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 Escaping the Rat Race: Live, Travel, Retire, Work or Study Abroad Learn ways to earn a living outside of the USA, or take a year or two out of your life to volunteer to use your skills and expertise to make the world a better place. Find out how to use your home and investments to fund your new adventure and how to travel around the world on a limited budget. You’ll receive tips on how to adjust successfully to another way of life on foreign soil and how you can use your adventure to improve your job prospects at home.
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Sat., July 18 10 am - 3 pm Room 435 Register by May 18: $65 Register after May 18 $80, plus $12 materials fee Paul Heller has spent much of the past 25 years as an exchange student, volunteer, traveler, and instructor abroad. He holds a B.A. in International Studies and Geography and has visited thirty nations. He will soon release the book: “Travel Like a Local: A Whole New Way to Travel Safely, Inexpensively, Comfortably, Joyfully, and Purposefully”. Life Chronicles: Creating a DVD Document Gather resources to make your family, personal, or community history come to life on DVD! This workshop will introduce various methods of documenting life using photos, film and historical documents. You will gain insight into resources in the community that will enhance your interview, camera and editing skills to help you complete a professional project. Class #01CSLC1-01 Sat., May 30 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Room 435 Register by May 18: $55 Register after May 18 $68 Jeanette Sargent Hamill holds a BA in Gerontology and is an independent Filmmaker. She has worked in the field of aging since 1994 and has been producing professional documentaries since 2004. Great Portrait Photography: Level I Stop taking snapshots and start taking portraits! Learn the fundamentals of portrait photography with a hands-on approach to the classic lighting patterns and styles developed by photographers from 1860 through modern day Hollywood. Make the most of your subject and situation, whether it’s a child at the park or a portrait for a website. Create dramatic moods, adapt to challenging shooting conditions inside and outdoors, and pose the subject for maximum effect. This class is for anyone with a desire to take their photography to the next level; hobbyists, photo enthusiasts and people that use photography in their jobs. The techniques are applicable to film, video and digital photography. Class #01CAPP1-02 Sat., June 20 1 - 5 pm Room 405 Register by May 18: $65 Register after May 18 $76 Jeffery Luhn has been a professional photographer for 28 years. He has shot for dozens of international corporations in 25 countries. Visit his website to see his work at www.luhnphoto.com Photoshop for the Hobby Photographer Whether you use a digital camera or scan your photos, you can create the best photos ever digitally. Photoshop is a huge application and this is your chance to get acquainted with some of the basics. This class will focus on Photoshop tools and techniques most useful for hobby photographers. Find out how to repair damaged photographs, correct color, remove unwanted elements, transform your photographs into sepia tones or hand-tinted looks, and more. Much of what will be learned will be useful for Photoshop Elements as well. This class will be taught on a Mac, but is adaptable to Windows. Class #01CSPS1-37 2 Sat., June 20 & 27 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Room 1303 Register by May 18: $85 Register after May 18: $102 Deborah Cardillo - See bio below More Fun with Photoshop The sequel to Photoshop for the Hobby Photographer, or for anyone comfortable with Photoshop, this class will cover advanced Photoshop techniques useful in enhancing your photos, such as curves, blending modes, masks, channels and the paste into command. Prerequisite: It is recommended that you take Photoshop for the Hobby Photographer before taking the More Fun with Photoshop class. Class #01CSPS2-10 2 Sat., April 25 & May 2 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Room 1303 Register by Feb. 12: $102 (This is a Spring 2009 class) Deborah Cardillo is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is a Photoshop enthusiast who loves to teach others. Introduction to Smart Investments Whatever your dreams for happiness, financial freedom makes them even more attainable. This introductory investment class will give you the tools to help you define your goals with a realistic and definite timeline. You will also learn of many financial investments available to you such as:
4 Thurs., June 4 - 25 7 - 9 pm Room 429 Register by May 18: $60 Register after May 18 $72 Jim Bargetto is senior vice president and a wealth advisor with a major investment firm and has been teaching this class since 1990. His areas of investment expertise are well mixed between the equity and fixed income market. The Fundamentals of Ayurveda Ayurveda is a science explaining how to prevent disease and live in optimal health. Originating from ancient India over 5,000 years ago, Ayurveda uses diet, herbs, and life style to assist you back toward balance. Learn 10 essential tools for healing naturally and discover your constitution, or “body type”. Invest in your health now to avoid disease later. Class #01ERUA1-07 3 Wed., April 22 – May 6 6 – 9 pm Room 410 plus $25 materials fee payable to instructor at class Register after Feb. 12: $98 (This is a Spring 2009 class) Sheryl Allen, RN, is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Integrative Yoga Therapist, and Certified Massage Therapist. Mothers & Daughters: Picking Up the Pieces The mother daughter relationship is one of the most passionate that a woman will ever experience. It is a source of love and comfort; as well as angst and inadequacy. A daughter may spend her life trying to win her mother’s approval or scorning it. This relationship is the foundation from which we define ourselves and sets the course for all of our subsequent relationships. The loss of our mother often leaves us feeling adrift, without direction. This class will explore some of the dynamics of the mother daughter relationship. Through our shared experiences, the goal will be to identify and smooth out some of our own rough edges, as we continually work towards becoming our own kind mothers. Participants should bring a lunch. Class #01ERMD1-02 Sat., May 9 9 am - 4 pm Room 406 Register after Feb. 12: $78 (This is a Spring 2009 class) May Wolff has over 30 years. of experience as a clinical social worker and enjoys having a private practice in Capitola and Los Gatos. She co-produced the video documentary “Mother & Daughter…the Tie That Bonds.” Soul Collage®: Invite the Poetry of Images Into Your Life In this hands-on workshop let the images you are drawn to capture your imagination and stimulate your creativity as you learn how to make your own deck of personal collage cards and discover how to give a card its own unique voice. As you create your deck of cards you will deepen your understanding of your relationship to your personality parts, your family and community, and enter the world of symbols and archetypes that weave your personal story into the larger story of humanity. Class #01ERSC1-06 Sat., May 2 9:30 am - 4 pm Room 312 Register after Feb. 12: $92 (This is a Spring 2009 class) * Download student information letter * Lauren Mari-Navarro, LCSW and Mariabruna Sirabella, MFT are trained facilitators of the SoulCollage® Method encouraging creativity and self-discovery. Both teachers have private practices in the Santa Cruz community. |
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