La Cucina at the Market
If you’re passionate about food and cooking, look no further than La Cucina.
Located in the vibrant Reading Terminal Market, La Cucina at the Market, 51 N. 12th St., is Philadelphia’s premier culinary demonstration facility and offers a variety of culinary opportunities, including interactive cooking classes, food demonstrations and a dynamic location to host private parties and corporate events.
Cooking classes include subjects like “Rolling Your Own Sushi,” “The Art of Handmade Fettuccini,” “Sunday Brunch Basics 123” and “Mangiamo In Italiano,” to name a few. Now exclusively partnered with Temple University Center City, La Cucina’s fall class list will be even more extensive.
You can cultivate your passion for food at La Cucina at the Market by visiting www.lacucinaatthemarket.com or calling proprietor Anna Florio at (215) 922-1170.
Drexel School of Medicine
The Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, 3141 Chestnut St., oversees clinical and research programs in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, including HIV.
The division’s HIV clinical site, the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice, is the largest adult HIV-care center in the region, providing medical care and supportive services to more than 1,800 HIV-infected men and women. Services include nutritional assessment, case management, adherence counseling, psychiatric and behavioral health support, family planning, health education, rapid HIV testing and other laboratory services.
Drexel’s clinical research program investigates cutting-edge technologies, vaccines and therapeutic treatments for the management and prevention of HIV and other infectious diseases.
For more information on HIV clinical research, visit www.drexelmed.edu/hiv or call (215) 762-2546.
Jessica Brock-Pitts CPR Instruction
CPR certification is an essential lifesaving skill for people working in health and human services, schools, childcare, fitness and personal training, which is why Jessica Brock-Pitts CPR Instruction offers CPR classes for individuals and groups.
Learning CPR and First Aid is also beneficial for parents, caregivers and babysitters. Whatever your background, Brock-Pitts can help you select a course with the appropriate First Aid, adult, child or infant CPR and AED components to suit your needs.
Courses are offered in Bensalem or at your location for groups of four or more students. If you are interested in getting AHA CPR or BLS certification so that you will have the skills and confidence to be a lifesaver, visit www.phillylifesaver.com or call (215) 409-8043.
PAFA Continuing Education
Whether you’re a beginner, preparing a portfolio for art school or bent on mastering your craft, a continuing-education class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 128 N. Broad St., is the place for you.
Part of a two-century-old tradition of teaching excellence in the fine arts, PAFA Continuing Education features competitively priced classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking for all ages and levels. Workshops are held every weekend on a variety of interesting topics.
Highlights this fall include the History of Photography Seminar class on Monday evenings, an intensive drawing workshop with Timothy Hawkesworth and a Master Class with renowned American realist painter Bo Bartlett.
PAFA is also an authorized provider of professional-development credits for Pennsylvania and New Jersey educators.
For more information, visit www.pafa.org/CE, e-mail [email protected] or call (215) 972-7632.
University of Pennsylvania HIV Prevention Research Division
The University of Pennsylvania HIV Prevention Research Division is one of just 14 research facilities in the U.S. participating in a new study seeking a safe, effective, affordable HIV vaccine. We know HIV vaccines are our best hope of ending AIDS. Why here? Why now? And, most importantly, why should you consider participating?
More than 19,000 Philadelphia AIDS cases (not HIV infections, just AIDS cases) have been reported to the city since the epidemic began in 1981. In 2006, estimates show that at least 200 men who have sex with men were diagnosed with HIV infections in Philadelphia. Even though condoms and good HIV-treatment medicines are available, men continue to become infected with HIV every day in Philadelphia.
Conducting an HIV-vaccine trial is a significant undertaking that requires many resources and a thoughtful understanding of the affected community.
Penn’s HIV Prevention Research Division has longstanding expertise in this kind of project. The staff includes experienced doctors, nurses and researchers as well as first-rate laboratory facilities. As important, the Penn group is highly committed to sustaining an excellent relationship with the LGBT community in Philadelphia.
Having the most committed research team, or even a potentially promising vaccine, is useless unless there are people willing to take the brave step of considering participation in vaccine research studies. Such an opportunity exists right now. Penn is looking for 18- to 35-year-old HIV-negative men who have sex with men to participate in this HIV-vaccine study. You cannot get HIV from the vaccine, but you can play a role in ending the HIV epidemic.
To learn more, visit www.hopetakesaction.org or call Penn at (866) 448-7366.