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Sessions: 11Class Date(s): 01-09-2023 to 03-27-2023No Class: 1/16Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 09:00 AM → 10:00 AMInstructor: Rosalind WalkerTerm: 2023-1Location: Zoom This will be a beginner-level Pilates workout and will include other flexibility, range-of-motion, toning, and balance exercises. Improve your strength, flexibility, balance, mind and body awareness, postural alignment, and muscle tone. This class will help you relieve tension and boost energy. Participants must be comfortable getting down to and up... read more
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Sessions: 14Class Date(s): 01-09-2023 to 04-10-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 9:30 AM → 10:30 AMInstructor: Tim FarnumTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis Rochester T'ai Chi, a 2,000-year-old form of exercise, is gentle and self-paced. The slow and continuous movements lengthen and strengthen the muscles while relaxing the mind. It is used as therapy for chronic pain, high blood pressure, depression, and limited mobility. Described as swimming through air, it is a perfect exercise for all ages and abilities. It can be... read more
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Sessions: 11Class Date(s): 01-09-2023 to 03-27-2023No Class: 1/16Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:30 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Rosalind WalkerTerm: 2023-1Location: Zoom This class is an energetic but doable, low-impact cardio and weight-training fitness workout designed not only to be safe for participants with bone density concerns, but infused with a variety of exercises to help increase bone density. Most of the weight-bearing, cardiovascular workout will be done standing. Dumbbells and fitness bands will be utilized... read more
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Sessions: 13Class Date(s): 01-09-2023 to 04-03-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 12:15 PM → 1:15 PMInstructor: Rhonda WrightTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis Rochester Nia is a whole-body approach to fitness that encompasses the dance arts, the martial arts, and the healing arts. Through expressive movement and music, Nia invites you to achieve physical, mental, and spiritual fitness and well-being. Nia is adaptable to every level of fitness, every age and type of body, even those with special limitations. Nia will... read more
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Sessions: 13Class Date(s): 01-09-2023 to 04-03-2023No Class: 4/10Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 2:30 PM → 3:30 PMInstructor: Rhonda WrightTerm: 2023-1Location: Zoom We welcome all Oasis participants who enjoy singing, and those who think they might, to give us a try. There are no auditions and newcomers are always welcome. The chorus learns to sing in harmony to favorites and popular Broadway tunes to new contemporary songs. Usually twice per session (participation optional) the chorus performs for residents at a... read more
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Sessions: 10Class Date(s): 02-06-2023 to 04-10-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:45 AM → 11:45 AMInstructor: Diane Macchiavelli, LAcTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis Rochester A recent study by the National Institutes of Health found that practicing T'ai Chi can help keep the virus that causes shingles dormant in older adults. This more advanced level of T'ai Chi is for those students who have taken previously taken T'ai Chi with Diane and have advanced permission from her to... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 02-06-2023 to 02-13-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis Rochester For Whom the Bell Tolls. 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939. The Spanish Civil War can be seen as one of the other revolutions of Europe. On a par with the French and Russian revolutions. It certainly matched those two for deaths and long-term effects on the people and the state. In a sense, it was a battleground for all the ideologies of the 20th century. And... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 02-06-2023 to 02-13-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2023-1Location: Zoom For Whom the Bell Tolls. 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939. The Spanish Civil War can be seen as one of the other revolutions of Europe. On a par with the French and Russian revolutions. It certainly matched those two for deaths and long-term effects on the people and the state. In a sense, it was a battleground for all the ideologies of the 20th century. And... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 02-20-2023 to 02-20-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Mark Sample, Professor of History, MCCTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterAdolph Hitler ruled Nazi Germany from 1933-1945. During his rule a world war and a holocaust ensued. While most Germans agreed with and followed his ideas, there were some who did not. There were a number of assassination attempts on his life. Professor history, Mark Sample, will tell the story of the three biggest attempt. Register for this class if you... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 02-20-2023 to 02-20-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Mark Sample, Professor of History, MCCTerm: 2023-1Location: ZoomAdolph Hitler ruled Nazi Germany from 19330 1945. During his rule a world war and a holocaust ensued. While most Germans agreed with & followed his ideas, there were some who did not. There were a number of assassination attempts on his life. Professor history, Mark Sample, will tell the story of the three biggest attempt. Register for this class if... read more
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Out of stockSessions: 2Class Date(s): 02-20-2023 to 02-27-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:00 AMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterThis is your opportunity to have two private lessons with Pat and learn whatever you need to advance your technology skills. Includes iPhone or Android phones, laptops or Alexa devices, but no Mac laptops... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 02-27-2023 to 03-06-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterThe Secret Conquest of Space. The former Soviet Union led the world into space. But the result was a deathly space race to achieve accomplishments in the most deadly environment known to man. But along with some notable disasters were some astounding successes. All the result of the most dangerous “keeping up with the jones” game ever devised. What it... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 02-27-2023 to 03-06-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2023-1Location: ZoomThe Secret Conquest of Space. The former Soviet Union led the world into space. But the result was a deathly space race to achieve accomplishments in the most deadly environment known to man. But along with some notable disasters were some astounding successes. All the result of the most dangerous “keeping up with the jones” game ever devised. What it... read more
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Out of stockSessions: 2Class Date(s): 03-13-2023 to 03-20-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:00 AMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterThis is your opportunity to have two private lessons with Pat and learn whatever you need to advance your technology skills. Includes iPhone or Android phones, laptops or Alexa devices, but no Mac laptops... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 03-13-2023 to 03-20-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:30 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Mel BravermanTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterIn a memorable meeting in May 1963, Bobby Kennedy met with James Baldwin and a small group of black artists and thinkers (Harry Belafonte, Lorraine Hansberry et al) in the Kennedy family apartment on Central Park South in New York City. For Bobby Kennedy, it was a shocking experience. The Attorney General, brother of the President of the United States and... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 03-20-2023 to 03-27-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterThe Most Wanted Outlaws in the World. Who doesn’t love a good pirate story? Pirate names are part of our lore: Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Bartholomew Roberts. They live in literature through Long John Silver and Billy Bones. Yet piracy has an ancient history. Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates! Take a tour through the history of sheltered... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 03-20-2023 to 03-27-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2023-1Location: ZoomThe Most Wanted Outlaws in the World. Who doesn’t love a good pirate story? Pirate names are part of our lore: Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Bartholomew Roberts. They live in literature through Long John Silver and Billy Bones. Yet piracy has an ancient history. Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates! Take a tour through the history of sheltered... read more
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Out of stockSessions: 2Class Date(s): 04-03-2023 to 04-10-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:00 AMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterThis is your opportunity to have two private lessons with Pat and learn whatever you need to advance your technology skills. Includes iPhone or Android phones, laptops or Alexa devices, but no Mac laptops... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-03-2023 to 04-03-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 12:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Otto Bruno, host of Jazz 90.1 FM’s “Sinatra and Company”Term: 2023-1Location: Oasis RochesterThis film has it all - laughs, larceny, drama and suspense. Director Billy Wilder's use of humor in a picture about a prisoner of war camp in WW II Germany may have initially been shocking to 1953 audiences but it proved to be a big hit at the box office and with the critics. The film garnered three Academy Award nominations and brought home the Oscar for... read more
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Sessions: 15Class Date(s): 01-03-2023 to 04-11-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Kevin FinniganTerm: 2023-1Location: Zoom This course for the winter/spring trimester will be roughly equivalent to the first quarter of high school French 2. Emphasis in the course will be on the communication skills of listening and speaking supported by the necessary grammatical topics. Students not currently enrolled in the course will need permission of the instructor to register. ... read more