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June 2019
Survival of the Kitchen: Class #1, Basic Kitchen Skills
Please note, this class is sold out! Learn your way around your own kitchen with five deliciously engaging cooking classes! Featuring hands-on instruction from our experienced chefs, we’ll cover everything you need to start your journey into culinary self-sufficiency — from what you need to set up your first kitchen to how to use a knife without losing a finger to the right way to clean a chicken. Our focus on sustainable practices will help you minimize cost and waste…
Find out more »Survival of the Kitchen: Class #2, Building Blocks
Please note, this class is sold out! Learn your way around your own kitchen with five deliciously engaging cooking classes! Featuring hands-on instruction from our experienced chefs, we'll cover everything you need to start your journey into culinary self-sufficiency -- from what you need to set up your first kitchen to how to use a knife without losing a finger to the right way to clean a chicken. Our focus on sustainable practices will help you minimize cost and waste…
Find out more »Survival of the Kitchen: Class #3, Advanced Techniques
Please note, this class is sold out! Learn your way around your own kitchen with five deliciously engaging cooking classes! Featuring hands-on instruction from our experienced chefs, we'll cover everything you need to start your journey into culinary self-sufficiency -- from what you need to set up your first kitchen to how to use a knife without losing a finger to the right way to clean a chicken. Our focus on sustainable practices will help you minimize cost and waste…
Find out more »Survival of the Kitchen: Class #4, Desserts
Please note, this class is sold out! Learn your way around your own kitchen with five deliciously engaging cooking classes! Featuring hands-on instruction from our experienced chefs, we'll cover everything you need to start your journey into culinary self-sufficiency -- from what you need to set up your first kitchen to how to use a knife without losing a finger to the right way to clean a chicken. Our focus on sustainable practices will help you minimize cost and waste…
Find out more »July 2019
Survival of the Kitchen: Class #5, Putting It All Together
Learn your way around your own kitchen with five deliciously engaging cooking classes! Featuring hands-on instruction from our experienced chefs, we'll cover everything you need to start your journey into culinary self-sufficiency -- from what you need to set up your first kitchen to how to use a knife without losing a finger to the right way to clean a chicken. Our focus on sustainable practices will help you minimize cost and waste while maximizing flavor and fun. The small…
Find out more »August 2019
Cuyahoga Valley Institute: Writing About Nature, with Lee Chilcote
Literary Cleveland's Lee Chilcote will be your inspiring guide as you explore poetry and personal essays with a focus on nature and environment. Analyze selections from writers who make a connection between their lives and the environment, enjoy a writing exercise, and get helpful feedback and tips on your writing. Open to writers of all levels and abilities. This program is co-sponsored by Literary Cleveland. It is scheduled over three Tuesday evenings, on August 13, 20, and 27, from 6…
Find out more »September 2019
Crooked Chronicles: What’s Next for the Cuyahoga River
A panel of river leaders look back on the 2019 celebration successes and discuss how we “ignite the future.” Find out what’s next for renewing the Cuyahoga River and its cities. What would you like to see happen? Panelists include: Kristin Hall, City of Cleveland, Office of Sustainability Peter Bode, West Creek Conservancy Lisa Petit, Cuyahoga Valley National Park Bill Zawiski, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Surface Water Pat Gsellman, City of Akron, Akron Waterways Renewed Moderator: Arrye Rosser,…
Find out more »October 2019
Lyceum Lecture Series: The Rise of Wolf 8
Hear the true story of Yellowstone's remarkable alpha. Join world-renowned wolf researcher Rick McIntyre as he shares the gripping true story of one of the first wolves to roam Yellowstone Park in more than 60 years. McIntyre will also share fascinating insights into wolf behavior and sign copies of his new book The Rise of Wolf 8. Here is the incredible story of a wolf who rose from runt to alpha male in Yellowstone National Park -- once home to…
Find out more »January 2020
Lyceum Lecture Series: A New Garden Ethic
Benjamin Vogt is an author, garden designer, speaker, and owner of Monarch Gardens in Nebraska. In this talk, Benjamin explores ecology, science, psychology, and philosophy as we ponder how to embrace native plant gardens as a place to create social and cultural change in a time of climate change and extinction. Gardens are meant to celebrate the beauty of wildness and translate our emotional connection to nature, but how can they do that if they are primarily created for us…
Find out more »January 2021
Distinguished Author Series – Richard Louv
PLANET HOPE: Species Loneliness, Nature-Deficit Disorder and the Future of Life on Earth "Nature-deficit disorder," as Louv defined it in his 2005 book, Last Child in the Woods, is not a medical diagnosis, but a useful term – a metaphor -- to describe what many of us believe are the human costs of alienation from nature, as suggested by recent research. Among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses, a rising rate…
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