Lots to Learn

Written By: Lorna Alexander | Issue: 2016/07 - July

July is finally here!  Check out what’s to celebrate at the Center for Life Enrichment for the month of July.

For Arts and Architecture, we’re offering Photojournalist Chip Somodevilla’s views on Africa, including capturing the final days of Nelson Mandela as well as the 20th Anniversary coverage of the Rwandan Genocide.  

For all of you Bridge fanatics, there’s our “Thinking Bridge II Series for Intermediate Players.”

Join us for “iPad/iPhone Best Applications,” “iPad for Beginners,” “iPad: Second Steps,” “Apple Computer Basics and Advanced,” and the “Smart Phone
Photography Workshop.”

“Tea and Spice and Everything Nice” explores different teas and we’ll learn their history as well as taste teas from around the world.

“Bonfires to Breaking News” will explore the rapidly changing nature of the business of journalism.  Other topics covered for the month range from lectures on Africa, South Africa, America’s role in Asia, international war crimes tribunals and how the film industry has made North Carolina one of the fastest growing states. 

Lectures include “Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” and “The Civil War and Revolution in Central America in the 1970s
and 1980s.” 

We’ll offer a tour of Frank Langford’s lavish perennial gardens surrounding his Highlands home, complete with a glass of fresh lemonade; “Explore Ikebana – the Art of Japanese Flower Arranging,” a hands-on workshop; and the “Miniature Garden Workshop,” designed for all ages.

We’ll review and critique Harper Lee’s final novel, “Go Set a Watchman.”

Jonathan Scott Barrett is a James Beard Judge and author of “Rise and Shine,” a Southern son’s treasury of food, family and friends, will present a lecture. Afterwards, all will gather on the porch for a book signing and light fare of appetizers selected from his book.  

“A Brief History of Jazz” is offered by popular CLE presenter, musician, composer, and minister Dwight Andrews.  In conjunction with the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, CLE offers its July series, “Titans of Chamber Music,” which will focus on the masters of chamber music — Haydn, Beethoven, Shubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms — four Saturday’s in July.

Join us for “Food, Sex and The Scrambled Scriptures.”  As a Bible toting, Scotch-Irish-Southerner, culinary historian, and ecofeminist entertainer, “Miss Millie” provides a new, hysterical perspective with her interpretation of scripture and religion, and characters who cook in Southern kitchens.

In “Great Discoveries in Astronomy” we’ll learn about the revelations that have illuminated our understanding about time and space, and matter and energy.

For more information on our courses or membership information, we invite you to call the Center for Life Enrichment at (828) 526-8811 or by visiting clehighlands.com.  We are located at 348 South Fifth Street, in the Peggy Crosby Center in Highlands.