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For many students, the past year of remote instruction has made learning math even more difficult than usual. At Mathnasium of Oak Park/River Forest, owner Jana Frank and her team of compassionate instructors have found a way, ever in this most challenging year, to alleviate student stress and “Make Math Make Sense” for local kids of all ages.

According to Frank, the biggest issue they faced with online learning was encouraging student participation.

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Currently Mathnasium has opened back up with a limited number of students on site to maintain safe social distance protocols. Next year Frank hopes to be back to the vibrant experience of in-person instruction, though, she emphasizes, the online option is not going away.

“Remote learning is especially useful,” she says, “for parents who are unable to get their students to the center or for kids who have super packed schedules, so we are excited to be able to offer these very flexible options.”

More than ever, this summer is the time for students to hone their math skills and get a jump on the school year. Schedule a FREE TRIAL SESSION for your student to see if Mathnasium is the right fit for your family this summer.

Please call or email as soon as possible as all summer programs are currently 15% off through the end of April!

Mathnasium of Oak Park/River Forest is at 1101 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, (708) 613-4007. Visit mathnasium.com/ oakparkriverforest

A Summer of Unforgettable Adventures Awaits at RFCC!

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Part-Time (2 – 4 hrs.)

Full-Time (6 – 11 hrs.)

Breakfast Club (15 mos. – 2 yrs) Parent and Tot Camp M,W : 9:00am–10:00 am

Young Voyagers (3 yrs. - 1st gr.)

M-F: 10:00am– 4:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Three For All (3 yrs.)

M,W: 10:15am–12:15pm T,Th : 9:30am–11:30am

Adventure Camp (2nd – 4th gr.)

M-F: 10:00am-4:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Little Explorers (4 & 5 yrs) M-Th: 9:00am-11:30am

Urban Safari (5th – 8th gr.)

M-F: 10:00am – 4:00pm & 4:00pm-6:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Summer Scene (K – 7th grade) M-F: 12:00pm-4:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Unforgettable Adventures from June 14th– August 20th Arts & Crafts, Games, Sports, and More!

River Forest Community Center 8020 Madison Street River Forest, IL 60305 708-771-6159 www.rfcc.info

iver Forest Community Center offers unforgettable adventures in part-time camp programs for either parents & tots (ages 15 months to 2 years) or preschool children ages 3 to 5. Full day adventures await older children ages Kindergarten through 8th grade!

RFCC provides age-appropriate activities designed to encourage positive group interactions as well as foster individual growth. Activities can include Arts & Crafts, Games, Sports, Special Events, and more!

Our leaders thrive on creating a safe and fun learning environment through play, in which children are encouraged to explore and develop their cognitive, language, social-intellectual and motor skills. Our mission is to provide a hands-on approach to learning which allows children to explore their environment while enhancing social, emotional, cognitive and motor development.

Extended care options are available for children in Kindergarten through 8th grade. Unforgettable adventures for all run from June 14 through August 20!

For more information, please see our website at www.rfcc.info or call 708771-6159.

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Register now for OPRF Alliance team tryouts: Fall ’21 – Spring ’22 season! May tryout dates. All Alliance players have access to coach-supervised summer clinics and scrimmages before the Fall season kick off in August.

Alliance Offers: • Summer clinics • Summer scrimmages • August pre-season training

• Winter training & indoor games • Spring training & games • Tournament play

• Fall training & games

Summer Clinics (M-F morning) • June 14 to June 18

Teams Next Year (birth year): High school Boys (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007)

2009 boys

High school Girls (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007)

2010/11 boys

• Sunday evenings

2008 boys

2012 girls

• Monday evenings

2009 girls

2013 girls

• June 21 to June 25 • June 28 to July 2 • July 26 to August 8 (evenings)

Summer Scrimmages

2010 girls

2011 girls

• More dates will likely be added

OPRF ALLIANCE is a community of families and competitive travel soccer. The club was started in fall 2012 by a small group of soccer skilled adults who wanted to create an affordable traveling soccer option for area families. Our coaches are professionally trained, they are skilled and dedicated. They coach for the love of soccer, a belief in community soccer and a passion for training kids to play at a high level. Our coaches are invested in our community and their teams.

Check our website for tryout dates, details and registration: www.oprfalliancesoccer.com/ We are always looking to add more teams and more motivated coaches: oprfalliancesc@gmail.com

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Working and teaching together at ViaClay

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iaClay Community Pottery Studio is located just south of downtown Oak Park in the Pleasant-Home District at 208 South Marion Street. The newly expanded 4,000 sf studio offers students and members an engaging and bright communal workspace. ViaClay’s Kids Camps and adult classes begin in June 2021 and teachers Sarah Luepker, Bridget Doherty, Pennie Ebsen, and Emily Christopherson look forward to welcoming potters at all ages and levels of experience.

“We had such a great response last year even during the pandemic, that when we learned the storefront to the north of us was available, we decided to expand,” explains studio manager John Beck. Beginning in mid-May, John and owner Gabe Tetrev will be welcoming families to tour ViaClay’s freshly renovated dedicated classroom space outfitted with new pottery wheels and other equipment.

viaclay.com Community Pottery Studio 208 South Marion • Oak Park info@viaclay.com (708) 434-5848 Gabe Tetrev, owner, and teacher Sarah Luepker

“It’s great to see these blocks at Marion and Pleasant come back to life after such a challenging winter,” owner Gabe says. This year, Gabe’s own studio GP Tetrev Pottery, until recently at 159 Oak Park Avenue, has also moved to the expanded ViaClay space. “We’re excited to have everyone working and teaching together, and to bringing the retail experience to ViaClay more easily now that we’ve consolidated locations.” John and Gabe plan “popup” sales of members’ ceramic work at ViaClay throughout the year. The first Studio Sale and Kiln Opening event is scheduled for Sunday, May 30, 10a – 5p at 208 South Marion.

