Brain Train Club
Join us as we focus on topics and fun activities targeting all dimensions of brain health. Directly address every function of the brain, including attention, memory, motor skills, visual/spatial skills and executive abilities within the gentle encouragement of a friendly group setting. Receive the latest research updates, the most reliable information on a brain-healthy lifestyle and great suggestions on successfully incorporating brain training into everyday life. Learn to preserve all of your cognitive abilities to live independently and happily into your later years! (Meets every other month alternating with Wellness Club)
Our Clubs are offered online via Zoom. The Club specific Zoom link will be in the Celebration Lifelong Mondays newsletter during Club Week. If you are interested in learning more about how to access a Club via Zoom using different devices, you can click on this link: More Info on Zoom.
Our Fall 2023 Term Brain Train dates are August 29, October 24 and January 2
Facilitator(s): Alexis Saire
Meets Monthly During Club Week on Day: Tu
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Wellness Club
Do your diet and exercise plans fall apart after a few weeks or never get started at all? Would you like to achieve lasting improvement in areas of health and wellness such as fitness, nutrition, energy, quality sleep and stress management? Discover how to clarify your direction, create a realistic plan of action and make permanent lifestyle changes in a positive, non-judgmental group environment. The built-in support system of a group provides accountability, new perspectives and creative strategies to unlock your wellness potential. Be motivated, confident, and empowered as you travel on your journey to health and celebrate your achievements with your Wellness Club! (Meets every other month alternating with Brain Train Club)
Our Clubs are offered online via Zoom. The Club specific Zoom link will be in the Celebration Lifelong Mondays newsletter during Club Week. If you are interested in learning more about how to access a Club via Zoom using different devices, you can click on this link: More Info on Zoom.
Our Fall 2023 Term Wellness Club dates are September 26 and December 5
Facilitator(s): Alexis Saire
Meets Monthly During Club Week on Day: Tu
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Book Club
2023: A Year of Reader’s Choice
Join us to discuss some of our Lifelong members’ treasured books. New members are always welcome!
August 30 – Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier (2010)
From the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. Recommended by Beth Ramos
September 27 – The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
Donna Tartt, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch, writes about a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college who, under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. Recommended by Amy Noznesky
October 25 – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2021)
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Recommended by Julie Himbert
December 6 – Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis (2004)
Strapless is a historical novel about John Singer Sargent’s most famous painting, Portrait of Madame X, and its subject, Virginie Amelie Gautreau, an American expatriate living in Paris. Drawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal. Recommended by Cindy Perry
January 3 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize and 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Demon Copperhead is loosely based on Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, but instead addresses contemporary issues faced by a boy born into poverty in Southern Appalachia. At times hilarious, at times heartbreaking, “Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.” Recommended by Dolores Salvo
Our Clubs are offered online via Zoom. The Club specific Zoom link will be in the Celebration Lifelong Mondays newsletter during Club Week. If you are interested in learning more about how to access a Club via Zoom using different devices, you can click on this link: More Info on Zoom.
Facilitator(s): Dolores Salvo , Don Salvo
Meets Monthly During Club Week on Day: W
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Recipe Club
Are you a good cook? Do you like to cook but always struggle with what to make? Or maybe you are like me, love to eat, love to cook great food, and always on the lookout for new recipes and ways of bringing new life to foods you eat every week.
In this club, guess what? We will meet and share recipes! We can highlight the holidays, feature individual food groups and yes, we can discuss healthy eating and how to alter fattening recipes.
We meet outdoors under a rooftop so we can still have fun getting together and sharing the stories that make them special to us. I see a Celebration cookbook in the making!
Come join Meryl in this club adventure, expand your taste buds and your recipe collection.
Our Fall 2023 Term Recipe Club dates are August 30, September 27, October 25, December 6 and January 3
Facilitator(s): Meryl Rachlin
Meets Monthly During Club Week on Day: W
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
NOTE: This club will be held outdoors.
Film Club
Love films? Join us to discuss a variety of classic and contemporary movies. The title of each month’s featured film will be announced in the Celebration Lifelong Monday newsletter. Please view the movie before its discussion. Don’t forget to bring popcorn and movie candy!
Our Clubs are offered online via Zoom. The Club specific Zoom link will be in the Celebration Lifelong Mondays newsletter during Club Week. If you are interested in learning more about how to access a Club via Zoom using different devices, you can click on this link: More Info on Zoom.
Our Fall 2023 Term Film Club dates are August 31, September 28, October 26, December 7, and January 4
Facilitator(s): Dolores Salvo , Don Salvo
Meets Monthly During Club Week on Day: Th
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Travel Club
Join us on Thursday during Club Week for a discussion about Truly Terrific Travel Tips and Tricks! There will be presentations on a variety of travel topics timed to truly titillate terrific travel thoughts! Join the group to look at the rapidly morphing travel landscape that is changing from one day to the next. These are unprecedented times, and every week that passes presents new opportunities and new threats to our plans and potential travel adventures. Each month this interactive club will dive into a specific topic and will open up for questions and experiences.
Our Clubs are offered online via Zoom. The Club specific Zoom link will be in the Celebration Lifelong Mondays newsletter during Club Week. If you are interested in learning more about how to access a Club via Zoom using different devices, you can click on this link: More Info on Zoom.
Our Fall 2023 Term Travel Club dates are August 31, September 28, October 26, December 7, and January 4
Facilitator(s): Daniel Zagata
Meets Monthly During Club Week on Day: Th
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM