Virgin America comes to Boston

Virgin America is coming to Boston – and they’re celebrating by giving a local non-profit organization $25,000!

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Dan Paret, Woodworking and Hand Tooling

Dan Paret was happy to let me into his Saturday morning Home Tooling: Getting Started with Home Carpentry class this past Saturday to let me show everyone via the blog the kinds of things they do and to talk about the reason he likes teaching here at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Here’s the video of Dan telling me why he enjoys the atmosphere at CCAE:

Dan and his students were also kind enough to allow me to take some stills of the class in action, as well:

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This course teaches the basics of how to get started on sprucing up your home and doing some basic repair, even the simple act of properly hanging art on your walls.  The class is full for Winter Term, but keep your eyes peeled for the Spring Catalog (coming soon!), which will feature several courses like this one that will make your home an even more beautiful space!

Wicked Smart Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot featured in the Boston Globe

Bill Greene/Boston Globe Staff

Sara Lawrence–Lightfoot is a sociologist and MacArthur fellow who examines the culture of schools, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. In Publishers Weekly, Richard Newman called her book Balm in Gilead an “account of the pain of racism, the necessity of its repression and control and the battle to keep anger from exploding and destroying one’s life, a victory not everyone achieves.” Lawrence–Lightfoot told Ms., “I am very interested in the…potential of feminist scholarship that begins to find the connection between thought and feeling and the public expression of large social questions.” In 1993 she was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie prize for research that makes the “most valuable contribution to science” and “the benefit of mankind.” Lawrence–Lightfoot has endowed professorships at both Harvard University and Swarthmore College.

Ms. Lawrence-Lightfoot was recently featured in the Boston Globe regarding her work researching life-long learning and new experiences in the later stages of life.

Don’t forget to get tickets for her lecture as part of the Wicked Smart series at the historic Brattle Theater (40 Brattle Street), our gracious next-door neighbors who will host the event on January 27th at 6pm!

Be Wicked Smart.  Engage with today’s best thinkers.  Join the discussion, create dialogue, and remind yourself why Harvard Square – and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education – is a destination for the most provocative, compelling, and stimulating ideas!

From Will – CCAE alumna film at the MFA!

As we gear up for winter term here at CCAE (which starts next week…have you signed up for a class yet?), I am also excited to inform you that longtime CCAE student Pamela Tanner Boll’s new film is finally getting a local run at the MFA.

Thanks to all of you who came out October 14th for the benefit screening, and for those of you who haven’t yet seen Pam’s film, perhaps you can attend a screening at the MFA.

There will be informal 20 minute Q&A/panel discussions after most screenings with Pamela, artists featured in the film, and other invited guests. In fact, much to my surprise, I am going to be a panelist after the Saturday, January 17th screening.

Who Does She Think She Is? schedule:

Wednesday, January 7 at 6:00 PM
Friday, January 9 at 8:15 PM
Saturday, January 10 at 1:15 PM
Sunday, January 11 at 11:00 AM
Saturday, January 17 at 11:00 AM
Sunday, January 18 at 11:00 AM

Tickets: MFA Members, seniors and students $8; general admission $10.

To purchase, call 617-369-3687 or visit http://www.mfa.org/film

To watch a trailer of the film, please visit http://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net

Go Pam!

Rah, rah!

Hurrah for the success of a CCAE alumna!

Enthusiastically,

will