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A broad and in depth view of Dylan's life and music.  We will cover his music from l960's to the present.
The course will also include biography and Dylan's work as a painter. The course will include film and music.

These spellbinding works of art brilliantly illuminate space from Barcelona to Brazil. We will examine this craft from its origins nearly a millennia ago, its finest examples, as well as its beautiful and quirky contemporary expressions.

National Geographic photographer, Joel Sartore started the Photo Ark in 2006 when he was homebound in Lincoln, Nebraska caring for his sick wife and their three children. In order to continue working, he decided to photograph some of the animals at the Children's Zoo near his home. This led him to create what he called a Photo Ark recording images of 12,000 species in captivity as a way to promote animal conservation. The 25-year project has received worldwide acclaim and has grown toward the current goal of recording images of 25,000 species.

In 1851, San Francisco mayor Charles Brenham referred to his numerous French constituents as "one of the two great elements (with Americans) that compose the population of California." This strong French presence so early in the history of our State, remains one of the little-known facets of that world-wide epic. 
In her first session, Claudine will explore, with pictures and original texts, what triggered such a rush of Frenchmen to California from the earliest days of the gold rush. How they escaped from endless riots and the collapse of social order in their embattled nation, only to land, after a six-month voyage around Cape Horn, in a city that had no law, no infrastructure, no sanitation, no raison d'etre except for gold. They survived, prevailed, and with their special talents and skills, they helped shape the city so often called "Paris of the Pacific."
In her second session, Claudine will show how prevalent these pioneers were in the goldfields as well to the point that "French" is the most common name of nationality in the toponymy of the Gold Country. She will not only follow the success stories of three lucky Frenchmen who found a fortune on the banks of the Yuba and Bear rivers, of Claude Chana whose grand statue stands by the Freeway in Auburn, of the French village of Malakoff and North Bloomfield, but will also present little known depictions of the goldfields by early French visitors and gold seekers.