The first is our annual all-day Saturday workshop at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Pleasantville.

The Saturday workshops here are led by professionals who not only know what they are doing, but also relate well to children.

Registration for the Saturday workshops is required; the fee is $25.

Includes Saturday workshops and a donor recognition ceremony on Sunday.

"They know how to sing," said Mr. Kennedy, the lead instructor for the Saturday workshop.

And she is almost always at the Saturday workshops, except three times a year, when she's visiting relatives in Osaka.

I know bright, charismatic teachers who gather by the hundreds for Saturday workshops at Teacher's College in New York City.

She is also the president of First Choice, a nonprofit group that holds Saturday workshops in Manhattan for teenagers on how to succeed in school and at work.

The subjects of Saturday workshops going on through April include growing everlasting flowers for dried arrangements, growing culinary herbs and planting gardens from seeds.

There will be Saturday workshops Oct. 1 and 8.