23F-B The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Leader: Curtiss Rude Mondays, 4 - 6 PM | Oct 2-Nov 6  | New England College Lyons Building Room 103    The class is based on a 2008 book, The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson, adapted for an Emmy winning...

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23F-A Modern American Poetry

Leader: Don Melander Mondays, 10 AM - Noon | October 2 - November 6 on ZOOM We are currently reading and discussing poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, and May Swenson in Library of America’s  American Poetry: The Twentieth...

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23SU-H-Film Seminar: All That Jazz

In-Person: NEC Science Building Rm 113E (right across from the new Lyon's Building) Fridays, 10 AM – 1 PM | July 7 – Aug 4 Leader: Don Melander We will view the life and music of: July 7 | Paris Blues (1961; Martin...

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23SU-G-John Gfroerer Presents Two Documentaries

In-Person: NEC Lyons Building Rm 107 Thursday, 10 – Noon | July 6 & 20 Documentary Film Maker: John Gfroerer Facilitator: Dick Hesse Each session will be a presentation and discussion of a documentary film: Powerful As Truth: William Loeb & 25 Years...

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23SU-F-Supreme Court Review

In-Person: NEC Lyons Building Rm 103 Wednesday, 1:30   – 3:30 PM | July 12 Instructor: John Graebe | Facilitator: Dick Hesse This review of the Supreme Court’s 2022-23 term will include a discussion of the most significant cases. John Graebe is a Professor...

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23SU-D-Women Artists – Modern to Contemporary

Wednesdays, 10 – Noon | July 5 – 26 Instructor: Gail Smuda | Facilitator: Mindy Fitterman Learn about fiber, performance art, and site specific work as well as more traditional painting and sculpture in this four-part class—covering most of the 1970s...

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23SU-C-The Stage Shapes the Play and the Play Shapes the Stage: How Shakespeare’s Plays Reveal Themselves Through Production—Henry V

In-Person: NEC Lyons Building Rm 103 Tuesdays, 1:30   – 3:30 PM | July 11 – Aug 1 Instructor: Glenn Stuart | Facilitator: Don Melander We will share and discuss two auteur film versions of Henry V: Laurence Olivier’s in 1944 and Kenneth...

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23SU-A-American Poems of Place: North of Boston

In-Person: NEC Lyons Building, 55 Depot Hill Rd, Henniker, NH 03242, Rm 103 Mondays, 10   – Noon | July 10 – 31 Instructor: Don Melander | Facilitator: Alice Nye When Don Melander was the Open Door Theatre dramaturge, he adapted a number of...

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G – Film Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock, 2nd Series

Fridays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov 4, & 11 Leaders: Don Melander, Mary Lee Sargent This seminar meets round the year every Friday morning from 10 to noon, but folks may join or leave at...

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C-*The Stage Shapes the Play and the Play Shapes the Stage: How Shakespeare’s Plays Reveal Themselves Through Production

Tuesdays, 1 - 3 PM | Oct 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov 1, & 8 Instructor: Glenn Stuart *This is an in-person class. Location will be announced after registration. Director Michael Bogdanov observed the following about producing Shakespeare’s plays: “The job of...

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