financial devastation
caused by lack of planning. It’s all
about quality of life for all family
members, including the caregivers.
For most of us, that can also mean
always waking up in a familiar and
comfortable place.
FLTR, (Evening) 1 Tuesday, 7:00-8:30
234, $25/Seniors $20.
FDLT, (Daytime) 1 Wednesday,
10:00-11:30 am. Meets November
4, Lexington Community Education
Street, access via 328 Lowell Street.
$25/Seniors $20.
Fundamentals of Drawing.......... 17
Babysitter Training..................... 29
Explorations of Lexington
Conservation Land....................... 8
Saturday STEM Series
(grades K-2)................................ 29
Hospice Volunteer Training.......... 9
French Cooking for Kids............. 30
Opera – An Historical
Overview.................................... 12
Teen Writing Workshop............. 30
Memoir....................................... 15
The Art of Sensory Writing........ 16
The Art of Making
Picture Books............................. 17
Fundamentals of Drawing.......... 17
Daytime Watercolor................... 17
Introduction to Pastels............... 18
Art for Mindfulness.................... 18
Advanced Knitting...................... 19
Fiction Writing for
Middle Schoolers....................... 30
Dungeons & Dragons
for Middle Schoolers................. 30
Drawing & Painting
(grades 6-8)................................ 31
Charcoal & Pastels
(grades 2-5 and 6-9)................... 31
Fiddle In the Middle
(grades 6-8)................................ 31
Sea Glass Jewelry Making........ 19
Jazz in the Middle
(grades 6-8)................................ 31
Stone Carving............................. 20
College Application Essay......... 32
Introduction to
Photoshop Elements.................. 21
PSAT and SAT Prep.................... 32
English Conservation................. 21
Planning Your
European Vacation..................... 36
Beginning Italian........................ 22
Intermediate Italian................... 23
Intermediate French................... 24
Daytime Computer
Classes with Kristen Butler....... 25
Paris Off the Beaten Path.......... 35
Coping With the Possibility
of Living a Long Life................... 37
Happiness 101........................... 40
Introduction to Intuition............. 40
Your Home Network................... 27
Walking Meditation................... 41
Back It Up (your computer)......... 27
Yoga........................................... 43
Our Financial Courses are not
intended to substitute for individual
financial counseling or advice.
Neither LCE or the Lexington Public
Schools may give specific advice on
personal investments.
The Process of
Purchasing a Home
Instructor: Jeremy Richman
Learn in detail the latest information
about buying a home so you can feel
confident, informed, knowledgeable
and in control from the start to
the finish of the largest purchase
you may ever make. Learn about:
determining your “real ideal” home;
qualifying a home; assessed or
appraised vs. Zillow valuations;
making offers and negotiating to
yes for less; home inspections;
protecting your deposits; choosing
an attorney, home inspector and
mortgage agent; buying short-sales
and bank-owned properties; and
how to choose, hire and work with
a real estate agent to represent you
as your “buyer’s agent.” Included
are worksheets and forms and a
copy of the 40-page handbook, “The
Homebuyer’s Companion,” written by
the instructor.
BHOM, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-9:00 pm.
226, $25/Seniors $20.
Keep Your Computer Secure...... 27
iPad for Beginners...................... 27
iPhone Photography................... 28
Facebook for Beginners............. 28
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Author Stephen Jenkinson visits LCE to discuss
his new book, Die Wise, page 8.
NEW!
NEW!
The Process of
Selling a Home
Social Security Strategies
for Couples
Instructor: Jeremy Richman
Get tips on successfully selling your
home in today’s economic landscape
and hear the latest intelligence on
the local real estate market. Learn
how to prepare your home for sale,
what turns buyers on and off, and
how to select a realtor versus selling
the house yourself.
Instructor: Rick Fentin
This is not our parent’s Social
Security. Rules have changed, our
work life is different, longevity has
increased and making the right
decisions for maximizing benefits can
be complicated. The Social Security
decisions spouses make when they
are in their 60s will determine the
amount of total income they will
receive over their lifetime – and
especially the lifetime of the spouse
who lives the longest (usually the
wife). This workshop will cover some
little-known rules that can help
married couples get more out of the
Social Security system. Why not get
all the benefits that you are entitled
to? This workshop will cover: how
much Social Security you and your
spouse stand to receive over your
joint lifetime; rules and guidelines
for when spouses should apply for
benefits; how working and income
taxes and your age of application
can have a major effect on benefits;
BSHO, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-9:00 pm.
$25/Seniors $20.
NEW!
Meetings That Work
Instructor: Pamela Kristan
Learn the keys to an effective
meeting -- planning in advance,
creating a workable structure, using
the functions of Facilitator, TimeKeeper and others, and appreciating
different points-of-view. Get
practical strategies for staying on
task, dealing with the unexpected,
and managing challenges. The class
functions as a meeting lab, so we
will practice as we learn.
BMET, 1 Monday, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Meets September 28, LHS Room
226, $30/Seniors $25.
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how spouses with little or no prior
earnings can take advantage of
Social Security benefits; how a
little-known rule passed in 2000 has
opened the door to creative spousal
strategies; the number-one most
important thing all higher-earning
spouses should do; two key things
you need to know about Social
Security survivor benefits; how
remarriage affects survivor benefits
from a former spouse; and how to
get special benefits for children and
caretaker spouses. This workshop
is primarily for married couples as
it discusses Social Security benefits
available to spouses. The $40 tuition
cost is per couple.
BCSS, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$40.
See Also
Joyful Yoga with Linda
DelMonte,page 44.
Social Security Strategies
for Divorced and Survivor
Spouses
Instructor: Rick Fentin
Social Security can be complicated.
