A general art course with a focus on drawing and painting techniques.

Kids can create anything they want! Try your hand at weaving, knitting, painting and drawing, beading, embroidery, and sewing just to name a few! 

Facilitator: Abby Henrich-Sydnor

This cooking class will be based on the geography class. Students will use the cookbook Eat Your Way Around the World as a guide to recipes from around the world. This class will run bi-monthly. Students should plan for 2-2.5 hours of prep/cooking per class. The student body including parents will be encouraged to make an advanced reservation ($5 pp.) to eat this meal. Lunch will include a student presentation discussing the food served.

In this English literature class we'll read fiction that imagines worst case scenarios: environmental collapse, authoritarian governments, the total breakdown of society.  In addition to imagining these fictional worlds, we'll also look at the real historical and political circumstances that authors were confronting when they wrote dystopian novels. 

Facilitator: TBD

In this class we will be working together to write, shoot, direct, edit and produce a short film. Members will work with staff to set up a production schedule, assign tasks, and find useful resources for their film. The project will involve writing, directing, music, video shooting and production, as well as working with the art program and Makerspace to create props and sets.

Facilitator: Terry

Learn to converse in Japanese.

Facilitator: Chihiro

We will select works together for the practice the act of reading. There may be certain skills to focus on as a reader that we can develop collectively. We will discuss the craziness of the English language - rules that apply and don't apply, how to interpret the words that have a million meanings rather than just one, ways to make meaning as you read aloud or silently, and how to present thoughts openly and freely as a reader, based on you interpretations.

Learn about music, composition, and harmonic analysis with an experienced musician and music educator. In this class students listen to Classical, Jazz, and World music to develop an appreciation for all kinds of music as well as an understanding of the structure and history of a variety of music traditions. This course will include field trips to see live performances

Facilitator: David Buda

We will delve into the mechanics and art of photography - studying technique, lighting and the artistic principles of making images. We’ll also look into the history of photography and photographers, and explore those ideas and techniques through our own work. Students will learn how to take good still photographs with any device from a smartphone to a digital SLR, and how to build a portfolio of their best work.

Using Adobe Photoshop, students will learn the basics of how the program is structured, how to manage and enhance digital photos, and how to alter them to make their own art.  At the same time, we will discuss how Photoshop and "photoshopping" has impacted culture, art, fashion, advertising, the world, and maybe us. 

Facilitator: Terry Louison

A survey literature course focusing on poetic form, meter, and literary analysis on works from the Renaissance through the modern period. Sources included Dante, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath.

In this course we will explore some of the basic skills necessary for public speaking and set them in the context of Aristotle's Rhetoric. We will take a look at his three elements of persuasion, ethos (reputation or credibility), pathos (emotional and intuitive connection), and logos (reasoned argument) and put them into practice while considering if there is anything the old guy missed.

Facilitator: Adam

Students will choose the books they want to read and each class will be a group discussion of what we learned. Outside reading will be required.

Facilitator: Terry or Bethan

This 2-month is a unit study on Shakespeare’s play Othello. Students will read an adapted version of the play. This format will allow younger children to participate and enjoy this work. Older students will be prompted to engage with original texts as well as leveled adaptations that are tailored to each student’s ability. The course will include “read though” of the play. This format will allow students to act as characters in Othello without the stress of memorizing lines. Students will be encouraged to bring in hand props and role-play when in “character”. The students (and any interested community member) will also have the opportunity to attend a performance of this show at Trinity Rep—Brown University’s theater. This performance will include an actor talkback. Prices for student/chaperone tickets are usually $16. Parents will be needed to help drive students to this event.

Learn to converse in Spanish.

Facilitator: Mahya Alizade