Discussions focus on a variety of non-fiction readings, which are distributed at least a week in advance. Discussions are led by the group member who selects the reading and is responsible for having copies made.

Leadership of the discussion rotates weekly and, while encouraged, leading a session is not essential for participating in the group. Selected readings of a piece of non-fiction prose should be 1) interesting to discuss, 2) thought-provoking, and 3) not too long (typically under 15 pages). Anyone is welcome to join this group on an occasional or regular basis.

The titles of the readings are listed in the weekly E-bulletin, and copies are available to members online (whenever possible) and in a folder by the front desk a week prior to their being discussed.

Readings recently discussed covered a wide range of topics--cabbage strudel, American exceptionalism, burkinis, healthcare, the history of prohibition, coffee, and much more--humorous, serious, and informative.

Email HH if interested.

One artist whom I admire is Agnes Denes who embraced the transformative process in art. She was one of the first to explore concept-based art, and the relationship of science to art. Denes pioneered the environmental art movement. In all her endeavors she viewed herself as an artist "to create an art that is more than direction, commodity or political tool--an art that questions the status quo and the directions life has taken, the endless contradictions we accept and approve" (Klaus Ottman, "Introduction" to Agnes Denes, The Human Argument: The Writings of Agnes Denes. Editied with an introduction by Klaus Ottman, p. ix. Putman, Connecticut: Springs Publications). In my understanding of Denes, she expanded an understanding and a practice of art that incorporated knowledge from different disciplines which opened up pathways for new visions of humanity. Almost a generation ago, Denes was writing about new thinking processes regarding what it means to be human. Only through the viewer does the artwork first speak.

This upbeat high energy class approaches collage from the perspective of cutting, ripping and pasting papers so to create new and existing images. We will work with printed as well as hand made papers as our source material. Working in different sizes will often dictate the content of our image and size of your work. 

Michael Walczak is a visual artist working in ink, collage, and paper. He taught Collage I and many members asked him to return. Materials can be any type of paper products. Michael will discuss this further at the first class.

Fee: $30 - Must have minimum of 5 students to hold the class.

Join Jodi from Body+Soul for an upbeat workout to get your week started right! Email HH if interested.

Yoga with Pam MacFarlane
Wednesdays or Fridays at 9:30 am

Chair yoga is one of the gentlest forms of yoga available, a unique yoga style that adapts yoga positions and poses through creative use of a chair. Poses are done seated on the chair or the chair is used for support during standing and balance poses. Emphasis will be on breathing, balance, and taking things at your own pace.

Chair Yoga is suitable for all ages, fitness levels and physical conditions. Beginners and new students are welcomed. Bring your own mat (or we have some that are available) and wear comfortable clothing.

Zoom Painting Class- En Plein Air
Fridays from 10-noon
June 5, 12, 19, 26
July 3, 10, 17, 24
August 7, 14, 21, 28

$48. Per month – Payable to Hamilton House

Nothing can compare to an in person class, but zoom painting classes are a good alternative! I can see student work and comment on it as the class progresses, and other student can see each others work, and have a dialogue as the class goes on.  After each class students email me a photo of their work that I put together in an email and send around to the members of the class. The photos can show more color and texture than holding up the piece on zoom since everyone has different lighting in their rooms.
I present an assignment for students to work on. It might be setting up a particular still life in front of a window, to see light patterns inside and out, painting an interior of the room, or painting a still life of their collection of cleaning supplies. Students have also painted outside in their backyards.  If a student has a particular project that they would like to work on, that is also something I can help with.  
All levels are welcome and as usual experimentation and expression are
encouraged!  
Register by emailing: hamiltonhouse276@gmail.com

Instructor: Ida Schmulowitz
Idaschmulowitz.com

Advanced Spanish/Conversation
Instructor, Ricardo Romero
Fridays at 11:00 am, ongoing

Join Ricardo and HH member's for weekly conversation.

email John Lord if interested

​
​Introduction to Yang Snake Style Tai Chi
Tuesdays at 10:30am

The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, balance, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind, and martial skill.

