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- Beginning Spanish from Chapter 2
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 2.
The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
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- HOOFERS: A Hiking Community for Like-Minded Women
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Instructor: Cynthia Weeks-Finnegan, Lois Olson, Laura Lukes
Dates: 9/17/2025 - 10/29/2025
Days: W
Times: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: Outdoor Experiences
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This initial HOOFers class brings together women interested in participating in our hiking community. This class is for women who can hike 3-6 miles on uneven to rough trails with moderate elevation gains and losses. We focus on trail safety, basic navigation skills, and knowledge of local trails. At our first, mandatory in-class meeting we learn about each other, evaluate our packs and equipment, share our experience, and plan our hikes. A short PowerPoint Presentation covers basic trail safety. Three subsequent meetings are hikes.
Participants must attend the classroom meeting to participate in the hikes. This class is for women only.
One classroom meeting 10am-12pm September 17 in Gordon 2 and three outdoor hikes 8am-3pm October 1, October 15, and October 29.
This class requires additional forms. Review the outdoor class forms information before attending class.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Fitness for Lifetime Mobility: Section 1
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Instructor: Paul Coots
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/29/2025
Days: W
Times: 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Sessions: 8
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Physical well-being allows us to live our longest, most capable, and fulfilling lives. Come ensure your well-being through mobility exercises. We'll practice balance, strength, agility, and flexibility movements that improve your mobility. Each class follows a similar routine that can be done at home, allowing you to look after the health of your body for many years to come. All ability levels are welcome. Please wear comfy clothing. Your body will thank you!
Please bring an exercise or yoga mat, a yoga strap or similar strap, and a yoga block or rolled-up towel.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Beginning Spanish from Chapter 6
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 6.
The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
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- Wednesday Park Walks: Section 1
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Instructor: Bill Casey, Amy Hahn
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/8/2025
Days: W
Times: 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: Outdoor Experiences
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Join us for our Wednesday morning park walks! If you want to start a walking habit, add to your daily step count, spend a morning with old and new friends, or just enjoy beautiful Lower Park, lace up your shoes and join us. Each week, you have the opportunity to choose a 1-mile route looping at Hwy 99 or a 2.8-mile route looping at the 2nd bridge (Cedar Grove).
This class requires additional forms. Review the outdoor class forms information before attending class.
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- Wednesday Park Walks: Section 2
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Instructor: Bill Casey, Amy Hahn
Dates: 10/15/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: Outdoor Experiences
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Join us for our Wednesday morning park walks! If you want to start a walking habit, add to your daily step count, spend a morning with old and new friends, or just enjoy beautiful Lower Park, lace up your shoes and join us. Each week, you have the opportunity to choose a 1-mile route looping at Hwy 99 or a 2.8-mile route looping at the 2nd bridge (Cedar Grove).
This class requires additional forms. Review the outdoor class forms information before attending class.
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- Watercolor for Beginners
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This class is an introduction to watercolor painting. We will cover techniques, color blending, color mixing, and brushwork. All materials are provided.
There is an additional $120 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
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- Create Your Own Unique Cartoon Characters
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Instructor: Dick Kennedy
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/8/2025
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Have fun exploring the many possibilities for creating your own unique characters. Learn to draw cartoon heads and bodies, along with all their features. Learn how to bring your characters to life and give each their own unique personality. You will learn how to make them talk and think. Enjoy exploring single- and multi-panel comic strips. Absolutely no drawing ability required. All that's needed is a pencil and some inexpensive paper.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- Beginning Spanish from Chapter 10
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 10.
The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
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- Costly Mistakes of Estate Planning
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Instructor: Miste Cliadakis
Dates: 10/15/2025 - 10/15/2025
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 1
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Many people make the wrong choices when it comes to estate planning. If not done properly, you could leave your loved ones facing hard decisions when you pass away or become incapacitated. Join Miste Cliadakis from OLLI sponsor Altum Wealth Advisors to learn how to avoid the most common mistakes that could damage your financial succession and legacy.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- Learn to Draw in a Less Than Perfect Way
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Instructor: Dick Kennedy
Dates: 10/15/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Many beginning artists believe that if they want to learn to draw, they need to do it in a realistic style. It can be pretty intimidating to think that you need to make your drawings look like photographs. Well, it will comfort you to know that most drawings artists create aren't an attempt at realism. In this class you will learn to draw in a way that frees you from the pressure of being perfect. You only need a pencil and some inexpensive paper.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- Fitness for Lifetime Mobility: Section 2
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Instructor: Paul Coots
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/29/2025
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 8
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Physical well-being allows us to live our longest, most capable, and fulfilling lives. Come ensure your well-being through mobility exercises. We'll practice balance, strength, agility and flexibility movements that improve your mobility. Each class follows a similar routine that can be done at home, allowing you to look after the health of your body for many years to come. All ability levels are welcome. Please wear comfy clothing. Your body will thank you!
