Arcosanti Amphitheater
Space still available
There are several classes and trips that are not sold out as of the writing of this article. Please see www.lifelonglearningatpc.org for more information and to register, or come to the LLL Center during office hours, Tuesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to noon.
Friday, February 8: Explore the history, art and rich, cultural heritage of the North American West at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West. Then travel to Taliesin West, the home of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the School of Architecture at Taliesin.
Tuesday, February 19: Learn to make Pasta from Scratch and be the envy of your friends as you learn all the secrets behind this wonderful food.
Tuesdays, February 19 and 26: You may have taken the Myers-Brigg personality test at school or work, but did you ever learn about the Enneagram? In this two-session class, Becky Rodes, M.A., will introduce the Enneagram, a learning tool for greater understanding about ourselves that has been used widely in business, education, counseling, corporate skill building and management.
Friday, February 22: Be prepared before you start the search for a new automobile by attending, Car Buying 101. You will learn about leasing vs. buying, financial options, manufacturers’ incentives as well as the best tactics for negotiating.
Tuesday, February 26: See the active urban laboratory known as Arcosanti. It is based on Paolo Soleri’s theories that focus on innovative design and environmental accountability. It is one of the first projects to spark the sustainability movement. The future of urban design is what it’s all about.
Wednesday, March 6: Observe firsthand how volunteers at Liberty Wildlife Center in Phoenix treat injured, wild animals. The center’s volunteers will display live raptors and various kinds of owls, peregrine falcons, hawks and bald eagles, while they educate you on the center’s method of returning rehabilitated creatures to their natural habitat.
Thursday, March 14: Learn how quilts have evolved from strictly utilitarian articles, born of the necessity to provide warmth both in bed and over doors and windows to special works of art.
George Frein as Mark Twain
Laugh with Mark Twain
Mark Twain was lauded as the “greatest humorist this country has produced.” George Frein, Ph.D., will appear on the Renaissance Theater Stage as Twain at 7:00 p.m. Friday, February 8. Frein’s performance will include a monologue, Q and A with Mr. Twain and an audience Q and A with the presenter. Frein will present some of Twain’s humor and his thinking behind it. If people in the audience can stop laughing long enough to hear him out, they will learn why Twain was not just a comic, but a genuine humorist.
Frein has been a scholar and performer since 1985. He is a retired professor from the University of North Dakota and continues to perform around the country in the character of some of the most influential and interesting figures in American history. Since he began to portray Twain in 1994, he has had to study constantly to keep up with all the new scholarship about him. “Twain keeps me busier than a retired person ought to be,” Frein said.
At 7:00 p.m. Friday, February 22, we’ll get a firsthand look at THE WALL, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning project of The Arizona Republic and USA Today Network. Dennis Wagner, a senior reporter with the Republic, will share how the project came into being and what it found. After President Trump promised a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Wagner with other journalists set out to discover answers to what it would mean for our border security, could it be built, should it be built, at what cost and will it work. Through videos, graphics, maps and photos, Wagner will explain border wall issues.
Wagner has been in the news business for 42 years, has won many awards and has been named Arizona journalist-of-the-year multiple times by the Arizona Newspaper Association.
Please join us for these Premier Lectures in February. Tickets are $15 and are available online at www.lifelonglerningatpc.org or you may purchase them in person at the LLL Center during office hours.
Fabulous LLL Monday Mornings
The four February Monday Morning Lectures will be both entertaining and educational. Tickets to lectures are $5 and are sold at the door of the Renaissance Theater. All lectures begin at 10:00 a.m.
February 4: Michael Berens, Ph.D., a professor and director of TGen (Translational Genomics Research Institute) will explain how research is helping doctors detect and treat cancer and other diseases with methods that are specific to each person’s genetic make-up; they call this Precision Medicine.
February 11: Mary Lacy was a prosecutor in Boulder, CO, when she created a sexual assault unit in the DA’s office. She handled the 1997 case involving University of Colorado football players and high school girls. Title IX changed the law and Sexual Abuse in College Sports is now treated differently.
February 18: Finding Wildlife off I-10 will be easy after you listen to Kurt Leuschner, a professor of natural resources at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert. Leuschner developed a trail in the Coachella Valley, 3.5 hours from Goodyear, with some of the best places to view birds and other wildlife.
February 25: Paul Kitchin, an enforcement attorney with the Arizona Corporation Commission’s Securities Division, will explain how to Protect Yourself from Senior Fraud. Financial fraud costs seniors over $37 billion dollars a year and much more in emotional and financial turmoil. Learn how to avoid the schemes that scammers are aiming at us.
LLL needs your ideas
Many of LifeLong Learning’s lectures, classes and trips are the direct result of suggestions from PebbleCreek residents. Your ideas are welcome and help LLL reflect the interests of our community.
The planning for the 2019-2020 season will start shortly, so please contact us. You can send your ideas to [email protected], come to the LLL Center (Room 107 in the Eagle’s Nest Activities Center) during office hours or leave a message on the LLL Center phone, 623-535-8875.