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Quickbooks Online Level 2
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Quickbooks Online Level 2

$195

with Marcus Lander

Calendar Next session starts Oct 6, 2025 , runs for 4 weeks

Now know how to work with more advanced QuickBooks Online topics. Become capable with such skills as how to customize settings, banking, credit cards, foreign currencies, statements for debts collection, using tags and projects. And come away with your Certificate in Quickbooks Online.

Intro to Ukulele

$90

with Nina Andersen

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 6, 2025 at 4 pm, runs for 8 weeks

The ukulele is one of the easiest ways to try making music for the first time, or learn a new instrument. In this class we’ll start with 4-5 basic chords that can be used to play lots of popular and familiar tunes and build from there. We’ll cover how to tune, strum and sing along. No prior musical experience required and all levels are welcome! Instructor Nina Andersen has 30 years of experience facilitating and supporting adults making music at whatever level they can. She is the Founder and Music Director of the Southern Maine New Horizons Band, Music Director of the New England Adult Music Camp and the Associate Conductor of the Harpswell Concert Band. She was also the Music Director of the Maine Pops Concert Band from 1997-2017. This program will run out of Bowdoin College, Gibson Hall, Room 10. *No Class: 10/13.

Hand Stamped Interactive Greeting Card: Halloween Bat

$20

with Dawn Stevens

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm, runs for 1 week

In this class, we will follow step by step instructions to create an interactive greeting card. You will leave with an adorable bat themed pop up card! We will also make a Halloween treat holder to give to a special someone. Precut kits and envelopes are provided. Participants need a pair of scissors and colored pencils or markers.

Message Circle with Jeannie Sullivan

$45

with Jeannie Sullivan

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm, runs for 1 week
2 additional sessions through Feb 23, 2026

Come hear what Spirit has to say to you. Get your questions answered and learn what your family and friends have to say in Spirit. This is a fun and interactive way to get introduced to psychic readings. You may be surprised who you hear from. Led by Jeannie Sullivan from HeartFelt Energies.

Yeast Roll Jubilee

$60

with Deb Arter

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 6, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 1 week

In this one night class we will learn how to mix, knead, proof and shape yeast dough into both savory and sweet treats. Participants will learn how to create cloverleaf rolls, butter crescents, cinnamon swirls, tea rings, sticky caramel rolls and whole-wheat buns as well as an economical savory braid that is a crowd pleaser. You will learn what gluten is really about! Various yeast bread tricks will be shared and discussed. Each student will go home with samples warm as well as dough to bake later at home. All baking levels are welcome for this hands-on class. Bring an apron, and some plastic tubs/large bags to fill and take home. All materials included.

History of Malaga Island

$35

with Alice Bean Andrenyak

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 6, 2025 at 7 pm, runs for 1 week
1 additional session on Feb 11, 2026

Learn about the eviction of a complete community living on Malaga Island in Casco Bay in 1912. Learn the prehistory of the island's use by our indigenous people and post history of the island after the eviction. Learn a bit about the mainland African American village in coastal Maine that no longer exists but predated the Malaga Island Colony. Visit the island remotely through a slide show created by Master Maine Guide, Alice. This course is offered via Zoom.

Botanical Illustration with Watercolor and Ink

$160

with Claire Loon Baldwin

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 7, 2025 at 5 pm, runs for 5 weeks

This all-levels class explores botanical illustration with watercolor, pen and ink. Students will learn principles of scientific illustration through painting subjects ranging from mushrooms to wildflowers, focusing on observational drawing and precision watercolor painting techniques. Students can either buy themselves the required materials - the materials list is linked here - or they can buy material kits from the Mix, an art store in Brunswick (here is a link to a student-grade kit, and here is a link to an artist-grade kit).

Learn more about instructor Claire Loon Baldwin and see her illustrations for books and magazines on her website: CLICK HERE

*THIS COURSE IS 5 WEEKS.

Hand Bound Photo Books

$75

with Joelle Webber

Calendar Next available session starts Oct 7, 2025 at 5:30 pm, runs for 3 weeks

In this class we will explore three different hand bound books that can be used for special photographs, travel journals or scrap books. On the first evening we will emboss frames in our book pages and bind them as a button hole book. The second night we will create a folded triptych photo frame, which can stand on display. Finally we will make a stab-binding with added thickness in the spine for scrapbook materials. A materials fee of $30 payable to the instructor is due on the first night. Tools will also be provided.





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