MONDAY  10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Facilitator: Elizabeth Vines
Format: Zoom only. Not recorded.
Participant Limit:  12

Sharing the joys and concerns of grandparenting, this participatory, discussion-based group will
focus on the challenges, joys and frustrations of being a grandparent in today’s world with a special emphasis on building fellowship among the group.

MONDAY  11:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Instructors: LifeQuest staff
Format: Zoom. Recorded.

New to Zoom? Want to take classes, but aren’t sure how? Join this stress-free and fun tutorial to learn and practice the skills needed to participate in online learning at LifeQuest.
Class Zoom ID# 985 5595 4867
Password: lifequest (all lowercase)

TUESDAY  9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Instructor: Rabbi Gene Levy
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

Did Eve eat an apple? Did Moses have horns? Did a real whale swallow Jonah? Are there only Ten Commandments? Did the Prophets forecast long-term events to come? In a fun and engaging way, we will examine these and a number of other myths, mistranslations, misconceptions, and misunderstandings that have found their way into the Bible and have lodged themselves in our culture for centuries.

TUESDAY  9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Instructor:  Kenneth Williams
Format:  Zoom and Facebook.  Recorded.
Participant Limit:  16

Learn how to make a great sketch and keep a travel sketchbook journal wherever you go. We will "virtually" visit a different country or city in each class, learning important sketching principles along the way. The class will offer practical advice on materials and techniques gleaned from years of travel sketching experience. Live demonstrations will be combined with discussion and sketchbook examples. Students will make their own travel sketchbook during the session, filling it with sketches and brief diary accounts of the places we visit and the adventures we may experience on our journey to distant lands.  Time will be set aside to share our work and adventures.

TUESDAY  10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Instructors:  Charlie Frith, Dan Harpool, John Mize and Bill Owens
Format: Zoom and Facebook.  Recorded.

Computer technology exists in every part of our lives, whether to solve problems or cause frustrations! There is so much to learn, and these experts can help:
April 6 Intro to the 21st Century,
John Mize
April 13 Listening & Watching with Mobile Devices,
Bill Owens
April 20 Home Entertainment,
John Mize
April 27 Windows, Mac, & Chromebooks,
Charlie Frith
May 4 Learning Cool Things Online,
John Mize
May 11 Home Automation,
Charlie Frith
May 18 Digital Transactions,
Bill Owens
May 25 Cybersecurity for Everyone,
Dan Harpool

TUESDAY   10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Instructors:  Catherine Lowery and Mary Jane Cole,
Format:  Zoom.  Not recorded.
Participant Limit:  16

Understanding the motivations and dynamics of different personality types is crucial in relationships, whether with intimate partners, friends or in our professional lives. This series is for those who completed Enneagram-Part 1 in Fall of 2020, know their Enneagram number, and have done work with the teachings. The six-part study will be based on Suzanne Stabile’s book titled The Path Between Us and the accompanying Study Guide. Both are required and available on Amazon.

TUESDAY  11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Instructor:  Rick Leach
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

Explore a great span of art history, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century! In just eight weeks, we’ll conduct a survey of Western European art and architecture.  Learn about many of Western civilization’s most notable artists and artwork.

TUESDAY  12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
Various Instructors and “Tour Guides” 
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

No entrance fees, lines, masks, or parking. Join us as we Zoom to interesting and exciting museums for virtual visits with curators who will take us on tours and share their plans for the future: Crystal Bridges, Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Toltec Mounds, Esse Purse Museum, MacArthur Military Museum, and a fun tour of the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis!

TUESDAY  1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Instructor:  Sean LeCrone,  
Format:  Zoom and Facebook. Recorded.
​​​​​​​Participant Limit:  16

Can you really improve your painting skills through an online class? With a talented teacher and artist as your guide, YES! Join Sean each week to learn, create, be inspired, and expand your own artistic repertoire.

TUESDAY  1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Instructor:  Dr. Fred Silva,  
Format:  Zoom, Facebook. Recorded.

