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Family Overnight Adventures (Ages 4 and up)

WCS Zoos @ 53-51 111th St, Corona, NY

Join us for a springtime adventure. After setting up your tents your family will join us for some evening activities and zoo explorations. Through activities and observations, you will learn how we care for our animals in the Zoo. Meet some of our animals, go on a night hike and end the even with some tasty snacks. In the morning after breakfast, we will explore the wild birds around the zoo and greet our zoo animals as they go out in their exhibits....

(8) All levels 4 and older
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$140
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Using Social Media to Build Your Personal Brand

Wagner College Lifelong Learning @ 1 Campus Rd, Staten Island, NY

Do you know how to use social media to represent yourself and stand out from the crowd? Using Twitter, LinkedIn and even a blog appropriately can put you head and shoulders ahead of anyone else –using them incorrectly can put you out of competition for any job. Learn what is the right and wrong way to use social media and how to network effectively OFFLINE as well as online.

(5) All levels 18 and older
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Cunningham Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 19600 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows, NY

This underappreciated urban park has enough habitat variety and plant species to keep foragers busy for days. We'll highlight those species in season as summer fades into fall, in conjunction with The Down to Earth Farmer's Market. The event begins with a wild demo at the market, before we set off into the woods, thickets, and fields that make up the park. The park is a great place for wild fruit, and plenty of species are ripe at...

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Cunningham Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 19600 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows, NY

This underappreciated urban park has enough habitat variety and plant species to keep foragers busy for days. We'll highlight those species in season as summer fades into fall, in conjunction with The Down to Earth Farmer's Market. The event begins with a wild demo at the market, before we set off into the woods, thickets, and fields that make up the park. The park is a great place for wild fruit, and plenty of species are ripe at...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Plant Medicine for Fall Transitions

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Healing plants can help ground us as we move through seasonal transitions. We will learn about plants we can harvest locally during the fall and make a nourishing herbal drink with a vinegar and honey base called an oxymel.  Note: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your classroom.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Gratitude in the Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Experience moving meditation in the Garden taking in the sounds, smells, and sights of the living earth around us. We will practice cultivating gratitude, connecting to the feelings of abundance the earth freely offers. Rain or shine. No previous experience with meditation is necessary.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Haircare: Natural Shampoos and Conditioners

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

From dry, unmanageable locks to dull, damaged hair, this class will save you money on expensive, ineffective haircare products and point you in the right direction of effective, natural ingredients to make your own. Students will learn to effectively make their own products focusing on hair health, damage repair and targeted treatments. Learn to make your very own natural haircare products in a fun and educational evening workshop with haircare...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$248
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Methods In Dance/Movement Therapy I

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Learn the principles of dance therapy through movement experience. This course includes lectures, discussion, movement improvisation, individual and group movement experiences of dance therapy methods and structures, and leadership experiences. *Course is fully approved by the ADTA for Alternate Route credit for R-DMT training. All Dance Therapy courses are eligible for CE hours.

(1068) Beginner 18 and older
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$550

15 sessions

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Arguably, Some of the Best Books of the 20th Century

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

The operative word here is “arguably.” Read the books, discuss their meaning, their message, and of course, argue their merits (or demerits). Please read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow for the first meeting. Books include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, Howard's End by E.M. Forster and The Wide Sargasso by Jean Rhys.

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$750

3 sessions

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Awaken the Alchemist Within

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Awaken The Alchemist Within is an 5-evening intensive, certificate program on the Upper West Side of NYC that will get your current indie beauty business or the one you've dreamed about owning off of the ground.  Students will receive five classes of training with Marla Bosworth, founder and owner of Back Porch Soap Company. Classes are held from 6-9 p.m. at a convenient Upper West Side location just a block from the 1, 2 and 3 trains. ...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$1,298

5 sessions

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Perfect Strokes

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Improve your conditioning and stroke techniques for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Ideal for any lap swimmer with basic knowledge of all four strokes. No makeups. PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IS REQUIRED for all adults and children ages 5+

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$600

20 sessions

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Advanced Beginner Pickleball Open Play

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

If you are new to the sport we recommend that you try out one of our Beginner Level classes. The 92NY Court Monitor will assist where possible to organize games. Come join the fun and drop-in! Prior experience playing Pickleball is encouraged for this program as there is no set instruction. PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IS REQUIRED

(1068) Beginner 18 and older
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$575

19 sessions

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Beginner Swim Group

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Learn basic swimming skills and proper body alignment. Our one-hour classes ensure plenty of practice time for all participants. No experience necessary. No makeups.

(1068) Beginner 18 and older
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$750

20 sessions

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Deep-Water Swimming

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Ideal for swimmers who would like to improve their basic stroke techniques. No makeups. PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IS REQUIRED for all adults and children ages 5+

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$750

20 sessions

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Shakespeare with Leo Schaff - The Winter’s Tale

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Join charismatic actor and teacher Leo Schaff as he breathes life into Shakespeare’s words, acting out portions of the play and offering illuminating insights into the Bard’s language, plot lines, historical context and eternal relevance, all with a generous sense of humor. The Tempest - January 8 The magic hand of Prospero guides us through storm, loss, adventure and abandonment—to comedy, romance, and righteous reconciliation. Ariel, Caliban,...

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$224

7 sessions

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HIPAA & the Doula: What You May Not Know

Boober @ 182 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY

HIPAA and the Doula: What You May Not Know and How To Fix It Have you ever given your client a superbill? Do you have an NPI number? Either one of these actions transforms you into a HIPAA-covered entity, and now you have a whole lot of responsibilities under the law that you may not be aware of.  Join Annie Frisbie, author of Paperless Private Practice for the IBCLC and attorney Linda Strauss, Esq., and learn why doulas...

(18) All levels 16 and older
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Improv Intensive for Professionals and Educators

The Engaging Educator @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

Remember how we said our classes are like going to the gym for your brain? In this 3-week class, we’ll practice what we preach, focusing in on flexing the skills that make us a bigger, faster and stronger US. Improv is all about communication, and we understand the importance of creating a safe space to work listening skills, focus, public speaking, presence, flexibility, and confidence. We’ll zoom in on the idea of building a team, remaining...

(401) All levels 18 and older
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$109

3 sessions

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Prosody with David Yezzi

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Poems are written in musical language. In this special two-day intensive, we examine the ways that form (traditional meter and verse techniques) is used to make music in poetry, and learn how the age-old tools of poetic composition can liberate, strengthen and energize your writing in verse.

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$400

2 sessions

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Beginnings - West Side Story, Gypsy and Forum

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Stephen Sondheim is an artist whose work remains unmatched in its daring to consistently bring an experimental, unconventional, modernist and personal sensibility to that most conservative of forms, the American Musical, all the while building from traditional forms, both popular and classical. We embark on our year-long lecture series on this iconic artist with an exploration of his background, training and his contribution as lyricist to his first...

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$495

18 sessions

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Reading Cervantes with Edith Grossman

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Most of us know Miguel de Cervantes as the author of Don Quixote, but it may come as a surprise that he also wrote short fiction as well as works for the theater. His novellas (called "Novelas ejemplares," or "Exemplary Novels,") are fast-paced and witty, and well may be, as Cervantes claimed, the first novellas written originally in Spanish and not translated from Italian. He wrote twelve; we'll read roughly half that number.  Specific titles...

(1068) All levels 18 and older
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$420

4 sessions

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