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“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”— Chase Jarvis. For many of us, that camera is the iPhone we carry in our pocket every day. This course will cover setting up your iPhone for shooting better photos, focusing and composition techniques, editing on your iPhone (or iPad if you have fat fingers like me), and how to find your way to shooting in black & white on the streets of Maine. Join the international iPhone photography community. Repeat workshop. Format includes lecture, discussion, and hands-on.

REQUIRED MATERIALS: You will need a relatively up-to-date iPhone and the Snapseed app (free in the app store).

“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”— Chase Jarvis. For many of us, that camera is the iPhone we carry in our pocket every day. This course will cover setting up your iPhone for shooting better photos, focusing and composition techniques, editing on your iPhone (or iPad if you have fat fingers like me), and how to find your way to shooting in black & white on the streets of Maine. Join the international iPhone photography community. Repeat workshop. Format includes lecture, discussion, and hands-on.

REQUIRED MATERIALS: You will need a relatively up-to-date iPhone and the Snapseed app (free in the app store).

Let’s build community by working together to prep, cook, and eat great food and enjoy conversation with one another. Featured chefs will guide us through the creation of cuisines from around the world introducing us to tastes and histories of food cultures and their impact on strengthening communities. For the first class each participant will bring and share a dish meaningful to their culture or life and learn how a potato salad contest brought people from feuding to harmony. There will be an additional cost to cover the food costs paid directly to the instructors — this may vary from class to class.

Repeat in-person course. Format includes discussion and hands-on learning.

This workshop will examine how individuals and couples can plan for a sustainable income in retirement. We will examine how households can coordinate income from different sources, including pensions, Social Security, and retirement savings to develop a plan for navigating retirement. We’ll look at academic concepts in a practical manner and work through a case study that ties it all together. Repeat remote workshop. Format includes lecture.

This workshop will cover key considerations for how to get the most from your Social Security benefit. We will cover topics such as the long-term health of the Social Security program, how to figure out how much you can expect to receive in retirement, when you should apply for Social Security benefits, how to coordinate claiming strategies with a spouse, ways to minimize taxes on Social Security benefits, and other important considerations for maximizing your Social Security benefit.

Repeat remote workshop. Format includes lecture.

This workshop will cover key considerations for planning for taxes in retirement. We will cover topics such as how various types of income are taxed in retirement, how to avoid Social Security and Medicare tax traps, how to take distributions from retirement accounts in a tax-efficient manner, and charitable giving in retirement. We will consider tax planning strategies from the perspectives of both those who are already in retirement and those who are still working toward retirement. Repeat remote workshop. Format includes lecture.

Imagine yourself at your own funeral. You can hear what people are saying about you. What are they saying about what you accomplished, how you touched their lives, how you made a difference to them, and the world? By looking at your personal brand, you will better understand how others perceive and relate to you. Is there something you want to tweak in your persona?

New in-person workshop. Format includes lecture, discussion, and hands on learning.