About:  Juicing is a tasty way to enrich your body with essential vitamins and minerals, which can boost your energy, kick-start your metabolism, and set you on the path to wellness. Juicing for Beginners is your comprehensive workshop, with several easy recipes and all the nutritional information you need to get started. In simple, practical steps, you’ll learn the ins and outs of detoxes, cleanses, and healthy smoothies, along with profiles on the revitalizing properties of key juicing ingredients. 

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Type: workshop

Limit: 10 seats available per class

When: We repeat this class once a month. 

Tuesdays: May 17, July 13, September 13, November 22 at 3:30pm

Sundays: April 24, June 26, August 28, October 30 at 2pm

Length: 1:15 hours

Instructor: Cristina Macena, is a Nutrition Educator and Natural Juice Therapy Practitioner. She has been juicing for the last 15 years and has prepared many juices for the people who come to the Urban Life Center Juice Bar!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave Baltimore, MD

Fee: FREE

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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS

About:  Dream it, believe it, do it! Goal Setters, Dream Achievers - Women in Leadership was developed by the Urban Life Center and is designed to build on a woman’s inherent talents and strengths. The skills you learn here will help you become more effective, more confident and more successful.

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Type: monthly seminars for women in leadership

Limit: 12 seats available

When: TBA

Time: TBA

Length: 1 hour

Leaders: Women in Leadership

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave Baltimore, MD

Fee: FREE

Food: All participants will have a $2 discount on any item in the Juice Bar menu.

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About: : Learning to cook a plant-based meal is easier than ever before. Plant-based cooking is easy, affordable and fun! Classes will teach you the basics of a plant-based diet and how to cook wholesome, delicious food! From breakfast to main courses to desserts!

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Type: workshop

Limit: 8 seats available

When: This workshop is offered on different dates throughout the year:  June 7, August 9, October 4, December 6, 2022

Time: 4pm to 5:30pm

Length: 1 1/2 hours workshop

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore MD 

Instructor: Cristina Macena is a Nutrition Educator and Natural Juice Therapy Practitioner. She has been juicing for the last 15 years and has prepared many juices for the people who come to the Urban Life Center Juice Bar!

Fee: FREE

More info: cpmacena@urbanlifecenter.org

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CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS

About: Do you want to take your influence and business further?  Learning how to speak and have conversations in Spanish will do just that!  In this course, you will learn the building blocks for speaking Spanish, including grammar, tenses, conjugations, and more.  

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Type: classes

Limit: max 12 people

When: Wednesday

Starting Date: March 30, 2022

Time: 6pm

Length: 4 weeks

Leader: John Rengifo has taught ESL and Spanish classes since his days in college. You will learn in a fun and friendly environment.  

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave Baltimore MD

Fee: Free

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About: With thousands of unique recipes and fun ways to prepare food, a plant-based diet is not restricted to tofu and salad. Natural Lifestyle Cooking Class provides a low-cost, training course filled with cooking demos, up-to-date information on diet crazes, and much more. Improving your health through simple, natural cooking is the emphasis of this dynamic educational experience.

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Type: classes

Limit: max 12 people

When: Thursday

Starting Date: March 31 2022

Time: 4pm

Length: 4 weeks

Leader: Connie Goedert-Edwards, Connie Goedert-Edwards, Earned  her  Plant Based Nutrition Certificate through T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, who believes that healthy food should taste delicious and easy to make. Connie, a former YOYO dieter has lost 50 pounds on a plant based  diet and kept it off for more than 6 years. She loves sharing what she has learned and has been conducting cooking classes for the past 6 years. 

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave Baltimore MD

Fee: Free

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ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR BEGINNERS 

About: Join a small group of peers and our instructor to level up your skills! Designed for students who English is their second language. Students will learn basic vocabulary, verb tenses, and be on a path to learning how to speak and read to carry on sentence dialog.

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Type: classes

Limit: max 15 people

When: Tuesdays & Thursdays

Starting Date: CLASS I: May 10 to July 5, 2022. CLASS II: September 6 to December 6, 2022.

Time: 6pm to 7:30pm

Length: 3 months

Leader: Karim Lazo is originally from Peru. She is a passionate teacher who loves teaching new immigrants how to carry on everyday conversation.

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave Baltimore MD

Fee: Free. 

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HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE - MOMMY & ME GROUP

About: Here’s a fun-filled, hands-on group to help you and your children find ways
to get moving and make healthy food choices along with other parents and their kids. You’ll enjoy tons of activities, games, poems and songs, dances, and ways to include learning
about healthy choices into your everyday routines.

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Type: Mommy & Me group (circle time)

Limit: 10 seats available

Ages: 0-3 year-olds (and mom)

Starting Dates: Session I: June 29 to August 3 - Session II: September 21 to October 26, 2022

Time: 10am to 10:45am

Length: 6 weeks (each session)

Leader: Hellen Boquer

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave Baltimore, MD

Fee: FREE

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About: Stress is the body’s response to a challenge or demand. Everyone experiences stress, which can be triggered by a range of events, from small daily hassles to major changes like a divorce or job loss. The stress response includes physical components such an elevated heart rate and blood pressure, thoughts and personal beliefs about the stressful event, and emotions, including fear and anger. Although we often think of it as being negative, stress can also come from positive changes in your life, like getting a promotion at work or having a new baby. While no one can avoid all stress, you can learn to handle it in healthy ways that increase your potential to recover. Dr. Shakes will guide you on this journey of emotional recovery.

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Type: Lunch & Learn

Limit: max 10

When: Thursdays

Time: 12pm to 1pm 

Starting Date: April 14, 2022

Teacher: Uva Shakes is a Clinical Consultant in Chronic Diseases for Cigna Cooperation: An International Healthcare Company

Fee: $38

More info: cpmacena@urbanlifecenter.org

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SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY WHAT THE HEALTH?

