Mark your calendars for three special events in three different subjects, all scheduled for the month of September.

The first of our Special Events of the fall season is Author Visit: Harry Agress, Jr., Next Years Best Years (2025) (Course 13514) at which Agress will share insights on taking retirement to the next level by making the most of that stage of life. This interactive class will include tips for enhancing your sense of purpose post-career while fostering relationships. Class meets on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 7pm at Scarsdale High School. His book will be available for purchase at class.

In our Literature, Film, Theater, and Television department, we are pleased to welcome acclaimed writer Rumaan Alam for a discussion of Entitlement, his fourth novel, in conversation with Anna Katsavos. Set in pre-pandemic New York City, Brooke, the inexperienced Black female protagonist, is hired by an old white billionaire to manage his philanthropy. Brooke's proximity to extreme wealth soon triggers her metamorphosis as she succumbs to the seductions of money and greed. Author Visit: Rumaan Alam, Entitlement (2024) (Course 13513) meets on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 11am via Zoom. The class will be recorded and sent to students who have registered in advance.

At the end of the month, included in our Current Events and Politics category, Scott R. Levy will explain the importance of school boards to not only our public education system but also to democracy as a whole. As set forth in his book, Why School Boards Matter (2025), school boards have transformational power even as polarization and social media trends make governing more difficult. Among his relevant experiences, Levy has served as president of the Westchester Putnam School Boards association and has been elected four times to the Byram Hills Central School District Board of Education. His book will be available for purchase at the class. Author Visit: Scott Levy, Why School Boards Matter (2025) (Course 13515) meets on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 7pm at Scarsdale High School.

Week of August 31, 2025

Literature, Film, and Television

• Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima (1886) (13442)
• Legacy of Toni Morrison Intensive Workshop (13512)
• HBO’s Gilded Age — Fact and Fiction (13567)

Week of September 7, 2025

Special Events

• Author Visit: Harry Agress, Jr., Next Years Best Years (2025) (13514)

Architecture/History and Culture

• Ballparks, Baseball, and the American City (13629)

Art Appreciation

• Artistic Rivalry: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (13578)

Arts & Crafts

• Expressive Motion of Charcoal Drawing (13453)
• Introduction to Watercolor Painting (13462)
• Storygami (Monday morning: 13620; Thursday morning: 13621)
• Drawing and Acrylic Painting (13460)
• Painting the Landscape (13496)
• Watercolor Painting (Tuesday afternoons: 13440; Thursday mornings: 13495; Thursday afternoons: 13439)
• Express Yourself Through Collage (13459)
• Knitting for All Levels (Tuesday evenings: 13436); Wednesday mornings: 13437)
• A Tisket, a Tasket, Learn to Make a 2/2 Twill Weave Basket (13466)
• Portrait Drawing (13461)
• Zen Design Doodling (13450)
• Colored Pencils from A-Z (13451)
• Introduction to Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawing (13463)
• Storytelling by Drawing (13464)
• Drawing and Painting Open Studio (13454)
• Advanced Beginner Knitting (13438)
• Vibrant Strokes of Pastel Drawing (13452)

Computers, Technology, and the Internet

• Introduction to AI and ChatGPT (Monday morning: 13542; Wednesday evening: 13548)

Current Events and Politics

• Let's Talk Current Events: Topics in the News (Tuesday morning: 13524; Wednesday morning: 13610; Thursday morning: 13606)

Financial and Retirement Planning

• Medicare Demystified (13538)

Fitness and Dance

• Fit Blast: Cardio, Strength, and Abs (13443)
• Walk 15® (Monday mornings online: 13470; Tuesday mornings in person: 13469)
• Mat Pilates (Monday mornings: 13615; Friday mornings: 13616)
• Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting (Tuesday afternoons: 13447); Thursday mornings: 13448)
• Movement to Music (Tuesday mornings in person: 13497; Tuesday mornings online: 13498; Thursday mornings online: 13500; Friday mornings in person: 13499)
• Essential Yoga (13556)
• Gentle Yoga (13557)
• Postural Therapy Movement (13501)
• Body Sculpting (Thursday mornings in person: 13446; Thursday afternoons online: 13445)
• Total Body Workout with Bands (13444)

Games

• Bridge: Supervised Play (13633)
• Beginner Canasta (Monday afternoons: 13483; Tuesday evenings: 13491;
• Beginner Canasta (Thursday mornings: 13484; Thursday evenings: 13505)
• Canasta: Supervised Play (Monday mornings: 13489; Tuesday evenings: 13493; Thursday afternoons: 13487)
• Let's Play Mah Jongg: Beginner Series (Monday mornings: 13473; Wednesday mornings: 13477; Wednesday evenings: 13503; Friday mornings: 13481)
• Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (Monday afternoons: 13478; Wednesday afternoons: 13475)

History and Culture

• Cuban Missile Crisis: How JFK Saved Our Country and the World (13612)

Hobbies and Edutainment

• Introduction to Digital Photography (Tuesday mornings: 13531; Thursday evenings: 13571)
• Introduction to iPhone Photography (13467)
• Create Photo Books with Canva, Shutterfly, or Mixbook (13554)

Home and Garden

• Style a Beautiful Table for Your Holiday Celebrations (Wednesday morning: 13536; Thursday evening: 13560)

Languages

• Beginner Spanish (13600)
• Beginner to Advanced Beginner Spanish (13599)
• Advanced Beginner Spanish (13605)
• Intermediate Spanish (13604)
• Intermediate to Advanced Spanish (13602)
• Intermediate Conversational Spanish (13603)
• Advanced Conversational Spanish (13624)
• Conversational French (13601)
• Intermediate German (13628)

Literature, Film, Theater, and Television

• Short Stories Admired by Other Authors (13472)
• Shakespeare's Tyrants (13458)
• Book Discussion: A Marriage at Sea (2025) by Sophie Elmhirst (13533)

Music Appreciation

• Beyond Beethoven: A Thousand Years of Music (13434)

Walking Tours

• Culinary Walking Tour: Arthur Avenue (13594)
• Culinary Walking Tour: Multi-Ethnic Cuisine of Astoria (13593)
• Walking Tour: Rashid Johnson and Faith Ringgold at the Guggenheim Museum (13430)

Writing

• Finding Your Voice through Memoir Writing (13608)

All upcoming classes through end of August will be listed in the Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog (link coming soon!). New classes are added in real time.

Class times are for the Eastern Time Zone. Please check regularly for additional options to keep you engaged and learning, whether from the comforts of home or through our expansive number of in-person options.