There are literally hundreds of
rules that apply to very specific
individual circumstances. Strategies
to maximize benefits for divorced
spouses and surviving spouses can
be very different than for married
couples. Social Security is one of
the few income sources that keeps
up with inflation and lasts for life
so it is important to know how to
make the system work for you. Most
people fail to maximize their benefits
because they do not understand
the little-known rules that can help
them do better. This workshop will
cover: how to understand and take
advantage of the special strategies
available to surviving spouses and
divorced-spouses; how working,
income taxes your age of application
and your spouse’s or ex-spouses
age of application can have a major
effect on your benefits; the real
value of Social Security: how much
you can expect to receive over your
lifetime and how it’s determined;
how the decisions you make in
your 60s can dramatically affect
the amount of income you’ll have
in your 80s; how to coordinate your
individual retirement benefit with
benefits you might receive as a
surviving spouse or divorced spouse;
Mind
and Body
NEW!
what to do if your spouse or exspouse dies; what to do if you your
marital status changes and how to
get special benefits for children and
caretaker spouses.
BDSS, 1 Thursday, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$25.
Passport to Retirement
Instructors: MML Investor
Services, LLC
Due to recent tax law changes,
an uncertain future for Social
Security and the shift toward
employee-directed retirement
plans, the need for sound financial
strategies has never been greater. In
straightforward language, this class
explains time-tested strategies that
help you make informed decisions.
Whether your objective is to build
a nest egg, protect your assets or
preserve your lifestyle throughout
retirement, this course helps you
plan with confidence. Instructors
are Martin Kawadler and Matthew
Clayson who offer securities,
investment advisory and financial
planning services through MML
Investor Services, LLC.
BRET, 2 Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 pm.
$49.
B2RE, 2 Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 pm.
Begins, October 6, LHS, Room 232,
$49.
LCE seeks to offer opportunities
that promote learning about holistic
health and living well. In this
section you’ll find everything from
courses on meditation to alternative
understandings of nutrition.
Midlife Dating:
The Internet and Beyond
Instructor: Kate Kavanagh, M.Ed.
Are you 50ish, single
and pondering how
to go about dating
again? You know that
things have changed
since the last time but you’re unsure
about the new rules - strategiespitfalls and opportunities? You
keep hearing about Match, Fish and
OKCupid, but haven’t a clue about
how to begin? Come to this uplifting,
enlightening, fun-filled, interactive
workshop to learn about: how you
create a winning online profile, text
and photos; which dating service
(Internet or otherwise) suits you;
what are the options beyond internet
dating: meetups, house singles
parties and others. It’s a brave new
world - learn how to rock it! Both
male and female participants are
welcome. Discussion between the
genders can be the best part!
MIDA, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$30.
The Art of Memorizing
Instructor: Neil Kutzen
It has been said,
“There is no such thing
as a bad memory, only
an untrained one.”
How would it be if you
could learn to memorize anything,
of any length, easily, and enjoyably?
All that is required is your strong
desire to memorize the material.
Roman orators in 500 BC memorized
and recited for hours. They had no
books or even paper, just a trained
memory. In fact, classical education
of that day included memory
training. With nothing in print, they
had to memorize. But today, we
have outsourced our memories to
technology: smart phones, GPS,
Google, or just the print we are
reading from. This class will show
you ways of developing a better
memory, memorizing more easily,
and keeping your brain sharper.
Those who get the most from this
class do the memory exercises
provided, between classes. Like any
other type of strength training, to
get stronger you need to practice the
methods, not just understand them.
The methods you’ll learn involve
using your imagination in a creative,
new way. So get ready to brush any
cobwebs off your imagination. A
materials fee of $5 is payable to the
instructor at the first class.
Creating a New Direction
for Your Life Journey
Instructor: Paula Solomon
It happens to us all, and it is not
always comfortable! Transitions
are part of every stage of our
life; sometimes triggered by
circumstances (like a loss of a
spouse, a job layoff, an empty
nest), and some happen by choice
(becoming a parent, a desired job
change, or plan to retire). Often we
just feel our way through it, and
hope we end up in a good place.
These changes are more likely to
lead to a better quality of life if we
have a pro-active plan that is based
on an awareness of what best suits
us, and is guided by our dreams and
passions. In this two session class
we will use some life coaching tools
(including both individual and small
group exercises) to help you identify
your talents and interests, values
and passions. With that in mind you
will be guided to clarify your vision,
and outline some beginning steps to
creating a life that better suits you.
FLIF, 2 Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm.
$55/Seniors $44.
SMEM, 4 Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 pm.
Begins November 5, LHS, Room 230,
$55/Seniors $45.
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Fixing Our Broken Sleep
Instructor: Rick Clerici
In this 90 minute
presentation
attendees will gain an
understanding of the
intimate connection
between sleep and physical,
emotional and cognitive health.
Attendees will learn techniques
for overcoming common sleep
problems like “trouble falling
asleep”, “difficulty staying asleep”,
“excessive thinking”, “waking too
early”, “Sunday night insomnia”,
“chronic insomnia” and “daytime
sleepiness”. Ample time is planned
for individual sleep questions.
Educational support materials will be
supplied along with questionnaires
designed to help attendees better
understand the nature of their own
sleep. A guided relaxation exercise
teaches techniques for initiating
sleep and returning to sleep. This
hands on presentation has helped
many people to begin getting
better sleep almost immediately.
Your instructor Rick Clerici is a
Certified Clinical Sleep Educator, a
Behavioral Sleep Medicine Educator
and Hypnotherapist. At Sleep
HealthCenters, the nation’s leader
in sleep medicine, Rick conducted
over 500 over night sleep studies,
created corporate sleep wellness
programs and treated patients for
insomnia and parasomnias. Rick
is the sleep educator for 3 leading
employee assistance agencies, Clear
Mind Systems and a major medical
supplier. As a sleep consultant
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advises corporations, universities
and municipalities on sleep-related
issues.
MSLE, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30
235, $33.
Happiness 101: Mindfulness,
Intuition and Positive
Psychology
Instructor: Jeanne Mayell
The Dalai Lama said, “Happiness is
not something readymade. It comes
from your own actions.” Our society
trains us from an early age to seek
material success--to make money
or achieve recognition. But these
often do not bring happiness, which
comes from a different path and can
be cultivated with surprisingly simple
daily practices. In this class you will
learn some key skills for achieving
happiness that have been tried,
tested and researched. You will also
learn to tap into your intuition which
is your own personal inner guidance
system to help you navigate the
world – both inner and outer. Finally,
you will have a chance to explore
and begin moving towards your
own hopes and dreams for the life
you want. To learn more about the
instructor, please visit http://www.
jeannemayell.com.
