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This term we'll begin with the Election of 1932 with the balance of the workhop delving into the 1940 Presidential Campaign & Election. As well, hopefully,the fall miderms will come into greater focus.

If you learned the fundamentals of Bridge, and don't want to engage in a Duplicate Bridge experience, come and play a friendly, no-score keeping, no-partner rotation game of Bridge.

This workshop will explore contributions by Italian women protagonists in the arts and culture, be they artists, patrons, directors, actors, writers, cultural critics, and beyond, and will encompass a broad cross section of Italian culture spanning diverse chronologies and geographies. Potential workshops explore the relationship between older women and artistic achievement in Italian sculpture, and English author Lucy Baxter's life and literary contributions while living in Tuscany. Other workshops may explore women in Italian cinema, music, and popular culture.

Op-Ed provides the opportunity to join in discussions of the political, social and economic issues currently affecting our lives. Each week three different volunteers present newspaper, internet or magazine opinion articles, that can be read aloud in five minutes or less and make for lively discussions by members with differing points of view. While every volunteer has the opportunity to comment first or last on their own article, they may want to sit and listen as everyone gets a chance, face-to-face, to voice his or her opinion on the subject.

 

Films with legal, political, or constitutional issues will be viewed and discussed in this popular and recurring workshop. Movies presented in past semesters ran the gamut from serious (12 ANGRY MEN) to humorous (MY COUSIN VINNY) and covered many areas of law and civil rights. The interactive workshop covers the movies’ “backstories”, making, and a study of what is “real” or “reel”. Not only do participants enjoy good flicks, but they also learn about the law.

In this workshop, we will delve into Shakespearean monologues. Some of the weekly themes will be justice, revenge, doubt, love, opportunity, death, destiny, and deception. You will find that Shakespearean language is more accessible than you may have thought, and that his characters experience the same joys, uncertainties, and pains that you do.

We will discuss the personalities and events that were involved in the War.