Community Ed offers variety of classes

Staff Report
Posted 9/21/18

From self-defense to art to rescuing mythical farm animals, the Community Education Department at Eastern Wyoming College is offering a variety of classes for area residents.

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Community Ed offers variety of classes

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TORRINGTON – From self-defense to art to rescuing mythical farm animals, the Community Education Department at Eastern Wyoming College is offering a variety of classes for area residents.

The entertainment starts Monday, Sept. 24, with the first of four monthly sessions of Chickapig. A chess-like strategy game, players navigate a confounding maze of hay bales, fences and cow manure – and the cow – to escape the board, all while playing defense to confound opponents. 

A new craze, Chickapig is highly recommended by Grammy winner Dave Matthews, who takes the game on all his tours, according to an EWC press release. 

A game for all ages, kids are urged to bring parents and grandparents to play from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 24, with additional game nights Oct. 15, Nov. 19 and Dec. 3 in room 133 of the Career and Technology Education Center on the EWC campus in Torrington. Cost to play is $5.

If board games aren’t your style, from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays beginning Sept. 26 and continuing for six weeks, through Oct. 31, EWC will offer a Beginning Drawing Academy for anyone 15-years-old and older with instructor Forrest Vanier.

Drawing, one of the oldest forms of visual expression, is the foundation of artistic practice. Vanier has chosen two basic and readily-available tools for this specific class – paper and pencil – which will be supplied as part of the $45 class fee. Basic Drawing Academy will meet in CTEC 111 on campus.

On Sept. 27 and Oct. 25, EWC Resource Officer Beth Bryan will coach girls and women in the community in basic self defense. The class will focus on increased levels of personal awareness and reducing chances of winding up in compromising situations in the home, parking lot or elsewhere, according to an EWC press release. 

Bryan will teach basic self-defense techniques, including use of pressure points, with time allotted for practice. People who’ve taken the class previously are encouraged to sign up, to refresh and practice defensive skills, the release said. 

Cost for the two-hour class, scheduled for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. both evenings, is $20. The class will meet at the Torrington Police Department in the Lincoln Community Complex on East D Street in Torrington.

For more information on these or any Community Education classes at EWC, or to register, contact the department office at (307) 532-8323 or stop by in the CTEC building on the campus in Torrington.