Class 1: Demystifying Architectural Residential Styles
Overview of the most popular (and some less popular) architectural trends in the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th
to the mid-20th century. We’ll see examples from several communities, including Astoria. Note: There will be lots of architectural terminology!   Slideshow

Class 2: Brotherhood, Service and Bonhomie – Fraternal Lodges
Fraternal organizations were an important part of the social fabric in communities on the North Coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The legacy of the ‘Golden Age of Secret Societies’ can still be seen in several surviving fraternal buildings in Astoria. This class may include a visit to a local fraternal lodge.   Video   1:24:08   Slideshow

Class 3: Auto-Centric Astoria – Hidden in plain sight
Over a dozen buildings built for the automobile sales and service industry in Astoria from the 1920s through the 1950s are still standing . . . and all have been re-purposed for early 21st century uses. We’ll explore these downtown buildings through archival and contemporary images. There may be some surprises!   Slideshow

Class 4: A virtual architectural walking tour of Astoria
This PowerPoint presentation is a sampler of eight architectural/historic walking tours in Astoria developed
by the presenter in the past year.

Eric Wheeler, instructor
Meet Mondays - January 9 thru 30 from 10:00 a.m. to noon
in the Sorenson dining room of the Astoria Senior Center

Why is Picasso so great? Or Van Gogh? Who are the Fauves? If you have ever wondered why some art is considered great and others ordinary, come get some answers. During the first hour we talk about a particular style while viewing slides. In the second part we dig in with a hands-on experience. No artistic ability necessary. Get messy with cave art or blow your mind with op art. Have fun learning about and playing with various types of art.

Class 1: Cave art/Icons/the Great Masters — Rembrandt,
Reuben, Titian, Botticelli

Class 2: Impressionists — Monet, Renoir, The Fauves

Class 3: American/Western Masters — Whistler, Cassatt,
Wyeth, Russell, Remington

Class 4: Surrealism/Modern/Op Art — Magritte, Dali,
Vasarely, Picasso, Pollack

Mary Kemhus, instructor
Meet Mondays - February 6, 13, 27, March 6 from 10:00 a.m. to noon
in the Sorenson dining room of the Astoria Senior Center

Existentialism is considered by many to be one of the defining philosophies of the 20th century. It is also notoriously difficult to define; sometimes being described more as an intellectual mood than as a philosophy. This course will offer a cursory look at some of the most eminent thinkers of the existentialist movement & the methods and themes they brought to it. Among the topics we will look at are the way this movement considered the nature of identity, meaning, hope, knowledge, care, truth, and God.

Week 1: What is Existentialism? - It’s Setting, Antecedents
and Concerns

Week 2: Soren Kierkegaard (1811 -1855) - Truth, Subjectivity,
and the Leap of Faith

Week 3: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 -1900) - The Death of God,
The Overman, and Eternal Return

Week 4: Edmund Husserl (1859 -1938) - The Analysis of Subjective Phenomenon and it’s significance for Existentialism

Week 5: Martin Heidegger (1889 -1976) - The End of metaphysics, Dasein, and The Return to Being

Week 6: Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) - Three modes of Being: Orientation, Existence and Transcendence

Week 7: Jean Paul Sartre (1902 -1980) - Authenticity, Nothingness and Radical Freedom

Week 8: Maurice Merleau Ponty (1911 - 1960) - Authenticity
and Embodiment

Seth Tichenor, instructor
Meet Wednesdays - January 11 thru March 1 from 10:00 a.m. to noon
in the Sorenson dining room of the Astoria Senior Center

Trace your family history in this beginning class on Genealogy. The class will be held in the Astoria Senior Center classroom on Wednesday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 from January 11 through March 1.

For more information on this exciting, informative class, contact the instructor, Sandra Melvin at 409-504-1655 or email: shargrov@sbcglobal.net.

We’ve selected a new name for the resurrected class known as Science Exchange. Those ENCORE members who attended last (Fall) term, have recommended that we alter the structure of the weekly sessions to be science topics chosen by members or the facilitators and they will be video-centric. We believe that Exploring Science better suits this revised structure.

Beginning next term on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 10:30 am in the Sorensen dining room, we will meet weekly. However, due to a scheduling conflict with the monthly ASC Membership meeting, there will be no class sessions on the third Thursday of each month. So there will be only six classes for this coming Winter term rather than the usual eight.

The first class topics will be chosen from among the hundreds of PBS Nova series but we’ll be looking for other sources that, hopefully, meet the expectations of class members. The goal is to make discovering a wide variety of science topics a more enjoyable and rewarding experience which should attract more members.

Michael Kinney with Karen Elder . . . 503-994-2080

Meet Friday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00 in the Senior Center classroom.

Awaken the Writer Within You!

5 Reasons in 8 Short Weeks for You to Become
the Writer You Were Born to Be!

Perhaps you’ve pondered writing a memoir, a poem, or some other story, but the right circumstances never presented themselves. Perhaps now is finally that time.

Amy Tan, best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club, began writing relatively late in her life. Something which inspired her was joining a weekly writing group focused on two things: kindness and honesty.

ENCORE offers such a group, and it fits within your budget and time constraints.

Our Writing Exchange class provides 5 Key Benefits to You as a New Writer:

1. Encouragement
2. How to Constructively Give Feedback to Others.
   
   • This is Not Entirely an Altruistic Act. By Analyzing What Other People Write, it Improves Your Own Work.
3. How to Effectively Receive & Use Feedback.
   
   • Each Week that You Share Some of Your Writing in Class, you’ll Receive Real-Time and also emailed Audio and Downloadable Video Copies of Your Writing with Constructive Feedback from our class. Listen and Watch People React to Your Work with Signs of Honest Appreciation!
4. A Series of Soft Self-Imposed Deadlines, i.e., Eight Chances to Share Your Writing during the Winter 2023 Term.
5. Brief Lectures on the Techniques & Craft of Writing: Based on Master Classes from a Diverse Group of Writers! Borrow Techniques from One Master or More. You Can Be a Better Writer!

ENCORE Winter 2023’s Writing Exchange online class begins Tuesday, January 10 (and runs just 8 weeks till Tuesday, February 28) from 9:45 to 11:45 A.M.

For more information about ENCORE’s Writing Exchange  online class and how to access it, please email the instructor, Eric Anderson, at EricCAnder@aol.com or call (503) 325-3131.

Humanist Discussions is a group effort on Zoom in which we explore various aspects of the human condition. Each week we nominate and select a topic to discuss the following week. Over the intervening week, we exchange websites and articles pertaining to the topic selected. There is no requirement to review them. but the discussion is much improved when members of the group have made an effort to inform themselves about the upcoming topic. All are welcome to join.

Classes are held Monday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00, Winter term, January 9 through February 27. To join, send me an email at todlundy@gmail.com. Have “Humanist Discussions” in the title of your email please.

Tod

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