Rochester Oasis Classes

  • February 15
    Tuesday
    10:00 AM →
    Sessions: 1
    Locations: George Eastman Museum
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    Each year during Mr. Eastman's residency between 1902 and 1932, except during a wartime coal shortage in 1918, flowering bulbs such as tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils provided a full spectrum of color and fragrance during the winter months. Now, each year the Eastman House recreates a particular year in the house's history by exactly duplicating Mr....
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  • October 18
    Tuesday
    1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Susan Carmen-Duffy, Owner, Create Art 4 Good
    Locations: Central Creatives
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    The holidays are coming fast and furious! Who doesn't love getting happy mail? In this workshop, we will create greeting cards using a mixed media approach. We will use collage, layering, paint, inks, and more to complete your mailable art. You will be amazed at the easy tips that you will receive and implement into wonderfully creative greeting cards....
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  • March 1
    Tuesday
    1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Thomas Boyce, Printer Interpreter, Genesee Country Village
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    Explore the true lives and stories of Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp, perhaps the most famous gunslingers and lawmen of the Wild West including the towns they tamed such as Abilene, Wichita, and Dodge City. Not forgotten is the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the vendetta ride years later. We will separate fact from fiction.  For instance, did you...
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  • November 3
    Tuesday
    1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Lisa Robinson, Central Creatives
    Locations: Central Creatives
    Painting heirloom recipe cards is a lovely way to preserve family culinary traditions. Hand paint elements or ingredients from the recipe to make decorative borders. Practice painting fruits and veggies, utensils and baked goods. These fun skills will allow you to begin your own recipe journal or a special art piece to frame for our home kitchen....
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  • October 25
    Tuesday
    1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Lisa Robinson, Creative Central
    Locations: Central Creatives
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    This two hour workshop will teach you a step by step process of sketching individual sunflower shapes and painting them in watercolor. If time allows we will concentrate on a loose landscape of sunflower...
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  • September 14
    Wednesday
    12:00 PM → 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Otto Bruno, host of Jazz 90.1 FM’s “Sinatra and Company”
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    This cult favorite is considered to be one of the very best films ever made about Italian Americans. Written and directed by Academy Award and Tony Award winning actress Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano), this hilarious but heartwarming story depicts the struggles of a man loved by friends and family alike who has just one problem. He can't stop eating....
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  • October 12
    Wednesday
    1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Susan Carmen-Duffy, Owner, Create Art 4 Good
    Locations: Central Creatives
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    Explore drawing with colored pencils! Participants will discover techniques of colored pencil art including initial sketching, layering, blending, and building colors. We will work on texture and details. Please have a few reference photos available to work from, landscapes are preferred. Materials needed: colored pencils, drawing paper, scrap paper,...
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  • January 12 – January 26
    Wednesday
    11:00 AM → 12:30 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Instructor: Grace Seiberling, Art Historian
    Locations: Zoom
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    Conditions for making art in the Netherlands, where artists painted for the market, differed from those in Italy. Judith Leyster, Rachel Ruysch and other women were respected professional artists. But expectations for women meant that they were more likely to paint flowers than other subjects. Defying expectations in the 18th century, Angelica Kauffman and...
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  • March 2 – March 9
    Wednesday
    01:30 PM → 03:00 PM
    Sessions: 2
    Instructor: Otto Bruno, host of Jazz 90.1 FM’s “Sinatra and Company”
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    Francis Ford Coppola's famous, and occasionally infamous, screen classic turns 50 in 2022. Join film historian Otto Bruno (and Oasis' resident Sicilian) as he surveys the film's origins, creation, and incredibly lasting and influential cultural impact. Topics of discussion will include Mario Puzo and his titular novel, the struggles of Coppola to get the...
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  • November 4 – November 11
    Wednesday
    1:00 PM → 4:00 PM
    Sessions: 2
    Instructor: Otto Bruno, author 'Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two’
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    How can you tell the story of a star like Bette Davis in just four movies? Simple, you can't. That's why we're going to explore just a little more from the filmography of this giant of American film in a two week addendum to our summer survey into "la Davis." Don't miss out on the continuing...
