Scarsdale Adult School E-News

December 2023

Happy New Year!

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Wishing all lifelong learners in the extended Scarsdale Adult School family a happy and healthy new year!

See you again soon when classes resume in 2024.

Winter Registration and Best of Westchester Polls Are Both Open

Courses scheduled to begin in January 2024 and beyond are open for registration and viewable online or in booklet format in our Winter 2024 flipbook!

The annual Best of Westchester balloting is underway. Please vote for Scarsdale Adult School in the Best Adult Classes (Services) category and help us reprise our role as a "Best of Westchester" award-winner.


The electronic ballot is live until 5 pm on Friday, January 10, 2024.

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Classes Starting in the Next Three Weeks

All class listings are for the Eastern Time Zone. Course numbers appear in parentheses.

Week of December 31, 2023

Walking Tours

  • Walking Tour: Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at Asia Society (12266)

Week of January 7, 2024

Architecture

  • Must-See Buildings in the U.S.: Greene & Greene’s Gamble House, Pasadena City Hall, and More in Pasadena, California (12031)
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Arts & Crafts

  • Knitting for All Levels (Tuesday evenings: 12320; Wednesday mornings: 12322)
  • Advanced Beginner Knitting (12321)
  • Watercolor Painting (Tuesday afternoons: 12268; Thursday mornings: 12269; Thursday afternoons: 12324)


Career and Job Search

  • Financial and Career Tips for Young Adults to Move Out and Move On (12406)


Current Events and Politics

  • Let's Talk Current Events: Topics in the News (Wednesday mornings: 12270; Thursday mornings: 12271)


Fitness and Dance

  • Fit Blast: Cardio, Strength, and Abs (12277)
  • Body Sculpting (Thursday mornings in person: 12280; Thursday afternoons online: 12283)
  • Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting (Tuesday afternoons online: 12278; Thursday mornings in person: 12281; Thursday mornings online: 12279)
  • Walk 15® (Monday mornings online: 12295; Tuesday mornings in person: 12296)
  • Movement to Music (Tuesday mornings in person: 12285; Tuesday mornings online: 12294; Thursday mornings online: 12293; Friday mornings in person: 12286)
  • Postural Therapy Movement (12301)


Games

  • Advanced Beginner Bridge (Tuesday mornings: 12391; Tuesday evenings: 12392)
  • Intermediate Bridge (12370)
  • Bridge: Supervised Play (Tuesday afternoons: 12393; Wednesday evenings: 12371)
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Beginner Series (12289)
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (12290)


History and Culture

  • Fashion through the Decades (12415)
  • Gilded Age Fashion (12346)
  • History of and Outlook for Islam (12414)

Languages

  • American Sign Language (ASL) (12352)
  • American Sign Language IV (12351)
  • Advanced Beginner Spanish (12394)
  • Intermediate Spanish (12396)
  • Advanced Spanish (12397)
  • Intermediate to Advanced Conversational Spanish (12398)
  • Advanced Conversational Spanish (12426)
  • Advanced Beginner German (12400)
  • Intermediate German (12399)


Literature, Film, and Television

  • William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Intruder in the Dust (12424)


Writing

  • Finding Your Voice through Memoir Writing (12387)
  • New Beginnings Writing Workshop (12407)


Walking Tours

  • Walking Tour: Africa & Byzantium at the Met (12419)

Week of January 14, 2024

Architecture

  • Must-See Buildings in the U.S.: Art Deco in Midtown Manhattan (12032)


Art Appreciation

  • Contemporary Artists of the Post-Pandemic Art Scene: Bernd and Hilla Becher (12332)


Arts & Crafts

  • Introduction to Drawing and Acrylic Painting (12275)
  • Express Yourself Through Collage (12276)
  • Jewelry Making for Beginners (12405)
  • Open Studio Painting for All Levels (12325)
  • Painting with Pastels (12410)
  • Drawing (12411)


Fitness and Dance

  • Essential Yoga (12297)
  • Gentle Yoga (12300)
  • MELT Method® Hand and Foot Treatment (12298)
  • MELT Method® for Stability, Mobility, and Performance (12299)

Games

  • Beginner Canasta (Tuesday evenings: 12327; Thursday afternoons: 12326)
  • Canasta: Supervised Play (12328)


Literature, Film, and Television

  • Survey of Postmodern Literature and Culture (12386)
  • Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: Olga Dies Dreaming (2022) by Xóchitl González (12372)
  • Plays of Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh (12316)
  • BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: The Bee Sting (2023) by Paul Murray (12380)
  • Deep Connections: Narratives of Friendship (12342)


Writing

  • Write Your Story Now (12413)


Walking Tours

  • Walking Tour: Galleries of Chelsea (12315)

Printer-Friendly Interactive Flipbook

Catalog of Winter Classes

All upcoming classes are listed in our Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Winter 2024 Catalog. New classes are added regularly.


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.

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