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Start: 9:00 am
Dr. John Ratey
Join Harvard professor Dr. John Ratey as he redefines our concept of peak performance. Dr. Ratey, author of SPARK: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain, explains how exercise creates new brain cells and makes learning easier, promotes emotional well-being and enhances our ability to focus and perform. All Common Ground Speaker Series events are free of charge to the parents, faculty and staff of our member schools. Guests from non-member schools are welcome to attend for a $20 fee at the door. Light refreshments are offered 30 minutes prior to the event and Kepler’s will have books available for purchase. Start: 7:00 pm
Dr. John Ratey
Join Harvard professor Dr. John Ratey as he redefines our concept of peak performance. Dr. Ratey, author of SPARK: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain, explains how exercise creates new brain cells and makes learning easier, promotes emotional well-being and enhances our ability to focus and perform. All Common Ground Speaker Series events are free of charge to the parents, faculty and staff of our member schools. Guests from non-member schools are welcome to attend for a $20 fee at the door. Light refreshments are offered 30 minutes prior to the event and Kepler’s will have books available for purchase.
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 p.m. Start: 7:30 pm
Thursday, November 19, 7:30 p.m. Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa BUY NOW This unique book by Karen Ande and Ruthann Richter combines vivid narrative and photography to document the impact of AIDS on Africa’s children, offering a moving portrayal of life in the shadow of the disease. It captures the hopes and heartaches of youngsters who have lost parents to the disease or are coping with HIV infection themselves. The book profiles some of the activists – the energetic and inspiring people working at the grassroots level to help restore the well-being of these youngsters. And it pays homage to the care-giving grannies, the vast network of older women who have stepped in to keep families together as traditional social networks collapse. “Ruthann Richter and Karen Ande have given a new voice and face to this pandemic, which continues to destroy the hopes, dreams and lives of children. Through compelling and poignantly informed stories and narratives and incredibly sensitive and touching portraits of children, families, providers and communities, Richter and Ande remind us, in a deeply personal way, how important HIV remains in Africa and beyond.” — Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine and a specialist in pediatric HIV Karen Ande has been chronicling the AIDS epidemic and its effects on children in sub-Saharan Africa since 2002. Her work has taken her from rural villages to city slums in Kenya and Rwanda, where she photographs people who daily face the challenges of AIDS and its impact on those they know and love. She works with the very poor, with people who rarely benefit from large-scale government intervention, but are helped enormously by organizations like Firelight Foundation and G.R.A.C.E. USA that support the work of grassroots community activists. | ||