MHAP, 1 Monday, 12:15-3:15 pm.
Meets October 5, LCE Conference
Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street,
and enter through the side door of
the Old Harrington, $30/Seniors $25.
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Introduction to Intuition
Instructor: Jeanne Mayell
We’re a highly
educated society
of experts. We are
brought up learning to
memorize, organize,
and analyze! As we go through
school, our child’s original intuitive
gift takes a back seat, when in
fact intuition is just as important
for navigating our lives as rational
thinking and facts. Intuition
enables us to synthesize all those
facts, to think outside the box, to
navigate through a complex and
constantly changing world. This
class will reintroduce you to your
long lost intuition. You will learn
to pay attention to your psyche’s
intuitive antennae using some simple
enjoyable and relaxing techniques,
and peer into a delightful world
that may have been lost to you
since childhood. If you are already
intuitive, this class will show you
how to enhance your gift. We will
use some relaxing mindfulness
techniques, as well as projection
psychology to achieve insight both
about yourself and others. Please
bring an open and curious mind.
MINT, 1 Monday, 12:15-3:15 pm.
Meets October 19, LCE Conference
Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street,
and enter through the side door of
the Old Harrington, $30/Seniors $25.
Stress Less:
Learn to Meditate
Instructor: Richard Geller
Meditation is one of the best ways
to reduce stress and improve your
health, as evidenced by many recent
scientific studies. Participants
will learn: how meditation works,
numerous different meditation
techniques, and strategies for
integrating meditation into your
daily work and life. Upon completing
this program, participants will
be able to practice meditation
anytime, anywhere that stress
occurs, and immediately feel the
benefits. Throughout the four week
course, participants are taught and
practice over 10 powerful meditation
techniques including: breath focus,
bodyscan relaxation, standing and
walking meditation, Tai-Chi and ChiKung beginning practice, sound and
mantra meditation, simple Yoga as
a meditation, visualization practice,
and mindfulness meditation. The
entire program is highly interactive,
hands-on, and easy to learn. The
class is taught by Richard Geller of
MedWorks Corporate Meditation
Programs, who has been featured
in the Boston Globe, Bloomberg
News, Financial Times, Mass High
Tech, and Boston CBS-4 TV news
(see www.meditationprograms.com).
Participants sit in chairs and wear
normal attire. Sorry, no eating in the
class.
SLLM, 4 Tuesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm.
$66/Seniors $49.
Kimber Green teaches Walking Meditation,
see below.
NEW!
Walking Meditation
Instructor: Kimber Green
By going into nature we are more
easily able to access an inner
stillness. These four sessions will
slowly build on the understanding,
concepts and practice of mindfulness
while walking on local nature trails.
There will be an emphasis on how to
bring these concepts into your daily
life and will include home practice
recommendations. The first session
will meet at Lexington High School.
The rest of the session locations
and directions to trailheads will be
announced during the first session.
Please dress for the weather
so that you can most enjoy the
emerging of spring in all its variety
of temperatures and moisture! We
will plan to reschedule if there is
lightning.
MWAL, 6 Mondays, 3:00-4:30 pm.
230, $75/Seniors $60.
A One Session Introduction
to Meditation
Do You Want to Be
Gluten Free?
Instructor: Sue McCombs
Meditation can reduce stress and
boost energy and is a surprisingly
easy skill to learn. Come join us for
this one- night workshop to learn
the basics of meditation. With a
little practice, you will discover that
meditation can help you manage the
stress in your life, and increase your
overall sense of well-being. Please
note; any alcohol consumption prior
to class will significantly reduce the
effectiveness of these techniques.
Dr. Susan McCombs is a boardcertified clinical hypnotherapist.
As more and more grocery stores,
restaurants and health food stores
make gluten free products available
we are becoming more aware of
the negative health affects for
many people who unknowingly
are sensitive to gluten found in
wheat, barley and rye. For people
with Celiac Disease a gluten free
diet is essential, but many people
are finding they feel better, lose
weight and have more energy by
eliminating gluten from their diet.
Susan Worthen McCombs, Certified
Holistic Health Coach and Board
Certified Hypnotherapist, has been
helping people change their eating
habits by removing products that are
unhealthy for them using hypnosis
like techniques. Deep relaxation, the
power of suggestion, the mind body
response, and guided meditation
have helped 1000’s of people make
these changes. We will also discuss
replacing the sources of B Vitamins,
magnesium, fiber, and some minerals
which are found in whole wheat
products. Maybe you just want to
be free of white flour - the breads,
bagels and pastas. This program will
help you eliminate these products.
You will be left with a feeling of
indifference for these products that
you release from your eating habits.
MMED, 1 Thursday,7:00-8:30 pm.
148, $40.
See Also
Art for Mindfulness,
page 18.
Stop Your Sugar Habit
What if you had no desire to eat
anything with sugar? What if looking
at a product with sugar left you with
the feeling of total indifference?
No more longing for that chocolate
bar or soft drink. What if all that
expertise, the thinking and obtaining
and consuming of sweets, got
transformed into some positive
habit, like exercise or another
desired outlet? Focus can be placed
on eating moderate, well balanced
meals featuring fresh fruits and
vegetables and lean, quality protein.
Watch your energy increase as the
sugar leaves your system. No more
highs and lows from sugar rushes.
It is possible, using the hypnosis
techniques of guided imagery taught
in this class, to help you make this
change on a powerful subconscious
level. Please do not consume alcohol
prior to class. An audio CD will be
available for $30 for those who
wish to take the program home for
reinforcement.
MSUG, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30
148, $40.
MGLU, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30
148, $40.
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Exercise and
Dance
Stop Dieting
Imagine not being tempted to
overeat; to feel indifferent to sugar,
bread, pasta, too much snacking,
and grazing from dinner to bedtime.
Using guided relaxation and imagery
(techniques used in hypnosis),
you will notice an improvement
in your desire, determination, and
resourcefulness, which will lead
you toward successfully instituting
a healthier pattern of eating. This
program is designed to help you
let go of unwanted pounds gently,
easily, and permanently. Please do
not consume any alcohol prior to
class. Audio CD’s will be available
for $30 for those who wish to take
the program home with them.
