SAS offers an abundance of options for how to celebrate Valentine's Day this year.

Take your sweetheart to a love-themed concert!

Renowned Italian classical pianist and composer Cristiana Pegoraro will be back in town, bringing her Carnegie Hall program to Scarsdale on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 6:30pm at Scarsdale Middle School. Pianist Cristiana Pegoraro in Concert, Concert of Love (13021) combines live piano performances with stimulating conversation about the composers' lives, impact, and artistry, featuring music by Beethoven, Chopin, Astor Piazzolla, and Pegoraro herself.

Make something special for your special someone in an arts & crafts class!

You can Weave a Heart Basket (13011) with Robin Ingram in two sessions starting Tuesday, February 4, 2025. The finished product measures 4 1/2" x 6" by 3" and is the perfect size to fill with treats for a Valentine's Day gift. Customize the basket with heart-shaped buttons and different color reeds. All materials are supplied and included in class fee.

On Thursday, February 6, 2025, learn to package small presents in handmade Origami Gift Boxes (morning: 13050; evening: 13051). Dana Matsushita will lead you through the steps to make exquisite boxes that become part of the gift. A variety of beautiful origami paper will be provided, though students are also welcome to bring their own.

Create Handmade Greeting Cards (12991) with Edward Grigg in four sessions starting Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Make approximately three to five personal greeting cards for friends and family to suit any special occasion. Class is suitable for all levels and students may choose their media (paint, markers, colored pencils, mix media, paper, scissors, and glue).

Eat to your heart's content!

If the way to your loved one's heart is through the stomach, Instructor Renee Cohen offers two different paths. On Tuesday, February 11, 2025, learn to prepare healthy dishes that all can enjoy. The menu for Everyday Healthy Cooking with Renee Cohen (12934) includes spaghetti squash with vegetable primavera, zoodles (zucchini noodles) with chicken sausage, mini whole wheat tacos with blackened fish and slaw, cauliflower sheet-pan pizza, grilled chicken Parmesan, and chocolate pepita munch mix. Of course, at the end of class, participants will get to savor the fruits of their labor when the cooking is done.

On Thursday, February 13, 2025, Cohen will lead you out of the kitchen but not into the cold for an indoor food tasting experience. Register yourself and your significant other for Culinary Walking Tour: Industry City (13090) to enjoy the six million square foot 35 acre campus along the waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. This one-stop ecosystem offers exciting eateries, craft beer, and more as one of the best new destinations for foodies.

Week of February 2, 2025

Special Events

• Pianist Cristiana Pegoraro in Concert, Concert of Love (13021)
• Author Visit: Beena Kamlani, The English Problem (2025) (13049)

Art Appreciation

• Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, the New York of Dreams and Reality (12945)
• Masterpieces of French Art from the Medieval Era to the Modern Age: Louis XV Court Life (13037)

Arts & Crafts

• Drawing Landscape and Nature in Color with Graphite Pencils, Colored Pencils, and Watercolor Paint (13033)
• Weave a Heart Basket (13011)
• Origami Gift Boxes (Thursday morning: 13050; Thursday evening: 13051)

Financial and Retirement Planning

• Life After Work: How to Prepare a Good Life in Retirement (12951)

Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth

• Taste and Talk: Sex Matters, Brain, and Body (13088)

Languages

• Conversational French (13066)

Literature and Film

• Fifty Years of Steven Spielberg's Magic: Schindler's List (1993) (13074)
• Book Discussion: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878), the Ultimate Novel of Men and Women (12952)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Guggenheim (13085)
• Walking Tour: Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston at the Jewish Museum (13061)
• Walking Tour: Farley Post Office and Penn Station's New Moynihan Train Hall (12984)

Week of February 9, 2025

Special Events

• Author Visit: Daniel M. Lavery, Women's Hotel (2024) (12980)

Art Appreciation

• Winslow Homer’s America (12946)
• Masterpieces of French Art from the Medieval Era to the Modern Age: Louis XV Dining and Seduction (13038)

Arts & Crafts

• Create Handmade Greeting Cards (12991)

Food and Beverage

• Everyday Healthy Cooking with Renee Cohen (12934)



Languages

• Beginner Spanish (13067)

Literature and Film

• Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: The Frozen River (2023) by Ariel Lawhon (12929)
• Fifty Years of Steven Spielberg's Magic: Saving Private Ryan (1998) (13075)
• BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: Intermezzo (2024) by Sally Rooney (12981)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, Jewish Art (13058)
• Culinary Walking Tour: Industry City (13090)
• Walking Tour: Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Met (13084)

All upcoming classes are listed in the Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Fall/Winter 2024-25 Catalog. 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.