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  • Mosaic Birdbath

    Create a colorful birdbath to entice birds to your yard. Decorate a terra cotta saucer with mosaic tiles to suit your taste. It can then be placed on a wrought iron stand which can be purchased locally and is beautiful when completed. Wear clothes that can get dirty. A $25 supply fee is payable to instructor at class.
  • Online: "The Call of Paradise" - A Spiritual Journey to Hawai'i

    This is an online Zoom class. You will receive a link to the class and all information prior to the start via email. Please make sure your email is on file with us. Have you ever dreamed of traveling to Hawai’i? Sun-kissed beaches. Fiery volcanoes. Lu’au feasts. The gracious beauty of a hula dancer. Hawai’i is all of this and more! Spend an evening luxuriating in the aloha of the islands as you look more deeply into the history, culture, and spirituality of this remarkable part of America. Through fascinating pictures and stories, explore the rich heritage and traditions that make Hawai’i one of the most beautiful, healing and life-giving places on Earth. This journey will take you to the lush islands of Maui and Kaua’i. Drive the famous Road to Hana and visit otherworldly Haleakala Volcano National Park. Tour the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific” and experience Kaua’i’s mystical Na Pali Coast, all while surrounded by the song of wintering humpback whales. In addition, you'll meet with native kahuna shamans, experience spiritual ceremony at sacred sites, and visit the temples of many of the world’s beliefs that call Hawai’i home. For those who are interested, there will be an opportunity after the presentation to discuss the details of our 10-day spiritual tour to Hawai’i in May 2022. Join us for an evening of inspiration and let the magic of Hawai’i “call you home” to Paradise! ***For more information visit https://treeoflifetourshawaii.wordpress.com/
  • Online: $Monetize$ Websites, Blogs, and Social Media with Affiliate Marketing

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Earn a passive monthly income from selling other people’s products by placing a merchant-provided advertisement link on your site and get a commission for every sale, click or lead. Learn where to find 1000+ free and low cost opportunities and how to avoid scams or links that won't offer a beneficial ROI (return on investment). Learn how to find high, recurring and second-tier commissions. You'll also learn SEO secrets to increase your site's ranking and visibility on search engines like Google. Informative handouts for future use are included in class fee. The instructor LeeAnne Krusemark is a former journalist, current author and editor, and a nationwide Professor of Publishing at higher learning institutions, including Harvard Adult Education.
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    Online: A Parent's Guide to TikTok

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Please note that each class is taught live online. If you are unable to attend the live online training, you may still enroll and watch the recording of the training at your convenience. Follow-up support is also included from the instructor and you are encouraged to reach out with questions at any time before or after the class has concluded. Have you heard about the latest new app called TikTok? Learn how it's used and how parents can also help their kids stay safe while on it. You'll leave the class with helpful action items with your family to help gain a better understanding on what to do/what not to do within the app. The class will help set up a healthy foundation for technology habits your family members can use for the rest of their life whether in school or in their professional careers.
  • Online: A Parent's Guide to TikTok

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Please note that each class is taught live online. If you are unable to attend the live online training, you may still enroll and watch the recording of the training at your convenience. Follow-up support is also included from the instructor and you are encouraged to reach out with questions at any time before or after the class has concluded. Have you heard about the latest new app called TikTok? Learn how it's used and how parents can also help their kids stay safe while on it. You'll leave the class with helpful action items with your family to help gain a better understanding on what to do/what not to do within the app. The class will help set up a healthy foundation for technology habits your family members can use for the rest of their life whether in school or in their professional careers.
  • Online: Acupressure & Other Tools for Women 35+

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that can offer great relief, with no side effects, from symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings, bloating, headaches, irritability, nausea, insomnia, anxiety and even weight gain. Learn which points balance hormone levels naturally, including thyroid hormones. Acupressure is a wonderful self-help tool that will help you feel your best. We will discuss breathing techniques, nutritional musts, and more.
  • Online: Acupressure Face Lift & Skin Savvy

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Here’s a facelift you can do at home. Acupressure is an ancient Chinese healing method that works with the energy that flows through your body. Stimulating facial acupressure points can help erase years from your face naturally, bring a healthy glow to your skin; increase forming; even decrease headaches, relieve eye strain, soothe nerves, and increase relaxation. Learn how to make your skin as healthy as possible from the inside out.
  • Online: Acupressure to Assist Weight Loss