MAPP, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30
148, $40.
Our Exercise and Dance classes
provide many low-impact, affordable,
and fun ways to help you get in
shape and stay that way.
An Introduction to
Irish Dance
Instructor: Rebecca McGowan
Get your feet moving with quick
footwork danced to lively jigs and
reels. Step dancing is energetic,
graceful, precise and fun. Learn
basic solo steps and group ceili
dances. We will begin with a
thorough warmup and get a good
workout through technique drills
while focusing on developing fluidity
and musicality. All backgrounds
welcome, no experience required.
Wear ballet shoes, socks, or other
soft-soled shoes.
EIRI, 11 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:00
pm. Begins September 16, First
Baptist Church of Lexington, 1580
Massachusetts Ave, $165/Seniors
$132.
Rebecca McGowan (above) teaches Irish Dance,
see below. Photo: Zarmik Moqtaderi.
Introduction to Tai Chi and
Eight Pieces of Brocade
Tai Chi II and
Eight Pieces of Brocade
Instructor: Virginia Payne
Originally one of
the ancient Chinese
martial arts, Tai
Chi (or Taijiquan) is
practiced today by
students primarily as a method of
exercise that cultivates physical
and mental harmony in movements.
Scientific studies show that Tai Chi
improves and possibly prevents
chronic conditions such as arthritis,
heart disease and diabetes. In fact,
practicing Tai Chi regularly helps
reduce stress, improve balance
and coordination, strengthen
immune systems, and develop
body awareness and confidence.
Eight Pieces of Brocade is primarily
designated as a form of medical
qigong, meant to improve health. It
consists of eight separate exercises
coupled with deep breathing – which
are primarily used as warm-ups in
this intro class before practicing the
Tai Chi form. Wear soft, comfortable
clothes and soft-soled shoes, such as
flat sneakers. Outdoor shoes are not
permitted inside the studio.
Practicing Tai Chi regularly helps
reduce stress, improve balance
and coordination, strengthen
immune systems, and develop body
awareness and confidence. This
class is a continuation of the “Tai
Chi I” class. Students will continue
to learn more moves in the second
section of the long form while
continuing to practice and improve
the first section along with deep
breathing exercises in each class.
The Eight Pieces of Brocade Qigong
will again be used as warm-up
exercises before practicing the Tai
Chi form. Wear loose, comfortable
EVTI, 10 Thursdays, 5:00-6:15 pm.
140, $165/Seniors $132.
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EITC, 10 Tuesdays, 6:15-7:30 pm.
140, $165/Seniors $132.
NEW!
Advanced Tai-Chi and
Push Hands
This class is a continuation of the
“Tai Chi III” class. The 108-move
Tai Chi form will be further refined
along with deep breathing exercises
in each class. Emphasis will be on
practicing and doing the moves
correctly with fluidity. Students will
also learn Tai Chi Push-Hands in this
class. The Eight Pieces of Brocade
Qigong will again be used as warmup exercises before practicing the Tai
Chi form. Wear loose, comfortable
ETC2, 10 Tuesdays, 5:00 -6:15 pm.
140, $165/Seniors $132.
NEW!
Beginning Yoga
Advanced Beginner Yoga
Instructor: Helen Theodosiou
If you have never done
yoga before or are a
beginning student, join
this small introductory
hatha yoga class. We
will move at a comfortable pace so
students gain a sound understanding
of the poses and their own bodies
in relation to poses. We will engage
in standing, seated, balancing and
supine poses to build strength and
flexibility and expand our repertoire
of movement. We will pay attention
to breathing to focus our minds and
bodies. This practice will invite you
to return to your day with renewed
energy and and an overall sense
of harmony and well being. We
will practice with joy, patience and
humor! Wear comfortable clothes
and bring a mat and towel. Class size
is limited to 8.
Instructor: Helen Theodosiou
If you have been practicing in a
Beginning Yoga class for a while,
this is a class to build on those
skills and refine poses. The class
will give you an opportunity to
deepen your practice. A full range of
postures will allow you to continue
to build strength, flexibility and
stamina. Breathing exercises will
help to focus the body and mind
and alleviate stress. Return to
your daily activities with renewed
vitality, creating an overall sense
of balance, well being and ease,
as well as a greater sense of body/
mind awareness. Wear comfortable
clothes, bring a mat and towel.
EYOM, 8 Mondays, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm.
Begins September 21, Large Meeting
Room, Cary Library, $132/Seniors
$120.
EABY, 10 Mondays, 10:45 am-11:45
am. Begins September 21. Large
Meeting Room, Cary Library, $165/
Seniors $132.
Basic Yoga, Breathwork,
and Mindfulness
Instructor: Shiv Mundkur
Yoga is the process of
uniting the body, mind,
and soul. Through
manipulating the
posture of the body, we
can breathe into the areas in which
we hold tension. The breath helps to
increase awareness and circulation
to that area of the body—allowing
detoxification of the body to occur
on the physical, emotional, mental,
and spiritual levels. Shiv, a certified
yoga teacher via South Boston Yoga,
combines many styles of yoga that
will leave you feeling balanced
and energetic by the end of the
practice. For more information: www.
mentalfitness101.com
EBRE, 8 Mondays, 6:30-7:30 pm.
140, $100/Seniors $85.
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Author talk and book signing, page 3.
Joyful Yoga
Yoga with a Chair
Hatha Yoga
Instructor: Linda Del Monte
Students of all ages, levels, and
abilities can enjoy this style of
yoga, known as a “celebration
of the heart.” This is yoga that
combines a Kripalu (heart-centered)
and Iyengar style (detail-oriented),
where your pose will originate
within your body and move to the
outside of the body. We will work
on finding balance, distributing
weight equally, and aligning the
body in a therapeutic way that will
keep you safe while practicing.
Gain strength and flexibility while
finding the connection of body, mind
and spirit. Yoga mat required. Wear
comfortable, loose fitting clothing,
and bare feet.
