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Winter 2022 ONLINE CLASSES
FROM OUR LIVING ROOM TO YOURS
Now you can use your lunchtime to learn something new and stay connected to your community. All classes begin at noon.
Registration is now open! Your registration fees help to fund these programs and Commonpoint Queens’ Services to the community.
ART HISTORY: They Made It There – Artists in NYC
For almost two hundred years, New York City has been the center of the art world. Whether for a few months or a lifetime, painters, architects, photographers, and designers have flocked to the Big Apple to make a big name for themselves, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diane Arbus, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and so many more! In this six-part class, art historian Harry Weil will introduce us to artists and various media of the New York art scene in the 19th and 20th centuries.
6 Wed., 12:00-1:00 p.m.
1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16
$60 member / $72 non-member
Harry Weil has a PhD in Art History from Stony Brook University and is currently the Director of Public Programs and Special Projects at Green-Wood Cemetery.
FILM DISCUSSION GROUP with FILM CRITIC MATTHEW WEISS
Explore how great movies use the power of cinema to rewire our consciousness and defy our expectations – of narrative, character, and identification. Filmmaker Matthew L. Weiss chooses unique and exceptional films that deepen our experience of the world and challenge us to expand our powers of perception. Watch each movie at your convenience via link and then come together for an always entertaining and often inspiring discussion of some of the greatest films of the last century.
10 Tues., 12:00-1:30 p.m.
1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15
$100 member / $120 non-member
Matthew L. Weiss has done everything in the world of film from craft service to editing, acting, producing, and directing. As an editor, his films have played in festivals such as Sundance and Tribeca, and he is the regular “Film Guy” movie correspondent on Sam Seder’s The Majority Report podcast.
BIBLICAL TEXTS THEY NEVER TAUGHT IN RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
How do we make sense out of Biblical texts that challenge our Jewish values or cause us to feel uncomfortable? Reading about a punishing God who demands “an eye for an eye” or requires that a “rebellious son” be stoned to death may test the limits of our understanding. So, our teachers often overlooked or sidestepped teaching these difficult and sometimes misunderstood parts of the Torah. Join Rabbi Irwin Goldenberg as we confront some of these texts head on and try to understand, evaluate, and learn from them.
8 Thurs., 12:00-1:30 p.m.
1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10
$80 member / $96 non-member
Rabbi Irwin Goldenberg is a retired Reform Rabbi who has served congregations in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico and has taught at Gettysburg College and York College of Pennsylvania.
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