What?

Custom classes for non-students taught on campus by GA Upper School faculty & affiliated instructors.

When?

  • Classes take place in October
  • Courses run one & three weeks

Who?

  • Current parents
  • Past parents
  • Alumnae

Adventures in Consciousness: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Teacher: Edwina Foster
Three Tuesdays: Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29 (makeup date: Nov 12)
Time: 7:00-8:30 PM
Tuition: $375

Clarissa Dalloway may initially seem a rather unremarkable, even frivolous, person, but in Virginia Woolf’s hands, she is so much more. Through Clarissa’s thoughts over the course of one day, the thoughts of those within her orbit, and the quite different and tragic life of the former soldier Septimus Smith, Mrs. Dalloway captures Clarissa’s complex humanity while simultaneously revealing to us the lingering effects of the Great War on a recovering London. The novel is inventive, challenging, profound, even mystifying, and also deeply humane and moving. Many students in our Honors English Seminar claim it is their favorite book of the year. 
 
In this class, we’ll read Woolf’s masterpiece over three meetings, finding our way through her (at times) labyrinthine stream-of-consciousness and considering the ways the novel both captures and is ahead of its time. A literary and intellectual adventure!

We will hand out copies of the Penguin Classics Mrs. Dalloway on the first day of class. Additionally, we will send out a PDF of a short reading about a week before the first class. 

The Pizza Lab

Teacher: Josh Pepe
Three Tuesdays: Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29 (makeup date: Nov 12)
Time: 7:00-8:30 PM
Tuition: $375

Pizza is undoubtedly one of the world’s best foods. However, most of the pizza that we eat is mediocre at best. There is a lot that can go wrong when making pizza at home or even in a restaurant for that matter. Careful attention must be paid to ingredients, technique and most importantly, the science behind what really makes an excellent pie. In this three-week course, we’ll focus on how to assemble and bake three different types of pizzas: Detroit, New York and New Haven. Using GA’s state of the art culinary lab and outdoor pizza ovens, you’ll learn a variety of techniques that can also be adapted for use in your home kitchen. By the end of the course, you’ll have a strong foundation in making/shaping dough, selecting/preparing toppings, and sliding pies in and out of the oven. Pizza mastery takes years to achieve, but with the skillset learned in this course, pizza may eventually become part of your culinary wheelhouse. 

Requirements: Making homemade dough to use in class will be strongly encouraged, so having a good stand mixer at home is recommended. 
 

WildFig Floral Workshop

Teachers: Nikki Elkins & Nichole Wilder
One Night Only: Wed Oct 16 (makeup date: Wed Oct 23)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Tuition: $200

Come join celebrated Floral Designer Nichole Wilder, the owner of WildFig Floral, and GA mom Nikki Elkins for a fun-filled floral design workshop. In this 2-hour class you will design your own unique “garden style” arrangement using a wide variety of flowers sourced both locally and from all over the world. 

No experience is necessary—just a love of flowers and a desire to create something beautiful. In the class, Nichole will show how she designs a custom arrangement, and then you will design your own piece using the same elements. She will share her floral tips and tricks of the trade, answer your questions and give you the confidence to elevate your floral styling at home! 

This class has sold out.