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Garden with a Naturalist : Herbs and Container Gardening (Roosevelt 55+)
Trips & Tours

Spend time getting fresh air and exploring a produce garden in Theodore Wirth Park. A garden naturalist will guide you through various seasonal gardening topics and give you tips and tricks for how best to grow your own garden, or just give you a chance to explore what this 1-acre garden has to offer. Herbs and Container Gardening Learn about the various herb plants and how to use them culinary and medicinally. Take a tour of the herbs we have growing at the garden, learn about their care requirements and plant a small herb container to take home and use for your cooking endeavors. Sessions will be entirely outdoors, please dress for the weather. You will be sent an email if session needs to be canceled due to bad weather. Program held at JD Rivers’ Garden, 2900 Glenwood Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Lifelong Learning 55+ Spring 2025

Campfire Sing-A-Long (Roosevelt 55+)
Trips & Tours

Take a walk with a naturalist then join musician Dean Johnson around the campfire to sing songs from our campfire days. Meets at North Mississippi Regional Park: Carl W. Kroening Interpretive Center, 4900 N Mississippi Dr. Register online or call 612.668.2478.
Lifelong Learning 55+ Spring 2025
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Yoga: Chair Yoga (Barton 55+) ONLINE
Fitness

Learn gentle adapted yoga sequences while seated to increase flexibility, coordination and strength. Community Education uses a sliding scale model for program fees so our programs can be financially sustainable and more equitable. Lifelong Learning 55+ classes have discounted price options already among the options. Participants are asked to pick the price that they are able to pay. By more clearly articulating our lower cost options, we have removed the barrier that some may have felt in making scholarship requests. When participants sign up at the higher price levels, they help make the program more sustainable.
Lifelong Learning 55+ Spring 2025

Move2Music:Moving to Heal (Roosevelt 55+)
Fitness

Explore a deeper focus in your body, mind and spirit. Learn the benefits of connecting aerobic activity to mindful, dance/music-driven exercise. Improve your movement skill set while developing a deeper understanding of how simple, efficient fitness benefits EVERYbody. May be taken seated or standing. This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.
Lifelong Learning 55+ Summer 2025

Art Meet Up: Alma Thomas Tissue Paper Silk Scarfs (Roosevelt 55+)
Creative Activities

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African-American artist and teacher who is recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. Thomas, who is often considered a member of the Washington Color Schoolart movement but alternatively classified by some as an expressionist. Learn basic tissue dye techniques in the style of Thomas and let your favorite colors be your guide in creating a one-of-a-kind wearable art piece. No experience needed just a willingness to try something new. For further information, contact helene.gauthier@mpls.k12.mn.us or 612-668-4828.
Lifelong Learning 55+ Spring 2025
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