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Learn How To Play Disc Golf!

$15

with Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar May 10, 2024 at 4:30 pm

Come check out Hammond Farm Disc Golf Course, here in North Berwick at 410 Fox Farm Hill Rd. You will get a lesson and some practice time before you head out on the course to play a round. If you are a beginner, Pro player Scott Walsh will introduce you to the game and if you have some experience playing, then Scott will help you improve your disc golf skills.

We will provide the discs if you need them, so all you need to bring is your sense of adventure and willingness to have fun!

Groups are welcome. Come and give it a try!

Rain date is May 17

NEW! Intermediate Drawing

$50

with Gail Fitzpatrick, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar May 10, 2024 at 6 pm

Students in Drawing II will engage in sequential learning experiences that encompass aesthetics and production and lead to the creation of portfolio quality works. Further development of drawing skills is the primary objective of this class and uses the human figure, landscape, still life and design work to help accomplish this goal.

Students will learn various techniques and different approaches to drawing through the use of chalk, colored pencil, conte crayon, pastels, pen and ink, charcoal, and pencil. Drawing II students will critique their own and others works.

* No class June 7

Supply list:
• Sketchbook
• Kneaded eraser
• Various pencils, 2B – 6B

UK Spring Garden Tour - Snowdonia, Cotswolds, and the Chelsea Flower Show
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UK Spring Garden Tour - Snowdonia, Cotswolds, and the Chelsea Flower Show

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with Adventure Marketplace, Marshwood Adult & Community Education

Calendar May 11, 2024

Wander through Wales' largest National Park in Snowdonia, amble through the lovely rolling green hills of the Cotswolds, visit Shakespeare's theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, ponder the standing stones at Stonehenge and conclude our adventure with three nights in historic London. We'll have one full day to explore London's top attractions, followed by the grand finale: The Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show ~ "The world’s greatest flower show is bursting with horticultural inspiration in a year which promises to be the most sustainable yet!" We'll be celebrating trees and the joy of gardens!

Escorted by local botanist Andrea Southworth (the Ecology Project Manager for Friends of Fort Williams Park & instructor at SMCC). Inclusions:11 nights in deluxe 4* hotels, daily breakfasts (except arrival day), full-time driver, admissions and guided garden tours, visit to Stratford-Upon-Avon & Stonehenge, free day in London with Hop on Hop Off Pass, admission to Chelsea Flower Show, all hotel taxes, fees and baggage-handling. Escorted by Nancy Dorrans of Adventure Marketplace.

Destination: Wales and England

Dates: May 11 - 23, 2024

Land Package Rate: $4959 per person based on double occupancy

Single Supplement:  $1000 per person

20% Deposit Due at Registration / Final payment and additional terms/conditions sent at registration. Contact: nancy@adventure-marketplace 207-712-5699 

Please email nancy@adventure-marketplace.com for more details or visit adventure-marketplace.com for more information and to book

Salad Garden School

$32

with Laura Tangerini, York Adult Education

Calendar May 11, 2024 at 9 am
1 additional session on May 16, 2024

It's time to push your shopping cart past the boxed salad greens and learn to grow your own. Learn all basics of salad gardening so you you can grow fast growing, high yielding delicious greens over a long period of time using organic practices.

Classes held at Josias River Farm (171 Logging Rd, Cape Neddick, ME).

Enamel earrings

$69

with Alice Carroll, York Adult Education

Calendar May 11, 2024 at 10 am, runs for 1 week

This course on enamel earrings is a quick intro to enameling. Will will discuss sifting and wet laying the enamel on the metal. Enamel is powdered glass that is heated with a kiln or a torch to achieve a beautiful color. Each student will learn how to cut and form the metal to create the shapes. Students will also learn how to use rivets or other cold connections to attach pieces of metal to each other. We will explore multiple ways of designing an ear wire to complete the pieces.This is class is open to all skill levels, there will be demonstrations, and plenty of work time. 

Instructor: Alice Carroll

Full Course

Intro to Welding

$160

with Beau Cormier, Athena Lynch, Portland Adult Education

Calendar May 11, 2024 at 10 am, runs for 1 week
Learn the basics of MIG welding in a safe, encouraging environment. Open to all levels, including beginners.

A Walk Through Black Point Cemetery

$12

with Ron Romano, Scarborough Adult Education

Calendar May 11, 2024 at 12 pm, runs for 1 week
1 additional session on May 11, 2024

Black Point Cemetery has roots back to Scarborough's earliest days. Hand-carved gravemarkers from the late 1700s and early 1800s have survived, some of which were imported from Boston but others that were created in the shop that stonecutter Bartlett Adams opened in Portland in 1800. Thisone hour tour through the old section will focus on colonial burial practices, stone types, and the iconography found on the gravemarkers of some of Scarborough's founding families. Both walks take place onsite at Black Point Cemetery, at the corner of 7th Avenue and Black Point Road in Scarborough. Maximum of 20 participants per walk. 

Full Course

AI (Ai) Made So Practical and Easy!

$20

with Michael Wilson, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Calendar May 11, 2024 at 2 pm

Are you curious about AI (Ai)? Then this class is for you! (Older and young adults will find this class very rewarding!) We will explore the practical benefits of using a basic form of AI called ChatGPT. If you have or have not used Google before to search for information, this AI will be a snap! Take your search, research, inquiries, and answers to questions to a whole new level! Find quick written solutions to problems based on your exact needs. Generate personalized text in seconds for invitations, letters, and any other materials you are looking to create. AI will quickly generate any text for you based on your interest. Also, never worry about grammar and spelling errors again! You will be amazed at how user-friendly this session will be. Take this class; you won’t be disappointed! 

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