Spring 2012
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"I have had
the opportunity
to learn subjects I
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the time to explore..." |
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Peer-led,
peer-developed collaborative learning.
Now at
six sites...
The Community Church of Providence
Johnson & Wales University
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Trinity Repertory Company
Jewish Community Center of RI
Rochambeau Public Library Branch
BCLIR was established in 1984 as the Brown Community
of Learning in Retirement, and has been an active educational model for
lifelong learning for over two decades.
In May of 2008, we
became an independent non-profit organization, an umbrella for lifelong
learning in our area. We have developed partnerships with multiple
sites:
The Community Church of Providence,
Johnson & Wales University,
Rhode Island School of Design Museum,
Trinity Repertory Company,
Jewish Community Center of RI and
Rochambeau Public Library Branch.
We have retained the initials BCLIR, for it reflects
our history, but it no longer has its original
meaning. Our new name: Building a Community of
Learning in Retirement.
NOTE: To either register for or to coordinate a
BCLIR course, you must be a BCLIR member. If
you have not joined as a BCLIR member for 2011-2012
(July 1 through June 30), you must include your $25
membership fee with your registration.
Learn. Discover.
Enjoy. This is BCLIR.
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Spring 2012 Courses
You must be a BCLIR Member to
register for courses.
Now accepting member
dues payments online with your Visa or
MasterCard. To become a member, fill out
the form located after the course information.
Monday - AM
Monday mornings
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 12
Location: The Community Church
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 20
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Leave a Legacy in
Writing
Coordinator: Janet Schab
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If you ever regretted not asking your parents or grandparents about their childhood or teenage years, or perhaps were not listening when they did talk about it, this course is for you. We will write short pieces about our lives as children and teenagers, or if you prefer, about the early years of your marriage or your trials and tribulations while raising a family. The 50s and 60s (or before) have a nostalgic appeal to people today. Let your family know what these times were really like. Writing a memoir leaves your family with a partial record of your life; it helps you put your own life in perspective and it gives you a greater understanding of yourself.
Format: Participants will be expected not only to write on a weekly basis, but also to share their writing with the class. We won’t be looking for Noble Prize winning autobiographies, only short pieces or segments of pieces that tell something about our lives or times. We may also read short pieces by professional writers to get inspiration for our own writing.
Resources: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg;
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. The coordinator will make other suggestions for books and short pieces that participants might want to read to help them get started.
Monday - PM
Monday afternoons
1:15 - 3:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 12
Location: The Community Church
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25
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Literature and Poetry of WWI
Coordinators: Barbara Dickinson
In many ways, World War
I was fought in a laboratory, a contest
that pitted the mechanical power of
modern industry against the cavalry and
foot soldiers of previous wars. The
result, after four years of
slaughter—nine million deaths and
mutilations later—was that, in the words
of Edmund Blunden: "the War had won." An
astonishing amount of fiction and poetry
was written during and after the war. In
this class, we will consider first a
brief history of the war. We will then
read novels such as All Quiet on the
Western Front, Memoirs of an
Infantry Officer, The Good
Soldier Svejv, and others; memoirs
by army nurses and corpsmen; diaries,
and letters. We will also read the
poetry of Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves,
Siegfried Sassoon, John McCrae and
others.
Excellent contemporary novels have
also resulted from the conflict. Class members may
be interested in reading Regeneration by Pat
Barker, To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara, and
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, among
many others. A particular favorite of mine is the
long novel, A Soldier of the Great War by
Mark Helprin. These books lend an interesting
perspective to the works that were written during
and immediately after the war. Class members are
encouraged to recommend readings to the coordinator
who will incorporate them into the syllabus,
available by March 1.
Format: Participants, working
alone or with other class members, will be asked to
lead the discussion in one class during the ten-week
period. Audio-visual support will be available.
Tuesd ay -
AM
Tuesday mornings
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 13
Location: RISD Museum
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 30 |
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BCLIR at RISD:
Contemporary Art and Culture: The
End of Art or an Epoch in Fermentation?
