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April 2 - May 9 Tuesday, Thurdsday02:00 PM-03:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 12Instructor: Cindy BlairLocation: Zoom- Oasis NationalThis full-body workout for your brain and body helps enhance your overall strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance. Enjoy brain games, fun dance moves, trivia, and more. Suitable for all levels of...... read more -
April 2 - May 9 Tuesday, Thursday03:30 PM-04:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 12Instructor: Craig MillerLocation: Zoom - Oasis NationalTai Chi for Arthritis: Intermediate is ideal for those participants looking to further expand and challenge their Tai Chi skills. Learn new forms while continuing to improve your health and reduce fall risk. Previous enrollment in Tai Chi for Arthritis mandatory. All participants should have completed instruction in the entire Beginner (Part 1) program...... read more
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April 4 - April 4 Thursday11:30 AM- 12:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Roz NormanLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisWhat if age does not matter? How have some films depicted older adults who thrive after age 60? What about aging actors? To name a few: Angela Bassett, Judi Dench, Harrison Ford, Robert DeNiro, Ian McKellan, Maggie Smith, Patrick Stewart, and Meryl Streep. We will explore themes of personal growth, rediscovery, and resilience. We will show clips of stories...... read more
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April 5 - April 5 Friday10:30 AM-12:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Carol Diaz-Granados DuncanLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisThis is a presentation that looks at how cultures have viewed the stars and other celestial phenomena, including eclipses. It will focus on how cultures around the world have "looked to the stars" to guide their lives, their special events, births, deaths, and the coronation of kings. It may be surprising how much ancient people knew about the sky --...... read more
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April 5 - April 5 Friday11:00 AM-01:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Martha BogartLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisWant to know more about Gmail? Many of us use this email program, but are we really using it to its maximum potential? This course will teach you how to create an account and compose, read, reply to, delete and forward messages. In addition, you will learn how to send and save attachments, organize your email with tabs, labels and stars, snooze emails and...... read more
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April 9 - April 9 Tuesday10:30 AM- 12:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Carol Diaz GranadosLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisJoin instructor Carol Diaz-Granados, Ph.D., RPA, to learn about a sacred American Indian site. "Picture Cave" contains almost 400 images drawn and painted with details seen nowhere else in the Midwest. Some of the paintings (called pictographs) were radiocarbon-dated and found to be 1,000 years old! This slide show presentation covers many of the amazing...... read more
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April 11 - April 11 Thursday10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Douglas E SchneiderLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisJoin instructor Douglas Schneider to learn about female spies imprisoned in St. Louis. Hear about how many prisoners of war escaped their camp in St. Louis, how a St. Louis shoe repair man sent messages to the Nazis, and what early resident of O’Fallon, Missouri, was the captain of a Company of Spies. And what escaped prisoner of war was captured in Union...... read more
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April 11 - April 11 Thursday11:00 AM-01:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Larry EdisonLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisWe all need some basic information in order to be prepared to purchase a computer or tablet. This class provides some of those basic, important facts we need to consider. We have so many options in front of us that it can seem overwhelming. Being armed with helpful information is a good starting...... read more -
April 11 - April 11 Thursday01:00 PM- 2:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Bev SchuetzLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisJoin instructor Bev Schuetz to follow the fascinating history of makeup from the early Egyptians to today's multi-million-dollar cosmetic empires. The search to be beautiful includes the bizarre customs of other cultures, dramatic changes through plastic surgery, and many unusual and amusing treatments—all in the name of...... read more
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April 16 - April 16 Tuesday10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Bonnie VegaLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisAlthough best known for its Roman remains visible today, dating from AD 79, it was built upon a substantial city dating from much earlier times – Oscans, Greeks, Etruscans. Pristinely preserved under the ash—the excavated city offers a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried. It was a wealthy town, with a population of ca....... read more
