Lotus Education & Arts Foundation “Seeing Red” cochineal-dyed textiles; Lynn Flinders & Lynne Gilliatt, painting; Sharlyn Cheeseman, painting. M-F 9-7; Sat 9-5. Open later and on Sundays when performances are going on.

Memories can get fuzzy as we age, but it doesn’t have to be that way! Regularly challenging ourselves with fun mental exercises keeps our minds running on all four cylinders. In fact, adults who frequently engage in mentally stimulating activities are 63% less likely to develop dementia than those who rarely do such activities (according to a New England Journal of Medicine study). Stacey Goffinet will lead participants in playing trivia games, solving puzzles and other fun activities to maintain a sharp focus and, better memory retention. Games and puzzles are among the best ways to maintain active and productive use of all our mental faculties. Eating healthy foods and exercise can also significantly boost our brain power!

Refreshments will be provided by Comfort Keepers. New players are always welcome! Sponsored by Area 10 Agency on Aging and Comfort Keepers. For more information: call the center at 876-3383 ex. 515.

The class is taught by Carli Astell who has been teaching yoga since 2002. Her classes consist of ashtanga inspired hatha yoga, and vinyasa yoga I and II. In her class the goal is to have fun, be free, and spread love. The class is great for beginners and practiced yogis alike. All levels are welcome and encouraged.

Jorja Fleezanis, leader

Repertoire
Beethoven: Overture to “Egmont, Op. 84”
Merritt*: Lachryme (version for string orchestra, 2002)
Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D.485

*IU Jacobs School alumnus

About the Orchestra Leader

Jorja Fleezanis joined the faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2009 as professor of violin and Henry A. Upper Chair in Orchestral Studies. She was concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1989 to 2009, assuming that position after being associate concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and a member of the Chicago Symphony.

Fleezanis has been guest concertmaster for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony. She has been a frequent guest artist teacher at the Prussia Cove Chamber Music sessions, New World Symphony, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Music@Menlo Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Madeline Island Music Camp, and the Round Top International Festival Institute. She is concertmaster of the Chicago Bach Project, performs annually in France with French pianist Cyril Huvé, and gives frequent recitals with her long-term partner, Karl Paulnack.

The Minnesota Orchestra commissioned two major solo works for her, the John Adams Violin Concerto and Ikon of Eros by John Tavener, the latter recorded on Reference Records. The complete violin sonatas of Beethoven with Huvé were released in 2003 on the Cyprés label. Other recordings include Aaron Jay Kernis’s Brilliant Sky, Infinite Sky on CRI, commissioned for her by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minn., and Stefan Wolpe’s Violin Sonata with Garrick Ohlsson as her partner for Koch International. The world premiere of Nicholas Maw’s Sonata for Solo Violin, commissioned for her by Minnesota Public Radio, was broadcast on Public Radio International’s Saint Paul Sunday in 1998, and in 1999, Fleezanis gave the British premiere at the Chester Summer Festival. Also in 1998, she was the violin soloist in the American premiere of Britten’s recently discovered Double Concerto for Violin and Viola.

Fleezanis has been an adjunct faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Minnesota, and plays a violin made in 1700 by Venetian maker Matteo Goffriller.