When should I apply for Social Security? How can I maximize my benefits? How will this affect my spouse? You have a lot of questions to answer. Mistakes can be costly. We can provide the guidance you need. Join us for the FREE onehour presentation, Social Security: Strategize to Maximize, designed for adults 40 – 70 who want to learn how to sort through the options to ensure that their choices are tailored to their needs. Questions? Call Kaitlin, 434-1940 Your Retirement Income
Session 1: June 12, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Session 2: July 31, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Optimize it. Protect it. Enjoy it! This educational workshop was created for pre-retirees and recent retirees (one to five years into retirement), ages 50 and older, to help them take steps to manage their retirement savings – for life. This FREE 90-minute workshop is designed to help you gain a better understanding of a retirement income distribution framework that accounts for your time horizon, needs and goals, how to build a floor of guaranteed income that will last a lifetime, and the importance of a growth strategy for near-term and long-term gains. Questions? Call Kaitlin, 434-1940. PHOTOGRAPHY
DIGITA AL PH HOTTOG GRAP PHY WITH H BRE ENT PA AULLL
Location: Instructor: Ages: Fee: Sessions:
Live Oak Room Brent Paull 16Y+ $42/session See below
Digital Photography – Beginning
June 26, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. This class will teach you digital photography and move you beyond just taking snapshots. Camera use, lenses and equipment, tripods, understanding how exposure works, learning composition, etc. An a/v show accompanies the seminar with hundreds of photo examples. You are welcome to bring your cameras.
clients, create gallery websites to showcase your work, use advanced techniques in sales and marketing to sell your images to your clients and target markets. Learn how to submit images to stock agencies, how to write a query for a magazine photo/article package, and how to maximize your sales to clients when shooting portraiture for weddings, families, and seniors. Understand the details on how to charge for sittings and enlargements, collect money, detail business deductions, and become skilled in what equipment you need or don’t need for your business. This class also deals with home/garage studios and the equipment needed to set one up. Women’s Empowerment & Self Defense
Session 1: June 23 Session 2: July 21 Session 3: August 25
Processing Digital Images
BREN NT PA AULL’S aw warrd-w winnin ng photo o
July 31, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Adobe Elements has become the top selling digital photo processing program in the world. This low-cost software incorporates many creative photo editing and processing tools. Learn how to adjust the brightness, contrast, color, and shadows in your images. Adding graphics like text, sharpening images, and removing distracting elements are all made easy. You are welcome to bring some of your own images on a USB drive to be processed in class.
Maximize your chances of avoiding a sexual assault! RISE, formerly called the Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention Center/North County Women’s Shelter, proudly offers this four-hour workshop to help empower and protect women in our community. This workshop will focus on improving your awareness and assertiveness skills, and will also teach physical techniques that can help you escape a dangerous situation. Remember – your best weapon is yourself: your mind, your voice, and your body! Open to all women, ages 12 and up. Questions? Call Marisa at RISE, 226-5400, ext. 305.
ADULT
Session 1: Thur., July 24, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Session 2: Thur., Aug. 28, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Brent Paull, award-winning photographer, will show you how to improve your techniques in taking photos and refining them, and will show you how to take it to the next level by starting your own photography business. Feel free to bring photos to class for Brent to critique! Questions? Call Brent, 1-559-909-5208.
Recreation
Social Security
$10 donation for materials payable to RISE.
Business of Photography
September 4, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Many photographers would love to make money from their photography. This seminar will teach you how to advertise your photography business and gain
www.prcity.com/recreation
Location: Instructor: Ages: Days: Time: Fee:
Live Oak Marisa Balmana 12Y+ Mon.. 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. $12
Activity Guide, June - August 2014
51