Please bring an exercise or yoga mat, a yoga strap or similar strap, and a yoga block or rolled-up towel. Please register for only one section.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Food Smarts
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Enjoy fun and lively activities with other older adults! Discover simple, practical strategies for making healthy food choices and adopting a balanced, nourishing approach to support your overall health. You'll learn how to incorporate a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins into your meals, and how to set sustainable health goals. Each class will include food demonstrations and tastings.
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- Trash and the Neal Road Landfill
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The class will present a brief history of the disposal of trash through time, regulations affecting the disposal of trash, and the history of the Neal Road Recycling and Waste Facility (landfill). Learn about the recycling and diversion of wastes from the landfill, landfill operations, monitoring, amounts of waste disposed, as well as effects of disasters, electrical power generation, equipment used, and the future of landfill and related topics.
Bring walking shoes (no sandals), sunscreen, hat, sunglasses, and water as the majority of class will be outside to allow observation of landfill operations. You may also bring a folding chair and clipboard.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Spanish Composition and Conversation
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Instructor: Memo Keswick
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class covers writing and conversation in Spanish. The class will be conducted mostly in Spanish; English may be used for support. Participants will have the opportunity to speak and to write short compositions for review and discussion. The class may have native speakers and professional Spanish educators as guest speakers. There is nothing like having a professional Spanish educator to help learn Spanish conversation.
There is an additional $25 materials and speaker fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
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- Garden Gourmands: Section 1
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Instructor: Debra Barger (she/her/hers), Laurie Smith
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 9/17/2025
Days: W
Times: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Location: Outdoor Experiences
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
California's temperate climate allows an amazing array of plants to be grown locally. Edible gardens, pollinator gardens, native gardens, contemplative gardens, and demonstration gardens are some of the many varieties to tour. Inspired by the successful model of the "Arts & Eats" OLLI class, "Garden Gourmands" will focus on touring the art of garden landscapes combined with eating locally. Join Master Gardeners as we explore different area gardens followed by a no-host lunch at various local eateries to enjoy the bounty of Butte County.
Registered participants will receive the specific garden location/address via email by the Saturday before each tour. Plan for possible travel time of at least 35 minutes before and after the scheduled class meeting time. There will be a no-host lunch held after each class from 12 to 1pm.
This class requires additional forms. Review the outdoor class forms information before attending class.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Garden Gourmands: Section 2
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Instructor: Debra Barger (she/her/hers), Laurie Smith
Dates: 10/1/2025 - 10/8/2025
Days: W
Times: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Location: Outdoor Experiences
Room: Various Locations
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
California's temperate climate allows an amazing array of plants to be grown locally. Edible gardens, pollinator gardens, native gardens, contemplative gardens, and demonstration gardens are some of the many varieties to tour. Inspired by the successful model of the "Arts & Eats" OLLI class, "Garden Gourmands" will focus on touring the art of garden landscapes combined with eating locally. Join Master Gardeners as we explore different area gardens followed by a no-host lunch at various local eateries to enjoy the bounty of Butte County.
Registered participants will receive the specific garden location/address via email by the Saturday before each tour. Plan for possible travel time of at least 35 minutes before and after the scheduled class meeting time. There will be a no-host lunch held after each class from 12 to 1pm.
This class requires additional forms. Review the outdoor class forms information before attending class.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Age Well, Drive Smart
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California is facing continuing growth in the number of seniors residing in the state with 8.6 million adults aged 65 and older expected by 2030. The overall goal of the Age Well, Drive Smart program is to ensure older adults have access to continued driver's education and training to help keep roads safe for everyone. Upon completion of this course you will be issued an Age Well, Drive Well certificate that can be presented to your insurance company for a possible discount.
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- Acrylic Painting
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This acrylic class is for the absolute beginner as well as more experienced painters. We will follow step-by-step instructions to create our paintings while also learning why and what we are doing. Paintings will be completed over several class sessions. All materials are provided.
