River Arts
Arts for Everyone | Morrisville, Vermont
Classes – Spring
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Refund Policy:
Please register for classes at least one week before the class is scheduled to begin.
For requests to drop a class - made at least 2 weeks prior to the first class - you may receive either:
- A 75% refund or
- You may apply the full amount to another class, good for one year.
A full refund will be given if River Arts has to cancel a class, or if you drop a class and find your own replacement.
Intermediate level French conversation with Derrick Anne Boulay
6 Tuesday evenings – May 22 – June 26, 6-7pm
Improve your basic knowledge of French vocabulary, phrases and accent through spontaneous conversations and see yourself progress in fluency. Emphasis on everyday situations.
Derrick Anne Boulay has lived in France for over 30 years, holding a French degree in landscape architecture and plant reproduction. Currently a resident of Craftsbury, she spends her time as a Landscape Designer, Advisor, Gardener, Teacher and Speaker. She has worked for a total of 23 years in her profession in both France and the Napa Valley, where she also wrote a garden column for Napa Valley Life magazine.
6 Tuesday evenings – May 22 – June 26, 6-7pm
Cost: $75 (financial assistance available)
“Where Poems Come From” with Julia Shipley
Saturday, May 26th 10:00a.m. -2:00p.m
For teens and adults of any level, the focus of this class is to provide a rope bridge over the abyss of “I don’t know how to write poetry ” into “Oh, would you look at that!” through creating drafts of many kinds of poems. Instead of merely hoping for inspiration to strike, we’ll play with new ways to kindle ideas using five different writing exercises. This is a generative workshop, hence giving and receiving and extensive feedback will take a back seat to the act of generation. Whether you’ve just published your ninth volume of poetry or never written a poem at all– join us for a fun romp through words, ideas, images, sounds and surprises. Bring: curiosity, notebook, pen and a bag lunch.
Julia Shipley is a writer, teacher and caretaker of the Writer’s Retreat, a farmhouse studio rental for creative types. Her chapbook, Herd won the Sheltering Pines Press Award and her poems have appeared in Bloodroot, flyway, Hunger Mountain, Poetry East, The Salon, terrain.org and elsewhere.
Saturday, May 26th 10:00a.m. -2:00p.m
Cost: $55 (financial assistance available)
“How to … ” Cooking Series with Bob Titterton
Wednesdays: March 28th, April 11th, April 25th, May 9th and May 23rd – 6-8pm
Expand your cooking techniques and become a confident chef. Bob Titterton is presenting a series of cooking classes at River Arts. The techniques you will learn are designed for your home kitchen. You do not need any prior experience or fancy tools, just the desire to cook. Come for one class or the whole series.
Pasta Party - Wednesday, May 23, 6-8pm $75
Making pasta is a social event. The process of filling and folding pasta brings everyone into the kitchen and is the centerpiece of holiday meals. Every part of the process is fun: mixing flour with eggs to make the dough; rolling it into long thin sheets, and then cutting and filling the pasta. We will make three shapes of pasta served three different ways. Butternut Squash Ravioli with Sage Butter and Pumpkin Seeds, Tagliatelli Pizzaiola, and Farfalle alla Trapanese. We will also practice making Cappelletti, “little hats.”
Bob Titterton is the author of The Vermont Home Cookbook: Local Ingredients, Global Flavors, Universal Techniques; North Country Gourmet: A Vermont Chef Cooks at Home; and Julian Scott: Artist of the Civil War and Native America. A trained chef who worked in commercial kitchens for ten years, Bob has master degrees in history and education. His experience teaching in the classroom is applied to his teaching in the kitchen. Feel at ease asking any question. Your questions are the foundation of learning.
The Vermont Home Cookbook is available locally at Haymaker in Morrisville and The Galaxy Bookstore in Hardwick
Visit Bob’s blog “How to Food” by clicking here!
The Basics of Garden and Landscape Design with Derrick Boulay
2 Wednesdays, May 30 – June 6th, 6-8:00pm
The Basics of Garden and Landscape Design: Understanding outdoor space
Join Gardener and Landscape Designer, Derrick Boulay for this two session workshop. Participants will learn how to use light, color, texture, form and scale as guides for creating beautiful outdoor scenes. Bring in landscape/garden photographs at the final session to discuss, and solve, individual problems as a class!
Derrick Anne Boulay has lived in France for over 30 years, holding a French degree in landscape architecture and plant reproduction. Currently a resident of Craftsbury, she spends her time as a Landscape Designer, Advisor, Gardener, Teacher and Speaker. She has worked for a total of 23 years in her profession in both France and the Napa Valley, where she also wrote a garden column for Napa Valley Life magazine.
2 Wednesdays, May 30 – June 6th, 6-8:00pm
Cost: $55.00 (financial assistance available)