A Program of Virginia Humanities
Leland Melvin (Chasing Space) will speak at the Read & Lead Lunch on March 21, 2018.
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Tags: African-American, Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Business, Education / Teaching, Environment / Science, Headliners, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Martina Scholtens, Canadian physician and author of Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist, brings to life the challenges both of caring for new refugees and immigrants and of balancing her own professional and personal obligations.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Health / Mind / Body
Zack Bonnie (Dead, Insane, or in Jail: Overwritten!), Lisa Jakub (Not Just Me), Erin Mahone (If You could See Me: Life, Motherhood, and the Pursuit of Sanity) discuss their personal explorations of mental illness, anxiety, and depression, and inspiring responses to those mental health challenges.
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Due to winter weather-related issues, this program has been canceled. Listen to and honor the Women’s Initiative’s Challenge into Change essay contest participants as we celebrate the power of storytelling as a way towards healing and empowerment. Tova Mirvis (The Book of Separation), will read from her work. Contest participants will be recognized, and the top three award recipients will read from their own work.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, Publishing / Books / Writing
Legendary meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg (Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection) shines a light on the powerful healing force of true connection and how to undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.
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Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Letters to a Young Farmer anthology contributors Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, Karen Washington, and Jill Isenbarger discuss the the highs and lows of farming life—as well as larger questions of how our food is produced and consumed—in vivid and personal detail.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Environment / Science, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Health / Mind / Body, Language / Culture / Folklife, Nonfiction, Southern / Appalachian, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Emily Dufton (Grassroots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America), Roben Farzad (Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami), and Joe Tone (Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream) discuss the complex and morally dubious role drugs play in America.
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Jill Jonnes (Urban Forests) and Florence Williams (The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative) discuss the significant and essential contributions nature provides to our lives–from shade and space provided by urban tree canopies in cities to the restorative benefits of a walk in the woods.
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Tags: Environment / Science, Health / Mind / Body, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Due to winter weather-related issues, this program has been canceled. Lindsey Smith (Eat Your Feelings) gives a cooking demonstration from her cookbook, featuring recipes to transform emotional eating and improve your mood.
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Tags: Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Health / Mind / Body, Workshop / Demo
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Karen Washington has had to cancel her participation. Tess Taylor (Work & Days) and Karen Washington (Letters to a Young Farmer) discuss the intersection of farming and verse, and the connections that may be made through food and writing.
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Tags: African-American, Arts, Environment / Science, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Poetry
Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder (Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy) and Florence Williams (The Nature Fix) will discuss their nonfiction books on the mental health impact of nature and spending time outside.
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Tags: Environment / Science, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lindsey Smith has had to cancel her participation. Jamie DeMent (The Farmhouse Chef), Ken Haedrich (The Harvest Baker), Barbara Pleasant (Homegrown Pantry), and Lindsey Smith (Eat Your Feelings) share stories about their time in the kitchen and garden.
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Tags: Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction
Stefan Bechtel, Lawrence Staines (coauthors, Through a Glass Darkly), and Peter Manseau (The Apparitionists) share their ghostly tales of spirit photographers and the bold-faced names who followed them, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mary Lincoln.
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Tags: Health / Mind / Body, History, Spirituality / Religion
Authors Eben Alexander and Karen Newell (Living in a Mindful Universe) will present their newest work, including insights on consciousness and the mindful universe, offering opportunities to deepen the connection to your soul’s journey and how it interrelates with all of evolving consciousness.
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Authors Cathy Alter and Dave Singleton (Crush), Elizabeth Meade Howard (Aging Famously), and Gerald McDermott (Famous Stutterers) discuss their explorations of how we love, overcome obstacles, and age well.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Family / Aging, Health / Mind / Body
Richard Harris (Rigor Mortis), Dave Levitan (Not A Scientist), and Meredith Wadman (The Vaccine Race) discuss their important work related to science literacy, policy, ethics, and politics.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Environment / Science, Health / Mind / Body
