Academy for the Love of Learning Founder and President Aaron Stern shared this letter with participants after our second 20th anniversary offering held on May 20th, “Don’t We Never Learn?” Part II: Learning and Transformation. I continue to be heartened by the generative and deep conversations into which you, our friends and supporters, are willing…
Academy for the Love of Learning Founder and President Aaron Stern shared this letter with participants prior to the second of our anniversary offerings held on May 20th. We hope that you will join us on August 25th for Lenny’s Living Legacy: A Concert Celebration. “Don’t We Never Learn?” Part II: Learning and Transformation A dialogue…
Academy for the Love of Learning Founder and President Aaron Stern shared this letter with participants after the first of our 20th anniversary offerings held on April 29th, “Don’t We Never Learn?” Part I: Trouble in Tahiti. It was a great joy to be with you this past Sunday night at “Don’t We Never Learn?” Part…
Academy for the Love of Learning Founder and President Aaron Stern shared this letter with participants prior to the first of our anniversary offerings held on April 29th. We hope that you will join us on May 20th for “Don’t We Never Learn?” Part II: Learning and Transformation. Trouble in Tahiti In Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble…
In what has become a yearly tradition, I’m writing to share with you my reflections on the work of the Academy for the Love of Learning, and to give you a glimpse into where the Academy is heading in the coming year. 2018 happens to be a very special year, as it marks the 20th anniversary…
Founder’s Blog Celebrating the Academy for the Love of Learning’s 20th Anniversary In this series of blog entries, Academy founder Aaron Stern reflects upon the founding impulses of the Academy and shares images of the future – echoing our 20th anniversary theme – Reflection and Emergence. It was while I was Dean of the American…
Sometime in mid 2015 I felt strongly drawn back to the stupa again. The years had passed, starts and stops… something at the Academy was still incomplete and I felt – and knew – it was time. During the fall of 2015, we were preparing at the Academy for the winter reunion of the Coming…
The other day, I was speaking with Tina, a long-time Academy for the Love of Learning staff member and our bookkeeper. We had just finished the several day ‘filling the stupa’ ceremonies and Tina turned to me to say that she had a file marked “Stupa Budget” that went all the way back to early…
Dear Friends, This is my 16th State of the Academy year-end letter. Traditionally in these letters I give a recap of the year and a glimpse into where the Academy for the Love of Learning is heading in the coming year. This year, in light of these challenging times, I thought it would be meaningful…
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak to a wonderful group of engaged and progressive Santa Fe citizens. They call themselves Journey Santa Fe and they meet weekly at one of our lovely independent bookstores Collected Works. The title of my talk was Bernstein Stories: Poignant and playful stories from the last decade…
