NEW! Hands-On Introduction to Feng Shui

Instructor: Catherine Grison

Feeling stuck or down? Clear up your space to move forward in your life! This workshop will show you how your surroundings reflect your life with a description of the BA GUA, a potent tool you will be able to use in your home later on! You will be guided into a sacred meditation that will focus on how to identify the specific blocks, physical and psychological, that hold you back in accomplishing your projects and even damage your health. You will leave refreshed with a clear vision on how you can change your life for the better, and craving to know more! (Bring your floor plans or pictures.)

San Francisco-based Parisian, Catherine Grison, is described by her international clients as a “Soul Artisan for People and Spaces.” She is a certified Feng Shui master with more than 15 years of experience. For more information visit yourfrenchaccent.com and frenchshuicafe.com.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Fee: $45/1 class

NEW! Creative Writing for Fun

Instructor: Pamela Wight
Writer, Editor, Teacher

Do you love to write, but not sure what to do with those stories in your head or hidden somewhere in a back drawer? Are you brave enough to write extemporaneously in a class of like-minded adults and then share your written word minutes later? If so, sign up! Designed to encourage creative writing productivity, this popular class includes in-class writing, different writing topics and tips each week, and shared reading. Both fiction and non-fiction (journal writing and essays) are encouraged.

Enthusiasm, a great sense of fun, and shared insights are used as learning tools instead of criticism. Class size is limited.

Pamela Wight has an M.A. in Literature and is a writer, editor and teacher with a focus on adult fiction. She has published a quarterly of short stories with other writers and has her own drawer full of stories, and a novel or two.

Location: Tiburon Community Room

Fee: $160/8 weeks

Watercolor & Acrylics

Instructor: Diana Bradley

Perfect for composition, drawing, perspective and painting techniques. Bring your own sketching supplies and paints. Diana is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, and teaches sketching as an artist in residence at Yosemite. Anyone 75 years or older is free!

Drop-ins available only if minimum is met. Drop-ins must pre-register with the recreation office.

Location: TBA
Fee: $80/4 weeks
Drop-in fee: $25

NEW! Hand-Colored Photography

Instructor: Laura Culver

Turn your black and white photos into works of art. In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn a modernized technique on a traditional form of art. Using color photos from your digital camera, you will print them as grayscale images, and then blend colors onto the print using colored pencils. The result is a unique blend of the real and imagined! No experience necessary. All materials will be provided but you are encouraged to bring your own black and white photos, printed on
matte surface paper.

Laura Culver is a full-time artist living in San Rafael. She has been teaching Hand-Colored Photography workshops in the
SF Bay Area for over 10 years. To view her art visit www.LauraCulver.com.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Fee: $75/1 class

NEW! Mosaic Weekend Workshop

Instructor: Leslie Mathie

Learn to create mosaic art: This two day workshop will give you an opportunity to create a gazing ball, picture frame, mirror, flower pot, 2 dimensional wall hanging, and more. Day one will explore cutting techniques, adhesive choices, and design layout. Day two will finish the piece with grouting techniques. Create a mosaic piece that you will have fun  learning to make. All tools, tile, substrates, and adhesive provided.
$20 materials fee payable to the instructor on the first day of class. Wear comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring lunch to day one.

September Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $60/2 days

October Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Fee: $60/2 days

NEW! Soul Painting

Instructor: Cristina Marcu

Soul Painting classes engage you in the present moment as you feel and explore your authentic self. You are making a creative connection with your soul’s true voice and are guided into your own Divine source of inspiration and intuitive expression.

The class begins with a guided meditation then following your creative flow to spontaneously paint from your imagination. Feel your freedom as you can paint in any medium you choose: watercolors, acrylics, oils, color crayons, pastels. We will be doing some writing too. Please bring your journal, pen and your own art supplies. No art experience is necessary.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Fee: $40 per class

First Saturday of each month except September.

NEW! Thanksgiving and Holiday Centerpieces

Director: Joy Kuhn

Learn to create your own holiday centerpiece. You will leave class with a lovely arrangement for the center of your Thanksgiving or Holiday table incorporating greens, flowers, fruit or pine cones, berries and candle. Bring clippers or floral scissors.

Required Materials Fee of $18 will be collected in class by the instructor.

Joy Kuhn has her flower arrangements featured at the Bouquets to Art, DeYoung Museum.

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $28/1 class