GMALL Presents – Yoga Designed for Brain Longevity

GMALL Presents – Yoga Designed for Brain Longevity

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is delighted to welcome yoga instructor, Barbara Lowes, to lead this yoga workshop focusing on brain longevity. The mission of this four-week class is to help prevent memory related diseases and help individuals...
GMALL Presents – Old Manchester, Vermont Maps

GMALL Presents – Old Manchester, Vermont Maps

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about old maps of Manchester, VT. Join Manchester Historical Society Curator Shawn Harrington for an engaging evening looking at maps...
GMALL Presents – Vermont Forest Bird Stewardship 101

GMALL Presents – Vermont Forest Bird Stewardship 101

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Tim Duclos, Forest Program Ecologist with Audubon Vermont, to talk about bird conservation. Join us for a presentation focused on Vermont’s forest birds and the basic concepts that any landowner can apply...
GMALL Presents – Needle Felted Easter Egg Workshop

GMALL Presents – Needle Felted Easter Egg Workshop

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to show us the magical process of creating felt from wool fibers in this needle felting workshop. Starting with a Styrofoam egg core, students will cover it in a background color...
GMALL Presents – Pet Portrait Painting

GMALL Presents – Pet Portrait Painting

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back artist and teacher Anharad Llewelyn to lead this pet portrait painting workshop. Working from a digital photo of your favorite pet’s face, you will learn how to paint an acrylic portrait...
GMALL Presents – The Mountain That Raised Me

GMALL Presents – The Mountain That Raised Me

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about growing up on top of Equinox Mountain. Join Courtney Mutz Callo for an evening of reminiscing about her childhood living above...
GMALL Presents – The Opening of the Protestant Mind

GMALL Presents – The Opening of the Protestant Mind

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Washington University Professor Dr. Mark Valeri to talk about how early Anglo-Americans came to embrace religious liberty. From 1650 through 1760, English descriptions of the religions of the world –...
GMALL Presents – Optical Illusion Fused Glass Dish

GMALL Presents – Optical Illusion Fused Glass Dish

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this workshop, where students will learn to “bend” glass rods to create this cool optical illusion effect. While the technique looks complicated, this is a beginner...
GMALL Presents – Fused Dichroic Glass Jewelry

GMALL Presents – Fused Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this workshop where participants will learn to create fused glass jewelry… pendants and earrings… using dichroic and millefiori glass. This is a beginner friendly workshop...
GMALL: The Himalayas: A Photographic Journey

GMALL: The Himalayas: A Photographic Journey

Hubert Schriebl will lead us on a photographic journey through the Himalayan expeditions he was part of in the making of the still-definitive map of the Everest Region. This major project was sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation of Cologne, in collaboration with...
GMALL Presents – Wooden String Art Snowflake Workshop

GMALL Presents – Wooden String Art Snowflake Workshop

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this holiday craft workshop. In this hands-on workshop, we will start with a block of stained wood, form the outline with hammer and nails and then weave the strings into a...
GMALL: Hamas Pushes Israel over the Brink

GMALL: Hamas Pushes Israel over the Brink

On the 50th anniversary of the ’73 war Israel was again surprised by a brutal assault. This one was different: civilians, not soldiers, bore the brunt of the Hamas attack and of the Israeli response. Does this prove that the region is condemned to endless war and...
GMALL Presents – Hand-build a Ceramic Mug Workshop

GMALL Presents – Hand-build a Ceramic Mug Workshop

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this ceramic mug workshop. Come Play with clay!! In this fun beginner-friendly workshop, students will create a functional ceramic mug from a flat slab of clay. Then they...
GMALL Presents – Hamas Pushes Israel over the Brink

GMALL Presents – Hamas Pushes Israel over the Brink

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is honored to welcome Chairman of the Tällberg Foundation, Alan Stoga, to talk about the war in Israel. On the 50th anniversary of the ’73 war Israel was again surprised by a brutal assault. This one was different:...
MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2023

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2023

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the Manhattan Short Film Festival. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the Manhattan Short Film Festival. For one week this fall over 100,000 film lovers will gather in...
GMALL Presents – Urban Beekeeping

GMALL Presents – Urban Beekeeping

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Madeline Zeif to talk about urban beekeeping, a rapidly growing phenomenon as cities become increasingly environmentally conscious. Since the legalization of beekeeping in New York City in 2018 the industry...
GMALL Presents – Edible Wild Mushroom Lecture

GMALL Presents – Edible Wild Mushroom Lecture

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes chef and mushroom forager Ian Vair to talk about edible wild mushrooms that grow in the northeast. These species have been used around the world for thousands of years. We will discuss many of the most...
GMALL Presents – Dot Mandalas on Pottery Workshop

GMALL Presents – Dot Mandalas on Pottery Workshop

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this dot mandala on pottery workshop. In Buddhist culture, mandalas are said to transmit positive energy to the environment and to the people who view them. They are...
GMALL Presents – Medicinal Wild Mushroom Lecture

GMALL Presents – Medicinal Wild Mushroom Lecture

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes chef and mushroom forager Ian Vair to talk about medicinal wild mushrooms that grow in the northeast. These species have been used around the world for thousands of years. We will discuss many of the most...
GMALL Presents – A Divided America?

GMALL Presents – A Divided America?

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Middlebury College Professor Matthew Dickinson to talk about partisanship in America. Journalists, politicians, and cable-news pundits tell us that America is a deeply divided nation. But is...
GMALL Presents – Dot Mandala on Pottery Workshop

GMALL Presents – Dot Mandala on Pottery Workshop

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this dot mandala on pottery workshop. In Buddhist culture, mandalas are said to transmit positive energy to the environment and to the people who view them. They are...
GMALL Presents – Pet Portrait Painting

GMALL Presents – Pet Portrait Painting

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back artist and teacher Anharad Llewelyn to lead this pet portrait painting workshop. Working from a digital photo of your favorite pet’s face, you will learn how to paint an acrylic portrait...
GMALL Presents – What is Cinema?

