Session 24: Summer–Fall 2019
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Wednesday
5 June
2019 -
Skip the Small Talk
Let’s face it. Life isn’t like Friends.
user Instructor: Patrick Xie
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Saturday
15 June -
Taking Photography to the Streets
Life in the city is dynamic, quirky, and unpredictable. Learn how to photograph the people and things happening around you all the time.
user Instructor: Mukul Ranjan
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Monday
17 June -
Emergency First Aid
Learn and practice life-saving skills, without the blood and gore.
user Instructor: Tom Mpande
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Queer Book Club Movie Night: Check It
Following up on The Gang’s All Queer, our May book, this month we’ll be hosting a movie screening of Check It, a documentary about a local gang composed of gay and transgender youth.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Wednesday
19 June -
Identifying and Pitching Stories for Aspiring Freelancers
Learn how to nab the writing assignments you’ve always wanted.
user Instructor: Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato
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Thursday
20 June -
Be Your Own Best Critic: Judging Your Photography
What makes a photograph good? Learn how to critique and improve your own work.
user Instructor: Yonas Hassen
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Thursday
27 June -
Become a Bad Ass After a Divorce or Breakup
We already know that you’re gonna make it after all, so get the tools you need to continue building the life you deserve.
user Instructor: Joe Bernstein
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Deprogramming and Rethinking Plastic
Let’s imagine a day without plastic…
user Instructor: Rini Saha
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Friday
28 June -
Practical Mindfulness: Easy Ways to Reduce Stress and Avoid Burnout
We’ll give you the foundation and tools to create a mindfulness practice that works for you.
user Instructor: Ingrid Vaicius
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Monday
8 July -
Using Meditation to Connect With Our Emotions and Resilience
Eliza Barclay will introduce the practice of mindfulness meditation and lead a guided session of basic meditation, and neuroscientist and long-time meditator Jeff Colombe will give a talk on the science of meditation, emotions, and resilience.
user Instructors: Eliza Barclay, Jeff Colombe
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Tuesday
9 July -
Queer Book Club: Check, Please!
First of all? There’s checking. And then, there is Jack — our very attractive but moody captain.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Thursday
18 July -
Know Your Rights as a D.C. Tenant
Renting may be expensive, but it doesn’t have to violate your rights.
user Instructors: Marc Borbely, Neil Satterlund
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Wednesday
24 July -
Know Your Rights as a D.C. Tenant
Renting may be expensive, but it doesn’t have to violate your rights.
user Instructors: Marc Borbely, Neil Satterlund
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Sunday
11 August -
Edible Gardening: Veggies, Herbs, and More
Love the idea of edible gardening, but don’t know where to start? Learn tips to get started as you tour several edible gardens, take an ice cream break, and visit a hardware store to stock up on plants and gardening supplies.
user Instructor: Roshani Kothari
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Tuesday
13 August -
Home Mortgages: Find the Best Option for You and Save Thousands!
Gain confidence as you approach this important financial choice by learning about common home mortgage options, how banks calculate rates, and how to shop around. (Yes, you can shop around!)
user Instructor: Meghan Hardy
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Sunday
18 August -
Flower Arranging Basics
Learn to arrange flowers with ease with Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardener Magazine.
user Instructor: Kathy Jentz
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Wednesday
28 August -
Queer Book Club: Tomorrow Will Be Different
Tomorrow Will Be Different highlights Sarah’s work as an activist and the key issues at the forefront of the fight for trans equality, providing a call-to-arms and empowering look at the road ahead.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Sunday
15 September -
Cancelled
Edible Gardening: Veggies, Herbs, and More
Love the idea of edible gardening, but don’t know where to start? Learn tips to get started as you tour several edible gardens, take an ice cream break, and visit a hardware store to stock up on plants and gardening supplies.
user Instructor: Roshani Kothari
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Thursday
26 September -
Queer Book Club: Pulp
Books forms a connection between two women, one who was forced to keep her love for her best friend secret in the age of McCarthyism, and another who can’t stop thinking about her senior project and its subject: classic 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Wednesday
23 October -
Basic Bike Mechanics
Learn bike repair and maintenance fundamentals from the experts at Gearin’ Up Bicycles.
user Instructor: Gearin’ Up Bicycles
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Saturday
26 October -
Fall Tree Identification
Tree-hee! Foliage gazing for free!
user Instructor: Gabriel Popkin
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Monday
28 October -
Queer Book Club: The House of Impossible Beauties
It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Wednesday
20 November -
Queer Book Club: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Monty and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Wednesday
18 December -
Queer Book Club: Giovanni’s Room
In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Monday
27 January
2020 -
Queer Book Club: Dreadnought
Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell
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Wednesday
26 February -
Queer Book Club: Tipping the Velvet
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire.
user Instructor: Johnna Percell