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is a Chinese healing technique that involves pressing or massaging key points on the body to stimulate energy flow through pathways called meridians. When the points that regulate metabolism, digestion and thyroid function are blocked or out of balance, losing weight will seem like an impossible task. In this workshop, you will learn the main pressure points that help strengthen thyroid function, boost metabolism, control appetite, decrease food cravings, reduce stress eating and strengthen the entire digestive system.
  • Online: Acupressure to Relieve Stress, Anxiety and Insomnia

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Acupressure is an ancient healing art and self-help tool. It can offer great relief with no side effects and help you feel your best. Along with the specific points to help relieve stress, insomnia, anxiety, irritability and even weight gain, learn the Nine Master Pressure Points which are the most helpful and most frequently prescribed to help and assist every system in your body.
  • Online: Adult Conversational Spanish - Beginner Part 1 (Live)

    This is an online class and will be held through Futura's Zoom account. An email with login information will be sent prior to class. Be sure you have a current email on file with us. Always dreamed of learning Spanish or refreshing your high school Spanish? Then this class is for you! The primary focus of the class will be on building conversational tools in Spanish through interactive practice and exercises. Vocabulary topics will include common greetings and introductions, pronunciation, numbers, food, clothing, likes and dislikes. Grammar topics will include subject pronouns, the verb estar conjugation, gender of nouns, and plurality. Participants will learn how to carry on small conversations in Spanish and each class will include interesting cultural anecdotes including Spanish word origin, dialect differences, and names in Spanish. Ability to access zoom and basic working computer knowledge essential.
  • Online: Adult Conversational Spanish - Beginner Part 2 (Live)

    This is an online class and will be held through Futura's Zoom account. An email with login information will be sent prior to class. Be sure you have a current email on file with us. Learning a language is a lifelong journey and now you are on your way! Keep up the momentum in Beginner Spanish Part Two. Participants will continue with practical conversational components and builder phrases in Spanish enabling them to carry on small conversations related to giving and asking for directions and restaurant conversation. Vocabulary and grammar components will include weather, seasons, dates with months, days of the week, family vocabulary along with the verbs ser and tener conjugations. Culture discussions will include the importance of food, family, and friendships in Spanish speaking countries. Applicable to new students and previous Beginner Part 1 Spanish conversation participants. Ability to access zoom and basic working computer knowledge essential.
  • Online: Adult Conversational Spanish - Intermediate Part 1 (Live)

    This is an online class and will be held through Futura's Zoom account. An email with login information will be sent prior to class. Be sure you have a current email on file with us. ¿Hablas un poquito español? Then this course is for you! Intermediate Spanish is specifically designed for the adult learner who has taken some Spanish in the past but wishes to improve conversational skills. Grammar and vocabulary concepts will include present tense AR verb conjugation, infinitive verbs, future tense with the verb IR, adverbs of frequency, useful prepositions, and more. Participants will practice conversation skills including learning how to make plans and discussing preferences in Spanish. Culture discussions will cover holiday traditions and celebrations in Spanish speaking countries. Like all Futura classes, a dynamic interactive approach will be used to keep the class fun and exciting! Applicable to new students and previous Beginner Spanish Part 1 and 2 conversation participants. Ability to access zoom and basic working computer knowledge essential.
  • Online: Adult Conversational Spanish Advanced Part 1 (Live)

    This is an online class and will be held through Futura's Zoom account. An email with login information will be sent prior to class. Be sure you have a current email on file with us. ¿Quieres mejorar tu español? Then this is the course for you! This advanced course is for students who have had previous Spanish classes and are looking to take their skills to the next level. Advanced Spanish will focus on the past tense (preterite and imperfect tenses) and more complex grammatical aspects of conversation including verb tenses and conjugations. Students will learn to express things they’ve done in the past in Spanish as well as broaden their conversational skills. Applicable to new students and previous Intermediate Spanish conversation participants. Ability to access zoom and basic working computer knowledge essential.
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    Online: Adult Spanish Conversation -¡Vamos a Charlar! Let’s Chat! (LIVE)