Coordinators: Linda Shamoon, Mary Snowden
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Abstract paintings of solid color;
canvasses randomly splashed or dribbled
paint; images taken from advertising and
comic strips; piles of household debris,
urban detritus, or stuffed animals;
repetitive videos on huge screens;
pornographic representations of the
human body. We seem to live in a time
when anything done by those calling
themselves artists can be put on display
as art. How can we make sense of such a
variety of materials and subject matter,
of such relentless challenges to our
notions of "art"? Perhaps we agree with
renowned art critic Arthur Danto who has
written that we have arrived at the end
of art? Now, that proclamation—that art
as we used to it know it is over—sounds
like an elegy for Western art. But Danto
sees the current moment as incredibly
imaginative and exciting. He has also
proclaimed: "A new emergence of Spirit
is at hand [in art today]..." What is
this excitement that Danto sees in
contemporary art? Can we develop ways of
appreciating contemporary art, of
feeling the excitement and of
recognizing the new spirit that is at
hand? In this class we will consider a
wide variety of contemporary art by
artists active on the global scene. We
will study their work through nine
different categories: figurative art,
abstract art in 2011, narrative art,
landscape art, street art and graffiti,
installations, video art, political art
and collaborative art.
Format: We will use these
categories to explore the subject matter, techniques
and artistic intentions of groups of artists who
seem to be working in complimentary ways.
Resources: We will visit
contemporary exhibitions at RISD, the Richard Brown
Baker Curator for Contemporary Art, and with Emily
Peters the Associate Curator for Prints, Drawings
and Photographs. If there is interest, we will take
a trip to the Boston MFA for a visit to the Linde
Family Wing for Contemporary Art.
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Tuesday mornings
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
4 weeks
March 13, 20, 27, April 3
Location: Jewish Community Center
Fee: $25
Class size limit: 25 |
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All Rise: The
Search for Justice
(4 Weeks)
Coordinator: Oliver Chappell
Forget about what you have seen on
TV. Probe and dissect the realities of the
courtroom. What is justice and how is it obtained,
or is it? What is it like to represent an unpopular
client? Should an attorney represent a "guilty"
client? Does our legal system live up to the demands
placed upon it? Are there other alternatives? How
does a trial work? Is it a search for "the truth" or
something else? What is discovery and why is it
important? What are the roles of witnesses and
documentary evidence? How critical is cross
examination? What are the different roles of jury
and judge? How did a poor criminal defendant get the
Supreme Court to hear his case and bring about a
change in the Constitutional right to counsel? This
four session course will be led by an
experienced attorney.
Format: Each class will combine
a lecture with class discussions and occasional
demonstrations.
Resources: Related materials will be emailed
to members when appropriate. A class blog may be
considered. Required reading: Gideon’s Trumpet
by Anthony Lewis (Amazon 268 p., $10), which will be
the basis of class discussion during one session.
Tuesday - PM
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Tuesday afternoons
1:15 - 3:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 13
Location: Jewish Community Center
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25
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The Enemy Within: Secret Agents,
Espionage, and Why They Fascinate Us
Coordinators:
Maxine Cohen, Fred Rabin
What do Beowulf, Cardinal
Richelieu, Napoleon and Valerie Plame have in
common? How did a bizarre espionage operation fool
the Nazis and affect the outcome of World War II?
How does the CIA really operate? Join this class and
find out! Secret agents have existed since
ancient times and in all cultures. They are the
subject of innumerable novels, short stories, movies
and television shows — to say nothing of real life
thrillers. Using the text The Enemy Within: A
History of Spies, Spymasters, and Espionage, 2006,
by Terry Crowdy as a guide, we will explore the
history of secret agents and discuss their
fascinating place in contemporary
intelligence-gathering.
Format: Each participant will be
asked to lead a session on a subject of particular
personal interest.
Resources: The Enemy Within: A History of
Spies, Spymasters, and Espionage, 2006, by Terry
Crowdy, available new and used from amazon.com.
Wednesd ay -
AM
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Wednesday mornings
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 14
Location: The Community Church
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 20
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The Greeks Have a Word For It - Bail Me
Out, Baby!
Coordinators: Dick McWhirter, Tom Rooney
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It's 2012 – are we wading into the
economic swamp again? The 2008-9 credit
crises saw the world come to the edge of
a financial precipice and at the very
last second we pulled back – but did we?
Economies in Japan and the US are
stalled, the EU is in turmoil and China
and India show signs of trouble.
The purpose of this
course is to understand what drove so many countries
to the brink, what remedies governments prescribed,
see if we think they were the best medicine, and
who’s next. This is as much a course on
international politics as economics. Emphasis will
be placed upon the inter-connectedness of the modern
economic landscape.
