You
can learn traditional ceramics from one of the best-known Turkish
women ceramicists, Gunhan Dayioglu.
Anatolian Artisan’s 15-day courses in Istanbul include moulding,
pattern design, painting, glazing and firing. Ms. Dayioglu’s
work is exhibited and collected internationally.
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Rhythm & Motion in San Francisco offers
a wide spectrum of 7-10 week dance workshops
taught by women from all over the world. Recent classes included:
Seventy
percent of the students are women at the Centro Culturale
Giacomo Puccini in Viareggo, Italy. The school,
located just a block from the Mediterranean Sea in Tuscany, starts new sessions
every two weeks and offers five levels of classes taught in
Italian. A German who speaks perfect English, Steffanie Leistner
("Everybody calls me Steffi") manages this Italian
language school for foreigners. Leisure activities enhance
learning and range from spaghetti suppers on the beach to
art history expeditions and Italian films.
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Balinese Textiles. Jean Ingram and her husband
founded Threads of Life to support hand-woven,
natural-dyed textiles made by weavers in Indonesia.
Their gallery is near Ubud’s main temple, and offers
$20 textile appreciation classes about the motifs and
uses of this beautiful cloth.
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Want to study Brazilian dancing in Salvador Bahia Brazil? Tania Santiago teaches workshops there periodically and wonderfully. Tania danced with Olodum for six years and teaches in Northern California when she’s not on her home turf.
Outings will include Candomblé ceremonies,
dance performances, capoeira rodas, and the
island of Itaparica.
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If you have a semester of time and can afford
the tuition, travel to the corners of the world on a ship whose
faculty is committed to education and cross cultural understanding. Semester at Sea offers undergraduate, graduate and continuing
education courses in social sciences and humanities; all earn
credit from the University of Pittsburg. The ship has classrooms,
a library, computer lab, lecture hall, student union, and campus
store. Seventy courses are offered in the fall and spring; 30
in the summer semester. Courses set for 2005 include Women in
Politics and Women and Literature.
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Elderhostel is a
nonprofit that leads Lifelong Learning trips for people over 55
years of age: no tests, no academic credit, but lots of experiential
learning and a chance to learn about peoples, culture, environment
and history via lectures, course-related field trips and cultural
excursions. They offer 10,000 programs a year in about 100 countries.
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