    This is an online class and will be held through Futura's Zoom account. An email with login information will be sent prior to class. Be sure you have a current email on file with us. Are you seeking opportunities to practice speaking Spanish? Instructors engage you each week with real life conversation scenarios to encourage chatting and conversation. Conversation topics include 'un poco de todo' a little of everything and everyday Spanish. In this dynamic and hands-on class, you'll practice useful Spanish vocabulary and conversation components that can be applied to the home, workplace, travel, leisure, etc. Start speaking Spanish today! Open to new and previous Spanish conversation participants. Basic computer experience and the ability to access Zoom is required. Option 1~ for beginner level participants Option 2~ for intermediate and advanced level participants *Please choose the option that best describes your skill level to be placed with participants for matching level conversation abilities and practices.
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    Online: Adult Spanish for Travel

    This is an online class and will be held through Futura's Zoom account. An email with login information will be sent prior to class. Be sure you have a current email on file with us. Do you have future aspirations for traveling to a Spanish speaking country? If so, this is the class for you! Participants learn basic conversation skills to get around a Spanish speaking country with greater ease. This class will include helpful dialogue, greetings, how to barter at a market and order in a restaurant, and how to ask for simple directions. Each class will include a travel related theme to practice real world Spanish! Like all Futura classes, a dynamic and interactive approach will be used to keep the class fun and exciting! Applicable to new students and previous Spanish conversation participants.
  • Online: Air Fryer Hype! Copycat KFC® and Recipe Ideas for All Ages

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel one of Tess's classes and you have already been sent a recipe or ingredient list for the class, you will not receive a refund. All of her recipes are originals and are her creative property and will be published in her cookbook. Therefore, we will not be issuing refunds. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Have you ever wondered what the air fryer hype is about? Do you have one and want ideas about what to make in it besides fries or crisping up frozen processed foods? Are you thinking about purchasing one but would like to know more about it first? Well, this class may just answer all those questions for you. Have some fun participating in this virtual air fryer demonstration and partial cook-along class as we dive into the world of air frying! The instructor will demonstrate some family favorite recipes and invite participants to join in for one of them. Demonstrated recipes: homemade eggrolls wraps, pizza bites, seasoned potato wedges, and burgers. Cook-along recipe: the instructor's own Copycat KFC® Chicken! All healthy, delicious recipes that will have your family coming back for more. Leftovers may just become a thing of the past. Participants of this class and all consumers of the instructor's Copycat KFC® say they think it’s better than KFC®. Try it for yourselves! Make it a date night or family night as you create lasting memories in your kitchen. Have your questions answered by the instructor, interact with others, and increase your confidence in using your air fryer. While cooking-along is loads of fun, and highly recommended, it is optional. You will receive a list of ingredients in advance with enough time for shopping and preparation. A professionally made PDF packet of the Tess's personal recipes from this class will also be provided. Note: the instructor’s recipes are copyrighted and are only shared with those who register for this class which will take place on Zoom, a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. As an added bonus, Tess has created a private group and a public group on Facebook for participants of her cooking classes. Everyone will receive an optional invite to the groups. Come join the fun! One registration fee for this online virtual interactive class can include immediate family members living full-time in the same home only. If children are participating, adult supervision is required. If friends, adult children, or extended family members are gathering for a fun night together, each household must register separately even if participating together.
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    Online: Armchair Travel - Ancient Armenia

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Embark on an armchair tour of this ancient land. After first viewing the Biblical Mt. Ararat from its capital city, Yerevan, you’ll explore Areni Cave where archeologists have unearthed a 6,000 year-old wine press and an array of fermenting vats and storage pots. Follow the trail of prehistoric standing stones, Armenia’s Stonehenge, marching across the mountaintop, visit a pagan temple complex, and a monastery carved into a mountain with holy water seeping through its rocky walls. And, you'll learn the truth about the holocaust perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 in which 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives.
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    Online: Armchair Travel - Christmas in Krakow

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Twenty years ago, my husband and I celebrated the most wonderous Christmas of our lives in Krakow, Poland as we joined our son and his family for the holiday. We visited the medieval Market Square, alive with Christmas, Santa Claus, and Ronald McDonald; rode in a carriage to Wawal castle and met its fire-breathing dragon, Smok; and took a one-horse open sleigh ride over the river and thru the forested hills of the Carpathian Mountains. Let me share this storybook memory with you.
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    Online: Armchair Travel - Hauntings and History of Emerald Isle

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Experience history with a paranormal twist on an armchair tour through Ireland. Ireland is famous for its “thin places,” a membrane or a thin layer between worlds that cross over each other. From pagan times to present, Ireland’s dark history has been recorded in its abbeys and churches, forts and castles, jails and graveyards by those who lived during those turbulent times and often perished because of them. Their ghosts are eyewitnesses to this history. Sometimes, they are the history.
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    Online: Armchair Travel - MN Medal of Honor Recipients

