Reserve Your Spot for Town Braintap Classes, Talks. Website Now Up.
It’s mind candy for the curious. It’s more fun than paying bills or shoveling snow. It’s healthier than contemplating the zombie apocalypse. It’s TOWN BRAINTAP.
Through this new, non-profit community project, we invite our neighbors (as well as fascinating people from here and there) to share what they know with others via entertaining 1-session talks, classes, demonstrations and hands-on learning experiences.
This is a pilot effort based in the Marshfield/Plainfield area. However, people from neighboring communities are most welcome to participate. To view a full description of our first block of classes and their presenters, and to reserve a spot or just get on the mailing list, go to our new website:
We ask for a small donation per class, which we then gift to other valuable community programs. (See "About Us" on the website for "What Classes Cost; Where the Money Goes.") Space is limited, so if there is a class you'd hate to miss, reserve your seat sooner rather than later. This first block of classes will all be held at Twinfield Union School. We expect to have a variety of venues in the future.
Here's the list of TOWN BRAINTAP classes beginning the first week of March...just in time to take the edge off a bad case of cabin fever. Descriptions are abbreviated here. More info on the website.
THE RELEVANCE OF COLOR THEORY TO YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE
An Evening with LARK UPSON [Wed. Mar. 5; 7 pm]
---Learn how color in your surroundings -- your home, your work, your garden, your clothing -- effects your sense of well-being. Lark Upson is a renowned artist, designer and interior creator whose work has been featured in Vermont Life, Yankee Magazine and House Beautiful.
TRUE TALES OF MURDER AND CRIME IN 19th and 20th CENTURY VERMONT
An Evening with JOHN STARK BELLAMY [Wed. Mar. 12; 7 pm]
---John Stark Bellamy has extensively researched and written a number of books about notorious homicides, stories of disappearance, mishap, and manslaughter and has appeared in segments on TV’s The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. By reputation, he is a superbly entertaining storyteller.
SONG LYRICS AND THE IMAGERY BEHIND THEM
An Evening with ANAIS MITCHELL [Wed. Mar. 19; 7pm]
---Internationally acclaimed recording artist Anais Mitchell has been called first and foremost a storyteller, and one reviewer described her work as “a perfect example of how art, and the power of song, can transform the merely anecdotal into something almost mythic.” Here’s your chance to hear how this genre-defying singer/songwriter approaches the melding of words, imagery and music.
EMPOWER YOURSELF AT HOME: LEARN HOW TO HANDLE COMMON POWER TOOLS
An Evening with TREVOR TAIT [Wed. Mar. 26: 7pm]
---Got a DIY project you’d love to do, but wish you were generally more confident and knowledgeable about using common, specialized power tools? Learn the about bits and blades, chucks and cuts, and how to keep all your digits. Trevor runs the Design/Technology Department at Twinfield. You’ll be in good hands.
THE CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK: AN INTRODUCTION
An Evening with LEDA SCHUBERT [Wed. Apr. 2; 7 pm]
---The art of the children’s book: how text and art combine in 32-pages to produce a unique whole. Leda will offer writing tips and a chat about some of her favorite books. She is the winner of, among other honors, the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Non-fiction from the National Council of Teachers of English, and was a core faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENNEAGRAN THEORY
An Evening with JEANNE HASKELL [Wed. April 9; 7 pm]
---Enneagram theory can be used to examine your inner terrain in a new light and get past life’s roadblocks. Over time you may gain valuable insights into who you really are and solve problems that have long-stymied your productivity. Jeanne Haskell is a certified Enneagram instructor, consultant and life coach.
QUESTIONS OR IDEAS?
Contact any of us:
Emily Johansen / emjohansen1@gmail.com / 426-3411
Jeanne Haskell / jeanne@jeannehaskell.com / 454-1298
Ricka McNaughton / rickamcn@charter.net / 454-1275
Note: We experienced a brief period of server difficulties a few weeks ago when we first launched the TOWN BRAINTAP website. If you signed up for a class using the online form, and you did NOT receive a confirmation email from Jeanne Haskell within a day or so, that’s the tip-off that your reservation fell through a short-lived wormhole in the network, never to reach its intended destination. Let Jeanne Haskell know and she’ll get you right on the list. (Contact info above).