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  • March 2 – March 9
    Wednesday
    01:30 PM → 03:00 PM
    Sessions: 2
    Instructor: Otto Bruno, host of Jazz 90.1 FM’s “Sinatra and Company”
    Locations: Zoom
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    Francis Ford Coppola's famous, and occasionally infamous, screen classic turns 50 in 2022. Join film historian Otto Bruno (and Oasis' resident Sicilian) as he surveys the film's origins, creation, and incredibly lasting and influential cultural impact. Topics of discussion will include Mario Puzo and his titular novel, the struggles of Coppola to get the...
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  • RECORDED
    November 5
    Thursday
    1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Steve Schockow, Retired History Teacher
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    Much too often, we forget about our U.S. Presidents who have served only one term in office.  This class will analyze four of those Presidencies – John Adams, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison and George H.W. Bush.  This session will help us think about the contributions they made to our nation and will beg the question:  Would the nation have...
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  • October 26
    Wednesday
    1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Lisa Robinson, Central Creatives
    Locations: Central Creatives
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    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:...
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  • RECORDED
    November 5
    Thursday
    1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Steve Schockow, Retired History Teacher
    Locations: Zoom
     Much too often, we forget about our U.S. Presidents who have served only one term in office.  This class will analyze four of those Presidencies – John Adams, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison and George H.W. Bush.  This session will help us think about the contributions they made to our nation and will beg the question:  Would the nation have...
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  • November 11
    Wednesday
    10:30 AM → 11:30 AM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Benjamin T. Massarini, CPT, LOG, NYARNG
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    With severe weather events becoming more frequent and more extreme, it is more important than ever that New Yorkers are prepared for disasters. The NY Citizen Preparedness Training Program teaches residents to have the tools and resources to prepare for any type of disaster, respond accordingly and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions....
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  • November 2
    Wednesday
    3:00 PM → 4:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Mark Sample, Professor of History, MCC
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    This was a big one - that year was the depth of the Great Depression. A (seemingly) do-nothing President, Herbert Hoover, is up for re-election. The Governor of New York, FDR is the opponent. Whoever wins will change the future of the...
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  • November 2
    Wednesday
    3:00 PM → 4:00 PM
    Sessions: 1
    Instructor: Mark Sample, Professor of History, MCC
    Locations: Zoom
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    This was a big one - that year was the depth of the Great Depression. A (seemingly) do-nothing President, Herbert Hoover, is up for re-election. The Governor of New York, FDR is the opponent. Whoever wins will change the future of the country.  Register for this class if you will ONLY be attending via Zoom.  You must have a computer/tablet/phone with...
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  • November 10 – November 17
    Wednesday
    01:30 PM → 03:00 PM
    Sessions: 2
    Instructor: Otto Bruno, host of Jazz 90.1 FM’s “Sinatra and Company”
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    2021 marks the 50th Anniversary of Columbo. The weekly detective show began on radio but Peter Falk's TV portrait of this idiosyncratic Los Angeles police lieutenant gave birth to a whole new type of character driven procedural where every episode began by showing us the murderer! Great writing, fabulous guest stars, and a brilliantly realized central...
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  • November 10 – November 17
    Wednesday
    01:30 PM → 03:00 PM
    Sessions: 2
    Instructor: Otto Bruno, host of Jazz 90.1 FM’s “Sinatra and Company”
    Locations: Zoom
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    2021 marks the 50th Anniversary of Columbo. The weekly detective show began on radio but Peter Falk's TV portrait of this idiosyncratic Los Angeles police lieutenant gave birth to a whole new type of character driven procedural where every episode began by showing us the murderer! Great writing, fabulous guest stars, and a brilliantly realized central...
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  • September 15 – September 29
    Thursday
    1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Instructor: Laurence Britt, author and commentator on political and economic affairs
    Locations: Oasis Rochester
    REGISTRATION CLOSED
    This three part course will deal with the turbulent history of the relationship between the United States and Russia. This relationship has been one of continual tension for more that 100 years, briefly interrupted during World War II when the two nations were critical allies to each other.  The first session of the course will cover the period from...
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