Lectures & Workshops
What’s Your Garden Style?
The Center for Active Living 4217 SW Oregon St., Seattle, WA, United StatesHaving a garden is like a great hairstyle—what style do you want next? Should you trim it all around or get a total hair transplant for your plants? Or you can just add more color and texture to your plants. DC Clausen, retired garden and groundskeeping professional with 40 years of experience at Seattle University, will talk gardening with you.
End-of-Life Fulfillment Planning: An Exploration Beyond Advanced Directives
The Center for Active Living 4217 SW Oregon St., Seattle, WA, United StatesColleen Hewes returns for another end-of-life discussion. Imagine you have three months to live and you can make them the very best they can be for you and everyone. Ask yourself, what will be most important? What will you value most? What priorities, wishes and dreams will you focus on? This is an introduction to the five domains of life with a focus on the Emotional domain. Class size is limited to 12.
Writing Historical Fiction
The Center for Active Living 4217 SW Oregon St., Seattle, WA, United StatesHumans are a curious species, and we are most curious about each other—whether truth or gossip. Local author Janet McGiffin will present about writing historical fiction using her Empress Irini series as an example. She’ll share the joys of research, the anguish of deciding what history to leave out, how to make characters accessible to a modern reader without forgetting their place in history and how to work with an editor and illustrator assigned by…
Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed
The Center for Active Living 4217 SW Oregon St., Seattle, WA, United StatesIn honor of Black History month, join us for a documentary about Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to be elected to Congress and the first African American to run for a major party’s presidential nomination. The film will take a close look at her 1972 groundbreaking campaign.