Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Double feature!
In her book Shouting Won’t Help, Katherine Bouton uses her experience with hearing loss as a guide to examine the challenges personally, psychologically, and physiologically, capturing what it’s like to live with an invisible disability.
Please note: This is a fully hearing-accessible event. We’ll have extra assistive-listening devices, an ASL interpreter, a T-coil loop, and Real-Time Captioning (CART) on hand for Bouton’s talk.
Friday, March 1, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free.
Dr. Mark Smaller, the newly elected president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, outlines strategies to help make psychoanalytic concepts and clinical findings more relevant and useful in addressing community issues of trauma and violence and their impact on families, children, education, and the community.
Monday, February 18, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Pharma, puts the multibillion-dollar global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope—and reveals a terrifying mess. Companies run bad trials on their own drugs, unflattering data are simply buried—and patients are harmed.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
In 2009, award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan embarked on an undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America when price matters above all else. A project that embraced working and eating at every rung of the socio-economic ladder has culminated in McMillan’s The American Way of Eating.
Thursday, June 14, 2012, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Forget Julie and Julia: Daniel Duane spent eight years cooking his way through all of revolutionary chef Alice Waters' cookbooks. Duane turned to Chef Waters' Chez Panisse cookbooks when—as a new father, armed only with pasta and stir-fry—he was desperate for help.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $5.
Ten years ago, Augusten Burroughs totally redefined the modern memoir with Running With Scissors; now he takes on the self-help genre. This Is How, not surprisingly, is not your usual self-help book; you’ll find no therapist-approved solutions or tips to cynically mollify pain or make yourself feel better. Instead, by demonstrating how only rigorous, sometimes-uncomfortable honesty truly can set a person free, Burroughs explains that some problems are, in fact, insurmountable—and that recognizing this can be the next best thing to overcoming them.
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $20-$25.
With wit and wisdom, Gottman offers tips for dealing with trust and betrayal, tools for taking your marriage to the next level …
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00 – 7:15pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Having already achieved enlightenment (The Year of Living Biblically) and sharpened his mind (The Know it All), A.J. Jacobs had one feat left in his self-improvement trinity: bodily perfection. Jacobs, a self-described “mushy, easily winded, moderately sickly blob,” vowed to retool every part of his long-neglected body, and over two years, the experiential journalist, author of Drop Dead Healthy, subjected himself to a regimen of exercise, diets, and experiments, from pole dancing to “chewdaism.”
Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free, RSVP required
Psychiatrist E.K. Rynearson’s strategy for “restorative retelling” provides hope for family members after the violent death of a loved one. While “retelling” the events of the death can be therapeutic for family members, Rynearson says, it also can entrench them in grief.
John Zeisel: A New Philosophy of Alzheimer’s Care
Thursday, April 4, 2013, 6:30 – 8:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Alzheimer’s expert John Zeisel, author of the seminal I’m Still Here, embraces holistic treatment and emphasizes the abilities that don’t diminish with the disease—understanding music, art, facial expressions, and touch. He also frames Alzheimer’s as a case warranting the care of a “village,” sharing strategies on creating a Seattle program to reduce the stigma of dementia and help those with it live active, engaged lives.