Snake style tai chi uses core body strength to initiate movement. Through discussion and practice, students will learn the principles of snake style movement, learning stretching exercises to help create the strength and flexibility needed to create this movement, and be introduced to the tai chi form. For in depth instruction, beginners arrive at 9:30. At 10:30 all levels practice stretching exercises and the tai chi form together. Please wear loose clothing and flat shoes.

Ida Schmulowitz has been practicing Yang Style Tai Chi since 1984. She has been studying Yang Snake Style since 2005 with Bao Tak Fai (Master Robert Boyd of Burlington,Vt. ) and is a certified Snake Style instructor.

Class fee: $5.00 members; $10 non-members per class

This session will draw on some of the ideas of from the first class to investigate how modern listeners can hear and appreciate music composed half a millennium ago. In addition to listening to musical examples from the 15th and 16th centuries, we will consider the social setting of music-making in Western Europe as well as some of the philosophical ideas about music that influenced composing and listening. Led by Jeffery Noonan.

Beginner Spanish/Novels & Discussion 
Instructor, Alicia Elwin-Retired Teacher

This will be a continuation of Alicia's regular Thursday Spanish classes but on Zoom for the first time.
Through reading and conversation. students in the intermediate Spanish class practice thinking and speaking in Spanish. The class is conducted in Spanish, so a knowledge of basic Spanish grammar and verb usage is helpful. The stories we read are based in Argentina or Spain which gives a window into the culture and geography of these countries. Available on Amazon for Kindle or in print form, these short books may be purchased individually or in bundles of five books per level. Each bundle is at a slightly higher level of difficulty Newcomers are welcome. If you would like more information, please contact Alicia at: aliciaelwin@aol.com 

Discussions focus on a variety of non-fiction readings, which are distributed at least a week in advance. Discussions are led by the group member who selects the reading and is responsible for having copies made.

Leadership of the discussion rotates weekly and, while encouraged, leading a session is not essential for participating in the group. Selected readings of a piece of non-fiction prose should be 1) interesting to discuss, 2) thought-provoking, and 3) not too long (typically under 15 pages). Anyone is welcome to join this group on an occasional or regular basis.

The titles of the readings are listed in the weekly E-bulletin, and copies are available to members online (whenever possible) and in a folder by the front desk a week prior to their being discussed.

Readings recently discussed covered a wide range of topics--cabbage strudel, American exceptionalism, burkinis, healthcare, the history of prohibition, coffee, and much more--humorous, serious, and informative.

Email HH if interested.

When reductionism became a solipsism, art no longer becomes transformative. Perhaps the visual fine arts has extinguished the viewer's interest by obscure conceptual works or by reducing all to the minimum of expression, and taking out the hand work and replacing it with machine work. This is a speculation but one thing is certain, attendance at art institutions is down close to twenty percent in the last five years. Many have encouraged more interest by combining the fine arts with music, literature, and the dramatic arts. It all becomes competitive and focused on fund raising dollars and revenue. In many cases, these cultural events reinforce the polarized aspects of a racist society, or tribal affinities. The art critic, Weldon Kees, writing about Motherwell in the 1950s says, "a new kind of subject becomes manifest. It is paint itself. The paintings are quite simply about paint". There is no attempt to give meaning beyond "I paint what I feel". It lacks motivation to connect to others. It's all reducible to dark vs. light, one color juxtaposed to another, for example Ellsworth Kelly's work. Is there any connection to the human experience? Does it provoke a discussion among viewers; or does it become a mere designation of a location where it is installed? (Morton H Myerson Symphony Center).

A group for aging adults who want to define and address their own experiences and needs in aging.

This upbeat high energy class approaches collage from the perspective of cutting, ripping and pasting papers so to create new and existing images. We will work with printed as well as hand made papers as our source material. Working in different sizes will often dictate the content of our image and size of your work. 

Michael Walczak is a visual artist working in ink, collage, and paper. He taught Collage I and many members asked him to return. Materials can be any type of paper products. Michael will discuss this further at the first class.

