Rainbow Lifelong Learning Institute
Boston

Offering Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender seniors and friends the opportunity to build and strengthen community through educational programs and social activities.

Rainbow Lifelong Learning Institute

Are you interested in learning more about the world, its people, their customs? Are there topics you want to explore but don't want a college degree in order to learn? You have come to the right place--a lifelong learning institute filled with curious learners and teachers.

Array of classes across current events, self-development, the arts, literature, and health and wellness
2 ten-week semesters in Fall and Spring
1 five-week semester in Winter
Affordable classes

Registration for our exciting Fall 2022 semester is open! Click on the Current Courses menu item for full details or Click the Register button to sign up for these offerings. The semester starts September 6th.

Why Rainbow Lifelong Learning?

We believe that social connectedness and lifelong learning are vital parts of a healthy lifestyle and aging process.

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Here are the exciting courses we're offering this fall. Classes via Zoom start September 6, 2022. For full course details and registration click any image below.

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What Makes Sondheim Great Act II (Act I not required)

Instructor: Gail Leondar-Wright
The late Stephen Sondheim is commonly thought to be the most important musical theater composer and lyricist of the past fifty years, and the single most influential force in bringing the Broadway musical into the modern era. What makes him great?

Who's afraid of Edward Albee. Read selected plays

Instructor: Jyl Lynn Felman
What does it mean to be a major American playwright of oversized proportions? That's Edward Albee, who's plays ask all the hard, intimate questions about love, loss, and marriage.

Re-visions. Film into Film, Novel into Film.

Instructor: Linda Dittmar
This course explores the literary and cinematic rendition of stories about yearnings and constraints that infused (pre-Stonewall) and continue to affect gay and lesbian lives as they were imagined and re-imagined by their story tellers and by us, their audience, today.

Write on Zoom. Prose writing workshop.

Instructor: Sue Katz
We will be a small group of prose writers who want to take our work to the next level. We'll use a variety of approaches to writing and feedback.

A Global History of Slavery and Abolition

Instructor: Lori Kenschaft
Slavery has existed on at least five continents for thousands of years, and fewer than four percent of the African people who were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean ended up in what would be come the United States. In order to understand the world we live in, we need a more global perspective on slavery and abolition.

"I loved being able to connect with people who shared my interest in Sondheim. The class was the highlight of my week - discussion, presentation, sharing ideas and thoughts."

"Liz’s preparation was amazing. She had obviously spent many many hours choosing sublime snippets from dozens and dozens of Bach’s creations. She offered wonderful tastes that we then could listen to in full on our own."

"I read plays by women/lesbians I had never heard of, with one exception - and I have read a LOT of plays. What pleased me most was the engaged and smart group of women led by an amazing and talented teacher."

Rainbow Lifelong
Learning Institute,
Boston

Rainbow Lifelong Learning Institute
Boston

Offering Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender seniors and friends the opportunity to build and strengthen community through educational programs and social activities.