Special Events | 4 |
Recipes to Live By: An Evening with Al Roker and Courtney Roker Laga in Conversation with Jonathan Aubrey | 4 |
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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: Contemporary Galleries of New York City | 23 |
Walking Tour: Chinatown's Burgeoning Art Scene | 23 |
Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim Museum | 23 |
Walking Tour | 23 |
Museum Preview | 23 |
Walking Tour: Fashionable Upper East Side | 23 |
Eighteenth Century Portraits of Women by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds | 24 |
Pop Goes the Portrait | 24 |
Claes Oldenburg, Larry Rivers and George Segal, Modern Masters of Sculpture and Painting | 24 |
New American Realism of George Bellows, Reginald Marsh, and Thomas Hart Benton | 25 |
Wyeths, Wondrous Strange | 25 |
Virtual Tour: The Art Institute of Chicago | 25 |
Virtual Tour: Parisian Art of the Belle Époque | 25 |
Architecture | 26 |
Secrets, Myths, and Legends of Central Park | 26 |
Walking Tour: Central Park North: Conservatory Gardens, North Woods, and Harlem Meer | 26 |
Secrets, Myths, and Legends of the Empire State Building | 26 |
Walking Tour: Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue | 27 |
Walking Tour: Historic West Village | 27 |
Walking Tour: Madison Square Park Monuments and Sculptures | 27 |
Art Deco's First 100 Years | 28 |
Walking Tour: Art Deco NYC | 29 |
East 50s | 29 |
Murray Hill to Gramercy Park | 29 |
Central Park West | 29 |
Walking Tour: Making Home — Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt | 30 |
History and Culture | 31 |
Churchill, Britain's Incomparable Leader | 31 |
Walking Tour: Step Back in Time to the Old Lower East Side | 31 |
Current Events and Politics | 32 |
Let's Talk Current Events: Topics in the News | 32 |
Moral Dilemmas, Case Studies in Justice, Ethics, and Morality | 32 |
U.S. Supreme Court in Crisis | 33 |
Executive Orders and the Expansion of Presidential Power | 33 |
Presidential Pardon Power, Uses and Abuses | 33 |
Literature, Film, Theater, and Television | 34 |
Book Chat with Anna Katsavos | 34 |
Revisiting The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 34 |
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus (2025) by Emma Knight | 34 |
Three Days in June (2025) by Ann Tyler | 35 |
Dream State (2025) by Eric Puchner | 35 |
BookTalk with Harriet Sobol | 36 |
Abigail (1970) by Magda Szabó, English translation in 2020 by Len Rix | 36 |
Twist (2025) by Colum McCann | 36 |
The Funeral Party (1977) by Ludmila Ulitskaya, English translation in 1999 by Cathy Porter | 36 |
Memorial Days (2025) by Geraldine Brooks | 37 |
The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan (2021) by Domenico Starnone, English translation in 2024 by Oonagh Stransky | 37 |
Enter Ghost (2024) by Isabella Hammad | 37 |
Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars, the Gossipy Biographer of Ancient Rome | 38 |
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Nineteenth Century Avant-Garde Fiction | 38 |
Short Stories on Primary Connections | 38 |
Film Conversation: Band of Brothers (2001 HBO Mini-Series) with Special Guest Kirk Saduski | 39 |
Film Discussion: The Great Gatsby (2013) | 39 |
Writing | 40 |
Finding Your Voice through Memoir Writing | 40 |
Poetry Performance and Writing Workshop | 40 |
Music Appreciation | 41 |
Pianist Cristiana Pegoraro in Concert: Multimedia Performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons | 41 |
Beyond Beethoven: A Thousand Years of Music | 41 |
Performing Arts | 42 |
Ring Your Bell for Beginners | 42 |
Group Piano Lessons for Beginner & Intermediate Students | 42 |
Learn to Play the Violin | 43 |
Learn to Play the Cello | 43 |
Learn to Play the Guitar | 44 |
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Learn to Play the Ukulele for Beginners | 44 |
Joy of Singing | 45 |
Acting and Improv | 45 |
Arts & Crafts | 46 |
Zen Design Doodling | 46 |