For more information on Kids Camps or to schedule a studio tour, visit ViaClay’s website at www.viaclay.com, or call or email John Beck at john. beck@viaclay.com or (708) 434-5848.

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Ovation Academy for the Performing Arts

ow in its sixth year, Ovation Academy provides both kids and adults with high quality performing arts training and unforgettable musical theater experiences. Each year over 500 local families attend its wide range of classes, camps, rehearsals, workshops, and private lessons. According to the academy’s founder and executive director Tina Reynolds, “Imagination, creativity, and inspiring magic is what we do best.”

In 2019, Ovation moved from the basement of the Oberweiss store on Oak Park Avenue into its gorgeous new home in the Madison Street Theater building, which features two fully equipped theaters as well as ample classroom and studio space. A fencedin courtyard provides additional activity space during fair-weather days.

As with all performing arts groups, the pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to Ovation. A quick pivot to zoom-based learning in 2020 slowly evolved into a mix of both virtual and in-person programming, including mandatory masks, temperature checks,

plexiglass barriers, social distancing, and a new air filtration system. When its hvac system broke down this past winter, the community stepped up and crowd-funded the $60,000 needed to replace it and heat the building for our students. Ovation is grateful for the unwavering support of its families, whose dedication and loyalty have kept it alive during these challenging times.

Summer camp at Ovation is a time for kids aged 5-14 to discover the joy of musical theater anew. With a mix of theater games, skill-building workshops and rehearsals, kids can learn, grow and make lasting friendships along the way. Every camp culminates in a fully produced musical theater production, with a limited capacity audience in attendance to celebrate the kids’ achievements. Join us this summer and get ready to make memories that will last a lifetime!

Ovation Academy for the Performing Arts 1010 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302 708.222.7564 www.ovationacademy.org

Draw out your briliance at Masterclass Workroom

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e at Masterclass Workroom believe that creativity is a basic function of being human. Creativity is a fundamental factor in expressing and developing oneself fully. When practiced regularly, it is nourishment and therapeutic for our souls. Being creative is a skill that can be honed and is not only used to express artistic vision; it can be used to solve problems in all aspects of one’s life.

Masterclass Workroom was conceived to provide a beautiful, safely communal space to create and hone skills, using the most exquisite materials. Each of our small classes is project-based, focused on a specific technique and skill. We gently guide students to develop each technique in their own unique way, making the project a reflection of them. Techniques are taught in a way that students can see multiple applications and contexts to use in other classes or when they are

off flying on their own creative journey.

We offer classes in a multitude of mediums: sewing, jewelry making, leather work, fiber arts such as weaving, punch needle, crochet and locker hooking, and elevated paper crafts including paper vessels, paper flowers and card making.

Our teachers have years of experience as professional artists and beautiful humans, eager to encourage and draw out the creative brilliance that we all have within us.

Visit our website www. masterclassworkroom.com to view classes, or email us for custom classes and special groups: artisanmasterclass@gmail.com.

Masterclass Workroom Elevated craft classes for teens and adults Sewing Weaving Quilting Jewelry Coiled Rope Bowls

Paper Boxes Paper Flowers Locker Hooking Punch Needle Leather Work

www.masterclassworkroom.com

For inquiries regarding custom classes and custom groups: artisanmasterclass@gmail.com

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The perfect summer to start taking Language or Music lessons!

The Language and Music School has been a center of arts learning in Oak Park for over 25 years.

Now, at one of Oak Park’s most historic locations, Oak Park’s only arts castle, a revival Tudor mansion, it is no wonder past clients have called us “incredible”, “The most beautiful institution in Oak Park, it would not be Oak Park without it” - William, adult student “My daughter has been going to school here for almost 7 years.

Maria and Brando are so amazing.

They put so much care and effort into every part of the education the students receive. We were so lucky to discover this school. Aside

“welcoming”, “Great with children and adults”. In 2020, our founders were called “Visionary” in the Chicago Tribune.

Here is a recent review (we have a 5 star average on Google and Facebook!):

from the immersion program my daughter has taken several types of music lessons and all the teachers have been awesome. This school is one of my daughters favorite places and we could not be happier.”

- Keri Ann, mother of 8 year old student

Do not hesitate to call to learn about our private lessons today!

This summer is the best time to start learning a language or instrument!

LANGUAGES CURRENTLY OFFERED: Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Sign Language, Coding, E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) INSTRUMENTS CURRENTLY OFFERED: Piano, Voice, Harp, Banjo, Violin, Trumpet, Cornet, Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, Drum Set, African Drums, Saxophone, Clarinet, Viola, Cello, Oboe, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, Electric Guitar, Harmonica, Recorder, Ukulele, Music Composition, Ear Training, Music Theater, Music Therapy. All Band & Orchestra Instruments TUTORING CURRENTLY OFFERED: E.S.L., Math, Reading, Writing, Language Arts, Advanced College Science, Audition Prep, Theater Scene Study, Drawing, Marketing

The Language and Music School At

509 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park info@internationalmansion.com • (708) 524-5252 • InternationalMansion.com

•Private Music Lessons • Foreign Language Lessons • Academic Tutoring

The Language and Music School At 509 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park info@internationalmansion.com • (708) 524-5252 • InternationalMansion.com