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April 17 - April 17 Wednesday10:00 AM- 12:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Jean PonziLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisNature connections in biology, psychology, and art design are proving to increase health benefits for us in many ways. From this overview of biophilic design principles, you'll start seeing nature in surprising places and ways to bring nature's gifts into your environment. Join presenter and Green Resources Manager for Missouri Botanical Garden, Jean Ponzi,...... read more
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April 18 - April 18 Thursday01:00 PM- 3:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Andrew Michael CoopermanLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisContrary to popular imagination, the American Revolution was not confined to the eastern seaboard. The mid-Mississippi River Valley also witnessed the confrontation between the American Patriots, their allies, and the British Empire and its allies. This confrontation reached its climax in the spring of 1780 with the Battle of Fort San Carlos. Fought in what...... read more
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April 22 - April 22 Monday01:30 PM-03:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Jim SalihLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisNew to Android phones, or just want to make sure you are using your phone to its maximum advantage? In this class, we will cover the basics of Android cell phone usage. Even though each brand of Android phone is a bit different, there are several essential features. Learn about the layout, navigation methods and how to go into the phone’s settings to...... read more
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April 23 - April 23 Tuesday10:30 AM- 11:30 AM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Johnny RabbitLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisThis class will learn about what went on in the 1950s and 1960s. Instructor Johnny Rabbitt hopes you'll be up for some serious back-in-time travel, plus he'll bring along a special guest. You'll get the inside stories of Gaslight Square's birth, life, and death. We'll look around downtown before the Arch was constructed, refresh with Pinky Pevely, Velvet...... read more
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April 25 - April 25 Thursday10:00 AM- 11:30 AM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Parks SmithLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisBletchley Park was once the top-secret home of the World War II “Codebreakers”—a term coined about the over 9,000 men and women who worked at the facility intercepting and cracking German communication during the war. We will focus on the lesser-told stories of the women who worked at Bletchley Park from 1939 to 1946. And learn how the German messages...... read more
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April 25 - April 25 Thursday01:00 PM-03:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Larry EdisonLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisWe’ve all heard of The Cloud, but what is it exactly, what does it cost and how can we keep it safe? In this class, we will take a look at the answers to these questions and more about online storage of your private files and photos. Specifically, we will take a look at iCloud, Google Cloud, Amazon Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox. We will examine the pros and...... read more
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April 25 - April 25 Thursday01:00 PM- 2:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Steve Tamari, Ph. DLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisJoin instructor Steve Tamari, Professor of Middle East and Islamic History at SIUE, to learn about how women of the Ottoman imperial harem exerted power over the palace and the empire. Ancient Turco-Mongolian traditions and Ottoman succession patterns allowed women of the imperial harem to all but run the empire during the 17th century behind closed doors....... read more
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April 26 - April 26 Friday01:00 PM- 3:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Jim TudorLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisNot all great science fiction films take the stars, as evidenced by the Atomic Age creature features of the 1950s to the contemporary classics such as RoboCop, The Terminator, and The Matrix. In this session, we will look at such films and their creators to distill what they have to tell us about our world. Instructor Jim Tudor is a Film Studies Instructor...... read more
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April 30 - April 30 Tuesday10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Bonnie VegaLocation: Zoom- St. Louis OasisThe Vatican’s history as the seat of the Catholic Church began with the construction of a basilica over St. Peter’s grave in Rome in the 4th century A.D. Having embraced Christianity with the Edict of Milan in 313, Emperor Constantine I began constructing a basilica over St. Peter’s tomb in 324. St. Peter’s Basilica became a spiritual center for...... read more
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May 6 - May 6 Monday01:30 PM-03:30 PM Central TimeSessions: 1Instructor: Jim SalihLocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisAre your beautiful photo memories hidden in the basement, the attic, your computer, or the Cloud for no one to enjoy but yourself? Liberate them by moving them into an easy-to-create photo book for all to enjoy. Join us for a two-hour workshop on creating your own online photo book because it is easier and less expensive than you think. We will show you how...... read more