It may be a book, a poem, a photo, a film, a traveler's tale, or memory savored which sparks the desire of adventuring on your own. This repeat course can help you overcome the obstacles and prepare you for the new delights and fresh discoveries of traveling solo. Sights and sounds, food and drink, rich and rewarding peopled experiences await; why not just do it? Adventures to share in class are welcome.

Discover and explore your own inner resources for successful living. Each session in this nine-week, repeat course features insightful talks and meaningful interaction about inner resources such as peace, appreciation, inner strength, self-awareness, understanding, dignity, choice, hope, and contentment.

Escape from "busy" and give yourself a two-hour block of time to work on your art, at your own pace, in a relaxed environment. Fellow artists share ideas, encouragement, and support. Pack your materials and come paint! NOTE: if you are using oils, please plan to use water-based paints only.

How can a painting or a poem give rise to a tactile sensation? How can music summon spatial imagery? Human experience is a creative act. In this slide/ lecture/discussion course, we'll read from philosophers, neuroscientists, musicians, and poets and look at paintings from Lascaux to Expressionism as we attempt to answer these questions. There will be simple, optional homework.

In this class you'll not only learn how to draw, you'll also learn how to see as an artist sees. Using simple tools, this eight-week, step-by-step course will teach you how to speak a new visual language, unleashing your inner creativity as you learn how to draw the world you see before you. No special talent or experience needed.

This repeat course will review major U.S. and world current economic events. Students can determine how each topic will affect them and their family. Topics will include lingering effects of recession and future world economic growth.

This repeat course provides a new view of the Third Age (from 50 to 80), based on 25 years of Sadler's research about people who are creatively redesigning their lives and redefining retirement. Students will explore principles for personal growth that can support a successful transition into a Third Age of fulfillment. Classes encourage participant interaction.

This course explores the interaction of earth materials, processes, and time that shaped New England and Maine. It focuses on the specific types of minerals, rocks, and the physical and chemical means that molded the landscape and provided our geological resources. Special emphasis is given to the bedrock foundation and surficial constituents and the river, glacial, and wave actions that have been the prime movers in determining what we see today. No prior geology is required.

This repeat course explores songs, spirituals and hymns from the Christian tradition that are normally called "gospel." Designed primarily from a Protestant perspective, the course examines "white" gospel and religious music from the African-American tradition.

Great Decisions is a flagship program of the World Affairs Council of Maine, facilitated by members of the Council. The eight topics of discussion for 2018: The Waning of Pax America; Russia's Foreign Policy; China and America: The New Geopolitical Equation; Media and Foreign Policy; Turkey: A Partner in Crisis; U.S. Global Engagement and the Military; South Africa's Fragile Democracy; and Global Health: Progress and Challenges.

This course is a continuation of basic French refresher. It offers a review of pronunciation, vocabulary, listening, and conversation skills in a travel/tourism context to help you feel comfortable using your French.

This ongoing, participatory dance class draws from the dances of many cultures - traditional American Country/Western using contemporary C/W and pop music, Greek circle dances, Brazilian samba, tango, rhumba, Spanish cha-cha, and the Shim Sham jazz line dance from Harlem. Not all of these are taught every semester. Prior dance experience is not necessary, but ability to comfortably walk two miles at a decent pace is strongly recommended. This class includes a mix of new dances as well as dances taught in previous sessions.

Evergreen Cemetery is a jewel in the heart of the city. Many prominent Portlanders have been interred there. Walking through with a knowledgeable docent is a walk through our history. We will meet at Evergreen in the Wilde Chapel weekly, and we will learn about a different aspect of our past, as we have a lecture and a guided tour with a different trained docent each week.

A dull knife is a dangerous knife. Let's learn how to sharpen kitchen knives and be ready for fall and winter holidays. We'll learn about knife-making, materials, knife safety, knife care, sharpeners, and sharpening technique. Bring two knives (well-wrapped) for the instructor to sharpen. This is a repeat workshop.

Willingness to use your imagination to immerse yourself in a role is a prerequisite for this ongoing class. It's an opportunity to learn and practice basic acting techniques using voice and facial expressions. Class includes pantomime and improvisation skills.

This new course will unpack a toolbox of skills you might wish you had learned in school. Transformative communication can help turn difficult conversations into opportunities for healing, greater understanding, and finding solutions to seemingly irreconcilable differences.

This ongoing workshop is a supportive peer group of 10 fiction writers working to improve their short-story writing skills. Each month, members send their work to one another in advance of the meeting. Each is responsible for constructive feedback of the work to be shared and discussed at the next session. The workshop will evolve in response to the interests of its members. New members are welcome.

This ongoing workshop is not a class but a supportive group of memoir writers who share and respond constructively to each other's work. New members are welcome, to a limit of 12.