Fee: $30 - Must have minimum of 5 students to hold the class.

Join Jodi from Body+Soul for an upbeat workout to get your week started right! Email HH if interested.

Yoga with Pam MacFarlane
Wednesdays or Fridays at 9:30 am

Chair yoga is one of the gentlest forms of yoga available, a unique yoga style that adapts yoga positions and poses through creative use of a chair. Poses are done seated on the chair or the chair is used for support during standing and balance poses. Emphasis will be on breathing, balance, and taking things at your own pace.

Chair Yoga is suitable for all ages, fitness levels and physical conditions. Beginners and new students are welcomed. Bring your own mat (or we have some that are available) and wear comfortable clothing.

Zoom Painting Class- En Plein Air
Fridays from 10-noon
June 5, 12, 19, 26
July 3, 10, 17, 24
August 7, 14, 21, 28

$48. Per month – Payable to Hamilton House

Nothing can compare to an in person class, but zoom painting classes are a good alternative! I can see student work and comment on it as the class progresses, and other student can see each others work, and have a dialogue as the class goes on.  After each class students email me a photo of their work that I put together in an email and send around to the members of the class. The photos can show more color and texture than holding up the piece on zoom since everyone has different lighting in their rooms.
I present an assignment for students to work on. It might be setting up a particular still life in front of a window, to see light patterns inside and out, painting an interior of the room, or painting a still life of their collection of cleaning supplies. Students have also painted outside in their backyards.  If a student has a particular project that they would like to work on, that is also something I can help with.  
All levels are welcome and as usual experimentation and expression are
encouraged!  
Register by emailing: hamiltonhouse276@gmail.com

Instructor: Ida Schmulowitz
Idaschmulowitz.com

Advanced Spanish/Conversation
Instructor, Ricardo Romero
Fridays at 11:00 am, ongoing

Join Ricardo and HH member's for weekly conversation.

email John Lord if interested

​
​Introduction to Yang Snake Style Tai Chi
Tuesdays at 10:30am

The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, balance, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind, and martial skill.

Snake style tai chi uses core body strength to initiate movement. Through discussion and practice, students will learn the principles of snake style movement, learning stretching exercises to help create the strength and flexibility needed to create this movement, and be introduced to the tai chi form. For in depth instruction, beginners arrive at 9:30. At 10:30 all levels practice stretching exercises and the tai chi form together. Please wear loose clothing and flat shoes.

Ida Schmulowitz has been practicing Yang Style Tai Chi since 1984. She has been studying Yang Snake Style since 2005 with Bao Tak Fai (Master Robert Boyd of Burlington,Vt. ) and is a certified Snake Style instructor.

Class fee: $5.00 members; $10 non-members per class

This session will offer insights into the changes in musical composition and performance that led to the invention of modern music. It is in the 17th and 18th centuries that the foundations of our Western musical culture were laid. Opera, the violin family, public concerts and more were invented and/or developed in these centuries. Musical examples will help illustrate how old and new music and musical ideas developed in the courts, homes and churches of Europe. Led by Jeffery Noonan.

Beginner Spanish/Novels & Discussion 
Instructor, Alicia Elwin-Retired Teacher

This will be a continuation of Alicia's regular Thursday Spanish classes but on Zoom for the first time.
Through reading and conversation. students in the intermediate Spanish class practice thinking and speaking in Spanish. The class is conducted in Spanish, so a knowledge of basic Spanish grammar and verb usage is helpful. The stories we read are based in Argentina or Spain which gives a window into the culture and geography of these countries. Available on Amazon for Kindle or in print form, these short books may be purchased individually or in bundles of five books per level. Each bundle is at a slightly higher level of difficulty Newcomers are welcome. If you would like more information, please contact Alicia at: aliciaelwin@aol.com 

Discussions focus on a variety of non-fiction readings, which are distributed at least a week in advance. Discussions are led by the group member who selects the reading and is responsible for having copies made.