We’ll review Japan’s experience
since its economy hit the wall in the 1980s. Then
check out the good old USA in the 2000s. Are there
parallels with Japan’s fate? Will the Euro collapse?
Will the European debt crisis push the western world
into financial cataclysm? Will China’s and India’s
economies overheat or succumb to unresolved societal
pressures? How do the problems of one country infect
the reality in other countries?
Format: Class members working
individually or as teams are expected to research
the topic of the week, present their finding and
lead lively discussions. Oh, and we’ll have some
fun.
Resources: Readings will come from
contemporary sources as well as texts.
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Wednesday mornings
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 14
Location: Jewish Community Center
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25 |
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All the President's Ladies
Coordinator: Kathleen Fair
Lucy Hayes: "Woman’s mind is as
strong as man’s…equal in all things and is superior
in some."
Sarah Polk: "If I get into the
White House, I will neither keep house nor make
butter."
Who are the women behind the men who
have led the United States for more than 235 years?
Through this course, participants will become
familiar with the lives of the wives of American
Presidents and the changing roles of the First
Ladies from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama.
How influential were these wives in
their husband’s careers? Which of these women were
trailblazers, and which were just reflective of the
lives of women at the time? How did the varying
interests and personalities of these women transform
the role of the First Lady? These are some of the
questions we will tackle. Join us as we look at the
Presidents’ Ladies and examine the changing role of
the First Lady in the United States.
Format: In addition to
participating in the weekly discussions, class
members, working alone or with other classmates,
will be expected to lead a discussion or activity
about one or more of the First Ladies.
Resources: Along with the syllabus,
participants will be provided a list of books and
websites and will be expected to use at least one
item from the list as their text for the course.
Wednesday - PM
Wednesday afternoons
1:15 - 3:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 21
Location: The Community Church
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 20
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Middlemarch and Thee: Modern
Dilemmas in a Great Victorian Novel
Coordinators:
Rhoda Flaxman, Carol Smith
Please
note: There has been a change in the
schedule for this class - New start date
is
March 21
(NOT March 14).
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Middlemarch is one of the
greatest novels you’ll ever read, because George
Eliot creates a fully-realized world and makes the
dilemmas characters face universal. We, too,
struggle to live our beliefs and values, and to
understand the people around us and our
interconnections to them. Under the guidance of a
wise and just narrator, we will experience the world
of provincial England in the 1830s and see in it a
reflection of our own issues. Along the way we will
gain a deeper understanding of how a great writer
sculpts suspenseful plots and engaging characters
within themes and a philosophy still relevant to our
times.
Format: This is a discussion
class in which each member will be asked to follow
one of the characters through the novel and "speak"
for him or her as we discuss the novel. It is
essential that participants read the novel for its
wonderful, suspenseful plot before the class begins,
and then be willing to re-read it, one section
(approximately 100 pages) each week.
Resources: Please buy the Norton Critical
Edition of Middlemarch, so that we can refer
to the same pages.
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Wednesday afternoons
1:00 - 3:00 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 14
Location: Rochambeau Public Libary, 708
Hope St., Providence
Fee: $50*
Class size limit: 25
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Reading and Understanding Poetry
Coordinators: Joan Ramos, Judith Speyer
See the world with the vision of a
poet. Whether you are an avid reader of poetry or
have not read poetry recently, we welcome you to
rediscover the joy and reward of reading poetry with
a diverse group of dedicated learners. You may be
surprised to discover that maturity and
collaboration can broaden our appreciation of a
variety of poetic visions. You may also be surprised
to find that the group’s widening interpretation of
that vision is "inspiring" and "refreshing" — words
used by members. Our understanding of the work is
enhanced in the process of sharing it. We explore
words from the modern era as well as from previous
centuries. Members read poems aloud with attention
to how language is used. Experienced or
inexperienced, you are welcome to join the group.
Format: For each session, two
class members present poems of their choice for
reading and discussion.
Resources: This year we are
using the anthology Being Alive, edited by
Neil Astley. Participants are welcome to introduce
poetry from other sources.
*The library offers its space to
BCLIR free of charge and does not permit us to
require a fee. However, a voluntary, tax-deductible
donation to BCLIR of $50 from each participant is
strongly encouraged. BCLIR will make a donation to
the Rochambeau Library in appreciation for hosting
its poetry group.
