WELCOME TO LAPHAM CENTER
Classes and other activities have resumed at Lapham Community Center although registration is continuing for any classes that have not filled. Anyone wanting more information about any of the programs listed below can call Lyn or Nancy at 203-594-3620.
Most classes will begin in the week after Labor Day including all fitness classes, intermediate watercolor, Jim Greer's bridge classes, balance awareness, meditation, languages and acrylic painting. Details are available in the newsletter, available at Lapham Center, or online at www.laphamcenter.org.
Tomorrow's Free Friday Film at 1 p.m. is "The September Issue", a behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 Vogue fall fashion issue. Wednesday's film, also at 1 p.m., is About Schmidt starring Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. This 2002 comedy about a new retiree who sets out on a journey of self-discovery in a motor home was one of the ten films the Wall Street Journal picked as a "Best Retirement Films of All Time".
Every Picture Tells a Story, a two part DVD series, will be shown at 1 p.m. on this Tuesday and next. In it U.K. art critic Waldemar Januszczak tells the story behind eight great paintings including Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson.
Lapham Center now has three book groups, all of whom welcome interested readers. Literary Ladies will meet at 1 p.m. on Wednesday to discuss American Music by Jane Mendelsohn. Susan Klehm and Aggie Aspinwall from the Department of Human Services lead this popular monthly book discussion. Books are available at the New Canaan Library.
The other two book groups are Librarian Cynde Lahey's Exploding Book Group which meets on the second Tuesdays of the month at 2 p.m. and Ned Monaghan's new James Joyce Book Group which will meet at 10 a.m. on the fourth Wednesdays.
The next AARP Driver Safety program will be held next Thursday and Friday, September 9 and 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Roger Colson teaches this class that will give participants valuable driving tips and earn those who attend all of both sessions a certificate good for a 5% reduction on car insurance for at least two years. Advance registration is necessary.
History lovers are welcome to join Ladd Seton as he begins showing and discussing this season's Teaching Company program, Foundations of Western Civilization: A History of the Modern Western World on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. These lectures, which will be shown on a big screen, feature Oxford-educated Professor Robert Bucholz who has twice won the highest teaching award at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Bucholz will be examining the ideas, events and characters that modeled Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific, technological and economic history between the 16th and 20th centuries. Mr. Seton will lead a discussion after each of the half hour programs.
Free Blood Pressure Clinics will resume on Thursday from 10:30 to 11:30. Nurse Jackie Mola will see drop-ins on a first come, first served basis.
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