Instructor: Susanne Sandberg
If you cannot get down on the floor
to exercise but want to stay fit, try
this hatha yoga class, which uses a
chair for balance. You do not need to
lie down to get the benefits of yoga.
These benefits include stretching,
flexibility, balance and strength.
Learn yogic breathing, postures and
meditation. Wear non-restrictive/
stretchy clothing and bring a bath
towel. You’ll feel stronger, healthier
and more relaxed after every class!
There is no class on October 12 and
November 16.
Instructor: Asha Ramesh
Stretch and strengthen without
competition or performance anxiety in
this basic hatha yoga class. Class will
include standing, sitting, and supine
poses, with a focus on breath. Postures
are basic, without compromising on
the wellness they deliver. The format
changes from one week to another,
allowing for variation and multiplicity
in poses. The yoga you take home
will allow customization to suit your
mood and needs. Dress comfortably
and bring your own mat. Class meets
October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4,
18, December 2, 9.
ECHR, 10 Mondays, 9:15-10:30 am.
Begins September 21, Large Meeting
Room, Cary Library, $143/Seniors
$107.
EYF2, 11 Fridays, 12:00 noon-1:15
pm. Begins September 25, Hancock
Church $180/Seniors $140.
EYFW, 10 Wednesdays, 11:30
am-12:45 pm. Begins September 30,
Hancock Church, $165/Seniors $132.
EHYO, 8 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:00 pm.
Begins October 7, Diamond Middle
School Cafeteria, $127/ Seniors $95.
Iyengar Yoga
Instructor: Mary Wixted
Been curious about
why so many people
are taking yoga in the
United States? Come
enjoy a yoga class
taught in the Iyengar method of
yoga. The Iyengar method is to yoga
what classical ballet is to dance.
It is a progressive offering of the
yoga postures designed to provide a
safe and an ever-deepening practice
which opens and strengthens the
body while drawing the mind into a
meditative state. Props will be used
to make the postures accessible.
EYEN, 10 Tuesdays, 9:15 am-10:45
am. Begins September 29, Hancock
Church, $190/Seniors $145.
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Zumba®: Ditch the Workout,
Join the Party!
Instructor: Ami Stix
Let’s face it, working
out can be healthy,
rewarding and
beneficial. Working out
can be lots of things,
but it’s never been known to be an
exhilarating experience…until now!
Zumba® is a dynamic, exciting, and
effective fitness system. Routines
feature an interval approach where
fast and slow rhythms and resistance
training are combined to tone and
sculpt your body while burning
fat. Add some Latin flavor and
international zest into the mix and
you’ve got a Zumba® class! You don’t
need to know how to dance. Just
enjoy the music and follow along.
EZUM, 10 Mondays, 7:00-8:00 pm.
Begins September 21, Harrington
School, $140/Seniors $105.
Children’s Summer Program
For Academic and Creative Enrichment
Look for the Lexplorations catalog
in February.
Lexplorations is LCE’s summer academic and creative
enrichment program for children and is open to
all regardless of town residency. With week-long
programming for grades K-12, small class sizes, and an
expert teaching staff made up primarily of Lexington Public
School teachers, Lexplorations is considered a rewarding
summer destination by students and parents alike.
Some of our programs fill very quickly so if participation
in a particular program is of special importance to you
or your child we recommend that you register as soon as
possible to prevent disappointment.
Don’t forget that Lexplorations now offers early
morning drop-off and after-school care.
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Our
Instructors
Consuelo Abrisqueta, is a native
Spanish speaker.
Adjoa Acquaah-Harris maintains
a lifelong passion for cooking,
entertaining, and storytelling. She is
also a strategic planning executive
in international development and
philanthropy.
Donald Anderson is employed with
College Funding Advisors providing
financial aid information to the
Boston area.
Damian Barneschi is a Lexington
Public Schools Art teacher.
Cathy Berry has been quilting and
teaching traditional quilt techniques
for over 20 years.
Maurice Bombrun is a French
native, experienced teacher and
bilingual dual citizen. He teaches
and tutors privately with local
private and public schools, and
has worked for Alliance Francaise.
With undergraduate studies at the
Sorbonne and LSE London, he holds
Master’s degrees from Sciences Po
Paris and the University of Grenoble.
Sandy Bornstein is a Lexington
resident and longtime singing
instructor.
Kristen Butler has been a computer
teacher, repair technician, network
designer, and computer consultant
for over 21 years.
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Robert Butler was trained at
Berklee College of Music and has
created a program designed to
encourage, educate and delight
anyone who has an appreciation for
the varied music styles played on
the guitar.
Elsa-Lucia Cabrera, MD is a
native of Colombia.
Pilar G. Cabrera, Ph.D., is a native
Spanish speaker, SchoolWorks
Consultant and a Lesley College
Associate Professor.
Beth Cederberg Guertin has been
a weaver for more than thirty years.
She has a strong local and regional
reputation for her knowledge and
support of weaving and the fiber arts.
Raymond Chow is currently
working on a graduate degree in
performance diploma from Longy
School of Music of Bard College,
and received a master’s in music
performance from University of North
Texas. Chow is a graduate assistant
in piano at Longy School of Music.
Rick Clerici, C.Ht, Certified Clinical
Sleep Educator and Hypnotherapist,
is a director at Clear Mind Systems.
Rick works with groups and
individual clients on strategies for
creating personal excellence.
College Funding Advisors
provides financial aid information to
the Boston area.
781.862.8043
Ted Coates is a retired Navy and
Coast Guard Commander who
has headed three non-profits as
Executive Director. He has also
served on numerous Boards and
Committees not only for non-profits,
but for homeowners associations,
government agencies, and schools,
as well as private clubs.
Susan Dahl studied art at a variety
of places, including Amherst College,
Parsons School of Design, and The
School of Visual Arts, and worked as
a graphic designer for many years.
She began teaching in community art
programs in Boston in 1996, and this
led her to complete a degree in Art
Therapy at Lesley University.
Son-Mey Chiu (ED.D. Harvard
University; Chinese Master
Emerita, Boston Latin School) is a
professional Chinese painter. She
has taught at the Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, the
Decordova Museum, the Harvard
Graduate School of Education and
other New England institutions.
