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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 05-06-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Suzanne Feather, Master Gardener, Cornell Cooperative ExtensionTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterSometimes we can feel helpless against all of the changes brought on by climate change but with some small changes in our everyday lives, we can make an impact. Learn simple things that you can do... read more
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Sessions: 3Class Date(s): 01-10-2022 to 01-24-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Gladys Winkworth, Retired Professor, RITTerm: 2022-1Location: Oasis Rochester You will explore your personality preferences and examine your behaviors. Then you will look at how the preferences and behaviors of family members, friends, salespeople, clients, support people might complement or conflict with yours. The materials used are taken from team building and sales... read more
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Sessions: 6Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 06-17-2024No Class: 5/27Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 2:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Don SheffrinTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterIn this approach to exploring the beauty of literature, students will actively learn how to breathe life into the written words with confidence and vocal agility. They will engage in verbal exercises including storytelling, poetry recitation and readers' theater. The class will culminate with students' oral interpretations of their favorite works of... read more
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Sessions: 14Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 08-12-2024No Class: 5/27Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 2:30 PM → 3:30 PMInstructor: Rhonda WrightTerm: 2024-2Location: ZoomWe 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: 2Class Date(s): 01-10-2022 to 01-17-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Gladys Winkworth, Retired Professor, RITTerm: 2022-1Location: Oasis Rochester Most poetry is meant to be read aloud; some is meant to be performed. Come listen to American poetry read aloud including: Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Scott Momaday, Joy Harjo, Vachel Lindsey and everyone’s favorite beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Copies of the poems will be... read more
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Sessions: 15Class Date(s): 05-13-2024 to 08-19-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 9:30 AM → 10:30 AMInstructor: Tim FarnumTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterT'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: 1Class Date(s): 09-26-2022 to 09-26-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Lisa Robinson, Central CreativesTerm: 2022-3Location: Central Creatives Participants will focus on becoming comfortable with watercolor painting techniques and enjoying the process of painting. The basics of materials, tools, techniques, color, value and “seeing” your subject will be explored. Skill Level:... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-10-2022 to 01-10-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Thomas Boyce, Printer Interpreter, Genesee Country VillageTerm: 2022-1Location: Oasis Rochester Tom will cover Custer in his youth, his graduation at the 'goat' bottom of his class in the West Point Class of '61, becoming a boy general at the age of 23 rising to the rank of Brevet Major General and his exploits in The Civil War. He will also include his time in the Army as a Lt. Col. of the 7th Cavalry and his exploits as an Indian Fighter on the... read more
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Sessions: 15Class Date(s): 05-13-2024 to 08-19-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:45 AM → 11:45 AMInstructor: Tim FarnumTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThis more advanced level of T'ai Chi is for those students who have taken previously taken T'ai... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 10-17-2022 to 10-24-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2022-3Location: Oasis Rochester History of Patent Medicines. A patent medicine, which isn’t really patented, is an over-the-counter (nonprescription) medicine that is typically protected and advertised by a trademark and trade name and claimed to be effective against minor disorders and symptoms. Its contents are typically incompletely disclosed. These quack remedies are ineffective and... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-20-2024 to 05-20-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThe Internet provides us with powerful tools to shop, message with friends, send emails and video chat with family. However, it also creates some threats to our privacy. Learn about using passwords, good security habits, virus protection, firewalls and much more. Knowing how to protect yourself online can go a long way towards making the use of the... read more
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Out of stockSessions: 2Class Date(s): 01-24-2022 to 01-31-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:00 AMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2022-1Location: Oasis Rochester This 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): 05-20-2024 to 05-20-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Lisa Robinson, Central CreativesTerm: 2024-2Location: Central Creatives Real flowers come and go. Your watercolor painted bouquet can be matted, framed and enjoyed for years! Beginner-Intermediate watercolor painters will love this loose fun watercolor class! Materials are... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 10-17-2022 to 10-24-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2022-3Location: Zoom History of Patent Medicines. A patent medicine, which isn’t really patented, is an over-the-counter (nonprescription) medicine that is typically protected and advertised by a trademark and trade name and claimed to be effective against minor disorders and symptoms. Its contents are typically incompletely disclosed. These quack remedies are ineffective and... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 01-24-2022 to 01-31-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2022-1Location: Oasis Rochester Before even the surrender of France was signed regular members of French society began resisting German occupation. But the French spent almost as much time fighting each other as they did the Germans. But in the end the world saw what individuals were capable of when then gathered to resist the forces of tyranny. In one case A resistance leader proved... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-20-2024 to 05-20-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Kim Van Orden PhD, Project Director for the HOPE Lab (Helping Older People Engage), Associate Professor, Psychiatry Dept. University of RochesterTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterSocial connections that create a sense of caring, contributing, and community have a range of benefits for health and well-being at all ages and are especially important as we age. In this presentation, Dr. Kim Van Orden will describe reasons why attending to one’s ‘social health’ is important and social connection is a form of medicine! She will... read more
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Out of stockSessions: 2Class Date(s): 10-24-2022 to 10-31-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 11:00 AMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2022-3Location: Oasis Rochester This 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): 01-24-2022 to 01-31-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2022-1Location: Zoom Before even the surrender of France was signed regular members of French society began resisting German occupation. But the French spent almost as much time fighting each other as they did the Germans. But in the end the world saw what individuals were capable of when then gathered to resist the forces of tyranny. In one case A resistance leader proved... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-20-2024 to 05-20-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Kim Van Orden PhD, Project Director for the HOPE Lab (Helping Older People Engage), Associate Professor, Psychiatry Dept. University of RochesterTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterSocial connections that create a sense of caring, contributing, and community have a range of benefits for health and well-being at all ages and are especially important as we age. In this presentation, Dr. Kim Van Orden will describe reasons why attending to one’s ‘social health’ is important and social connection is a form of medicine! She will... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 02-07-2022 to 02-14-2022Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2022-1Location: Oasis Rochester In the middle of one of the biggest wars in the 20th century, and without any orders, on 25th December 1914 soldiers stopped shooting at each other. The biggest unorganized war truce in history. To quote a British officer at the time, writing to his mother: “I know this sounds like a fairy tale… But it actually happened.” With the horror of death on... read more