Thursd ay -
AM
Thursday mornings
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 15
Location: The Community Church
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25 |
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Great Feuds in Medicine
Coordinator: Gerson Greenburg, MD
"Feud," as noun or verb, generally
connotes a bitter hostility or quarrel. In
medicine there have been and continue to be many
feuds. What can a study of feuds in medicine tell us
of medical history? The premise of this course is
that many of the most heated feuds tell us a great
deal about medical history, its practitioners and
their egos. They also reveal the history of some of
medical science’s most significant ideas, their
conception, development and evolution. As we
investigate these 10 historical feuds, we will not
only gain insight into medical history since the
1600s but also into the development of scientific
thought over time. This exploration allows us to
consider the factors which influenced the scientific
process and the development and adaptation of
medical knowledge and—when the stars are
aligned—useful clinical applications. We will
consider as well, whether these factors are at play
in the 21st century.
Format: Participants, working
alone or with other class members, will be asked to
participate in a debate or to lead an in-depth
discussion of one of the topics.
Resources: The text is Great Feuds in
Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever by
Hal Hellman. (John Wiley and Sons, 2001). It is a
brief and entertaining paperback written for the lay
public. As the New York Times wrote, it is
"delicious stuff."
Thursday AM /PM
Section 1:
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Section 2:
12:30 - 2:30 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 15
Location: Pell Chafee Performance Center, 57 Empire St., Providence
Fee: $50
Class size limit:
20 per section |
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BCLIR at Trinity:
Theatre Conversations
Section One Coordinator:
Elsa Grieder, Jerry Grieder
Section Two Coordinator: Frankie Raben
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We will be visiting each
of the four plays the Trinity Repertory
Company is producing this spring. The
theme they have chosen for this year’s
productions is "truth and justice."
The first three plays,
all new, will be in the downstairs
Dowling theatre and played in repertory.
They are "Sparrow Grass" inspired by
Racine’s Phaedra and written by the
artistic director, Curt Columbus. "Love
Alone" by Deborah Salem Smith is a
lovingly drawn portrait of grief and
healing. The third play, "The Mourner’s
Bench" is a tale of a terrible loss that
reaches beyond time and is written by
George Brant. The last play, "Boeing
Boeing," is a Tony award winning comedy
by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverly
Cross and Francis Evans.
We will read each play
and discuss the characters and the
historical context. Guest appearances by
the Trinity players and staff will help
us to understand the processes that
bring a play from the page to the stage.
Format: Participants in the
class will be expected to read the plays listed
above. Since three of them are new and unpublished
there will be a cost involved in reproducing them.
Presentations are encouraged but not required.
We have a new policy in effect this term in
regard to the "open dress rehearsals": Due to the
size of the Dowling theatre, and because Trinity is
obligated to provide a certain number of free
tickets to social service agencies, only current
Trinity subscribers will be given free tickets to
the last dress rehearsal. Others are invited to
attend the following night for a preview performance
at a fixed low group rate. For the fourth play,
"Boeing Boeing," which will be performed in the
larger upstairs Chace Theatre, all class members
will be given free tickets to the last dress
rehearsal.
Thursday -
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Thursday afternoons
1:15 - 3:15 PM
10 weeks Starting March 15 Location: The Community Church
Fee: $50 Class size limit: 25 |
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Ireland - Then and Now
Coordinator: Tim Walsh
There are monuments in Ireland that
pre-date the pyramids. At one time the Celts
controlled most of Europe. They have fought over
religion, foreign invasion and among themselves.
They negotiated a peace agreement with terrorists
that was considered impossible. Most recently the
"Celtic Tiger" produced great wealth which some say
was squandered in driving up real estate prices,
resulting in overwhelming bank debt that can never
be collected. This seminar will touch on these
issues, but will focus on what makes the Irish
"Irish," as seen through their literature and
poetry, especially W. B. Yeats and Elizabeth Bowen.
At the end of the seminar you will
surely want to visit and experience a culture that
combines history and modernity all within a short
drive.
Format: Participants will be
asked to do a presentation on a relevant topic or to
lead a discussion.
Resources: The suggested text
for the course will be A Short History of Ireland
by John Ranelagh.