Tom Daley a published poet, tutors
poets, and has extensive poetry
workshop experience.
David Collins has been lecturing
on opera in the greater Boston area
for over 25 years. He had been
Opera Boston’s resident lecturer for
8 years. He has given opera courses
at MIT, Regis College, as well as
lecturing at Northeastern University.
Dave is currently a trustee of The
Boston Wagner Association. Dave
received his Bachelor degree from
Boston University’s School of Music,
his Master’s from Lesley University
and did postgraduate work at the
New England Conservatory and the
University of Connecticut - Hart
School of Music.
Larry Dannenberg is a professional
college placement consultant.
Karen Day is a published fiction
author for middle grade and young
adult readers.
Linda Del Monte is a Kripalucertified yoga teacher who has
been teaching for over 10 years and
practicing for almost 30.
Lauren Doolan earned her M.F.A. in
fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence
College and her B.A. in writing,
literature, and publishing from
Emerson College.
Chris Doucette is a veteran LHS
math teacher who has been teaching
SAT math prep for over 5 years.
Kendall Dudley is a career
consultant, a creative-retirement
consultant, a writing teacher, artist
and creativity consultant and a
painter and public artist.
Eileen Entin is a long-term resident
of Lexington and has visited, done
volunteer work in, and led walks
through Lexington’ Conservation
lands for the past 15-20 years. She
is a member of the Greenways
Corridor Committee and president of
Citizens for Lexington Conservation.
Rick Fentin, CFP®, CLTC, Ed.M is
the Principal of Cambridge Financial
Associates in Arlington. He has been
an independent financial advisor
in the Greater Boston area for over
thirty years.
Caroline Foley graduated from
Tufts University with a BA in English,
and went on to receive her MA
in Film Studies from the Huston
School of Film and Digital Media at
the National University of Ireland,
Galway.
Andrew Friedland is a leading
Realtor with Gibson, Sotheby’s
International Realty in Back Bay
who returned to city living years ago
after raising a family in the Boston
suburbs.
Richard Geller of MedWorks
Corporate Meditation Programs,
has been featured in the Boston
Globe, Bloomberg News, Financial
Times, Mass High Tech, and
Boston CBS-4 TV news. See www.
meditationprograms.com for more
information.
Gerry Goolkasian is a recently
retired Lexington Public School
teacher who has led the LCE summer
Lexplorations D&D program for many
years.
Kimber Green has been a speechlanguage pathologist for over
20 years, working primarily in
the area of cognition: attention/
concentration, processing of
information, self-monitoring/
self-regulation and memory. She
has been teaching meditation in
a variety of settings for 10 years.
She is also a licensed and board
certified massage therapist and has
a private practice in Lexington. www.
kimbergreentherapies.com.
Karen Girondel is a recently retired
LHS teacher of French language and
culture.
Roger Gumley has been an avid
follower of blues and jazz music for
over 40 years. He has worked as a
radio disc jockey in Ames Iowa and
Cincinnati Ohio. He has interviewed
such blues masters as B.B. King,
Hound Dog Taylor, Roosevelt Sykes,
Koko Taylor, John Hammond and J.B.
Hutto. His articles on the blues have
appeared in the Iowa State Daily and
The Christian Science Monitor.
Brigid Gorry Hines is a graduate
of Hampshire College, where she
earned a B.A. in creative writing
and illustration. Her novel Walking
Shadow made the semifinals (top
100 out of 10,000) of the 2010
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
contest, receiving praise from a
Publishers Weekly reviewer who
called it “a wonderful, thrilling read.”
Her novel Edge was a quarterfinalist
in the 2011 contest.
Katherine Gorry Hines is co-owner
of Complex IT.
Sharon Heermance, Ph.D. is
a psychologist in Arlington. Her
practice emphasizes developing
a compassionate, mindful stance
toward the many parts of ourselves.
To learn more about the instructor,
check out Sharon Heermance’s listing
with the Psychology Today Therapist
Directory.
Pat Heggie has been teaching the
art of knitting for over 18 years.
Peter Hines has a BFA from
University of Pennsylvania and has
taught art for many years.
Kathleen Irving is an instructor for
the American Heart Association.
Kate Kavanagh, M.Ed., has an
extensive professional background
coaching and training adults. Having
been divorced for 9 years, actively
dated both online and off, fixed up
innumerable friends and been the
proud hostess of numerous singles
house parties and events, Kate is
looking forward to sharing her hardwon wisdom.
Kerry Keohane learned to knit
as a child in Canada and has been
knitting for over 35 years and
teaching knitting for fifteen.
Poornima Kirby has taught acting
and theater arts at the Nirmal
Arts Academy in Canajoharie, NY,
as well as coaching privately in
acting techniques, Shakespeare,
and movement. She studied at
Shakespeare and Co. and the London
Academy of Music and Dramatic
Arts, and received her B.A. in Drama,
with honors, from Vassar College.
Richard Knisely hosted Classical
Performances and several other
programs on WGBH radio for 25
years, bringing a casual enthusiasm
for great music to many thousands of
people in New England and beyond.
Steve Iverson is the co-owner of
Complex IT.
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Pamela Kristan, author of The
Spirit of Getting Organized: 12
Skills to Find Meaning and Power
in Your Stuff and Awakening In
Time: Practical Time Management
for Those on a Spiritual Path, has
been helping people discover
valuable strategies for change since
1985. She gives presentations and
consultations in time management,
communication, and personal
organization skills. See her website,
www.pamelakristan.com.
Pedro Lilienfeld is an electronics
engineer and applied physicist with
a life-long interest in Astronomy
and Cosmology who became an
amateur astronomer at age 15. He
is a graduate of a special course in
Astronomy under UNESCO auspices.
He is presently a consultant and was
Principal Science Advisor at Thermo
Fisher Scientific in Franklin, MA.
George W. Little, AIA, is a
practicing architect/interior designer
with 30 years of experience. He has
a Masters degree in Interior Design
from Suffolk University and has
worked in New England for the last
15 years on a variety of residential,
commercial, public and healthcare
projects.
