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CHESS AT CASA BELVEDERE

Learn to play chess with master instructor Louis Fraser

A two-hour class for all ages: children (age 5 and up), teens, parents, guardians and grandparents will learn together and have fun playing chess. Students will learn the essentials of chess, including vocabulary, rules, etiquette and respect. Parental involvement is welcome and encouraged. Personal chess sets are recommended but are not required.

Chess is played worldwide, including in Italy, where one of the most famous chess games is held annually in Marostica. Click here to learn more.

Four Thursdays at 4:30 pm in the 2^nd floor Galleria “studio with a view”
April 20, April 27, May 4, May 11

Four-week session:
$80 per person members
$100 per person non-members

Learn to Needlepoint at Casa Belvedere! 

Thursdays, May 4 to May 25, 7 to 8:30 pm

$105 members, $120 non-members 

Assisi work is a kind of hand embroidery that originated in Medieval Italy. The technique produces a colored background where the motif in the design is void – that is, left blank. So, you get the color background, and the design stands out because it is not colored. Assisi work was popular as an ecclesiastical embroidery technique, where rich designs would be worked for altar frontals, vestments, and other church uses. The name originates from the town of Assisi, where this technique was often worked in convents responsible for providing church textiles.