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The Lagniappe Project was recently featured on WBAL in Baltimore: http://www.wbaltv.com/womansdoctor/19168670/detail.html Continue

The Baltimore Lyceum Classes for Fall of 2008 The Baltimore Lyceum classes are free and open to the public but space is limited. Please call David O’Donaghue at 410-523-4182 to reserve a place in these classes. Or you can email him at: druben2@hotmail.com. Make sure you are committed to attending before you reserve a place. Art Group Open Studio If you enjoy doing art but have found that you just don’t make the time for it, come meet with us every other Saturday afternoon. We meet is a sort o… Continue

For registration information call the Village Learning Place at 410-235-2210. Kitchen Sink Singing Instructor: Andrea (Andy) Cooper Location: TLS Dates Offered: April 5th & May 3rd Time: 7:30-9pm Welcome spring and lift your spirits! Singers of all ages (12 and up) are welcome to join in this folksong-based participatory sing-along, which will include songs (mostly unaccompanied) derived from many traditions: chorus songs, part songs, multicultural songs, rounds, call and response, spiritu… Continue

After months of negotiations, the Baltimore Lyceum has officially replaced the former Baltimore Free University to continue to offer adult education classes in partnership with the Village Learing Place. Johns Hopkins announced that it was withdrawning its sponsorship of the BFU in December of 2007, thus creating a leadership void for future offerings. The Village Learning Place had been working with Hopkins in carrying out the logistics of running an adult education program but it was not prepa… Continue

Ed Kaitz is a Baltimore resident, has been involved in the arts most of his life. He is a musician and amateur painter, and more recently decided to help artists and writers who suffer from depression and related mental health challenges by publishing their work in a Maryland journal he publishes and edits called "Altered I/Altered Eye". He is also a current student of holistic nutrition, and hopes to help others recover from disability through better eating. Continue

Suzanne is a parent of two awesome children, Maria Isadora and Peter Andrews. Maria is an opera singer and graduate of Peabody School of Music; and Peter is an ecologist in California and graduate of Georgia Southern University. Suzanne has learned most of what she knows through learning in the arts. She has been an art teacher at Cross Country School School for eight years now. She has also taught at Chesapeake College, Catonsville Community College, and Calvert School. She thinks that art is t… Continue

Before I share the bio Anne wrote about herself. let me just introduce her by saying she was a vital part of the administration team of the New Orleans Lyceum. not only did she teach and participate in many of the classs but she also helped make administrative decisions about the scheduling and maketing of Lyceum activites. She wrote articles for our monthy magazine column. He most memorable contributions were the fantastic salons she threw as open houses to introduce a new term's offering and i… Continue

Moziah Saleem is a professional percussionist who has played with such names as Afrikan Zulu, The Oakridge Boys, The Wailers, Neil Young, Ashford and Simpson, Bruce Hornsby and The Neville Brothers. He lived and toured out of Nashville, Tennessee for twenty years before returning to his hometown of Baltimore, where he started teaching young people and adults the meaning and power of the drum. Moziah’s current Talking Drums Program introduces students to the history, art form and language of the… Continue

We had our first meeting in the courtyard of Levering Hall on the Johns Hopkins Campus last Sunday and we had a very interresting discussion of integrity. We will be meeting evey Sunday from 4:00 to 5:30 through Nov. 4th. All are welcome Continue

My grandmother used to say "So, are you smiling?" at the end of every phone conversation. She's been gone for many years, but think of the value of such a short, sweet question. A reminder to enjoy the little things in life; take a breath and find something to smile about. Of course, she also said "This too shall pass," which conjures up other emotions, less happy but also reassuring. Let's hear it for Jewish grandmothers! She may have fed us all enough trans fats to clog our arteries with blint… Continue

David is a Jungian oriented clinical psychologist with a masters degree in art therapy and a nearly completed second doctorate in philosophy. He worked as a clinician for eighteen years combining an existential/archetypal approach to treatment. He is one of the founders of the philosophical counseling movement which uses the wisdom of philosophy in working with life dilemmas. He has also extensive experience teaching as a core faculty member of Antioch University Graduate Program in Counseling P… Continue