Frid ay -
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Friday
mornings
9:45 - 11:45 AM
10 weeks
Starting March 16
No class April 6
Location: Johnson & Wales University
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25
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Creative Problem Solving: Thinking
Outside
the Box
Coordinators: Bette Ann Fessel, Roberta Segal
"The only true
voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but
to have other eyes." — Proust
Do creative thinkers follow a
pattern, or are they just individualists? Do they
often go against the tide? As we age and have
limitations and losses, can we approach problem
solving with what has been tried and true? In this course, we will suspend
deductive thinking and encourage lateral thought. We
learn a process that gives us the skills to think
creatively. As we explore the creative process in
others, the myths surrounding our own creativity
disappear.
We look at innovative minds and
approaches in many disciplines for the first hour of
the class. Are there commonalities in thought
between Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Edison? Da Vinci
and Einstein? For the second hour we pose a
situation and, using the methodology we are
developing, as a group discuss possible solutions.
During the ten weeks we will have a
great deal of fun while we develop comfort with this
thinking process and establish confidence in the
application of this thinking to personal
decision-making.
Format: Class members will have
the opportunity to suggest topics to be included,
and they will be asked to present and/or lead a
creative problem-solving group.
Frid ay -
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Friday afternoons
12:45 - 2:45 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 16
No class April 6
Location: Johnson & Wales University
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25 |
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All That Jazz
Coordinators: Bunny Fain, Bruce Ruttenberg
Jazz is a quintessentially American
musical development dating from the final decades of
the nineteenth century. Over the years, many jazz
genres have appeared, evolved, been modified,
disappeared, been resurrected and transformed. Jazz
is a uniquely American work in progress.
This course will trace the origins
of jazz in the dances and songs developed by
African-Americans both before and after
emancipation. We will listen to and compare some of
the many jazz genres – ragtime, swing, bebop,
dixieland, etc. BCLIR has many members with
extensive collections of jazz music that they will
share with the class.
Format: Each participant will be
asked to lead a session.
Resources: Print and on-line resources will
be suggested by the coordinators; access to the
music will be provided.
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Friday afternoons
12:45 - 2:45 PM
10 weeks
Starting March 16
No class April 6
Location: Johnson & Wales University
Fee: $50
Class size limit: 25 |
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Making Places Special
Coordinator: Sam Shamoon
Cities are full of special places —
parks, plazas, public squares, downtowns, commercial
centers — which become festive places, symbols and
sources of pride for its citizens. Do these special
places somehow develop from nothing? Are they made
by politicians who claim singular credit? Or are
they the product of participatory planning where
ordinary citizens had active and meaningful roles?
Communities, like individuals, make
choices that shape their futures. When they succeed,
the choices are considered the root of their
success. This course is not meant to teach us how
planning should be carried out. Rather, our purpose
is to communicate the message that it is possible to
make places better, and to preserve and strengthen
the qualities that make places special, by
participatory planning.
Format: We will examine eight
cities — Chattanooga, TN; Providence, RI;
Charleston, SC; Duluth, MN; San Diego, CA; Madison,
WI; Wichita, KS; and Westminster, CO — where
planning played a critical role in making them
special. Each week we will address one city and one
or more participants can moderate the discussion,
drawing on the text and other sources. This course
will inform participants of the value of city
planning and of active communities in making places
special.
Resources: The text is by Gene
Bunnell by the same title: Making Places Special.
Participants have the option of buying a copy from
Amazon for $29 plus shipping. However, the author
has given the coordinator permission to use a PDF of
the entire book that will be distributed in a CD
format or e-mailed to all participants. Other
on-line resources will also be suggested by the
coordinator.
Latchkey Courses
Now taking
registrations online with Visa or
MasterCard.
The BCLIR "Latchkey" program offers special
interest courses from 3:30 to 5 PM. The
classes are three to four weeks, and are
developed in response to requests by the
membership.
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Tuesday afternoons
3:30 - 5:00 PM
4 weeks
March 20, 27, April 3, 10 (3 weeks on Coordinating, 4th week on Presentations)
Location: Jewish Community Center
There is no fee for this course.
Class size limit: 25
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The Joy of Coordinating a BCLIR Course
Coordinators: Barbara Dickinson, Roberta
Segal
Presentations by Rhoda Flaxman
The title of this course is neither
ironic nor meant in jest. Coordinating collaborative
courses for BCLIR is indeed a joy. It is the best
way to ensure that you learn about topics that
interest you the most. We experienced coordinators
can easily impart the organizational skills that are
necessary to coordinate a course on the topic of
your choice with an acceptable amount of time and
effort. Do give it a go. Coordinators are the most
important volunteers that BCLIR has... We are totally
dependent on you to suggest and coordinate our
seminars.
