Scarsdale Adult School E-News
May 2022
Upcoming Fitness Classes
Please help us meet your needs by filling out a Completed Course Survey for each class you have taken lately. We appreciate your constructive criticism and suggestions as we strive to improve our services.

Our planning for next semester is underway. We will continue to offer both Zoom-based and in-person classes with staggered start dates at varying days and times. Online registration is open 24/7, so you can keep adding items to your schedule as the year progresses.

If you have an idea for a new course or know of a teacher interested in joining our faculty, please let us know via email to Director@ScarsdaleAdultSchool.org. We look forward to hearing from you!
Catalog Additions and Changes
Walking Tour: Green-Wood Cemetery (11086) has been rescheduled for Monday, May 23, 2022. This creepy and cool excursion focuses on the art and architecture of this historic landmark. Founded as one of the country's first rural cemeteries in 1838 (a full century before SAS), Brooklyn's Green-Wood serves as a cultural institution, an outdoor museum, and the final resting place for over 570,000 permanent residents. Highlights include the Gothic Archway, the Historic Chapel, and sculptures such as "The Greeter" and "Cabeza de Mujer."

Knitting Hope: How Knitting Helped Women Resist, Remember, and Renew Life after the Holocaust (11093) has been rescheduled for 1 pm on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The class will be recorded and available to registered students to view on demand for one week.

Henri Matisse, Master of Modern Art (11282), the latest addition from art historian Page Knox, is scheduled for Thursday, June 2, 2022, and will provide helpful insights into the famous artist’s life and career for those planning to see the current MoMA exhibition, Matisse: The Red Studio.

Additional language sessions have been added for the summer:
  • Advanced Beginner German (11277) begins Tuesday, May 24, 2022
  • Intermediate German (11276) begins Tuesday, May 24, 2022

A new session of Personal Essay Writing: A Way to Make Meaning of Your Life (11261) begins Wednesday, June 1, 2022, after the current session ends.

A Monday in-person session of Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (11284) has been added to the schedule, beginning June 6, 2022.

Walking Tour: Art Deco New York, Upper East Side (11253) has been rescheduled from Thursday, July 14, 2022, to Thursday, August 4, 2022.
Classes Starting in the Next Two Weeks
All class listings are for the Eastern Time Zone. Course numbers appear in parentheses.
Week of May 22, 2022
Architecture
  • Walking Tour: Green-Wood Cemetery (11086)
  • Architects of America: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) (11080)* Lecture will be recorded and available to registered students to view on demand for one week
  • Walking Tour: Ladies' Mile, Shopping During the Gilded Age (11167)

Art Appreciation
  • Andrew Wyeth's People and Places (11157)
  • Artists of the Non Finito: Pablo Picasso's Later Years (11064)

Fitness and Dance

Games
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Beginner Series (11204)
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (11202)

History and Culture
  • Knitting Hope: How Knitting Helped Women Resist, Remember, and Renew Life after the Holocaust (11093)* Lecture will be recorded and available to registered students to view on demand for one week

Languages
  • Advanced Beginner German (11277)
  • Intermediate German (11276)

Literature, Film, and Television
  • Artistry Behind the Series: My Brilliant Friend (HBO) (11135)* Lecture will be recorded and available to registered students to view on demand for one week
  • Book Discussion: Beasts of a Little Land (2021) by Juhea Kim (11106)
Week of May 29, 2022
Architecture
  • Secrets of San Francisco’s Russian Hill (11140)

Art Appreciation
  • Artists of the Non Finito: Jackson Pollock (11065)
  • Walking Tour: Mana Contemporary Art Hub (11087)
  • Henri Matisse, Master of Modern Art (11282)

Fitness
  • Movement to Music (In-Person Tuesday mornings: 11264, Online Tuesday mornings: 11265, Online Thursday mornings: 11266)
  • Sit and Be Fit: Chair-Based Body Sculpting (Online Tuesday afternoons: 11268, Online Thursday afternoons: 11269)
  • Body Sculpting (Online Tuesday afternoons: 11270, Online Thursday afternoons: 11271)
  • Gentle Yoga (11278)
  • Essential Yoga (11280)
  • MELT Method® Hand and Foot Treatment (11281)
  • Total Body Workout with Bands (11272)

Languages
  • Spanish for Travelers (11231)
Literature, Film, and Television
  • BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: The Anomaly (2020) by Hervé Le Tellier (11109)

Writing
  • Personal Essay Writing: A Way to Make Meaning of Your Life (11261)
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Catalog of Spring/Summer Classes
All upcoming classes are listed in our Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Spring/Summer 2022 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 expanding number of in-person options.
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