Utopia is Everywhere.
Many artists have sought a place to commune, create, and craft outside the convention and strictures of society. They have set up dozens of artist communities, some utopian, some dystopian, from 19th century American utopian experiments to 20th century enclaves like Arcosanti and, of course, Burning Man. What have they achieved? What goals do they serve? Come find out.
Independent Docent Speaker: Avril Angevine
This talk coincides with the Art of Burning Man exhibit at the Oakland Museum, 10/12/2019 – 2/16/2020.
We will be having Patio Sales in our garden in front of Friends Books each Friday and Saturday in August during our usual open hours of 10:00 to 4:00.
Each sale will offer fiction for summer reading, an extensive collection of both popular and classical CDs, plus a different theme each week: cooking, gardening, sports, travel and so on.
Those interested may call Friends Books at 415-453-1443 for that week’s theme.
In addition, the store will be participating in the city’s Summer Sidewalk Sale on Saturday, August 24th, 11:00 to 5:00.
Join us for National Night Out at Pickleweed in collaboration with Community Services, Police and Fire Departments of the City of San Rafael. This community celebration marks the end of our 2019 Summer Reading Challenge. Enjoy a warm summer night outside at Pickleweed BBQ Area adjacent to the library. Festivities include a family Zumba Class at 5:30PM, visits from San Rafael Fire and Police Department, a small concert from members of Enriching Lives with Music ELM, BBQ and food for all, music and games. Come to get your prizes for participating in our Summer Reading Challenge!
In this demonstration led by artist Gary Francis, students will learn the basics of traditional cartooning. Students will learn how to draw a cartoon head using basic shapes, as well as how to construct smaller shapes and facial features onto the larger head shape.
We will be using techniques that hand drawn animators and cartoonists from the past used, which don’t get taught too often these days. Little known tips and tricks for checking your work and improving your drawings will also be revealed.
Please join us for this fun, educational cartooning demo, it’ll be a blast!
Tinker away on Tinkercad, a free online 3D modeling software. All levels welcome– teach and learn from your peers. Everyone will walk away having designed a 3D object, whether it’s a personalized key chain or a dice tower to impress your D&D crew.
Best of all, the library will print your design on our 3D printer!
Introduction to the UC Personal Insight, Common App and “Why Us?” Essays.
Learn how to choose relevant insight questions to showcase unique life stories: the experiences, interests, achievements and inspirations that best reflect them.
Paula Nichols helps students create engaging narrative in meaningful college personal statements that illustrate talents, demonstrate how they think, and help colleges get to know them better! With 12 years of experience assisting high school students, let her help you “Reflect, Focus, and Express!
This is a free information session for teens in high school (parents too). It is located at the City Hall Council Chambers (next door to the library).
We will work with the poetry of Thich Nhat Hanh, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Denise Levertov. The writing exercises we will use are designed to help you reflect on your connection to the natural world and explore the ways that nature teaches, heals and inspires you.
Susanne West is a writer and professor of psychology. She was on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University for 30 years and received the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Susanne is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers. Her first poetry collection, Subterranean Light, will be released in 2019.
We will explore writing as a transformational tool to help you access your inner wisdom. You will learn a variety of processes and have numerous opportunities to bring your life questions to this boundless source of knowing and guidance within you.
Susanne West is a writer and professor of psychology. She was on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University for 30 years and received the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Susanne is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers. Her first poetry collection, Subterranean Light, will be released in 2019.
An internationally-recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen’s career has been guided by a simple idea: that Alzheimer’s as we know it is not just preventable, but reversible. Dr. Bredesen, who is at the vanguard of neurological research will discuss the science that makes this a reality.
In his paradigm shifting book, The End of Alzheimer’s, Dr. Bredesen offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline.
Everyone knows someone who’s survived cancer. But no one knows anyone who’s survived Alzheimer’s—until now. Alzheimer’s disease is a global pandemic and the third leading cause of death in the United States. Of the 326 million Americans currently living, approximately 45 million will develop Alzheimer’s disease during their lifetimes unless effective prevention programs are instituted. The 99 percent failure rate of Alzheimer’s drug trials underscores both the area of greatest biomedical failure and the need for a more complete understanding of the drivers (i.e., the root causes) of the disease. Despite these alarming statistics, it has now been demonstrated that early stage Alzheimer’s and its precursors, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), can be prevented and in some cases reversed.
Join Dale Bredesen as he presents a novel programmatic approach that identifies and targets the multiple contributors to cognitive decline. Based on his findings from over 30 years of research into the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, this approach led to the first published reports of the reversal of cognitive decline. Currently, over 3,000 patients use the protocol described in these initial reports, with success that has not been described previously.
Dr. Bredesen will be joined by Leni Felton, a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, specializing in nutrition, natural therapies, and healthy living practices for regaining health. Leni has given three talks at the library int he past regarding reversing cognitive decline using the Bredesen Protocol. She has been in practice since 1995, consulting with individuals at her office in San Ramon and making house calls where she resides in Marin and throughout the Bay Area.
Dale Bredesen, M.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Founding President and CEO, Professor Emeritus, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA
Dr. Bredesen received his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his medical degree from Duke. He served as Resident and Chief Resident in Neurology at UCSF, then was postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Prof. Stanley Prusiner. He was a faculty member at UCLA from 1989-1994, then was recruited by the Burnham Institute to direct the Program on Aging. In 1998 he became the Founding President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Adjunct Professor at UCSF; then in 2013 he returned to UCLA as the Director of the Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.
The Bredesen Laboratory studies basic mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative process, and the translation of this knowledge into effective therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, leading to the publication of over 220 research papers. He established the ADDN (Alzheimer’s Drug Development Network) with Dr. Varghese John in 2008, leading to the identification of new classes of therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. He and his group developed a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, and this approach led to the discovery of subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with MCI and Alzheimer’s disease, with the ReCODE (reversal of cognitive decline) protocol, published in 2014, 2016, and 2018. His book, The End of Alzheimer’s, is a New York Times Bestseller.
Well-known Bay Area artist Ernesto Hernandez tells the history of the Jaguar through stories, music and dance. Don’t miss this opportunity to try many types of pre-Hispanic instruments and drums and play music in a large group under the direction of Don Ernesto.
Susanne West is a writer and professor of psychology. She was on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University for 30 years and received the Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award at JFKU. Susanne is the author of Soul Care for Caregivers. Her first poetry collection, Subterranean Light, will be released in 2019.
An internationally-recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen’s career has been guided by a simple idea: that Alzheimer’s as we know it is not just preventable, but reversible. Dr. Bredesen, who is at the vanguard of neurological research will discuss the science that makes this a reality.
In his paradigm shifting book, The End of Alzheimer’s, Dr. Bredesen offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline.
Dr. Bredesen will be joined by Leni Felton, a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, specializing in nutrition, natural therapies, and healthy living practices for regaining health. Leni has given three talks at the library int he past regarding reversing cognitive decline using the Bredesen Protocol. She has been in practice since 1995, consulting with individuals at her office in San Ramon and making house calls where she resides in Marin and throughout the Bay Area.
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