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. In honor of Veterans’ Day, learn the stories of some of the 72 Minnesota men who have been awarded the Medal of Honor, dating from the Civil War to the Vietnam Conflict. Meet the Schoolmaster who took his students to war, dooming their hometown to oblivion; a Hungarian Freedom Fighter who signed up to fight Commies in Vietnam; the Anoka hometown hero who smothered a grenade and lived to tell the tale, and a host of other brave men who fought and died for their country.
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    Online: Armchair Travel - Tracking Dracula

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. This is the story of two men - one a writer, the other a warlord, who lived in different countries in different centuries, and how their lives intertwined to create the most memorable villain of all time—Count Dracula. In 1897 Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, launched an entire genre of literature and film about vampires. Join him as we track Dracula from a crypt in Dublin, to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in England, to castles in Romania once frequented by Vlad Tepes, aka “Vlad the Impaler.”
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    Online: Armchair Travel - Unique Uzbekistan

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Travel along the Silk Road as we visit the ancient cities of Uzbekistan. Begin and end in Tashkent, the capital city, that has reinvented itself after a century of Soviet occupation. Next stop will be Samarkand, a city of mosques and madrassa, built in the 15th century by Temur Amir, 14th Century conqueror and modern-day hero of the Uzbeks. Then, you’ll join the throngs of holiday-goers for the Goldbroidery Festival in the timeless city of Bukhara to enjoy song, dance, and shopping for treasures.
  • Online: Avoid the Pitfalls & Weight Gain of Perimenopause/Menopause

    This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. Perimenopause starts around the age of 35 for most women and can last 10-15 years. Common symptoms include fatigue, migraines, weight gain, water retention, depression, sleep disturbances, joint aches, hot flashes, anger flashes, migraines, fibroids, exaggerated PMS and more. Once you understand exactly what is causing all the troublesome symptoms, they are much easier to correct. You'll discuss how to get hormone levels measured - blood test vs. saliva test and what to do with the results; traditional HRT vs. bio-identical; acupressure points to assist in symptom relief and nutritional musts. You'll leave with multiple tools and techniques for restoring health and well-being.
  • Online: Baklava and Spanakopita - Sweet and Savory Greek Phyllo Pastries

    Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel one of Tess's classes and you have already been sent a recipe or ingredient list for the class, you will not receive a refund. All of her recipes are originals and are her creative property and will be published in her cookbook. Therefore, we will not be issuing refunds. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Baklava is a traditional Greek layered dessert pastry made with phyllo, chopped nuts, other secret ingredients, and is bathed in dreamy syrup. Spanakopita, on the other hand, is a Greek savory pastry, consisting of a filling made of spinach, cheese, and other secret ingredients, which is then wrapped in delicate sheets of phyllo pastry. Tess grew up in a Greek home where Baklava and Spanakopita were made and enjoyed throughout the year, but especially for any and every holiday. She too joined in the tradition of creating these delicate pastries ever since she was roughly the age of six. Now, many years later, she has decided to share this tradition and her secrets with participants of this online cook-along class. Tess will guide you through the process of creating one of her versions of Baklava she calls ‘Baklava Rolls’. She will also guide you through the process of creating her Spanakopita Triangles. Each step of the way, you may involuntarily begin to dance The Zorba as these crispy, delicious Greek phyllo wonders awaken taste buds, and your ‘inner Greek’ with just one bite. Talk about mouthwatering goodness! But shhh...remember, Tess is only making her secret recipes available to those who register for this class. You will be asked keep these secrets a secret as Tess has done so for almost 50 years. If friends are participating together, each friend must register separately (as is true for all of Tess’s classes). You will receive a list of ingredients in advance to allow enough time for shopping and prep. You will also receive a professionally created PDF packet of Tess’s personal recipes This class will take place on Zoom, a free on-line software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Have your questions answered by the instructor, and interact with other participants as you cook-along. While cooking-along is loads of fun, it is optional. As an added bonus, Tess has created a private group and a public group on Facebook for participants of her cooking classes. Everyone will receive an optional invite to the groups. Come join the fun. Note: one registration fee for this virtual interactive class can include immediate family members living full-time in the same home only. If children are participating, adult supervision is required. If friends, adult children, or extended family members are gathering for a fun night together, each household must register separately even if participating together.