GMALL Presents – What is Cinema?

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the screening of ‘What is Cinema?’ This documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman tackles the question of its title with over 100 clips and interviews with filmmakers...
GMALL Presents – Needle Felted Owl Sculpture

GMALL Presents – Needle Felted Owl Sculpture

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this needle felting workshop. We will be crafting a whole “parliament” of wooly owls in this beginner friendly felting workshop. Participants will learn how to make a solid...
GMALL Presents – Introduction to Woodworking

GMALL Presents – Introduction to Woodworking

Green Mountain Academy is excited to welcome back woodworking instructor Jon Mowry to lead this workshop series. This class will provide an introduction to woodworking using both machinery and hand tools. We will explore some of the properties of wood along with basic...
GMALL Presents – Needle Felted Holiday Gnomes

GMALL Presents – Needle Felted Holiday Gnomes

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this needle felting workshop. Perk up your holiday décor with one of these adorable needle felted gnomes. In this beginner friendly workshop, you will learn to create a...
GMALL Presents – Where Folk Art and Modern Meet

GMALL Presents – Where Folk Art and Modern Meet

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Jamie Franklin, curator at the Bennington Museum, to talk about the convergence of folk and modern art. This presentation, originally created in conjunction with the 2014 Bennington Museum exhibition Alice...
GMALL Presents – Dot Mandala on Pottery Workshop

GMALL Presents – Dot Mandala on Pottery Workshop

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this dot mandala on pottery workshop. In Buddhist culture, mandalas are said to transmit positive energy to the environment and to the people who view them. They are...
GMALL Presents – Narcissism in American Culture

GMALL Presents – Narcissism in American Culture

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Bill Freedman to talk about narcissism in America. Several studies and surveys indicate that America is an extraordinarily narcissistic culture, its youth becoming more and more so by the year. What does...
GMALL Presents – Get Outside: Secrets of Aging Well

GMALL Presents – Get Outside: Secrets of Aging Well

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes author and fitness expert Martin Pazzani to talk about the numerous benefits of hiking. In fact, as he himself discovered, walking uphill – hiking – might just be the Fountain of Youth and the pathway to a...
MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival

For one week this fall over 100,000 film-lovers will gather in over 350 cinemas, universities, and museums spanning six continents for one purpose: to view and vote on the ten short films (18 minutes and under) that are finalists in the annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film...
Beginner Ceramics Classes – Fall Workshop #1

Beginner Ceramics Classes – Fall Workshop #1

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this ceramics workshop. Beginning students will learn the basic skills of hand-building, wheel-throwing techniques, surface design and glazing while more advanced students...
Needle Felted Landscape Painting

Needle Felted Landscape Painting

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this workshop. Come “paint” with wool and create a fabulous landscape painting with wool fibers! Using a photograph as a reference, you will learn to transfer the...
Cryptocurrency Unraveled

Cryptocurrency Unraveled

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes economist Peter Radford to help us unravel cryptocurrency. Hardly a day goes by without some reference to cryptocurrency. Bitcoin prices fluctuate. Binance is under investigation. Blockchains proliferate....

State of the Climate 2021

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Edward Cameron to talk about the current state of the climate. 2021 is a landmark year for efforts to address the climate crisis and build a low-carbon, resilient and inclusive economy. In August, the...

The Anthropology of Race, Racism and Ethnic Animosities

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back Dr. Phillips Stevens, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, to talk about the anthropology of race, racism and ethnic animosities. Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism...
Understanding Evil – Part 2

Understanding Evil – Part 2

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back Dr. Bill Freedman for part two of his talk about our understanding of evil. The first talk on evil, mainly historical and theological. focused on the concept as understood by Judaism and Christianity...
The Shakespeare Nobody Knows

The Shakespeare Nobody Knows

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Philip McKnight to talk about the Shakespeare that nobody knows. The first half of this talk will present the many facts and assumptions that are not known about William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon....
Virtual Walking Tour: Main Street, Manchester Center

Virtual Walking Tour: Main Street, Manchester Center

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this virtual walking tour of Main Street in Manchester. Along the west branch of the Battenkill River stretches Main Street in Manchester...
Superduo Beaded Wrap Bracelet

Superduo Beaded Wrap Bracelet

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this bead wrap bracelet workshop. Double the fun in this beading workshop by using the new Superduo 2-hole Czech glass beads to create a multiple wrap bracelet. Beautiful...

The Anthropology of Conspiracy Theories

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Phillips Stevens, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, to talk about the anthropology of conspiracy theories. “Conspiracy Theory” is a common phrase in the news these days; what does it mean?...
Archaeological Boots on the Ground

Archaeological Boots on the Ground

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Rita Wright, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, to talk about archaeology in Afghanistan. The catalyst for this talk is a comment made by an acquaintance of the presenter who asked, “Why do you study...
MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival

Film lovers will unite in over 500 venues worldwide to view and judge the work of the next generation of filmmakers from around the world when the 24th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival takes place for one week this fall. MANHATTAN SHORT is the only film festival...
Understanding Evil – Part 1

Understanding Evil – Part 1

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Bill Freedman to talk about our understanding of evil. This first talk will focus on the early or pre-modern history of the concept of evil, which, in its ancient 2,000+ years, was almost always a...
Virtual Walking Tour: Manchester Village

Virtual Walking Tour: Manchester Village

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this virtual walking tour of Manchester Village. The 1961 Bicentennial marker at the foot of the Soldier’s Memorial in the Village reads: “This...

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