Leadership of the discussion rotates weekly and, while encouraged, leading a session is not essential for participating in the group. Selected readings of a piece of non-fiction prose should be 1) interesting to discuss, 2) thought-provoking, and 3) not too long (typically under 15 pages). Anyone is welcome to join this group on an occasional or regular basis.

The titles of the readings are listed in the weekly E-bulletin, and copies are available to members online (whenever possible) and in a folder by the front desk a week prior to their being discussed.

Readings recently discussed covered a wide range of topics--cabbage strudel, American exceptionalism, burkinis, healthcare, the history of prohibition, coffee, and much more--humorous, serious, and informative.

Email HH if interested.

My process in art is to allow the collective memory of shape to flow as uninhibited as possible.

This upbeat high energy class approaches collage from the perspective of cutting, ripping and pasting papers so to create new and existing images. We will work with printed as well as hand made papers as our source material. Working in different sizes will often dictate the content of our image and size of your work. 

Michael Walczak is a visual artist working in ink, collage, and paper. He taught Collage I and many members asked him to return. Materials can be any type of paper products. Michael will discuss this further at the first class.

Fee: $30 - Must have minimum of 5 students to hold the class.

Join Jodi from Body+Soul for an upbeat workout to get your week started right! Email HH if interested.

Yoga with Pam MacFarlane
Wednesdays or Fridays at 9:30 am

Chair yoga is one of the gentlest forms of yoga available, a unique yoga style that adapts yoga positions and poses through creative use of a chair. Poses are done seated on the chair or the chair is used for support during standing and balance poses. Emphasis will be on breathing, balance, and taking things at your own pace.

Chair Yoga is suitable for all ages, fitness levels and physical conditions. Beginners and new students are welcomed. Bring your own mat (or we have some that are available) and wear comfortable clothing.

Zoom Painting Class- En Plein Air
Fridays from 10-noon
June 5, 12, 19, 26
July 3, 10, 17, 24
August 7, 14, 21, 28

$48. Per month – Payable to Hamilton House

Nothing can compare to an in person class, but zoom painting classes are a good alternative! I can see student work and comment on it as the class progresses, and other student can see each others work, and have a dialogue as the class goes on.  After each class students email me a photo of their work that I put together in an email and send around to the members of the class. The photos can show more color and texture than holding up the piece on zoom since everyone has different lighting in their rooms.
I present an assignment for students to work on. It might be setting up a particular still life in front of a window, to see light patterns inside and out, painting an interior of the room, or painting a still life of their collection of cleaning supplies. Students have also painted outside in their backyards.  If a student has a particular project that they would like to work on, that is also something I can help with.  
All levels are welcome and as usual experimentation and expression are
encouraged!  
Register by emailing: hamiltonhouse276@gmail.com

Instructor: Ida Schmulowitz
Idaschmulowitz.com

Advanced Spanish/Conversation
Instructor, Ricardo Romero
Fridays at 11:00 am, ongoing

Join Ricardo and HH member's for weekly conversation.

email John Lord if interested

​
​Introduction to Yang Snake Style Tai Chi
Tuesdays at 10:30am

The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, balance, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind, and martial skill.

Snake style tai chi uses core body strength to initiate movement. Through discussion and practice, students will learn the principles of snake style movement, learning stretching exercises to help create the strength and flexibility needed to create this movement, and be introduced to the tai chi form. For in depth instruction, beginners arrive at 9:30. At 10:30 all levels practice stretching exercises and the tai chi form together. Please wear loose clothing and flat shoes.

Ida Schmulowitz has been practicing Yang Style Tai Chi since 1984. She has been studying Yang Snake Style since 2005 with Bao Tak Fai (Master Robert Boyd of Burlington,Vt. ) and is a certified Snake Style instructor.

