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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 07-12-2022 to 07-19-2022Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Steven Friedman, Music HistorianTerm: 2022-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreThis two-part class will examine the personalities and true talent that made marquee headliners such as Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon, and Angela Lansbury into great legends. Learn about their feuds, their odd choices and their ambitions. From Merman and Martin to Verdon, Lansbury and many others, these grand dames set the tone for an industry.... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-20-2023 to 07-20-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Bonita Billman, Art History LecturerTerm: 2023-2Location: Online Class2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Devonian portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). Reynolds rose in his art world to become a founder of the Royal Academy and its first President. Reynolds was a portrait painter who worked for the highest echelons of British society including the royal family. Admiring the ancients and the Old... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-12-2022 to 07-12-2022Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeTerm: 2022-2Location: Online ClassIt is said that all philosophy after Plato is “merely footnotes”—so formative is the work of this fifth century BCE Greek philosopher. Using his dead teacher Socrates as a character in nearly all of his dialogues, Plato (429-347 BCE) essentially invents the philosophic method while laying the foundation for Western philosophy across metaphysics,... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-13-2022 to 07-13-2022Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: John McCarthy, Montgomery County State's AttorneyTerm: 2022-2Location: Online ClassThe Law of Confession creates challenges for defendants and police alike. Hear an expert review of the Miranda warning and other legal principles that impact the admissibility of confessions. Special emphasis will be given to the use of video to ensure police compliance with protecting the rights of an individual in custody while obtaining a statement.... read more -
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-13-2022 to 07-13-2022Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: John McCarthy, Montgomery County State's AttorneyTerm: 2022-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreThe Law of Confession creates challenges for defendants and police alike. Hear an expert review of the Miranda warning and other legal principles that impact the admissibility of confessions. Special emphasis will be given to the use of video to ensure police compliance with protecting the rights of an individual in custody while obtaining a statement.... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-15-2024 to 07-15-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Patricia Maclay, Board Member, The American Friends of LafayetteTerm: 2024-2Location: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineIn August 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman and the last surviving major general of the American Revolution, triumphantly returned to the country he loved. Over the next year, Lafayette covered over 6000 miles by carriage, stagecoach, canal barge, and steamboat, traveling to all 24 exiting states and “Washington City.” This presentation will... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-13-2022 to 07-13-2022Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:15 PMInstructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham UniversityTerm: 2022-2Location: Online ClassAmerican television was all set to launch in the late 1930s, but its progress was interrupted by the start of World War II. Finally, by the end of the 1940s, NBC and CBS began broadcasting to their east coast affiliates. They offered viewers a wide variety of programs: situation comedies, vaudeville-style revues, and most impressively, live original dramas.... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-14-2022 to 07-14-2022Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Dan Sherman, Musical Theatre InstructorTerm: 2022-2Location: Online ClassKnown best for his role as “The Little Tramp,” Charlie Chaplin brought laughs and tears to film audiences throughout the world through a brilliant series of films spanning the silent and sound eras. This class will explore Chaplin’s career beginning as a poor boy on the English stage in the 1890s to a beloved but highly controversial actor more than... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-25-2023 to 07-25-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Jennifer Paxton, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of History, The Catholic University of AmericaTerm: 2023-2Location: Online ClassJoin historian Jennifer Paxton as she examines the evidence for and against the existence of a warrior leader named Arthur, who supposedly stemmed the tide of the Anglo-Saxon advance into Britain in the late 5th century in the chaotic aftermath of the collapse of Roman rule. How much can history tell us about "King" Arthur, and how has his legend developed... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-25-2023 to 07-25-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Jennifer Paxton, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of History, The Catholic University of AmericaTerm: 2023-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreJoin historian Jennifer Paxton as she examines the evidence for and against the existence of a warrior leader named Arthur, who supposedly stemmed the tide of the Anglo-Saxon advance into Britain in the late 5th century in the chaotic aftermath of the collapse of Roman rule. How much can history tell us about "King" Arthur, and how has his legend developed... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-16-2024 to 07-16-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Guillermo Warley, Electronics EngineerTerm: 2024-2Location: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineExamining four technologies that have great potential to play a major role in solving, mitigating or reversing earth’s big challenges: water desalination, carbon capture utilization and storage, and batteries for EV’s and grid energy storage. A discussion of the potential help that the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence can... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-25-2023 to 07-25-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Gary Cahn, Computer InstructorTerm: 2023-2Location: Online ClassGenerative AI is the new artificial intelligence that can create original content. Millions of people are already using programs like ChatGPT to write books, create art, and develop code. Many believe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime technological breakthrough that could impact virtually every aspect of society and disrupt industries from medicine to law. In... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-26-2023 to 07-26-2023Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Victor Rezmovic and Lisa Friedman, Technology InstructorsTerm: 2023-2Location: Online Class(At the instructor's request, this class date has been changed from June 21 to July 26.) Wireless technologies like Wi-Fi version 6 have provided home Internet users with incredibly fast speeds to enhance browsing and improve the home streaming experience to replace cable TV. In the past, cellular technologies have been associated primarily with phone... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-26-2023 to 07-26-2023Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Judy Scott Feldman, Ph.D., Art Historian/National Mall CoalitionTerm: 2023-2Location: Online ClassThe Library of Congress, the most richly decorated public building in Washington, has been called “our national monument of art.” It is more than that. Completed in 1897 on Capitol Hill across from the US Capitol and adjacent to the Supreme Court Building, the Library embodies a late 19th century vision in architecture, painting, sculpture, and mosaic... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-16-2024 to 07-16-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:15 PMInstructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham UniversityTerm: 2024-2Location: Online ClassThe movies and dancing are a partnership born in heaven. From its very beginnings, the new medium of motion pictures turned toward dance as one of the best ways to showcase its unique ability to make movement come alive. And through the decades, it’s been dancing on the big screen that has provided some of the most ecstatic moments in film... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-15-2022 to 07-15-2022Day(s) of the week: FridayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeTerm: 2022-2Location: Online ClassRene Descartes was one of the great minds in history, making major contributions to mathematics, science, and philosophy. Writing in the shadow of Galileo's trial, Descartes tried to find a way to bring together the new science of the Copernican world with the views of the Church. We will explore the new ways of thinking that this... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-26-2023 to 07-26-2023Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Judy Scott Feldman, Ph.D., Art Historian/National Mall CoalitionTerm: 2023-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreThe Library of Congress, the most richly decorated public building in Washington, has been called “our national monument of art.” It is more than that. Completed in 1897 on Capitol Hill across from the US Capitol and adjacent to the Supreme Court Building, the Library embodies a late 19th century vision in architecture, painting, sculpture, and mosaic... read more
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Sessions: 6Class Date(s): 07-16-2024 to 08-20-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Michele Heffner, Canasta InstructorTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreCanasta is hot these days! It’s become a very popular pastime in the last few years. Come learn this old card game in its modernized version. You'll learn the basics of playing the game, strategies, and rules, and have fun playing with other... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-15-2022 to 07-15-2022Day(s) of the week: FridayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Barbara Paulson, Travel SpecialistTerm: 2022-2Location: Online ClassNeed a getaway close to DC without the crowds? Consider Charlottesville: land of Jefferson’s Monticello and University of Virginia… and so much more! Consider an aboriginal art collection, one of the oldest art cooperatives in the country, and wineries, cideries, and microbreweries (oh, my!). The rich agriculture also means plenty of farms and orchard... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 07-27-2023 to 07-27-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Seth Kibel, Musician and ComposerTerm: 2023-2Location: Online ClassSaxophonist Wayne Shorter, who passed away earlier this year at age 89, was among the most influential jazz performers and composers of the last half-century. This class will chart his remarkable career, from his career-making turn in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, to his central roles in both Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet" and fusion pioneers "Weather... read more