Rachel Kuberry is currently the
Assistive Technology Specialist for
Lexington Public Schools. In her
spare time she enjoys sewing of
all kinds and is delighted to bring
her knowledge to the Lexington
community.
Neil Kutzen is a professional
memory trainer. He has over
30 years of experience as an
HR Management trainer with
organizations including Brigham and
Women’s Hospital and Motorola.
For information please see: www.
memorize.best.com.
Chris LeDoux is a music teacher
at the Diamond Middle School in
Lexington.
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Karenna Maraj is a professional
jewelry artist who studied
metalsmithing at RISD and has
taught locally for many years. The
Karenna Maraj Jewelry Collection
is both a gallery showcasing local
artists and a classroom/studio space.
Tracy Marks has an M.A. in the
teaching of English and has taught
Adobe Photoshop in schools around
the Greater Boston area.
781.862.8043
Jeanne Mayell, Ed.M., M.P.H., is
an intuitive counselor, tarot reader,
holistic life coach and teacher who
has practiced in the Boston area
for 25 years. Her website is www.
jeannemayell.com.
Dr. Susan McCombs is a boardcertified clinical hypnotherapist.
Rebecca McGowan is a Lexington
resident and teaches Irish dancing
classes in afterschool programs
and for adults. She has performed
at the Kennedy Center, in WGBH’s
“A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,”
and at numerous festivals in the
Boston and Washington DC areas.
RebeccaMcGowan.wordpress.com
Rev. Dr. Peter H.J. Meek is Senior
Minister Emeritus of the Hancock
church in Lexington.
Marit Menzin is an award winning
author and illustrator. Her book,
“Song for Papa Crow” received a
Mom’s Choice Award Gold Honor
in July of 2012. Marit is from
Lexington, and her art has received
various awards.
Scott Metzger is an award-winning
Lexington based photographer. For
more info visit, www.metzgerstudios.
com.
Nicholas Michael is the founder
of Odyssey College Search.
Wim Nijenberg CTC has been
planning European travel for 35
years.
Sonia Parravano is currently
also teaching Italian at the Dante
Alighieri Society of Massachusetts in
Cambridge.
Virginia Payne has been practicing
the traditional Yang style Tai Chi
long form since 1990, along with
its complete suite of Tai Chi PushHands, San Shou, Sword, and Saber.
She has been teaching Tai Chi since
2001 at the Chinese Language
School in Lexington on Sundays. She
has also taught Tai Chi in Boston
for a research project in MGH, and
at various Health/Fitness Centers,
including to the students at Jonas
Clark Middle School in Lexington for
their 2011 musical play production
“Mulan”.
Sally Peabody writes about Paris
and French culture, designs and
leads acclaimed custom tours, and
arranges for her clients’ access to
the people and places that best fit
their interests, budget and travel.
Sally Peabody is a consummate
traveler, travel writer, and tour guide,
and president of Turkish Journeys.
Asha Ramesh is a certified yoga
teacher from The Yoga Studio in
Boston and a 200-hour registered
Hatha yoga teacher.
Alma Bella Solis is an artist,
designer and calligrapher who has
been teaching art to adults and
children for nearly 20 years.
Jeremy Richman has been in the
real estate market for over 10 years,
with combined experience as a
developer, realtor, mortgage agent
and even a foreclosure counselor.
He has an unusual breadth of
knowledge about real estate which
he freely shares with his clients so
they are fully informed. Jeremy grew
up in Lexington, LHS class of ’76.
Paula Solomon, MSSS, is a career
and life transition coach, with The
Seasons of Your Life Coaching. She
helps people at midlife envision a
career or lifestyle that would better
suit them and take the steps to make
that a reality.
Debra Samuels is a cookbook
author, food and travel writer and
cooking teacher. Debra has lived
abroad for more than a decade in
Japan and Italy, where she studied
Italian, Korean and Japanese
cuisine.
Robyn Samuels is a certified longterm care specialist (CLTC) who has
personally experienced and will
share some of the many difficulties
that occur taking care of an elderly
parent.
Suzanne Sandberg is an
occupational therapist who has been
studying yoga for many years and
received her yoga teacher training
from Kripalu.
Naomi Steiner, MD, has been a
pediatrician, counseling families, for
20 years. She runs the CATS project
(Computer Attention Training in
Schools for children with ADHD) at
the Floating Hospital for Children/
Tufts Medical Center, which also
includes neurofeedback.
Ami Stix is a licensed Zumba
instructor and a trained dancer.
Amanda and Amanda Sullivan,
of the Amandas Consulting, are a
consulting partnership that focuses
on educational technology.
Peter Sulski is currently on the
faculty as teacher of violin, viola, and
chamber music at Clark University
and College of the Holy Cross.
Jane Sutton is a Lexington resident
and published author of four picture
books, three middle grade novels and
one YA novel. Her website is www.
jane-sutton.com.
Helen Theodosiou has an MA in
Expressive Arts Therapies and is a
certified (200-hour) yoga instructor.
Cammy Thomas is a published poet
and teacher at the Concord Academy.
Shwarya Viboonlarp is a native of
Bangkok.
Garrett Wallace is a recent
graduate of the Composition and
Music Education programs at
Berklee College of Music. During
his time at Berklee, he discovered
his passion for teaching privately
while he volunteered teaching voice
lessons to underserved youth at La
Sociedade De Latina. Garrett is an
active composer and arranger in the
Boston area.
Tony Watt is an award-winning flat
picking guitarist.
Ken Wax has performed at Faneuil
Hall and Children’s Hospital, has
been featured in the Boston Globe,
and was recently voted ‘Best of
Boston 2015-16’ by the Society of
American Magicians. He has taught
magic in the Boston area for many
years and has entertained at parties,
company events and on cable TV.
He has studied with several of the
world’s leading magicians.
Carl West (Prospect Hill Forge)
began blacksmithing in 1977 after
reading Aldren A. Watson’s “The
Village Blacksmith” and has been
doing it off and on since. He earned
a BFA in Sculpture at CarnegieMellon University.
Mary Wixted, is a nationally
certified Iyengar yoga instructor with
over 8 years of teaching experience
and has been with Lexington
Community Education for 5 years.
