Special Events | 4 |
Recipes to Live By: An Evening with Al Roker and Courtney Roker Laga in Conversation with Jonathan Aubrey | 4 |
| 4 |
Author Visit: Elizabeth Harris, How to Sleep at Night (2025) | 5 |
Author Visit and Book Discussion: Beena Kamlani, The English Problem (2025) | 5 |
Author Visit: Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood (2024) | 6 |
Author Visit: Sarah Easter Collins, Things Don't Break on Their Own (2024) | 6 |
Author Visit: Afabwaje Kurian, Before the Mango Ripens (2024) | 7 |
Author Visit: Karissa Chen, Homeseeking (2025) | 7 |
Author Visit: Susan Dominus, The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success (2025) | 8 |
Author Visit: Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal's Mistress (2025) | 9 |
Author Visit: Julie Averbach, The Art of Trader Joe's (2024) | 9 |
Author Visit: Andrew Porwancher, American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (2025) | 10 |
Author Visit: Rumaan Alam, Entitlement (2024) | 10 |
Author Visit: Eleanor Wilde, June in the Garden (2025) | 11 |
Book Discussion with Roya Hakakian: Immigrant Chronicles | 12 |
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran (2004) | 12 |
Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (2011) | 12 |
A Beginner’s Guide to America (2021) | 12 |
Walking Tours | 13 |
Art Appreciation | 16 |
Walking Tour: Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie at the Met | 16 |
Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met | 16 |
Walking Tour: Eighteenth Century French Paintings at the Met | 16 |
Sargent and Paris at the Met | 17 |
Walking Tour | 17 |
Museum Preview | 17 |
Walking Tour: Lorna Simpson: Source Notes at the Met | 17 |
Walking Tour: Nineteenth Century French Paintings at the Met | 18 |
Walking Tour: Modern Wing at the Met | 18 |
Walking Tour: Sculptures at the Met | 18 |
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at the Met | 18 |
Walking Tour | 18 |
Museum Preview | 18 |
Museum Preview: Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers at MoMA | 19 |
Museum Preview: David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris | 19 |
Master Flemish and Dutch Painters | 20 |
van Eyck and the Origins of Netherlandish Painting | 20 |
van Eyck's Impact on Memling, van der Weyden, and Bosch | 20 |
Pieter Bruegel and the Development of Landscape Painting | 20 |
Peter Paul Rubens, International Art Star | 20 |
Anthony van Dyck, Cosmopolitan Painter | 20 |
Rembrandt and Hals, Portraiture and the Rise of the Dutch Nation | 20 |
Dutch Landscape in the Golden Age | 20 |
Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting | 20 |
Flemish and Dutch Still Life Painting | 20 |
Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met | 21 |
The World of Vermeer | 21 |
Philip Guston and Friends | 21 |
The World of LGBTQ Art | 21 |
Arts of Africa | 21 |
Walking Tour: Kenji Nakahashi and Blanche Lazzell at the Bruce Museum | 21 |
Walking Tour: Mother's Day Outing, Mother and Child Art at the Met | 21 |
Walking Tour: Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney | 21 |
Walking Tour: Yale Center for British Art | 22 |
Walking Tour: Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years at the Grey Art Museum | 22 |
Walking Tour: Recasting The Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900 at the Met | 22 |
Walking Tour: The Frick Collection | 23 |
Walking Tour: Jack Whitten: The Messenger at MoMA | 23 |
Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City | 24 |
Walking Tour: Chinatown's Burgeoning Art Scene | 24 |
Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim Museum | 25 |
Walking Tour | 25 |
Museum Preview | 25 |
| 25 |
| 25 |