There is an additional $120 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
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- Women Artists Who Challenged Norms
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Instructor: Dolores Mitchell
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/1/2025
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 4
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Through lectures, videos, and discussions, we will focus on four women artists who challenged expectations of their time about their behavior and approach to subjects: Artemisia Gentileschi, Rosa Bonheur, Kathe Kollwitz, and Frida Kahlo. Additional artists will be included. Participants will receive emails with something to read, something to watch, and something to do in advance of each class meeting.
The recommended book, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin, is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
This class will be recorded.
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- A Place of Inner Peace (In Spite of Chaos): Advanced
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Instructor: Gayle Womack
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/8/2025
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This class brings to life the words of renowned second-century Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "Your ability to control your thoughts – treat it with respect. It's all that protects your mind from false perceptions – false to your nature, and that of all rational beings." You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Come to class and discover how we can trick ourselves into believing everything the brain says.
This class is for people who have already taken a previous inner peace class.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- A-Thrifting We Will Go
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Instructor: Linda Patrick
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 10/15/2025
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This is an introductory class on how to effectively shop at thrift and consignment stores. These types of stores are a great way to enjoy and reap the benefits of buying fashion and household items without paying high-end retail prices. We will also discuss how to repurpose many items found in your home and garage. Class meetings will be a mix of in the classroom and out and about at thrift stores.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Writer's Workshop
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This writer's workshop serves a community of writers interested in sharing their writing and responding to other writers' work. We will focus on fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, travel writing, stories for children, and other types of writing. Following a workshop format, this class will be an opportunity for students to receive feedback for their written work and provide meaningful support to fellow writers.
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- Reader's Theatre
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Reader's theatre is an easy acting form of theater where actors read the scripts so no memorizing is required. There is minimal physical movement because actors are generally seated while reading the play. The acting is done primarily with the actor's voices, emotions, facial expressions, and gestures. This will be a playful class where we will read a variety of short comic plays with fun characters in silly situations.
Short plays will be emailed to participants each week to print and bring to class.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Chico State Faculty Lecture Series
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Instructor: Sandra Flake (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/8/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
Chico State's tradition of academic excellence goes back more than 130 years. With over 850 faculty members and 13,000 students, the University's teaching and learning community is thriving. Discover the imagination, cutting-edge research, and expertise that flourishes in our own backyard!
This class will be recorded.
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- Creating a Desk Calendar
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Instructor: Debbie Vermette
Dates: 10/29/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 3
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
What better way to welcome the new year than with a personal desk calendar created by you! No art experience necessary; just come to create and have fun.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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- Six Pillars of Brain Health
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Instructor: Kris Ritualo
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 9/10/2025
Days: W
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Unlock the secrets to a healthier mind and enhance your cognitive well-being. This interactive class will explore the six essential pillars of brain health. You will gain valuable insights and practical strategies to support and enhance your brain health, empowering you to lead a more vibrant and fulfilling life. Join us and take the first step toward fostering a healthier mind.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- World Dance
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Learn fun social dances from around the world, including Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Israel, Scotland, and the United States. Line, circle, and couple dances. No partner required.
This class will meet in the Creekside Room on September 10 and November 12.
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- HomeFit: Making Home Safe and Livable for All
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Instructor: Kris Ritualo
Dates: 10/8/2025 - 10/8/2025
Days: W
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $15.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Learn how to adapt your living space for safe and independent aging. Download valuable resources, including the HomeFit Guide, and take the first step toward a more livable home. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your home for a better quality of life.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- Sierra Nevada Brewery Tour
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We'll guide you through the brewing process, where you can gaze into our shimmering kettles; then venture into our hop cooler to get your hands on our favorite ingredient; then we'll talk about the magic that is fermentation while standing beneath our massive 25,000-gallon tanks.
The tour route is over a 1/4 mile.
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- Let's Play Games
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Instructor: Donna Knorton
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Inn at Westmont of Chico
Room: Games Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Join us to play games, socialize, and have fun. We have Rummikub, Qwirkle, Sequence, Mexican Train, card games and more, from the well-known to the obscure. Bring a game to share or just show up and have fun.
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- Skywatchers' Almanac: Folklore, Facts, and Physics
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Instructor: Lynda Klein
Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Join us for this beginner's guide to the navigating the heavens. We will consider an eclectic mix of mythology, historic viewpoints, and current events in meteorology, astronomy, and cosmology. Eyes to the sky!
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