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The University Farm serves as the center for agricultural education, literacy, and research for a significant portion of Northern California. We welcome opportunities to show off our "living laboratory" to students, youth, farmers and ranchers, and the public. Please join us for a guided tour!

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.

Reading poetry helps you to know things more fully; it commands your attention; and it can sustain good conversation. In this class, participants select poetry from favorite sources to read aloud with fellow enthusiasts.

This is the longest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about 25 minutes to complete. Tai Chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class you will learn the first third of the forms, or about 36 moves, in a workshop environment.

The University Farm serves as the center for agricultural education, literacy, and research for a significant portion of Northern California. We welcome opportunities to show off our "living laboratory" to students, youth, farmers and ranchers, and the public. Please join us for a guided tour!

The Repair Shop is a British series that features expert restorers bringing cherished antiques back to life. Restoration experts in art conservation, carpentry, metalwork, watchmaking, and many other specialized skills demonstrate techniques that can be applied in everyday life. The individual stories of the customers of the Repair Shop often offer historical perspectives of general interest. Examples include repair of running shoes worn at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the restoration of a seventeenth-century painting of Queen Henrietta Marie, the wife of Charles I.

This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, starting with Chapter 1 unless otherwise decided by the group participants.

This is the longest of the six major Yang-style tai chi movements, taking about 25 minutes to complete. Tai Chi is known for developing balance, strength, and flexibility. It is a form of meditation in movement. In this class we will review the first 36 forms in a workshop environment. Additional forms will be taught as the group is ready.

We'll visit museums, art galleries, and studios in the area and talk with curators and artists to learn more about the places and the work. Afterwards, we'll go to coffee houses or restaurants for no-host treats and conversation with group members.

Do you have a deep source of wisdom available to you, but one to which you seldom listen? For centuries mystics have confounded their companions with wisdom from an unknown source. Socrates taught us: "The unexamined life is not worth living." The Buddha taught us to contact The Source through meditation. And Jesus said, "He who has eyes to see and ears to hear better use them." In this class we will learn how to recognize, learn from, and share our "peak experiences."

Each week we'll view a feature-length documentary or two shorter films. The films will generally feature a performer or composer, the impact of their environment on their music, and the impact of their music on other musicians and on society. Or the focus might be on a style of music from swing to country, jazz to rock. This is a class for the open-minded and intellectually curious because, paraphrasing Mick Jagger, you might not always hear what you like, but sometimes you just might like what you hear.