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Every Picture Tells a Story: Organizing Photographs

$20

with Jill Braceland

Calendar Next available session starts May 7, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 1 week

Learn techniques on how to work through that box of photographs we all have.  Integrating the stories behind the pictures will also be explored.  

Please bring some of your photographs to get started.

 Jill Braceland has been successfully delivering and organizing seminars for adult education programs for more than 8 years.  She has a reputation for offering seminars that are interactive, practical, and presented in an easy, friendly manner.

An Evening with Loves Ones/Friends with Medium Jamie Day

$50

with Jamie Day

Calendar Next available session starts May 12, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 1 week

You're invited to witness the connection with our passed loved ones in Spirit for messages of love, healing, and validation!  This is your chance for a connection with heaven!

Jamie has been working as a Medium and Mentor since 2016 and is eager to help show you that love truly has no bounds!  During this group reading, experience several participants will receive unique messages of their own, and enjoy watching others receive support from the other side.  Those who don't receive readings often report postcards, or special signs from their own loved ones through someone else.

After the readings, feel free to stick around and ask questions about Jamie, the process of mediumship, or your own spiritual development journey!  A great chance to pick the brain of an experienced teacher.

Drawing and Painting Flowers

$72

with Evelyn Nitzberg, SWA

Calendar Next available session starts May 13, 2025 at 5:30 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Springtime Flowers:  A spectacular time of year.  Learn to observe and notice subtle curves, edges, shapes, overlapping, and depth to translate the botany around you into artwork.  Use a range of media:  oil pastels, watercolor paint, and colored pencils to add vibrancy to your contour flower drawings.

Materials Fee:  $25 (If you have not taken her classes before).

(If you taken her class before, bring your supplies and your Materials Fee is $10)

Evelyn’s Credentials:

Award-Winning Society of Western Artists Signature Artist;  Credentialed Art Educator;  Credentialed Visual Arts Teacher;  Chair Sanford Arts Commission;  Supervisor Sanford Art Camps;  Award Winning Painter;  Kittery Art Association Gallery;  @evelynnitzberg

Nature Photography

$129

with Steve McGrath

Calendar Next available session starts May 13, 2025 at 7:30 pm, runs for 2 weeks

This course is online.

In this Nature Photography Online Class, we will go over Camera Settings and Compositions and how to get great Images of Nature's best, such as Moose, Birds, Seals, and other subjects! We will also discuss how to set up a Blind to get great Images.

Steve McGrath

Estate Planning-Prepare for the Uncertainties of Life Revocable & Irrevocable Trusts-Are They Right For You?

$15

with Kathryn Bedell Esq

Calendar Next available session starts May 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm, runs for 1 week

This class will begin with an overview of basic estate planning, including Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives, etc. The class will then delve into, learning how revocable trusts can help avoid probate and protect your privacy, and how irrevocable trusts can protect your assets from nursing home or Maine Care (Medicaid) liens. Discussion will include other strategies to safeguard assets from life events such as business failure or divorce of adult children. Kathryn Bedell is a lawyer in York, Maine and has been practicing for 31 years. Her practice focuses on estate planning, asset preservation, and probate matters.

Instant Guitar (for hopelessly busy people) Zoom

$65

with Craig Coffman

Calendar Next available session starts Jun 2, 2025 at 6:30 pm, runs for 1 week
3 additional sessions through Jun 23, 2025

This is an online course.

In just a few hours you can learn enough about playing the guitar to give you years of musical enjoyment, and you won't have to take private lessons to do it.  This crash course will teach you some basic chords and get you playing along with your favorite songs right away. 

Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic questions and answer session.  Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands-on instruction and partly lecture/demonstration.  For ages 13+

 

Summer Bloom: Flower Jewelry Design Night + Take It Kits
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Summer Bloom: Flower Jewelry Design Night + Take It Kits

$47

with Julie Moser

Join jewelry designer, artist, and educator Julie Moser of MoCo Media for a fun-filled night to play.  During this session, you'll be provided with supplies and guidance to make a flower jewelry creation of your choosing (bracelet or earrings) incorporating salvaged vintage jewelry, along with contemporary beads, and findings.  Choose from pre-selected themes or find your whimsy and make your creation!  This session is fabulous for friends, a birthday celebration, or to make a unique gift for yourself or a loved one.

Instant Piano (for hopelessly busy people) Zoom

$65

with Craig Coffman

Calendar Next available session starts Jun 17, 2025 at 6:30 pm, runs for 1 week
1 additional session on Jun 24, 2025

This is an online course.

In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment.  Learn to play piano the way professionals do using chords.  The chord method is LOTS of fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes.  The fee includes the online book, online follow-up lessons, a recording of the class, and also an optional periodic question-and-answer session.  Class is held online using ZOOM and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture demonstrations.  Ages 13+





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