Drawing Landscape and Nature in Color with Graphite Pencils, Colored Pencils, and Watercolor Paint | 46 |
Portrait Drawing | 46 |
Expressive Motion of Charcoal Drawing | 47 |
Vibrant Strokes of Pastel Drawing | 47 |
Drawing and Acrylic Painting | 47 |
Watercolor Painting | 48 |
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Watercolor Painting | 48 |
Watercolor Intensive | 48 |
Landscape Painting with Oil Pastels | 49 |
Painting the Landscape | 49 |
Painting En Plein Air | 49 |
Mixed Media Abstract Painting | 50 |
Express Yourself Through Collage | 50 |
April Showers Bring May Origami Flowers | 50 |
Knitting for All Levels | 51 |
Advanced Beginner Knitting | 51 |
A Tisket, a Tasket, Learn to Make a Basket | 51 |
Large Gift Basket | 51 |
Garden Trug | 51 |
Hobbies and Edutainment | 52 |
Introduction to iPhone Photography | 52 |
New Features in Apple's Photos App with iPhone's iOS18 | 52 |
Photo Editing with Adobe Photoshop | 52 |
Create Photo Books with Canva, Shutterfly, or Mixbook | 53 |
Computers, Technology, and the Internet | 54 |
Word Processing and Presentation Basics Using Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Google Slides | 54 |
Introduction to Cloud Storage Using Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive | 54 |
Mastering Spreadsheets Using Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets | 55 |
Intermediate Spreadsheets | 55 |
Advanced Spreadsheets | 55 |
Podcast Basics | 56 |
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Create Your Own Website, No Coding Required | 56 |
Creating a Social Media Presence | 56 |
Building an Online Store | 57 |
Selling Items Online | 57 |
Introduction to AI and ChatGPT | 57 |
Do More with Your iPhone | 57 |
Home and Garden | 58 |
Step by Step Guide to House Renovating | 58 |
Practical Tips for Home Organizing | 58 |
Financial and Retirement Planning | 59 |
Medicare Demystified | 59 |
How to Compare Medicare Plans and Costs | 59 |
Games | 60 |
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Beginner Bridge | 60 |
Advanced Beginner Bridge | 60 |
Intermediate Bridge | 60 |
Bridge: Supervised Play | 60 |
Beginner Canasta | 61 |
Canasta: Supervised Play | 61 |
Mah Jongg Tournament | 62 |
Let's Play Mah Jongg: | 62 |
Beginner Series | 62 |
Let's Play Mah Jongg: | 62 |
Supervised Play | 62 |
Food and Beverage | 63 |
Culinary Walking Tour: Arthur Avenue | 63 |
Fitness and Dance | 64 |
Fit Blast: Cardio, Strength, and Abs | 64 |
Total Body Workout with Bands | 64 |
Body Sculpting | 64 |
Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting | 65 |
Walk 15® | 65 |
Postural Therapy Movement | 65 |
Movement to Music | 66 |
Gentle Yoga | 66 |
Essential Yoga | 66 |
Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth | 67 |
Taste and Talk | 67 |
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Stay Healthy and Live Longer | 67 |
Languages | 68 |
Spanish for Travelers | 68 |
Beginner Spanish | 68 |
Beginner to Advanced Beginner Spanish | 68 |
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Advanced Beginner Spanish | 68 |
Intermediate Spanish | 69 |
Intermediate to Advanced Spanish | 69 |
Conversational Spanish | 69 |
Intermediate Conversational Spanish | 69 |
Advanced Conversational Spanish | 69 |
Conversational French | 70 |
Beginner German | 70 |
Intermediate German | 70 |
Support Our School | 71 |
Our Team | 71 |
Campaign 2024 Honor Roll | 72 |
General Information | 74 |
Registration Information | 75 |
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Register By Mail Form | 76 |
Index of Classes By Day of the Week | 77 |
Sunday | 77 |
Monday | 77 |
Tuesday | 77 |
Wednesday | 79 |
Thursday | 80 |
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Friday | 81 |
Index by Time of Day | 82 |
Morning Classes (starting before 12:00pm) | 82 |
Afternoon Classes (starting between 12:00pm and 5:59pm) | 85 |
Evening Classes (starting at 6:00pm and on) | 86 |
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