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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Nature\, Art\, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz
DESCRIPTION:Information and Registration: https://libraryc.org/penningtonlibrary/105403 \nBe sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement\, Nature\, Art\, Service\, and Belonging. \nThe Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting\, moving patient success stories\, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally\, when we get sick\, health care professionals ask\, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world\, teams of doctors\, nurses\, therapists\, and social workers have started to flip the script\, asking “What matters to you?” \nScience shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression\, ADHD\, addiction\, trauma\, anxiety\, chronic pain\, dementia\, diabetes\, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art\, nature\, movement\, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives\, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression\, “culture vitamins” for anxiety\,  a fishing club for ADHD\, a farm-based day-care for dementia\, a phone-buddy program for social isolation\, and many more. \nAs the first book on social prescribing\, The Connection Cure empowers you to find\, experience\, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment\, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us\, we can all start to feel better. \nRegister today to find out how you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life! \nAbout the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times\, WIRED\, Scientific American\, The Boston Globe\, Time\, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. The Connection Cure is her first book.
URL:https://mercerme.com/event/virtual-author-talk-nature-art-and-service-as-medicine-with-journalist-julia-hotz/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Smart and Safe Investing
DESCRIPTION:Chase Bertoldo\, from the Seton Hall University School of Law FINRA Investor Advocacy Program\, will cover a range of practical financial concepts\, including budgeting and inflation\, as well as different investment and savings products. Throughout the program\, he’ll focus on smart and safe investment practices\, illustrating the challenges facing every investor and how to avoid common pitfalls. Please visit events.mcl.org to register to receive the link to the program.
URL:https://mercerme.com/event/introduction-to-smart-and-safe-investing/
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SUMMARY:Art Talk: Yayoi Kusama - The Moment is Imminent
DESCRIPTION:At age 92\, contemporary Japanese painter and sculptor Yayoi Kusama is having a moment—today she is one of the world’s most popular and recognizable artists. Her Infinity Mirror Rooms immersive experience installations took the world by storm in the 21st Century\, but she has been making vibrant and innovative art all along. Her artistic practice is rooted in her lifelong fascination with the natural world\, inspired by her intimate engagement with the colors\, patterns\, and life cycles of plants and flowers. \nSponsored by the Friends of the Pennington Public Library and the Hopewell Valley Arts Council
URL:https://mercerme.com/event/art-talk-yayoi-kusama-the-moment-is-imminent/
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