Volume: 8 | 2025

• Fall '25 Term
• AIL Membership - It's time to renew or join AIL!
• AIL Community Spotlight
• AIL Destinations: Peabody Essex Museum
• Colby-Sawyer College Community Connections

CSC's End of Summer Community Celebration

Colors of Land and Water -Current Exhibit at the CA+D

• Community Partner Events

The Curriculum Committee of Adventures in Learning is delighted to

bring you 10 courses for the fall 2025 term. Most courses begin

the week of September 15.

This term we welcome and look forward to the contributions of new

Study Leaders Kara Gruver, Kate Lowrie and Matt Lowrie,

Suzanne Paul, and Susan Woods.



We thank all of our volunteer study leaders and lecturers for giving so generously of their time and expertise to make the fall courses possible.

We also wish to thank Colby-Sawyer College for providing classroom space and our community partners for their willingness to collaborate.

Click on the image above to learn

about this fall term's course offerings.

Registration opens at noon on Wednesday, August 6th.

You'll receive an email with a link to ProClass, AIL's new platform, to sign up for courses.

AIL is pleased to announce some exciting member opportunities coming your way this fall.

Member Opportunities include:

September 4 - Field Trip: Peabody Essex Museum

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

With a pre-trip presentation by David Click

Science Pub: Celebrating its 10th year!

Presentations are scheduled for September, October,

November and December.

Recently, details about renewing your membership through AIL’s new membership and course registration platform, ProClass, were emailed to you.

We hope you have reviewed the step-by-step instructions and navigated the new system with ease. If you haven’t already done so, click below to join AIL now so that you can take full advantage of what promises to be a vibrant and engaging season ahead!

Join us for a memorable trip to view

Making History: 200 Years of American Art

 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

 

Peabody Essex Museum

Salem, MA

Thursday, September 4, 2025

AIL is pleased to announce its next AIL member field trip on Thursday, September 4, 2025, to view Making History: 200 Years of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum

Field trip attendees will be automatically granted a spot at the pre-trip presentation by AIL study leader, David Click, happening on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. in the AIL Classroom.

The field trip, including the pre-trip presentation, is exclusively available to current AIL members / Cost: $100.

• Click here for details of the trip and pre-trip presentation details.
• Click here to visit the PEM website
• Click here to read a Boston Globe review of the exhibit.

Registration opens on Wednesday, August 13, at 7:00 am.

~ This trip will be available to current AIL members. ~

Any remaining spots will be made available to non-members

later in August at an additional cost. 

And don't forget to visit the current exhibit,

COLORS OF LAND AND WATER

at the Davidow Center for Art + Design

COLORS OF LAND AND WATER

Artwork by Corbett B. Leith

Now thru September 18, 2025

William H. and Sonja Carlson Davidow '56

Fine Art Gallery

Davidow Center for Art + Design, Colby-Sawyer College

Corbett Leith strives to recapture an exhilarating and dynamic experience by layering bold, expressive marks of hand-mixed pigments on the surface.

Through these movements and expressions of color, he relives a sense of place and happening in nature.

“Day Dreamin”, 15.5”x11.5”, Soft Pastel on Paper, 2023

The Davidow Center for Art + Design is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

While summer may be winding down, there's still plenty happening in our community to enjoy! And what better way to savor the season than by connecting with our community partners?



Please consider attending an upcoming event hosted by

Summer Music Associates and The New London Barn Playhouse — each offering meaningful ways to engage, learn, and be inspired. And don't forget The New London Inn's Main Street Music Fest!

Don’t miss the chance to take part in these enriching experiences!

Please consider sharing this email with a friend

or neighbor to introduce them to AIL

Adventures in Learning

Celebrating Lifelong Learning at Colby-Sawyer College

541 Main Street

New London, NH 03257

Phone: (603) 526- 3690

Email: adventures@colby-sawyer.edu

Website: www.ailcsc.com