Class fee: $5.00 members; $10 non-members per class

Beginner Spanish/Novels & Discussion 
Instructor, Alicia Elwin-Retired Teacher

This will be a continuation of Alicia's regular Thursday Spanish classes but on Zoom for the first time.
Through reading and conversation. students in the intermediate Spanish class practice thinking and speaking in Spanish. The class is conducted in Spanish, so a knowledge of basic Spanish grammar and verb usage is helpful. The stories we read are based in Argentina or Spain which gives a window into the culture and geography of these countries. Available on Amazon for Kindle or in print form, these short books may be purchased individually or in bundles of five books per level. Each bundle is at a slightly higher level of difficulty Newcomers are welcome. If you would like more information, please contact Alicia at: aliciaelwin@aol.com 

Discussions focus on a variety of non-fiction readings, which are distributed at least a week in advance. Discussions are led by the group member who selects the reading and is responsible for having copies made.

Leadership of the discussion rotates weekly and, while encouraged, leading a session is not essential for participating in the group. Selected readings of a piece of non-fiction prose should be 1) interesting to discuss, 2) thought-provoking, and 3) not too long (typically under 15 pages). Anyone is welcome to join this group on an occasional or regular basis.

The titles of the readings are listed in the weekly E-bulletin, and copies are available to members online (whenever possible) and in a folder by the front desk a week prior to their being discussed.

Readings recently discussed covered a wide range of topics--cabbage strudel, American exceptionalism, burkinis, healthcare, the history of prohibition, coffee, and much more--humorous, serious, and informative.

Email HH if interested.

One interesting feature of memory is "of shape".  Our curiosity of shape is very ancient, and our experiences of shape are cultural universals--meaning all humans embrace their connection to shape.  Art expressions are the earliest ways we have connection to one another.  Visual acts and performances (dance, theater, music) and all these expressions blended together were not restricted by categorization of boundaries.  Thus for most human experiences, art expressions were dynamic and multidimensional, and very much communal, including the participation of all in various roles of giving and receiving the art experience.

This upbeat high energy class approaches collage from the perspective of cutting, ripping and pasting papers so to create new and existing images. We will work with printed as well as hand made papers as our source material. Working in different sizes will often dictate the content of our image and size of your work. 

Michael Walczak is a visual artist working in ink, collage, and paper. He taught Collage I and many members asked him to return. Materials can be any type of paper products. Michael will discuss this further at the first class.

Fee: $30 - Must have minimum of 5 students to hold the class.

Join Jodi from Body+Soul for an upbeat workout to get your week started right! Email HH if interested.

Yoga with Pam MacFarlane
Wednesdays or Fridays at 9:30 am

Chair yoga is one of the gentlest forms of yoga available, a unique yoga style that adapts yoga positions and poses through creative use of a chair. Poses are done seated on the chair or the chair is used for support during standing and balance poses. Emphasis will be on breathing, balance, and taking things at your own pace.

Chair Yoga is suitable for all ages, fitness levels and physical conditions. Beginners and new students are welcomed. Bring your own mat (or we have some that are available) and wear comfortable clothing.

Zoom Painting Class- En Plein Air
Fridays from 10-noon
June 5, 12, 19, 26
July 3, 10, 17, 24
August 7, 14, 21, 28

$48. Per month – Payable to Hamilton House

Nothing can compare to an in person class, but zoom painting classes are a good alternative! I can see student work and comment on it as the class progresses, and other student can see each others work, and have a dialogue as the class goes on.  After each class students email me a photo of their work that I put together in an email and send around to the members of the class. The photos can show more color and texture than holding up the piece on zoom since everyone has different lighting in their rooms.
I present an assignment for students to work on. It might be setting up a particular still life in front of a window, to see light patterns inside and out, painting an interior of the room, or painting a still life of their collection of cleaning supplies. Students have also painted outside in their backyards.  If a student has a particular project that they would like to work on, that is also something I can help with.  
All levels are welcome and as usual experimentation and expression are
encouraged!  
Register by emailing: hamiltonhouse276@gmail.com

Instructor: Ida Schmulowitz
Idaschmulowitz.com

Advanced Spanish/Conversation
Instructor, Ricardo Romero
Fridays at 11:00 am, ongoing

Join Ricardo and HH member's for weekly conversation.