Community Services Classes & Workshops
Choose from more than 300 short-term workshops, seminars, lectures, and classes for children and adults offered this Spring through Santa Monica College Community Services. Courses are not graded and are open to everyone—regardless of age or place of residence. Registration is simple: Sign up by phone by calling (310) 434-3400. Or mail or fax in the registration form. Or register in person at our office on SMC’s Madison Campus.
You, your family members, and your friends may also be interested in pursuing educational and career goals through Santa Monica College’s Spring semester main offerings. Pick up a copy of our 132-page Spring 2003 Schedule of Classes for $1 at the Admissions Office on our Main Campus.
Santa Monica College also publishes the Emeritus College Schedule of Classes, listing more than 180 classes geared to older adults and offered free of charge. The Spring schedule includes the Senior Resource Directory, which is updated every six months to provide current information about the many Westside organizations that offer information and services to seniors.
ON THE COVER: Students from Edison, Franklin, Grant, McKinley, Muir, Rogers, and Roosevelt elementary schools and Adams and Lincoln middle schools gathered at the Santa Monica Pier this October for an exhilarating performance by the world-renowned Kirov-Mariinsky Theatre Opera artists from St. Petersburg, Russia. The event—co-sponsored by the Madison Theater Project and City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division—included an exciting solo sung by Oleg Balashov, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire who joined the Young Singers’ Academy of the Mariinsky Theatre in 1999 and has performed with the Mariinsky Company on tour in Great Britain, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, and the United States.
While SMC Community Services can’t promise you a similar starring role, we can offer you some great techniques for expressing yourself through song. Check out the “Sounding Off? Tune In!” listing in the Music section of this schedule of classes. While you’re at it, consider expanding your performance to include some instrumental accompaniment with “Beginning Blues Harmonica”—one of the many brand new (and fun!) classes we’re offering this Spring.
INSET: LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky presents Valery Gergiev, Conductor and Artistic Director of the Kirov-Mariinsky Theatre Opera and the principal guest conductor since 1997 of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, with a scroll honoring his visionary leadership and contributions to the world of operatic performance.