Walking Tour: Fashionable Upper East Side | 25 |
Eighteenth Century Portraits of Women by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds | 26 |
Pop Goes the Portrait | 26 |
Claes Oldenburg, Larry Rivers and George Segal, Modern Masters of Sculpture and Painting | 26 |
New American Realism of George Bellows, Reginald Marsh, and Thomas Hart Benton | 27 |
Wyeths, Wondrous Strange | 27 |
Virtual Tour: The Art Institute of Chicago | 27 |
Virtual Tour: Parisian Art of the Belle Époque | 27 |
Architecture | 28 |
Secrets, Myths, and Legends of Central Park | 28 |
Walking Tour: Central Park North: Conservatory Gardens, North Woods, and Harlem Meer | 28 |
Secrets, Myths, and Legends of the Empire State Building | 28 |
Walking Tour: Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue | 29 |
Walking Tour: Historic West Village | 29 |
Walking Tour: Madison Square Park Monuments and Sculptures | 29 |
Art Deco's First 100 Years | 30 |
Walking Tour: Art Deco NYC | 31 |
East 50s | 31 |
Murray Hill to Gramercy Park | 31 |
Central Park West | 31 |
Walking Tour: Riverside Drive and Riverside Park | 32 |
| 32 |
Walking Tour: Hudson Yards and the New West Side | 32 |
Walking Tour: Belmont in the Bronx | 32 |
Walking Tour: Lower East Side, South of Delancey | 33 |
Walking Tour: Lower East Side, North of Delancey | 33 |
Walking Tour: Making Home — Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt | 34 |
| 34 |
History and Culture | 35 |
Churchill, Britain's Incomparable Leader | 35 |
Walking Tour: Step Back in Time to the Old Lower East Side | 35 |
Current Events and Politics | 36 |
Let's Talk Current Events: Topics in the News | 36 |
Moral Dilemmas, Case Studies in Justice, Ethics, and Morality | 36 |
U.S. Supreme Court in Crisis | 37 |
Executive Orders and the Expansion of Presidential Power | 37 |
Presidential Pardon Power, Uses and Abuses | 37 |
Literature, Film, Theater, and Television | 38 |
Book Chat with Anna Katsavos | 38 |
Revisiting The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 38 |
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus (2025) by Emma Knight | 38 |
Three Days in June (2025) by Ann Tyler | 39 |
Dream State (2025) by Eric Puchner | 39 |
BookTalk with Harriet Sobol | 40 |
Abigail (1970) by Magda Szabó, English translation in 2020 by Len Rix | 40 |
Twist (2025) by Colum McCann | 40 |
The Funeral Party (1977) by Ludmila Ulitskaya, English translation in 1999 by Cathy Porter | 40 |
Memorial Days (2025) by Geraldine Brooks | 41 |
The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan (2021) by Domenico Starnone, English translation in 2024 by Oonagh Stransky | 41 |
Enter Ghost (2024) by Isabella Hammad | 41 |
Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars, the Gossipy Biographer of Ancient Rome | 42 |
| 42 |
Nineteenth Century Avant-Garde Fiction | 42 |
Short Stories on Primary Connections | 42 |
Film Conversation: Band of Brothers (2001 HBO Mini-Series) with Special Guest Kirk Saduski | 43 |
Film Discussion: The Great Gatsby (2013) | 43 |
Writing | 44 |
Finding Your Voice through Memoir Writing | 44 |
Poetry Performance and Writing Workshop | 44 |
Music Appreciation | 45 |
Pianist Cristiana Pegoraro in Concert: Multimedia Performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | 45 |
Beyond Beethoven: A Thousand Years of Music | 45 |
Performing Arts | 46 |
Ring Your Bell for Beginners | 46 |
Group Piano Lessons for Beginner & Intermediate Students | 46 |
Learn to Play the Violin | 47 |
Learn to Play the Cello | 47 |
Learn to Play the Guitar | 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
| 48 |
Learn to Play the Ukulele for Beginners | 48 |
Joy of Singing | 49 |
Acting and Improv | 49 |
Arts & Crafts | 50 |
