Lectures & Workshops

Thursday, February 12 at 11am

Financial Abuse and Exploitation

The lecture explores financial abuse and exploitation, explaining what it is, how it occurs, and who is most at risk. It will highlight common warning signs, real world examples and practical steps for prevention, support and reporting. The session aims to raise awareness and empower individuals and professionals to recognize and respond effectively to financial harm.

$10 Registration Fee

Thursday, February 26th at 11am 

Understanding The Supreme Court
 This lecture will examine the evolving role of the U.S. Supreme Court in American history. Our objective will be to get a better sense of how the Court works, how it deals with (or fails to deal with) controversial issues and how the "least dangerous branch" has secured its unique place in the American constitutional structure.

$10 Registration Fee

Thursday, March 12th at 11am 

Haunted Theatres on Broadway

Each night after the applause dies, the curtain falls, the audience vanishes, the cleaners dust and the lights are killed, great theaters become dark and silent places. But not always quite empty.  

That’s when the theater ghosts make their entrance and strut and fret their hour upon the shadowed stage, illuminated only by the ghost light, the solitary lamp that is required to burn through the night on every Broadway stage. Many of the busiest theaters continue to be just as busily haunted by spirits, some with well-known names and histories. 

Some of the most entertaining spirits of this world—or the next—can be found in Robert Viagas’ entertaining talk, The Ghosts of Broadway, about the real-life (and real death) stories of the ghosts who haunt theatres around the world.

Meet womanizing ghost David Belasco, the laughing ghost of the St. James Theatre, the phantom audience that died in a fire at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, the “Black Goon” of Disney’s New Amsterdam Theatre, the ghost cat who haunts the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and Olive Thomas, the flirtatious spirit of a Ziegfeld showgirl, who appears only to men and who greeted the author by shaking scenery backstage at the Broadway theatre she still haunts to this day.

$10 Registration Fee

Thursday, April 16th at 11am 

Artificial Intelligence: How it affects pop culture and current affairs

We’ve all grown up with AI as a movie villain or comic relief sidekick. But what happens when those stories shape how we actually think about technology? This talk looks at the gap between Hollywood’s imagination and the reality of AI, why that disconnect matters for our future, and how we can start asking smarter questions about the tools we’re building.

$10 Registration Fee

Tuesday, March 3rd from 4pm - 7pm  

Training with Officer Luis Llano

The American Heart Association’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate breaths and ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. The course reflects science and education from the 2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

$30 Registration Fee

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