SummerFest 2021 Catalog
SummerFest is brought to you mostly in Zoom but check below for an exciting Hybrid course
SummerFest courses are on Fridays, June 4, 11, 18, 25
Registration open to all current LLI members
Classes will be held via Zoom plus one Hybrid course
Registration opens May 21, 2021
Add available until June 11th.
Course Dates: June 4, 11, 18, 25
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There is a print button on the bottom of the page and also a link to the PDF Course Index Table. All courses except the Off-Friday LIVE section of the Hybrid course will be in Zoom.
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Period 1
9:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.
Fridays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: In this introduction to Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®, students will discover how small, slow movements can evolve safely and pleasurably into a dynamic wake-up for the whole body. Students must be able to lie down on a firm surface, preferably on a mat or rug on the floor.
Class Limit: 16
Presenter: Margaret Pierpont (LLI) has been offering Awareness Through Movement® at LLI since 2017. She has had a lifelong orientation toward movement and body awareness inspired by childhood classes in Dalcroze eurythmics. She majored in dance at Sarah Lawrence College and is a certified Laban movement analyst, as well as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.
Producer: Margaret Shuhala
Fridays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: Do you have time for this course? The presenter will lead the class through an understanding of space-time—what it means, how to measure it, and how it affects our models of the universe. Related concepts such as relativity and uncertainty will be introduced, using Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time as a source. What a marvelous title!
Class Limit: none
Presenter: Bill Tuel, PhD, (LLI) retired in 2008 after a 40-year career in software engineering. Since then, Bill has turned to preparing and presenting courses on the history of science. His previous course topics have included mathematics, computing, atomic physics, biology, and electricity and magnetism.
Producer: Bill Tuel
Fridays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: This course will allow us the opportunity to read and interpret Elizabeth Barrett Browning‘s poetry in light of the personal mythology created by herself and her contemporaries. We will also examine interpretations of her life and work as presented in Broadway and Hollywood productions, such as The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
Class Limit: None
Presenter: Richard McKeon, STM, Yale Divinity School, has been rector of the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck since 2010. His undergraduate thesis was on the use of landscapes in the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, while his graduate thesis was on the cultural context of the design of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He’s passionate about the beauty and history of his native Hudson Valley.
Producer: Margaret Moran
Fridays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: Have you ever seen a child’s eyes light up with wonder at the completion of a magic trick? Have you watched their amazement when a coin is made to disappear and is subsequently pulled from the back of his/her ear? Or when he/she has picked a card from a shuffled deck and it is immediately identified by the magician? Or, sitting at the table after dinner, the child tears a paper napkin to shreds. He then rolls the pieces into a little ball, squeezes it tightly, and opens it up, only to find the paper napkin restored? These are a few of the magic tricks you can learn by signing up for Magic for the Family.
Class Limit: 15
Presenter: Andrew Weintraub, magician, is founder of The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and The Rhinebeck Theatre Society. He is also the creator of Grumpus Magic at Rhinebeck’s annual Sinterklaas celebration.
Producer: Margaret Moran
Fridays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: In 1920, the Treaty of Versailles officially ended World War I, and Prohibition went into effect. The Great Influenza pandemic subsided, Warren G. Harding was elected President, and women voted for the first time. It was the beginning of what became the Roaring 20s, an exciting (and foreboding) decade in politics and the arts: jazz, literature, Bauhaus, Broadway, movies, Picasso, Weimar, Hemingway, Gershwin, and so much more. Now, 100 years later, are we on the threshold of another “Roaring” decade?
Class Limit: None
Presenter: Chuck Mishaan, MA, (LLI) has been presenting his popular Opera as Politics course at Bard LLI for many years. His commentary on the intersection of politics and the arts continues with this course on the Roaring 20s.
Producer: Chuck Mishaan
Period 2
11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
Fridays: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: Jon Bowermaster and his team of photographers, filmmakers, scientists, and adventurers set out in 1999 to travel around the world by sea kayak. During a 10-year journey, they visited each of the seven continents and Oceania. Their goal? To bring back stories of how our one global ocean is faring in the face of myriad environmental concerns—plus to have some adventures along the way.
Class Limit: None
Presenter: Jon Bowermaster. Writer, filmmaker, and adventurer, Jon is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. He has written 11 books and directed/produced more than 30 documentary films, all with environmental backdrops. Jon has lived in the Hudson Valley for 32 years.
Producer: Anne Brueckner
Fridays: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: Learn dance fundamentals using safe and accessible movements, including the BrainDance warm-up, basic technique, and creative movement activities. These provide an opportunity to improve strength, stability, flexibility, balance, and creative expression, and to have fun. Suitable for all levels and abilities. No experience necessary.
