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Unleash the artist within you! If you have always wanted to learn the art of watercolor painting, this class is for you! We will cover the basics of watercolor mixing and techniques, using step-by-step demonstrations and examples. Each day, participants will apply what they have learned to create a successful watercolor painting. No previous art experience is necessary-just a desire to play with paint and have fun!
Leader: Patsy Seeley
Enrollment: 8-10
Cost: $80
Timeblock: Morning
This course will focus on all kinds of word puzzles: find a word, jumbles, cryptographs, crosswords, the dictionary game, etc. We will work individually and communally on a variety of verbal enigmas. We will develop strategies as well as try to solve the biggest crossword in history.
Leader: Terry Hansen
Timeblock: Morning
Enrollment: 10-15
Cost: $15-20
Field hockey is a fast, skilful, exciting game that originated in India and is now played around the world. Not to be confused with ice hockey, field hockey is played with a wooden stick and hard ball on grass and all-weather fields or in a gymnasium. Like soccer, a team consists of 11 players with defensive and attacking roles. This is a non-contact sport that can be played with equal skill and effectiveness by high school students of any gender or grade. This is your chance to play and learn the subtleties of one of the world’s great games. Each day of this half-day winterim will start with a warm-up, be followed by a skill and set play demonstration and practice, and end with a full game. It is hoped that games will be played on both a grass field and in a gymnasium, and that the last day will see our group demonstrate its newfound skills in a match against a guest side.
Time: Mornings
Cost: $60 per student for sticks, practice and match balls, and some goalkeeping equipment.
Enrollment: 8-16
Leader: Peter Langley
This course will be a musical adventure unlike any past offerings. We’ll open the playbook on some new contemporary jazz selections as well as a few classic electronic compositions. We will be looking for melodic development and mastering the dominant be-bop scale. The heavy, old-school grooves will challenge the rhythmic creativeness that we all possess, but seldom explore. During the workshop, we will explore the works of Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, Jeff Lorber, The Crusaders, and more as time allows. In addition, we will watch videos that will educate the ensemble on the finer techniques required to connect the dots.
Leader: Ronnye Harrison
Time: Morning
Cost: $15
Enrollment: 7-14
Scratch is a course designed for students with some cooking experience who want to learn to step back from using mixes and prepared ingredients and learn to cook and bake from scratch. In this morning course we will prepare old-fashioned American dishes from scratch - sometimes using traditional recipes and methods - and always using the freshest ingredients and starting with staples. Students will have the opportunity to select many of the dishes we make, from choices that include: bread, sourdough biscuits, jam, jelly, butter, pie, cake, apple turnovers, ice cream, meringues, yogurt, candy, mincemeat, hummus, pickles, mozzarella cheese, chili, and stew with dumplings. Students will also learn where to shop for good-quality staple ingredients. Come work on your culinary skills!
Notes: This is an intermediate cooking course, not a beginning one; if you don’t know the basics of working in a kitchen (e.g.: you can’t make a cake from a box mix or sauté a frozen stir-fry and boil instant rice), this is probably not the best course for you. Also, this is a course about cooking first and foremost, more than a course about eating. Everyone will be expected to do his/her share of all preparations and clean up every day, so don’t sign up for this course if you don’t want to work or get messy or clean up.
Numbers: 5-8 students (I can’t easily take more – as I want to use my own kitchen for this class)
Schedule: morning
Price: $110 – includes all ingredients, an apron, your favorite kitchen hand tool and a cookbook.
Leader: Julie Sikkink
Scale one of the Everests of literature—Leo Tolstoy’s magnificent War and Peace, in a beautiful new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsy—in a week! Our mission is to read all 1300 pages of the book, which centers on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, in seven days (counting the weekend days in the middle of Winterim). We’ll spend about half of each class reading silently together (and sipping tea or coffee), and the other half discussing the book, setting it in its historical context, and watching bits from the BBC’s epic miniseries adaptation of War and Peace. This class will require some extra reading outside of class: Including the weekend days in the middle of Winterim, we’ll have to read about 185 pages a day to finish the book. We can do it!
Instructor: Chris Myers
Fee: $50, includes price of the hardcover book ($40), snacks, caffeine, and video rental.
Timeblock: morning
Enrollment: 5 - 15:
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