The fourth class will examine how
coordinators can help participants strengthen their
presentations and discussions. This interactive
session will offer a short primer on principles of
speaking well in front of others, and participants
will have a chance to practice some simple
techniques and to receive friendly feedback.
The series will be led by Roberta
Segal, past President of BCLIR, who has coordinated
classes for many years. She will be joined by
Barbara Dickinson, President of BCLIR. They both
have rave reviews from the membership for the
courses they have coordinated.
Professor Rhoda Flaxman has had years of
experience coaxing students to make effective oral
presentations.
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Wednesday
afternoons
3:30 - 5:00 PM
4 weeks
April 4, 11, 18, 25
Location: Jewish Community Center
Fee: $25
Class size limit: 16
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Enhancing Your Listening Skills
Coordinator: Bob Opaluch
It is never too late to improve your ability to communicate effectively with family, friends and co-workers. Listening skills can be enhanced by structured techniques used by therapists, leaders and market researchers. We can become confident in the use of these skills by practicing them during class and outside this workshop. We will also note some common barriers to interpersonal communication.
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Wednesday afternoons
3:30 - 5:00 PM
4 weeks
April 18, 25, May 2, 9
Location: The Community Church
Fee: $25
Class size limit: 20 |
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On Stage: Monologues, Scenes and Commercials
Coordinator: Edna Panaggio
Edna Panaggio, who has been an actress all her life, will share her experiences with "famous" people in the business, and show you how the unique skills involved in acting for commercials and on the stage can enhance your communication skills. You may be surprised at your own hidden abilities, and how much fun it is to try out some techniques along the way!
At the first meeting we will get to know each other and discuss the types of communication involved in acting. We will then work on analyzing and interpreting individual monologues, the easiest form to deliver. In the second session we will work on scenes from plays. (Anyone daring or talented enough is welcome to write their own scene—definitely not required!) Week three will be a more confident playing of different scenes and roles, possibly offering each other the gentlest of suggestions for improvement. In the final session, we will get to the hardest part, doing commercials. The fact that there is an actual stage at the Community Church will add enormously to the effectiveness and the fun of our efforts.
We may also add occasional costumes and/or props, but that will be decided by the class.
Participants will be encouraged to bring in a monologue of their choice for the first class and a scene or two from a favorite play for subsequent classes. Edna will have both on hand should such sources elude you. Class members will not be asked to memorize their material, just to read and enjoy it.
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Wednesday afternoons
3:30 - 5:00 PM
3 weeks
March 14, 21, 28 Location: The Community Church
Fee: $20
Class size limit: 12 |
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Someday Has Arrived - Now What?
(What is it that
you always promised yourself that you
would do someday? If not now, when?)
Coordinator: Fredda Chauvette
This experimental and interactive
workshop is designed to explain and demonstrate what
life coaching is about through unique and enjoyable
exercises. Participants will learn how coaching
differs from therapy and will find that coaching is
very positive and for everyone. Each participant
will have the opportunity to explore and identify
some aspect of her/his current life, however minor,
that she/he may want to develop or enhance and will
actually gain new perspectives, set up a short-term
goal and get to achieve it by the third session.
Fredda Chauvette is an experienced
Life Coach and practices in North Kingstown. She was
trained at the Coaches Training Institute. She
previously worked as a school psychologist for the
Newport School Department for 26 years.
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Thursday afternoons
3:30 - 5:30 PM
Session 1:
March 15, 22, 29, April
Session 2:
April 12,
19, 26, May 3
Location: Bridge Club of RI, 400 Reservoir Ave #220, Cranston (The Calart Building)
Fee: $25 for each session, $50 for both
Class size limit: 32
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Why Play Contract Bridge?
Coordinator: Terry Parkerson
Bridge is the most popular card game
in the world. If you are competitive, it is a
competitive game. Many people enjoy it as a social
game. It is great exercise for your brain. It can
improve your problem solving and communications
skills.
This spring we are offering two 4-session classes
(which are progressive) for aspiring bridgeurs,
coordinated by Certified Bridge Instructor and
enthusiast, Terry Parkerson. You may either sign up
for Session 1 or Session 2, or both. If you are
curious, just starting or coming back to bridge
after a long absence, do join us.
SPRING 2012 ONLINE REGISTRATION
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