Class Limit: 15
Presenter: Judith Nelson, MFA, has 35 years of experience teaching creative and modern dance and ballet to children and adults of all ages and abilities. She leads professional development workshops for dance educators. She is a dancer with the Jose Limón Company and the David Gordon/Pick Up Company, and has toured in the US and abroad as a solo artist and in musical theater. Judith has directed dance programs at the university level and taught at the Mark Morris School and the 92nd Street Y in NYC.
Producer: Leslie Weinstock
Fridays: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
June 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: This course will survey the origin and evolution of policing in the United States. The class will engage in a discussion about the role of social movements and political ideologies in bringing about change.
Class Limit: None
Presenter: Robert Beaury, MS, (LLI) is a retired social studies teacher from Germantown Central School and a former adjunct at Columbia Greene Community College.
Producer: Emily Michael
OFF-FRIDAY, HYBRID COURSE
HYBRID COURSE—AN EXPERIMENT
JUNE 3, 10, 17 & 24
THURSDAYS, 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.
Hybrid courses comprise a small group of in-person attendees (X1 below) and a Zoom audience (Z1 below), all of whom will interact with each other and the presenter at each session. Together, the in-person class and the virtual/Zoom class become a Hybrid class. These are experiments in effective teaching with a diverse student environment.
The in-person course, held outside in a Woodstock vegetable garden, is limited to 11 members. The online course has no limit. If the in-person course is full, or if you prefer to join virtually, please sign up for the online course. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination is required to attend this course in person. LLI safety protocols will be followed by everyone on-site. All participants must be fully vaccinated at least 2 weeks prior to June 2.
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Thursdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24 (all sessions in-person)
Description: Adam Weiss, Master Gardener, invites us to join him at Pike Lane Gardens in Woodstock for LLI’s first hybrid course with participants on-site and on Zoom. Each class consists of an out-door lecture, Q&A, as well as equal time in the garden for observation of all aspects of plant productivity and demonstrations. Adam’s teaching style is highly interactive—questions and comments are encouraged during and after classes. Those who don’t have fenced gardens can apply organic food growing practices using grow bags and planters. Let’s get together and grow.
Proof of Covid-19 vaccination is required to attend this course in person. LLI safety protocols will be followed by everyone on-site. All participants must be fully vaccinated at least 2 weeks prior to June 2.
Class Limit: 11 in-person attendees; no limit via Zoom
Presenter: Adam Weiss was an administrator with Restaurant Associates and remains a consultant. He transformed his gardening interests into a career as a teacher of organic gardening on Zoom. His knowledge, enthusiasm, and genuine enjoyment of people have enabled him to amass a large, loyal following.
Production, Camera, and Session Crew: Laura Brown, Jeff Christensen, Carmela Gersbeck, Ann Miller, Gary Miller, Chuck Mishaan, Navin Sharma
Producer: Susan Hinkle
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Thursdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24 (all sessions in Zoom)
Members who choose this option (Z1) will attend the four sessions virtually, via Zoom.
Description: Adam Weiss, Master Gardener, invites us to join him at Pike Lane Gardens in Woodstock for LLI’s first hybrid course with participants on-site and on Zoom. Each class consists of an out-door lecture, Q&A, as well as equal time in the garden for observation of all aspects of plant productivity and demonstrations. Adam’s teaching style is highly interactive—questions and comments are encouraged during and after classes. Those who don’t have fenced gardens can apply organic food growing practices using grow bags and planters. Let’s get together and grow.
Class Limit: no limit via Zoom
Presenter: Adam Weiss was an administrator with Restaurant Associates and remains a consultant. He transformed his gardening interests into a career as a teacher of organic gardening on Zoom. His knowledge, enthusiasm, and genuine enjoyment of people have enabled him to amass a large, loyal following.
Production, Camera, and Session Crew: Laura Brown, Jeff Christensen, Carmela Gersbeck, Ann Miller, Gary Miller, Chuck Mishaan, Navin Sharma
Producer: Susan Hinkle
Credits
Curriculum Committee
Anne Sunners, Chair
Irene Esposito, Secretary
Regina Armstrong
Dorothy Baran
Bob Blacker
Anne Brueckner
Jane Diamond
Ellen Foreman
Susan Hinkle
Linda LeGendre
Emily Michael
Chuck Mishaan
Merrill Mishaan
Margaret Moran
Cathy Reinis
Margaret Shuhala
Bill Tuel
Leslie Weinstock
Catalog Committee
Bill Tuel, Chair
Kathryn Clark
Deborah Lanser
Margaret Shuhala
Tim Sullivan, Catalog Editor
Betsy Tuel
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