Let’s explore great ideas, thinkers, researchers, and arguments for science and religion within these selected topics:

Relationships: Contrasts, Comparisons, Misconceptions, and Transgressions
The Galileo Affair
Darwin, Evolution, Life, and Intelligent Design
Newton, Einstein and the Scientific Revolutions
Medicine, Genetics, Ethics, and Our Future Health
The Neurosciences in Religion, the Brain, Out of Body Experiences, and the Soul

WEDNESDAY  9:00 - 9: 45 a.m.
Instructor :  John Brummett
Format: Facebook. Recorded.

Join us in the private LifeQuest Spring 2021 Facebook group to hear a thoughtful analysis of the week’s news across the state and beyond. Be sure to join this private Facebook group before class begins.

WEDNESDAY  9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Facilitator:  Sheila Peters
Format: Zoom. Not recorded.
Participant Limit:  12

External silence is increasingly difficult to find in our noisy world. Learn ways to quiet the mind and open the heart to discover the wisdom and love that resides in each of us. Weekly guidance provided through readings from spiritual teachers, with the focus of the class on discussion and practicing silence. Both beginning and seasoned contemplatives are invited.

WEDNESDAY  10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Instructor:  Rosemary Rogers
Format: Zoom. Not recorded. 
Participant Limit:  18
Materials Fee:  $15

Read and discuss selections of literature by classic and modern authors.
Limit 18 | Materials Fee: $15

WEDNESDAY  10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Various Speakers 
Format:  Zoom, Facebook. Recorded.

This series will highlight the diverse talents of several Central Arkansas Library System staff members who work at the downtown Little Rock Library Square campus.

April 7 Mark K. Christ: This Day We Marched Again: The Diary of Jacob Haas, 9th Wisconsin Infantry
April 14 Heather Zbinden: Personal Treasures Organized: Getting a Handle on Personal Archiving
April 21 Brian Robertson: The Arkansas Vietnam Project
April 28 Colin Thompson: Bronze Sculptures in the CALS Art Collection
May 5 Benji de la Piedra: Herbert Denton Jr., a Little Rock Journalist at the
Washington Post during Watergate
May 12 Benji de la Piedra: Understanding Herbert Denton Roots through the Writings of Ralph Ellison
May 19 Heather Zbinden: More Than the Census: Genealogy Databases You Might Not Know About
May 26 Mark K. Christ: Our First Whiff of Gunpowder: The Skirmish at Orient Ferry

WEDNESDAY  11:00 - 11:45 p.m.
Various Instructors:  The "LifeQuest Law Crew"
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose. Learn about the strategies and campaigns that almost worked, but didn’t.

April 7 Henry Clay (1824, 1832 & 1844), Pat Goss
April 14 Stephen Douglas (1860), Dick Williams
April 21 Samuel Tilden (1876), Dick Williams
April 28 Adlai Stevenson (1952 & 1956), Phil Kaplan
May 5 Wendell Willkie (1940), Fred Ursery
May 12 Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan (1864),
Pat Goss
May 19 Alf Landon (1936), Fred Ursery
May 26 William Jennings Bryan (1896, 1900 & 1908), Dent Gitchel

WEDNESDAY  11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Instructor :  Judy Langford-Brodie 
Format:  Zoom.  Not recorded.
Participant Limit:  8
Materials Fee:  $40

Are you a card maker with intermediate experience who is missing the enjoyment of creating with
others?  Join us for a weekly Zoom class focusing on everyday, fun-fold and holiday cards with some 3D projects thrown in for added fun.  We will make two projects each week.  Cut cardstock, envelopes and die cuts included in class fee.  A list of other supplies needed will be emailed to you.   
Limit 8 | Materials Fee: $40 

WEDNESDAY 12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
Various Guest Speakers
Format: Facebook. Recorded.

Free and open to the public. May be viewed on the public LifeQuest of Arkansas Facebook page.

April 7       Roby Brock with Talk Business and Politics
April 14     Vaccine Hesitancy with Dr. Joe Smyser
April 21     Folk Musicians Rich Roy and Kirk Furr
April 28     Author Dr. Joanna Seibert will speak on Spirituality of Aging

WEDNESDAY  1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Instructor​​​​​​​:  Larry Walton
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

Remember sports? Feeling the itch to talk about stats, teams, players, and coaches? Join Larry and guests to discuss all things sports. College, high school, popular, and lesser-known sports are all in the mix!

