EVERGREEN FORUM

“Thought and Calculation”: Examining the Theatrical...

Location • SPB

Date • 10/08/2025 - 11/05/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Explore three intricate, engaging, and intellectually vibrant plays by Tom Stoppard, a great living playwright.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ammonites and Cleopatra: Two by Penelope...

Location • Zoom

Date • 10/09/2025 - 11/13/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Explore a vivid autobiography and a memorable novel by the acclaimed English writer, Penelope Lively.

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An Inquiry Concerning “Democracy in America”

Location • NSK-H

Date • 10/03/2025 - 11/21/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

A forward and backwards look at democracy through Alexis de Tocqueville's great classic, “Democracy in America.”

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Applying Precepts of Buddhist Thought for...

Location • NSK

Date • 09/30/2025 - 11/18/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Learn about Buddhist precepts that help develop patience, curiosity, generosity, and community.

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Astonishing Adventures

Location • NSK-H

Date • 09/29/2025 - 11/10/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Follow adventurers who confronted altitudes, temperatures, and hazards while courting danger and facing death.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Documentary Films II: True or False?

Location • NSK

Date • 10/14/2025 - 12/02/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Documentaries that question the truth.

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Evolution of Western Art, Part 3...

Location • Zoom

Date • 09/25/2025 - 11/19/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Explore changes in the history of Western Art from the Enlightenment through World War I, focusing on "isms" including Romanticism and Impressionism.

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Exploring Autocracies

Location • Zoom

Date • 10/03/2025 - 11/07/2025

Time • 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Are autocracies, part of human society for millennia, inevitable? How do they arise and how do they fall?

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Exploring Feminist Writers

Location • SPB

Date • 10/10/2025 - 11/14/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Explore transformational narratives through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

History and Culture of Scotland

Location • NSK-H

Date • 10/10/2025 - 11/14/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Discover or revisit Scotland; this course will ensure your appreciation of this small and influential country.

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History of the European Renaissance

Location • NSK-H

Date • 09/25/2025 - 11/20/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Explore how the Renaissance changed everything.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

It Could be Verse: Lyrical Introductions...

Location • SPB

Date • 10/08/2025 - 10/29/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Discover part 1 of the poetic narratives that preface the song refrains we remember.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

It Could be Verse: Lyrical Introductions...

Location • SPB

Date • 11/05/2025 - 12/03/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Discover part 2 of the poetic narratives that preface the song refrains we remember.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Jane Austen, Novels and Films

Location • NSK

Date • 09/30/2025 - 11/18/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

We’ll ask how Austen’s novels critique and revise early anxieties about the entailed paternal estate, the financial precarity of daughters, and the necessity of marriage.

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Karen Ann Quinlan Case

Location • SPB

Date • 10/23/2025 - 12/04/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

The right of the individual to refuse medical treatment even if death would result began with the Karen Ann Quinlan case. Study the lawsuit, ruling,...

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Media on the Edge: Journalism, Influencers,...

Location • NSK-H

Date • 10/08/2025 - 11/26/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Which news media are trustworthy? What are the responsibilities of online platforms? And what are the broader implications of AI?

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Location • NSK

Date • 09/29/2025 - 10/13/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Learn how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can transform negative thought patterns and overcome anxiety and depression.

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MORE Fun Math Your Teachers Left...

Location • NSK

Date • 10/15/2025 - 11/19/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Discover the joy of math by working with others on puzzles and conundrums. Prepare for surprises in probability, logic, and geometry.

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Nature & Your Health

Location • NSK

Date • 10/08/2025 - 10/29/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Prescribed walks? Birds that change one's mood? Restorative gardens at hospitals? Discover the effects of nature on health.

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Ocean Grove and the History of...

Location • NSK

Date • 09/30/2025 - 11/04/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Learn how the nineteenth century American Holiness movement integrated personal holiness and spiritual renewal with camp meetings.

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Rule of Law: Historical Case Studies

Location • NSK-H

Date • 09/29/2025 - 11/10/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Study the history of the rule of law in the United States from its English beginnings to the present day.

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Science in the News

Location • NSK-H

Date • 10/03/2025 - 11/21/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Feed your curiosity. Explore the latest scientific breakthroughs and their real-world implications with our expert panel.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Southern Writers: Novels and Short Stories

Location • SPB

Date • 10/07/2025 - 11/04/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Read and discuss the distinctive voices and attitudes of willful, sardonic, surprising, and often funny characters in three Southern writers — Faulkner, O’Connor, and Gautreaux.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Three Early Black American Women in...

Location • SPB

Date • 10/10/2025 - 10/24/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Meet three early Black American women whose works explore creativity and citizenship in the early American republic.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tick-Tock, What’s the Plot?

Location • NSK

Date • 09/24/2025 - 11/19/2025

Time • 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

To paraphrase Rat in "The Wind and the Willows" there is nothing like messing about in books. Enjoy Tick-Tock iPLOTS in this exhilarating book discussion...

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Understanding Emotions

Location • NSK

Date • 09/25/2025 - 11/06/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Anger, fear, sadness, joy, shame: We feel them, but do we truly understand them? Discover the tools to explore how we sense and experience emotions. 

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Visions of America

Location • NSK

Date • 09/30/2025 - 10/28/2025

Time • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

A study of five tumultuous periods in America through history and literature.

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