Mary is expert in helping beginners
enjoy the practice of yoga, while
taking more experienced students to
their maximum pose and protecting
the body with the use of props when
needed.
Joan Yarmovsky is a French
teacher at the Diamond Middle
School.
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For programs sponsored by the Lexington Recreation Department,
contact them at 39 Marrett Road, (781) 698-4870.
Contact Info
146 Maple Street
Phone: 781.862.8043
Fax: 781.863.5829
[email protected]
Important
Information
Directions To
Sites in Lexington
HOW TO REGISTER
No-School Dates
By Phone: Pay with a Visa or
Mastercard. Call 781.862.8043.
Please have the course code, your
card number, expiration date, and V
code ready when you call. By Mail:
Use registration form on the back
page or download a form from our
website. Enclose a check made
payable to: Lexington Community
Education or provide your Visa or
Mastercard number. Please do not
email credit card information.
There will be no classes on Monday,
October 12, Wednesday, November
11, Wednesday, November 25 (after
12pm), Thursday, November 26,
Friday, November 27 and on Monday,
November 30 there will be no
classes at the Lexington High School
location only. Whenever Lexington
High School is closed there are no
LCE classes at LHS. When Lexington
Public Schools are closed due to
weather, LCE is also closed. You
may call LCE at 781.862.8043 for
a recorded announcement. Public
School closings may be found online
at http://lps.lexingtonma.org/snow.
Walk-In: The LCE office, located
at 146 Maple Street is open from
9-3, Monday through Friday. Our
Lexington High School Office is open
from 4pm-9pm Monday through
Thursday while classes are in
session.
By FAX: Completed registration
forms may be faxed to the LCE office
at 781.863.5829.
Registration Confirmations:
LCE does not send registration
confirmations for classes listed in our
fall, winter or spring catalogs.
Discounts and Scholarships
Our classes are open to everyone,
regardless of residency. Reduced
tuition is available to seniors (65
years of age and over), and also to
employees of the Town of Lexington
for most, but not all, of our classes.
Limited scholarship assistance is
available for Lexington residents;
please call to request an application.
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Cancellation and
Refund Policy
Refunds will be issued for all
class cancellations or for medical
emergencies. If you withdraw from
a class at least two business days
before the start of your class you
may request a refund, minus a $10
processing fee. If you choose to
receive a credit toward another
course, the processing fee will not
be applied. Please note that refund
checks can take four to six weeks
to process. Special series lectures
are non-refundable. No refunds or
credits are given for changes in
instructors, or locations. If you are
dissatisfied with a class, please call
us immediately.
Registration Confirmations:
LCE does not send registration
confirmations for classes listed in our
fall, winter or spring catalogs.
781.862.8043
Directions To Sites
in Lexington
Lexington Community Education’s
Central Office is located at 146
Maple Street. Vehicle Access is via
328 Lowell Street. As you enter the
driveway, continue past Harrington
Elementary School Building. The LCE
Central Office building is the brick
building behind the school. Please
park in designated areas (not in front
circle due to fire lane restrictions)
Lexington High School
251 Waltham Street
LHS is located near the corner of
Waltham St. and Worthen Rd. Enter
through new main entrance via
parking lot on Worthen Road. Most
classes are on the 2nd floor of main
building. Our office is in the LHS
Dean’s Office on the first floor in
Room 142.
Clarke Middle School
17 Stedman Road
Stedman Road is off of Waltham St..
Diamond Middle School
99 Hancock Street
Please enter front door only from
Hancock Street entrance.
Cary Library
1874 Massachusetts Avenue
From Lexington Center, go north on
Mass Ave., then turn left on Muzzey
Street. Then turn right on Raymond,
then right on Clarke Street. The
Library parking lot is on the right.
The Learning Center and the Meeting
Room are on the lower level.
Complex IT
9 Meriam Street, Suite 1,
Lower Level
First Parish Church
7 Harrington Road
Steepled white church facing town
Green in Lexington Center. Park
behind church building in big lot.
Parish Hall is upstairs. Parker Hall is
downstairs.
Follen Church
Located in East Lexington next to the
East Lexington branch library. Enter
through side door at rear of building.
Classroom is on 2nd floor.
Hancock Church
The stone church facing the Battle
Green.
Harrington School
328 Lowell Street
LexMedia Studios
54 Concord Ave. in the Avalon
Lexington Complex
Please see LexMedia’s website:
lexmedia.org for detailed directions.
__________________________
LCE complies with equal opportunity
legislation (chapter 622 and Title IX).
We are committed to serving the needs
and interests of the community—
adults, seniors, and children.
Any information and/or advice, either
expressed or implied, in any LCE
class, is solely that of the instructor.
LCE assumes no responsibility for the
course content. Courses are designed
for education and enjoyment, and are
not intended to serve as the basis
and/or rationale for any decision on
the part of the participants.
Autumn 2015 REGISTRATION FORM |
Last Name ______________________________________________________ First Name___________________________________________________
Street Address____________________________________________________ Town or City_______________________________ ZIP_________________
Home Phone_____________________________________________________ Work Phone__________________________________________________
E-Mail__________________________________________________________ Birthdate (seniors only)__________________________________________
Name of Class
Course Code**
Start Date
Amount
Total*
**Each course code is listed with each course title. Thank you. NO CONFIRMATION WILL BE SENT!
*Write one check for the TOTAL amount and mail to: Lexington Community Education, 146 Maple St., Lexington, MA 02420
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Street Address____________________________________________________ Town or City_______________________________ ZIP_________________
Home Phone_____________________________________________________ Work Phone__________________________________________________
E-Mail__________________________________________________________ Birthdate (seniors only)__________________________________________
Name of Class
Course Code**
**Each course code is listed with each course title. Thank you. NO CONFIRMATION WILL BE SENT!
*Write one check for the TOTAL amount and mail to: Lexington Community Education, 146 Maple St., Lexington, MA 02420
†
V-code is the last 3 digits of the number above your signature on the back of your card.
Start Date
Amount
Total*
Please charge the following credit card
n VISA
n MasterCard
Amount to charge: $_________________
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
Account Number
Expiration Date V Code†
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MONTHYEAR
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