WEDNESDAY  1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Facilitator:  Mary Sha Moriarty 
Format:  Zoom.  Not recorded.
​​​​​​​Participant Limit:  14

Bring your curiosity, open-mindedness and love for books and reading! Plan to meet every other week. We’ll send a suggested book list before class begins.

WEDNESDAY  2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Instructor:  Tom Cox 
Format:  Zoom, Facebook. Recorded. 

In our new Zoom community, let’s explore how elements essential to a thriving creative process in jazz piano and other fine arts are equally essential and available to us for our survival in critical times.

THURSDAY 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Facilitator :  Tina Coffin
Format:  Zoom. Not recorded.
Participant Limit:  16

This class is part creative writing, part memoir, and ALL fun!  Share your work, successes and roadblocks along the way. 

THURSDAY  9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Instructor:  Marcie Smith
Format:  Zoom. Not recorded.
​​​​​​​Participant Limit:  10

Conversational Spanish is not a beginning course but best suited for people with some prior Spanish
language experience.

THURSDAY  10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Instructor:  Alan Eastham, U.S. Ambassador, Ret.
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

With a new U.S. President and Vice President making news and a global pandemic rolling on, there is MUCH to talk about.  Join the discussion based on current newsworthy topics, interspersed with historical themes, and foreign policy theory.

THURSDAY   11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Facilitator:  Lynn Senn
Format:  Zoom. Not recorded.
Participant Limit:  12

This book by Parker Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds. “Old is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time to dive deep into life, not withdraw to the shallows.” Plan to buy the book and read the Prelude on your own before class.

THURSDAY  11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Instructor:  Chuck Chappell
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

Several important American poets whose works have appeared in print between 1900 and the present day explore various dilemmas and decisions in their narrative verse.  During each class period we will examine and discuss one poem of medium length or two shorter poems.  The poem for the first day is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.  Other poets represented during the course include William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, and James Dickey.  Poetry lovers of LifeQuest, unite!  You have nothing to lose but your literary inhibitions. 

THURSDAY  12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
Various speakers from AHH
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  Recorded.

Healthcare providers from Arkansas Heart Hospital (AHH) share their knowledge and medical expertise on a variety of topics: cardiac risk factors, women and heart disease, nutrition, vein health, etc. AHH patients have access to advanced technology and surgical techniques in a hospital specially designed for their treatment and recovery. We welcome their participation as a LifeQuest sponsor and educational partner for the benefit of our community and LifeQuest members.

THURSDAY  1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Instructors:  Suzanne Yung and June Brown
Format:  Zoom, Facebook.  

This is a recording of a previous class and will repeat each week. Learn the slow, rhythmic movements of Tai Chi Northern Wu Tai Chi and the 13 Golden Postures. Experience the benefits Tai Chi provides in improving balance, posture and mobility.

THURSDAY  2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Instructor:  Linda King, RYT 200 
Format:  Zoom, Facebook. Recorded.

Love yoga but prefer not to get up and down from the floor? Then chair yoga is for you! Use a chair to breathe, stretch, and build strength. Modifications will be made, where possible, for those with greater mobility and prefer to stand as well as move to the floor.

THURSDAY  1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Instructor:  Jeanne Rollberg
Format:  Zoom, Facebook. Recorded.

How well do you know your family history? Let’s discover important online resources and strategies to help build your family tree, conduct collaborative research, and learn about “roots tourism.” We’ll explore how to: discover and verify your personal family heritage; use social media, books, and cemetery records in your research; use news-papers to break down “brick walls”;  locate elusive female
ancestors; document your immigrant ancestors; and uncover the activities of wanton and wicked ancestors who lived lives to the fullest. 

THURSDAY  2:00 - 4:45 p.m.
Instructors:  Debbie Strobel, Susan Hurst
Format:  Zoom and Facebook.  Recorded.

Pastels combine the best of painting and drawing so the art form may be called both. Learn about supplies and techniques to create your own pastel work of art. We’ll practice together sharing discoveries and honing our skills through demonstrations.