Today may signal the end of teacher appreciation week but tomorrow marks the one day each year dedicated to mothers around the world. Honor Mother's Day with SAS. Purchase an eGift in any sum for that special mom or register yourself and a plus one so you can join her in a class for double the pleasure.

For those nearby, choose from our in person walking tours, a spring piano concert, or this Thursday's mah jongg tournament, among our many special events and courses. For those with mothers outside our area, online author visits and book discussions provide great options to spend time in each other's company.

If you are a mother, treat yourself to some classes too! New items are being added every day. Just recently, we opened registration for a three-class in person book discussion with Roya Hakakian, author of Journey from the Land of No (Course 13342), Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (Course 13343), and A Beginner's Guide to America (Course 13344). Another recent catalog addition is an online return visit via Zoom from Andrew Porwancher for a conversation about his recent book, American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (Course 13337). Our catalog is full of wonderful ways to celebrate.

Week of May 11, 2025

Special Event

• Author Visit: Karissa Chen, Homeseeking (2025) (13158)

Art Appreciation

• Master Flemish and Dutch Painters: van Eyck's Impact on Memling, van der Weyden, and Bosch (13219)

Computers, Technology, and the Internet

• Selling Items Online (13276)

Current Events and Politics

• Executive Orders and the Expansion of Presidential Power (13289)

Financial and Retirement Planning

• How to Compare Medicare Plans and Costs (13267)

Games

• Let's Play Mah Jongg: Beginner Series (13113)
• Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (13117)
• Mah Jongg Tournament (13286)

Literature

• BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: The Funeral Party (1977) by Ludmila Ulitskaya, English translation in 1999 by Cathy Porter (13250)

Music Appreciation

• Beyond Beethoven: A Thousand Years of Music (12796)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (13126)
• Walking Tour: Eighteenth Century French Paintings at the Met (13215)* PLEASE NOTE: Class time has moved to afternoon

Week of May 18, 2025

Art Appreciation

• New American Realism of George Bellows, Reginald Marsh, and Thomas Hart Benton (13208)
• Museum Preview: Sargent and Paris at the Met (13230)* Pair this class with any of the walking tours of this exhibit
• Master Flemish and Dutch Painters: Pieter Bruegel and the Development of Landscape Painting (13220)

Arts & Crafts

• Watercolor Painting (13231)
• A Tisket, a Tasket, Learn to Make a Large Gift Basket (13248)

Computers, Technology, and the Internet

• Podcast Basics (13278)

Current Events and Politics

• Presidential Pardon Power, Uses and Abuses (13290)

Games

• Beginner Canasta (Tuesday evenings: 13313; Thursday afternoons: 13316)
• Canasta: Supervised Play (Tuesday evenings: 13318; Thursday mornings: 13322)

Hobbies and Edutainment

• Photo Editing with Adobe Photoshop (13277)

Home and Garden

• Step by Step Guide to House Renovating (13136)

Literature

• Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars, the Gossipy Biographer of Ancient Rome (13131)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Step Back in Time to the Old Lower East Side (13291)
• Walking Tour: Sargent and Paris at the Met (Monday morning: 13166; Thursday afternoon: 13211)* Pair either of these tours with the museum preview of this exhibit
• Walking Tour: Riverside Drive and Riverside Park (13348)
• Walking Tour: Fashionable Upper East Side (13298)

All upcoming classes through end of March are listed in the Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Spring/Summer 2025 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.