What great fun I had curating a Festival of Short Films for the Gerontological Society of America, and coordinating the screening of a feature length film as well. Over 200 people saw the shorts on Saturday night, and another full house gathered Sunday night for the feature-length film. The feature-length film was Andrew Jenks, Room [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Films at GSA
Posted in cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged Afloat, Annie Lloyd, conference, films on aging, forgetfulness, GSA, Kyokoo naturally on November 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s Ready!
Posted in books, tagged forget memory on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the GSA (Gerontological Society of America) conference over the last weekend I visited the Johns Hopkins University Press booth and lo and behold! Forget Memory is listed in the spring 09 catalog! I shifted the “About” column to feature the blurb/reviews and the ordering info. It’s been a long time in coming – so [...]
Entertaining the benefits of forgetting…
Posted in cultural phenom, public education, tagged forgetting, memory loss on November 11, 2008 | Comments Off
A thoughtful article in the Wall Street Journal today…
