Personal Enrichment
Aerial Dance on Trapeze
South Seattle Community College
DURATION Once a week for four weeks. CLASS FEE $75. WHO IT’S FOR Interpretative dancers, been-there-done-that gym rats. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN That you don’t have to leave your feet to fly. Disclaimer: This isn’t a class for hopeful circus performers. Instead of high-flying acrobatics, students grip a trapeze bar that hangs just five feet off the ground and run, jump, and twist their way through improvisational (and dramatic) dance moves. But they do get to sit on that apparatus of expression—and hang from it by the backs of their knees—because what’s dance if it ain’t got that swing? GETTING STARTED Visit learnatsouth.org to register; classes begin November 1.
Birds of Puget Sound
Seattle Audubon Society
DURATION Four four-hour classes (including field trips) on consecutive Sundays. CLASS FEE $80 for members, $95 for nonmembers. WHO IT’S FOR Budding birders; owners of underused, overpriced binoculars. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN How to tell a red-breasted sapsucker from a marbled murrelet. Unlike most of Seattle Audubon’s classes, the four-week ornithological tour of the Sound’s avian species is designed for the neophyte naturalist. On field trips timed to spy winter species as they return to bird magnets like Discovery Park and Juanita Bay, students will wing through the basics of identification, habitats, and etiquette. (Hint: Keep it down so your fellow explorers can hear the songbirds.) GETTING STARTED Call 206-523-4483 or visit seattleaudubon.org; the course begins October 25.
Beginning Figure Drawing
Gage Academy of Art
DURATION One night a week for 10 weeks. CLASS FEE $450. WHO IT’S FOR Doodlers sick of drawing stick figures, sentimental types who think photos are too impersonal. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN That you don’t need a computer to draw in 3D. Instructors don’t spend much time lecturing about the art of drawing the human form—they know you’re there to, you know, draw —but they do dish out need-to-know insight on shading and light that can turn flat facsimiles into full-figured portraits. It’s a fun, charcoal-and-lead-smudged environment, but it’s for serious sketchers—and mature adults who can share a room with live nude models. GETTING STARTED Register at gageacademy.org; winter quarter classes begin January 22.
Published: October 2009
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