Winterim 2019 Course Offerings

Instructor: Lila Nation

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM

We’re going to sing through this winter! From “Frère Jacques” to “Les feuilles mortes (Autumn Leaves), and “Michèle, ma belle” to “Je ne regrette rien!” (I Regret Nothing!), all will be revealed. No, you don’t have to be a singer, and no, you don’t have to know one word of French; you just need to want to have fun. Some songs are happy, and some are sad, while some songs are silly and others profound. We’ll take them apart then put them back together again with greater understanding and laughter. After all, “Ils ont changé ma chanson,” and yours!

Instructor: Cipperly Good and Kevin Johnson

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Class limit 20
• Materials Required

Our treasured heirlooms often have sentimental value; they are valuable because of the memories and stories that go with them. The same is true about museum artifacts and images; without the story, they are just another boring relic from the past. In this class, museum staff members will share some of their favorite artifacts and images and explain the context (who, what, where, why, when and how) that makes them valuable. Staff will review best practices for collecting information as well as how to care for your own heirlooms. In the final class, students will take a field trip to the Penobscot Marine Museum for hands-on learning with PMM’s collection.

Week 1: Introduction & Documenting Stories through Objects with Cipperly Good
Week 2: Using Photographs to Jog the Memory with Kevin Johnson
Week 3: Caring for your heirlooms: objects, photographs, and family papers
Week 4: Field trip to PMM to learn about ongoing collections care and documentation projects and to gain hands-on experience working with artifacts and photos.

Class limit 20
Required materials: Bring one object and one photograph that has meaning to you.

Instructor: Peter Reilly

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Class Limited to 95
• Class Full, registration closed

This will be essentially a history course about the founding of our country. It will be told through the life and times of Alexander Hamilton. Woven throughout the course will be the music and story behind the Broadway hit musical, “Hamilton.” In studying Hamilton, we will not only share his exciting life and incredible contributions to forming our government, but also learn how the Broadway musical became such a spectacular success. If you have seen the show this course may help explain what you’ve seen; if you haven’t seen it, it may help explain what you will see. Lin-Manuel Miranda will have much to say.

Instructor: Elaine Potoker

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Class Limit 15
• Required Text

Pie: Who doesn’t have a favorite one or many? Ah…the traditions, the stories, the ingredients and the aromas: Bring all your pie memories—savory and sweet, current and past, to this class. Plan to focus on cultural and other influences on the artisanry of pie in many of its unique varieties and forms. First, we will consider why and if pie deserves to be cameoed in anthropological discussions. Subsequently, we will talk about history and lore related to types of pies. At the conclusion, and maybe along the way with the help of pie fanatics, we’re probably going to have to eat some pie. Nothing like pie to warm the soul in Winterim.

Class limit 15

Required text: “Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust” by Anne Dimock. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005. ISBN-13:978-0-7407-5465-4 (or ISBN-10 0-7407-5465-3). Please read the “Foreword” before the first class and bring the text to class.

Instructor: Arlin Larson

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Class Limit 30
• Required Texts

“The Analects of Confucius” and the “Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu” have provided spiritual, ethical, and cultural foundations for China, Japan, and Korea for over two thousand years. We will explore these texts as paradigms of certain attitudes toward human fulfillment, both temporal and eternal. Seemingly more philosophical than religious, the background for each is the way and will of Heaven. “The Analects” puts sociability at the heart of reality, while the “Tao Te Ching” eschews human artifice in favor of the spontaneity of nature, (the Tao). Rather than contradictory, they have in most times been seen as complementary. Confucius fell out of favor in revolutionary China because of his bias towards conformity and the past but is now staging a comeback. The “Tao Te Ching” was prominent in the United States during the 60’s and 70’s as it seemed to support flouting convention and “doing your own thing.”

Class limit 30

Required texts: “Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu” (Author), Stephen Addiss (Author), Stanley Lombardo (Author), Burton Watson (Author). Paperback 128 pages. Hackett Publishers, Oct. 1993. ISBN- 10:0872202321 (or ISBN-13: 978-0872202321) AND “The Analects of Confusius” by Confucius (Author); Simon Leys (Translator). ISBN-10: 0393316998 (or ISBN-13: 978-0393316995

Instructor: Judy Beebe

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Bring your own supplies

Bring whatever you are working on or wish you had started, and we will share “take it up a notch!”

Required materials: Bring your own supplies for the project of your dreams! Heavenly Yarns Shop here in Belfast will assist you to purchase what you need.

Instructor: Paul Sheridan

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Class limit 50

Many movies have been made about wars of course, it is a recurring theme in human history. We will review/preview ones that are made by smaller studios or independent makers, and in a variety of countries. Using a mix of trailers, short clips, and at least one complete short movie per class, we’ll discuss the causes and aftermaths of war, as well as its effects on non-combatants. We will add lots of notes, links, and titles to help you watch the complete films on your own.

Class limit 50

Instructor: Steve Chiasson

• Thursday Morning
• 9:30 – 11:30 AM
• Class limit 10

This class will give you an opportunity to get hands-on with the tools and techniques of a modern, professional recording studio. The emphasis will be on making actual recordings, with relevant instructional content delivered in the context of the process itself. You’ll have opportunities both to record a session and/or be recorded yourself.

Class limit 10
No required materials but participants might find “The Blackbird Academy Foundations” a useful reference, available on Amazon for $13.38. N.B. All classes will be held at Forest Audio Studio in the Belfast Center.