About: Join us for a tasty meal and a showing of the eye-opening documentary What the Health?. Watch as the filmmaker reveals the secret to preventing and reversing chronic diseases and investigates why many of the nation’s leading health organizations do not want us to know about it. Stick around for a Questions and Answer session after the film. 

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Type: movie, Q&A and quick meal

Limit: 20

When: Sunday, May 15 from 1pm to 4pm

Leader: Emily Perryman is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. She is very passionate about helping others adopt healthier lifestyles by empowering them to eat more plants, engage in regular physical activity, and to practice stress-management techniques. She loves sharing plant-based recipes and meals with others to show them how tasty, easy, and fun this way of eating is!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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HOW TO EAT PLANT-BASED ON A BUDGET

About: Discover how affordable and delicious eating plant-based can be with tips on how to make your dollar stretch further. Learn some tricks on how to make your produce stay fresher longer, ideas for DIY items to cut costs, and some strategies to help you save money when shopping. Get some flavorful and easy meal and snack ideas that are friendly to the wallet and waistline.  

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Type: class

Limit: 20

When: Sunday, June 5 from 2pm to 3:30pm

Leader: Emily Perryman is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. She is very passionate about helping others adopt healthier lifestyles by empowering them to eat more plants, engage in regular physical activity, and to practice stress-management techniques. She loves sharing plant-based recipes and meals with others to show them how tasty, easy, and fun this way of eating is!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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WHAT TO EAT TO BEAT TYPE 2 DIABETES & SHED EXTRA POUNDS

About: Discover what foods help to prevent and reverse Type 2 Diabetes while also helping to shed any of those stubborn extra pounds. Learn the underlying causes of Type 2 Diabetes and how eating a diet based on fruits, veggies, whole grains, and legumes can help improve your blood sugars and lower your weight.  Explore some ideas for delicious meals and snacks that will leave you feeling satisfied and energized.

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Type: class

Limit: 20

When: Sunday, June 19 from 2pm to 3:30pm

Leader: Emily Perryman is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. She is very passionate about helping others adopt healthier lifestyles by empowering them to eat more plants, engage in regular physical activity, and to practice stress-management techniques. She loves sharing plant-based recipes and meals with others to show them how tasty, easy, and fun this way of eating is!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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EASY & TASTY PLANT-BASED MEAL PLANNING AND PREP

About: Learn tips and tools that will make meal planning easier and more exciting! Get some suggestions for healthy staples to stock your kitchen with and how they can be used to make healthy, tasty, and quick meals and snacks. Enjoy watching the preparation of a full day’s worth of meals and snacks to spark your creativity and excite your taste buds!

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Type: class

Limit: 20

When: Sunday, July 10 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Leader: Emily Perryman is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. She is very passionate about helping others adopt healthier lifestyles by empowering them to eat more plants, engage in regular physical activity, and to practice stress-management techniques. She loves sharing plant-based recipes and meals with others to show them how tasty, easy, and fun this way of eating is!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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GREEN BANANA BIOMASS 101

About: Have you heard about Green Banana Biomass? No? So this is your opportunity to know everything about it and add it to your diet. What is Green Banana Biomass? What are the benefits? How to make it? How to use it? Plus, ten amazing ways to add your biomass to cakes, bread, desserts, and smoothies. 

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Type: class

Limit: 15

When: This class repeats very other month. May 25 -  July 20 - September 14 - November 16.

Time: 6pm to 7pm

Leader: Cristina Macena is a Nutrition Educator and Natural Juice Therapy Practitioner. She has been juicing for the last 15 years and has prepared many juices for the people who come to the Urban Life Center Juice Bar!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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LIL CHEF COOKING CLASS

About: Teaching kids how to cook healthy, plant-based foods has a huge impact in their lives and in the future of the planet. This class will teach them: 1) Intro to Healthy Foods and Healthy Habits. 2) Making Plant-Based Breakfast & the Benefits of Juicing. 3) Making a Healthy Lunch & Plant-Based Desserts. 4) Making Dinner & Snacks. You can register your child to participate of one class or all of them!

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Type: classes

Limit: 8

When: This class repeats in different dates: 

* June 28 to July 19 2022

* August 16 to Sept. 6, 2022

Time: 4pm to 5pm

Leader: Cristina Macena is a Nutrition Educator and Natural Juice Therapy Practitioner. She has been juicing for the last 15 years and has prepared many juices for the people who come to the Urban Life Center Juice Bar!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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JUNIOR CHEF COOKING CLASS

About: Teaching kids how to cook healthy, plant-based foods has a huge impact in their lives and in the future of the planet. This class will teach them: 1) Intro to Healthy Foods and Healthy Habits. 2) Making Plant-Based Breakfast & the Benefits of Juicing. 3) Making a Healthy Lunch & Plant-Based Desserts. 4) Making Dinner & Snacks. You can register your child to participate of one class or all of them!

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Type: classes

Limit: 8

When: This class repeats in different dates:

* June 30 to July 21, 2022

* August 11 to Sept. 1, 2022 

Time: 4pm to 5pm

Leader: Cristina Macena is a Nutrition Educator and Natural Juice Therapy Practitioner. She has been juicing for the last 15 years and has prepared many juices for the people who come to the Urban Life Center Juice Bar!

Location: 3223 Eastern Ave, Baltimore

Fee: Free

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URBAN LIFE 5K RUN

The Urban Life Center 5K is a run/walk organized to raise funds for our Urban Life Center in Baltimore and to help its projects to serve the community in the area. In September 18, 2022, runners, youth, and families are invited to run/walk a 5K with us. Register, and support this awesome project in the heart of Eastern Ave in Baltimore!

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MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON!

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