Zen Design Doodling | 50 |
Drawing Landscape and Nature in Color with Graphite Pencils, Colored Pencils, and Watercolor Paint | 50 |
Portrait Drawing | 50 |
Expressive Motion of Charcoal Drawing | 51 |
Vibrant Strokes of Pastel Drawing | 51 |
Drawing and Acrylic Painting | 51 |
Watercolor Painting | 52 |
| 52 |
Watercolor Painting | 52 |
Watercolor Intensive | 52 |
Landscape Painting with Oil Pastels | 53 |
Painting the Landscape | 53 |
Painting En Plein Air | 53 |
Mixed Media Abstract Painting | 54 |
Express Yourself Through Collage | 54 |
April Showers Bring May Origami Flowers | 54 |
Knitting for All Levels | 55 |
Advanced Beginner Knitting | 55 |
A Tisket, a Tasket, Learn to Make a Basket | 55 |
Large Gift Basket | 55 |
Garden Trug | 55 |
Hobbies and Edutainment | 56 |
Introduction to iPhone Photography | 56 |
New Features in Apple's Photos App with iPhone's iOS18 | 56 |
Photo Editing with Adobe Photoshop | 56 |
Create Photo Books with Canva, Shutterfly, or Mixbook | 57 |
Computers, Technology, and the Internet | 58 |
Word Processing and Presentation Basics Using Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Google Slides | 58 |
Introduction to Cloud Storage Using Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive | 58 |
Mastering Spreadsheets Using Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets | 59 |
Intermediate Spreadsheets | 59 |
Advanced Spreadsheets | 59 |
Podcast Basics | 60 |
| 60 |
Create Your Own Website, No Coding Required | 60 |
Creating a Social Media Presence | 60 |
Building an Online Store | 61 |
Selling Items Online | 61 |
Introduction to AI and ChatGPT | 61 |
Do More with Your iPhone | 61 |
Home and Garden | 62 |
Step by Step Guide to House Renovating | 62 |
Practical Tips for Home Organizing | 62 |
Financial and Retirement Planning | 63 |
Medicare Demystified | 63 |
How to Compare Medicare Plans and Costs | 63 |
Games | 64 |
| 64 |
Beginner Bridge | 64 |
Advanced Beginner Bridge | 64 |
Intermediate Bridge | 64 |
Bridge: Supervised Play | 64 |
Beginner Canasta | 65 |
Canasta: Supervised Play | 65 |
Mah Jongg Tournament | 66 |
Let's Play Mah Jongg: | 66 |
Beginner Series | 66 |
Let's Play Mah Jongg: | 66 |
Supervised Play | 66 |
Food and Beverage | 67 |
Culinary Walking Tour: Arthur Avenue | 67 |
Fitness and Dance | 68 |
Fit Blast: Cardio, Strength, and Abs | 68 |
Total Body Workout with Bands | 68 |
Body Sculpting | 68 |
Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting | 69 |
Walk 15® | 69 |
Postural Therapy Movement | 69 |
Movement to Music | 70 |
Gentle Yoga | 70 |
Essential Yoga | 70 |
Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth | 71 |
Taste and Talk | 71 |
| 71 |
Stay Healthy and Live Longer | 71 |
Menopause, Pre, Peri, Present, and Post | 71 |
Languages | 72 |
Spanish for Travelers | 72 |
Beginner Spanish | 72 |
Beginner to Advanced Beginner Spanish | 72 |
| 72 |
Advanced Beginner Spanish | 72 |
Intermediate Spanish | 73 |
Intermediate to Advanced Spanish | 73 |
Conversational Spanish | 73 |
Intermediate Conversational Spanish | 73 |
Advanced Conversational Spanish | 73 |
Conversational French | 74 |
Beginner German | 74 |
Intermediate German | 74 |
Support Our School | 75 |
Our Team | 75 |
Campaign 2024 Honor Roll | 76 |
General Information | 78 |
Registration Information | 79 |
| 79 |
| 79 |
Register By Mail Form | 80 |
Index of Classes By Day of the Week | 81 |
Sunday | 81 |
Monday | 81 |
Tuesday | 81 |
Wednesday | 83 |
Thursday | 84 |
| 85 |
Friday | 85 |
Index by Time of Day | 86 |
Morning Classes (starting before 12:00pm) | 86 |
Afternoon Classes (starting between 12:00pm and 5:59pm) | 89 |
Evening Classes (starting at 6:00pm and on) | 91 |
Made with FlippingBook Proposal Creator