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Drawing 101

$35

with Lynn Carter

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 28, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Beginners drawing class where you'll learn basic skills drawing with objects while learning shading skills and dimensions.

Materials for student to buy:

1.  Set of drawing pencils, must include B and H Class.

2.  1 large stump and 1 small (used for smudging)

3.  Kneaded erase

4.  Sand eraser

5.  Table or standing easel (can be found at craft stores)

6.  Small ruler

 

Lynn Carter

Windowsill Herb Garden

$25

with Elizabeth Goody

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 28, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 1 week

Learn about growing your own herbs and how to harvest, store, and use.

Materials fee: $5 payable to the instructor at time of class.

Will cover pots, soil, seeds.

Herb plants will be available for purchase if you are interested.

Beth Goody

Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention, Basic Core Movements

$65

with Dennis Fallo

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 29, 2025 at 10 am, runs for 6 weeks

Experience Sun Style Tai Chi in this easy and enjoyable beginner's program designed by Dr. Paul Lam.  Improve balance, and focus, fall prevention, health, and wellness.  The program is approved by the Arthritis Foundation, the CDC, as well as other organizations.  Please wear loose clothing and flat-bottom footwear suitable for exercise.  Instructor Dennis Fallo is a certified instructor through the Tai Chi for Health Institute founded by Dr. Paul Lam, M.D.  For beginners 55+

American Sign Language Part II

$72

with Kandyleigh Provencher

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 29, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 6 weeks

This class will be held onsite only.

ASL Two is a continuation of ASL One. You will learn more vocabulary in sentence structure with added nouns and verbs for travel, animals, home environment, and school environment to name a few.   Not required but an ASL dictionary is helpful. All vocabulary and assignments/activities will be handed out in each class. 

Project Management Knowledge Areas

$195

with LERN U Got Class

Calendar Next available session starts May 2, 2025 , runs for 4 weeks
1 additional session on Jun 2, 2025

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.

In today’s business environment, there is a need for good project management.  Project management provides visibility of project health to the business and the customer.  Through continuous monitoring, early detection of variations to plan, schedule, and budget can be communicated to stakeholders for quick resolution, including project cancellation.  The Project Management Professional community does this through the five (5) Project Management Processes supported by the ten (10) Project Management Knowledge Areas.  This course introduces the student to the ten (10) Project Management Knowledge Areas and their support role and relationships to the five (5) Project Management Processes.

For full details, see:  https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford

 If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

 

Drawing and Painting Flowers

$72

with Evelyn Nitzberg, SWA

Calendar Next available session starts May 6, 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

Having Tough Converations about End of Life
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Having Tough Converations about End of Life

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with Kimberly Mann

Calendar Next session starts May 7, 2025 at 3 pm, runs for 1 week

FEE: $5 (CASH)

PLEASE REGISTER FOR CLASS THROUGH THIS SITE. 

PAYMENT WILL BE DUE THE NIGHT OF CLASS. 

In this presentation join Hospice of Southern Maine's Chaplain staff for a presentation on how to have meaningful, effective family conversations about end of life.  We offer advice and strategies for these often complicated and emotion-filled conversations to make it easier for everyone involved.

Kimberly Mann

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.





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