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Maximize Your iPad's Potential

$35

with Boomer Tech

Calendar Current session started Dec 14, 2022

Increase your ability to communicate, create, and connect by mastering your iPad's features! This course covers: navigating your iPad, using Camera and Photos apps, tapping into Options settings, communicating through writing and video, and making phone calls. Learn all about your useful apps, like Calendar and Siri, your virtual assistant. 

Taking Awesome Pictures with Your iPhone/iPad Camera

$35

with Boomer Tech

Calendar Current session started Dec 14, 2022

Use this step by step guide to take amazing photos! This course is appropriate for novice photographers as well as anyone who wants to significantly upgrade their photography skills. Leaern to take photos, portraits, slo-motion, panos, and more. Students will learn about camera setting for proper focus, exposure, and composition.

Taming Your "To Do" List
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Taming Your "To Do" List

$19

with Jill Braceland

Identify techniques that will help you organize your personal time. Suggestions offered include prioritizing, reating the "To Do" list, and how we underestimate time. Tips on how to stop procrastinating and being overwhelmed will also be discussed. 

Landscaping 101-A Mini Course For Beginners

$79

with Amy Witt, Horticulturist

Calendar Next available session starts Apr 5, 2023 at 6:30 pm, runs for 3 weeks

Are you a do-it-yourselfer who wants to give your yard a simple makeover or design a new garden? Do you need to add curb appeal to the house you are ready to put on the market. Or do you simply want to enjoy enhanced beauty in your backyard? Whatever your final goal, knowing some basic landscape design techniques will make it easier for you. Learn how to assess your needs, evaluate your site, come up with a plan, and select the right plants. 

Watercolor Painting for Beginners
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Watercolor Painting for Beginners

$80

with Kathleen Gerdes

Calendar Next session starts Apr 25, 2023 at 6 pm, runs for 6 weeks

This course is designed for those who want to learn the basics of watercolor painting.   We will focus on techniques, types of paints and how to blend colors, having fun every step of the way! The course will begin with still life projects, where you will learn color blending and simple brush strokes.  Come and create with us in a relaxing atmosphere! Kathleen Gerdes, who lives in Falmouth, has enjoyed teaching various art classes for 10 years.  Dabbling in watercolors and showing others how to do it "fearlessly" is her focus for this class.  She also loves teaching fiber arts.  

Pastel Painting

$79

with Christopher Reed

Calendar Next available session starts May 2, 2023 at 1 pm, runs for 6 weeks
1 additional session

ZOOM Students will learn the basic skills of pastel painting, including the layering and blending of colors along with developing composition and value. Still life and landscape photos will be used as references. Mindfulness exercises will accentuate the creative process and allow the inner artist to unfold naturally without judgment or fear. Suitable for beginners as well as those with previous experience. A supply list will be provided. Each session has the same class content. 

Wildflower Walk

$15

with Amy Witt, Horticulturist

Calendar Next session starts May 11, 2023 at 5:30 pm

Come meet the native wildflowers and trees along the Pleasant Hill Preserve Trail. Our outing will incorporate plant folklore, identification, and the gifts each plant has to share. Our walk will take place at Pleasant Hill Preserve. We will meet in the parking lot, 256-280 Pleasant Hill Road. 

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Sunday in the Cemetery

$10

with Ron Romano

Calendar Next available session starts May 21, 2023 at 2 pm, runs for 1 week

Stroll and enjoy the early craft and imagery used in grave markers at our own Dunstan Cemetery. This cemetery holds a great collection of early 1800s slate markers from our region's first stonecutter, Bartlett Adams. Highlights on the walk include monuments in marble and zinc--plus a few surprises! You'll see the best that Dunstan has to offer with cemetery historian and author of four related books, Ron Romano. Wear comfortable footwear for this hourlong stroll. We will meet rain or shine, unless there is extreme weather. Class size is 15 participants. Parking information will be shared when the walk is confirmed. THE DATE OF THIS EVENT WAS CHANGED FROM MAY 8 TO MAY 21, AND APPEARS DIFFERENTLY IN OUR PAPER CATALOG.





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