WinterFest 2023 Catalog
ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM
Wednesdays, January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2023
First Session: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. in Zoom
Second Session: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Zoom
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ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM
Bard LLI members and WinterFest presenters may invite individual guests. Members, presenters, and their guests are welcome at every presentation. The Bard community of faculty, staff, and students is also welcome.
WinterFest Registration: Registration is not required. LLI members will be sent a weekly Zoom invitation to attend presentations. Details on all presentations can also be viewed on ProClass.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Description: Many of us tend to approach parenting/grandparenting the way we were parented. Understanding what children need from adults has evolved, and it is clear that early relationships affect all domains of later life, emotional and physical health, relationships, and intellectual functioning. This course will focus on the development of “secure attachment” to primary caretakers in early childhood and how that facilitates the development of self-confidence, satisfying relationships, the ability to pursue interests, successful coping skills, and emotion management skills in adolescence and adulthood. Class participants will discuss how grandparents can contribute to “secure attachment” without overstepping boundaries.
Presenter: Alice Linder, MD. Alice Linder has two children and more than 30 years’ experience as a child psychiatrist, preceded by four years’ experience as a pediatrician. Through these experiences she has come to believe that a child’s earliest relationships have a profound effect on later functioning in all domains of life.
Producer: Marge Moran
Description: American quilts are often seen as just utilitarian bedcovers. Crafted to provide warmth, commemorate an event, or show love, quilts have been part of our culture for centuries. But the skill employed and the visual impact of quilts often cross over into textile art. Today many quilts are made to be exhibited, not used. In this session we’ll look at American quilt-making from the early 1800s until today, and how quilts served as both practical items and as works of art. We will also look at the ethnic, racial, and social diversity of quilt makers and how it impacted styles and techniques.
Presenter: Sharon Waddell. Sharon T. Waddell is an independent quilt researcher who has been collecting antique quilts for more than 18 years. A quilt maker since 1988, she is active in several guilds. Inspired by the patterns and styles of antique quilts, she became a member of the American Quilt Study Group, where she specializes in research of 19th-century regional patterns. She enjoys sharing her collection in exhibits in the hope it will inspire others.
Producer: Linda LeGendre
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Description: Through the lens of Rhinebeck’s Oak Street in the run-up to the Civil War, along a stretch of less than 1,000 feet, members will meet people who illuminate the story of the abolition of slavery, the great influx of Irish Catholic immigrants, and the dispossession of land of Indigenous peoples. Historical figures include Lydia Johnson, who emerged from enslavement in Rhinebeck to become a property owner, Irish immigrants such as the Lydons, who sent three sons to serve in the Civil War (one of whom did not return), and Louisa, who was from the Florida Seminole community.
Presenter: Bill Jeffway (LLI). Bill Jeffway has been the executive director of the Dutchess County Historical Society since 2017. He is founder/principal of History Speaks, a consultancy that helps local organizations identify and interpret important local history, especially lesser-told stories. He is active in the Poughkeepsie-based organization Celebrating the African Spirit, a group dedicated to telling the history of local Africans and their descendants.
Producer: Anne Brueckner
Description: Join Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, in conversation with LLI member Felice Gelman as they explore such questions as these:
What is hate? What is it not?
Is the potential for hate embedded in human psychology or is it learned?
Under what conditions can people live together peacefully, and then turn on each other?
How important is the media in teaching us to hate?
What is the relationship of structural racism and individual prejudice?
Are there different sources/elements in anti-Black racism and antisemitism?
Presenter: Kenneth Stern, JD. Kenneth S. Stern is director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, an attorney, and award-winning author. For 25 years, he was the American Jewish Committee’s expert on antisemitism, and the lead drafter of the “Working Definition of Antisemitism.” His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Forward. His newest book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (New Jewish Press, 2020). He graduated from Bard in 1975.
Producer: Eleanor Wieder
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Description: In ancient Greece, Thucydides documented interviews with participants in the Peloponnesian War. Though styles have changed, the custom of recording oral histories endures today. These memories and personal commentaries continue to endow treasures for our children and for historians. LLI member and presenter Jeff Christensen shares what he learned about documenting oral histories from videographers Michael Yonchenko and Tim Fitzmaurice during the Hudson Valley Oral History Project. He’ll show two videos of Rhinebeck residents, and we’ll celebrate the remarkable lives of people you may pass in the street. No one is uninteresting.
Discussion with Jeff and Michael Yonchenko follows the viewings.
Presenter: Jeff Christensen (LLI). After retiring from a career as a systems analyst at global financial firms, Jeff Christensen began volunteering at Riverkeeper, the Rhinebeck Village Planning Board, and LLI, where he worked to organize and manage the Zoom classes in response to the COVID pandemic. He also began to pursue a passion for video production as a member of the Hudson Valley Oral History Project, where he learned many skills from experienced videographers and produced his first works.
Producer: Anne Brueckner
Description: Bard College Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss his newly released book, Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance, in which he tells the story of how the Renaissance came to life and how Botticelli’s art helped bring it about. Professor Luzzi will explore why we need the Renaissance and all it stands for today.
Presenter: Joseph Luzzi, PhD. Joseph Luzzi, PhD, is a professor of comparative literature and faculty member in Italian Studies at Bard College. He is an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. Dr. Luzzi is the author of five books, including the recently released Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance.
Producer: Mary McClellan
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Description: Join master teacher and LLI member and presenter Judith Nelson in a fun and illuminating lecture demonstration exploring the basic elements of dance. It will deepen your understanding and appreciation of dance as an art form, whether as a viewer or as a dancer yourself.
Presenter: Judith Nelson, MFA, (LLI) has spent more than 35 years teaching dance as a full-time professor at Auburn University, Missouri State University, and Carlton College. A dancer with Jose Limón Company and David Gordon Pick Up Company, she has toured the United States and Europe as a solo artist and in musical theater. She leads professional development workshops for dance educators. Nelson has conducted workshops at the 92nd Street Y, the Mark Morris Dance Center, and in New York City public schools. She is a senior faculty member at Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn.
Producer: Leslie Weinstock
Description: Joining a long history of protest art, Jean-Remy Monnay, founder and producing director of the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY, gathers artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color to present plays that present little-known history (e.g., the Camp Logan mutiny by Black soldiers in 1917, use of the 1862 Homestead Act by Black women). These works can help audiences understand and affirm experiences people of color faced and continue to face. In conversation with LLI members Laura Brown and Barbara Danish, Monnay will discuss his experiences as a Black man and their intersection with these histories and plays.
Presenter: Jean-Remy Monnay. Jean-Remy Monnay is the producing artistic director of the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY, founded in 2009 to promote performances and theatrical pieces by and about artists of color. He was born in Haiti and moved to New York in 1982 to continue his education and acting career. He has appeared in more than 300 plays, films, and commercials, and has produced and directed many plays. He is an associate artist for the Capital Repertory Theater in Albany.
Producer: Barbara Danish
Credits
Curriculum Committee
Linda LeGendre, Chair
Irene Esposito, Secretary
Dorothy Baran
Anne Brueckner
Barbara Danish
Fern Fleckman
Ellen Foreman
Carmela Gersbeck
Gary Lachmund
Mary McClellan
Emily Michael
Gary Miller
Chuck Mishaan
Margaret Moran
Cathy Reinis
Margaret Shuhala
Leslie Weinstock
Eleanor Wieder
Catalog Team
Deborah Schwartz, Chair
Anne Brueckner
Susan Christoffersen
Deborah Lanser
Margaret Shuhala
Tim Sullivan
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