Arlington Community Education

Imagine burning up to 1,000 calories per hour as you shake, shimmy, slide, and sweat your way through great music that gets your heart pumping and your body moving. Join this energizing and calorie-burning workout session moving to salsa, merengue, swing, and more. You’ll get a total workout through cardio, muscle conditioning, balance, and flexibility and you won’t even realize what a great workout you’re getting because you’ll be having so much FUN! Dances are easy to learn, fun to follow, and gentle on your joints. Open to all fitness levels, no experience necessary.

Spend your Saturday morning baking a traditional British treat that has been featured as a challenge on The Great British Bake Off. We’ll start by making a delicious light sponge cake, then work on carefully cutting and stacking the pieces. Jam holds everything together so that when you cut into a cross section, a distinctive two-by-two pink and yellow check pattern is revealed. The cakes will be finished with a thin rolled layer of marzipan. Enjoy making and eating this delightful cake that was reportedly first made in 1884 to celebrate Prince Louis of Battenberg’s marriage to Princess Victoria, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter and Prince Philip’s grandmother. Please note: A list of ingredients and a list of basic kitchen tools to have on hand will be emailed once the class has reached minimum enrollment.

Let’s go back 163 years to visit this spectacular garden cemetery. We’ll use a popular guide book from 1858, A Handbook for Passengers Over the Cambridge Railroad, to inform the direction of our walk. Each participant will receive a handout with illustrations from this early pamphlet to refer back to as we explore what was recommended to sightseers back then, along with commentary about “everything worthy of observation” in this sacred landscape. As we stroll along Central Avenue and other paths, we will visit the most popular monuments of that period, such as the first life-sized bronze statue cast in America. We’ll discuss how very different the cemetery would have looked to these earlier visitors and yet how the same positive spirit and emphasis on eternity would have been the same. Join us for an appreciation of the “Nature, Art and Affection” that have always been a signature of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Please note: Wear comfortable clothing and appropriate footwear for walking. Meeting location and safety guidelines will be emailed as part of the Registration Confirmation email. All walks meet rain or shine.