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FCBF official booksellers:
The 2013 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Priniciple by Richard Louv at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 22-24 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Tags: Reading and discussion of The Civically Engaged Reader and his latest book, Taking Action.
This session will be held in the Warch Campus Center Cinema.
There is no word in English to describe the special closeness that sometimes binds a man and a woman who are never lovers, but more than friends. Roger was my husband’s best friend, but I loved him too. Had we met decades earlier, I would have jumped on the back of his Harley and ridden off with him. As it was, what grew between us was something much subtler. But because there is no word for it, it stayed mysterious in my mind, to be brought to light only in the course of my becoming Roger’s memoirist.
This session will be held in Perry Hall at UW-Fox Valley.. See the campus map for location. The closest exit to the Communication Arts Center is Exit 13S.
This presentation will take place in the Somerset Room in the Warch Campus Center.
Art meets science in this stunning look at our changing planet.
James Balog has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for three decades. Extensively published in National Geographic and other international media, James and the Extreme Ice Survey team are the subjects of the award-winning feature documentary, “Chasing Ice,” which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Braving treacherous conditions—crevasses, rockslides, avalanches, temperatures down to -40 F., and frigid river crossings—James takes us on an inspiring quest to document spectacular arctic and alpine glaciers. He and his Extreme Ice Survey team bring back to civilization extraordinary documentation of how quickly the ice is vanishing.
These fast-changing glacial landscapes are the canary in the coalmine, the most tangible, visible evidence of climate change anywhere in the world today. Building on his early career training as an earth scientist and mountaineer, James is uniquely qualified to make an informative presentation mixing astounding scientific facts with otherworldly beauty.
This is a passionate story of devotion, commitment and creativity. But it goes even further: it alters our perception of what it means to be human at this historic moment of geologic time.
In the workshop we will look at Compassion in our community utilizing the tools and techniques created by the Center for Civic Reflection and its Director Adam Davis.
The practice of civic reflection brings a group of people with common work together to talk about the motives, principles and purposes of their civic engagement. Gathering in a hospitable place, they share a meal followed by a facilitated discussion. Carefully selected, short but thought-provoking readings anchor each discussion. Facilitators ask questions rather than make pronouncements. They listen and help to clarify issues and thinking rather than deliver long speeches.
The dynamics of daily life on an alzheimer's and dementia ward led Schoenfeld down a new road of emotions that both broke and filled his heart.
Free workshop, Move Into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality with the Anat Baniel Method.
Learn how to:
- Overcome aches and pains
- Increase strength, flexibility, and energy
- Enhance mental clarity, concentration, and creativity
- Reverse the signs of aging
NOTE: LOCATION HAS CHANGED TO NEENAH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Supported by the latest brain research, Kids Beyond Limits uses simple, gentle movements and focus to help any child who has been diagnosed with autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, or other developmental disorders.
In this supportive and hands-on book, Anat Baniel guides parents through the nine essentials of the method, each one designed to harness the brain's capacity to heal itself - with remarkable and sometimes immediate results.
By shifting the focus to connecting rather than "fixing," this powerful yet simple method helps both children and parents to de-stress, focus, and grow. Most of all, it helps all children maximize their potential, no matter what their diagnosis.
Bob has been the Special Consultant on substance abuse for both CBS and PBS. He has appeared regularly on 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Today, Good Morning America. He was recently featured in the award winning PBS Frontline documentary entitled “The Drug Wars”. His best selling autobiography “Dead on Delivery” was published by Warner Books.
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